I've been around online since the earlier usenet days when you had to have some chops to know what usenet is (was), and how to get on it. Mastodon right now feels a bit like the good days of usenet, there's some of the same vibe.
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Last Notes npub1lvtaenxpvs3vernaqg5wvwvz4qc5c8dlhxwnz0467dsu5crvlztq7qqqcy Artemesia You just described microsoft's stack rank. Another side effect is that it damages hiring, because the team members don't want to hire someone who might take one of the coveted two (of ten) best performer slots in the annual review. Microsoft dropped stack rank in 2013, only a decade late. https://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft-ditches-system-that-ranks-employees-against-each-other/ npub1lvtaenxpvs3vernaqg5wvwvz4qc5c8dlhxwnz0467dsu5crvlztq7qqqcy Artemesia If the "javascript people" are pushing it, it's shields up time. Then they'll chide you for not getting with the "modern website" program. Meanwhile, please continue to build websites that do not insist on reloading 15 megs of javascript on every pageview. npub1lvtaenxpvs3vernaqg5wvwvz4qc5c8dlhxwnz0467dsu5crvlztq7qqqcy Artemesia Why the purple front door? Is that a glasgie thing? npub1lvtaenxpvs3vernaqg5wvwvz4qc5c8dlhxwnz0467dsu5crvlztq7qqqcy Artemesia The point of their desire to privatize the USPS is to liquidate USPS' wildly overfunded pension. By congressional order, USPS was pre-funding the pension plan to rediculous levels, even funding it for people who have not been born yet. There's $40 billion in there that could disappear into private equity, and you can buy an awful lot of congresscritter for just 1% of that amount. npub1lvtaenxpvs3vernaqg5wvwvz4qc5c8dlhxwnz0467dsu5crvlztq7qqqcy Artemesia The state of the art of chemical liquid rocket fuels for main propellant has *not* advanced somewhat--they're still using fuels discussed in the book, including the one that Clark's lab eventually determined was slightly the superior, extra-refined kerosene, which became RP1, which is used today in Space-X falcons and heavies. Methane, extensively discussed, is used in Space-X starship engines. SLS and the space shuttle use(d) hydrogen, again extensively discussed. Over 20 years they pretty much wrung dry the high energy compounds that can be created with the peridioc table we have. Iteration and improvement in rocket engines, yes. Main stage fuels, no. npub1lvtaenxpvs3vernaqg5wvwvz4qc5c8dlhxwnz0467dsu5crvlztq7qqqcy Artemesia Ignition! by John Clark. History and practice of American research into liquid rocket fuels. Still relevant today, since they ain't making new types of atoms. https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pdf npub1lvtaenxpvs3vernaqg5wvwvz4qc5c8dlhxwnz0467dsu5crvlztq7qqqcy Artemesia Cargo Copypasta npub1lvtaenxpvs3vernaqg5wvwvz4qc5c8dlhxwnz0467dsu5crvlztq7qqqcy Artemesia He has not been nominated. That cannot happen until after january 20th. Mangolini has declared an intention to nominate him, for what that's worth which isn't much. npub1lvtaenxpvs3vernaqg5wvwvz4qc5c8dlhxwnz0467dsu5crvlztq7qqqcy Artemesia Someone doesn't want a well-heeled investigation of his life. npub1lvtaenxpvs3vernaqg5wvwvz4qc5c8dlhxwnz0467dsu5crvlztq7qqqcy Artemesia Those are wonderful. If someone did that for me I'd be like, "you mind if I pull them in two weeks so I can preserve them forever?" npub1lvtaenxpvs3vernaqg5wvwvz4qc5c8dlhxwnz0467dsu5crvlztq7qqqcy Artemesia Are there publicly traded companies whose