plankers

modeling the heat transfer modes in Enceladus' icy shell that rests above its liquid water ocean. previous modeling has assumed that all heat transfer is conductive, but using dynamical simulations i've shown that under certain conditions convection can occur at in the shell. specifically, these conditions are having a thick enough ice shell, the right amount of porous fluffy ice deposited from the plumes at Enceladus' south pole which jet water into space through fissures in the crust, and the right thermal conductivity of this porous layer.

now i'm starting on adjusting the model to include the liquid water ocean underneath the shell and observe the effect of changing viscosity gradients in the equilibration of the ocean and ice shell, as well as adding in compositional impurities (chloride brines) and tidal heating effects.

Trotting this out again because somehow it hasn't completely saturated the internet yet:

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"

--Upton Sinclair

i procrastinated on my bachelor's thesis for ~5 years. the school ended up changing the graduation requirements before i finished it.

never underestimate the power of stubbornness.

maybe, just maybe, having friction in logging into web services is a good thing.

i, for one, am not a fan of the tendency for every web service to require an account in the first place. making it easier for people to log in to these unnecessary accounts is helpful in discouraging this practice, as it will decrease utilization of services which require such superfluous accounts.

On public roads with other people who haven't consented to testing anything, no less.

So I guess this means Volvos will be... crashing... less?

sounds like the devs over at SAP need to unionize if they want to stop pushing user-unfriendly software

enforcement would probably happen at the level of the power utility. large mining operations have agreements with utilities to buy power at wholesale prices, the utilities know what the power is being used for

the real beneficiaries of this would be small miners (small business owners?) who either use their own locally generated power or the residential grid. oh, and all the people who don't mine in the US

coincidentally, i'm sure the rent freeze has had a positive effect on your ability to pay your bills without stress

pretty sure it's just HN being HN