Actually versions of MS-DOS were released for the MSX platform, which had a 8-bit Zilog Z80 CPU.

The number of bits mentioned when referring to processors usually refer to the size of the internal registers. You’ll find that it doesn’t actually matter how big the internal registers are. This just matters for the number of bits possible to process at the same time. So in order to process more bits, it just takes more steps, but it isn’t impossible.

The electron shells are just a model, that’s not how it really works. Look at this image for a more realistic model of how an atom works:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_orbital#/media/File:Hydrogen_Density_Plots.png

This picture is so French I can smell the baguettes and hear the accordion when looking at it.

Eli5: Call company that installs solar panels. Give them a bunch of money (thousands to tens of thousands depending). Wait 20 years to get that money back on the lower energy bill. Replace the whole system because it is obsolete. Rince repeat.

For real totally disconnecting from the power grid is a bad idea. That means you need a lot more equipment and battery storage. This increases the investment significantly, without much upside. It also prevents you from selling the power you generate but don’t need back to the power company (but depending on where you live this might not be a thing due to overproduction).

Also depending on you latitude and local climate it may be nearly impossible to go fully off grid without a huge system. Where I live we have about 6 weeks of very little to no sun (low sun combined with a lot of clouds and snow). That means all the power you need during that time needs to be collected previously and stored. This during a time it’s cold af so the power usage is high (using heat pumps for warming the house, which is very efficient). This means a lot of batteries and a lot of solar panels, just to get through these 6 weeks. It could easily triple the costs or more, even if you have the room for it to begin with.

I would analyse the power usage and see where you can save money on. 300 per month seems very high. Where I live energy is much more expensive than in the US and my bill is closer to 100 per month.

Just call a company, have some panels installed for say 2500-5000 bucks depending on how much room you have on the roof and if you need upgrades to your power system. This will save you at least 50 per month on the bill. But be aware the ROI will be on the order of 10-15 years at least and more if you are unlucky. Saving energy is free and means money in your pocket right away.

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I dislike her for very specific reasons

Ah you see, his mistake was he made it fungible, he should have made it non fungible. That way he would have been protected!

When they got swept away by the water with their bikes, the movie switches to a montage of them getting the bikes transported to their garage. There they tear down the bikes, replace damage parts, do paint jobs. With a full 10 minute part about how they troubleshooted a misfiring issue on one of the bikes and the full rebuild of a carburateur. There’s even a human interest part where they argue over replacing a part, some of them want to replace the part, others want to attempt a repair. Till one of the wraiths shares a story about how they were a kid working on old bikes with their dad and his dad never believed in throwing parts out, he could always repair it. So they contact a necromancer, which revives the dad for him to fix the part with his dad. And then the movie resumes like normal.

I don’t know why anybody would ever try new technologies again. If it isn’t a HUGE success (and even sometimes when it is), companies drop support almost immediately making your investment useless.

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For these women, the liberty of privacy means that they alone should choose whether they serve as human incubators for the five months leading up to viability. It is not for a legislator, a judge, or a Commander from The Handmaid’s Tale to tell these women what to do with their bodies during this period when the fetus cannot survive outside the womb any more so than society could – or should – force them to serve as a human tissue bank or to give up a kidney for the benefit of another. Considering the compelling record evidence about the physical, mental, and emotional impact of unwanted pregnancies on the women who are forced by law to carry them to term (as well as on their other living children), the Court finds that, until the pregnancy is viable, a woman’s right to make decisions about her body and her health remains private and protected, i.e., remains her business and her business alone. When someone other than the pregnant woman is able to sustain the fetus, then – and only then – should those other voices have a say in the discussion about the decisions the pregnant woman makes concerning her body and what is growing within it

Some random Forbes article? No because what kind of source is that? I checked their sources and they were all dead.

Read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_cask_storage

They have caskets that last for at least 1800 years today, with better shit to come. The whole point is to store it in a location without any water.

The timelines you state are also totally incorrect. The EPA specifically states 10.000 years in their standards.

Edit: I read the Forbes article, it’s anti-nuclear propaganda without any sources.

Read this instead: https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-cycle/nuclear-waste/radioactive-wastes-myths-and-realities

Well those timelines aren’t correct. The EPA says 10.000 years and that’s for the entire storage solution. It doesn’t matter that the caskets decay after a 2000 years, once the entire thing is encased in rock.