valuation is largely predicated on AI hype? npub1lvtaenxpvs3vernaqg5wvwvz4qc5c8dlhxwnz0467dsu5crvlztq7qqqcy Artemesia Text article for those who hate getting news via video. Also, a reminder to folks that paying off Stormy wasn't and isn't illegal. Mangolini got convicted for the way he attempted to cover up the payment, committing bookkeeping fraud. https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-legal-team-tried-keep-stormy-daniels-quiet-yes-rcna175887 npub1lvtaenxpvs3vernaqg5wvwvz4qc5c8dlhxwnz0467dsu5crvlztq7qqqcy Artemesia I was drowning my sorrows, but my sorrows they'd learned to swim npub1lvtaenxpvs3vernaqg5wvwvz4qc5c8dlhxwnz0467dsu5crvlztq7qqqcy Artemesia "The CFR-600 (Xiapu fast reactor pilot project) is a sodium-cooled pool-type fast-neutron nuclear reactor under construction in Xiapu County, Fujian province, China, on Changbiao Island." npub1lvtaenxpvs3vernaqg5wvwvz4qc5c8dlhxwnz0467dsu5crvlztq7qqqcy Artemesia Do you often find yourself counterfactualling? You would be banned if you were on techhub.social for your practice of claiming past and hypothetical breeder reactores are currently commercially active. That's why I wonder where your paycheck is coming from. npub1lvtaenxpvs3vernaqg5wvwvz4qc5c8dlhxwnz0467dsu5crvlztq7qqqcy Artemesia Let's note that troed @ sangberg.se is posting from a single user mastodon instance with a blank "about" page, likey purchased or created by himself after he got banned (I assume) from mainstream instances for repeated counterfactualling about breeder reactors. npub1lvtaenxpvs3vernaqg5wvwvz4qc5c8dlhxwnz0467dsu5crvlztq7qqqcy Artemesia "Please discuss based on facts rather than emotions. " npub1lvtaenxpvs3vernaqg5wvwvz4qc5c8dlhxwnz0467dsu5crvlztq7qqqcy Artemesia Here's the link (from your cite) to the current status of breeder reactors. Note that the only two commercial reactors in "operating" status are in Russia. No thank you, I am not interested in following in Soviet/Russia's nuclear power lead. All the others have been shut down, all well before the end of their expected operating lifetime. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor#Notable_reactors npub1lvtaenxpvs3vernaqg5wvwvz4qc5c8dlhxwnz0467dsu5crvlztq7qqqcy Artemesia I really intensely dislike people who link to something then lie their asses off about the contents of the cite. From your cite: npub1lvtaenxpvs3vernaqg5wvwvz4qc5c8dlhxwnz0467dsu5crvlztq7qqqcy Artemesia "Breeder technology" npub1lvtaenxpvs3vernaqg5wvwvz4qc5c8dlhxwnz0467dsu5crvlztq7qqqcy Artemesia The "small amount" is currently 2000 tons per year in the US, and that's after the US' nuclear fleet has been substantially reduced over the decades due to being economically uncompetetive. Note that's uncompetetive even without having to pay for or provision spent fuel disposal (it just piles up on-site). npub1lvtaenxpvs3vernaqg5wvwvz4qc5c8dlhxwnz0467dsu5crvlztq7qqqcy Artemesia Bullshit. Cite. And if you cite China, Russia, or North Korea, or anyone else where they shoot you if you object to dear leader's plans for your town, I will block you. (Hint: Bure in France hasn't gone online yet, and they've been studying the problem since 1994) npub1lvtaenxpvs3vernaqg5wvwvz4qc5c8dlhxwnz0467dsu5crvlztq7qqqcy Artemesia One can demand real answers on the question of creating new nuclear waste, especially when you know the default answer is "oh, we'll just store it onsite at first, then every few years kick the can down the road and then walk away in 20 