Caleb James DeLisle

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2026-07-06 16:07:28 UTC

Following the removal of Gab's ASN from RIPE whois database, I decided to write up a little blog post about free speech - something that USED to be uncontroversial (before many of you were born)...
Also how (in my opinion) websites should be protecting themselves. Kiwifarms is doing it more or less right, Gab, less so...
https://thegoodwork.substack.com/p/internet-free-speech

2026-07-05 22:28:29 UTC

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There's something weird going on where the people who own everything have decided to let it be destroyed. Very unclear why they're doing this, but it's clearly a thing.
Look at Hollywood.
Look at landlords in NYC and San Francisco.
Look at every tech company that brings in an Indian CEO, gets their entire staff outsourced, and then ends up with literally nobody in the firm knowing the codebase....
These are people who are supposed to know better and it seems that they're intentionally committing economic suicide - en masse.

2026-07-05 15:49:37 UTC

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> Fuck Walmart
I'm actually okay with this.

2026-06-26 14:14:47 UTC

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As you should.
The internet was *created* as a surveillance mechanism, it's highly dystopian in it's conception.
Our only hope as little people is to break it free of those who initially conceived it and push for it to become its own sovereign entity.
Decentralized social media IS a form of neural network, so shitposting IS a form of participation in a global consensus-building machine.

2026-06-26 14:03:08 UTC

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Beyond just abandoning computers, if you're trying to keep secrets you can improve your odds by putting most of your computing behind a firewall and blocking anything that isn't explicitly what that stuff is supposed to be doing.
The narrower the definition of what information is allowed, the better.
If you can completely airgap your main systems (cut them off from internet), that's even better. But even airgapping is not perfect, Stuxnet spread as a virus in order to get onto USB sticks that were plugged into Iranian (airgapped) computers and then hack them.
But if you're not as high profile as a nuclear program, airgapping works pretty well...
At the end of the day, computers really don't keep secrets all that well. But there's a way to leverage that - instead of being the one trying to keep secrets, it's better to be the one who is trying to expose the other guy's secrets. Computers love to leak, so if you like leaks then you're on the right side of technological history...

2026-06-26 13:52:54 UTC

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Unfortunately, CPU backdoors and shit are way way harder to work around. And yes, that's all completely real. People who really need to keep stuff private use pen and paper ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

2026-06-09 21:36:20 UTC

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Lets see what they do.
Rioting is a good start because it's a public ritual acknowledgment that violence is going to be necessary.
But it's not going to force any change, what will force change is making the middle managerial class deeply fearful for their safety.
The top is easy to protect. If you can get them, that's a massive flex, but its an unnecessary flex because the middle is far too numerous to protect.
Secondarily, the entire regime is dripping with cowardice and risk aversion, so the moment they think there's a threat Out There and that they too are at risk - they will lean HEAVILY on their bosses to cut a deal.
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2026-06-08 09:58:44 UTC

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You never hear about a military junta that kills 1/3 of the population, or steals everything.
Whenever there's a dictator, it's always the same story: They kill like 1000 people who were the absolute fucking wart on the asshole of the country, and then everyone else lives happily ever after.
Except the communists who spend the next 50 years writing butthurt about how their comrades were pitched out of helicopters.
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2026-06-08 08:36:15 UTC

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“The Society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.”
― Thucydides
(Junta Supremacy)

2026-06-04 20:34:11 UTC

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Okay so these are lithium-air batteries, they pull oxygen from the air so they don't need to carry as much weight. Presumably they're heavier when discharged because they're carrying a bunch of oxygen with them.
The problem is impurities in the air poison the chemistry. So the challenge is getting the air perfect.
Currently there has been a lab demonstration of a 1.2kwh/kg battery with 1000 cycles of lifespan.
12kwh/kg is really just a theoretical maximum for the chemistry.
CATL is saying "this is the future", and since they're the biggest battery maker in ... the world (?) ... that probably means there's going to be a whole lot of R&D pushed at this.
So 12kwh/kg has not actually been shown by anyone, but the way battery density competition has been going so far, we should expect that batteries will cross over the 1kw/kg line in the decade. And given they're about 0.3 now, that's a big improvement already. Enough for short haul aviation.
By about 3 or 4 kw/kg, they're going to be competitive with jet fuel given the losses of a jet engine. At this point there will really be no reason not to electrify aircraft since fuel is dominant in the cost of flight.

