I really like their architecture diagram, it uses colors very well to contrast the different technologies. Does anyone know what they used to make it?

Something like a solar powered space elevator that just blows atmosphere into the sun

That would require a lot of energy to ensure the gasses escape Venus' gravitational pull, which would in turn effectively be a rocket. So then we'd be adjusting to ensure we don't mess with Venus' orbit too much.

Venus outweighs its atmosphere by about 10,000 times. This is actually less than I thought -- for comparison Earth outweighs its atmosphere by over 1,000,000 times, which is still far less than I would have guessed.

Venus's escape velocity is less than 1/3rd of its orbital velocity. According to google, Venus's orbit, despite being very circular, causes its velocity to vary by a KM/s from aphelion to perihelion.

So I believe you could send all of Venus's atmosphere off permanently into space at the cost of about 1/30,000th of Venus's orbital velocity, meaning you could very slightly circularize its orbit further.

Spinning it up would be handy.

We can avoid orbital drift through the magic of building two of them.

Or they would be forced to figure out technology that we would consider science-fiction, assuming it's possible. To consider our tech as the pinnacle is the wrong approach, I think.

Perhaps we've had it too easy here - moderate climate, oil as an easy fuel source, and gravity that isn't too oppressive. I wonder what technology would arise in a more difficult environment, such as this superearth.

Either their sales team absolutely screwed this up, or they just don't want to bother with the VMware platform anymore. Maybe both?

Broadcom aspires to the Oracle model, they said as much when they bought VMware.

I know they're working on ways to recycle the urine into water. Can you add a display of water levels and somehow show when it transfers between the two?

There is a metric or code already that shows when the recycling happens - if I recall correctly it’s at least a couple of times per day, but I’ll check my notes tomorrow…

If this is the case then the paper is easily dismissed, correct? How is it being published if the flaws are immediate, obvious, and completely destructive to the idea being presented? I'm legitimately asking - I've published papers and reviewed them, and if I thought something was so thoroughly wrong, I certainly wouldn't give it the ok.

Well his idea was that the laws of physics actually change depending on the distance from the galactic center. Far enough out, information can be transferred faster than the speed of light. Too close and life stops working. Which honestly seems much more fun than gravity slowing things down a bit.

I did that for my previous job and I loved it. Had plenty of time to get over my nerves and then build something cool. And then brag about my choices in writing.

How do you determine the number of shards to use?

I use a multiple of `std::thread::available_paralellism()`. Tbh I borrowed the strategy from dashmap, but I tested others and this seemed to work quite well. Considering making that configurable in the future so that it can be specialized for different use-cases or used in single-threaded but cooperatively scheduled contexts.

(std::thread::available_parallelism().map_or(1, usize::from) * 4).next_power_of_two()

There's a difference between the battery in a gas car and the lithium batteries in EVs. Lead-acid batteries are not inherently flammable, and they won't burn underwater. Lithium-ion, on the other hand, reacts with water to produce hydrogen gas and can undergo a thermal runaway. They also produce oxygen during the combustion process so they will burn underwater.

> There's a difference between the battery in a gas car and the lithium batteries in EVs

To be clear, EVs often have both batteries, actually; the lithium-ion one to power the transmission, and the good ol' lead-acid one to power the electronics, just like in a gas car.

https://motorandwheels.com/do-electric-cars-have-one-or-mult...

But I suppose you're saying EVs burn more easily. That's fine. Most of these articles I've run across are still rather dishonest, though.