Yeah about that meteor https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#%2F%3Fsstr=2024+YR4&view=OPC

All the math is weird. 36yr from 2025 is 13149 days = 315576 hr = 18934560 min = 1136073600 sec. But maybe they’re saying there’s still 16:44:25 left until their actual birthday?

Looks like a gear ratchet. Slope on the left piece allows a gear to rotate in one direction. Clamp on a bar on the right allows the assembly to be lifted to allow the gear to rotate in the other direction as well. Like a sort of gear brake?

The part that immediately got me was the clinician hiring a biller to dispute the $20k payback, only for it to be reduced to $10k. They probably paid the biller almost $10k to get the documentation together. For smaller paybacks, the clinic would probably be taking a loss to dispute the charge even if it gets stopped completely. As long as the insurer can provide justification for the charge, there’s basically no way to punish them for doing this, even when the insurer knows the original payment was legit.

I got a notification that said “You are in the top 5%. Are you safe from Duo?” and now I can’t sleep

Also no paint on the driver’s window

No, what an utterly ridiculous lie to spread. She would never get “Korean bbq” tattooed on her hand, she’s a multimillionaire with tons of resources at her disposal to prevent a silly mistake like that. Instead, she got “small charcoal grill” instead of “seven rings”. But don’t worry, she got it fixed apparently, so it instead correctly read … “small charcoal finger grill”.

https://x.com/yoloption/status/1595213678147764224/photo/1

Yeah apparently it is a major part of employees’ jobs to know how to present good ideas to this fool in a way that he won’t shoot it down because he thinks he knows things.

I would amend that to “What specific problem that users have reported does implementing AI solve”.

Most airports have separate controllers for taxiway coordination and for runway and air coordination. Many larger airports separate tasks further, like having a separate approach controller. So, usually different people.

Or Powerwash Simulator

I know it’s a typo but I’m cracking up at

ethnically non-monogamous

• Ivory Coast GDP: $79.4B
• Ghana GDP: $76.6B
• Ivory Coast produced ~39% of global cocoa in 2022/2023 season
• Ghana produced ~11% of global cocoa in 2022/2023 season
• Mondelez net income: $5B
• Mars net income: $6.5B
• Nestle net income: $13.1B
• Hershey net income: $1.5B

Data from Swiss Platform for Sustainable Cocoa and Wikipedia

Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding demands to be blasted at full volume

One of the risks is the fuel getting jammed. Since they’re spheres, they should have very low friction. But they already saw that defects in the coating can raise that risk. They would need very strict QC on manufacturing the pellets, and the entire system must be designed to mitigate the chance of wear causing damage. There would naturally be a buildup of debris over time, but fine carbon dust usually serves as a lubricant anyway. They would need to prevent contaminants entering the core.

Even if there was a jam, is there a foolproof way to stop the input, even during a power failure? Can the pellets sit in the reactor forever without getting too hot when the cooling is down?

Is any of this human controlled? Part of Chernobyl was someone ignoring a failure and choosing not to shut down until it was too late - is that a possibility here?

So yeah, saying failure is impossible is literally what they said with the Chernobyl-style reactors when they were new. They did safety tests on those to see what would happen if the power failed, which was itself the catalyst for the failure. Just say that you have a new, extremely safe design, be open about how it works, and don’t tempt fate?

The Wikipedia page has a decent graphic. Instead of dropping graphite rods between the fuel rods, the fuel is a pellet permanently encased in a tennis ball sized coating of ceramic silicon carbide. The core is a funnel that pellets are continuously fed through, with an inert gas cooling the funnel and transferring the heat to the water for generating electricity.

I’m calling it a radioactive pachinko machine

The orangutan is the smartest primate.

I’m inclined to agree after reading this.

Article. That’s wack

The main point of the bill is to provide grants to organizations that provide resources for pregnant people. The bill specifically excludes organizations that offer abortion services from receiving those grants.

This is why “divide by half” and “divide in half” are two different things