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    ChatGPT-style search represents a 10x cost increase for Google, Microsoft

    This also probably means greater energy use and more CO2 emissions.
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    Carbon capture is here—it just isn’t evenly distributed

    How much energy does the system use to filter and compress the CO2? How much emissions would be generated by the CO2 trucks en-route to geologic storage? How much CO2 leaks from any part of this system?
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    Lenovo bluetooth keyboard unable to pair, won't accept PIN

    I have a Lenovo "ThinkPad Compact Bluetooth Keyboard with TrackPoint" which I made use of in the previous decade but not much in the past 3 years or so. https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/pd026744-thinkpad-compact-bluetooth-keyboard-with-trackpoint-overview-and-service-parts I charged...
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    Want to delete Spotify? These are the alternatives

    YouTube's suggestions/algorithm has been better for me than Spotify's, although this may be partly due to the fact that I use YouTube more. However it seems to me like YouTube's algorithm is a bit more cautious, suggesting more songs that it knows I like or songs from artists I like. And when it...
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    On Thursday a rocket failed. Three humans remain on the ISS. What’s next?

    From what I read, the tower was already jettisoned. There is some kind of "shroud" that has small engines on it that was used to separate the capsule from the booster. I don't think they used the main engines on the service module, just these other small engines.
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    Running Ubuntu VMs on Windows just got a whole lot more streamlined

    I think you shouldn't need to reinstall anything. You do need to restart the system to disable Hyper-V and use VirtualBox, which does make using both Hyper-V and VirtualBox on the same system impractical. You can use these commands to enable or disable Hyper-V while keeping it installed to...
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    Governor’s desk last stop to California pledging 100% carbon-free energy by 2045

    Doesn't this face serious issues because of the "Duck curve" and extremely high effective price per watt once renewable go over a certain percentage? My understanding is that many charts can be misleading and adding a certain amount of MW solar or wind capacity is not the same as being able to...
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    Stratolaunch announces not one, but an entire fleet of rockets

    The diagram also doesn't capture the rocket equation; small changes in the required delta v can become significant changes in the required fuel mass. Combine that with more efficient engines and reduced drag and the potential fuel savings are not insignificant. That is not to say it isn't a...
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    Interactive Presentations

    The desired application is sort of a glorified PowerPoint with the ability to link, script/execute code, and include GUI components. Or put an other way, a viewer for vector graphics animations that could be embedded in a larger interactive application. A large amount of content might have to...
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    EpiPens price has skyrocketed over the last few years

    There is an alternative auto-injector on the US market called Adrenaclick, but it's not deemed an exact substitution. There’s some issue here with script writing and medical billing. Generic drugs must be exact substitutions. Manufacturers can make unimportant cosmetic changes to their products...
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    Apollo astronauts dying of heart disease at 4-5X the rate of counterparts

    I suppose you could pre-ionize the particles. I am wondering if you could charge the ship and then ionize all incoming particles to a similar charge. It doesn't take that much charge to have a pretty incredible coulomb repulsion. The craft's charge could be maintained by non-neutral particle beams.
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    Reaction Engines moves ahead with single-stage-to-orbit SABRE demo engine

    I seem to recall that to be the differentiating factor between SABRE and earlier precooler designs; the other designs depended more heavily on liquification.
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    A fieldtrip to ITER, a work-in-progress that will test fusion’s feasibility

    Well maybe we have already seen all the wire improvements we are going to see from this project. I would like to add that if ITER were redesigned with advanced HTS wire it would be a SIGNIFICANTLY better reactor. http://phys.org/news/2015-11-breakthrou ... usion.html I am not sure what ITER...
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    Bitcoin rival Ethereum fights for its survival after $50 million heist

    All the hacker had to do was place a bet on the price of ETH crashing and then initiate the hack. If they are able to do anything with the stolen funds it could just be a bonus for them.
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    while (true) {

    Just a little programming related disaster for you to chew on, or not - Perhaps somebody thought that because an accounting application was single threaded, it did not need mutexes or atomic transactions. Turns out you can check balance once, withdraw infinite times. And with that, the largest...
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    We were promised flying cars, and Larry Page wants to deliver

    Look at the EHang 184. It already exists! http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/ ... nger-drone
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    Can one use a common slot power supply for a desktop/ATX

    https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fi1148.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fo575%2Fmqpickens%2FDPS-800GB-A_zps03c743e2.png&t=564&c=HPoHRU2SGOTy9Q
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    Can one use a common slot power supply for a desktop/ATX

    Sorry, I think I mean the ones in rackmount chasis. Here is a tech brief but it doesn't include a pinout. http://www.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c03502743.pdf edit: example model numbers 591556-201 643956-201
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    Bug tracking

    I had a similar issue with settings. https://meincmagazine.com/services/profile/ will result in a moonshark "A technical issue has occurred on web__."
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    Can one use a common slot power supply for a desktop/ATX

    I am wondering if one can re-purpose some of these server power supplies. I guess I'd need to know how to turn it on, then it would be a fairly simple to solder some cables directly onto the electrodes. Does anyone know how to do this? Just to make sure, they would have 12V, 5V, and 3.3V, right...