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mml commented on How Much OpenAI Spends on Inference and Its Revenue Share with Microsoft wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/... · Posted by u/ani17
Soon developers will wish they unionized or had a culture of collective bargaining and rights. You're labor, you just thought you were above it all. I'm not spiteful. I wish you luck and hope you guys organize.
after 30y of this business, i’m dumbfounded we haven’t organized. doctors, lawyers, plumbers etc seem to benefit hugely from professional orgs and unions in their corner.
i guess we are too well paid.
(all of the above make more than you do, and it’s because they are organized)
mml commented on CERN gears up to ship antimatter across Europe arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/ben_w
I've seen this expressed before, but every picture I've seen of CERN just looks like a massive pile of wiring, magnets and generic electronics. So I'm not sure why people react like you do towards it. Is it different from seeing it in pictures?
To me things like tokamak fusion reactors or rockets or even places like the massive piles of pipe work outside of SpaceX's launch site feel way cooler.
what i saw of cern was a beautiful campus with ongoing cricket matches on the lawn, lots of offices and computers, and a great cafeteria.
my brother worked down the hall from tbl, and we stopped by, but he was out. brother’s boss (mdm wu, of quark fame), was out of town too.
brother was the vms admin, and would bitterly complain that mdm wu never cleaned out her mail spool, and it was now a ruinous 40mb.
st genis is quaint and nice to visit, with views of mt blanc.
mml commented on InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger than steel techcrunch.com/2025/05/12... · Posted by u/LorenDB
“your choice of energy input” is carrying a lot of weight in your statement. producing steel from iron ore is extremely energy intensive. it’s true that once produced, recycling steel is less expensive.
but steel doesn’t store carbon (except the small carbon input used to turn iron to steel)
wood, on the other hand, is a carbon sink.
no, wood is not a carbon sink. its gets turned back into co2 as it decomposes.
mml commented on InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger than steel techcrunch.com/2025/05/12... · Posted by u/LorenDB
You'd think that there'd be a robust secondary market for treated rot resistant timber that's "too rotten for trains, but perfect for landscaping". Sure, there's chemicals in it but if it's safe enough to be embedded in untold miles of rail bed then surely it's safe enough for comparable landscaping use.
Like everything else there's probably some 2nd/3rd order consequence of regulatory perversion that prevents it. Like because of the circumstances it wrongly gets classified as hazmat or something.
creosote railroad ties are commonly found in landscaping around here. unfortunately, they are hazardous waste, thusly getting rid of them is a bit of a hassle.
mml commented on InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger than steel techcrunch.com/2025/05/12... · Posted by u/LorenDB
Nile Red did it on youtube...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CglNRNrMFGM
I've seen this video, he did a pretty good job, but his chemical treatment didn't penetrate at all. I suspect he would have benefitted from pressure cooker during that step. this is how treated lumber is treated to get full penetration of whatever chemicals they use.
given the depth the of the penetration, he basically case hardened it. you can see in the bullet tests that the interior laminations are much fatter than the exterior layers.
mml commented on InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger than steel techcrunch.com/2025/05/12... · Posted by u/LorenDB
I really wish Nvidia had gone in this direction instead of gstreamer :/