Received an odd access token error or access id error, when trying to reply to someone.
Decided to change access token, added 2-step verification (should have done this a while ago), changed access token again, changed password, changed access token once more.
As tech advances, the law mutates. In some cases (Riley, Carpenter) we get more protections. In other cases, we get fewer protections. This case dates back to 2022. Christopher Poller was a suspect…
I’m not sure what bit of legislative fuckery is going on to prompt this sure to be epic response, but if you find yourself in or near Montpelier, VT tomorrow.. hey it’s a party 🙂
On a lighter #electronics note, this is the bestest solder sucker that I have ever used and I love it dearly. About the only thing I'd change I'd make would be to make the body longer (not necessarily the piston volume) to make it a bit better-fitting for my clumsy hands.
The main upside of this one is that it is all-metal, so the button lock doesn't wear out in like 50 uses, unlike the standard variety of these.
THIS JUST IN: Federal Court Judge William H. Alsup has just ordered the reinstatement of terminated employees at at the Departments of Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Defense, Energy, Interior and Treasury. WWP is proud to stand with workers. MORE TO COME!
So yesterday we ( @thatfrisiangirlish and I ) took a glorious nap and I awoke to my wife looking at me like she liked me and enjoyed my presence. Concerned I hid my face under the blankets, she just smiled more at her "Dork". Send HLEP, I think my wife likes me! What am I gonna do, it's been 6 years and she just loves me more and more!
Oopf, that's a really worrying sign. I tell you, it'll get worse by the month, and one day, when you expect it the least, you'll be celebrating 25th anniversary. That's a very, very dangerous path you are walking there...
@thatfrisiangirlish@blahaj.zonegasp it'll be six years tomorrow. It felt like nothing. Well it felt like a lot of love, affection, and cuddles. Your really think it'll be 25 years?!
Jokes aside I was watching The Bear last night. Really quite good if you are interested in how Gastro actually is. But the Exec chef said to his new girlfriend that he was nervous.
"Why, because you're waiting for the other shoe to drop"
nods "You want to know a secret, nobody is counting any shoes"
Tally is like that. I keep expecting the other shoe to drop because I was raised and grew up in and was divorced from transactinal affection. She just gives it free of charge.
Prelinger Archives is in the final year of a three-year grant for mass-digitization of its film collection funded by Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web. Since the start of the […]\n
It’s easy to feel like you can’t do anything about any of this. Whenever I feel that way, I remind myself that by doing nothing I'm still boycotting Tesla.
PS God, when you see him again for coffee please extend my thanks to Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the namesake of my website, for his fierce resistance against the Nazi regime. He gave us all an example of how we should live.
At least I've got an iced coffee with almond milk and butter pecan flavoring. I'm also listening to a friend's podcast, which is in the realm of #DnD storytelling. It makes everything better.
@VulpineDruid Thank you for the sweet message! You're the best, I swear. Dunks (as we New Englanders call it) is always my go-to on infusion days. Kinda gives me the will to get through my treatments. It's like a treat to get me up in the morning. LOL.
(Also sorry for making you crave iced coffee earlier. Oopsies.)
My impact driver has given up the ghost, so I need a new one. Tools seem to be one of the few areas that is dominated by American brands: Black and Decker, DeWalt and Stanley, plus Milwaukee (sort of).
Things being as they are I'm looking at Bosch, Makita and Ryobi.
Probably bought one by now, but if not, am extremely happy with my Skil 20V one. Current generation only, brushless, with the best LED ring light ever.
@yngmar I haven't bought anything yet, I'll probably wait for the Easter sales just to see if any bargains pop up. Skil looks interesting but it's a US-based company (albeit Chinese-owned), which I'm trying to avoid. Unfortunately Bosch just has those crappy lights on the battery holder...
@yngmar It's a minefield, and you have to decide what your ethical tolerance is - does the head office actually matter vs the parent company? At least Bosch is Bosch, German company and German owned, so there's not much to go wrong with there.
