@Powerfromspace1 Mariupol had one before the Russian escalation in 2022. It was a global level supplier. Combined with the supply chain breakdown down Russian ore, that destruction was initially going to produce a shortage of helium.
Whilst the Mariupol plant hasn't been replaced I'm pretty confident global demand hasn't dropped either therefore other companies must have expanded to fill the gap. After all, a gas does expand to fill the shape of its container.
@mattblaze I've got to the stage, professionally, where I actually enjoy being told how to do things by the people who are new to the field. Either they will stick it out and cringe ten years down the line when they realise or they'll leave and the industry will remember them as that person that thought they knew everything.
I got a wonderful email only a week or two ago from someone only a few years into the shallow. It started by asking me why their system worked as it did. For the main course the sender very clearly, and incorrectly, laid out some basic engineering. The dessert was the confidently asserted "everyone does this" with regards to something unique to them across the industry subsector. At this point I was feeling quite the silly sausage and thoroughly grateful for their insight.
@StefanThinks I would like to think it was during a time when witchcraft and wizardry was punishable by death. There would then be a thirty minute comedy episode as a handful of likeable characters tried to hide the invention whilst one of them gets addicted so they can't stop making it. Another member would want to sell it for untold riches arguing the inventor should be sacrificed for the greater good.
Popcorn must be corn and heat though so, unfortunately, there's probably a pyramid sporting a hieroglyph of a Pharaoh eating popcorn. Erich von Däniken would probably love this and no doubt the ancient wizard would have been celebrated.
@christineburns hopefully.
The UK on Tuesday had a wholesale price of £35 per MWh making it one of the cheapest in Europe. The price paid by users is the highest in Europe.
UK energy prices are one of the few things that'll provoke me in the real world.
@bbcnewsfeed I read physics at university so this is very ouchy.
Fortunately the UK government is happy to fund AI so we'll have absolutely no problem identifying where a huge chunk of money was wasted. The private sector would do ai research regardless. The more you put into a bubble the quicker it bursts so I guess there is some tiny sliver of silver lining.
@StefanThinks St Patrick had a truly excellent marketing team.
If I showed up somewhere, noticed there wasn't a problem with something then claimed to have solved whatever the non-existent problem was, my mum would tell me to stop being so silly and make myself useful. St Patrick got credit and a whole day named him. Incredible.
@thepwnicorn @danirabbit "aisbestos" is my current favourite. It certainly is. A wonder-product to cure all our problems now. It won't take as long as asbestos for it to be revealed as an awful idea though.
I'm sure it'll be harder for big ai to hide it than for big asbestos who spent years suppressing science, lobbying governments and denying victims' claims.
Pliny the younger wrote of the illness of asbestos mine workers and he's so old he's in history books. He even wrote about history before it had been invented. Probably because it was the present when he wrote. However we still put asbestos in everything we could in the twentieth century.
@hongminhee @krans "good enough" is one of those phrases that always hits me as problematic.
Sometimes you can get away with cable ties and tape. Other times you'll need a weld. "Good enough" is the former to me.
@TheBreadmonkey the original absolutely fills me with yuck. An onion of yuck. It's yuck on so many levels.
I'd have to put the menu down and leave if I saw that.