Interesting findings on the internet

[mnementh]

https://www.zdnet.com/article/oracle-su ... sociation/


mnem

[BU508A]

From The Institute of Art and Ideas:
"Can we understand the universe? | Sheldrake & Hossenfelder go head to head on dark matter IN FULL"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8JGlX5eU8g

Edit:
Keep an eye on Sabine's bullshit-o-meter.

[mnementh]

https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/tamp ... -the-keys/

mnem
remember when this was the worst shit on the evening news...?

[BU508A]

Recycled, Contaminated, Crumpled Aluminum Foil-Driven Triboelectric Nanogenerator


Abstract

With rapid urbanization and global population growth, the amount of wasted aluminum foil is significantly increasing. Most deformed and contaminated foil is difficult to recycle; hence, it is landfilled or incinerated, causing environmental pollution. Therefore, using aluminum foil waste for electricity may be conducive to addressing environmental problems. In this regard, various literatures have explored the concept of energy generation using foil, while a crumple ball design for this purpose has not been studied. Thus, a recycled foil-based crumpled ball triboelectric nanogenerator (RFCB-TENG) is proposed. The crumpled ball design can minimize the effects of contamination on foil, ensuring efficient power output. Moreover, owing to novel crumpled design, the RFCB-TENG has some outstanding characteristics to become a sustainable power source, such as ultralight weight, low noise, and high durability. By introducing the air-breakdown model, the RFCB-TENG achieved an output peak voltage of 648 V, a current of 8.1 mA cm3, and an optimum power of 162.7 mW cm3. The structure of the RFCB-TENG is systemically optimized depending on the design parameters to realize the optimum output performance. Finally, the RFCB-TENG operated 500 LEDs and 30-W commercial lamps. This work paves the guideline for effectively fabricating the TENG using waste-materials while exhibiting outstanding characteristics.

Source:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10. ... .202301609

[mnementh]

Huh.

mnem
"Damned clever, these Chinese." ~Howard Joyce, The Letter - 1929 . . . https://prod-www.tcm.com/video/948753/l ... se-chinese

[mnementh]

Recycled, Contaminated, Crumpled Aluminum Foil-Driven Triboelectric Nanogenerator
[SNIP]
Source: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10. ... .202301609

Seems like a solution in search of a problem to me. We recycled kilotons of used aluminum foil during the war effort; all it took was for the end-user to scrape off/rinse off the excess (as in, that which grossly outweighed the aluminum) food waste. You know, instead of being lazy fuck-knuckles and throwing it all in the trash. Aluminum is very easy to recover using re-smelting techniques; it is only the handling of the "raw" material that stands in the way.

The solution here is to stop treating recycling as a for-profit business and start treating it as a public service, which it should've been all along; not allowing those doing recycling to only take the low-lying fruit would go a long, long way.

mnem
would also help our unemployment figures...

[BU508A]

I was right! The "H" in the H-tube, made by Dalibor Farny, stands for Hiroshima.

https://www.daliborfarny.com/project/umashimenkana/

[mnementh]

https://www.daliborfarny.com/project/ca ... -for-nasa/

While the H-installation is certainly more WOW! factor, I find this project much more interesting. Nixies not only doing what they do best, but doing it better than any other technology we have available.

How the pluck is it I'm just now finding out aboot this project?



mnem
Ohhhhhh, freqq... I have some nixie-snax for joo...


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[Specmaster]

How about an iMac with touchscreen CRTs that don't need any keyboards or mice? Sounds too good to be true? Well......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZGswRH ... MichaelMJD

[nixiefreqq]

https://www.daliborfarny.com/project/ca ... -for-nasa/

While the H-installation is certainly more WOW! factor, I find this project much more interesting. Nixies not only doing what they do best, but doing it better than any other technology we have available.

How the pluck is it I'm just now finding out aboot this project?



mnem
Ohhhhhh, freqq... I have some nixie-snax for joo...


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STOP TEASING ME WITH THIS PORNOGRAPHY!!!!!

[BU508A]

Where and when can I order those H-Tubes?

[Cubdriver]

https://www.daliborfarny.com/project/ca ... -for-nasa/

While the H-installation is certainly more WOW! factor, I find this project much more interesting. Nixies not only doing what they do best, but doing it better than any other technology we have available.

How the pluck is it I'm just now finding out aboot this project?



mnem
Ohhhhhh, freqq... I have some nixie-snax for joo...


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STOP TEASING ME WITH THIS PORNOGRAPHY!!!!!

Right?? WANT!!!!

-Pat

[mnementh]

mnem
Ohhhhhh, freqq... I have some nixie-snax for joo...