years." npub1lvtaenxpvs3vernaqg5wvwvz4qc5c8dlhxwnz0467dsu5crvlztq7qqqcy Artemesia ...blocked by politicians whose constituents don't want a fucking nuclear waste dump in their vicinity. That's called politicians doing their jobs. That's a fact of radiological chemistry problem, not a political problem. Not to mention the innate toxicity of plutonium and uranium. No amount of handwavy "blame the politicians" is going to change that. npub1lvtaenxpvs3vernaqg5wvwvz4qc5c8dlhxwnz0467dsu5crvlztq7qqqcy Artemesia Microsoft is the power purchaser, not the plant operator. But I'll ask what I always do--What's the plan for the spent nuclear fuel? Is it just going to sit on-site for decades in cooling tanks, until 20+ years from now the contract is up and the operator abandons the site, leaving the spent fuel as a problem for PA's ratepayers and taxpayers? npub1lvtaenxpvs3vernaqg5wvwvz4qc5c8dlhxwnz0467dsu5crvlztq7qqqcy Artemesia Hey, at least he didn't ask you to get out and push. npub1lvtaenxpvs3vernaqg5wvwvz4qc5c8dlhxwnz0467dsu5crvlztq7qqqcy Artemesia Um, you are proposing silent blocking and defederation without giving the offending party any warning or opportunity to address the problematic behavior. npub1lvtaenxpvs3vernaqg5wvwvz4qc5c8dlhxwnz0467dsu5crvlztq7qqqcy Artemesia I've been to Canterbury, Rye, Battle Abbey at Hastings, Corfe Castle, and Worth Matravers (don't ask why), but none of those save the abbey are much of a gardens destination. I'm interested to learn of recommendations, against a future trip. npub1lvtaenxpvs3vernaqg5wvwvz4qc5c8dlhxwnz0467dsu5crvlztq7qqqcy Artemesia Damn, now I want to go there. That looks worthy of arranging a one day layover at heathrow just for the side trip. npub1lvtaenxpvs3vernaqg5wvwvz4qc5c8dlhxwnz0467dsu5crvlztq7qqqcy Artemesia You might want to read the filing. The second last page is the request for relief, which very much requests damages for economic harm, trebled where law permits, plus interest. npub1lvtaenxpvs3vernaqg5wvwvz4qc5c8dlhxwnz0467dsu5crvlztq7qqqcy Artemesia Their case isn't frivolous. A lot of states have anti-boycott laws (fuck you very much, AIPAC). Decide on your own not to do business with an asshole, fine. Collude with others to make sure none of you do business with the asshole, not so fine. And they judge-shopped themselves Reed O'Connor, who is a favorite of right wing causes. This suit will not be throwm out. npub1lvtaenxpvs3vernaqg5wvwvz4qc5c8dlhxwnz0467dsu5crvlztq7qqqcy Artemesia ...or the kids settle on, my parents were spies, how cool is that? npub1lvtaenxpvs3vernaqg5wvwvz4qc5c8dlhxwnz0467dsu5crvlztq7qqqcy Artemesia I'll take the human-curated and accumulated knowledge approach. I assume gmaps still does that for bikeability. npub1lvtaenxpvs3vernaqg5wvwvz4qc5c8dlhxwnz0467dsu5crvlztq7qqqcy Artemesia How bloody hard is it to turn on google maps' bike routes layer? npub1lvtaenxpvs3vernaqg5wvwvz4qc5c8dlhxwnz0467dsu5crvlztq7qqqcy Artemesia Senators sinema (I-Kstreet) and manchin (I-coal) say no. Re-elect Biden and give him 50 real senators in 2025. npub1lvtaenxpvs3vernaqg5wvwvz4qc5c8dlhxwnz0467dsu5crvlztq7qqqcy Artemesia Um, I'm pointing out the bullshit of those commenters who are attempting to bothersider the running of this program. Biden ordered it killed only three months into his term, and we don't know at what point he learned of it. He didn't even have all his cabinet positions filled. npub1lvtaenxpvs3vernaqg5wvwvz4qc5c8dlhxwnz0467dsu5crvlztq7qqqcy Artemesia "This ran under both Trump and Biden administrations."
