fbu's comments

On: Datacenters in space aren't going to work

[fbu]

Maybe if you build the datacenter inside an asteroid, and use the whole surface as an infrared radiator.

On: Datacenters in space aren't going to work

[fbu]

The thermal budget is impossible to escape. Maybe in an asteroid it could be possible, the whole surface becomes a thermal radiator and the whole asteroid a thermal mass. But still no convection.

[adastra22 → fbu]

Unfortunately the powdery regolith of an asteroid is a thermal insulator.

On: Datacenters in space aren't going to work

[fbu]

What's your counter argument for the thermal budget problem ?

Dissipating heat into outer space is extremely difficult, you can't escape thermodynamics.

On: Myanmar military shuts down a major cybercrime center, detains over 2k people

[fbu]

Maybe some governments are sponsoring these activities near the border of a political rival. Like they did during the golden triangle era...

On: How the Slavic migration reshaped Central and Eastern Europe

[fbu]

More than Germanic ?

[gethly → fbu]

Grok says Slavic 300M-350M, Germanic 150M-180M, Romance 190M-200M, Celtic 80M-100M, Uralic 20M-25M.

[personalityson → gethly]

Does this include US population?

[fbu → gethly]

Grok could say anything. Isn't there a rule yet on just blatantly copy/pasting AI answers ?

[actionfromafar → fbu]

Gr0k wouldn't lie to you about race. Maybe the spacerace.

On: Which email clients work well with keyboard shortcuts?

[fbu]

Sorry to be that guy. But Emacs ? Free forever and great at keyboard shortcuts.

Probably still needs a good text editor though.

On: Otto Hahn

[fbu]

Just curious if anyone has heard of Otto Hahn? Unsung genius of quantum research born on the losing side of multiple wars.

[pvg → fbu]

He's a very famous scientist as is his collaborator Lise Meitner. 'Unsung' might be a bit of a 'new to you', in this case.

[fbu → pvg]

I meant compared to the glory that the theoretical physicists get. I can't find any general public / mainstream work that even mention him as a crucial scientist in the development of the nuclear industry.

[pvg → fbu]

He comes up in any general audience book about the science of the period or the atomic bomb or who-deserved-what-Nobel-prize, etc. Here's a recent play, just on first google

https://www.sortiraparis.com/en/what-to-see-in-paris/theater...

On: C-based Virtual Machine for Notch's DCPU-16

[fbu]

Awesome man! You solved quite a few problems I had working on mine. (Not sure I understand everything though)

I checked your code, fixed a few things. It now works for: 7c01 0030 7de1 1000 0020 7803 1000 https://github.com/fbulens/dcpu16-js

I'll continue tomorrow (Europe here).

[schwap → fbu]

Glad you found it helpful! I merged in your changes and added an html interface.

On: First Galileo satellites will be launched today

[fbu]

Actually, two satellites have already been launched: GIOVE-A and GIOVE-B [1].

And now, things should go pretty quickly, we probalby are 2-3 years away from having a decent fleet flying. Although I can't find a source for it now that I need it...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(satellite_navigation)#...

On: ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers [2008]

[fbu]

As a French speaker it make total sense to me; it just describes it.

I just searched quickly how to explain that the semi-colon is somehow half a colon. I couldn't find anything.

[michaelcampbell → fbu]

I'm not a French speaker, but those terms make perfect sense to me also, even though I've only just heard them here for the first time.

[sp332 → fbu]

Maybe it has to do with the amount of time you pause when reading aloud? You pause for less time at a semi-colon then at a "full" colon.