It was 15 devices active when I got home and then my son's laptop connected. Then the rest of the family arrived and hit 21. A computer and phone per person. Sometimes a work laptop or two connected. A couple of ipads. A couple of controlled light bulbs. A pump and heater. If I turn the garage light switch on that adds another 8 with dimmable led tubes. Weather station. Sometimes smart watches. It adds up quickly. A big chunk is low power "espressif" controlled devices.

I was laughing at the time. The federal government monkeys were complaining it being a big banana. The owners where complaining that they didn't realise how good it was and should have charged more for the services. The biggest battery in the world had basically paid for itself and was being upgraded at about the 18 month mark. Don't think anybody expected the .... profit step so quickly.

Thanks for that link. I was trying to make sense of the article. My maths: 3106MWh over >5hrs gives an average of 600MW. For an installed capacity 10GW that is 6% capacity factor which seamed small for records to be set. If I'm getting timezones correct then 0800GMT is 11am local time so maybe a bit dark at the beginning but not much load for the start of the period. Still seems like it would include morning peak.

Apple pushed an OSX update a few weeks back that caused the iCloud sync on both my wife's and mother in law's computers to hammer the Internet connection. Was averaging about 30Mb/s whenever she had her laptop on.

We turned off sync for photos and it stopped. It wouldn't take to many OSX users behaving like this to clobber any assumptions about usage.

Sounds like SpaceX didn't want the Government support for the BFR. Hans Koenigsmann made some coments recently about it being difficult to not get government money. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.teslarati.com%2Fspac...

My theory is that avast didn't ask to have their product evaluated so no government asked for their code to evaluate. To be able to sell security products to a lot of governments you need to be evaluated. Common criteria is an international group that standardizes and recognizes the evaluations across its members. Being CC evaluated puts you on the shopping list for a reasonably large government market.
For a list of products that have had at least one government(or their representatives) crawl through the code https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.commoncriteriaport...

The ASDRs don't add much in terms of safety. You basically have the same meltdown risk from decay heat as with a critical reactor because you are producing the same amount of fission products because you are trying to produce the same amount of power.

There is a bit of a numbers game in trying to stay sub-critical.. You still need to play with control rods and burnable poisons etc to guarantee your reactor stays subcritical. You are aiming to get as close to critical as possible because your accelerator generated neutrons are expensive but things like changes in geometry, or chemistry can change the system enough to go critical. i.e. flooding adds water which is a moderator which means neutrons have a higher chance of being absorbed so your subcritical mass becomes critical or a building collapse puts something that reflects neutrons near the reactor core and it goes critical.

When a reactor has been running for a while there is lots of xenon produced which eats neutrons. You add a bit more fissile to get nearer to criticality and then if you stop your reactor the xenon poison decays then you go into critical. When a reactor has run for a while you breed some plutonium so your fissile inventory might increase enough to push you over into a critical mass..

Once you take risks from more regular refueling and ports for drive beams etc into account I'd guess that a critical mass reactor could be made safer, simpler and more reliable.

The flight controller is running under linux. It is just a standard linux process.

From what I've seen (crawing throught he source tree), the fire cape basically provides lots of sensors running on SPI (and maybe I2C), bus protection/voltage conversion for lots of UARTS, PWM,etc as well as maybe voltage regulators. The only part of this that is sort handled out of under linux is the use of the BBB's PRUs to handle some of the extra PWM requirements in software since the BBB doesn't really have enough in hardware for most projects and linux can't do the hard real time reliably enough to keep servos free of jitter using GPIOs.

The project is using the APM hardware abstraction layer which makes porting to different architectures "relatively" easy. APM was originally written for the Arduino but has moved on since then.

Over 50% of my town is over 1mSv/yr and nobody is campaigning for it to be decontaminated. My suburb is at about the .97 mark so I must be safe... I'm about a 1/4 of a planet away from Fukushima and not downwind.
Whats the bet that most of these areas have been above 1mSv/yr since the solar system formed. How many of these 77% are actually contaminated and by how much?

I don't think the internet filter laws got passed. I thought the ISPs jumped in and said they would voluntarily use the Interpol Worst of list. I think the compromise seems reasonable. If the list is abused then it can be voluntarily not used. To be on the list you need to host porn of kids that are under 13 and this needs to be verified by multiple member countries.

I'm guessing that this has been implemented as a BGP blackhole list from TFA. An easy way for the ISP to go. They will already be running black lists for things like bogons and performance impact will be low.

The obvious fault with this is that when some kiddie porn domain gets blacklisted the domain becomes useless so the domain admin points their A record at some popular hosting company and takes them off line as well. If your going down take somebody with you.

Being on a black list sucks if there is no way to get off. Many years ago the company I worked for was on a net block that was on an outdated bogon list used by the US military. The military is really bad at keeping things maintained, something gets installed, the person who did it gets posted elsewhere every few years so all knowledge about what, how and why it was done is lost. The military don't update their contact information so even if your email server wasn't black holed you couldn't contact them anyway. Frustrating when there were treaties requiring this communication.

My dad rode dinosaurs to school with Jesus (early days before the zombie thing).

I'd generally agree with the buy local bit but cheap testing would be useful for them too. Bee's are pretty much wild animals so unless they are located in true wilderness or in the middle of farm land that you control then there could be anything in the honey.

Slashdot had an article on blue honey a couple of months ago.

You just need somebody to spill a bucket of the fake honey and a few weeks later it might be being sold by the local bee keeper.

I know a few ex bee keepers who had kept bees for years/decades with hundreds of stings and then slowly became more allergic. I don't know if they recovered their immunity after giving it up.

One guy (friend of my parents so I didn't know him that well) was advised to carry an epi pen since his last sting was so serious.

I suspect the cosmetic stuff would be slow acting so you could wash it off and seek medical help before it got out of hand but I could imagine that people could become dangerously allergic to bee stings that wouldn't have otherwise.

I don't think it works this way.

The story starts with a backyard apiarist doing a quick check of my hives in the middle of January. It was stinking hot. Since I was not planning on taking any real time or doing any real work I was wearing lite shoes that didn't tuck into my suit very well. Combine this with the bad choice of boxer shorts, a little bee leakage led to at least one bee in a very dangerous place.

Lifting the second box back on I lent against it leading to the worst sting I've ever experienced. I couldn't scrape the sting out in a hurry so it had lots of time to inject lots of venom (don't take your pants off while standing next to an open hive).

There was not much swelling other than a small blister. Lots of pain for days (I was reasonably immune so normally would expect no symptoms after a couple of hours at the most). It was sort of itchy but not in a way that could be scratched and any contact was uncomfortable. I've still got a scars from the sting (If chicks dig scars then try and explaining that one).

The power company needs to keep spinning reserve. They have purchased reserve even if I use it or not. If I turn a light bulb on it doesn't change the amount of fuel used in any meaningful way.

The same goes for internet traffic. My individual usage doesn't make a huge difference but my ISP has to keep the equivalent of spinning reserve in upstream capacity to cover all the users. It isn't cheap to buy this bandwidth.

For example one of my clients uses about 300Mb with something over 40000 corporate users. If we tried to provide this service with a guaranteed 20Mb per user(not that high a rate) we would need over 2000X the infrastructure. Anybody who tries to convince me that this increase in costs isn't meaningful isn't being realistic.. Admittedly this isn't a straight ISP situation (10G infrastructure doesn't really exist for most of what we do) but the same scaling rules apply to ISP's.