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  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mltoScience Memes@mander.xyzAlchemy is so hot right now.
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    5 days ago

    https://www.marathonfusion.com/alchemy.pdf

    https://thebsdetector.substack.com/p/government-funded-alchemy

    tldr from that blog's assessment:

    First, the researchers have a high degree of credential credibility. […] These are very much not software engineers who think they’ve solved alchemy after talking with ChatGPT for a year or something.

    […]

    Optimistically, in my mind this leaves about 10% odds that fusion energy becomes commercialized or at least piloted over the next couple decades and Marathon Fusion’s approach for the alchemical production of gold becomes a meaningful consideration for these fusion plants! That’s pretty high, and implies a high value for continuing to research this technology, even if not necessarily for Marathon Fusion specifically. Manifold [a prediction market] traders are giving this proposition (“Artificially produced gold on a significant scale by 2035?”) ~20% odds, which likely reflects the discount rate on a market that only resolves in 10 years, although it also leaves room for other potential methodologies for gold production (presumably also through fusion energy but who knows).

    […]

    Oh ya, this Gold is Radioactive





  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlMtoLinux@lemmy.mlAnd so it begins
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    1 month ago

    1 reason it’s wrong to me: https://nosystemd.org/

    Under “Notable bugs and security issues” there is a big list of issues which were all (afaict) fixed many years ago.

    There have been reasonable philosophical objections to systemd, some of which are still relevant, and as that site shows there are still many distros without it, but for the vast majority of desktop users who want something that JustWorks… using a mainstream distro with systemd is the way to go.

    This blog post from pmOS covers some of the pain of trying to use KDE or GNOME without it.















  • The bears definitely took notice of the drone. The animals’ heart rate skyrocketed when the UAV flew overhead, and their stress response was stronger when the quadcopter flew in windy conditions that masked the sound of its approach — apparently bears do not like being surprised. One bear started moving faster after the quadcopter flew by. And the bear that had experienced the greatest increase in heart rate — from 41 beats per minute to 162 — moved nearly 7 kilometers in the next 28 hours, encroaching into a neighboring female’s territory.

    All in all, though, the bears weren’t stressed all that much, the researchers concluded.

    🤌

    At least there is this:

    Ditmer’s team says that their results reinforce the NPS ban on drones in parks.