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  • This is one of the biggest frustrations with nuclear power. The first power plants had issues (mostly due to them being bomb factory designs). We learnt from that, and designed better ones. They never got built. They were swamped in red tape and delays until they died.

    Decades later, China comes in and just asks nicely. The designs work fine. China now leads the way, built on research we left to rot.

    It’s also worth noting that there is a big difference between a fusion power plant and a fission one. China is doing active research on it, as is the west. There’s quite a friendly rivalry going on. We have also basically cracked fusion now. We just need to scale it up. The only big problem left is the tokamakite issue. The neutron radiation put off by the reaction transmutes the walls. Using radioactive materials as a buffer is an idea I’ve not heard of. I’m curious about the end products. A big selling point of fusion is the lack of long term waste. Putting a fission reaction in there too might lose that benefit.


  • While they are massively more common than in other fields, they are still a tiny minority.

    It’s also worth noting that the toupee effect may be involved. A lot of trans people can pass, in a work environment, as their preferred gender. I know a few trans people that I would never have clocked as trans, except the info came out in discussions.












  • cynar@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldOuch, that's cold
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    9 days ago

    The problem is there are 2 categories. Microwave safe just means it won’t explode, or throw sparks. The other type sorely lacks a name still. It’s the stuff that is transparent to microwaves and so won’t heat up at all, except for heat transfer from the food.





  • I’ve noticed 2 types on this, stick-in-the-muds and peak-hunters.

    Stick in the muds latch on to the first version of a belief they encounter properly. They will stubbornly hang on to that for as long as possible.

    Peak hunters are the opposite, they will rapidly change beliefs to maximise the results/find truth.

    Interestingly, after some time, the 2 groups look almost identical. The peak hunters tend to find the ‘best’ version of their belief, based on their existing memeplex. To budge them, you need to show a different belief is better, on their rankings (not yours). This is hard when they have already maximised it. Without knowing how they are weighing things, they can look like stick in the muds.

    The biggest tell is to question why they believe what they do. If they have a reasonably comprehensive answer, they are likely peak hunters. Stick in the muds generally can’t articulate why their belief is better, outside of common sound bites.


  • The dys effectively means disorder of. Lexic reading and writing ability. It’s a disorder of reading.

    In the same family you have some others. Dyscalcula is a disorder of maths ability. Dyspraxia is a disorder of motor control.

    Science likes Latin based words. Because it’s a dead language, the meanings don’t change/drift. Most scientific language can be deconstructed this way.



  • At the time, clock speeds were chosen and the chips designed to work that fast. They also gave an overhead for variances in manufacturing.

    Modern chips mostly make use of this already. There was a time when over clocking was quite common in the geek community. It’s mostly disappeared now. The CPUs we have now don’t benefit as much from a boost, and are more likely to go past their limits and burn out.

    It’s also worth noting it was a change from 32000hz to 32040 Hz. An increase of around 0.125% (or 1.00125x faster). It’s fucking tiny, it only really matters when times are extremely close. E.g. 60 minutes pass in 59 minutes, 55 seconds, a saving of 5 seconds maximum.