Comment Talk about irony ... (Score 2) 29
The "Google announced" blog at the beginning of TFS puts a banner along the bottom of the page (literally) saying:
Let's stay in touch. get the latest news from Google in your inbox. [Subscribe] [No thanks]
Comment Ya, no. (Score 1) 29
It can be easy to feel overwhelmed by the sheer volume of subscription emails clogging your inbox: Daily deal alerts that are basically spam, weekly newsletters from blogs you no longer read, promotional emails from retailers you haven't shopped in years can quickly pile up," Chris Doan, Gmail's Director of Product, wrote in a blog post.
I literally can't remember the last time I got the kind of crap he's taking about.
Not saying it doesn't happen to people, but sounds more like (a) a solution in search of a problem and (b) another avenue for Google to (legitimately) scan peoples' email.
Comment Ya, but ... (Score 1) 45
Is this guy doing a better job than Rubio? I can't imagine him doing worse...
Comment Re: The "Screw Red States" bill (Score 1) 229
To be fair, they have to use these shenanigans to (a) pass Senate reconciliation and (b) keep the debt/deficit from exploding and triggering Pay-Go. As a bonus, if they retain control of the Executive and Congress, they can re-up and continue and if they lose, then Democrats will be the ones raising taxes, etc... Pure dickery, especially purportedly from the party of fiscal conservatism and responsibility.
Comment Re:Ten years?! (Score 1) 77
I have a 2001 Honda Civic Ex (mine) with 133k miles and 2002 Honda CR-V Ex (wife's, who died in 2006) with 60k miles; they both run great, everything still works, and they still get mileage similar to when I bought them. As a bonus, I no longer have to pay annual property tax on them as they're over 20 years old. They will need re-painting at some point as they're kept outside and the clear coat is failing in places. Bigger bonus, they both have 5sp manual transmissions, which is almost impossible to get with a new car now -- Honda only offers it in the Civic Si and Civic Type R.
Comment So... (Score 1) 35
Comment Re:Will this make glowing watched cheaper? (Score 1) 51
Was tritium production really a concern in the first place? From what I've seen there's plenty of tritium produced in heavy water fission reactors like Candu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Several articles I found via Google noted that there's currently only about 20kg of Tritium in the world. Much more will apparently be needed for fusion reactors, and on a continuing basis.
Comment Re:KIller Whales eat people, so.... (Score 1) 73
No they don't. One theory is that we are not tasty - too boney.
With some people, it may just be the marinade.
Comment Re:But not in the US (Score 1) 228
Sadly, this won't be coming to the US any time soon.
I'm guessing in about 3.5 years.
Comment I asked Bender ... (Score 1) 55
Laid-Off Workers Should Use AI To Manage Their Emotions
Bender recommended hookers and Blackjack then fell asleep, drunk, and murmured, "Kill all humans."
Probably all good advice, but one sounds like too much work.
Submission + - UK Scientists Achieve First Commercial Tritium Production (interestingengineering.com)
fahrbot-bot writes: Interesting Engineering is reporting that Astral Systems, a UK-based private commercial fusion company, in collaboration with the University of Bristol, has claimed to have become the first firm to successfully breed tritium, a vital fusion fuel, using its own operational fusion reactor.
The milestone came during a 55-hour Deuterium-Deuterium (DD) fusion irradiation campaign conducted in March. Scientists from Astral Systems and the University of Bristol produced and detected tritium in real-time from an experimental lithium breeder blanket within Astral’s multi-state fusion reactors.
“There’s a global race to find new ways to develop more tritium than what exists in today’s world [currently about 20kg] – a huge barrier is bringing fusion energy to reality,” said Talmon Firestone, CEO and co-founder of Astral Systems.
Astral Systems’ approach uses its Multi-State Fusion (MSF) technology. The company states this will commercialize fusion power with better performance, efficiency, and lower costs than traditional reactors.
A core innovation is lattice confinement fusion (LCF), a concept first discovered by NASA in 2020. This allows Astral’s reactor to achieve solid-state fuel densities 400 million times higher than those in plasma.
The company’s reactors are designed to induce two distinct fusion reactions simultaneously from a single power input, with fusion occurring in both plasma and a solid-state lattice.
The reactor core also features an electron-screened environment. This design reduces the energy needed to overcome the Coulomb barrier between particles, which lowers required fusion temperatures by several million degrees and allows for higher performance in a compact size.
The milestone came during a 55-hour Deuterium-Deuterium (DD) fusion irradiation campaign conducted in March. Scientists from Astral Systems and the University of Bristol produced and detected tritium in real-time from an experimental lithium breeder blanket within Astral’s multi-state fusion reactors.
“There’s a global race to find new ways to develop more tritium than what exists in today’s world [currently about 20kg] – a huge barrier is bringing fusion energy to reality,” said Talmon Firestone, CEO and co-founder of Astral Systems.
Astral Systems’ approach uses its Multi-State Fusion (MSF) technology. The company states this will commercialize fusion power with better performance, efficiency, and lower costs than traditional reactors.
A core innovation is lattice confinement fusion (LCF), a concept first discovered by NASA in 2020. This allows Astral’s reactor to achieve solid-state fuel densities 400 million times higher than those in plasma.
The company’s reactors are designed to induce two distinct fusion reactions simultaneously from a single power input, with fusion occurring in both plasma and a solid-state lattice.
The reactor core also features an electron-screened environment. This design reduces the energy needed to overcome the Coulomb barrier between particles, which lowers required fusion temperatures by several million degrees and allows for higher performance in a compact size.
Comment ChatGPT recommends 'wrong' URLs ... (Score 1) 8
Comment Re:And yet, somehow... (Score 2) 229
They'll find a way to pretend Democrats are the only ones responsible for the rapidly-growing budget deficit.
And Democrats will have to be good about pointing out that the House "Freedom Caucus", who claim to be vigorous fiscal conservatives against raising the debt, voted for this.
Comment Re:The "Screw Red States" bill (Score 2) 229
What scares me is that there was absolutely no attempt to sell this bill to the voters.
Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) is on video saying she didn't like the bill, but voted for it after getting carve-outs for Alaska exempting it from strict new food stamp rules for two years - the state with the highest SNAP error rate in 2024. Though, because of reconciliation rules, they had to write it a little more obscurely. From Republicans' Absurd Food Benefit Policy Could Reward States Who Waste Money
Because Senate Republicans passed the bill using a special “budget reconciliation” process that doesn’t allow “extraneous” provisions — such as policies directly targeting individual states with only incidental budgetary effects — they had to write the Alaska SNAP carveout so that it didn’t look so obvious.
So the bill would delay the crackdown for any state with an error rate above 13.3%. (To make it even less obvious, instead of setting the threshold at 13.3%, the text says the exemption applies for states whose error rates exceed 20% when multiplied by 1.5.)
According to the SNAP error rate numbers posted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture this week, Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon and the District of Columbia would win a delay of the cost-sharing burden if it were based on 2024 error rates.
[States that worked to lower their error rate would be subject to the new stricter rules.]
Comment Re:The "Screw Red States" bill (Score 1) 229
This bill seems tailor-made to fuck red states. It will massively suck, but the reactions will at least be entertaining for a little while once people start noticing what happened.
Yup. Also, apparently, many people are unfamiliar with what's in the bill, and will probably be very surprised.
To any rural USians - I sincerely hope you stay healthy, you won't have a hospital soon enough.
And this will affect everyone in those areas, not just people on Medicaid / Medicare.
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