Circlotron - Slashdot User

Comment Re:The year is 3099- (Score 1) 269

by Circlotron on Friday January 31, 2025 @06:26AM (#65132093) Attached to: AM Radio For All Vehicles Legislation Reintroduced

As an owner of an EV who, on longer drives, will listen to AM radio for traffic updates, I ask you "What the fuck are you talking about?" Hell the station I listen to has both AM and FM simulcast and the AM version comes in clearer than the FM as long as I'm not under a bridge.

EV inverter switching frequency tops out at 10KHz. AM radio broadcasts are all above 500KHz. There is no issue here and anyone who is saying it's so bad they want to abandon AM radios in electric vehicles is flat out lying.

Maybe you're thinking of brushed motors where the commutator sparks and generated broad spectrum EMF? That's a real thing, but not applicable to EVs. =Smidge=

The inverter might switch at 10kHz but that's not what matters. What matters is the rise time and fall time of the current being switched by the inverter, probably in the region of several tens of nanoseconds. These harmonics will extend to 40-50MHz.

Comment Potable water left over? (Score 1) 86

by Circlotron on Monday October 21, 2024 @07:10PM (#64882753) Attached to: Arkansas May Have Vast Lithium Reserves, Researchers Say

If they can extract sufficient minerals from the brine then ideally the leftover would be potable water. That would be a win-win situation for everybody.

Comment A smart move... (Score 1) 34

by Circlotron on Monday June 17, 2024 @08:42PM (#64556853) Attached to: $2.4 Million Texas Home Listing Boasts Built-In 5,786 sq ft Data Center

would be to sell the waste heat to the neighbouring houses. Not sure what the climate is like there.

Comment Evolution? (Score -1) 25

by Circlotron on Friday May 10, 2024 @09:24AM (#64462123) Attached to: The Most Detailed 3D Reconstruction of Human Brain Tissue

So then, why is it so damned hard for very intelligent people to make something like an M4 chip for example, but these bits of brain supposedly happen all by themselves?

Comment Prior art (Score 1) 115

by Circlotron on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @08:36AM (#64420560) Attached to: Flame-Throwing Robot Dog Now Available Under $10,000

Trogdor the Burninator! https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2F90X5NJleYJQ%3Fs...

Comment My first hand experience (Score 1) 273

by Circlotron on Sunday November 05, 2023 @06:30PM (#63982688) Attached to: Aussies Angry Over Being Asked to Use QR Codes at Restaurants

After the QR code took me to their web site I selected the items we wanted but there was no option submit my selection! I had to go to the counter and show the staff the items on my phone screen. LOL They agreed that there was no option to proceed on my phone, so it wasn't just me. Was using Brave browser if that made any difference.

Comment Helium shortage (Score 2) 183

by Circlotron on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @08:02PM (#63717122) Attached to: 'The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor'

If this does work out it will be great news for CAT scanners, PET scanners and similar that I believe use liquid helium to keep the electromagnets cool. Quite a shortage of that stuff. Maybe even for the Large Hadron Collider.

Comment Outside help? (Score 1) 44

by Circlotron on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @06:48PM (#62961367) Attached to: Lab-Grown Brain Cells Play Video Game Pong

Who do these researchers think they are? Everybody knows that brain cells originally appeared by themselves without any outside help. How dare they say they were created! I'm triggered!

Comment Re:wave break that generates power (Score 2) 85

by Circlotron on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @06:38AM (#62755154) Attached to: Blowhole Wave Energy Generator Exceeds Expectations In 12-Month Test

If there is only 2000 people on the island as stated and they each use 3kW then the total usage is 6MW not 6GW. 120 machines at 50kW each would do the job.

Comment Re:This is a mistake (Score 0) 94

by Circlotron on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @07:13AM (#62617586) Attached to: SpaceX Wins Environmental Approval for Launch of Mars Rocket

Will ground staff be required to be given training regarding using correct pronouns for the rocket?

Comment Re:I want (Score 2) 36

by Circlotron on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @10:47PM (#62566732) Attached to: Dyson's Been Secretly Working On Robots That Do Household Chores

A robot that could safely change a dirty nappy/diaper. I could imagine that selling well.

Comment I read the first line as... (Score 1) 84

by Circlotron on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @12:15AM (#62563760) Attached to: China Launches an Autonomous Mothership Full of Autonomous Drones

"An autonomous reader quotes a report"

Comment What's the bet... (Score 1) 17

by Circlotron on Thursday May 12, 2022 @03:49AM (#62525134) Attached to: Unusual Quantum State of Matter Observed For the First Time

...that this discovery will stave off the overdue disappearance of spinny HDDs even longer.

Comment Re:What about Stephen Hawking? (Score 1) 44

by Circlotron on Monday March 21, 2022 @10:52PM (#62378827) Attached to: Scientists Say They Can Read Nearly the Whole Genome of an IVF-Created Embryo

Not supporting termination. Just that some people decide that the value of an unborn child to both itself and the wider world is predominately weighted by its state of health, without knowing what its future life in other aspects will actually turn out to be. In any case, its a terrible situation for any parent to be in, and I don't wish it upon anybody.

Comment What about Stephen Hawking? (Score 1) 44

by Circlotron on Monday March 21, 2022 @10:18PM (#62378777) Attached to: Scientists Say They Can Read Nearly the Whole Genome of an IVF-Created Embryo

Imagine if his parents had had his DNA read and saw he was going to have severe health problems later in life. Where would the scientific world be if they decided it was for the best if he didn't see the light of day?

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