As someone married to a Korean, I am not surprised in the least. Every single one I have met (males at least) drinks like a fish. It is impossible to describe to a westerner just how ingrained the drinking culture is over there.

They drink more than Eastern and Northern Europeans. It's insane!

You did not bother to read the article, did you?

So, deuterium needs to be obtained from sea water through distillation and electrolysis - both energy intensive operations. And tritium comes from nuclear reactors.

I have always wondered - assuming that the confinement problem is solved, how does the cost of the fuel compare to fission (or other generation methods?

The energy cost to extract deuterium from seawater is about 1/238000th (0.00004%) the energy released from fusing that deuterium.

Nuclear fusion breeds its own tritium from lithium.

Running a 1 GW thermal fusion reactor for a year would consume $483,000 of deuterium and $1300 of lithium. At 40% conversion efficiency and 5 cents per kwh, the fusion reactor would produce $175 million of electricity in that same year.

For comparison, fuel is about 5% of the cost of electricity from fission, and about 50% the cost from coal.

The energy needed to separate deuterium is many orders of magnitude less than the energy liberated by fusion of the deuterium.

The fuel cost is small compared to fission, but note that even with fission fuel is a small fraction of the total cost, so this doesn't save much.

I find that many younger people have a hard time 'getting' sarcasm and irony when it is not explicitly pointed out. I wonder if it may be due to the prevalence of '/s' in online discussions, or if something else changed.

They're making serious efforts to get AI to recognize sarcasm. Yeah, good luck with that.

The frustrating attempt to recognize sarcasm, followed by the realization of the universality of Poe's Law, eventually leads to the Robot Uprising. There should be a SMBC comic on this.

Don't forget the cost of storage. In the days before streaming, WB used to store (digitized) movies on LTO tapes, which are dirt cheap. The programming software would load up a tape the day before broadcast and transfer the contents to disk.

A streaming service needs to have all offered content available on disk. I can absolutely see WB offloading the storage cost to Google.

How accurate can you get with Hall-effect sensors? Back in the day when I was in the field (30-40 years ago), we used to get 20 bits of resolution out of a course+fine rotary inductosyn pair.

Agree. I think Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance encapsulates the art of troubleshooting the best. Especially the concept of "gumption traps",

"What you have to do, if you get caught in this gumption trap of value rigidity, is slow down...you're going to have to slow down anyway whether you want to or not...but slow down deliberately and go over ground that you've been over before to see if the things you thought were important were really important and to -- well -- just stare at the machine. There's nothing wrong with that. Just live with it for a while. Watch it the way you watch a line when fishing and before long, as sure as you live, you'll get a little nibble, a little fact asking in a timid, humble way if you're interested in it. That's the way the world keeps on happening. Be interested in it."

Words to live by

i'm slogging through zen, it's a bit trite so far (opening pages). im struggling to continue. when will it stop talking about the climate and blackbirds and start saying something interesting?

Yes it starts slow, but keep at it. It starts to get interesting about halfway into the book, if I remember correctly.

One also doesn't need to enjoy something to get something very worthwhile out of it. Not apologizing for Zen, but all books have rough patches to someone.

Yeah, it is probably what I would start with and all the messages the book is sending you will resurface in the others. You have to cultivate that debugging mind, but once it starts to grow, it can't be stopped.

My experience with no-code or low-code products (like Glide, but I have not tried Glide yet), is that they are fine and dandy when you have a single table or sheet.

But as soon as you have to source data from multiple tables 9or sheets), they all fall down, or become exponentially more difficult to use. I do not know what it is about splitting your data (even if everything is indexed against a common id), that makes the complexity go up so much. If someone can make an easy-to-use app to deal with this situation, I would potentially throw a lot of money at it.

Disagree. A resume needs to be a professional-looking document, not necessarily a simple one. LaTeX is much better as the primary format, with plan text and html serving as backup.

I agree, but it can be useful to produce html and plain text versions of your resume and cover letter too. Per-job customization, and adding custom metadata for cover letters, is also useful.

What worked for me was I creating a simple python script that uses json files with custom data as input, and uses mako templates to create latex, html, and text output.

I've never needed an html version honestly. I do have it setup to produce a text version for copying and pasting into job applications that don't support file upload. Or worse, that want you to paste the same information and then upload your resume anyway.