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For one, it's theoretically impossible to make lasers 102 times more efficient, especially if you consider the current industrial efficiency of up to 20% (30% under special conditions).

For example, the maximum efficiency of a laser is limited by the quantum efficiency of the laser material, which is the ratio of the number of photons emitted by the laser to the number of charge carriers (electrons and holes) injected into the laser material. The quantum efficiency of most laser materials is less than 100%, which means that there is a limit to the efficiency that can be achieved.

In addition, the efficiency of a laser is also limited by the thermodynamic laws of thermodynamics, which state that it is not possible to convert heat or any other form of energy into work with 100% efficiency. This means that there is always some amount of waste heat generated when a laser is operated, which limits its efficiency.

In other words, fusion is unlikely to be using lasers for the ignitions.

UPDATE: People here seem to believe in self-sustained fusion, but this has never been tried or proven to be possible - no one know how much energy is needed for repeated ignition.

The current plan is to re-ignite new pellets fed into the containment.
I think people may be downvoting you because technically, neither does the AI.
Quite a few monitors support a Picture-in-Picture mode, so they are able to receive and decode two signals at the same time. But if that mode isn't enabled, they only receive one signal.
Monorepo lets me have a _single_ Github PR with the changes across 4 projects in front of me. To replicate what you're talking about in a multirepo setup, you have to introduce changesets in 4 different places, then merge them in the right order, make a bunch of tiny releases, update commit hashes to point to the right one, and do a lot of other bookkeeping because in this house we keep our projects separated.
Interesting. Both python and pyramid most likely come from Latin though, and in both Latin and French the "py" python is pronounced the same as the "py" in pyramid. So there must be more to it.
The school is not remotely elite, that is a fact, and the list of majors it offers is a tell. You think I’m saying the majors list _causes_ it to be elite or not. Or you don’t really think that.
I was interested in this story, and tried to find out more. I'm guessing it was a race to 100,000, but it's bizarre to think there was a time when both Laporte and Rose had more twitter followers than Obama. Also, it's amusing to see The Guardian unsure whether it should tweet. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2008/may/18/leol...
I worked on a Sun Ray. I and many colleagues absolutely hated it.

These tiny machines were just way too slow to handle even the tiny amount of work they had to do. Also, everyone knows that X over network is just not made for modern applications ("modern" in the year 2000!). I worked with Matlab, and had a lot of fun trying to rotate 3D plots with a few thousand points. It was just unbearable.

Then of course the "single point of failure" thing. Network problems? No one can work. Main server has a drive failure? No one can work. Main server needs an upgrade? No one can work.

The Sun Rays had super-poor USB support. My ergonomic keyboard had no auto-repeat when connected to these things, absolutely impossible to fix or even debug. Then of course there was Sun software: although they invented Java, their JVM was leaking like a sieve and everything Java had to be restarted regularly. The Sun coreutils were just very limited compared to the GNU counterparts. We complained endlessly, and in the end, IT budged and we all got our dedicated Linux machines.
Because the alternatives those days really really sucked. Small storages and spam filters that wasn't working correctly.
Now Gmail is a downgraded service and their spam filter is the worst.
Yeah, better LaTeX support is going to be my top priority right now. See this issue for my current plans: https://github.com/lukew3/mathgenerator/issues/387

I'd love to get some input on this.
One of the reasons why you could switch modes mid-frame is because the concept of a "video mode" is fundamentally different on a PC than on an Atari or Amiga. On a PC, ever since the EGA, the adapter can output at different horizontal and vertical scan rates and the monitor can adapt to the requested mode from the video card. That's why switching video modes takes a couple seconds and may involve a "click" or two. Upon mode switch, the monitor must resync to the new signal.

On the Atari and Amiga, the horizontal/vertical scan rates are constant; the only thing that changes is how scanout turns pixels in video memory into signals for the CRT.
In America, barely any (2%) of the Latino population identify with it, yet it gets pushed anyway. In fact, 40% are actively bothered by it. Forcing use of it is such a bizarre hill to die on.

https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000017d-81be-dee4-a5ff-efbe7...
People don't believe the hype anymore so the solution is to not make 1 news article, but dozens of news articles. Maybe the people will start believing again!

I've seen as many articles that says it's not as major of a breakthrough. It's marginal at best.
Actually, the tech that you are hinting at would guarantee clean fusion power. If you could generate clean fusion explosions, detonate underground and use the heat to generate power. Nuclear bombs are currently the only net energy positive fusion devices we have.
I love computer.rip, everything is super good read, but I just wish it had some ascii diagrams

I also dislike images, but some phrack style ascii is so beautiful, like the famous issue 49 article 14. I think the information density per symbol (or area) even beats images.
NumPy is camel case for Num-Py
Meanwhile even with a mid to top end tech salary in London I'm targeting 55 at the earliest.
Leo, I watched you in my formative years on ZDTV. My only question is where is the burned Mandrake CD you promised us if we wrote?

Kidding, kinda. Seriously though, thanks for all that you've done.
It is my brain in Chrome extension form :P
I'm spending anywhere from 10 to 30 seconds every time I want to turn my monitor on. It's a game of fiddling with the buttons, trying to get it to wake up faster.

As an added bonus, the built-in firmware is terrible, and presents a "quick-switch" list of inputs which is different from the "normal" list of inputs, because… well, I don't know, just to make customers miserable, I guess.
Offshore wind zone declared for Bass Strait off Gippsland – AU
I have its older version U2720Q and I am quite content with it, in a multi-monitor setup under Linux, using 30 bit per pixel, and also including a Dell loudspeaker system connected to U2720Q, used for audio via DisplayPort or HDMI.

I assume that the upgraded version U2723QE should be only better, with the possible exception of firmware bugs like what was mentioned by the other poster.
Something something, bring back Maxwells house! J/k Glad to see Twit rolling along as always
That's a slight strawman, the same thing applies to owned software. If I own non-subscription software and want to migrate to something newer/better, it won't be easy either. It may be even harder if either or both does not come with support.

Companies ruining their product lines is not really a good argument against subscriptions unless the company has monopoly like power and customers have no choice but to stick with inferior (these exist). If it's a sticky product, it would've been sticky either way owned or subscribed. Password managers are commodities even if it takes effort to move.

Main problem here is bosses want to go with incumbent big dog or has a relationship with sales, sticking the company to products that are subpar or going downhill. If anything subscriptions make it so that there are competitors chasing those dollars while being willing to help you migrate
Oh yes, please. The past weekend seems to have firmly cemented the idea he shouldn’t be running it, as well as burning down any bridges he still might have left regarding trust.

I have never seen such a spectacular use of a footgun.
But you can, in the case of spotify: https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot
I’m honestly shocked every time I read something like this.
My first reaction is: where did this go so wrong? “Scepticism is violence”? Scepticism once was science! And everything I learned points to that it should be so.

But then I think that I maybe get something wrong. Maybe I miss something on a deep level.

Because so many seem to embrace “this” whatever it is.

I can’t understand it. Can anyone?
Links at the bottom of the page, the creators are accomplished advising creatives and copywriters.
Be careful what you wish for. If random rule changes are something that you don't like, you certainly won't love whole instances banning you and/or your instance for not aligning perfectly with their highly individual and often contradictory quirks.
I think that's regular limit for everyone and has nothing to do with server overload, I'd appreciate if HN was clear about these comments time limits (and whether they are also related to your karma/score), by my years long experience it's something like 5 during maybe 3 hours after which you can post more, but I've never read about this clearly mentioned anywhere.