i think that poking a pressurized vessel is a bad idea in general, whether it is attached to a hostile robot or not. it’s gonna be LOUD and perhaps throw fragments, or take way longer than practical depending on what it was made from. (what if only one of two is damaged?) there are so many things that can go wrong with the alleged failsafe (what if pressure drops slower than designed?)

nfc tag and card might try to transmit at the same time that’s why it’s asking to remove it

“individual researchers with bold ideas” will mysteriously turn out to be republican techbros

there are still coal powerplants around and any replacement is better. geothermal doesn’t work everywhere

Coal ash (from some mines) contains so much uranium that if emissions like this were detected near NPP all hell would break loose, but nobody cares. Energy content of that uranium can be higher than what was released during coal combustion

sounds like he took the hedge part out of hedge fund, and then margin call took out the fund part

it replaces gas turbine with a fuel cell, which is a good couple % more efficient than CCGT. still under development. there is also another variant where hot offgas is generated under pressure and expanded directly. no steam, same effect

there is a power generation scheme that uses high temperature fuel cells. optimally it could run on hydrogen only, but because it runs hot, it is able to take almost any flammable gas, along with some steam, and it forms hydrogen internally, then oxidizes it. this alone generates bulk of electricity, but offgas is hot, so it goes to heat exchanger which boils water, which then turns steam turbine

but you see, in case of accident they can just dump reactor core into seawater which will provide ample cooling and shielding. no biggie, just put multi thousand ton object that requires a village of engineers to work out on high seas

there are normal nuclear powerplants that use seawater as coolant and they’re all on shore. these require a lot of corrosion resistant heat exchangers along the way. there is one power barge like this, it provides power to russian far east, whole 70MW of it, costed 414 million dollars and needs 300 people onsite. your guess is as good as mine how many of them are military. 70MW, aka two or three aeroderivative gas turbines

if it’s that thick, i expect it’s some kind of pharmaceutical dissolved in oil. over time oil, like sesame oil, will gum up and darken like this

hexbear userbase are tankies/campists with extreme brigading habit, this is why many instances are defederated from them. including this one

mods of a comm that has “fuck tankies” in tagline have a vote and agree to remove a tankie mod. there are receipts and entire post prepared in advance

at the same time said mod is removed as admin of a couple of matrix rooms. said mod is also db0 admin and seems to like leftist unity as long as it’s done her way only. three hours later she wakes up and her next move is to grab another, completely unrelated community and to move instances from blahaj to db0, a community where she was inactive as a mod for months, specifically so that it would be exposed to hexbear. we all know it works very well. it seems like this move was talked about with db0 admins but not other mods of said community.

this doesn’t go as intended, blahaj admin steps in and removes that mod from there too. the new community on db0 is also removed, which is something that can be only done by admin, presumably some other db0 admin. then said mod makes second big post, calls blahaj admin a reactionary, steps down as a db0 admin (“voluntarily”, somehow i doubt that), moves shop to hexbear (?)

It’s lowkey expected considering how hard it draws from self-help movements

ah yes famously non-far-right cryptobros and downright woke russian and iranian sanction evaders

medical chatbot would be malpractice lawsuit pinata

Man brings man to the brink of death, for profit

they had big corporate contracts for their other, boring and profitable part of the business, but that won’t save them from openai going broke. it’s like 50x less than they need

i have been informed that the faster the company explodes the faster they can iterate, so eventually they’ll make company that doesn’t explode

and also crypto https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1254 surviving cryptobros are nonplussed

botnet builders don’t care, and they’re doing this because they started at some point and nobody stopped them