STOP TEASING ME WITH THIS PORNOGRAPHY!!!!!

mnem
no.

[Cubdriver]

mnem
Ohhhhhh, freqq... I have some nixie-snax for joo...

STOP TEASING ME WITH THIS PORNOGRAPHY!!!!!

mnem
no.

Rat bastage!!!

-Pat

[nixiefreqq]

in the spirit of full disclosure......i do already own a time code translator/generator.

BUT as you can see, it is 7 segment LED, has always been an embarrassment, and is a stain on my reputation.

AND NOWHERE NEAR AS COOL AS THE NASA UNIT.

[mnementh]

You have the brains of the thing... and the brains to do the job... and certainly no shortage of Nixie Choobs at your disposal...

You know what you must do.

mnem
The gods of noble gases demand tribute.

[mnementh]

ēlo made a lot of innovative touchscreen adaptations, and almost always at the bleeding edge of available technology. They had a large CRT kiosk using this same tech they were phasing out (well, trying to kill it off so they could stop supporting ancient tech and sell LCD equivalents) when I was just starting as a ASP; their catalog went right up to I think a 40" industrial LCD model at the time. All different types of actual tech as well; sonar, resistive, capacitive, IR and optical.

mnem

[AVGresponding]

*kicks the dwagon in the tail* will you please stop parroting the idiots? It's "leading edge", not bloody "bleeding edge"

What the fuck would that even mean? I notice DJ has stopped using it recently, someone must have called him a dick, wasn't me though.

[mnementh]

*kicks the dwagon in the tail* will you please stop parroting the idiots? It's "leading edge", not bloody "bleeding edge"

What the fuck would that even mean? I notice DJ has stopped using it recently, someone must have called him a dick, wasn't me though.

It were my generation coined the phrase, it's literally been around for decades, and it specifically means a leading edge so sharp it leaves early adopters bleeding.

Just cuz you don't know what it means, don't assume it doesn't mean anything.

mnem
smeesh.

[Specmaster]

ēlo made a lot of innovative touchscreen adaptations, and almost always at the bleeding edge of available technology. They had a large CRT kiosk using this same tech they were phasing out (well, trying to kill it off so they could stop supporting ancient tech and sell LCD equivalents) when I was just starting as a ASP; their catalog went right up to I think a 40" industrial LCD model at the time. All different types of actual tech as well; sonar, resistive, capacitive, IR and optical.

mnem

I posted this yesterday, you're late to the party

[mnementh]

Well, if you'd learn to use the [youtube] tags, we might notice it shoehorned in between posts.

mnem
just more proof that sick minds think alike...

[Cerebus]

*kicks the dwagon in the tail* will you please stop parroting the idiots? It's "leading edge", not bloody "bleeding edge"

It's both. There's the leading edge, and then there's the bleeding edge which is where you've got sliced open by adopting leading edge technologies inappropriately, usually at the behest of some pig ignorant senior management who have heard about it and want to be all "state of the art" without any clue as to whether the technology in question is applicable, suitable, or mature enough to actually be fielded.

[tggzzz]

*kicks the dwagon in the tail* will you please stop parroting the idiots? It's "leading edge", not bloody "bleeding edge"

It's both. There's the leading edge, and then there's the bleeding edge which is where you've got sliced open by adopting leading edge technologies inappropriately, usually at the behest of some pig ignorant senior management who have heard about it and want to be all "state of the art" without any clue as to whether the technology in question is applicable, suitable, or mature enough to actually be fielded.

And then there's beyond the bleeding edge, where it is your job to invent the bleeding edge.

[mnementh]

Police are on the hunt for the people behind a “dime and dash” theft in northeast Philadelphia.

At around 6 a.m. Thursday, thieves broke into an unmarked trailer left in a Walmart parking lot, the Philadelphia Police Department told CNN, and made off with about 2 million dimes...

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/14/us/phila ... heist-trnd

This... raises so many more questions than it answers.

mnem
*needs to stop wandering around the intardnet and go do something... anything...*

[Cerebus]

Police are on the hunt for the people behind a “dime and dash” theft in northeast Philadelphia.

At around 6 a.m. Thursday, thieves broke into an unmarked trailer left in a Walmart parking lot, the Philadelphia Police Department told CNN, and made off with about 2 million dimes...

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/14/us/phila ... heist-trnd

This... raises so many more questions than it answers.

mnem
*needs to stop wandering around the intardnet and go do something... anything...*

Maybe it's all the money Walmart saved by giving some of their staff their "marching orders"?

I'll get my coat...