mipadaitu @ mipadaitu @lemmy.world

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No, force him to divest from spacex. It's too valuable for our space industry to just stop using it.

Fuck, just make him give it to Gwynne Shotwell.

That's one of the ways proposed for terraforming Venus. Put in a sun shield to freeze the planet, let the CO2 snow down, then process the CO2 into something that can sequester it away so it doesn't just go back into the atmosphere after removing the sun shield.

Of course none of that is technically possible right now, but it's a lot easier on a planet that has no (known) life to destroy while working through the process.

Back in the day it did sound weird. Partner was usually a business relationship, not a romantic one, and it was almost exclusively used by the LGBT crowd.

More gender neutral terms are good, but they're still going to sound odd to folks who spent 40+ years hearing the terms used in a different way. That's just how progress goes, older folks eventually will either get used to it, or be the weird relative ignored at holidays.

Hopefully he never pays, and those folks get jaded and stay home instead of voting for trump.

Agreed, and there's also the bonus of much less likely to get a counterfeit item.

Of course it's Technology Connections. Who else would make a video about a (now) useless piece of 80's tech with enough content to satisfy any level of curiosity.

https://youtu.be/zsyGRDrDfbI

New math came out of it, they figured out more and more efficient ways to figure out the solution to "is this prime?"

Those same math techniques can be used for other problems, and possibly learn something that solves a problem you actually care about.

Research is important because you never know what weird problem someone is working on might solve. Maybe it will provide a new math solution that creates better CGI, maybe it'll finally create a technique to solve fusion.

Maybe it'll just be something that we know now that we didn't know before. There are FAR FAR FAR more wasteful things in the world than some nerds trying to solve big prime numbers.

Sync for Lemmy.

Here's the source of their comment.

Why is anything worth the effort?

Cause research into primes makes computer security stronger. Cause research in general can make new discoveries that can lead to unexpected improvements in life.

Cause we need to know the answer to everything.

Cause it's better than mining crypto or doing AI training models over and over.

Formatting is off.

2^136,279,841 - 1

2 to the power of something, then subtract one to make it an odd number.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_prime

Name a single good thing and Trump will make it worse.

His supporters are the ones who will most be hurt by his policies.

Nope, it's real time travel with no FTL. The reason it's "finished" is that it takes hundreds of real life years to get anywhere, so they have plenty of time to populate the world's before the first players arrive.

TV show was quality. The end of the series was about as good as anyone could hope for.

Payment up front, in non negotiable bearer bonds.

Dr. Strange had his injury in 1963, he probably went through medical school in the 1950's and has been studying magic, not medicine ever since. His techniques and knowledge are extremely out of date.

Depends on which season. Are you extrapolating current JD? Or can we pick season 1 JD, where he has a lot of knowledge, but very little experience, and wasn't a very good doctor yet?

January 30th, 2025 release date

January 30th, 2025 release

If you think this is new, you haven't paid attention to history.

Depends on the writer, but they handwave a lot of those problems by the fact that replicators need a lot of energy to work (voyager explicitly said they didn't have the spare power and used hydroponics and trade to supplement), and a lot of critical components couldn't be replicated (dilithium, and antimatter containment parts. Also the isolinear computer chips were non-replicatible). I think you'd also struggle with any weapons systems, which might include shields.

Essentially you could build the hull and most of the mechanical parts, but not the critical systems.