Amusingly, in a way, we are using microphotography (photolithography) to produce images on the scale of hundreds of atoms. Then we stack those images to achieve dense structures of data that can be read out electronically (flash chips).
Making a rom chip using this technology would be a lot like that encyclopedia britannica in a matchbox, except more around the size of a grain of dust. Of course we tend to make ram instead, where information is only encoded after the photolithography is done creating the structure.

This is so turbing.

Scale? There have been a lot of tesla cars driving for years. Last I heard, electric cars in general, and also teslas specifically, are a lot less likely to burn.

Without some usable numbers the counts above seem worthless to me.

thx.

• Belarus (2015; gas, nuclear)
• Belgium (2016; green, gas, nuclear)
• Austria (2020; green, bit of gas)
• Sweden (2020; green, nuclear)
• Portugal (2021; green, gas)
• UK (2024; green, gas)
• Slovakia (2024; nuclear, green, gas)
• Ireland (2025; green gas)

Most of the nations seem to use renewables and use gas to balance the load spikes. Few have the storage to get by without a source of balancing, nuclear is a common supplement but shouldn’t be capable of balancing since it’s so slow.

Some use so much gas it’s probably not just for balancing, namely the uk.

Sweden is probably using hydro to balance, they don’t seem to have any storage but also don’t use gas.

I would discard Slovakia. They still have installed coal capacity, and import significantly from poland which is mainly on coal.

would be interesting to see the respective major power sources

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Name the prime a “none”, the octave a sept.
Now, 2 “septaves”, c1 to c3, are a 14th. 2*7 = 14.

You can make off-by-one intervals work, but you have to constantly juggle some +1s or -1s compared to what we usually use.

If you counted distance in steps, then moving from your front door to your front door would be 0 steps, not one, and moving by 6 steps is twice the distance of 3 steps.

A piano with 5 septaves has 5*7 = 60 keys, wait.

So anyway mathematically one dodecave, one 12th, c1 to c2, has 12 segments, the frequency diffefence is 2. So a second, 2 notes, has 2/12 of that interval, the ratio is 2^2/12.
A first, a halftone, has 2^1/12 as its frequency ratio, and a none has 2^0/12 = 1, the same frequency.

No matter if you count physical keys, distance on a keyboard to change a note by, or mathematical frequency in the air, starting at 1 goes against our intuition, and when you try to add or multiply it is easy to get completely wrong results.

PS: You might want to go C to C on your 5 dodecave keyboard, in which case the concept of “started hour” etc. is familiar, you know to add one arriving at 61 keys, and you know that means an assymetry where one C doesn’t have 11 other keys to itself.
The other way around you’d have to subtract 4, so probably subtract 5 and add 1 since you were dealing with 5 tredecaves in your head not 1 base tredecave followed by 4 extension tredecaves.

Can’t you just replace the entire game folder?
Running a verify and repeating the action would even show how many files were changed.

In the basic case you go to settings and change permissions.

In the more typical case for os modifications, you go to that tab, open advanced properties, change the owner account by typing in “everyone” or your account name by hand, saving, closing reopening the advanced security settings, probably disable inheritance then create a new permission entry.

In the most extreme case, where you change files belonging to something critical like windows defender or edge, you can’t.
The only way I am aware of is booting into an older windows install iso, or a live linux iso, then performing the modifications there.

Disclaimer: I have not done this on windows 11 yet, but I can’t imagine the process got simplified.

Windows has a lot of systems that allow some more complicated modifications. Those are often unnecessarily obfuscated, the registry for example doesn’t have to be a weird custom database, it could have been part of the filesystem or at least a more standard database format. Windows will sometimes bite you with weird sketchy systems breaking expectations, and this tends to become inevitable when you try to change stuff Microsoft has decided to remove consumer choice on.
If Edge and the account push were as easy to avoid as learning how to take basic file ownership, we might not be where we are now (i.e. on Linux).

I’m not certain, can’t find any reliable info on this.
Shops don’t seem to specify the reflective material. In addition, aluminium is commonly used to describe the frame, and silver as a color for the frame or other parts, making it hard to get any info on the sales side.

On the production-tech side, I see some pages talk only about silver, others mention both silver and aluminium. Silver commonly has a description of the chemical process at times (silver nitrate silvering), haven’t seen one for aluminium yet.

Price wise, metal should be fully opaque around 10nm. Assuming a generous 100nm thickness, that makes 0.1€/m² worth of silver. I doubt material cost is a factor.

Performance wise, silver seems better than aluminium in its reflectance. Honestly I don’t get why anyone would be making aluminium mirrors.

Does anyone have more info on this?

Mirrors now are chemically deposited silver to my knowledge.
Deposited on the back of the glass, then a protective layer applied on top. The amount of silver in that assembly is very low, and none is exposed, but the reflective component is the silver.

Camel by Camel (Instrumental version)

It’s like getting only 22.3 instead of 23 chromosomes. What a dick move.

Yes, that’s an organ, but you’re thinking of a portable binder of preprinted tables designed for personal management.

Na, that’s olfactory, oregon is a large pipe instrument commonly constructed in christian temples.

It’s probably purposeful obscurity, a marketing move for gold and jewelry.
Other alloys are described as ratios of elements.

At least I am starting to see carat fall out of use as a unit of weight, maybe from diamond manufacturing slowly making diamonds more of a commodity product.

It’ll probably take until we stop obsessing over gold before we can get rid of karat.

It’s 18 karat, not 24, so 75% gold and 25% probably silver.
That makes it a significantly harder alloy than pure gold.

comapss, dyslexia edition

Post should be marked nsfw

I’m not your bro, pal.