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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Can we make flexible, ductile, high-temperature super conductors now? Or have we settled for packing a flexible tube full of powder, Pixy Stix style?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Ha, yeah, you're right. Looks to be a stock image of a tokomak render. The original report by Interesting Engineering has a photo of the actual device:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

As for the mods accessing the dashboard to configure the bot, I don’t know yet. Any suggestions?

Suggestions for how the mods could securely access and configure the dashboard?

I feel like a "login" could be done similar to how @[email protected] configured the login for [email protected]. The automod bot could DM the mod account and provide an access code.

The dashboard itself could be as simple as an editable text file for each community, containing if-then and regex rules, or you could go for a fancier GUI if you are feeling ambitious.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, is it gone now? Looks like OP deleted it for some reason, not the mods. If you're curious, they said "Oh-REG-a-no".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Did you try it? I've tried a number of milkless milk substitutes and none of them hit the spot for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

This is the correct answer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

No no, scientists are way too mature for that. I'm sure the terrain just happened to be that shape :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

"~~Sharks~~ rovers with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads!"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

The Wisconsin HTS Axisymmetric Mirror research team was able to create and hold a plasma using a magnetic field strength of 17 Tesla through high-temperature superconductor magnets, as Interesting Engineering reported.

The magnet systems were delivered to the University of Wisconsin's Physical Sciences Laboratory in Stoughton, Wisconsin, this year by Commonwealth Fusion Systems. The project operates as a public-private partnership with Realta Fusion, Inc., a UW-Madison spin-off company that contributes funding, according to the lab.

"It's setting a world record in magnetic field strength for magnetically confined plasmas and is equipped with intense heating systems while still being a hands-on experiment for both graduate and undergraduate students," Realta Fusion co-founder and UW-Madison scientist Jay Anderson said, per Interesting Engineering.

The design is based on an old fusion device called the magnetic mirror, which was a leading approach in the field until the 1980s, as the news outlet explained. This time, it's been upgraded with the powerful HTS magnets, which trap energetic plasma in a "magnetic bottle" through advances in superconductor technology.

Glad to see fusion power slowly inching towards viability. Modern superconductors seem like they have a potential to accelerate progress in this field.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 hours ago

Taxing the rich! What a novel idea :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Scandinavia generally has their sh*t together.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago

This community is perfect for you then.

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submitted 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Source

  • Polaris Dawn: C207-3 (Resilience)
  • Crew-9: C212-4 (Freedom)
 

New video on Brady Haran's chemistry channel, but I thought it would be better suited for the physics community.

 
 

I first became aware of this about 4 months ago.

GitHub issue is 3069:

It would be awesome if we could follow a post to be alerted of new comments added.

As we are at it, why stop with posts? I'd suggest also having such alerts with comment sub-trees would be nice.

I was in a thread in [email protected] earlier today, and it seems like there is still interest in this feature.

Last I heard, it seemed like progress on this feature is dependent on fixing an SQL Paging and filtering issue.

Any progress on this? Anything we can do to expedite the development of this feature?

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submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Starlink Group 10-5 launch out of SLC-40 in Florida currently scheduled for 2024-08-20 13:20 UTC, or 2024-08-20 09:20 local time (EDT). Booster 1085-1 (new booster!) to land on A Shortfall of Gravitas.

Webcasts:

 

Hi there, I'm a mod of [email protected], and am thinking of moving the community off-world, to strengthen the fediverse as a whole.

[email protected] seems like a good candidate, but it is currently moderated solely by ZippyBot. Would it be possible to request this community?

Hope it's okay to post this here. Please let me know if there is a more appropriate place to post this.

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