Polyethylene, polypropylene and Teflon aren’t damaged by hydrofluoric acid. Enema bags are commonly polypropylene, so he may not have used anything special, just the glass etching kit and the enema bag he already had to make an arse etching kit

I wouldn’t be, having known a couple of people who went into chemistry and what their motivations were

Lots of zeros in that due to a=b (before looking at the spoiler text)

I don’t think they know they’re trying to abbreviate ‘until’

So for a kilowatt and 300K with a poor quality radiator (0.8)

Area = 1000/(0.8*5.670373x10^-8*30^4)

=1000/367.4401704

≈2.72m^2

So using the approximation of 1kW/m^2 of solar, you need on the order of 2.7x the area of solar for radiators

That doesn’t seem too bad, and is on par with what the ISS has. The radiators on ISS have emissivity about 0.91

Ed. With the same quality of radiator on the ISS it’s about 2.4*solar kilowatts

Also it is a reminder that an expert in something is not generally an expert in anything else, and anything they’re not expert in they’re only as good at it as the average person of the same intelligence and education

I wonder whether any LLMs are any good at hypothesis generation

And other things like remove the political opposition of the people who control it

Here’s a bucket of them 🪣

I think that only happens if you manage to acquire a monopoly and are forced to break up your company - I’m not entirely sure you have to sell parts of it publicly even then

Unless the someone happens to be the owner.

It’s still legal in Australia, at least, we never got the anti-circumvention rule the US media companies got into the US trade agreements

Or rather we did, but they have exceptions that cover just about every otherwise legal use case. I can legally decrypt media to play on my Linux machine, for example. I think the only thing we can’t legally do is circumvent controls to do copyright violation

ye classic times

The letter you’re using y to stand in for is available on computers and phones: þ (thorn). It makes the same sound as “th” in “that”. The other letter “th” replaced was ð (eth) which makes the sound “th” in “something”

I thought the Celts walked to the British Isles while they were connected to Europe. Guess I need to improve my British prehistory

D20srd.org has an automatic random dungeon creator. It’s rarely sensible but even a rogue needs exceptional luck and several levels to make the detect and disarm checks that it comes up with. The monsters it populates the dungeon with are appropriate to the level you set

It creates a player’s map and a GM version

What makes you think they’re big? I assumed the cafeteria was small

There’s already a glut of tech workers. The IT job market already sucks

I don’t imagine AI is going to make it much worse

[not op] I’m in it for the social, neither online (without open mics and video) nor solo is appealing

Me and my group started a game, we played on Monday evenings so I created a mailing list and called it [Mondays] (it was the early 2000s, email was the best option). About 3 minutes after that one person becomes unavailable for all future Mondays, so the Mondays group met for years on Tuesdays

About half the people are different and the group went from five to ten to four over the years. Right now we meet on Fridays. I have a different group that meets on Mondays

I don’t think there’s even room for constructive criticism any time close to the event. You want to encourage anyone who wants to GM, not do anything that might dissuade them

Italian doesn’t make that sound in any way except with “f”