2026-06-04 20:10:35 UTC

Whoa, 12kwh/kg is the energy density of diesel fuel.
Chemical energy, no engine losses considered...
If that's real, then aviation is about going to get electrified...
CC: @nprofile…dvru
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2026-05-29 20:07:18 UTC

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Well, this company is claiming that their target is 75kwh per gallon of gasoline, and 1 gallon per day. If they can hit that then IMO they've proven that air-scavenging is not entirely ridiculous.
It's certainly not going to be as effective as shoveling wood, coal, heavy fuel oil, or literally any other form of carbon into a gasifier - but ... all of that stuff costs something. What it costs depends a lot on where you are. If the cost of burnable stuff exceeds the cost of the electricity needed to scalp that 1/4 of 1% of CO2 out of the air, guess which process wins...

2026-05-29 19:16:04 UTC

Someone is doing the methanol process. They are scavenging the air for CO2 - I had written this off as too inefficient, but it actually makes sense because then you don't need to fuck around with supplying it with carbon.
If you're somewhere like in the arctic with airplane and snowmobile access only, being able to manufacture fuel is kind of a big deal.
The downside of all of this is there's a lot of chemistry going on here - multiple stages of catalysts that can end up getting ruined if impurities get deposited on them.
I can't see something like this working for more than a few months before it needs some kind of cleaning, changing of catalysts, maintenance / service / etc.
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/5955b628077e2e1e4aba39b8d24e2ad7d83d1c94d55300d4c81142d7acbd3df7.png

2026-05-28 10:46:08 UTC

An Iron Dome for blasting Bill Gates's Flying Monkeys.
I am definitely buying one of these when they start shipping...
https://photonmatrixlab.com/
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2026-05-26 23:09:27 UTC

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That got rewritten in rust back in like 2021

2026-05-26 22:26:37 UTC

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I need to work on cjdns OpenWrt, I'm not sure it's currently building. The objective was not to do cjdns and PKT, thought the idea for this device came from when I was looking for cheap/capable devices for PKT.
At this point it's basically just a big endian MIPS OpenWrt computer - but it's cheap.

2026-05-26 22:17:12 UTC

I wonder if the real value-multiplier of AI is that engineering teams are quietly using it to hone in on promising chemistry solutions - and that's why suddenly the battery space has gone from boring to insane over the past couple of years...
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2026-05-26 22:15:37 UTC

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I'll sell you one, or ten, no problem. I'm a bit terrified to check what shipping is to ZA though :S

2026-05-26 13:09:13 UTC

Mailed out the first GS3101 today. Is this something anyone would be interested in buying?
256M ram
256M flash
1x 2.4Ghz wifi
1x usb 2.0
1x gigabit ethernet
3x 100mb ethernet
Fiber port and phone port but no drivers for those yet.
Standard 12v barrel power supply
I can do 7$ for the unit alone, USB serial adapter and power supply -> more.
Shipping is brutal though...
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2026-05-25 00:12:01 UTC

This is basically how I introduce myself at an event.
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/a51850ff8c462327502d48a91fdc56fe2f74c8ffec15b1dc31d5d097d9633977.mp4

2026-05-22 21:45:21 UTC

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I guess theoretically nix could be easy because users are never supposed to be screwing with package definition files...
But IDK, I remember it was super annoying for some other reason.
Homebrew installs w/ a one-liner

2026-05-22 21:42:05 UTC

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> nixOS
> The package definition language is easy
> Just ask George over there
> What do you mean there's no George over there
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2026-05-22 19:52:21 UTC

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Yeah, I'm just gonna sit around and be a bitter old man and say it's a tragedy that the chroot idea from nix is not universal.

2026-05-22 19:50:11 UTC

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Yeah so each app carries an entire system with it.
It's based on the assumption that the underlying system is totally fucked - which sadly is the only safe assumption you can make.
But it only makes a blast shield to protect one desktop app from a fucked system, it doesn't do anything to unfuck the system itself.

2026-05-22 19:47:21 UTC

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Okay, but can you flatpak like libc and the kernel, and then eliminate apt entirely ?

2026-05-22 19:44:35 UTC

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Right but then the question is why can't you flatpak the entire distro?

2026-05-22 19:42:29 UTC

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IDK it's just frustrating software advances at the speed of a snail.

2026-05-22 19:36:09 UTC

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:sigh:
Oh well...
My favorite linux is still OpenWrt.

2026-05-22 19:34:29 UTC

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Is it a package manager for chrooted packages like nix? Because someone trying to do that for real would be pretty neat.

2026-05-22 19:32:06 UTC

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Thought it was some competitor to snap...
Anyway, I'm not challenging your experience. Linux desktop distros all suck. I've never found a single one that wasn't utter dog shit to use, with "was he drunk" level bugs everywhere you look...

