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Head of Content at Commonwealth Fusion Systems, a startup developing zero-carbon power plants to help fight climate change. Former science and technology journalist at CNET.

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nyquildotorg, to random
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Don't do this, geez. Talking to you, @Vivaldi

stshank,
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@nyquildotorg @Vivaldi Boo! This kind of thing prompts me to disable notifications for software.

stshank, to Birds
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An osprey halfway through consuming a pretty large fish, Clear Lake State Park, California.

stshank,
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@alexf24 Well, I mean, come on, it makes the fish lighter to transport — seems the practical decision.

stshank, to random
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I used to joke about my parents having a solar and wind powered dryer, because they used a clothesline. But now when I try that joke, people look at me blankly, thinking they have some renewables option checked on the utility bill. Bummer for my joke, but it died for a worthy cause.

stshank, to ai
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Using AI to oversee dynamic fusion machines is a hot area of research. It doesn't mean generative AI like ChatGPT. It's old-school AI, where you train a machine to recognize patterns in complex real-world data then let it make decisions.

https://www.pppl.gov/news/2024/using-artificial-intelligence-speed-and-improve-most-computationally-intensive-aspects

hsivonen, to random
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iPad Pro reviewers collectively don’t appear to care enough about viewing the photos they’ve taken on their iPhones in HDR on iPad Pro. None of the reviews I’ve checked so far mention the use case.

For me, viewing the photos I’ve taken in HDR is the only thing that is enabled by the new iPad Pro and is not enabled by my current (not even M series CPU) iPad Pro that I particularly would like to be able to do.

Other things I wish my iPad Pro was allowed to do the new one doesn’t do, either.

stshank,
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@hsivonen Cascading HDR photo support through the software and hardware ecosystem is a pain. I'd think Apple would be keen on showing off this potential of its vertical integration but oh well. Still no HDR photo support in Safari, either.

design_law, to random
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Good morning to everyone except the dude who was shooting me (and my mask) nasty looks in the airport security line

stshank,
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@design_law I wear a mask for airplane partly because I want it to look ordinary.

stshank, to science
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Wicked smart scientists calculate how long volcanoes on Jupiter moon Io have been active. Measure relative abundance of 2 sulphur isotopes belched into the atmosphere then reprocessed as crust — bias toward heavy sulphur. Compare ratio to early solar system meteorites. https://www.science.org/content/podcast/very-volcanic-moon-and-better-protections-human-study-subjects

stshank,
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@karlauerbach Neat! Also check out radioactive decay used for measuring the age of the Earth (lead and uranium) and of lava flows (argon and potassium).

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/03/3/l_033_01.html
https://www.whoi.edu/know-your-ocean/ocean-topics/how-the-ocean-works/seafloor-below/volcanoes/how-old-is-that-volcano/

stshank, to random
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It's hard to expose a photo to see both the overall scene and details on the surface of the sun like these monster sunspots. Lovely photo. https://social.beachcom.org/@nasa/112433839153217936

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