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New comment by mlyons1340 in "Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable"

mlyons1340 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:13:50 +0000

thankfully we will have a competing frontier model from the next lab shortly I'm sure and I hope they are reading this feedback and swing theirs the other direction.

New comment by mlyons1340 in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

mlyons1340 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:58:54 +0000

Short the index to short the IPO by proxy is what eru is saying.

New comment by mlyons1340 in "VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in"

mlyons1340 — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 17:20:15 +0000

My medication is billed as "thousands per month" but the insurance company pays a different rate than the 'billing' rate and all I pay is $20/month for my biologic infusions. If I didn't have insurance I could enroll in the drug program and get it nearly free. I think its really very rare for the case you mention.

New comment by mlyons1340 in "It's a DE9, not a DB9 (but we know what you mean)"

mlyons1340 — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 17:01:27 +0000

AFAIK, Electron holes refer to the P-type charge carrier in a semiconductor lattice where the absence of electrons behave similar to electrons in an N-type semiconductor. Benjamin Franklin was not concerned with solid state physics rather he's referring to the charge carrier in a conductor being positive when we later discover that its negative (electrons). When current flows through a conductor its just electrons (not holes) moving from negative to positive.

New comment by mlyons1340 in "An unprecedented window into how diseases take hold years before symptoms appear"

mlyons1340 — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 21:47:43 +0000

Actually the conversion rate is 1 oz prevention = 1 lb cure. 1/16

New comment by mlyons1340 in "Underwater turbine spinning for 6 years off Scotland's coast is a breakthrough"

mlyons1340 — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 16:03:53 +0000

Texas’ capacity was 113000 MW yesterday so 1.5MW doesn’t seem significant. Am I understanding this wrong?

https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards

New comment by mlyons1340 in "Technical analysis of the Signal clone used by Trump officials"

mlyons1340 — Thu, 08 May 2025 17:24:32 +0000

You can still read the tweet without an account.

New comment by mlyons1340 in "Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order"

mlyons1340 — Fri, 02 May 2025 17:03:24 +0000

This is a really dumb quote.

New comment by mlyons1340 in "Port of Los Angeles says shipping volume will plummet 35% next week"

mlyons1340 — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 16:01:44 +0000

It’s true US isn’t competitive but what you looked at was hobbyist PCB services which is not representative of the industry as a whole. I get the frustration but i don’t see how you can draw any conclusion from it.

New comment by mlyons1340 in "The origins of 60-Hz as a power frequency (1997)"

mlyons1340 — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 18:15:22 +0000

True, skin effect limits the conductor size (~22mm in Al @60Hz) but overhead transmission already uses bundled conductors to address that as well as to improve mechanical strength, cooling, and reactance. The advantage of HVDC is in the lower dielectric and reactive losses while skin effect is minimal.

New comment by mlyons1340 in "The origins of 60-Hz as a power frequency (1997)"

mlyons1340 — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 22:47:56 +0000

Power line losses are proportional to I^2R so whether its DC or AC isn't really the concern. V=IR so assuming R is constant, a higher transmission voltage results in exponentially lower power losses. DC is actually whats currently used for long distances to achieve lowest power line losses (HVDC).