sushibowl

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[–] sushibowl 15 points 3 months ago

Both, really. There's been encoding improvements every generation, but they also use different slices of the spectrum.

[–] sushibowl 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Usually when code dumps like these happen they don't include any of the art assets. That's why you still need to get the game on steam to run it, to download the sprites and what not. Has nothing to do with the code enforcing anything.

I don't know about these particular releases though, I could be wrong.

[–] sushibowl 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This applies to all cars. I don't think there's ever a situation where you should buy a completely new vehicle over a used one that's 2-5 years old. The value proposition is just insane

[–] sushibowl 11 points 3 months ago

He's the NATO chief, and NATO is basically the embodiment of America militarily defending Europe. Of course he wants Trump and Zelensky to make up and kiss. He's just saying what his job demands him to say.

[–] sushibowl 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

VAT is a universal tax on goods. A tariff is basically a tax that applies only to imported goods. So a tariff distorts the market, making imports from a region more expensive relative to other regions, or domestic goods.

Note that basically any tax is bad from an economic perspective. However for the government to function revenues must be raised. It is considered better for market efficiency to raise revenues in such a way as to least distort the market. Tariffs are a very distorting instrument, VAT is generally considered less distorting because it affects all parts of the market equally.

[–] sushibowl 35 points 3 months ago (4 children)

The US needs to do way more than invest into public transit. You need to completely rethink city planning to get something suitable for human travel. Suburban America is like the antithesis to public transportation (or god forbid, walking).

[–] sushibowl 2 points 3 months ago

Inertial confinement fusion techniques don't really have a steady state. The idea is to take a pellet of fusion fuel, compress it with a powerful laser to make it fuse, then eject the pellet and insert a new one. It's kind of analogous to a car engine, where you keep injecting a small amount of fuel, igniting it, and ejecting the spent fuel, over and over again.

The reason ICF fusion scientists like to exclude the laser from the efficiency calculation is that they are looking at the efficiency of the fusion process itself, so the efficiency of the laser is irrelevant. There is an argument for this from a scientific point of view, but for a practical powerplant the overall efficiency of the entire system is important. It's a contentious issue.

[–] sushibowl 78 points 3 months ago (11 children)

No magnetic confinement fusion reactor in existence has ever generated a positive output. The current record belongs to JET, with a Q factor of 0.67. This record was set in 1997.

The biggest reason we haven't had a record break for a long time is money. The most favourable reaction for fusion is generally a D-T (Deuterium-Tritium) reaction. However, Tritium is incredibly expensive. So, most reactors run the much cheaper D-D reaction, which generates lower output. This is okay because current research reactors are mostly doing research on specific components of an eventual commercial reactor, and are not aiming for highest possible power output.

The main purpose of WEST is to do research on diverter components for ITER. ITER itself is expected to reach Q ≥ 10, but won't have any energy harvesting components. The goal is to add that to its successor, DEMO.

Inertial confinement fusion (using lasers) has produced higher records, but they generally exclude the energy used to produce the laser from the calculation. NIF has generated 3.15MJ of fusion output by delivering 2.05MJ of energy to it with a laser, nominally a Q = 1.54. however, creating the laser that delivered the power took about 300MJ.

[–] sushibowl 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Sort of, browsers can run rust code through webassembly. But i dont think this is a full replacement for JavaScript as of yet.

[–] sushibowl 35 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You might think that, but the United States exited from the Paris agreement on climate change mitigation twice: Trump first withdrew in November of 2020, then Biden rejoined in February of 2021, and now Trump is withdrawing for the second time.

[–] sushibowl 34 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This is "the gadget," an implosion type nuclear bomb detonated in the trinity test, the first nuclear bomb test on earth (that we know of, heh).

It's shown partially assembled inside the 100-foot test tower where it would eventually be detonated.

[–] sushibowl 25 points 4 months ago

So the right is against self-service now? wtf

You may want to look into Grover Norquist and his organisation Americans for Tax Reform. It is one of the most influential political lobbying groups in the United States, and it has the support of essentially the entire republican party. They essentially consider tax to be evil on principle and ask every politician to sign a pledge opposing any tax hike.

ATR is strongly against automatic filing, as they want to keep taxes difficult and complicated to stoke anti-tax sentiment. That is to say, they fear that if filing tax is easier, citizens would be less likely to fight taxes in the way that the ATR wants (mostly they like a low flat tax, because it's simple and good for rich people).

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