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Here's the Department of Energy's press release on the nuclear fusion breakthrough, an experiment that "surpassed the fusion threshold by delivering 2.05 megajoules (MJ) of energy to the target, resulting in 3.15 MJ of fusion energy output". energy.gov/articles/doe-nation…
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@rooster - so did they account for the laser inefficiencies? I skimmed through the article, but it seems quite light on the how.
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Take a peak at this article from Ars Technica
“Before we get to visions of fusion power plants dotting the landscape, however, there's the uncomfortable fact that producing the 2 megajoules of laser power that started the fusion reaction took about 300 megajoules of grid power, so the overall process is nowhere near the break-even point.”

arstechnica.com/science/2022/1…



Genetic Portraits: split multi-generational portraits of family members. The resemblances & differences between parents/children, siblings, and even twins are fascinating. kottke.org/22/12/genetic-portr…


#OTD in 1993, the first servicing mission by astronauts to Hubble came to a close!

This mission fixed Hubble's optics, following the discovery of an error in its primary mirror, which was ground too flat by less than the width of a single human hair!
#Hubble



New scientific instruments were also installed during this mission, which was followed by four more servicing missions using the space shuttle.

Read more about Servicing Mission 1 ⬇️ go.nasa.gov/3FLZYqL
#Hubble



A NY Times trend piece on married couples living apart. One woman says it was useful to "remember who I am by myself, remember what I like doing by myself". nytimes.com/2022/12/10/style/l…
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I am so interested in reading this but cannot justify another subscription.
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Excellent link, as always! We have separate sleeping bedrooms, it’s fantastic. I love the idea of empowering women by unshackling them from “traditional” roles.


An Artful Sky over Lofoten Islands apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221213.ht… #APOD
#APOD

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Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮
@mdiluz Single most expensive thing next to my house I've ever purchased, i am now broke
@Marc


Open source evolution sim Thrive v0.6 out with a day and night cycle gamingonlinux.com/2022/12/open… #FOSS #FreeGame #Linux #Gaming


Core Devourer is another for fans of Vampire Survivors and Soulstone Survivors gamingonlinux.com/2022/12/core… #IndieGame #Linux #Gaming


The rather great LEGO Bricktales switches to Vulkan on Linux, adds UI scaling options gamingonlinux.com/2022/12/the-… #LEGO #Gaming #Linux


Valve improves the Steam Store on Steam Deck, plus more bug fixes in Beta gamingonlinux.com/2022/12/valv… #SteamDeck #Steam #Linux #Gaming


Major Fusion Energy Breakthrough to Be Announced by Scientists. Reports are that the energy output in a recent experiment exceeded the input. Announcement is at 10am today; let's hope this is actually something. nytimes.com/2022/12/13/science…


There's a new groups system for the Fediverse called chirp.social. More info at:

➡️ chirp.social

You can join a group by following the group account. You can post to the group by @-ing the group account, which then reposts that to all its other followers

It is similar to the existing a.gup.pe system, but chirp.social allows a group manager to delete posts and ban people from the group.

It works on all Fediverse platforms including Mastodon.

#Fediverse #Mastodon



"We see Nextcloud as a powerful, flexible solution with huge potential.

Between the core product and the 100+ apps you can add to it, you can create anything from basic cloud storage to a complete environment for home or business use."

go.nextcloud.com/r/xNK



An Artful Sky over Lofoten Islands

Image Credit & Copyright: Giulio Cobianchi

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221213.ht… #APOD

#APOD
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An AI drawing app on my mobile created this image based on the keywords "artful sky over Lofoten islands":
"Wonder" app.adjust.com/mc3wc9n


This is cool: emailnator.com/


Whether or not what Grant Wahl's brother has said is true, what was anyone doing in Qatar for the World Cup?
Tributes flow for journalist Grant Wahl who died at FIFA World Cup


Check out the latest episode of Linux Saloon! 😀🐧

#podcasts #Linux
youtu.be/NVpcRSjo0NE





how have i never realized how weird the spelling of "patient" is.

