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Gnome is quite 'opinionated' in what it chooses; if you like their choices you enjoy it; if you don't....hmm. Personally I also have some things I specifically dislike; I prefer to have a fixed 3x3 virtual desktop grid, and Gnome didn't let me do that. I generally don't like the heavy use of menus and random stuff in the title bar of windows.

or on the way to Mars.

The new leg design is interesting - it's quite a change to have one segment out of line with the others; and unlike any natural leg ??

Ooh, it's got to be about 30 years since the Tcl plugin for Netscape; so perhaps we can have it back in the browser via WASM.

Wouldn't the other reason to have multiple manufacturer keys, be to guard against them losing the private key for one in a way that means they can't sign anything any more?

I mean, sure, but to what end does that madness lead? Who backs up the backups?

Usually this is to allow different departments / divisions / customers (in the case of an OEM model) to all sign code or encrypt binaries, although this is likewise a bit off as each enrolled key increases the amount of material which is available to leak in the leak model. Or to allow model line differentiation with crossover.


Does anyone have a feel for how heavy the weight of an equivalent oil(?) driven ship would be? It has the big number for the weight of batteries, but I've got nothing to compare against.

700-ish tonnes - it's in the wikipedia article:

"In 2020, Buquebus originally commissioned Incat to deliver a new ship to use dual-fuel propulsion, capable of operating on liquefied natural gas and diesel, with around 400 tonne of main engines, 100 tonne gearboxes, 100 tonne cryogenic fuel tanks and 100 tonne fuel."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Zorrilla_(ship)


Google supplied me with this original spec: https://incat.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Mini-Spec-13...

Same ship, originally specced to carry tens of thousands of liters of oil. No overall displacement number, oddly.


Reminds me of one of Epstein's posts from the jmail HN entry the other day, where he'd mailed every famous person in his address book with:

https://www.jmail.world/thread/HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019871?view=p...


This is called being on drugs.


The engineering at those scales is pretty magical isn't it! Getting a whole bunch of individual atoms exactly where they want them. I wonder what the success rate is - i.e. how many do they build to get one working.


Usually they randomly shoot atoms at the substrate and then just search for a spot (among thousands) where it randomly has the configuration they want. Still pretty amazing.


Can they do that here, they've got quite a few sets of 4/5 atoms which they've interconnected, so that's a lot to get by shotgunning it. I'd assumed they were using something like a STM to nudge the atoms around.


The “precision manufacturing” reference in the paper is to this 2012 paper about an STM placement technique. [0]

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/nnano.2012.21


hmm. i remember my electron microscopes prof being very excited about his ability to manipulate single atoms exactly where he wants them ~10years ago.

id have assumed the holography has gotten more common and able to operate on bigger volumes


This being a research paper, the rate is 1.0. They built one, then tinkered until it worked, then published.


This is great; I hate fighting distro source tools when I want to debug something.


This just adds a new tool though.

Obligatory XKCD reference: https://xkcd.com/927/


New tools during the transition, hopefully fewer tools in the long run. Also things making a lot more sense in the long run.


Well, look through it's log and what it did and if you don't understand anything ask it why it did it/what it does.


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