Not had much luck with Bosch powertools. The Pro range is overpriced, the regular range not up to par, probably intentionally, to differentiate the Pro range. Plus the company image isn't pristine either: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosch_(c…
Might as well buy the store brand in that case.
Metabo is still good and has always been, but may be hard to find in places. Don't think I've ever seen one of their battery tools in the wild. The cabled ones are solid.
T-Mobile users woke up this morning to an unwanted surprise: a text from the carrier with news about a $5-per-month rate hike. pcmag.com/news/t-mobile-sorry-…
Price increases start rolling out on April 2. 'We are updating the prices on some of our older phone plans in response to rising costs,' T-Mobile says.
OpenAI urges Trump: Either settle AI copyright debate or lose AI race to China National security hinges on unfettered access to AI training data, OpenAI says. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
Today is a shitty day. My wheelchair accessible van - which has been out of commission since October due to a leaking fuel tank (which is special equipment due to the floor being lowered) - likely will never be fixed. The companies that used to repair these special tanks have either gone out of business or have been bought out and don’t do that kind of work now.
Living in rural NH severely limits my options, but there’s still a couple things we can try. Sucks, though. #disability
Today's Low Quality Ad is for Kiehl's Avocado Eye Treatment. I am a lotiontarian, meaning I only consume nutrients through lotions and creams. My skin looks better than ever. The only downside is that I am always hungry and doctors say this will certainly kill me. amazon.com/dp/B008KMZ8FC?ref=t…
I've recently started to infuse my own lotions. I have become very popular with the neighborhood dogs since I started mixing lotion with peanut butter.
As a New York City subway rider, I am constantly exposed to public health posters. More often than not these feature a photo of a wholesome-looking teen whose sober expression is meant to convey hindsight regret at having taken up drugs, dropped out …
Nous ne marchons que quelques secondes dans un air épais d’humidité avant qu’apparaisse un premier bananier avec une belle grappe de bananes pas encore tout à fait mûres, puis un autre et ensuite plusieurs arbres remplis d’agrumes ou en fleurs, des p…
@donaldball Indeed. I would even argue that if they want to argue that it •doesn’t• fail the “impact on potential market” test, that’s an admission that their entire product pitch is BS. Either AI can replace the humans who do this work or it can’t; you can’t have that cake and eat it too.
We have a monthly on-call cadence now. When I was hired to this squad - and the last time I negotiated my compensation with the company - there were twice as many of us, so it was more like a "every-nine-weeks" cadence.
Anyway, because it's monthly, that means it's ALWAYS my turn when someone is planning to do some dumb bullshit to the RDS nodes.
i live near an entire piano store based on the economy of "people want a piano taken away". the main problem with this is that they then expect to be able to re-sell the pianos...
@brennen I think the tradition of having a piano in a family home is very over now, other than for the wealthy or wealthy-posing, who aren't going to want any of the brown-wood upright things that everyone is giving away.
I wonder what will happen to all these pianos now that people don't want pianos.
yeah, it makes me sad. my family has two pianos - one stashed in a garage - that i am going to have absolutely no idea what to do with when the time comes. i would love to maintain one in my house, but there's nowhere for it to physically go even if it _weren't_ a massive, murderously heavy church antique.
@brennen My mom has been griping on and off for a few years now about how "kids these days" (30-40 year olds) don't want the beautiful antiques collected by their grandparents. It might be partially a generational attitude, but mostly she's overlooking the fact that these people can't afford homes and have no place to keep these things.
She's very bothered that the adult children of her friends don't want any of the salt pigs or fine china their grandparents collected
there is so much stuff like this - and the thing is, i would _love_ to keep and use some beautiful things that have trickled down from past generations, and i make good money and actually bought a house, and i _still_ don't know how it would be physically possible for me unless i were to uproot my life and move many hundreds of miles and take over my parents' home in the middle of nowhere. for most people... yeah.
