The Weekly Weird - 2021-08-20
- Fusion may be the eternal technology of the future but the NIF achieves ignition at ~78% of breakeven.
- But will Inertial Confinement Fusion ever be cost effective? Maybe? Maybe not?
- (In case you're wondering, the NIF is only nine orders of magnitude from being able to createa a black hole.
- "In Figure 1 we provide an exact scale image of a 5☉ [Primordial Black Hole]"
- We can move some rocks around, and probably survive the Sun's red giant phase.
- "The net power generated is a little more than you would get if the Sun were overhead at noon 24 hours a day"
- "We find that falling bodies in gravity are subject to random fluctuations (noise) whose characteristics depend on the quantum state of the gravitational field"
- "We present Accept, a simple, asynchronous transaction system that achieves perfect horizontal scaling", (HN comments)
- Want a nice, GPS-disciplined Stratum-0 NTP clock? The BeagleBone is a good start and you can get pretty nuts with the onboard microcontrollers.
- Ever wanted to program in windings? Rust sigils too approachable by normies? ⊑+`∘⌽⍟12↕2
- Have a Postgres database? Ever want to join your data to Other Things like finance or kubernetes?
- Everything old is new again: don't let your data plane have root on your control plane, Blockchain Edition
- Statistical Thinking for the 21st Century
- Don't mess with GPL compliance, Naomi will track you down.