MalbertKerman

3 tháng trướcdiscuss

To me, all-lowercase text comes across one of two ways:

(a) I felt speed was far more important than readability (reasonable for rapid-fire short messages or constrained typing ability such as a flip phone, also a common way to imply "fuck you, my time is more important than yours" in longer forms such as email), or

(b) i'm 14 and e e cummings is so deep (blogs)

MalbertKerman

4 tháng trướcdiscuss

I don't know whether to feel proudly clever or frighteningly jaded at having spotted this one by "industry standards." Nice.

MalbertKerman

8 tháng trướcdiscuss

> then wouldn't that require a razor's edge of criticality?

Yup. From the device description in its decommissioning plan:

  The CFX was a sub-critical assembly of uranium-2-35 surrounding a Cf-252 source. The function of the U-235 fuel was to multiply the neutrons coming from the Cf-252 source, which fissions spontaneously. The CFX was designed never to exceed a Keff of 0.99. The CFX assembly yielded sufficient neutron fluxes for applications such as neutron activation analysis.

Keff is the fission neutron multiplication ratio; 1 is criticality.

MalbertKerman

9 tháng trướcdiscuss

And quality educational content like "Hokay, so, here's the Earth, chilling. 'Wow, that's a sweet Earth,' you might say. ROUND!"

MalbertKerman

9 tháng trướcdiscuss

The hard part isn't having a telescope, but analyzing the images for objects that have moved between successive observations. Digital astrophotography and analysis software have been getting steadily cheaper and better, which leads to more amateur comet hunters each watching more sky, which has rapidly improved the odds of catching rare objects.

I'm not sure how the progress of institutional and amateur observations compare. Obviously the big guys benefit from the same technological advancement, but I don't know whether the fraction of new objects discovered by amateurs has been growing or not. I suspect the odds of the first interstellar object being found by an amateur were still pretty long.

MalbertKerman

10 tháng trướcdiscuss

> 100 days with zero emissions

By my back of the envelope math, burning 600000 kcal should produce couple hundred kg of CO2. You could also make that crossing in less than a third of the time under sail, with about a third of the daily calorie consumption, for maybe a tenth of the CO2 output.

MalbertKerman

năm ngoáidiscuss

I don't know if it's generational or a matter of background. For me, as the sort of person who knows exactly where to find the SCE power switch, it would be impossible to conceive of this font as ugly. So much ingenuity has been expressed, so much craftsmanship given material form, so many feats of industry and exploration and mundane utility accomplished through those shapes that I find them definitively beautiful.

If some community teaches Rules of Beauty which these characters contravene and are thereby deemed ugly, that says more about the merit of such Rules than anything else.

That ampersand, though... okay. You can have that one.

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