Peter Todd @pete@petertodd.org

Finally got around to fixing my Mastodon node. 😂

Seems like an interesting time for mastodon!

OH: "Canary Cannery"

Geothermal's Path to Relevance: Better Heat Transfer and Heat Engines
https://austinvernon.site/blog/geothermalnextsteps.html

“The fracking revolution has driven a massive shift in the industry away from scientists like geologists and toward practitioners that are often engineers. … Partly this is because there is no need to "discover" shale formations since they have been known to the industry for 100+ years. And partly because the engineering-based learning model has thumped the scientist model recently.”

Interesting.

https://youtu.be/PvGEuJEAxeY

The hydraulic jump!

Neat! Someone put the entire "What Is A Woman" documentary on lightning.video: https://lightning.video/ee65bf6230290aa4ac03c38a0a8cb0f83dfb427b90c10c59b70c0950093d5cc1

I would actually like a legit way to pay for a download of this movie. With Lightning of course.

Texas Wind Power Is Failing Right When the State Needs It Most
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/texas-wind-power-failing-state-162709325.html

“A scorching heat wave is pushing the Texas grid to the brink. Power demand is surging as people crank up air conditioners. But meanwhile, wind speeds have fallen to extremely low levels, and that means the state’s fleet of turbines is at just 8% of their potential output.”

Over reliance on unreliable renewables will literally kill people.

The best solution to the compiler bootstrapping problem when writing a new language is time travel.

"Surprisingly, Tail Emission Is Not Inflationary"
https://petertodd.org/2022/surprisingly-tail-emission-is-not-inflationary

tl;dr: Due to lost coins, a tail emission/fixed reward actually results in a stable money supply. Not an inflationary supply.

"Fuck beaches.

They're just mountains well past their prime."

Association between School Mask Mandates and SARS-CoV-2 Student Infections: Evidence from a Natural Experiment of Neighboring K-12 Districts in North Dakota | Research Square
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-1773983/v1

“Our findings contribute to a growing body of literature which suggests school-based mask mandates have limited to no impact on the case rates of COVID-19 among K-12 students.”

"Complete History Of The Soviet Union, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris"
https://youtu.be/hWTFG3J1CP8

@lupyuen “The microSD card is manufactured using Micron's 176-layer 3D NAND process”

Madness.

My 40-liter backpack travel guide
https://vitalik.ca/general/2022/06/20/backpack.html

“...and covid defense gear: a CO2 meter (CO2 concentration minus 420 roughly gives you how much human-breathed-out air you're breathing in, so it's a good proxy for virus risk), masks, antigen tests and fluvoxamine.”

I am so unsurprised that Vitalik keeps a bunch of covid paranoia in his travel backpack.

Anatomy Of A Bank Takeover : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2009/03/26/102384657/anatomy-of-a-bank-takeover

“One by one, agents check into a hotel, each quietly offering a pseudonym to the guy at the desk.”

This article is from 2009; even back then hotels were checking ID pretty much every time. How exactly were FDIC employees bypassing that? Or did the journalist just make that up?

Kraken Announces Global Hiring Push and Commitment to Crypto-First Culture - Kraken Blog
https://blog.kraken.com/post/14372/kraken-announces-global-hiring-push-and-commitment-to-crypto-first-culture/

Looks like a good place to work.

@lucash_dev Agree. But better to build incinerators than just landfill it. In particular we really shouldn't be leaving "forever chemicals" in the ground that may cause problems for future generations; incinerators turn them into pretty harmless flourine minerals.

@lucash_dev Actually foreign nationals have an exemption until August. However if they have Permanent Resident status the exemption doesn't apply.

@lukedashjr I'm pretty sure I've never baked a cake in my entire life.