Maya Posch

🚨BREAKING: Laura Helmuth has resigned as Editor-in-Chief of Scientific American after over four years in the role. During her tenure, she transformed @sciam from a widely respected, objective popular science magazine into a science-themed, woke political publication.

Bypassing Airpods Hearing Aid Georestriction With a Faraday Cage hackaday.com/2024/11/15/byp…

@bkiffter @skdh Let me educate you: hackaday.com/2024/11/14/the…

Leaving aside the religious aspect of the statement that oil and gas are 'a gift of god', it is without doubt true that the quirk of nature that gave us fossil fuels has dramatically benefited humanity. Unfortunately, it didn't benefit us enough to come up with a solution to the problem that we have caused by using them which isn't incredibly costly. In my interpretation, techno-optimists of various flavours seem to believe that if we accelerate technological development at all costs, we will find a cheap solution - some sort of carbon removal or maybe a nuclear fusion breakthrough - before the problem becomes severe enough to impede growth. I am highly sceptical of this idea because technological progress seems to develop at its own pace and doesn't care very much about our attempts to try and accelerate it.

Repairing The Questionable £25,000 Tom Evans Audiophile Pre-Amp hackaday.com/2024/11/14/rep…

The Life Cycle of Nuclear Fission Fuel: From Stars to Burn-Up hackaday.com/2024/11/14/the…

Smart Thermostats Pitched for Texas Homes to Relieve Stressed Grid hackaday.com/2024/11/14/sma…

@YoucanAxel @skdh Negative, simple reprocessing (PUREX or otherwise) suffices. It's what France, Japan and others do with their spent LWR fuel. Canada's CANDU PHWRs can even skip that step due to the use of fast neutrons & need only natural uranium, not enriched.

@MayaPosch @skdh We would have needed breeders if we were to produce a majority of humanities enegy with nuclear, iraniun 235 reserves don't last long with gen 3. Breeders would be more expensive...

There is a reason why we established a rule-based order in 1945, even though it has been far from perfect. The United Nations, especially the UNSC, are heavily flawed. In many if not most cases, where decisive questions were asked, the UNSC has been proven useless, and even when UN resolutions passed, they were frequently just ink on paper. Yet, there were some universal rules which all sides have abided, because they were too much, even for this flawed system. Not changing borders by force and annexation of neighboring territories were some of them, especially by a nuclear power. Russia grossly violated this universal rule back in 2014 and the world stayed basically silent, inevitably leading to the events starting 2022. If not corrected it will launch a process which cannot be reversed. Countries across the globe will acquire nuclear weapons, because it is virtually the only effective mean to counter an aggressive neighbor. Ukraine might be the first country to do so, for good reason, but it certainly wouldn’t be the last. Dozens of countries are just waiting and watching how the events will unfold in Ukraine. If Russia can get away with it, even partially, then all dams would break. It would be without any hyperbole the most consequential developments of our times, including all unpredictable consequences. No Isolationist country or government on this planet would be immune from those events. We are all into this.

Making Sense of Real-Time Operating Systems in 2024 hackaday.com/2024/11/13/mak…

Herr @Markus_Soeder, sie haben sich für den Weiterbetrieb des Kernkraftwerks Isar2 ausgesprochen. Ich hatte im April 2023, noch vor der Abschaltung, die Ehre, von Freunden, die dort arbeiten, durch das Kraftwerk geführt zu werden. Ich bin durch meine Freunde im Kraftwerk gut über den Zustand der Anlage informiert. Daher weiß ich: Der Generator, die Frischdampfleitungen und die Hauptkühlmittelpumpen sind bereits ausgebaut und zerstört worden. Das sind alles reversible Schäden, aber teure Schäden und es werden beständig mehr. Wenn sie ehrliches Interesse an der Wiederinbetriebnahme von Isar2 haben, nutzen sie die Authorität die dem Umweltministerium ihrer Landesbehörde zusteht und stoppen sie sofort den Rückbau von Isar2. Das grün geführte Umweltministerium von Schleswig Holstein hat den Rückbau vom Kernkraftwerk Krümmel genauso für 10 Jahre aufgehalten. Das Bayrische Umweltministerium kann dies genauso. Bitte reden sie nicht nur Herr Söder. Handeln sie!

NASA Announces New Trials for In-Space Laser Welding hackaday.com/2024/11/13/nas…

@skdh Not just one group, but a range of interests ranging from anti-science & pro-degrowth ideologists to established (fossil fuel) interests. Thinking of e.g. the groups protesting in the US years before TMI #2's unfortunate partial meltdown happened.

@MayaPosch curious, who do you think it was "sabotaged" by?

@AusConservation @NukeDaveSweeney You’ve had quite a long time to modernise your thinking about nuclear energy. “The unpalatable truth is that the anti-nuclear lobby has misled us all” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Gabon has fallen to a Free French coup. Last Vichy French supporters now surrendering in Libreville; Vichy governor has committed suicide. De Gaulle's forces now control colonies of French Equatorial Africa.

@Waffl3x @janwilmans Yeah, it is C where you have to free() allocated memory yourself. In C++ you got the destructor, etc. handling it. If you're manually doing memory management in C++, you're just writing C-in-C++. Not that there's anything wrong with it, but it's not idiomatic C++.

@janwilmans I'm super annoyed that no one pointed out that it's bad practice to manually manage memory in C++

plot twist, the reality is exactly opposite, C++ explicitly frees memory and in Java you ask for it to be collected and that will happen an undetermined time later.

The End of Ondsel and Reflecting on the Commercial Prospects for FreeCAD hackaday.com/2024/11/12/the…

Your reminder that promising to do something and actually doing so is very, very, but very different. Fossil fuel CO2 emissions will set an all-time high in 2024, about 10% higher than at the time of the Paris Agreement deal. #carbonbudget #COP29

Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov has arrived in Berlin, to discuss the future of the Nazi-Soviet pact. Stalin wants to know what Hitler plans for Europe in years to come.

First "official" mass execution at Dachau concentration camp today: 55 Polish intellectuals were shot by the Nazis, against this wall.