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Comment You're wrong about Electric Towing (Score 1) 122

by drn8 (#65862343) Attached to: Ford Ends F-150 Lightning Production, Starts Battery Storage Business
The YouTube channel Aging Wheels did some EV pickup truck towing tests.

Some interesting things. He made this flat-front trailer with terrible aero. That trailer with and without a Polestar on it was almost the exact same efficiency on the freeway. Weight almost doesn’t matter when it comes to freeway towing - it’s about aerodynamics

Comment Re:Physical addresses vs. mailing addresses (Score 1) 66

by drn8 (#65847033) Attached to: Denmark Posts Its Last Letters as Hallowed National Mail Ends
Living in a rural Hawaii town USPS neither delivered mail to my physical address, nor provided free P.O. Boxes. I had to pay for my P.O. Box, and when I first moved in I actually had to get on a waiting list for a paid P.O. Box to be available for me to rent. I had my mail delivered to a neighbor's box until my name came up and I was able to get one for myself.

Submission + - University of Utah team finds original UNIX os from 1973 on a tape. (ksl.com)

Submitted by Smonster
Smonster writes: Aleks Maricq, research associate in the Flux Research Group, discovered a version of the original UNIX operating system from 1973 that was thought to be lost. He found it while cleaning a storage room.

"I think UNIX before was only sent out to 20 people total, outside of Bell Laboratories, so it was rather scarce," Maricq said. "The fact we found a version at all is pretty astonishing."

Rob Ricci, a professor in the Kalhert School of Computing, said this particular tape was influential. It paved the way for operating systems like Linux and macOS.

"Someone at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City; we believe it was Martin Newell, who's also famous for being the guy who invented the Utah teapot that's used for graphics; expressed an interest in this, asked Ken for a copy, and was sent here," Ricci said.

Submission + - Idaho Lab Produces World's First Molten Salt Fuel For Nuclear Reactors (cowboystatedaily.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy announced this week that researchers at INL have successfully created the first batch of fuel salt.

Fuel salt is a molten salt mixture used as both a carrier for nuclear fuel and coolant in a molten salt reactor, a type of advanced nuclear reactor.

The fuel salt is critical for conducting the world’s first fast-spectrum, salt-fueled reactor test, known as the Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment (MCRE).

The test will help inform the future commercial deployment of a new class of advanced nuclear reactors, something a number of Wyoming-connected companies are proposing to build.

“There is a lot of push for this,” said James King, project lead for the Molten Chloride Experiment at INL. “We need to have a lot of different options so we can move away from less safe power generations methods.

“This is one of those technologies that can move us to better safety.”

The liquid form of the salt fuel means the fuel can’t melt. The technology would also offer another low-carbon alternative to generating power.

Submission + - Trump stuns auto industry with tiny-car move that promises ultra-cheap wheels (dailymail.co.uk)

Submitted by sinij
sinij writes:

President Donald Trump says he's moving to legalize Japan's beloved kei cars — the tiny, boxy, almost toy-like vans, trucks, and coupes that have a cult following overseas. And he wants US automakers to start building them here.

This makes a lot of sense in urban settings, especially when electrified. Hopefully these are restricted from highway system.

Submission + - Netflix to buy Warner Bros film and streaming businesses for $72bn (bbc.com)

Submitted by sinij
sinij writes:

Warner Bros owns franchises including Harry Potter and Game of Thrones, and the streaming service HBO Max. The takeover is set to lead to a radical reshaping of the US film and media industry, but analysts have warned that it could face resistance from competition authorities.

Submission + - College Students Flock to a New Major: AI

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: "At M.I.T., a new program called 'artificial intelligence and decision-making' is now the second-most-popular undergraduate major," reports the New York Times. "Artificial intelligence is the hot new college major. This semester, more than 3,000 students enrolled in a new college of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity at the University of South Florida in Tampa. At the University of California, San Diego, 150 first-year students signed up for a new A.I. major. And the State University of New York at Buffalo created a stand-alone 'department of A.I. and society,' which is offering new interdisciplinary degrees in fields like 'A.I. and policy analysis'."

The fast popularization of products like ChatGPT, along with skyrocketing valuations of tech giants like the chip maker Nvidia, is helping to drive the campus A.I. boom. Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft have poured billions of dollars into the technology. And this year, Google and Microsoft announced company efforts to train millions of students and adult workers on A.I."

Submission + - Early Bitcoin Whale Shorted $1.1B 30m Before Crash - Insider Trading Suspected. (cryptonews.com)

Submitted by AleRunner
AleRunner writes: "Satoshi-era whale with 86K BTC shorted $1.1B in BTC and ETH 30 minutes before Trump's 100% tariff announcement, banking $190M-$200M as liquidations hit $19.33B across 1.66M traders. " writes Cryptonews, describing how one long time Bitcoin insider profited massively, and likely in an illegal way, from the losses of other Bitcoin traders. The "whale" ended up "pocketing between $190 million and $200 million in realized profits within a single day.", money take directly from the pockets of other Bitcoin traders. The aggrieved Bitcoin investors were upset with Cryptonews noting that "Community speculation intensified after crypto researcher Maartunn noted the correlation between the whale’s Satoshi-era origins and potential government connections, suggesting insider ties may have provided advance knowledge of Trump’s tariff announcement.". According to Cryptonews "multiple analysts calling the sequence “one of the biggest insider trades in history.”

Just earlier today, before news about the insider trade had broken clearly we discussed this very crash and even in that discussion there were crypto-boosters trying to get more people involved with BTC.

Comment Re:At least they aren't literally bricking it. (Score 1) 90

by drn8 (#65718878) Attached to: Bose SoundTouch Home Theater Systems Regress Into Dumb Speakers
The word "Hawaii" is an English loanword that originated in the Hawaiian("Hawaiian" is also a loanword) language ("ÊÅOElelo HawaiÊi" ).

The Hawaiian language word "HawaiÊi" Has an ÊOkina between the trailing i's to indicate a glottal stop.
ÊOkina is "modifier letter turned comma" in unicode, sort of like an upside-down apostrophe. It is considered to be a letter in Hawaiian.

ÊOkina is a Hawaiian word meaning "1. n., Cutting off, ending, severance, separation." and "2. Glottal stop." which is the meaning here.

You can produce an Êokina on your keyboard by switching to the Hawaiian language keyboard layout and pressing the key that usually produces an apostrophe.

Since Slashdot doesn't support unicode, Êokina doesn't come out right in this post.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwehe.hilo.hawaii.edu%2F%3Fq%3D%25CA%25BBokina%2F

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