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Alas, I had to give up on the museum, not because of the poor bus schedule (I've managed worse) but because I started to get the first warning twinges of back spasms.
I'm on the direct train to Edinburg now (although I'm not going that far). I'll wave when we stop at St Austell!
Alas, I had to give up on the museum, not because of the poor bus schedule (I've managed worse) but because I started to get the first warning twinges of back spasms.
I'm on the direct train to Edinburg now (although I'm not going that far). I'll wave when we stop at St Austell!
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Yes! Penzance today, I may try to visit the communications museum in Porthcurno tomorrow, and then back-tracking to Bath to stay for a few days. I had hoped to take the ferry out to the Scillies, but they are only doing one run a day in each direction at this season, and it's all booked up with early tourists.
Thursday night and Friday I spent in Thurso, before taking the Caledonian Sleeper from Inverness to London, so I've done both British sleeper trains in a weekend.
Yes! Penzance today, I may try to visit the communications museum in Porthcurno tomorrow, and then back-tracking to Bath to stay for a few days. I had hoped to take the ferry out to the Scillies, but they are only doing one run a day in each direction at this season, and it's all booked up with early tourists.
Thursday night and Friday I spent in Thurso, before taking the Caledonian Sleeper from Inverness to London, so I've done both British sleeper trains in a weekend.
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That's quite the claim. My knowledge of history doesn't substantiate it.
Circa 800 AD, the Roman Church condemned slavery, saying that to enslave a Christian was the moral equivalent of murder. That is, so far as I can tell, the first condemnation of slavery in history. Aristotle presents a whole argument (in the "Politics") that it is a positive moral good, although he ruins it at the end by saying that slavery would vanish if machines moved themselves. Motivated reasoning!
That's quite the claim. My knowledge of history doesn't substantiate it.
Circa 800 AD, the Roman Church condemned slavery, saying that to enslave a Christian was the moral equivalent of murder. That is, so far as I can tell, the first condemnation of slavery in history. Aristotle presents a whole argument (in the "Politics") that it is a positive moral good, although he ruins it at the end by saying that slavery would vanish if machines moved themselves. Motivated reasoning!
I always laugh at British people for going to Cornwall on holiday, because it's so often overcast. Well, the joke is on me this time!
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finally, Wendell Berry's standards for technological innovation--truly as relevant now as they were in 1987 #othernetworks
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How far back do you have to go, to find a time when many people would have agreed that slavery fell in the category of "family and community relationships", and was even among the most important? Technological innovation disrupted that, by separating the processing of chemical energy into mechanical work from the human body. I for one have no desire to go back.
#atomicpowertothepeople
How far back do you have to go, to find a time when many people would have agreed that slavery fell in the category of "family and community relationships", and was even among the most important? Technological innovation disrupted that, by separating the processing of chemical energy into mechanical work from the human body. I for one have no desire to go back.
#atomicpowertothepeople
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So far as I can tell, the arguments for replacing #X11 by #Wayland are :
→ X11 is old, and computer programmers are compulsive novelty–seekers who burn down their own homes every 2—3 years on average
→ X11 does not support a small number of exotic use cases, which could reasonably be handled by specialized software
→ X11 has numerous sets of extensions which all do pretty much the same thing in subtly different ways
→ X11 is old, and computer programmers are compulsive novelty–seekers who burn down their own homes every 2—3 years on average
→ X11 does not support a small number of exotic use cases, which could reasonably be handled by specialized software
→ X11 has numerous sets of extensions which all do pretty much the same thing in subtly different ways
Earlier today I reported on nuclear energy being a voter magnet in Australia, now this YouGov poll on Scottish popularity.
I wasn't expecting *this* fast of a change after Iran closed the Strait of H...
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We could wish the viewpoint of the SNP to change.
Unfortunately, Scotland, Ireland, and to a lesser extent Wales seem to have a round-robin going of "this is some creation of the bluidy Sassenachs for our detriment, even if we can't see exactly how". It also seems as though the anxiety over the basing of nuclear-armed, nuclear-propelled submarines at Holy Loch (as though Scotland would be immune to a superpower war without them) gets transferred to civil nuclear energy.
We could wish the viewpoint of the SNP to change.
Unfortunately, Scotland, Ireland, and to a lesser extent Wales seem to have a round-robin going of "this is some creation of the bluidy Sassenachs for our detriment, even if we can't see exactly how". It also seems as though the anxiety over the basing of nuclear-armed, nuclear-propelled submarines at Holy Loch (as though Scotland would be immune to a superpower war without them) gets transferred to civil nuclear energy.
I find this framing "significantly more expensive than expected" very funny.
The article describes how the deep geological repository is designed to store all radioactive waste of the existing nuclea...
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Also stolen from, since they were charged well over ten times that for “Entsorgung”, and none has yet been provided.
Also stolen from, since they were charged well over ten times that for “Entsorgung”, and none has yet been provided.
L-05:30 to Artemis II, live on NASASpaceflight stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c-GAkIzpGE
(update stream)
I keep the feed muted until it gets close, buncha vapid stuff right now. We'll hear ...
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Those who watched LUNARCY! will remember that one of my earliest memories is of the loss of CHALLENGER ; I was under the debris path when COLUMBIA disintegrated ; I was at the last Shuttle launch (and totalled a car to get there). I was also there at the Augustine Committee hearing when Sally Ride reported that Ares/Orion was slipping 18 months a year.
I'm not going to breathe properly until after SRB sep. I hate those things.
Those who watched LUNARCY! will remember that one of my earliest memories is of the loss of CHALLENGER ; I was under the debris path when COLUMBIA disintegrated ; I was at the last Shuttle launch (and totalled a car to get there). I was also there at the Augustine Committee hearing when Sally Ride reported that Ares/Orion was slipping 18 months a year.
I'm not going to breathe properly until after SRB sep. I hate those things.
not his best take. he should have at least consulted with experts that actually do reprocessing, but I understand these have a bit of a language barrier.
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I'm sure the folks at Argonne would love to talk about their electrochemical processing, which is usually discussed as though it were merely a laboratory curiosity, even though it has seen substantial use.
I doubt that PUREX is the best way forward, but the Indians have made some very interesting improvements to it, with more selective and radio-stable ligands.
https://man-and-atom.info/resources/sites/us_argonne-fcf.pdf
https://man-and-atom.info/resources/sites/us_argonne-fmf.pdf
I'm sure the folks at Argonne would love to talk about their electrochemical processing, which is usually discussed as though it were merely a laboratory curiosity, even though it has seen substantial use.
I doubt that PUREX is the best way forward, but the Indians have made some very interesting improvements to it, with more selective and radio-stable ligands.
https://man-and-atom.info/resources/sites/us_argonne-fcf.pdf
https://man-and-atom.info/resources/sites/us_argonne-fmf.pdf
German Energiewende strikes again:
"German power prices for May are now trading at roughly four times the level in France, a record multiple as the disruption to natural gas supplies from the Iran wa...
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Had someone try to tell me that gas supply was not an important determining factor of electricity prices in Germany, because it didn't account for a large enough share of generation. Apparently this person was crashingly unfamiliar with the notion that the cost of the last kWh generated, which always comes from the most expensive source, sets the price in a power-market system (by design, as these markets were a response to perceived inefficiency of rolled-in pricing).
Had someone try to tell me that gas supply was not an important determining factor of electricity prices in Germany, because it didn't account for a large enough share of generation. Apparently this person was crashingly unfamiliar with the notion that the cost of the last kWh generated, which always comes from the most expensive source, sets the price in a power-market system (by design, as these markets were a response to perceived inefficiency of rolled-in pricing).