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@feliks I'm literally sick and have a fever right now. Those bastards better share the profit with me
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@feliks Neil Stephenson has entered the chat...
... and wants his cut!
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@feliks OMG That’s what they were doing in the Matrix!
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@feliks I'm literally sick and have a fever right now. Those bastards better share the profit with me
@kingslayer69O69 @feliks Baseline humans run at only about 100W, with much of that used to keep you alive. Mining a bitcoin runs about 150–800 MWh (0.54–2.88 TJ). So your virus would need in excess of 9 centuries to mine a bitcoin, which is less than $0.01 per hour of being sick.
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@kingslayer69O69 @feliks Baseline humans run at only about 100W, with much of that used to keep you alive. Mining a bitcoin runs about 150–800 MWh (0.54–2.88 TJ). So your virus would need in excess of 9 centuries to mine a bitcoin, which is less than $0.01 per hour of being sick.
@Arpie4Math @feliks so what you're saying is. We need more humans to make a Bitcoin farm?
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@feliks Well... they ARE viriuses.
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@Arpie4Math @feliks so what you're saying is. We need more humans to make a Bitcoin farm?
@kingslayer69O69 @feliks Humans are so hard to network, it is regarded as a rarity to get two of them to interchange gigabits, events with three of them simultaneously interchanging happens less than once in most human's lifetime, and more than three makes newspapers. Plus, they have weird operational requirements in that they stop working at both high and low temperatures, stop working if the Halon system goes off, seem incompatible with liquid cooling systems, leak strange fluids, etc. I'm not saying that they are more trouble than you should bother with, but I'm also not not saying that.
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"Some days the work is speaking.
Some days the work is listening.
Today feels like listening.
We’ll speak again
when the words know where to land."Ekosi.
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Dave is looking awfully slim starting out. I don't think he learned the BMI lesson. He probably does deserve another shot, though.
Oh, Nicole is back, too. She was great.
The good news is I don't think there will be any temptation to build a boat. It looks like there will be a river and plains, maybe? No oceans to call out to them.
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Polymer Skins That Change Color and Texture When Exposed to Water
Researchers at Stanford University recently came up with an interesting way (Phys.org summary) to create patterns and colors that emerge when a polymer is exposed to water. Although the paper itself is sadly paywalled with no preprint available, it’s fairly easily summarized and illustrated with details from the Supplementary Data section. The polymer used is poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrene sulfonate (PEDOT:PSS), which when exposed to an electron beam (electron-beam lithography) undergoes certain changes that become apparent when said water is added.
The polymer is hygroscopic, but the electron beam modifies the extent to which a specific area swells up, thus making it possible to create patterns that depend on the amount of electron beam exposure. In order to ‘colorize’ the polymer, complex cavities are created that modify the angular distribution of light, as illustrated in the top image from the Supplemental Data docx file.
By varying the concentration of IPA versus water, the intermediate swelling states can be controlled. Although this sounds pretty advanced, if you look at the supplementary videos that are already sped up a lot, you can see that it is a very slow process. Compared to an octopus and kin whose ability to alter their own skin texture and coloring is legendary and directly controlled by their nervous system, this isn’t quite in the same ballpark yet, even if it’s pretty cool to watch.
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She is the one I think most deserved a second shot at it. And, I guess the producers agree, since she's the first one they introduced.
I don't get why Britt is back. I mean, I liked him OK, but he was a tough guy and was out pretty quick.
Randy!? They brought barefoot Randy back? Now they're just being silly.
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Normally, I wouldn't comment on someone's weight, but I think it's notable that Carleigh was quite slim at the start of season 3, and she almost certainly would have won if she'd come into the game 20 pounds heavier to start with. She has learned that lesson. That's commitment. (Still fine af.)
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Alone Season 5 watch thread. Spoilers ahead.
Mongolia!?
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my house smells like bread
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@Jeffool I keep thinking of games to make for myself to help me learn stuff I want to learn, so maybe.
