Notices by cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)
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Recently I've been thinking a bit about hydrogen fusion.
The pressure required to make H2 spontaneously fuse is around 250 billion atm, which is enough that there isn't really any material that you can build a suitable piston or cylinder out of.
A recent approach has been to try to force a liquid (in this case a hot metal) to compress a bubble of hydrogen plasma in the hope that as it collapses, the inertia of the liquid will create a shockwave that far surpasses the pressure of the vessel, reaching the target pressure at the center.
In this design, they center the plasma by spinning the entire apparatus in order to drive the heavier liquid to the edge by centrifugal force - not an ideal requirement for an engine. In addition, the number of independent pistons is annoying compared to a single reciprocating piston with a number of equal length tubes between it and the reaction vessel.
There's something I find quite amusing about the notion that humans may in fact make it to the stars, but with EM drives* that are powered by what are glorified internal combustion engines. Nothing will define the aesthetic of future asteroid miners better than a spaceship that sounds like a Camaro.
* Contrary to popular belief, the science behind "flying saucer" tech is pretty much sorted and it's just an engineering problem that remains.
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I think he said I should wait for TeslaOS linux distro ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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> The "no bugs" requirement is genuinely the only hard part here
I know, that's why I'm putting it front-and-center, and also indicating that initial setup and minimalism are sacrifices I'm willing to make.
I'm leaning more toward Fedora Atomic right now because of the fact that what you use is what someone tested.
That said, I've installed perfectly vanilla Ubuntu before and found what was objectively a bug within 20 minutes of clicking around to get it setup. So the "someone tested" part only works if there is actually someone testing it - and I get the feeling Canonical doesn't even boot their releases before sending them out.
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Linux Desktop Question:
I currently use a Mac, but I'm thinking my next machine might be a desktop. There's no way I'm gonna use Windows so that means Linux.
I'd like Distro recommendations.
My applications:
1. Brave
2. Thunderbird
3. VSCode
4. Libreoffice
5. Terminal
6. CPU & Memory meters in the top bar
My requirements:
NO BUGS, absolutely not one single bug. I will move heaven and earth to get the thing setup right, but I will not tolerate one single screw-up, no apt-get dependency conflict fuckery, nothing.
I'm open to minimalistic UIs like XFCE or LXDE if they can deliver no bugs. I need control+tab and control+tilda for switching windows.
Any recommendations?
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Good luck.
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Where is ?
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I wish.
Except actually I don't.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Based
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You know what, I was thinking about that and that's a fair fucking point.
If we could see like who produces the better athletes between ethnic British, ethnic Irish, ethnic French, ethnic German, and so on, that would be interesting to watch.
It might become boring if one team just dominates everyone else, but it would be interesting in the mean time.
As it stands, pro sports is just a bunch of random teams made from random picks of pro athletes from around the world and for some reason they expect people to have team loyalty to one of them.
What's the difference between different teams and why should I care?
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Yeah I'll stick with my bank, they don't kick me out over shitposting.
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I'm based in France, which means they won't get the message, and if they do, they won't read it because it's not in French, and if they do, they won't do anything because the person responsible is on maternity leave. Don't Buck It.
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Sam Hyde is dragging on Elon
https://x.com/wigger/status/1873892448692486480
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Hmm
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I'm pretty sure this while "debt ceiling" / "default" stuff is made up at this point.
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Europe is doing that too, and unsurprisingly Qatar is responding exactly in that way.
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And modern ethics is shit. Every NGO that brings in boatloads of "refugees" to Europe and the US is a Christian NGO.
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In my usage of the word, the one on the hill.
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Facefuck dying.
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White and Native American men are the most liked.
Asian, Indian, Mexican, and Middle Eastern women don't like their own kind.
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