napkin math says sq kms of radiators to cool 100MW, it's just patently ridiculous
What if they use heat pumps to raise the temperature? Heat rejection is proportional to T^4.
Readit Newsp1mrx commented on xAI joins SpaceX spacex.com/updates#xai-jo... · Posted by u/g-mork
p1mrx commented on Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle dmitrybrant.com/2026/02/0... · Posted by u/zdw
I remember doing something similar with Lemmings 3D. You could simply NOP over the JMP into the copy-protection subroutine. It was surprisingly easy.
Made me feel like such a badass hacker at 15 years old.
When I was 10 or so, I "cracked" Slam! Air Hockey for Windows 3.1 by opening the exe in EDIT.COM and replacing some random binary garbage with spaces. After a few attempts, I managed to bypass the shareware dialog but also introduced some weird bugs that I don't recall the details of.
Courtesy of Xfinity and Charter overprovisioning most neighborhood’s circuits, we already have that today for a significant subset of U.S. Internet users due to the resulting Bufferbloat (up to 2500ms on a 1000/30 connection!)
Have you seen excessive bufferbloat on a DOCSIS 3.1 modem?
I had the privilege of working with Don back at JPL at the time he invented the rocker bogey. (I wrote the software for the first prototype with a computer on board.) Not only was he brilliant, he was also a really nice guy. I didn't appreciate at the time how rare that combination of traits is among humans.
To my astonishment, it turns out Don doesn't have a Wikipedia page (though the rocker bogie suspension does).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocker-bogie
AI-assisted project idea: recreate that animation as code, and then include the differential gear.
Edit: Someone already made a 3D animation: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hO8DbfE7hJw
p1mrx commented on Much of the World Facing 'Water Bankruptcy,' U.N. Report Warns e360.yale.edu/digest/wate... · Posted by u/speckx
Dystopian scenario: there are a heck of a lot of people in the world and they are 60% of water. Someone will realize this and people will turn on each other to extract that water. :)
Human bodies are a trivial fraction of the fresh water on Earth. That makes about as much sense as stealing batteries to run the power grid.
Reminds me of Uncle Worm, among the better TI-83+ games. It's 2D, but the snake is curvy:
If this is true, it's possible that the technology is from Nordic Nano. That would at least explain how a motor/software company could pull a battery out of thin air:
https://www.donutlab.com/nordic-nano-investment/
Their chief scientist is working on solar-powered hydrogen production, which seems fairly unrelated to solid state batteries:
https://www.nordicnano.co/chief-scientist-bela-bhuskute-will...
Though TiO2 nanoparticles appear to be relevant to battery research in general:
p1mrx commented on 2025 was a disaster for Windows 11 windowscentral.com/micros... · Posted by u/speckx
Windows 11 isn't too bad after running Win11Debloat, but I get quite annoyed when an update shows "You're 100% there" for more than a second. 100% means done, why aren't you done yet?
When I was working on a deployment dashboard, I made it show ">0%" or "<100%" near the endpoints, to avoid misleading rounding.
I recently got a used QNAP TS-131P for cheap, that holds one 3.5" drive for offsite backup at a friend's house. It's compact and runs off a common 12V 3A power supply.
There is no third-party firmware available, but at least it runs Linux, so I wrote an autorun.sh script that kills 99% of the processes and phones home using ssh+rsync instead of depending on QNAP's cloud: https://github.com/pmarks-net/qnap-minlin