There’s always immersion cooling if you don’t mind the smell of boiling mineral oil
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LOL, we used oil baths in grad school and a boiling mineral bath usually indicated a major user error like plugging the heating coil directly into the outlet instead of using a Variac or something equally derpy. Hot mineral oil is a smell that I will always associate with long hours in the lab.
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I think 3M has developed thinner dielectric liquids these days that can be circulated faster than mineral oil.
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Well, I’m glad to hear it. It’s good to have something you’re excited about.
I planted a bunch of chilli seedlings last week and I’m pretty excited about how they’re coming along.
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That’s cool too, I’ve been trying with those myself the last two summers. They’ve been dismal failures for me.
Doesn’t stay hot enough over night for them to ripen. Not even bell peppers.
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That’s a shame. I have a bunch of different varieties and some are not doing as well as others, but hopefully at least some of them fruit.
I have sometimes had problems with fungal diseases on Bell Peppers if it is too damp.
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It’s Seattle, the only peppers I have a serious chance of growing are going to be under a heat lamp lol
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I stand corrected. I didn’t recall the hundreds of anti Rohingya posts and thought it was merely the messenger app the military was using to coordinate it’s campaign. Thanks for the heads up and the link.
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Man, Rivets was good…
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I had all of those.
Warp War was good, my ShorDurSpaGam until Starfire came along.
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It’s like 3D movies, rich assholes will throw money at it every thirty years and it will fail over and over again
This is already the second go-around—is it time to interview Jaron Lanier again yet?
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Τόση νίκη.
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News Flash: A pile of shit by any other name would smell as nasty, baby.
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As usual with Facebook, the reality is probably more sinister.
By calling the corporation something different than the website, their corporate disinformation doesn’t turn up in the same search results as easily as the real truth about their company. If you search for “meta stock price” you won’t get search results from angry humans saying stuff like “Facebook is like a shitshow of who’s losing the race to the toilet” and “Facebook loses 10 million angry subscribers due to not deplatforming nazi groups”. Keeping bad news away from the stockholders is a wise strategy when you’re this evil, and you have no plans to do shit about it because it makes you so fucking profitable.
And by picking a generic tech word that’s not only in common use everywhere from computer languages to PDFs to keyboards, it’s deeply embedded in search engine links to all those tech resources. They’re probably hoping to camouflage it enough to make it even more “ungooglable” in the long term.
I think of “meta” as their corporation’s beard.
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Yeah well, his crazy-ass quasi-Caesar, bowl haircut is inspired by the classics… classic dictators:
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they have bought up a lot of vr companies with some very smart people in the last few years. they seem to be trying to ensure vr innovation heads solely their way… not even bothering to invent any of it themselves
currently, i think their main competition is maybe amazon. with the aws backend and their slow steady(ish) push towards gaming… i could see a big persistent world with nearly unlimited users steaming down to vr headsets in 5-10 years
and who needs actual innovation when you can have mega (meta?) companies competing to be first to market 
on the one hand, it makes sense. zuckerberg believes everyone should be one quantifiable unit that can be packaged and sold to advertisers. he himself probably has only ever presented as one person in his work, social, private, and family life
on the other hand: it makes no sense at all. if you allow one person to present themselves via multiple, completely separate channels - you’ve multipled and focused your advertising silos. two customers for the price of one
im surprised, believing what facebook does, we aren’t all already required to register a credit card or social security number to uniquely identity ourselves
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Meta let’s pretend together that we are cartoon people living in a cartoon world.
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Methamphetamine is commonly called meta (metamfetamiini) in Finland.
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