LostXOR @ LostXOR @fedia.io

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From what I understand, thorium reactors have been more or less proven to be a viable power source, while fusion reactors still have major unsolved problems and likely won't be viable for decades.

"laptop"

clearly a desktop

Supercritical fluids are more like a gas than a liquid. Their lack of surface tension means they'll diffuse throughout whatever container you put them in, so they can't really be "poured" like a liquid can. They're actually a pretty good example of why liquids need surface tension to be liquid.

For a liquid to be a liquid, rather than a gas, it needs to be held together by intermolecular forces. Which means it will have some amount of surface tension. I therefore dismiss this hypothetical as physically unrealistic! :P

This can actually be beneficial if your router is right at the corner of your house. The foil acts as a reflector for some of the radiation that would've been wasted, and thus improves the signal quality within your house.

Can you make me a website that runs on my microwave?

Not on iOS, of course. But if you're using iOS what are you even doing?

Yeah that's happened to me too; as far as I can tell it's just Spotify silently banning your account. Must've signed up for one too many free trials.

Microsoft likes defaulting to email-based login, and I always click on the option to enter my password instead, but after doing that it sends me an email with a verification code anyways. Seriously???

All's not lost, just drive the car in reverse for a mile. :)

"What's your mother's maiden name?"

"c@#Wz6Ani5$!Z8L5$1$DJybIWaq^BwZw"

I can view the convergent (cross-eyed) ones no problem. I managed once to focus on the divergent ones with like 30 minutes of practice, but I had trouble focusing normally afterwards for like an hour so I haven't tried since.

The layperson stares in horror at the manmade horrors beyond his comprehension. The highly intelligent person stares with even more horror, for he can comprehend them.

Aneurysm posting is my middle name :3

Gotta make sure to do it from a Russian VPN too.

The Earth is actually warmer than an object in space would be due to the greenhouse effect. But even without the effect, a spherical blackbody human won't freeze. Since humans aren't spheres, you could probaby get one to partially freeze by pointing its head or feet at the Sun, minimizing the surface area it receives sunlight from. This is definitely something that needs experimental testing.

Freezing would happen very slowly, and not at all if the human was relatively near the Sun (around Earth's orbit or closer).

We do, however, swell up quite a bit.

Settings -> About phone -> Battery information

I'm at 943 cycles on my Pixel 6 Pro and it's still going strong. I slow charge it every night and try to avoid fully draining the battery to slow down the deterioration, which seems to have worked pretty well. Thankfully a battery replacement is only $50 so it won't cost much when I do have to replace it.