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slicktux commented on Does my key fob have more computing power than the Lunar lander? buzzsprout.com/2469780/ep... · Posted by u/jammcq

jammcq · 6 days ago

Does my key fob have more computing power than the Lunar Lander? In this episode of Runtime Arguments that just dropped today, Wolf and I dive into that question and we reveal some information that might surprise you. We had a lot of fun doing the research and we hope you enjoy it. Find it wherever you get your podcasts. And, if you enjoy it, please tell all of your friends. We'd really appreciate it.

slicktux · 11 hours ago

I will give it a listen! :)

slicktux commented on Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched haveibeenflocked.com/... · Posted by u/pkaeding

slicktux · 13 days ago

I’m curious; what database are they using? Or does Flock allow queries to their database?

slicktux commented on Toxic Salton Sea dust triggers changes in lung microbiome after just one week phys.org/news/2025-10-tox... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

slicktux · a month ago

I watched a documentary a while back on the Salton Sea. It touched on the local residents that live in the area and how the dust affected the children. There were even plans of tapping into Mexico’s Laguna Salada to help keep the Salton Sea from drying up.

Although it’s not a natural sea and its full of chemicals from agricultural run off the residents that live in the area are suffering from the dust and fears of great dust clouds plumbing and going west to San Diego were also insensitives from keeping the hazardous Salton Sea from drying up.

Beautiful place to visit…just not during summer when it smells from all the Dead Sea life.

slicktux commented on The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (1987) [pdf] gandalf.fee.urv.cat/profe... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

slicktux · a month ago

Maybe I’m too stupid to understand this sentence: “ A stupid man is born a stupid man by an act of Providence.”

How is being born stupid and act of providence? How can parents willingly have the foresight to spawn a stupid person? Isn’t it rather the lack of providence by the parents?

Posted by u/slicktux 2 months ago

Turning Desert Fog into Fresh Water Using 50k Volts [video]youtube.com/watch?v=-wa2J...

slicktux commented on Show HN: Strange Attractors blog.shashanktomar.com/po... · Posted by u/shashanktomar

slicktux · 2 months ago

Lorenz Equations and Chua Circuits probed with an analog oscilloscope is mesmerizing! Great videos of a Chua Circuit being probed with an analog scope… Also, plugging the circuit to a speaker via AUX port gives white noise ;)

slicktux commented on A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-co... · Posted by u/nvahalik

JasonSage · 2 months ago

My question is what happened between when they went in the water and when they got off-site medical treatment. 7 hours seems like a long time. Is there on-site medical that would be doing something during that time?

slicktux · 2 months ago

It’s a process to come into a high radiation area, as well as, a process to come out; I’m sure the worker was not injured so they processed he/she out and decontaminated the individual and did a whole body count. Then release him to medical for evaluation…which in itself is a process.

slicktux commented on A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-co... · Posted by u/nvahalik

slicktux · 2 months ago

I’ve heard of people falling into the spent fuel pool but never the reactor pool. Usually there are strict FME barriers in place and one cannot even look over into the pool without violating the FME. I wonder what led to the event? Definitely an OSHA recordable!

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slicktux commented on Japanese convenience stores are hiring robots run by workers in the Philippines restofworld.org/2025/phil... · Posted by u/thm

gruez · 2 months ago

>I never use self-checkouts unless forced otherwise, as I rather not contribute to the capitalistic end goal to get rid of all employees other than those doing robot maintenance.

What's the alternative? Having people do menial jobs that can otherwise be automated? What's the difference between that and paying people to dig ditches and fill them back in again, or banning people from filling their own cars so we can keep teenagers employed as gas station attendants?

slicktux · 2 months ago

The difference is there’s two options; to scan and bag your own stuff or go to a human(s) that can scan and bag your stuff. If the former catches on then we/you will be doing the “menial job” of bagging and scanning our own stuff all the time… and then some self checkout attendant will have the “menial job” of supervising the checkout and resetting it when it errors out.

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