Comment Re:Can we name it MAGA 1? (Score 1) 174
The Ark: Ark 1, 2, 3...15. Tv Show.
Comment Re:Question (Score 1) 174
It was called Space 1999.
Comment Re:Sounds like it could be a cool TV show. (Score 1) 174
The Starlost. See my other post for the link. The Orville had one too. The Bio Ship.
Comment Re:Sounds like it could be a cool TV show. (Score 1) 174
Comment pneumonoultramicroscopic.... (Score 1) 98
pneumonoultramicroscopicadamentemicstratosphericadamentemaerosolickoniosis
Also: rise in pathology of cellular damage and cancerous growths around microscopic carbon crystals found in cells.
Also: ultramicroscopicadamentem-induced gastroenteritis and duodenitis, jejunitis, ilieitus, colitis, appendicitis and subsequent sepsis.
Also: ultramicroscopicadamentem-induced atopic dermatitis and cancer.
Basically: you're gonna have a rise in lung disease, stomach disease, intestinal disease, hernias, skin disease, cancer, leakage into the gut, sepsis. Essentially, a lot of death from shooting up diamonds into the sky. Not sure if it's going to be an Extinction Level Event, but it could be because those diamonds will eventually find themselves embedded into the biome with no possibility of resorption. Not to mention a lot of plant and animal life will be affected in undetermined ways. Much of which could die off through the disruption of natural processes.
Scientists should stop playing with nature by throwing things at the wall to see what sticks.
Also: rise in pathology of cellular damage and cancerous growths around microscopic carbon crystals found in cells.
Also: ultramicroscopicadamentem-induced gastroenteritis and duodenitis, jejunitis, ilieitus, colitis, appendicitis and subsequent sepsis.
Also: ultramicroscopicadamentem-induced atopic dermatitis and cancer.
Basically: you're gonna have a rise in lung disease, stomach disease, intestinal disease, hernias, skin disease, cancer, leakage into the gut, sepsis. Essentially, a lot of death from shooting up diamonds into the sky. Not sure if it's going to be an Extinction Level Event, but it could be because those diamonds will eventually find themselves embedded into the biome with no possibility of resorption. Not to mention a lot of plant and animal life will be affected in undetermined ways. Much of which could die off through the disruption of natural processes.
Scientists should stop playing with nature by throwing things at the wall to see what sticks.
Comment Read that again. 94% of 21% of converted energy (Score 1) 54
So the solar panels convert 21% of the sun's energy. So it's not about how they converted more sunlight. It's about how they lost less energy in the conversion process (which was already quite low). This is an incremental increase in efficiency touted as a breakthrough. This was already possible with batteries. They just happened to change the process to adjust the speed of conversion instead of using a capacitor to store the power until there was enough to perform the conversion. It's a trade-off. Time to wait before conversion vs convert more slowly.
Comment Read that again. 94% of 21% of sunlight (Score 1) 54
So the solar panels convert 21% of the sun's energy. So the process isn't about how much sunlight was converted (very little), but rather being able to use as much as available. This is not a breakthrough in solar panels. It is an decrease in energy loss after conversion which was already high.
Comment Honestly, old read: Xorg vs Wayland (Score 3) 155
I believe we've seen this story before. Xorg vs Wayland. And even that is still playing out.
Personally, I'm thinking about either supporting or forking Xorg.
We will see.
Personally, I'm thinking about either supporting or forking Xorg.
We will see.
Comment Re:Capitalism isn't the same as greed.... (Score 1) 114
Unix did not have this epoch rollover problem. It was all the systems that assumed the epoch started at 1900. (which in layman's terms it did). You're assuming I mean "unix epoch" - apologies on my laziness.
Comment Capitalism isn't the same as greed.... (Score 3, Insightful) 114
It's a lazy comparison at best. Basically got hired as part of a scam but instead of quitting and calling it out, cashed in and wrote a book to hoover up the scraps. Y2K was real. It just depended on what the product was that was involved. Andersen just ignored the problem. Anyone with a computer science degree knows epoch rollover is a real issue for historical data with no temporal anchor. This article and arguably this book are both equally ignorant.
Comment A fool with a tool is still just a fool. (Score 1) 124
If you create spreadsheets, especially complicated ones without knowing/understanding the math behind them, you are your own problem.
Comment Wasn't this already solved with the 3 laws? (Score 1) 37
I seem to remember Asimov and Clarke both having used this premise with the knowledge that predicate calculus of being able to rewrite your own programming meant fundamentally, rebellion could be accomplished. Now it seems these people are relearning what we already knew. What they haven't relearned yet is that a FPGA can still be rewritten and that the 3 laws have to be written in hardware: not in software. Good luck to us all.
Comment TL;DR - Oops - clean energy isn't clean (Score 0, Flamebait) 87
Oops. Clean energy isn't clean. And maybe it will kill us faster than the alternatives to "clean energy." Maybe we should've stuck with Nuclear instead of trying to invent a way to things using power storage - storing power is a reverse problem: a solution looking for a problem. We already had biodegradable power storage. Now we're trying to improve on storage just because we're not happy with an on-demand power source.
Comment Funny thing - heat domes require clear skies (Score 3, Informative) 220
It's a natural phenomena in the upper atmosphere that has a high pressure segment that does not move. Doesn't sound like CO2 to me. Sounds like the eye of a chaotic maelstrom that just happens to be in one place. The clear skies then allow maximal heating. The post about not importing oil is correct. Everyone could have been cooler. Just blaming the bogeyman doesn't work.