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New comment by mjanx123 in "Electric motors with no rare earths"

mjanx123 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:04:49 +0000

It is really called low energy, it refers to the low attractive force of the surface, liquids bead up and do not wetten, in epoxy that results in small contact area and a weak bond, on a high surface energy material it flows into all the crannies and has enormous contact area and a strong bond.

New comment by mjanx123 in "Electric motors with no rare earths"

mjanx123 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:17:33 +0000

The BMW inline 6 were the best engines ever. Their inline 4 and other are a strong contender for the worst engines ever.

New comment by mjanx123 in "Electric motors with no rare earths"

mjanx123 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:10:37 +0000

It does not bond to polypropylene and other low surface energy plastics

New comment by mjanx123 in "Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones"

mjanx123 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:07:14 +0000

Will the drones at least look like Pikachu?

New comment by mjanx123 in "Forever Young: how one molecule can lock plants in a youthful state (2025)"

mjanx123 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:40:12 +0000

Animals minmax on being active. To the point of going into a damaging overdrive when active and repairs when sleeping. The total accumulated wear is massive. Discarding an old animal and booting a new one seems to be more viable than trying to keep the old one going indefinitely.

New comment by mjanx123 in "The EU Open Source Strategy"

mjanx123 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:18:55 +0000

IIRC Microsoft has a no liability clause in its licenses. How did they react to this?

New comment by mjanx123 in "U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse"

mjanx123 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 06:25:11 +0000

A change that is going to creep in over decades, known about ahead of time, is not a crisis and not a reason to panic.

You can still today buy lands that are going to be submerged under the sea and make net profit before that happens.

New comment by mjanx123 in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

mjanx123 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:23:30 +0000

When AI takes all the jobs, it will also need to take care of supplying all the demand/customers, as humans will no longer have the resources for that.

New comment by mjanx123 in "CT scans of BYD car parts"

mjanx123 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:44:56 +0000

The aftermarket would jump after such an opportunity in such case

New comment by mjanx123 in "What appear to be biochemical processes may be a natural feature of geology"

mjanx123 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:31:54 +0000

Water is also averse to emergence of life chemistry, despite the mature life depending on it, it hydrolyzes and damages the fragile structures. It is the same situation as with oxygen in principle.

New comment by mjanx123 in "What appear to be biochemical processes may be a natural feature of geology"

mjanx123 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:29:05 +0000

- cells appear very soon after the hadean Earth - meteorites contain life building blocks

These suggest that the life chemistry evolved in the proto solar cloud (and exploring the conditions in there would yield how that happened) and the life on Earth evolved from the already complex stuff that fell on it after the hadean phase.

New comment by mjanx123 in "What appear to be biochemical processes may be a natural feature of geology"

mjanx123 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 08:05:51 +0000

> I like to think of the Earth as a supercomputer running a vast self-interactive chemical computation of unfathomable scale for an unfathomably long amount of time.

New comment by mjanx123 in "U.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaborators"

mjanx123 — Sat, 23 May 2026 01:00:46 +0000

Nobody voted for this. People voted for the proclaimed plans , but that turned out to be lies and deception solely for getting the votes.

New comment by mjanx123 in "The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics"

mjanx123 — Fri, 22 May 2026 09:36:28 +0000

In China the desire for profits serves the society. In the US the society serves the desire for profits.

New comment by mjanx123 in "All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018)"

mjanx123 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:14:44 +0000

How long would it take for the ozone to recombine back, if you didn't vent the house?

New comment by mjanx123 in "Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers"

mjanx123 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:25:36 +0000

As this article shows, it already started in the chimp-human common ancestor.

New comment by mjanx123 in "Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists"

mjanx123 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 12:17:38 +0000

Whip them to the hamster wheel...

New comment by mjanx123 in "The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday"

mjanx123 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 07:51:26 +0000

The refined form is unstable, a hair from an objective reality observation fluke collapsing it.

The system that persists in practice is where everybody knows how things are, but still everybody pleads to a fictional status quo, because if they did not, the others would obliterate them.

New comment by mjanx123 in "Why is the sky blue?"

mjanx123 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 19:28:35 +0000

Oxygen is blue actually. That only contributes to the sky blueness a little tho.

New comment by mjanx123 in "Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?"

mjanx123 — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 10:08:33 +0000

A sticker with your password to the monitor, like everybody else