@gths Too bad, he could have been a true rock star with that liver...

Don't mention this to Prometheus, he hates the fucking Eagles

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Interesting plaque from the museum of anti-archaeologist technology

@frog @junebug I recommend Afterlife by Lucasarts. Old (retro) game, but you manage Heaven and Hell and need to achieve the opposite communal infrastructure goals (like - no traffic jam vs. maximum traffic jam).

today in shit i have saved for some reason...

Nuclear engineer reacts to the XKCD video on swimming in a spent nuclear fuel pool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diHG9W27XeU

A lot going on here.

hold on. holdonholdon

the Schmitt trigger, the one used in basically all digital electronics, is inspired by a biological object? More specifically, _the_ squid giant axon?? I can't believe I'm only learning this now despite hearing a lot of things about Schmitt triggers _and_ squid giant axons!

I rarely subtoot, but when I do just to say: if an open source project that your commercial project depends on breaks something in your software stack, causing you trouble, no matter how much, that's your problem and your problem alone.

"The software is provided as is" is a part of OSS licenses for a reason, and unless we have a contract that says otherwise, I'm not part of your bloody "supply chain".

This discovery comes from the NSF's Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia. Its funding is set to be gutted, effectively scrapping the telescope, in the 2026 budget.

Jobs lost. Science lost. All to save a whopping...$7 million.

https://greenbankobservatory.org/about/telescopes/gbt/ #science #trump #tech

Interstellar clouds are brewing rich organic chemistry. Astronomers just detected a complex molecule called cyanocoronene (C₂₄H₁₁CN) floating between the stars in Taurus.

We don't know if life is common in the universe. But prebiotic chemistry sure is.

https://public.nrao.edu/news/cosmic-chemistry-breakthrough-largest-aromatic-molecule-found-in-deep-space/ #science #space #technology

I decided to recreate a well known graph showing the amount of clean electricity generated between Portugal, Denmark and the United Arab Emirates. The UAE started Barakah-4 last September, which now brought online their whole nuclear fleet, which they decided to build in 2009. The eventual generated capacity is expected to be around 42,000 GWh annually, which they'll probably achieve this year (we'll know for sure when the numbers get presented next year).

The UAE is very interested in building another set of four units, most likely of the same Korean design and same Korean builder that built the first four.

These units will last a century and will generate a massive chunk of clean energy. Of course we also still need to build loads of solar and wind to get to zero emissions faster, but nuclear 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝘁 be part of that solution.

Sources:
- Original graph by 233C on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/climatechange/comments/1grhzio/uae_nuclear_development_and_production_20082023/
- Data wind and solar from Ember: https://ember-energy.org/data/electricity-data-explorer/
- Data UAE from IAEA PRIS: https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/CountryStatistics/CountryDetails.aspx?current=AE

You know you’re getting older when your “got drunk Friday night and did something stupid” story involves buying towels online

People are freaking out and asking what they should be doing re: prepping. I've posted so much about this over the last few years but, really, my main advice is understanding how deeply you rely on the power grid.

It is the most vulnerable to sabotage and failure, and also the most important thing we have in our modern world. We rely on power for everything- clean water (pumping and purifying potable water), safe food (supply chain, refrigeration, and all aspects of agriculture), heating and cooling, communications, transportation (pumping gas, running infrastructure such as train crossings, traffic lights, etc.), nighttime safety and security... the list goes on.

The most important questions to ask yourself right now is what are you most dependent on, and how can you survive (and thrive) if you are subject to interruptions of the grid that could last weeks or months. It's really the same prepping you do for storms, but think BIGGER storms. The lessons learned from Katrina, Ian, Maria, and Helene are the same lessons for warfare.

Be kind and make good choices. Stay safe out there.

#GetPrepared #Prepping

@filippo no. None of that. Instead, banks should stop relying on random code they find online. It is exactly that black and white.

Vetting dependencies is an important part of software development and if you didn’t do your due diligence there, that’s your fault. Maybe hire an engineering manager, this is exactly what that role is for.

@krypt3ia They're still on LinkedIn, lol. For "meaningful conversations", no less...

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Carl Bildt is the former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Sweden.

#NoWarWithIran #EUPolitics #GazaHolocaust