TheTechnician27

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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

Finally: the spherical cow.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 35 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Of some note is that the market was only allowed to tumble for two of those five days following the announcement of the tariffs. That almost assuredly makes a difference here.

 
[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This exactly. You need a reliable source of fuel for the baseline, which is where nuclear energy can supplant fossil fuels instead of or in addition to relying on batteries.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Huh? Modern nuclear power plants automatically stop the reaction. In addition to other safety features monitoring things like temperature, radiation, etc. for automatic shutoff, the rods are held in place via electromagnetism. In the event of a power loss, the reaction will stop because the rods fall out of place. (This may just be one type; other modern reactors have ways of automatically stopping the reaction in the event of a power loss.)

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 47 points 2 days ago (1 children)

ODT supremacy.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I hope this pressure leads to just getting rid of algorithms altogether.

And other things spoken by someone who never learned what an algorithm is.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (11 children)

Scratch a neoliberal...

In all seriousness, capitalism is exactly why we're here right now. (That said, technocrit is an idiot with some of the dumbest takes on this site. They blanket basically everything as fascist/fascism-adjacent, and I'm not going to say The Economist promoted this, because they didn't.)

 
[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Is your source that you made it the fuck up? The medieval book compares it to lasagne, but there's no evidence the authors went to Italy for this. If you're referring to the so-called first modern recipe, Elizabeth Raffald never went to Italy.

You're calling it sans evidence the result of a Grand Tour, which would've been centuries before its time to be recorded in the late 1300s.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

Sort of, but not really. Peat accounted for 2.9% of its electricity generation in 2021 (page 14).

 
 
 
 

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Termination of intractable hiccups with digital rectal massage. By M. Odeh, MD; H. Bassan; and A. Oliven. Published February 1990 in the Journal of Internal Medicine.

Abstract. A 60-year-old man with acute pancreatitis developed persistent hiccups after insertion of a nasogastric tube. Removal of the latter did not terminate the hiccups which had also been treated with different drugs, and several manoeuvres were attempted, but with no success. Digital rectal massage was then performed resulting in abrupt cessation of the hiccups. Recurrence of the hiccups occurred several hours later, and again, they were terminated immediately with digital rectal massage. No other recurrences were observed. This is the second reported case associating cessation of intractable hiccups with digital rectal massage. We suggest that this manoeuvre should be considered in cases of intractable hiccups before proceeding with pharmacological agents.

 
 
 
 
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