on top of "t" somehow making "sh" sounds, all the vowels are making the wrong noises.

how does this end up as "pay shunt"


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new game release: That Lonesome Valley is a short retro-style gay cowboy romance game about walking, sheepherding, and kissing, inspired by Brokeback Mountain

info + free download / play in browser here: radiatoryang.itch.io/that-lone…
(cw: page is "safe" but the actual game does contain some gay sex)

instead of playing the game, you can also just read my artist statement where I spoil everything and talk about my influences and intent: blog.radiator.debacle.us/2022/… (sfw)



"oh i this should be a trivial thing to extract with xpath"

...

hmm, it gave me slightly more than i wanted, i could fiddle about trying to make the query work right... or i could just pipe it through sed...


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apperently google search blocks the curl user agent with a 403 forbidden error.

you know. the user agent, the thing everything is lying about all the time.


fedi.9til.de/@binarycat/109503…



Content warning: webdev


see, the reason why i like the id attribute is it makes it really easy to scrape data off of websites.

also url fragments are cool


fedi.9til.de/@binarycat/109503…



Content warning: unix tip


if you ever need to evaluate xpath in a script, xmllint can do it and is pre-installed on most systems

it can even do html parsing!


fedi.9til.de/@binarycat/109503…



🔴 LIVE: @nasa's Lawrence Friedl and Dalia Kirschbaum are talking at the #AGU22 NASA Hyperwall on using satellites to track dust, goats, surf, and turf. 🛰️ 🐐 🌊 youtu.be/7SGvJJ-YIhE
#NASAEarth


NASA scientists are at #AGU22 this week, discussing topics ranging from sea level change to exploring oceans on other worlds to the #Artemis I mission.

Follow @NASAExhibit for updates and discover when to tune in: go.nasa.gov/3UWJhwR
#NASA




Did you miss @NASA_Orion splash down yesterday after its 1.4-million-mile (2.3-million-km) journey around the Moon and back again?

Check out our HD gallery of #Artemis I photos: flic.kr/s/aHBqjAfKs1
#NASA



US Healthcare. "American healthcare is split into 2 piles: 1. Face holes. 2. Not face holes." a.wholelottanothing.org/2022/1…


🤔 :ms_trans_thinking:

archive.org/details/sim_new-mc…



Explore what the #Apollo17 astronauts did and where they went on the Moon with this new interactive map from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera team. Follow in the astronauts’ footsteps here: lroc.asu.edu/featured_sites/vi…
#NASAMoon
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Can't wait to get back up there! (Well, not me personally... not yet anyway 😸)


The world's timekeepers are getting rid of the leap second in favor of pure atomic time. "It will take a few thousand years for atomic time to diverge as much as an hour from Earth time." nytimes.com/2022/11/14/science…
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I don't mind this change, as a practical solution to a real problem, but it's disheartening that we're making timekeeping less accurate in order to conform to a bad, oversimplified software abstraction from the 1970s.


MAR1D, a 1-dimensional version of Super Mario Bros., aka you see the in-game action as Mario would see it, flattened into a single dimension. Sort of a video game version of Edwin Abbott's Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. mar1d.com/


When did I start playing Touhou #shorts #CultOfTheLamb #Gaming youtube.com/shorts/2iULQheL-EQ


Se presentó el Informe “Violencia digital en #México” del Frente Nacional para la Sororidad y Defensoras Digitales
Entre mayo de 2019 y diciembre de 2021 se registraron 1.705 casos de agresiones en línea ➡️ 95 de cada 100 víctimas son mujeres👇

desinformemonos.org/violencia-…



Earth is experiencing a weak but prolonged La Niña – cooler sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific. 🌊

This is the third consecutive northern hemisphere winter with a La Niña, making it a rare “triple-dip” event. go.nasa.gov/3iW1PjR
#NASAEarth

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I used that graph when it was first published Way too esoteric Unfortunately no one “gets it” but a few We need something pedestrian to move these masses


Two cosmonauts and two astronauts kick off the workweek getting ready for a pair of spacewalks as science continues aboard the station. blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/20…
#ISS
#iss

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