2026-05-22 19:30:23 UTC

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¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The two things I like the least about it are apt (but we knew that was gonna happen), and flatpak.

2026-05-22 19:26:43 UTC

linux sucks, use linux or linux instead (linux things) (it actually sucks)
#nevent1q…2v90

2026-05-22 08:36:48 UTC

> Good news
> The tests came back negative
> The doctor said:
#nevent1q…zqzg

2026-05-22 05:31:17 UTC

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> Hydrogen ICE
H2 tanks cost 7$/kWh
Batteries cost 50$/kWh
Sodium batteries are predicted to hit 20$/kWh
New higher density sodium batteries might be expected to hit 14$/kWh
So it's very unlikely that batteries will remain more expensive than tanks for another decade - and that's why nobody is investing seriously in H2 technology.
It's pretty much either battery, or diesel (and wait for battery to improve)
> except for atomic batteries
Power output on those is trash so they're really only useful for niche stuff like pacemakers.

2026-05-21 06:09:52 UTC

With the evolution of batteries, it looks as though internal combustion engines will be relegated to some pretty narrow niches - if not supplanted entirely.
But there's something about them that EVs can never really replace, and it doesn't seem to even have a name. Internal Combustion Engines are "alive" in a way that electric motors can never be.
> That's just how you perceive it, human
Don't care. It's our world, technology should exist on our terms.
Even if electric motors and batteries win every race, (video) is something they can never really do (unless through a pathetic bunch of fake technological theater).
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/3564d2f1f444bd158252e3e6e866287434230ae805289a435d50bd290261b586.webm

2026-05-19 11:20:13 UTC

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What an amazing idea, I'm sure it's completely impossible that anything could ever go wrong.
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2026-05-19 08:22:50 UTC

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When you build a community off-grid, one of the biggest cost drivers is energy.
Energy is non-negotiable, it is THE core element of any country/city/group of people. If the settlement is in a normal populated location, then you can use solar panels with supplementary wood-gas based electric generation in winter.
If the settlement is in the arctic, the sun is absent for nearly half the year and if there are forests, they are slow growing. So realistically you have three options: Locate on top of a gas well, locate on top of volcanic geothermal, or develop nuclear energy.
Energy is something you can never have enough of.
If you're powering with solar and wood-gas, you want to dig a pool (with insulated liner and lid) for storing thermal energy. In the summer when your solar panels are over-producing, you'll be running air source heat pumps to push heat from the (warm) outside air into the pool water. The pool insulation will trap the heat until winter, when power is scarce. You then heat buildings and hot water using "ground source" heat pumps which, rather than cycling liquid through the ground, instead draw from the pool - therefore they are extremely efficient.
An olympic size swimming pool holds 2.5 million liters of water, water energy storage is 1.16 watt-hours per degree C, so ranging between 0C and 40C (104F) you can store 116,000 kWh of energy - the same as 11,000 liters (3,000 gallons) of heating oil.
You definitely don't want any gas stoves or appliances. You need electricity, so solve electricity 100% and then use only that.

2026-05-19 06:01:20 UTC

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A big open question when you talk about building an intentional community in an already populated area, is how involved do you want to be in your local government?
If you have no involvement at all, then you risk regulatory attack. Deep involvement allows you to most likely take control - but that introduces a different problem because now you are likely to draw the hatred of the outside community - who may eventually manage to wrestle control away from you, and will end up banning you entirely.
Libertarians in New Hampshire and Jews in the US are a bit in this tiger-by-the-tail scenario where they actually have pretty much seized control, but the rest of the population is irate enough that if they ever lose it they're probably going to be expelled en masse.
I think the right answer is to aim for control - but also to *extend* the advanced political decision making system to members of the outside community, roughly by going around like Jehovahs' Witnesses and knocking on doors - but with the mission of learning their needs, wants and feelings, to help that person feel understood, and integrate their needs into the master plan. In the ideal case, you gain another voter who is not part of the commune.

