Don't know if just a typo, but for large parts of the Anglosphere, spaz is an unacceptable ableist slur. It'd be great if you could find a different way to insult Huffman, ta.
In my country the 'correct' way to eat is to hold the knife in your dominant hand and the fork in your off hand. I have always maintained that that's wrong. You keep one utensil close to your plate, and jab the other towards your face. Which one do you want in your most favoured hand?
I have not seen any obvious chatbot posts on Lemmy, outside of jokes like the top comment in this thread. Whereas by the time I left Reddit I was finding and reporting 2 or 3 per day. This could mean
no-one's seriously deploying chatbots yet on Lemmy
the chatbots here are better than the ones I saw on Reddit, or at least different enough that I can't recognise them
the parts of Lemmy I see, and the parts where bots post don't have much overlap
It grows in mummy's tummy. Some say daddy puts it there but I don't see a practical way to do that so I'm discounting it. I've been burned before with that Santa nonsense so I'm not falling for bullshit a second time.
Except it's not and it won't. It's just a fraction of a second pop and done. There's no sustained reaction because inertial confinement by it's nature is extremely temporary, and there's no way to introduce new fuel. If they do some monster fuel pellet that outshines the laser then sure - they can claim a net surplus. If they find some contrivance to keep a reaction going after it's started then fantastic, well done, the day is saved. But they're not likely to do that at the NIF because, shhh! NIF is not really about generating energy.
You can get robots that make bread. They're called bread makers. My parents have one. It's pretty neat to set it in the evening and have fresh bread ready in the morning, even if the bread it makes is not that great.
Wikipedia's figures for the last time they made this claim. The exact figures might be a bit different this time round, but I doubt they've found 99% efficiency gains. Livermore sends out this sort of press release pretty regularly and it always comes down to the same creative accounting
Basically, there's a whole load of input energy that they just don't count. Heat? Doesn't count. UV? Doesn't count. Plasma? Doesn't count. this diagram from the wiki might be instructive. There may be decent justifications for counting it like this - I don't know, I'm not a nuclear physicist. But I think the way they continue to report it to the media is simply dishonest.
Yeh that was me being circumspect. Last time i called it a weapons facility I got one of the researchers in my replies complaining that they totally intend to get round to some energy research one of these days. He didn't bother to correct any of the people in the same thread who were excited about their fusion power dreams finally coming true.
It's a shame. Blasting tritium into a mini sun with a massive frikken laser is plenty cool without having to misrepresent it so much.
Movement is very insistent on grabbing attention. To the extent that I find it difficult to focus and read text when there's an animation happening nearby. YMMV, we all experience things differently
Yeah NSFW stuff. But in the broader sense - gore, violence, shock imagery. I'm a baby and I don't want to see that.
Oh for goodness sake. 400MJ in for 3.15MJ out is not a net energy gain. I wish just once they'd be honest about what they do, it's ok to do basic physics research without pretending you've saved the world every six months.
If they actually followed through with that you'd kind of have to admire it. What else would they have to do away with? All abstract concepts obviously, along with everything they'd been told, read, or imagined. How about theory of mind? Object permanence? Would they be newly surprised by the sunrise every day?
My Brother in Christ..