nanomonkey

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Comment · 9 months ago
Interesting, the Devonian also appears to be the period at which fish started sporting limb like appendages and muscle structures, and other animals started to explore land. Perhaps unlimited body growth doesn't work well for animals not entirely supported by water.
Comment · 9 months ago
some of us are anti-capitalist
Comment · 9 months ago
I believe they are implying that the US itself isn't in a healthy state. Economic disparity mostly, but also politically, socially, and likely physically. I think many would agree.
Comment · 9 months ago
Comment · 10 months ago
Thanks for the clarification. I got what they were going for it just didn't hit right.

I think supplements would have been a more effective word choice for the analogy for me, as vitamins reference something that is required for life.

Comment · 10 months ago
This seems like a terrible analogy, as a vitamin is something you can't live without, while pain killers mask the problem. I'd think one would want to be a vitamin and not a pain killer, but the opposite suggestion is being made. Maybe that's why this hasn't stood the test of time.
Comment · 10 months ago
Correct, going from cold compressed liquid co2 though. For supercritical CO2 one would then heat up the gas and use it as a working fluid to turn the turbines further.

If you could reuse the same turbine, one could store excess solar/wind energy in the compressed gas form, and then fire up a natural gas or biomass gasification reactor and then feed the heat into the system to produce more electricity on demand.

Comment · 10 months ago
I'm curious if this method could be used along with super critical CO2 turbine generators. In other words after extracting the energy stored in compressed CO2, if you could then run it through a heat exchanger to bring it up to super critical temps and pressure and then utilize it as the working fluid in a turbine.
Comment · 10 months ago
There are some contradictory claims here.

Boilerplate comes when your language doesn't have affordances, you get around this with /abstraction/ which leads to DSLs (Domain Specific Languages).

Matrix math is generally done on more than raw bits provided by digital circuits. Simple things like numbers require some amount of abstraction and indirection (pointers to memory addresses that begin arrays).

My point is yes, we've gotten ourselves in a complicated tar pit, but it's not because there wasn't a simpler solution lower in the stack.

Comment · 10 months ago
I haven't tried them, but they only require a zipcode and use ZKP (zero knowledge proofs) for payment authentication.
Comment · 10 months ago
I agree, but you can mitigate that to some extent by using a phone number that is not linked to your identity.

Phreeli [https://www.phreeli.com/] allows you to get a cell number with just a zip code. They use ZKP (Zero Knowledge Proofs) for payment tracking.

Comment · 10 months ago
As much as I like e-ink, it has terrible refresh rates. I'd love a larger version of the Sharp Memory display technology that could support at least 80 characters wide, and perhaps 8 bit greyscale. The current ones support 60hz refresh and sip power but are limited to black and white only.
Comment · 10 months ago
As a LineageOS user, I'd be interested in the disparity between GrapheneOS and LineageOS.
Comment · 11 months ago

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