@hobbsc Don't wait, our inventory is going fast! Come on down to Pianos R Free and get your piano today. Zero down. Zero percent financing. Zero due ever!
Arbeiten "gelernt" hab ich bei der Bundeswehr. Lauter Micromanager und jede Menge ABM. Was ich da fürs Leben gelernt hab: fleißig aussehen während man chillt. Und: Also da draußen in der Freien Wirtschaft geht das so nicht!!einself! (Spoiler: Doch. Genau so!)
Dann hatte ich einen Job bei einem Hersteller von Healthcaregeräten. Auch lauter Micromanager, und Schichtdienst. Was ich da fürs Leben gelernt hab: Dokumentation is geil.
Dort hat mich mein jetziger Arbeitgeber weggeschnappt. Ich hab in der Zwischenzeit die Arbeitsstelle gewechselt, aber die Leute sind zu großen Teilen die gleichen geblieben. Mein erster Chef hier hat mir ne linke und rechte Grenze geben, und dann eine laaaaaaaaange Leine. Und mein neuer Chef hat die Leine bloß verlängert.
So. Und nu sitz ich hier, mach meine Arbeit, chille zwischendurch, teile mir meine Zeit komplett frei ein, und genieße einen guten Ruf als fleißiges Bienchen - obwohl meine Micromanager bei Übergabe nur zu sagen hatten, dass ich schwierig und ei
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Arbeiten "gelernt" hab ich bei der Bundeswehr. Lauter Micromanager und jede Menge ABM. Was ich da fürs Leben gelernt hab: fleißig aussehen während man chillt. Und: Also da draußen in der Freien Wirtschaft geht das so nicht!!einself! (Spoiler: Doch. Genau so!)
Dann hatte ich einen Job bei einem Hersteller von Healthcaregeräten. Auch lauter Micromanager, und Schichtdienst. Was ich da fürs Leben gelernt hab: Dokumentation is geil.
Dort hat mich mein jetziger Arbeitgeber weggeschnappt. Ich hab in der Zwischenzeit die Arbeitsstelle gewechselt, aber die Leute sind zu großen Teilen die gleichen geblieben. Mein erster Chef hier hat mir ne linke und rechte Grenze geben, und dann eine laaaaaaaaange Leine. Und mein neuer Chef hat die Leine bloß verlängert.
So. Und nu sitz ich hier, mach meine Arbeit, chille zwischendurch, teile mir meine Zeit komplett frei ein, und genieße einen guten Ruf als fleißiges Bienchen - obwohl meine Micromanager bei Übergabe nur zu sagen hatten, dass ich schwierig und ein Querschläger sei.
"The first two lead units of a 55 MW variant of the Bharat small modular reactor will be built at a Department of Atomic Energy site by 2033, Minister of State Jitendra Singh has told parliamentarians.
Singh provided information on the status of the Department of Atomic Energy's (DAE) Bharat small modular reactor (SMR) offering in a written answer to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian parliament, providing information on the 200 MW version - the BSMR-200 - and a 55 MW version.
The BSMR-200 pressurised heavy water reactor (PHWR) will use slightly enriched uranium fuel, Singh said, adding that the "majority of equipment are within the capability of Indian industries" - India has built 220 MWe PHWRs since the 1980s, and is now constructing a fleet of indigenously designed 700 MWe PHWRs.
The reactor is being designed and developed by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre and Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) to provide "captive" power generation for energy intensive industries such as steel, aluminium and cement; for repurposing retiring thermal po
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"The first two lead units of a 55 MW variant of the Bharat small modular reactor will be built at a Department of Atomic Energy site by 2033, Minister of State Jitendra Singh has told parliamentarians.
Singh provided information on the status of the Department of Atomic Energy's (DAE) Bharat small modular reactor (SMR) offering in a written answer to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian parliament, providing information on the 200 MW version - the BSMR-200 - and a 55 MW version.