The concrete degradation doesn’t really apply, because caskets are specifically made with longevity in mind and aren’t just made out of concrete. Causes for concrete degradation is also exposure to water and mechanical stress. That doesn’t apply in a long term storage facility.

And we still have examples of Roman concrete around these days, made 2000 years ago. There are also natural nuclear reactors which are contained, so we know in principle containment is possible.

It may take 100.000 years for something to become completely inert, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t safe much earlier. And something with that long of a timeline doesn’t produce hardly any radiation to begin with. The dangerous stuff is much hotter and becomes safe within hundreds to thousands of years.

I use the exact same pens for everything, they are great. Especially the different sizes.

Yeah the anti-nuclear crowd just goes and downvote all the things, they don’t even read anything. It’s kinda sad.

Do you have a source for that? Because that is not true. A properly built casket can go for at least a thousand years. The issues reported with caskets is where they’ve been exposed to salt water / brine. That’s a facility issue, not a casket issue. There are so many caskets stored around the world and only a very small amount have had actual issues associated with them.

Even with the issues, the impact has always been very locally. Not like with coal where radioactive matter is blasted straight into the atmosphere and spread in dust form. Radioactive dust getting into your lungs is a big issue. Water contaminated with waste you can simply stay a feet away from and be perfectly fine. And remember a lot of water gets contaminated all the time with a lot of different dangerous stuff, that’s why we monitor and treat the water we use. The leaks have been a problem, but mostly in the form of costs, not in the form of it being dangerous. It has always been detected right away and not gotten into water we use.

So they fucked up one time 50 years ago and thus the entire process is deemed to be flawed? Mistakes were made, mistakes are going to be made and as long as we learn from them and fix our mistakes, that’s just a normal part of life.

Look at any tech, machine or industry we have today and you can see how many people died and suffered for those things to exist today. Hydro power has killed over a hundred thousand people and has destroyed entire eco systems, we still consider that clean and safe power. Cars kill people every day and planes still fall out of the sky sometimes. I still feel perfectly safe stepping into my car and driving on the road. So you saying “hug that shit” is like I’m supposed to fear my car, because of the horrible accidents that happen every day.

I can’t find the source for you claiming higher cases of thyroid cancer and leukemia due to the leak of hazardous materials from the Asse-II mine. I can find plenty of FUD articles from anti-nuclear websites, but no actual peer reviewed research.

One of the things I noticed in this movie, which probably wasn’t even intended and caused by budget issues. But it takes place about 30 years in the future from when the movie came out and it’s the most realistic future I ever saw. Like things were different, culture was different, but a lot was just the same as it now is.

Like for example the houses you see in the movie are just regular houses, a lot of stuff is just the same. And that’s how real life is. The house I live in is 40 years old and will probably be exactly the same in another 40 years. I used to live in a house that was almost 100 years old and it will probably be exactly the same in 30 years time. Sure the electrics have been upgraded, the pluming, the windows are double glazed now etc. But the overall look and feel of the house hasn’t changed.

This is something I noticed in this movie and got annoyed with in other movies. Like it’s 30 years in the future, we aren’t going to demolish all of our houses and put up hyper realistic new ones over the course of 30 years. And even though houses have changed a lot from a technical point of view, from the outside it’s still very similar.

The caskets don’t leak radiation, you can hug them and be perfectly fine.

Even renewables have their downsides, nothing is without downsides, but we need to way them fairly and equally. But nuclear for most people is like the boogeyman and gets an unfair treatment, even though it’s used with great succes all over the world.

With solar for example we are currently producing huge amounts of solar panels, but often (in China for example) the waste generated with this isn’t handled properly. Also they have a life span of 15-20 years and we haven’t figured out the recycling all that well. Do these issues stop us from going all in on solar? Hell no, we need to go in fully on solar. But with nuclear (in some parts of the world at least) it’s like it needs to be perfect, with no outstanding issues in order for it to even be considered an option.

And just wait till you find out they pump deadly industrial waste straight into the ground using injection wells, where it just sits for thousands of years. Nobody ever makes a fuss about that. But putting some concrete caskets into an old mine is somehow a crime against humanity. It makes zero sense.

I ate rice with a curry sauce yesterday and I put raisins into the sauce. I LOVE me some raisins in my food.