wildncrazyguy138

So I’ve had this thought for 20+ years but can’t seem to get it to work. Maybe someone smarter than me can make it work.

The Curie point of Gadolinium is around room temperature. If you put a high powered magnet on one end and then generate some external heat and include a spring (or crank arm) on the magnetic end, you could produce a piston, similar to a sterling engine.

Now, if you add this cooling material as a heat sink, you could likely rapidly cool the gadolinium material back below the Curie point, making a more efficient engine, perhaps even producing something that could do a bit of work.

I made some prototypes back in the day, but the ferromagnetic material would always eventually get locked with the magnets. My rudimentary engineering skills could never get the external heat source quite right. Perhaps someone with a bit more ingenuity will take this and run with it.

Also, old broken microwaves are a great way to salvage some pretty strong magnets.

And be careful when handling gadolinium, it’s known to cause kidney and nerve damage.

Pork BBQ and Collards. Finish it down with some Cheerwine.

Left to my own devices, I am a messy person. My wife is very tidy. A clean sanctuary is respite for her.

I don’t know how we ended up staying together after those first few dates, but I do know our twice a month housekeeper is acting as our marriage counselor.

They’ve made their decision, now let’s see them enforce it.

Utilitarian - Row houses and small single family starter homes.

Detached single family housing is suffocating this country and the environment. I’d rather leave the woods to nature and nature walks, not streets and houses.

In addition to that, utopian architecture, like arcologies.

I’m much more a fan of the PBS/NPR underwriting model. Tell me who deliberately funds the show or video.

When the advertisement is so divorced from the show, is not relevant to the conversation or is not relevant to me, then the andvertisers are wasting their money.

If you show me the same ad over and over again, I am actually more likely to NOT buy that branded product or service because I’ve become so annoyed and numb from the ad taking what little time I have on this planet that I will actively boycott it.

However, I do have a nice space mug from PBS, a plot of land on Mars, the moon and Scotland, and a t-shirt for the Truth podcast to prove that I will spend money when the advertising is relevant to the content I’m consuming. So if you want the ad to work, invest your dollars directly into the content and providers I care about.

But for the love of everything, do not think for a moment that your contribution gives you license to control their messaging or content.

You gotta give a hand to the tenacity of these ICE agents, you can point them out anytime and everywhere.

I’ve heard they’ve even gone digital.

• Energy demand to power heavy industry that we all use (steel, aluminum, chemicals, fertilizers)
• • I don’t see these going away, so it’d be best to make their processes greener by repurposing the carbon into ag products, then institute a viable carbon tax and offset the rest of their footprint
• Use of concrete in construction
• • some promising technologies coming that crystallize the carbon and use it to self heal the concrete, carbon tax and offset the rest
• Shipping
• • bring manufacturing closer to consumers, global environmental manufacturing and shipping standards, improve right to repair laws
• Transportation
• • upgrade public transportation options where it makes economic sense to do so, make our cities and towns more people friendly instead of car friendly, raise the gas tax to fund these efforts. Reduce the amount of detached single family housing stock and encourage multi-family stock, particularly in cities.
• Heating and cooling
• • incentivize heat pumps, add taxes to heating fuels and fossil energy plants to fund it. Start a major campaign to educate people to keep temperatures around 68 (winter) to 76 degrees (summer). And encourage use of ceiling fans.

Mostly vendors. Often on-prem versions customized for their sensitive work and the versions are 30+ years now.

They very much go by the mantra “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” If you’re lucky enough to get one of those contracts, you’re on a gravy train, but brace yourself because you can expect to get a lot of complaints about how outdated and crap your system is. That and a whole lot of time dedicated to training and documentation.

You’ll also get the occasional person’s personal monument to themselves. “Joe’s been doing that GIS stuff for 30 years.” Whew those can doozies.

I’m gonna need to ask the people tied to the tracks some questions about themselves…

I am not an AI hater, it helps me automate many of the more mundane tasks of my job or the things I don’t ever have time for.

I also feel that change management is a big factor with any paradigm shifting technology, as is with LLMs. I recall when some people said that both the PC and the internet were going to be just a fad.

Nonetheless, all the reasons you’ve mentioned are the same ones that give me concern about AI.

Never really understood that saying. Cheese is proof that the gods love us and want us to be happy.

When they make up tomorrow, they’ll both be a few billion dollars richer.

Ed was all ready for his toe replacement until he met the donor.

Yup, this is going to end well.

Is this what they meant by death cab?

Americans being Americans aside, there is an abundance of beautiful abandoned villas and fincas in Spain. Personally, I would love a chance to immigrate there.

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.

When I was a teenager in the 90s, I once dated someone whom I thought otherwise to be a smart and collected girl.

Then I watched her and her friend rummage the side streets for half smoked cigarette butts that people had disposed of out their car windows. The bliss in their eyes when they lit up a half smoked one.

Looking through the eyes of an adult now, it makes me wonder why I continued to try and strike a habit myself over the next 2 years. Fortunate for me, it never seemed like my drug of choice, though I did find others.

Being addicted to anything will make you realize just how fragile “giving a shit” really is.

Oh look, 8.4 billion in more made up money.

In other news, I think I just learned why Elon got more weird all of a sudden about 6 years ago. P. Thiel funding his brain chips? New conspiracy theory just dropped.