i think you need to be a little bit more specific unless sounding a little like an unhinged cleric from memritv is what you’re going for
but yeah nah i don’t think it’s gonna last this way, people want to go back to just doing their jobs like it used to be, and i think it may be that bubble burst wipes out companies that subsidized and provided cheap genai, so that promptfondlers hammering image generators won’t be as much of a problem. propaganda use and scams will remain i guess
previous stubsack https://awful.systems/comment/9235549 i don’t think too hard about it, because to a degree all pr people are professional liars in the first place, but bluesky didn’t like it
in terms of zitron fallout, there used to be a comment section at his blog, it’s not there anymore
how do you want to get butlerian jihad without kessler syndrome?
fyi over the last couple of days firefox added perplexity as search engine, must have been as an update
and don’t even get me started on splice variants
He said that Common Crawl is “making an earnest effort” to remove content but that the file format in which Common Crawl stores its archives is meant “to be immutable. You can’t delete anything from it.”
makes me wonder if it’s some crypto hangover
In 2023, he sent a letter urging the U.S. Copyright Office not “to hinder the development of intelligent machines” and included two illustrations of robots reading books.
cheerleaders for creepiest weirdos in sv try to deflect criticism by becoming impossible to parody
sv does have for some time a peculiar understanding of this and also some other terms, like “consent”, “ownership”, “privacy”, “safety”,
flashback: even back then handful of regulars objected that nostr is packed with cryptobros and spam, so it’s like that for 2y minimum
gleason is also responsible for soapbox, which is pleroma frontend (or maybe fork?) used as far as i know exclusively by nazis (which also makes defederation easier)
exploding-heads, openly trumpist lemmy instance, fucked off there when admin got bored of baiting normal people, make of that what you will
also unless you’re dissipating much more heat out at lower temperature, it won’t even work as a heatsink because otherwise it goes pretty directly against second law of thermodynamics
if i’m looking at this right, for copper alpha capture is actually still exothermic (by 3.7MeV and 4.4MeV for 63Cu and 65Cu respectively). it’s different from alpha process, because in alpha process whatever comes after calcium is two or more beta plus decays away from stable, that is there’s already too many protons and next alpha capture only makes it worse, and it all happens too fast for these decays to happen. it’s equilibrium process anyway at that point, but barriers are so large it probably doesn’t matter
this is not web scale, you need crypto trading to scale gambling losses
As highly requested
who the fuck requests this shit, these people, their customers, their products and dcs could be swallowed by earth tomorrow with only upsides for everyone else
wait, i thought these turbines were already backordered because of them? not only regular gas turbines but also these converted ones. gas turbine is gas turbine
this is on top of power transformer shortage (which are always backordered, but were backordered before 2022, then ukrainians started buying more because their own got bombed, then techbros made backorders bigger)
238Pu is made from 237Np, which is almost pure isotope recovered in spent fuel reprocessing, especially for weapons use. americans stopped doing that in one of their major sites in 1988, ran out of it in 1993 and bought it from russia ever since, but russians also stopped making this isotope because it’s mostly weapons grade plutonium byproduct and they have enough of it. americans still do some reprocessing but not enough to meet NASA needs, but also they started ramping it up to some degree. i understand that 241Am will be used to cover this gap at like 5x greater isotope weight
slight clarification here
so i looked it up again and this plutonium was already declared surplus, and was slated for disposal for 25 years now. it’s a part of 34 tons of plutonium that both russia and us each were supposed to dispose of, as agreed in a treaty. that disposal consists of using plutonium as fuel, because irradiating it in reactor for a long time makes it useless for weapons use. russians did their part, in part because they were using plutonium in their own power reactors for a long time, so they could just use existing infrastructure. americans didn’t, and they wanted to contaminate it with something and store underground, but some people wanted to burn it in reactors as it should be, so they instead did nothing and they still have some of that plutonium in there. that contamination can be probably reversed so russians objected to it, and didn’t like that americans did nothing either. this is why russians suspended this treaty in 2016 and formally withdrew this monday. therefore it was a fire sale then and it is a fire sale today
and the reason for why americans don’t have infrastructure or expertise to use plutonium as fuel is at least partially another fire sale, which used up russian ex-weapons uranium for fuel in american powerplants and started five years prior (russia was flat broke in 2000). rosatom became significant fraction of nuclear fuel supply worldwide (until that ex-weapons uranium ran out), that pushed nuclear fuel prices down and guided management decisions against plutonium-based fuel in infinite wisdom that uranium will stay cheap forever (plutonium remains more expensive now, but it doesn’t have to be the case forever). another big one was american policy against reprocessing spent fuel. couple of other countries have national energy utilities that have different priorities and do recycle their fuel in way that would be useful for the program above, weren’t part of this program and continued to use plutonium for multiple reasons. americans could ask for technical assistance from french or japanese or other allied countries, or perhaps even pawn plutonium to them, but i guess that not-invented-here syndrome won
i don’t know what kind of diplomatic win are they trying to get there, if any, considering that russians don’t care about this treaty anymore and had more surplus plutonium anyway
this is how 238Pu ceramic pellets for space probe generators look like, no fission required just alpha decay. If it was fission, it wouldn’t need to glow like this entire time because you can just turn it off