2026-05-19 04:27:03 UTC

Off Grid Settlement Thread #3
Previous threads on the topic:
1. https://pkteerium.xyz/@cjd/posts/B5quLquZV0WLkroUYC
2. https://pkteerium.xyz/@cjd/posts/B5rqILIyLigUCaG1oW
There are two general lines of thinking:
One is to go far far out (e.g. into the arctic) and use distance to separate from broken culture (and have a lot of legal/regulatory autonomy because the nearest cop is 1000 miles away).
The other is to just create a community anywhere but simply isolate the culture. Amish and Hasidic Jews have shown that this does work.
Going far out creates urgency to solve certain problems which staying close to "civilization" does not. But staying close is generally a lot easier.
One could fairly ask "why re-invent the Amish?" and the Amish have really figured this out. But what the Amish have not figured out (and don't seem interested in) is how to on-board anyone else. So they're all set but the rest of us are still screwed.
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One interesting question is how a settlement should interface with the government. If most of the people living there are not making any formal income, there's no reason not to sign everyone in the settlement up for SNAP and Section8. The income to the settlement organization would be immense.
I think one thing the Amish got very right is that car ownership creates more problems than it solves. It's hard to tell everybody that they need to sell their car on day 1, but building a walkable community in a place with river access only will help move people away from using their car. Also, river access only puts a limit on people coming in to snoop around and potentially make trouble.
Personal electronics (phones, computers, TVs) PROBABLY need to simply be forbidden on the location. Designated office areas may be appropriate for computer usage, but phones are just a short road to slop-scrolling...
In place of TV and such, there should be a LOT of communal rituals and activities which take place.
A communal currency is practically obligatory, and I think that (to the extent possible) there should be no clear exchange rate. If there's a store on site selling food for SNAP EBT, that food would obviously need to be priced in dollars, but things like ferry boat transport, hot meals, and a haircut at the community barber would better be offered exclusively in the community currency.
Something to avoid is people bringing drugs and goyslop from outside of the community and selling it to community members. Making the community currency something that cannot easily be exchanged, is a feature.
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IDEALLY, one would encourage a different language inside of the community. Being bilingual is a super-power because you are able to switch between the Big Toxic Culture language, and the Family / Community Language which creates a clear distinction between talking to Safe People and talking to strangers (probably having toxic culture).
There's a possibility that China would be willing to co-sponsor such a community project if the language chosen for the community was actually Chinese.
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That's all I've got for now...
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2026-05-18 13:53:15 UTC

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> The rise of rapid cultural shift coincides with the rise of high-school
> Most cultural shifts are driven by youth movements
> Before high-school, youth would mingle with older people and assimilate culture from the older generation

2026-05-18 13:47:11 UTC

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> The thing that most people think is the most precious thing they have,
> which is their sense of morality that they inherited from their culture
> is exactly the thing that you can't trust.
> And that's a really big ask for most people.

2026-05-18 13:30:42 UTC

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The problem as defined is that culture is drifting off a cliff - evidenced by the falling birth rate, but also many other things. There's one big mono-culture and it's failing.
> One idea would be to break global communication
> Just have each county have their own religion and so on, and they can trade but they cannot talk with the rest of the world
> That would be a plausible route, but nobody likes this.

2026-05-18 13:22:26 UTC

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> The word "multiculturalism" is often said with positive affect but the culture they're talking about is clothes, food, holidays etc.
> shallow culture
> But if you talk about ideas toward democracy, gender equality, war, medical experiments ... people HATE variety of culture.
This is a little bit out of date already - it's a professor saying it - but it's still a valid point, all the people who "want multiculturalism" don't actually want it...
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2026-05-18 13:01:54 UTC

https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1vKpPrAgLekKE

2026-05-17 20:46:43 UTC

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Americans don't have a government anyway.
They just have the mafia that everyone says would rule over them if they didn't have a government.

2026-05-14 17:18:35 UTC

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The Amish don't have cars because it's considered that they will take them too far away from their community, so in the right environment I suppose this is realistic.
If everything you need is actually walking distance, a car is optional.
But such a configuration requires a lot of trust in the governing institution, and I'd trust the "15 minute city" people like I trust an email from Nigeria.

2026-05-14 12:05:34 UTC

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You want to get rid of your car...
I also want to get rid of my car...
We are not the same 😏
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2026-05-14 11:26:09 UTC

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That looks like a Bombardier Challenger fitted for 1st class airline service.
There's a train from the big town near me to Paris, and it looks close to that nice. It's 40€ one way. It is worth it sometimes because you can relax or work while you're in transit, but taking the Volvo is like 20 in fuel for the round trip, and that carries 4 people...

