halcyoncmdr
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- Comment on Can somebody please explain why the world hasn't gone nuclear yet? 5 days ago:
Scientific education rather than emotional reactions to the unknown does that.
- Comment on Can somebody please explain why the world hasn't gone nuclear yet? 5 days ago:
If you were to take all of that nuclear waste ever produced in the US, processed and stored inside dry cases, it would fit within an American football field less than 100 ft high. That’s an insanely tiny amount of space for all the waste ever created for an entire type of energy production. For some comparison the amount of coal removed from the ground each year would form a cube over a mile wide.
However, most nuclear waste is low level waste and decays within a decade or less. Some of the medium level waste lasts a few decades. The longer stuff is a small fraction of overall waste. But some of it can be reprocessed and used as fuel again. It is also perfect for the starter fuel for some Thorium-based nuclear breeder reactor designs. Some are useful for various nuclear medicines. Very little of it actually has no use whatsoever.
- Comment on Can somebody please explain why the world hasn't gone nuclear yet? 5 days ago:
Coal on the other hand is relatively cheap, the technology is fairly simple, running them is fairly cheap, there’s no waste to get rid of etc
Well, the waste gets thrown into the atmosphere. And that coal ash contains radioactive waste. Radioactive particulates up to 10x more concentrated than the raw coal fuel are injected directly into the atmosphere and spread by the winds. You know, the actual dangerous part of those nuclear accidents everyone is always thinking about.
scientificamerican.com/…/coal-ash-is-more-radioac…
If a nuclear plant leaked even a fraction of that amount of radiation it would be shut down immediately. But all of that gets to be ignored, because it’s not a nuclear power plant.
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 1 week ago:
They have never considered actually competing have they?
- Comment on Lithuania, Finland pivot to landmine production, potentially supplying to Ukraine, Reuters reports 1 week ago:
They totally did, because they’re indiscriminate and remain well after conflicts are over.
And then Russia started mining because they don’t give a fuck. So mines are already being used in the conflict. Ukraine not having that option just ties their hands.
- Comment on If I found voter irregularities in my home district do I have to hire a lawyer to prove it.? Or just let it go and the Florida Orange win? 1 week ago:
That’s illegal in most places. Votes are anonymous specifically because people have been threatened to vote certain ways in the past. If you aren’t given proof of voting a specific way you can’t be forced to vote a specific way.
- Comment on Bitcoin investor moves $8 billion worth of crypto after 14 years, originally bought for less than $210,000 — 80,000 BTC transferred from Satoshi-era wallet 1 week ago:
Probably lost the wallet and forgot about it, and found the USB drive while moving furniture.
- Comment on Don't let it be you 1 week ago:
The third of it that voted for exactly this.
- Comment on Xbox Producer Recommends Laid Off Workers Should Use AI To 'Help Reduce The Emotional And Cognitive Load That Comes With Job Loss' 1 week ago:
I mean that would save millions and millions of dollars right off the top. Between salary, bonuses and stock were talking hundreds of millions in some cases. Maximum shareholder value increase.
- Comment on Reevaluating my password management 2 weeks ago:
I switched to Bitwarden after the LastPass stuff a couple years ago, and I just got around to installing Vaultwarden on my TrueNAS system at home. Using a single Cloudflare Tunnel to handle secure external connections for that and other services like Emby easily. Took a little bit to setup following some guides, but has been working flawlessly for me and some friends. You can use the regular Bitwarden apps and extensions since they natively support self hosting.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Any backers if there are any, searching their name online to see about controversial decisions.
And then I default to replacing them.
- Comment on Fun Lunch Fridays 2 weeks ago:
Beans on toast?
Checks out. Especially for the crazy people that refer to all sliced bread as toast, whether it’s toasted or not.
- Comment on I have searched far and wide 3 weeks ago:
The Hunger Games probably made a crap ton of people learn the word.
- Comment on EBay used to be a wild place 4 weeks ago:
It’s still known for electronic ~box~ sales. Especially around graphics card releases.
- Comment on Troops and marines deeply troubled by LA deployment: ‘Morale is not great’ Several service members told advocacy groups they felt like pawns in a political game and assignment was unnecessary 4 weeks ago:
While true, this requires them understanding that it is an illegal order in the first place, and suffering the consequences of that action in the meantime. Just because they’re following the law and doing the right thing, they most likely will still be punished in the short term for not following orders, even if those orders end up being determined to be illegal.