The BSMR-200 pressurised heavy water reactor (PHWR) will use slightly enriched uranium fuel, Singh said, adding that the "majority of equipment are within the capability of Indian industries" - India has built 220 MWe PHWRs since the 1980s, and is now constructing a fleet of indigenously designed 700 MWe PHWRs.
The reactor is being designed and developed by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre and Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) to provide "captive" power generation for energy intensive industries such as steel, aluminium and cement; for repurposing retiring thermal power plants; and to provide electricity to remote locations without grid connectivity, Singh said.
"The lead unit will be located at a DAE site. The subsequent units are to be located at the sites of the end-user industry in case of captive power plants and at brownfields sites of retiring thermal power plants," he said.
"Manufacturing and delivery of equipment and components will be carried out through various indigenous nuclear vendors developed by DAE. Development of critical items such as low alloy steel forgings required for manufacturing the reactor pressure vessel and reactivity control drive mechanisms have been realised by the domestic private vendors. Development works for other critical items such as reactor coolant pumps have been initiated with the private vendors. All major development works will be completed in the pre-project phase. The concept design of BSMR has been completed and is in approval stage. Estimated time for construction of BSMR is 60 to 72 months after receipt of project sanction."
The BSMR will have passive safety features as well as "several engineered safety systems to ensure nuclear safety during accidents", Singh said. Used fuel will be handled and stored in-situ, in line with India's broad philosophy to recover "useful radioisotopes" by reprocessing, with remaining waste vitrified and stored in engineered facilities in line with internationally accepted practices. "However, in the case of SMRs the reprocessing technology is to be re-engineered based on the fuel configuration," he said.
The 2025 budget includes an allocation of INR20,000 crore (around USD2.5 billion) for the design and deployment of SMRs, Singh noted (1 crore is 10 million).
Deployment plans
A 55 MWe SMR - targeted at deployment in remote locations - is also being developed, Singh said, with the lead twin units to be "set up in a DAE site by 2033".
"Depending on the projected demand, BSMR-200 also can be deployed for such purposes. Both these plants are designed to operate in isolated mode not connected to the grid," he said.
India's Minister of Finance Nirmala Sitharaman announced in the 2024 budget the government's intention to research and develop the Bharat Small Modular Reactor. In this year's budget - announced in February - she promised federal funds to develop at least five Indian-designed SMRs to be operational by 2033, as well as amendments to Indian legislation to encourage private sector participation, as part of plans to develop at least 100 GW of nuclear energy by 2047.
Earlier this year, NPCIL issued a Request for Proposals from 'visionary Indian industries' to finance and build a proposed fleet of 220 MW Bharat Small Reactors. Tata Power and the Naveen Jindal Group have already expressed interest in setting up small modular reactors, and in February, Minister for Railways Ashwini Vaishnaw told the Rajya Sabha - the upper house of the Indian parliament - that nuclear power is under consideration to meet the growing power needs of the country's rail sector."
The first two lead units of a 55 MW variant of the Bharat small modular reactor will be built at a Department of Atomic Energy site by 2033, Minister of State Jitendra Singh has told parliamentarians.
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Can't be repeated enough: "Elon Musk is not engaged in an “efficiency drive”. He is not trying to save money. He is trying to cripple the state and destroy the public sector, since oligarchs of his ilk think these are by nature a waste of money and that their functions should be privatized. Media should report it as such." ft.com/content/6d938875-d9c8-4… #Musk #DOGE #Trump #government #politics #USA
I think you give Elon too much credit. His motives aren't some broader organized movement by oligarchs to eliminate and privatize. His motives are self serving. He is seeking simply to eliminate the arms of the US government that were restraining his business pursuits or investigating him. It's individual and selfish. The rest of the oligarchs are happy to let him go and profit in his wake.
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