Anecdotal evidence: I grew up in Australia and I had reasonably severe asthma when I was a kid, when I got older I only got wheezy when I got a cold. Moved to the UK for 8 years and immediately started getting regular asthma attacks after moving over and had to go on a preventer. Lived in London for the three quarters and Guildford for the last quarter. Moved home post COVID and a couple months after arriving home my asthma went back to only being an issue when sick. I’m confident it was pollution related.

Fanfic is fine provided it’s written well. I’ve never heard of Kirill Yeskov, but I like a good reimagining of a classic text.

Is this to LOTR as Wicked (not the stupid musical) is to Wizard of Oz?

You’d probably also need to make Firefox Elrond and Isildur google, Microsoft can be some random orc or something …

I’m not entirely convinced that Google and Microsoft are Elrond in this particular issue … or that uBlock Origin is the one ring … it feels like this meme is something Sauron would push to make people think the good guys are bad guys …

Are there any functioning SM or MS reactors?

Hrmm interesting I thought the concept in the movie was fine, I thought the execution and focus on the space camp nonsense was … well … nonsense. Sounds like the book might be worth a read. To be fair thats usually the case, movie adaptations almost always need to cripple the original text to shoehorn it into the medium.

My only experience of ender’s Game was the movie and hot damm the movie was a hot piece of boring garbage. Is the book actually good, I see it on lists of sci-fi must read but the movie has really tainted the idea of reading it for me.

Yeah it’s annoying that she couldn’t help herself but use her fame and fortune to push a shitty bigoted opinion. Her books brought so much joy to so many but her opinions have really tainted everything’s she’s touched.

I think the need to make her cash cow make more cash overrides her need to push her shitty views on other people. That said maybe she plans on making the cash cow do both with the upcoming series, I guess only the people who actually watch it will be the ones to find out.

I assume they just finished the meeting via zoom and increased the bribes to the city council?

No yeah this was something I picked up during my group project in final year of my engineering degree, but also a quick google shows it holds true still. The first page of results has a lot of random sites that say the same thing. You should typically only discharge to 20% where possible, also it doesn’t matter if you charge to 100%, 90% is fine, you should be aiming for as few cycles as possible so if your phone does 1.5 or 2 days between 90/100 and 20 then you should try and let it do that if you can. Over time the degeneration due to normal use will eventually be such that the discharge rate will likely increase to land on charging every night.

Err pretty sure stressing a lithium battery below 20% lowers battery life

They had a loose alliance from 1936 and signed the tripartite in 1940 but that really amounted to keeping out of each other way and sharing information. They only mutually declared war on the US a week after Japan bombed pearl harbour. The US was still profiting from both sides of the European theatre up until then so whos to say what backroom negotiations were happening between Germany and the US in that week. The Nazis werent really renown for treating people from different ethnic groups as equals so who’s to say what their first preference of allies were. We can only rely on our written history which is conveniently written by the winners …

The USA was already making money from both sides of the war in Europe. That was mostly the reason they didn’t enter it until Japan bombed them because Japan didn’t like having their fuel supplies cut off by the USA because the USA thought the USA should be the only ones to expand an empire into the Pacific. Following that they wanted support for their retaliation to Japan’s retaliation to their retaliation to Japan’s expansion into the Pacific so they picked a side in Europe (probably the side who owed them the most money) and entered the war against the Nazis.

The whole EATCS radiates 70kW, so less than one modern data centre rack. Helpful!

Yeah I’ll pay that, you can’t radiate it effectively enough for data centre applications though.

Oh so youre saying we should convert the heat generated by the data centres to wide spectrum EM and emit that instead? Amazing! There should be no issues with outputting watts or kilowatts of EM from each of these assuredly numerous space data centres.

You may note that this thread is talking about data centre reliability …

Also you can’t radiate heat in space …

I’m not saying the space data centres are a good or even viable idea, just saying you can improve the reliability significantly if you try. The space data centre planis a non starter, there’s nowhere for the heat to go.