Is that necessary for plastic? The name comes from the Greek for “to mould”. For me, anything that makes long chain mouldable polymers is a plastic. Milk makes Casein or Galalith plastic, PLA is commonly made of corn. There’s a ton of bamboo fabrics that are essentially nylon made from cellulose.

There’s a lot of sodium in most fizzy drinks, wonder if that rules them out for this. Or does it have to be sodium chloride specifically?

AI is just stringing words together that are statistically likely to appear near each other. It’s a giant complex statistical model but it has no awareness of truth or lying

Saudis were happy to bankroll it to kill the main organisation platform behind the Arab Spring uprisings

I use a 15 year old, quarter million dollar 3d scanner at work. It’s on par with what you can get for about 5 to 8k these days.

At risk of un open sourcing their code, taking their ball and going home

I’ve got a Ts80p which is a qc3 usbc soldering iron for that. It’s crazy powerful for it’s size and runs off a pretty small anker powerbank. You could slide that into your sleeve to go portable and one handed

You’d want more than one cell. You’d be pulling 23amps from a 4.2v 18650 to give the same 100w at 20v power as you get from a top usbpd power supply.

There are 18650s that do 30 amps for short bursts, but it would get as hot as the iron and be empty in 5 min

Ts80 that runs on qc3 is also very good. It keeps up with my large soldering station in real world use

Do they bill you $40,000 for that diagnosis? Could be a new source of revenue for discount airlines

I work in an environment where the workstations aren’t on the Internet there’s a separate network, there’s still a need for antivirus and we were hit with bsod yesterday

A remote server that you pay some serious money to that pushes a garbage driver that prevents yours from booting

Oh yes I make those failures myself, testing and staging and limited release schedules save my human failures from breaking the world

Dammit, hit us at 5pm on Friday in NZ

And people need to travel to remote machines to do this in person

Yeah saw that several steel mills have been bricked by this, that’s months and millions to restart

Won’t take that long, security researchers are already decompiling the update to see if it was malicious or incompetence.

That’s how it works in NZ, you can request anything, but the govt can also charge you the costs of collating that data beyond a certain point

Usable where you would otherwise use a raspberry pi? How does it compare in computation?

Except people 3 years into that wait are already getting called up for their turn. A lot of people are declining to take it up