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• Commented on Announcement: 2nd edition Laundry Files RPG is coming
  An US Department of Energy description of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory begins with the following statement: "Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL) primary mission is research and development in support of national security. As a nuclear weapons design laboratory, LLNL has...
• Commented on Pass or Fail
  The United States also did more intrusive things than balloon overflights... e.g. Sneaking into Soviet territory to tap underwater communication cables. "We" Murricans resent other nations doing to us what "we" have done to them. Territorial incursions and aggressive aircraft...
• Commented on Place your bets
  Picture caption from an article linked to co-editor's wikipedia page Amy-Jill Levine meets with Pope Francis at the Vatican on March 27, 2019. He was presented with a copy of "The Jewish Annotated New Testament," co-edited by Levine and Marc...
• Commented on Place your bets
  Regarding Jewish commentary on the New Testament... An associate editor of The New Oxford Annotated Bible, 5th Edition also edited two editions of this compilation: The Jewish Annotated New Testament Description: "First published in 2011, The Jewish Annotated New Testament...
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  I read Moz's reply as a very short summary of the Krugman article you linked....
• Commented on Make Up a Guy
  tl;dr If one perceives their enemy credibly threatens to exterminate one's nation, then the mass murder of their population centers and infrastructure shifts from unthinkable (war) crime against humanity to "justifiable" vengeance. Nothing about that matches what I would consider...
• Commented on Make Up a Guy
  Personally, I would expect solar power plants on the ocean surface to be wrecked and sunk by storm-driven waves, but the BBC had an article this week on ocean-based "floatovoltaics" projects: Could floating solar farms survive out at sea? I...
• Commented on Make Up a Guy
  Note: The first link in 314 is an open access paper in Nature Energy, here are some relevant excerpts: Rapid battery cost declines accelerate the prospects of all-electric interregional container shipping Published: 18 July 2022 Jessica Kersey, Natalie D. Popovich...
• Commented on Make Up a Guy
  Paul, I agree: Shipping battery power is almost certainly not the most energy efficient, nor the most cost efficient method. Long distance HVDC likely would transport energy more cheaply, quickly, and efficiently. And, aside from cable cuts/embargoes, HVDC probably would...
• Commented on Make Up a Guy
  My personal pipe dream would be circular flows of supertankers moving rechargeable flow battery energy between areas with high sun / wind energy sources and locations with low / intermittent renewable energy sources....
• Commented on Make Up a Guy
  Some more links to battery electric container shipping: Rapid battery cost declines accelerate the prospects of all-electric interregional container shipping Snippets from article: At battery prices of US$100 kWh−1, the TCP of a battery-electric container ship is lower than that...
• Commented on Books I will not write: BIGGLES!!
  I remember hearing a couple of first-hand ParcPlace Systems rumors in the late 80s: Lost sale on bundling ParcPlace Smalltalk on every Sun SPARCstation, allegedly refused by management for fear support costs would outweigh benefits of the sales revenue (so...
• Commented on Books I will not write: BIGGLES!!
  Abstract I stumbled across in May: Why do Bedouins wear black robes in hot deserts? Amiram Shkolnik, C. Richard Taylor, Virginia Finch & Arieh Borut Nature volume 283, pages 373–375 (1980) Published: 24 January 1980 Abstract Survival in hot deserts...
• Commented on Books I will not write: BIGGLES!!
  At a prior employer (corporate research center), for a while... one of the popular ad hoc "version control systems" for managers was to send their MS Office documents to each other as email attachments. Used more mail server space than...
• Commented on The impotence of the long-distance trillionaire
  The osmand free android app (and paid upgrade osmand+) includes a Truck profile and allows custom vehicle parameter limits for navigation (weight, height, length, and min/default/max speed). The free version has limited map region downloads, but that might be enough...