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Fun Fusion Hype

Ontario-geofish [23:25:00]

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 I had to read this for a while.  It came up the next day after I said we need to wait for some new physics.  And here it is, ready to put electricity on the grid in a year.  600 million neutrons.  Is that a lot?  Can they fit in my shot glass?  I don't know.This is a pulse compression system.  I've said I can't see this running in a commercial

Raspberry pi pico

Ontario-geofish [16:09:00]

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 It has become obvious that the new pi5 cannot do what the old pi's did.  More complaints of the exact same nature that I did, are showing up.  Nobody can get it to work, and nobody is saying they'll fix it.  A general disaster!So, I also got a pico, and I am starting it up.  Darn thing needs a lot of soldering for the pins.I do some and then take a break from the

Musk to declare victory and go home

Ontario-geofish [13:57:00]

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 When he hits 1 trillion dollars saved, he will go home.  Of course, he'' be doing the calculating.  Poor guy has lost all his brain cells because of self-medication.  [...]

CRA totally bonkered this year

Ontario-geofish [12:05:00]

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 Autofill is empty, and on reddit they say that even if you fill out everything manually, they don't do anything with it.  They are probably operating windoze, and you can find all your tax [...]

Night and Day - Driver of Diversity!

Geology in the West Country [13:23:00]

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Night and Day - Driver of Diversity! I have come across a couple of articles which are promoting the idea that daily changes in the oxygen content of shallow shelf seas in the Cambrian were a major driver [...]

Cold blob tries to descend and wipe out US natgas

Ontario-geofish [11:42:00]

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 It's trying and making some progress.  A low Pacific plume may bring up more Gulf air.  These things cross the mountains at lower California, and stir up an Atlantic [...]