- Comment on Twenty-seven states and DC sue 23andMe to oppose the sale of DNA data from its customers without their direct consent 5 weeks ago:
Ancestry stuff has been pretty popular in the US for decades, DNA testing for it is relatively new but just the next easy step.
- Comment on Dune: Awakening Draws Nearly 100,000 Players On Steam Before Full Release 5 weeks ago:
Played for about 2 hours yesterday and that’s exactly what is happening. The game prevents you from plopping your space right on top of another base but the blocked region around it isn’t very large.
- Comment on We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink 5 weeks ago:
Starlink provides service to areas where fiber is impossible. Like the middle of the ocean and actual rural areas where fiber runs could be tens of miles or more between homes. Those are area where no one will build out fiber unless the homeowner is paying for it themselves, the various government programs would never cover those actual rural areas despite what they claim. At best they might cover city outskirts for new infrastructure, where fiber nodes are already relatively close by. They’re never adding fiber to existing rural farms and ranches.
They are not a 1:1 service comparison. You would need to compare It to other satellite providers, and there isn’t a comparison because all of those are dogshit in comparison to Starlink.
There’s a reason it’s as popular as it is so quickly despite satellite internet in general not being new. The low earth satellite constellation means a massive difference in capability compared to conventional geostationary satellites. Multiple second latency, slow downloads nowhere near advertised double digit Mbps speeds, single digit Mbps upload speeds and often monthly data limits as low as 50GB per month are what the conventional satellite providers offer.
- Comment on New Japanese Law Stops Parents From Naming Their Baby 'Pikachu' 5 weeks ago:
Not inherently, no but you should never pick a name from any sort of media until their character arc is complete. Khaleesi was arguably fine until the character became an incestuous genocidal maniac.
That is now a major part of what people remember about the character. Just like you probably wouldn’t choose to name your child Hitler now, the name is linked with a certain individual and their actions even though the name had nothing to do with it.
When you pick a specific name or word from fiction that doesn’t otherwise exist, that link becomes even stronger, because that’s the only source.
- Comment on New Japanese Law Stops Parents From Naming Their Baby 'Pikachu' 1 month ago:
At least Pokemon names have a fun background.
Now imagine all the girls named Khaleesi after Game of Thrones. Especially after her character arc finished. That wasn’t even her name, it was a title. They’re literally just named Queen.
- Comment on Is it a big deal if my phone hasn't had a security update in 5 years? 1 month ago:
So not a primary device.
Make it your burner phone.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 1 month ago:
You realize that with a federated system they’re not just handling their own users right? They could defederate from the servers that host users causing issues, but that also means all of their users cannot interact with all those communities, without a choice. Lemmy currently only provides a sledgehammer when they really just need more fine tools.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 1 month ago:
It’s not just federated networks. It is anything with user interaction. Managing and moderating any sort of sizeable social media site is a lot harder than people think.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 1 month ago:
Fascinating how quickly you can forget the actual abuse when thinking about an abusive ex.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
For random password dumps going through thousands of accounts it’s probably fine, but if you’re targeted for some reason and they get just a couple passwords. With even just 2 passwords, that system may be obvious already to someone looking to gain access to your accounts specifically.
- Comment on I'm something of an expert myself 1 month ago:
Often this is because of those little shit pin connectors for the power button getting pulled loose. How has a better, standardized option not been made for those yet?
- Comment on Syncthing alternatives 1 month ago:
Crazy, thought for sure it would fail testing.
Still wouldn’t trust it personally after a failed stick from a matched pair regardless of what the test says though.
- Comment on Syncthing alternatives 1 month ago:
(used to have 2, one died)
That would make me immediately look to the RAM as the possible source or corruption. If it used to be a matched pair and one stick died, the odds of the other being on its way out are MUCH higher than normal. I would never trust that matched stick.
- Comment on Syncthing alternatives 1 month ago:
Similar issues even with just 2 DIMMs with some XMP/EXPO profiles not working on AMD systems because of board/CPU limits. It should technically work, but for whatever reason it just can’t handle it and speeds need to be dropped or the timings loosened a bit even though the RMA itself is rated for that.
Not that the higher speeds are even necessary for 90% of users outside extreme overclocking. DDR5 6000 is basically where you reach diminishing returns anyway, and that’s often where that limit seems to appear.
- Comment on Syncthing alternatives 1 month ago:
Yeah AMD’s memory controllers, especially DDR5 seem to have a lot more difficulty at high speed with 4 slots filled. I used to plan upgrades around populating 2 slots and doubling if needed a few years later, instead now you really need to plan to ignore those slots if you are needing memory performance for things like gaming versus raw capacity.