2026-05-14 11:16:00 UTC

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> Secondary transportation like tram can get you to your final destination
Well not to my house, not even a bus makes it this far out.
> Wait times no longer than 5 mins if you do it right.
Well, nobody in the world has really managed to solve that problem. There are places where a train comes every 3 minutes, but that's conditioned on there being a LOT of passengers to use it.
> You can't complain about the crowding and not shitskinning in the same breath, they're the same thing.
Well, no. If they got rid of all the non-whites, that would be less population. Less population means they send less trains because there's less people to ride them. But STILL when a train gets delayed because of some debris on the track or whatever, the platform fills up and then the train is crowded...
Pic: Japan back when they were still zero diversity.
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2026-05-14 10:57:59 UTC

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I live in France, currently a rural area which is 95% white.
Even in Paris though, there is no issue with non-whites that makes public transport BAD. They're polite, quite, etc. French govt does not tolerate animalistic behavior from anyone.
Suffice to say, I'm pretty experienced with public transport - and I still prefer taking the car.
1. No waiting
2. It's not crowded
3. It's never delayed because of some technical problem
4. It goes straight to where I want to be
There's no change of racial composition that will really fix these issues. I think public transport ought to exist as an option, but in any society there are good reasons not to want that option.

2026-05-14 10:25:32 UTC

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There's a fungal disease called white pine blister rust, in it's lifecycle it spreads between two different plants, one being the white pine and the other being a current or gooseberry plant - so the US banned them ages ago, but that ban was lifted in (I think) 2001. Certain states may still ban them though.
I was originally inquiring because I wondered if there are any other berries that are banned, or if it's just those...

2026-05-13 19:52:29 UTC

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What types of berries are banned? Do you remember seeing?

2026-05-13 14:03:30 UTC

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But why is it terrible?
Who made public transport terrible?
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2026-05-13 13:25:53 UTC

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Whenever Europeans ask why Americans don't take public transport, it's like asking why The Emperor's New Suit never gets dirty.
Everybody knows the answer to that question, but nobody is allowed to say it.

2026-05-08 14:52:56 UTC

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IMO more likely that batteries will just continue getting better until they have "enough" power density that when you factor in thermal efficiency of turbines, they are okay enough that the fuel cost difference is worth the payload cost.

2026-05-08 07:39:35 UTC

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The molten salt reactor (MSRE) has it's origin in the airforce wanting a nuclear plane.
The real problem is the shielding so that it doesn't kill the people on board.

2026-05-07 19:57:32 UTC

Wild that literally nobody makes these things anymore.
20 years ago they were everywhere, $100.
Now there's no factories left. All of the high voltage electronics are kind of bespoke and there aren't really supply chains for them anymore, but you COULD make them again.
The real kicker is the tube, the color mask and phosphor coating is a disaster. And what's more, the machines that made them are now archaic. Even if you were able to get one, keeping it maintained and working properly is a skill unto itself. Generally production engineers will always build new lines using only current era (CNC) machines for which the spare parts and knowhow are widely available.
This is an important little lesson that technological capabilities are not to be taken for granted. 20 years is long enough for a technology to really basically just vanish and once it's gone, you would need to go through a whole new R&D process if you ever wanted to bring it back.
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2026-05-05 17:44:04 UTC

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Well yeah that's definitely possible, but there's nothing like atoms to just hard-power-cycle all of the Will Stancils of the and make them revert to 200 year old blood memory.

2026-05-05 17:17:38 UTC

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> grug factory reset
It'll take the Sampson Option to do that - but if that happened, the 30 year outcome would probably be a lot better for most countries.

2026-05-05 10:11:16 UTC

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There's a positive element to this: It allows us to build parallel invite-only economies, because people will actually want to be part of them because the Mainstream Economy has increasingly the vibes of a public school cafeteria. Building invite-only underground economies is great because as they become more relevant, the mainstream economy loses valuable customers and has to close down, leaving a desert for those who are not welcome.

2026-05-04 09:14:42 UTC

Me, changing the font in vscode
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2026-05-03 15:49:31 UTC

Energy for flight is a big problem because the weight of the fuel is working against you...
But, now that someone's saying it will NEVER happen, someone will probably figure out how to do it - that's kind of how everything tends to work...
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2026-04-23 16:25:31 UTC

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You're right. I said "marketing fluff" because I didn't care to get in to the weeds on how nothing really touches a project like Bitcoin... But anyway, point is he's definitely not really telling the truth, but still it's orthogonal to what Tether does with their token contract...

2026-04-23 15:43:39 UTC

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"Most decentralized" is marketing fluff, BUT, Tether maintains the ability to freeze tether-coins on any chain that they support - it's included in the contract for their token...

2026-04-13 15:39:42 UTC

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Old FAT filesystem only allowed 8 chars before the dot and 3 after.

2026-04-13 13:27:56 UTC

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Ahh, so now it's just Iranian ports.

