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@rmattila74 "Congratulations - you're a cautionary tale!"

@rmattila74 I don't know about the Dreeme, though (just saw your post!)

@rmattila74 I moved from a modern Roomba to a modern Roborock, and the latter was *way* better. It keeps the floor so clean I could eat off it, and gets into trouble a lot less often.

@rmattila74 Looks Finnish ;)

Fur coat futures are up in Russia.

@rmattila74 Why did you stop the lithium, out of curiosity? I also take carbonate (well, citrate, since I add citric acid to help dissolve it), though pretty small amounts (1mg Li/d), just as a general neuroprotective measure.

@rmattila74 I think I asked before, but I don't see it here... CPU or GPU? And if GPU, how VRAM intensive?

These days, if you can at all run a task on GPU, the performance gain is massive.

@rmattila74 Haha, ouch, but a nice way to go out ;)

@rmattila74 I never knew you got kicked out.

@rmattila74 I really wish we'd invest more into into seeding research. I understand the reason for caution - you need to make sure it actually works (rather than a temporary carbon surge that decays), and that there's no downstream consequences.

But it's *immensely* cheap vs. how much life it […]

In "Darwin Award Contender" news....

#volcano #paragliders

#Ukraine #Russia #NAFO

"The charge is failure to stop at a stop sign. Obliterating the stop sign is not a legal loophole."

"Also, you can't block the road. Then consume the road. Then become the road."

"Something must be wrong with this breathalyzer - it's pegged."

Credit: Jakob Vegerfors

"Do you have any idea how fast you were flowing?"

"Sir, your vehicle is emitting an excessive amount of smoke. And rock. And fire."

"Turn off the engine, please. The big, fiery one in the mountain."

"Could you pop the hood for me?
...On second thought […]

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Things are done differently here.

Credit: Jakob Vegerfors

#Iceland #Volcano #Eruption #Grindavík #Svartsengi

@rmattila74 I can't imagine why anyone would write short scripts manually now.

Models still struggle with large projects, but they're getting better at those too. But with short scripts... I just don't understand why anyone would do it manually anymore.

A warning for trespassing sheep: I've been prototyping.

If anyone wants to meet me IRL, there's two months of time before I'm transferred from Espoo to Noormarkku.

Photo credit: Smile Elims

#Iceland #Eruption #Svartsengi #Grindavík #Volcano

A couple more #eruption pics from Jakob.

"Closed area. All traffic prohibited".

Photo credit: Jakob Vegerfors

#Iceland #Eruption #Volcano #Grindavík #Svartsengi

@rmattila74 (I guess saying "*no* proliferation" isn't entirely accurate - it is a powerful neutron source, so I suppose you could probably breed isotopes of concern by irradiating uranium targets, so long as the lithium still gets enough flux to breed sufficient tritium)

(And come to think of […]

Dalahraun #eruption.

Photo credit: Igor Korolov

#Iceland #Volcano #Grindavík #Svartsengi #BlueLagoon

@rmattila74 Concerned about chemical compatibility with molten FLiBe?

@rmattila74 Heat is captured in the lithium breeder blanket, external to the vacuum vessel.

Liner replacement is always a challenge, but HTS magnets are easier to set up in a demountable design to fully open up the vessel than LTS magnets. LTS magnets don't tolerate joints well; they quench too […]

@rmattila74 Plus, it's ideal for space even if it proves too expensive to justify on Earth.

@rmattila74 IMHO, still may well make good economic sense. It's taken us a long time to get to positive Z factors, but we're at last getting there. And this chart doesn't reflect the impact of the commercial availability of ReBCO tapes for HTS magnets, ala […]

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It's #volcano time again... seems to be a small #eruption, and kind of remote.

There's #pollution issues, and Pele's hair over #Keflavík. And #they had to cancel the golf tournament in Grindavík. Wait, they were holding a *golf tournament in Grindavík* as the magma chamber was nearing full? 🤷‍♀️

@rmattila74 What's that going to be controlling?

@rmattila74 Nice aesthetic.