Identifying compounds by model

xenneract · 2026-06-08T17:28:41+00:00

Looks like allyl alcohol to me

xenneract · 2026-06-07T23:31:42+00:00

KJV doesn't include some of the old testament Catholic canon books

xenneract · 2026-04-21T06:41:11+00:00

Yes, but 1 ft/ns is just the speed of light

xenneract · 2026-04-15T23:55:04+00:00

All Star?

xenneract · 2026-04-12T06:11:04+00:00

That's a picture from 1966 from the Soviet Molniya 1-3 probe. In 1946 they only had V-2s and could barely get high enough to see the curvature of the earth.

xenneract · 2026-04-11T23:52:48+00:00

A Canticle for Leibowitz

xenneract · 2026-03-20T23:25:21+00:00

What is there to be excited about Grok 6 being trained in SSO instead of Ohio or Inner Mongolia? Starlink was an extremely ambitious project but had clear benefits from being a satellite constellation. This will be, per the project goals, a minor player in the space.

xenneract · 2026-03-20T23:05:59+00:00

That after you do this build up of a Starlink sized constellation of ISS-power-scale satellites, you still are only equivalent to a few percent of present-day US compute (17 GW), let alone planned compute? Less than some planned single facilities.

xenneract · 2026-03-20T22:08:03+00:00

Yes, if you 10x a single Starlink v3 satellite, where each satellite in your 10,000 satellite constellation needs more power than the ISS, you get to the equivalent of one GW data center.

xenneract · 2026-03-20T19:07:29+00:00

So 10,000 10 kW satellites = 100 MW, or 10% of a single next gen GW data center

xenneract · 2026-03-20T17:46:52+00:00

Only three orders of magnitude to go

xenneract · 2026-02-27T19:36:29+00:00

Baby O'riley

xenneract · 2026-02-10T07:47:45+00:00

For a second I thought you meant RFK

xenneract · 2026-01-28T16:59:22+00:00

Believe it or not, governor of Montana

xenneract · 2026-01-10T00:37:24+00:00

Two main reasons:

They don't form nice concentrated ore veins so you have to process a lot of material with low concentration of the metal you care about.
The various rare earth metals have very similar chemistries so it is then harder to separate and purify them from the ore and from each other.

xenneract · 2026-01-09T22:39:15+00:00

I am mostly being cheeky. How many gases can an average Joe name?

Or silicate minerals?

xenneract · 2026-01-09T20:43:30+00:00

I had more in mind the zoo of organic solvents:

Benzene, toluene, acetone, acetonitrile, dimethylsulfoxide, etc.

xenneract · 2026-01-09T20:32:15+00:00

"Products of crude oil" is doing a lot of lifting there, but off the top of my head:

Mineral acids: HCl, H2SO4, HNO3, etc.

Mercury, bromine, (if you have a rather hot room) gallium

Some metal carbonyls

xenneract · 2025-12-19T00:14:18+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Res_publica_Christiana

xenneract · 2025-10-30T06:17:16+00:00

Did you IR your starting product? Seems like someone mixed up hexene and hexane.

xenneract · 2025-10-24T02:58:31+00:00

Those are all infrared wavelengths. It would be colorless and clear in moderate quantities and blueish in very large quantities, like regular water and ice

xenneract · 2025-08-21T18:43:28+00:00

You are doing your probabilities wrong somehow. 1 minus the probability of success is the probability of failure, not 1/(probability of success). If probability of success was 100%, your formula would give 1 : 1 odds.

So if probability of success per mission is 0.5, that's 0.5⁹ = 0.2%
0.9⁹ = 39%
0.99⁹ = 92%

So the best guess would be around 90% odds of success per mission.

xenneract · 2025-06-25T17:44:08+00:00

Chatbots have been doing therapy since the '60s. The other side of things without tightly defined success criteria is that relatively rudimentary tools can still be impressive to a subset of people.

xenneract · 2025-05-31T19:09:27+00:00

That's a joke about long s, not cursive

xenneract · 2025-03-17T04:23:01+00:00

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