2026-04-11 13:58:59 UTC

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> Of the 100 most important inventions in the world, most of them are crowded between the years of 1850 and 1920.
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2026-04-11 13:04:37 UTC

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> If you're not thinking about what you're working on in the shower, then you're in the wrong field

2026-04-11 13:03:01 UTC

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> How did you know that you would be no good at business?
> Well, my dad was a writer, so there's no way I could have the genes for that

2026-04-11 12:47:25 UTC

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> People go to university now but they have no retention, they don't remember anything from school.
> Sixty years ago they had no electives, and the whole program was synchronized, so if you learned Fourier transform in math, then in the next week, the physics teacher was using it.
> It was a bunch of German professors who just recreated the same curriculum they had in Berlin.
> And they taught fundamentals, because if you teach the vacuum tube, then the transistor comes along, that's not useful. But fundamentals don't change through your life.

2026-04-11 12:37:12 UTC

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> If I have to advise young people who want to learn a new field - unless it's very new - I advise to look up books before 1965, preferable British books, because in Britain they write with esoteric expertise about a very narrow subject.
> So good books, they have to be old, the author usually has a hyphenated name...

2026-04-11 12:24:28 UTC

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Why ASML won:
They went against standard philosophy -> Standard philosophy is you always have multiple vendors.
ASML went entirely against this, instead they found the best supplier in the world for each one of their critical components, and they signed an exclusivity deal with each one.
So ASML couldn't buy from anyone else, and the company couldn't sell to anyone else.
So China is still trying to catch up, because they are not able to buy ANY of the parts of the stepper.

2026-04-11 12:15:57 UTC

This guy is a gem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTgrWmOk4q8

2026-04-05 22:21:31 UTC

Scrolling the feed gives me a stark sense that America is a country made up of two groups of people:
Progressives: Who make up insane and unworkable policies, and
Conservatives: Who excitedly die defending them.

2026-04-03 09:40:42 UTC

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> We fired all of our shape-rotators because they didn't conjugate words as well as our word-conjugators
> Now we can't rotate shapes 😭

2026-03-28 23:22:47 UTC

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I have a counter-proposal: Only active duty servicemen can vote, and only veterans can hold office.
Everyone else can go about their life, but it's not Their Country if they're not willing to die for it. And nobody will ever lead the country into a war unless the guys who are about to die in it think it's necessary.

