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Comment Re:I guess, the 'banning' didn't work then (Score 1) 158

Without details it is not clear when Mach 12 happened.

Yup. Without details, the claim actually just doesn't even make any sense as I explained above.
I'm guessing there are translational problems with the reporting.

A consideration on why the rocket was used might be China does not have a plane that could launch the vehicle at the moment. I think a modified B-52 is used to launch the X planes but they have been doing it for decades.

They did, in fact, use B-52s.
However, a 747 or A380 would work as well, and those are most definitely available to them.
But then again, maybe all of that is more of a pain in the ass than just doing a vertical launch.... But there's also simply the possibility that this test has no real analogue to the X planes, and is more akin to something like a... ballistically deployed cruise missile... for whatever reason you'd want such a thing.

The thing I keep getting caught up on is the terminology used in the reporting- ramjet.
Ramjets are not, and cannot operate at hypersonic regimes.
The combustion chamber must be subsonic, meaning with all of the tricks we know to move the speed envelope up they simply do not operate past Mach 5 or 6. For that, you need scramjets. Translation error, or indication that this is just a fart noise?

Wish we had more info.

Comment Re:I'll pass on the clot shot, thanks. (Score 1) 228

Are you quoting ChatGPT?

Nope.

That's science. It just isn't science that supports your claim.

Did you read it?

Our self-controlled risk interval analysis found that, based on one case identified during the risk interval and 10 cases during the control interval, there is no increased risk of myopericarditis in the 42 days following vaccination (IRR, 0.57; 95% CI, 0.07, 4.51).

While our study does not speak to risk related to smallpox vaccination, our results provide evidence for the lack of an association between other commonly-administered live viral vaccines and these cardiac outcomes.

Fuck whatever moron moderated you positively. You shit-for-brains are killing the world.
COVID, and the vaccine have highly elevated chances of myocardium reactive immune responses. Pretending like it doesn't exist so that you can shoot back at the anti-vaxers isn't fucking constructive.

Comment Fan as CPU spike monitor (Score 1) 31

?) it’s handed a lightweight JavaScript proof-of-work challenge—solve this trivial SHA-256 puzzle before proceeding. [...] There’s no crypto mining, no wallet enrichment

Yet. Because Anubis is free software, and because its hash happens to be the same as the proof of work of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, someone could modify Anubis to tie the SHA-256 puzzle to the Bitcoin block that a mining pool is working on.

no WASM blobs firing up your GPU

Until someone writes a browser extension to offload solving the hashcash to WebGPU.

Most users won’t know their machine is doing extra work unless they’re monitoring CPU spikes or poking around in dev tools.

Laptops tend to have an always-on CPU spike monitor: the exhaust fan. So do phones and tablets: they get warm. So do older, less expensive, or small-form-factor desktop computers: they get stuck on the interstitial for up to a minute.

Anubis is a fantastic tool, but I think we can strengthen it by baking in the principle of informed consent.

This already exists. Use an extension to make script-in-the-browser opt-in per domain, such as the Firefox extension "Javascript Control" by Erwan Ameil.

Comment Remember Coinhive? (Score 1) 31

Apparently no one else thought to use this solution for this problem until Xe Iaso came along.

I seem to remember a service called Coinhive that offered a script to make the viewer's device mine the cryptocurrency Monero in the background. I forget if it had an option to hide the article until a particular amount was mined. (Coinhive shut down when too many intruders started installing its script on other people's websites.)

Comment Re:Common knowledge (Score 2) 22

And you'd think it'd be common knowledge in that we should all know some basics about genetics and evolution and if we share a common ancestor and like 80-99% of our DNA with other mammals and like over 30% with all other life on Earth that viral infections could adapt, like it logically follows if you understand and believe those things are true.

But of course that's the rub ain't it, to say animal to human transmission is possible is implicitly acknowledging all those other things are true as we know them and recent events have made accepting this idea of animal to human transmission not a scientific thing but a political one.

Comment Re:Tesla Drives think they're playing Mario Cart (Score 1) 60

98% of traffic problems on highway 17 are caused by dipshits who should never be allowed to use the left lane. 1% are caused by that one dip in the fast lane on the EB side that they don't seem to be able to fix ever. The remaining 1% are caused at the first exit on the inland side when it's busy.

Before Teslas even existed I was passing the clowns who don't know what a passing lane is for on the right on the 17. The only meaningful difference between then and now is that there's more drivers, including more of those clowns. Well, that and that the speed limit used to be 65, so more competent drivers could make it over the kill. Of course, it was killing incompetents, so they reduced the limit and we all have to suffer. This is what happens when you design your nation around the car.

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