GenesisMachines

4235 pts · December 5, 2012


I build robots that make robots. I also make global security systems for banks.

Cover the printed part in a thin layer of coloured silicone (like sugru) and smoth it over with a soapy cloth before it sets to get a professional looking hygenic finish.

6 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Berlin police look sad during the mayday riots, as they didn't get the day off work unlike their collieges who they can see having fun on the other side of the riot shields.

6 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

It reminds me of sailors stories about dodos only fighting back with snarky noises and disaproving glares as they were being wiped out.

7 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Brian: We should be united against the common enemy!
Idiots: Anyone who would vote for a 3rd party candidate.

8 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My set-up uses 10MB/s pocket sized switches that are powered by usb.
Switching from USB3 solid state storage to USB2 saves a lot of power and massivly extends lifetime. The BTRFS fileszstem is designed to keep memoery sticks alive for longer.

8 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

This is normal for the AI projects I've worked on. The AI is developed and graded using data generated by humans.

8 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

My dryer has a heat pump, not a heating element. So it moves heat from the condensing parts of the system to the drum. This is cheaper to run than an american heating element dryer that vents electrical heated moisture into the outside air.

8 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm sure you don't think that the charge at the time of arrest was "defending your own home" from section 42 of the Making stuff up act of 1994, you're just pretending to not understand what the actual charge/crime was to back up a weak argument.

9 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I think this is more a case of the police wanting to prosecute someone and the old man was the only one confessing a crime where as the men knew to STFU.

9 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

Both the UN and WHO place the total number of Chernobyl deaths at 4,000. Which is what a coal power station kills in 12 years.
We would have noticed it tens of thousands of people down wind had all died of cancer.

Fukushima is in 2011. Nobody was expected to get cancer from deuterium and the rate of cancer deaths reflects this.

10 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

What if we invited them to be sealed in lead lined steel barrels so any painful lumps they may develop next to lymph nodes in the next million years don't pose a risk to future generations?

10 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's been over a decade and not one of them has been terminally ill or reported being damaged. If it was going to happen it would have happened by now.

I think Wargames it pointing out that it's a non-story, which I would agree with. Other industrial disasters happened the same year killing thousands and we don't talk about any of those.

10 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

There was one engineer who was slammed against the building by the wave and another who was a smoker who died of lung cancer.

10 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Zero dead, the guy who died of lung cancer was a smoker who didn't work on site after the disaster.

10 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's worth pointing out for context, that all the extra Chernobyl deaths are equivalent to running a single coal power station with the same capacity as the exploded reactor for twelve years.
Also getting cancer doesn't mean death, it can be having a bit of skin frozen off in day surgery.

10 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That sounds like you are saying there are people who will develop radiation related cancer after tens or hundreds of years, even if you buried them deep underground in abandoned salt mines.

10 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's zero. There was one worker, who wasn't there after the Tsunami, who died of cancer unrelated to his work.

10 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

10mm copper water pipe, rated at 200 amps wet and 100 amps dry.

10 months ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

You also can't work in the same industry in the same area after being fired because the States allow non-compete contracts.

10 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

I worked as a Berlin Sysadmin. Days after my probationary period ended I was fired for having a broken bone in my hand. I was then paid for three months while I refused to stop being an employee and they refused to let me back into the office. I then got another three months of pay to quit. I made more money from not working for them.

10 months ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

They come in three sizes. small is Shiba Inu (the Doge dog), medium is shikoku, large is Akita (Like from the movie Hachikō).

11 months ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

Explanation: Unpaid developer maintained a lot of simple projects. A new start-up used the name of one of these then went after the developer, software hosting company sided with the rich nepo baby and kicked him. Then the world found out how important all his little open-source projects were.

11 months ago | Likes 34 Dislikes 1

Beavers were recently reintroduced. Those are about as dangerous as the wild pigs.

11 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Again, if you are using a breeder reactor then you can recycle nuclear fuel until it has turned into lead, helium and a pinch of exotic elements with a half life of three weeks.
Spent Uranium fuel is waste because it is cheaper to replace 5% used fuel with 0% used fuel then to remove traces of neutron absorbing elements that appeared in the rods.

11 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

0% of natural Thorium (Th233) can be used as fuel. Only Thorium that has been turned into Uranium 233 in a breeder reactor can be used as fuel. If you are running a breeder reactor, then you no longer have a problem with using stable Uranium as fuel.

11 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Coal ash contains large amounts of uranium. If a county is desperate in the mad max climate collapse future, it could refine ash mountains.
Breeder reactors, like Thorium reactors, are harder to shut-down in an emergency (if what I learned in the 90's is still true)

11 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

In Germany, the anti-nuclear moment was funding by being a reseller of Gazprom gas. I don't know about other countries anti-nuclear moments, but a lot of grass root organisations against nuclear bombs or pollution seem to suddenly pivot to being against carbon neutral nuclear power.

11 months ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Thorium is three times more abundant, but uranium is a bi-product of refining other rare elements. So there really isn't much in the argument picking a reactor based on abundance of the fuel in rocks.

11 months ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 0

Uranium is one of the more common metals on Earth, not far off Thorium. To put it into context, on the Earth's surface fissile materials as about as abundant as lithium.
The only advantage thorium reactors have is that it's not easy to make Plutonium with them.

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