I know you just copied the youtube title, but the title is obnoxiously pretentious.
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Fermion@feddit.nlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•When we microwave in our house we say we're going to "zap it". What do you say?7·27 days agoThe issue is the ambuguity in what someone intends when they just say radiation. It is valid to call any electromagnetic wave radiation. However, as for health concerns, what matters is “ionizing radiation.” Microwaves are too low energy to be ionizing, so they don’t match what most people think of when they say radiation with the implication of ionizing.
Fermion@feddit.nlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is the biggest hair with a root bulb that can be plucked and would be satisfying to those skin picker type folks?71·2 months agoGet a job at a turkey processing plant.
The stuff that is heavier than water ends up in the river delta, everything else dilutes into the ocean. Once it’s in the ocean, there’s not much humans can do about it. Promoting populations of sea grass and filter feeders like mussels can at least capture pollution in a form that settles to the seabed and improves water quality.
There will be pockets of pollution that persist for a long time, and floodwaters could stir some of that back up, but the above poster is correct. Cleaning up a river can be as simple as stopping the sources of the pollution. A dirty river is dirty because stuff keeps getting added to it. Of course stopping sources of pollution is way easier said than done.
I would also add that usually i will be used inside the code block to index locations within whatever data structures need to be accessed. Keeping track of how many times the loop has run has more utility than just making sure something is repeated 10 times.
Fermion@feddit.nlto Technology@beehaw.org•Prepare For Discord To Get Way Worse [Kotaku]5·4 months agoI only used it for desktop applications. That’s good to know.
Fermion@feddit.nlto Technology@beehaw.org•Prepare For Discord To Get Way Worse [Kotaku]17·4 months agoScreen sharing in signal seems to work reasonably well.
Most of those are pretty cool, but the watch really let the gimmick compromise the function. Clock faces need to have high contrast for minimizing the time it takes to read the time.
Fermion@feddit.nlto Technology@beehaw.org•Helion eyes Washington site for 2028 fusion reactor build12·4 months agoHelion is a completely different technology vs tokamaks which is what you’re thinking of. They pulse the plasma to create brief bursts of pressure/heating/fusion. They do already have their seventh prototype machine operational so while we can’t independently verify their claims, it’s probably not all bluster.
I have mixed feelings about their approach. They plan to use a deuterium and helium-3 fuel blend. That has a couple major advantages. Most of the reactions will be aneutronic and the energy is released in the form of highly energetic alpha particles and protons. The lack of a high energy neutron is a huge advantage for safety and longevity of a reactor. High energy neutrons are hard to shield from and they cause most materials to get brittle and weaken. Netrons are not good for personnel to be around and they can leave some materials radiactive making reactor maintenance/disposal costly. The other advantage is that since all the energy is released as kinetic energy in charged particles, they don’t have to try to absorb high energy photons or neutrons into a water blanket to drive a steam turbine. Instead, the kinetic energy results in an electromagnetic pulse that can be harvested by the same magnets that constrict the plasma to begin with.
Sounds amazaing, right? So why doesn’t everyone use this approach? Helium is rare, but Helium-3 is especially rare, making up only about 20 parts per million of helium found in geologic deposits. So simply put, it is currently infeasible to use Helium-3 at scale. Helium-3 can be collected as a byproduct of breeding tritium for use in nuclear warheads. Enough helium-3 is produced for some demonstration reactors, but any real amount of demand will quickly outpace what the DOE produces.
Helion plans on breeding their own Helium-3 in Deuterium-Deuterium reactors they will operate. However D-D reactions are not aneutronic. So all the materials lifespan/shielding/ maintenance nightmares that come with operating a nuclear reactor will still apply. That means operators will have to buy very expensive fuel from Helion indefinitely. Helion doesn’t exactly deny this drawback, but I really dislike how much they gloss over it in their public communications.
Here’s a video tour of their test facilities that explains the basics of their approach. https://youtu.be/_bDXXWQxK38
I’m inclined to think they’ve demonstrated enough results that they are likely to be able to build a working unit quickly, however, that would still be a long way off from creating any sort of sustainable supply chain that would be a viable option for anyone beside datacenters.
In NC at aldi, cage free eggs are $4.50/do. and free range eggs are $5.30/do.
I get that price are regional, but there’s got to be another factor for why the price is double what I pay for pasture raised eggs.
Fermion@feddit.nlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•How much flow and volume from urination do you need to levitate your whole body for two seconds off the floor?6·5 months agoYou may need to double the flow. With the water powered jet packs the water isn’t just being accelerated from a standstill. The water is first flowing up with close to the same speed and is redirected down. So the momentum exchange is twice what it would be if the water were stored in tanks with the flyer.
Fermion@feddit.nlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What has you experiencing the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon?7·6 months agoYour aunts don’t like being called old.
Fermion@feddit.nlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's best for the planet? 4 solar panels or 2 bee hives?9·6 months agoThe beehives have a huge prerequisite of making sure there’s enough flowers throughout the year to feed them. So if they come with installing a full rooftop garden, that’s great, otherwise you’d be better off sticking to the panels.
But putting up panels wouldn’t prevent you from also starting container gardening. Pollinating insects are pretty good at making their own homes. What matters more is growing food for them and their larval stages to eat. So if you’re up for it, install the panels, and start filling the gaps with container plants. Just don’t go overboard because soil is too heavy for roofs that aren’t designed for the extra load.
These days that’s true for me as well, but I do miss the old blackboards and chalk.
Fermion@feddit.nlto World News@lemmy.ml•A Half-Ton Metal Ring Fell From the Sky in Kenya. Its Space Agency Confirmed What Many Already Suspected6·6 months agoThey bent the rules with that episode. It’s been a while since I watched it, but I think they had the gate on when it got buried and the rock molded to the active gate and formed an inpromptu iris. So the rock wasn’t blocking the initial formation of the wormhole.
Fermion@feddit.nlto World News@lemmy.ml•A Half-Ton Metal Ring Fell From the Sky in Kenya. Its Space Agency Confirmed What Many Already Suspected7·6 months agoIt’s already half buried. Just finish the job. You don’t need an iris if the wormhole can’t connect.
Fermion@feddit.nlto Steam Deck@sopuli.xyz•Problems with connecting to a stereo receiver?1·6 months agoThe last option is what I do with my PS5 since my receiver doesn’t support HDR or VRR. However, I frequently have audio sync issues that no amount of messing with delay settings solves. So eARC should be considered a solution of last resort.
There’s a particularly nasty scene in “Nightbitch” that might qualify.
Fermion@feddit.nlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Where can I find unbiased information about Luigi Mangione11·7 months agoThe implied claim that historical accounts are unbiased seems tenuous.
The ridges of the weave in my pants sometimes produces a vibration that is similar frequency and intensity as my phone vibrate. It totally triggers the check the phone reflex even if it happens while my phone is in my hand.