2026-03-28 17:16:25 UTC

With oil getting expensive, and looking to only become more and more expensive, I've been doing a little bit of research on electric cars lately. Here are some of the things I've found:
1. Gasoline engines are about 30% efficient (diesels about 40%). Gasoline has 36 kWh/gallon of chemical energy, so a gasoline engine makes about 11 kWh/gallon.
2. If you pay 20 cents per kWh then that equals $2.20/gallon-equivalent (just multiply your price per kWh by 11 to get gasoline gallon equivalent price) - if you're paying more than that for gasoline, it's cheaper to drive electric.
3. Battery capacity is indeed quite small, a 100kWh battery used in Teslas is one of the biggest, and that's ONLY equivalent to about a 10 gallon tank. And most batteries are 30-60Kwh... That's why everyone speaks in terms of miles of range.
4. From range and capacity, you can deduce equivalent MPG. One Tesla Model S declares 240 miles of range for a 70 kWh battery, that divides to 3.43 miles per kWh, or 37.7 MPG.
5. Early on, there was a lot of fear that battery degradation would bound the lifetime of EVs to about 5 years. We all have experiences with laptops and phones from the 2000s and 2010s which the batteries degraded to the point that they would not even hold 1 minute worth of charge. The good news is this fear turned out to be unfounded. Improved battery chemistries and active cooling has more or less solved this problem, and degradation in EVs is slow and well understood.
6. Not all EVs are alike. As with ICE vehicles, some are quite decent, others are best avoided. With ICE vehicles, there are well known disasters such as Wet Belts, CVT Transmissions, or the Hyundai Theta II engine. With EVs, the problem is less about catastrophic failure and more about oddball designs where replacement parts are rare and expensive, or are simply too difficult to work on. EVs are somewhat unique in that some of them were made in extremely small production runs and in that case, there are few in junk yards and repair parts are in short supply.
7. Not all EVs are alike. Every modern car is locked down to some extent in order to make it more difficult to repair. With EVs as with ICE cars, some of the more popular platforms have been reverse engineered and have a decent aftermarket. So every car platform has two variables: How anti-repair it is made from the factory, and how well has it been reverse-engineered. Tesla is very repair-hostile, but has a large community that has figured a lot of things out. The Nissan Leaf is a fair bit less hostile, and also has a large community and even has aftermarket / Frankenstein battery packs that some people build.
8. Not all EVs are alike. Big dumb touchscreens, and doors that don't open without electricity so you can't get out in a crash are not obligatory. Be smart.
9. The best EVs seem to be the ones which started being made a long time ago (plenty of time to work out the bugs), and are made in large number, by stable car companies w/o financial problems. Chevrolet Bolt and Nissan Leaf seem to be fairly good - do your own research of course.
10. Electric motors are more or less bulletproof, so in an EV, the only part that you really need to worry about is the battery pack. Most EV battery packs are removable (WARNING: NOT ALL). They are very heavy so you need jacks to get them out, but once they're out they can be repaired on a workbench.
11. You can usually buy second-hand batteries out of a junk yard (check this before buying a car!). This is the most common way batteries are swapped. You can also (depending on the car) go into the battery pack and do repairs or cell replacement. This is quite dangerous as you're dealing with a uniquely deadly combination of high voltage, and insanely high available amperage - and there's no way to "cut power" because inside of the battery IS the power. So some shops will be happy to swap batteries but unwilling to open them, even if the only thing that failed is a small relay.
10. If you're looking at used EVs, you want to know State of Health (SOH) and voltage difference between cells. Different voltage between cells is a sign of failing cells. If this isn't available in the on-board computer, take it to a shop that does EVs and have them pull the numbers before buying.
11. EV owners often do not charge to 100% because filling all the way degrades the battery faster. There is a setting in the onboard computer to make the car stop charging at 90% or 80%. There is LOTS of advice online about this, reality depends on your battery chemistry. Most EVs are NMC (Nickel Manganese Cobalt) batteries, some newer ones are LFP (Lithium Iron Phosphate).
12. Battery fires are another problem that is more-or-less solved, UNLESS, you are in a serious accident that punctures the battery. NMC batteries are known to burn, LFP are much safer in that regard, new/experimental chemistries are being developed which will not burn at all but we're not there yet.
13. EVs do not wear out the same way as ICE vehicles (!!!!) In an ICE vehicle you look at the miles on the odometer to see how worn out it is. A 50 year old car with 20,000 miles is "brand new" as long as it lived its life in a garage. Batteries wear just from sitting, so calendar years on a battery matter, even if it was rarely ever driven in those years. On top of that, EVs from the earlier years had more teething issues, so newer models are often a better choice. In the case of the Leaf, pre-2016 models had a design flaw that cause excessive battery degradation, from 2016 through 2019 quality continuously improved, then after 2020 it became more variable with some QC issues popping up. This kind of "good years and bad years" thing is typical of all models, Do Your Research.
I think that's about everything... Let me know if there's anything you're curious about that I didn't mention.
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2026-03-26 19:40:45 UTC

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Some people have suggested that Trump started this whole war to run the US empire off a cliff... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

2026-03-26 19:25:06 UTC

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The millisecond the US turns it's back, Europe starts paying attention to it's own affairs again...

2026-03-24 18:45:44 UTC

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When people ask me how I'm doing and I say "fantastic", it fits the script, but it's just a little bit too sincere, so for the rest of the conversation they're quietly wondering if I'm actually enjoying all of this (I am)

2026-03-24 11:42:31 UTC

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2026-03-23 19:05:26 UTC

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Art of saying "I hope we don't have to blow up their power plants" and while 5 minutes later, Israel does exactly that.
Art of looking pathetic and also making Iran look like the good guys.

2026-03-23 14:11:13 UTC

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Who is likely to be able to stop the war is the Russians or Chinese, who are most likely in contact with everyone in the region - including any significant factions - because they're providing intel and support.
But trying to get something out of either Russia or China will require concessions that suck worse than just going without. Back to the old meme...
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2026-03-23 14:04:50 UTC

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If they're fractured, then there's no possibility of ever ending this because nobody's going to be able to call a ceasefire.
It's possible Trump is talking to someone, it's also possible that it's basically a scammer who is looking to make a buck by offering a "ceasefire" in exchange for sending some BTC to This Wallet Address... If there's fractured leadership then the line between scammer and real is blurry because even if someone claims they can deliver a ceasefire, it's questionable if they actually can.
It's also possible that he's making shit up, or they're making shit up, or (most likely) they're both making everything up as they go.

2026-03-23 13:56:58 UTC

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American women would have a really hard time in any other country. In most of the world, women are still held accountable for their actions.

2026-03-23 13:16:09 UTC

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Apparently no one lol
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2026-03-23 12:45:43 UTC

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Remember when someone (I forgot who) DMCA'd youtube-dl ?
Linux autists are like the Taliban of computing.

2026-03-23 12:43:38 UTC

I love the fact that this billion dollar age verification slop is looking like it's gonna end up dying on the hill of 0.0000001% market share Linux Desktop.

