Badabinski

Nah, I love cursing. I love a good, rancid obscenity. I’m perfectly capable of expressing myself without swearing, but I think it makes life so much more fun.

I do try to be aware of my audience. I live in Utah where the Mormons continuously find new and exciting ways to swear without angering sky-daddy. “Oh my heck” is a great example, because “gosh” is potentially a nono outer-darkness word.

I don’t live to offend—I’m not an edge lord. I want to be inclusive of the people around me, so if I know that the person I’m speaking to doesn’t appreciate swearing then I’ll avoid it. Swears may slip out if the conversation is sufficiently casual, but I’ll just apologize and we’ll move on like adults.

It’s not a binary. You can swear in some contexts and not in others, provided you’re able to maintain some degree of mindfulness. That may not be possible if being around your family is like being captured in the Trauma Nexus.

Now that I’ve gone all this time without swearing, let me share my favorite obscenity. My partner once described a really horrible person (someone who committed physical and sexual abuse) as a shit-filled cunt, and god damn if that isn’t just breathtaking. Truly a beauty to behold, she’s such an artist with words.

I imagine it’s more complicated than that. For example, Pu-238 only emits alpha radiation. I doubt that reactor waste only emits alpha radiation, meaning you’d have to harden the electronics for a close and potentially extreme emitter of beta/gamma radiation. I also don’t know if random high grade reactor waste gets hot enough to provide meaningful amounts of energy via thermoelectric means. Alternatively, it may be that it gets too hot.

I doubt they could have simply slapped something together. The cost of developing a new RTG capable of using reactor waste would likely be a significant fraction of the budget to develop the probe itself. It might have been worth it, but I feel that it’s not clear-cut.

The biggest problem with RTGs is the extreme cost and lack of availability. Pu-238 is very expensive and at any moment, there’s only tens of KG of Pu-238 available for RTG use. They’re not really a reasonable choice for private industry at this time.

Curate and manage incredible museums! Explore to discover amazing artifacts. Design and refine the layout, keep staff happy, guests entertained, donations plentiful… and children off the exhibits

I had no idea what this game was, so here’s the blurb off of Steam.

If SpaceX could do this shit in a way that’s more respectful to the environment and other humans then I think it’d make a lot of sense.

A lot of the early US space program used what is basically iteratively design. The military wanted big nukey rocket quick like what for to exploderate the Ruskis, and even NASA was honestly pretty cavalier until the Apollo 1 tragedy.

This doesn’t excuse SpaceX for their shit at all. Find a way to do this shit safely or don’t do iterative design.

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I can definitely respect your desire to build something that can support you and I wish you luck. It’s a cool concept and I really like the idea for it. I’m definitely not your target audience as I’m not interested in closed platforms after experiencing enough rug pulls, nor am I interested in privacy-focused applications that aren’t completely open source under a strong copyleft license with reproducible builds. I suspect that many in the privacy community feel the same way. However, if your tool makes it easy for Alice to send Bob (neither of whom have ever used your service) a 300 GB file and do video calling/screen sharing without hassle then I imagine you’ll have some users.

EDIT: I see in that reddit thread that you haven’t found being open source to be much of a draw. That makes sense to me. At this point, I don’t view being open source as a positive, I view it as basic table stakes. Being open source with a strong copyleft license and a DCO instead of a CLA to prevent relicensing approaches being featureful to me. It’s unfortunate how many projects use a CLA with copyright transfer. Signal fails in this regard, for example. It may be possible for Whisper to relicense future releases to something that is not truly free.

Certainly looks like the Wasatch or maybe Oquirrh mountains. Kinda seems like it’s somewhere near Park City, which is just such a beautiful area my god.