[-] UnrepentantAlgebra@lemmy.world 103 points 2 weeks ago

I'll go down this rabbit hole for you because I was also curious.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-roman-lead-physics-archaeology-controversy/

All lead mined on Earth naturally contains some amount of the radioactive element uranium 235, which decays, over time, into another radioactive element, a version of lead called lead 210. When lead ore is first processed, it is purified and most of the uranium is removed. Whatever lead 210 is already present begins to break down, with half of it decaying on average every 22 years. In Roman lead almost all of the lead 210 has already decayed, whereas in lead mined today, it is just beginning to decay. (Of course, many lead 210 atoms have already decayed in this ore, too, but the supply is constantly replenished by uranium in unprocessed lead). "The longer since it was originally processed, the lower its intrinsic radioactivity," Gonzalez-Zalba says.

[-] UnrepentantAlgebra@lemmy.world 18 points 4 weeks ago

If human scores were included, they would be at 100%, at the cost of approximately $250

Wait, why did it cost real humans $250 to pass the test?

[-] UnrepentantAlgebra@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

That's easy to solve. We just give them an allergy service dog that warns about potential allergens and chases them away if needed.

[-] UnrepentantAlgebra@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

To be fair they tried posting it on the Linux community on .ml and there were so many upvotes and positive feedback that it crashed the server. So they had to post it again somewhere more balanced to limit the impact.

[-] UnrepentantAlgebra@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Genius, it's like a tax on walking. If you could get anywhere by walking in America, these would be all over the place.

[-] UnrepentantAlgebra@lemmy.world 32 points 3 months ago

Sounds like Tailwind is facing some headwinds.

I'll see myself out.

[-] UnrepentantAlgebra@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Nah if you only build a 2D structure, you won't have to worry about the water pressure because your structure will likely not be able to interact with 3D matter. It's genius engineering IMHO.

[-] UnrepentantAlgebra@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

If someone else has to debug the problems caused by a parent naming their child with a special character, does that make the parent the bugger? 🤔

[-] UnrepentantAlgebra@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Yep, the second paragraph of the article says that the new app will eventually replace both GeForce experience (yay) and the Nvidia control panel (boo).

[-] UnrepentantAlgebra@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago

It's basically the same as doing it on the ground, except here you get hit by a train if you mess up.

[-] UnrepentantAlgebra@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago

GitHub is many things nowadays. Some people use it sort of like a blog where they can easily post long pages of text, sometimes it's the first thing that shows up in the search results when you search for a computer/phone problem.

I'm gonna sound old here but the younger generations are in general less computer literate than they were back in my day, and a lot of people have no qualms about downloading and running random exe's from discord or mediafire.

[-] UnrepentantAlgebra@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Yeah the beginning is a bit rough because apparently the alien is specifically programmed to not leave you alone in the first level or two that it appears. My initial experience was similar but after the first level it got a lot better.

To me the game either works great and you get a legit scary experience or the alien pops out at the wrong time and you have to briskly walk through the rest of the level or die instantly.

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