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New comment by andbberger in "Live: Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

andbberger — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:57:32 +0000

ok sure but are humans a full decade of NSF budget better than robots

New comment by andbberger in "ArXiv Declares Independence from Cornell"

andbberger — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 06:03:24 +0000

there is. bioarxiv.

New comment by andbberger in "Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100?"

andbberger — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:10:03 +0000

a good mission burrito is like $10 and makes my life better

New comment by andbberger in "Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn"

andbberger — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 13:11:59 +0000

yes the US is laughably corrupt

New comment by andbberger in "CATL expects oceanic electric ships in three years"

andbberger — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 06:12:02 +0000

certainly there exist nuclear ships with enough power but I fail to see how you would feasibly tug a train of containerships

New comment by andbberger in "Mechanical power generation using Earth's ambient radiation"

andbberger — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 03:07:41 +0000

oops. yes. still not that much though. i mean it's a lot but it's "one more large industrialized country" a lot not "kardashev 2" a lot

New comment by andbberger in "Using Antigravity for Statistical Physics in JavaScript"

andbberger — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:35:39 +0000

> Is this not just a cellular automaton?

New comment by andbberger in "Mechanical power generation using Earth's ambient radiation"

andbberger — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:12:56 +0000

wiki article states "Up to 10,000 TWh/yr of power could be generated from OTEC without affecting the ocean's thermal structure". which converts to about 500GW which... isn't that much

New comment by andbberger in "The time has finally come for geothermal energy"

andbberger — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 08:52:29 +0000

they're in big concrete containers rated to withstand everything its fine

New comment by andbberger in "Using Antigravity for Statistical Physics in JavaScript"

andbberger — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 07:54:54 +0000

this... is not very good for an hour? i would expect an undergrad to be able to cook this up in an hour

New comment by andbberger in "The time has finally come for geothermal energy"

andbberger — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 04:30:06 +0000

that seems fine

New comment by andbberger in "The time has finally come for geothermal energy"

andbberger — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 04:27:59 +0000

68 years ago we already had fission plants. the engineering side of energy production has been solved since then, it's all political now

New comment by andbberger in "[dead]"

andbberger — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 04:06:35 +0000

ah yes, direct democracy in california has famously never led to anything bad happening.

New comment by andbberger in "California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behind"

andbberger — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 06:12:33 +0000

farming requires a _lot_ of water.

New comment by andbberger in "NORAD’s Cheyenne Mountain Combat Center, c.1966"

andbberger — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 06:11:06 +0000

the movie would be over after 10 minutes if GBI intercepted why would you assume this is an accurate depiction

New comment by andbberger in "NORAD’s Cheyenne Mountain Combat Center, c.1966"

andbberger — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 06:09:46 +0000

not at all realistic, awful movie. somehow even worse than annie jacobsen's book. they would not fire only 2 interceptors, and there is no urgency to retaliate when it is not a decapitation strike

New comment by andbberger in "California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behind"

andbberger — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 01:24:14 +0000

farming with desal water is insane. even with abundant power.

New comment by andbberger in "California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behind"

andbberger — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 01:23:30 +0000

and there was a huge fire at the moss landing plant which left heavy metals and god knows what else raining down onto sensitive marine mammal habitat. kayak up elkhorn slough and you'll encounter dozens of otters, seals... less than a kilometer from the battery plant.

I don't think we're going to be appreciating the environmental consequences of that accident for years. heavy metals don't decay, they'll be there forever.

a pox on david brouwer and his faux environmentalism, and the politics and economic machinations that ever proposed solar and batteries as an alternate to baseload fission plants. (in fact brouwer did his damage long before solar was ever practical, so he has even less ground to stand on)

New comment by andbberger in "Subway Builder: A realistic subway simulation game"

andbberger — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 18:13:51 +0000

this is just worse NIMBY rails

New comment by andbberger in "Ultrasonic Chef's Knife"

andbberger — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 00:48:41 +0000

if you have a nice knife and cut by dragging the knife towards you with tip in contact with the board instead of cutting directly down, food will not stick