Things like platinum notwithstanding, It will almost always be more expensive to go get things in space than on earth.

Hell, even on earth it is often too expensive to get metals like iron if there isn’t rail or a port nearby. Imagine having to fly iron ingots around and the associated aviation fuel cost. Whatever crazy fuel bill you’re imagining, multiply by a hundred or more if you’re imagining getting it from space.

No, all of those metals in space are best used to build some future version of our civilization _in situ. _

Very true. However, it doesn’t add new material to the equation. If we need it to build electrical infrastructure, recycling won’t suffice.

Recycling aluminum is actually literally the best thing you can recycle in terms of environmental impact and cost efficiency. There are other things we recycle, but nothing pays off nearly as well.

That alternative material is aluminum. It’s like a top four abundance material in the crust. It’s just super fucking hard to refine from minerals that don’t like to give it up without oodles of energy. Like, turn minerals into plasma levels of energy. So the irony is, to grow our energy economy past the need for copper, we will first need to grow our energy economy.

Should fusion ever actually meet its promise, then this is one of the likely things we could do with this level of energy.

If we ever become a spacefaring civilization, it’ll almost certainly be necessary during the colonization of other planets/moons/asteroids, since the geological processes that concentrate copper on the earth are not present in those places. Whereas aluminum is plentiful any place rocky.

Any significant communities impacted? Scrolling through my subscriptions list and I don’t have any in my list.

Maximum compression reached

There’s quite a few nice apps for Lemmy. I’m using Connect for Lemmy on android and it’s wonderful.

Probably mostly AI written.

Long article for one sentence of trivia and no info on the algo itself. The death of the internet is upon us.

Ticketmaster is cancer

Did they even watch it?

The free speech absolutists are going to cause something far far worse than what is portrayed. But maybe that is the goal.

You’re applying logic when logic doesn’t apply. Why would he tarriff Canada?

MATLAB is basically a UI wrapper around Fortran’s BLAS and LAPACK – change my mind. ;)

Insist they index from 1. Like God and Fortran intended it. ;)

I’ll believe it when I see code written for it solving a real problem

Actually kind of an amazing read. I suspect it shall live another life on 3-axis router tables and such for a while. The mechanic is single stroke lettering remain the same

What algorithm should I use – oh shit, I just deflated

That is a critical mass thing. Reddit 15 years ago didn’t have a thriving pokemon community either. Things grow naturally over time. I think Lemmy is in a good place :)

But, for example, on Reddit there is r/hockey and a sub for each team. On Lemmy those team subs are graveyards, but if you post on c/hockey you might get enough traction to have a conversation. Find the larger community and help grow that first before fracturing to smaller ones.

So, I’m going to offer a dissenting opinion. Please hear me out before piling on.

The anonymous internet is going to kill the internet. Without verification and attachment back to a real human, eventually the internet will just be flooded with bots, misinformation, and unverifiable information. The dead internet theory.

So, yes, we all worry about “Chinese style social credit scores” or corporate ownership of ID or whatever other dystopian bullshit… But what if you just want to have a site where people can talk to one another and know that they’re people that actually have to take responsibility for what they say.

Anyway, I suspect that this will start in isolation. Like when the internet was young and communities were forming with knots of small people… Forums with full verification requirements or similar. Then they will grow once their quality exceeds everything else.

Discuss!

It’s also a really fun example of operator overloading. __div__ is overloaded to allow this syntax.

>>> p = PurePath('/etc')    
>>> p    
PurePosixPath('/etc')    
>>> p / 'init.d' / 'apache2'    
PurePosixPath('/etc/init.d/apache2')    

Articles like this always tend to overlook the fact that Bell Labs wasn’t unique in its time. And other companies had very similar labs running. A famous example is Xerox Labs which invented the computer mouse and graphical windowing, among other things.

Google had this vibe too, prior to going public.