2026-03-22 21:19:41 UTC

I've always been amused by woodgas cars... But they're so complex and difficult. There's a lot of hardware on one of those which is really better off being stationary.
However, if you have an electric car, and you charge it at home using a woodgas generator, it is effectively a woodgas car... And you can pull heat off the woodgas system to heat your home...
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2026-03-22 17:51:33 UTC

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Nitrogen is made from natural gas, so nitrogen tracks LNG price.
Farmers are going to skip applying fertilizer and accept lower yields, but that will raise grain prices which will probably lead to famine in Africa.

2026-03-21 14:27:12 UTC

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Do you think utility scale fuel cells are going to become a thing? I thought the price would be a killer, even with the efficiency gain.
But sure, if you own underground gas storage - like a spent NG well, you can reasonably make a bunch of H2, push it down the hole, then let it come back up again and run it through a fuel cell (or turbine) in the winter.

2026-03-21 13:53:58 UTC

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> turning it into natural gas lowers conversion efficiency
Hmm, the requirement to make CO does reduce the efficiency somewhat, but you could do: C+H2O→CO+H2 with energy being supplied either electrically, or just tolerating some loss by adding O2 to the carbon. Then you add +3 additional H2 from an electrolyzer and do CO+3H2→CH4+H2O with nickel catalyst.
This is based on a power-is-cheaper-than-messing-around-with-coal theory, but I confess that as long as mined NG is widely available and LNG economy exists, there's basically no point.
> plus you're releasing CO2 into the air
I'm not convinced anybody actually cares (outside of college students). The people designing energy storage just care about storing energy cheaply. Now coal supply chain is a legitimate concern, and cleaning up the sulfur and other crap found in the coal is also a problem.
> liquifying gas isn't really smart either since you need to cool it south of 160°C under high pressure
I'm aware. But the point is these big dumb machines do exist, and they output something that is more or less storable / transportable, and is highly useful for industry...

2026-03-21 13:05:39 UTC

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I see. Well, converting H2 into CH4 is not *that* big a deal either, if you're doing it at scale. Yes, it requires coal, but that's another supply chain which is fairly stable and exists already. And if you're going to CH4 then it's even better because you can make that into LNG.
But lets say you're just doing H2, you can still use it for storage in salt caves.

2026-03-21 03:10:23 UTC

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Of course she's not "thankful", it was a test and he failed.

2026-03-21 01:19:19 UTC

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I think hydrogen is going to have an increasingly important role because it can be transported through natural gas transport network, and there already exists underground storage for natural gas which can be transitioned to H2.

2026-03-21 00:52:49 UTC

Yay a YT video about large scale energy storage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoi3-0EYW14
Basically going over everything I was going over a week ago.

2026-03-20 23:59:22 UTC

Ukranian interceptor-drones are likely to put Iranian suicide drones out of business, unless they are able to put guns on the suicide drones and start shooting down the interceptors.
Alternatively if they can fly them to their destination while staying high, and then dive at the end, they remain out of interceptor range until they're already over a target - so knocking them out is not useful because they're still going to land a hit. This only works if they can protect their payload from unintentional detonation, which is hard if it's a bomb, but if it's something like thermite then it may be fairly easy.
Triggering a thermite payload to start burning a few seconds before it lands on its target does not change its effectiveness.
However, as long as Iran has long range missiles, they can turn Hormuz into a toll road simply by declaring that any tanker who does not pay the toll has a chance of being hit. Tanker companies will simply pay to stay on their good side.
There's a world in which this war basically winds down in a stalemate, with Iran simply extracting $20 per barrel as a protection racket for the foreseeable future. America can seize their islands if they want to, but that really doesn't affect their ability to hit tankers with missiles - and all they need is a credible threat to extract payment.
Word on the street is they're currently charging $1 per barrel. IMO they can raise this a lot, and oil companies will pay.
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2026-03-19 21:46:29 UTC

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Europe will probably be more aligned with China than Russia, but the EU is a power bloc so they can (and will) play China and Russia against each other.
UK is kinda fucked.

2026-03-10 15:13:20 UTC

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These things are being THOUGHT, not said.
Because in high level military if you say anything that hints you might be open to participating in a coup d'etat, you're out the door *immediately*...
So when a government starts going off the rails, there's a lot of winks, nods, and body language in military to see where everybody's head is at. When that eventually translates into actual action, it's swift and total.

2026-03-10 11:02:48 UTC

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I don't use it much for coding, everything I have to code is usually too subtle to be able to trust it.
I do ask a lot of questions - like a search engine but better.