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Therac came up in a few of the classes for my cs degree. There's a lot about it that's important to teach students. The importance of testing, of considering how a program will actually be used, questioning your assumptions about operations, documentation on operations and errors, error catching and handling, having clear test cases, communicating with users... It remains among the most sobering and important case studies in CS, dwarfing other examples we get shown like ATMs not checking account balance before dispensing money. My gf wondered why i was already fairly familiar with the therac case when she had never even heard of it, i simply told her it's because my degree was in CS and hers wasn't 🤷♂️
The power brick thing is....honestly not that complicated. You need to convert the AC to DC, this has to be done SOMEWHERE in the pipeline unless what you're powering works on AC. So you can either do it at the plug, or at the device, it's THAT simple. Want a smaller device? Do it at the plug. Want a more convenient device? Do it on the device. Even with GAN technology this tradeoff is still the same, though the bulk is SIGNIFICANTLY reduced if using GAN, so it's not AS big a trade off anymore.
Its so nice hearing and getting more understanding of whats happening, like both hearing more words but also moments of further realisation of the madness!
Big recommendation for the "Are you an NPC" video by Kurzgesagt, which came out today! It's a deep dive on determinism versus emergence, and looks at everything from subatomic particles and intrinsically random quantum effects 😁 You'll love it, I promise!
my first college physics lab (1978?) has inertia experiments for us in a room with a cubic pile of lead bricks about 2 feet tall. we weren't told what it was. there was no constant supervision by an instructor or TA. some of us were taking off bricks and fooling around. the TA came in the room as was appalled, because it was a "radioactive nuclear source". we were hustled out of the room. we were sent home/back to our dorms immediately. the TA disappeared. it was never discussed again. we never went in/entered that room again.
I mean, it depends a lot on political will. If you were the absolute global overlord, you could probably find a way to do everything with renewables and use giant reservoirs and pumped storage to smooth out the erratic generation curve while messing with living standards and geopolitics as needed. The big problem is time and political will in all cases. How do you make this sort of thing happen without first achieving world domination?
My understanding is that elements before iron tend to experience fusion in nuclear reactions. Simply because it produces energy. Fusion in reactors or bombs is just too specific. Still quite a lot of different reactions are happening in stars.
7:16 LASER classification doesn't extend beyond class IV. I personally think there should be many more classifications beyond 500 mW, considering commercially available single LASER diodes these days can reach outputs exceeding 7 watts!
I can speak from experience about mental issues leading to physiological ones, years of stress brought on by bullying led to my IBS. Also, what makes me even more confused about anti-nuclear movements is they’re often environmentalists. I find it completely counterproductive considering that often times closing down a nuclear plant leads to new coal ones.
We could have had a universal base 10 system as far back as 1600 when the pendulum was invented. Given that a pendulum has a constant period, and the second was well defined back then, the length of a 'pendulum second' is well defined, and a cube of water with side a pendulum second would be a standard unit of weight. As it happens, the 'pendulum second' is 25 cm and a cube would weigh 15.6 kg.
Why not use microwave its so much easier to work with and loves water just open a microwave point the door towards the sky open the door and turn it on
My guess is the main reason they're not considering a beam expander is due to the question. It specifically says "targeting and vaporizing each incoming droplet". A general beam expander (ignoring all the other problems) can't really be called "targeting".
I know prompt criticality is so immensely powerful it's nearly impossible to control, but, with bettering reactor technology it would be interesting in the future to possibly see prompt reactors, some way of harnessing that immense power safely, maybe a goldilocks zone between safe criticality and prompt criticality, and we could slowly increase the amount of reactivity as our technology gets more powerful, it would be extremely dangerous to innovate, the radioactivity of such sustained reactions would be a challenge to contain.
XKCD didn't take the photomolecular effect into account. Realisticly, the light alone can evaporate the water at about a quarter of that energy if you hit the right fewquency - apparently somewhere in the green area.
Video Suggestion: “Cursed Units” by Joseph Newton, had the suggestion idea when I heard you mention kWh in a video. It isn’t nuclear related but it has good music & some cool info. Other unit related videos: “a joke about measurement” by jan Misali (the jan is kept lowercase, I read that it’s something in the Toki Pona conlang) & “Seven Dimensions” by Kieran Borovac, based off Misali’s joke
Honestly, when WHAT - IF makes a vid, I just wait for you to show up in my recommendations again. I might argue that the last light mentioned in the video is not an "artificial light" being that it's a natural product and it happens because physics.
UN estimate of Chernobyl deaths=50, and Fukushima and 3 Mile Island deaths=0 !!!!! Tragic deaths and suffering resulting from the Leftist Socialist government policies and procedures (as always)....but Nuclear Energy IS the most Efficient and Safest form of energy production now in use....Capitalism and nuclear power are of course much more productive and better for ALL !!! 😊
StyroPyro needs his own set of laser classes. Like it goes from 1-4 and after 4 (or 1 if it goes in reverse like some measures, idk) you then would have StyroPyro-class 1-6 (cus he probably needs more than 4, let's be real)
d.e.w. lasers do this all the time. infrared and chemical laser emit much more then one type of beam! the water is super heated so fast the hydrogen and oxygen vaporize and explode. tune it to about 5ghz and focus it, like most mounted lasers... itll target water... and create ozone and ionize the air.... no vapor. the water disipates enough that it diffuses the laser and reflects it in all directions. solid state hardware can beam focus and target multiple drops in a pulsed modulated frequency. currently aadvertised as area denial systems and anti material missle defenses and drone protection... no need to focus a horde of lasers just a few cell towers and ground based stand alone deployables. the air is already highly ionized and various texhnologies deny rain and weather with highbpressure systems. by heating the air. you can even pulse a nuclear reactor and do the same thing. all of it visible on radar. 🤓 same stuff causes earthquakes and air quakes 🤓
The comma as a decimal point or rather as a decimal separator since it isn't a point is a country thing. A lot of European countries use commas and not points as a decimal separator, it is referred to as a "point" in English of course but the in the languages of those countries it generally would not be. In French for example they use a comma, so likely the gold bar is from the French part of canada since he is Canadian.
