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  • X rays

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  • No, LNT is not accurate. It's accurate at high levels of exposure, not not low. In fact, there is growing evidence that low levels of exposure actually have health benefits (this is not saying to go get irradiated, as we don't have enough data).

    LNT works under the assumption there is no biological repair mechanism. As you say, we are in a shooting gallery of radiation exposure. If we did have a way to handle low levels of radiation exposure then we wouldn't be alive. LNT causes more harm than it does good, because it causes over-reactions. It's the same reason breast cancer screening isn't recommended below a certain age. At a certain point, prevention does more damage than it helps because what you're preventing is so infrequent that the checks are more harmful than the chance you actually prevent something.

  • With FEX, which Valve is pushing forward, I expect translating to arm explicitly isn't going to be required soon. Pretty much everything will be able to run anywhere, as long as the hardware can handle it.

    We just need the same thing for RISC-V, and then a push to that.

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  • It's because they're required to have exposure as low as reasonably achievable (ALARA). This is actually going away in the US because it's not actually based on good science. Low amounts of radiation exposure is actually not bad, and it's not cumulative like it's normally treated. Even safe levels of radiation exposure must be avoided if possible, even when it increases costs or other hazards.

    Video on the change of regulation around ALARA and linear no-threshold (LNT) radiation measurement:

    https://youtu.be/KT5hYHdelmg

    (But also, they're being exposed frequently. The patient is only once, or a few times.)

  • Oh, I might start using that as an insult! That'll be novel at least. I might as well get something out of this shit.

  • But you can get the same with Garuda, CachyOS, or other Arch based distros, without any limitations. There's no reason for people to be waiting for SteamOS because it's not even the best option for most users.

  • It's probably cheaper to do the right thing. It'd allow them to have a single product line, rather than two. However, it'd mean they can't screw over customers and sell them replacements, so it'd cost them in additional sales.

  • The experience is different because the person in the ISS is simply not close enough to Earth to be subjected to Earth's gravity, in any practical amount.

    It sounds like someone still hasn't played KSP! Play it! It's great. You'll learn a lot, and you'll have fun doing it.

    Stuff doesn't stay in orbit because there isn't gravity. It stays there because it's moving sideways while it's falling down, so it doesn't hit the thing it's orbiting. Without gravity it'd be able to just sit in space wherever it wants. Rockets mostly don't go up, they go sideways. There wouldn't be a geosyncronus orbit as all orbits would allow you to just sit above any location you want. A geosyncronus orbit is one that the amount it has to move sideways is, in degrees from the center of earth, the same amount the earth rotates.

  • Sure, if you're traveling near the speed of light. For everyone on Earth, no one has ever experienced this (beyond a micro level that doesn't matter and no one is discussing).

  • I'm 14 and this is deep.

    Sure, we can think there's no way to actually know anything because your mind could have made up everything that happened before this moment. That's a stupid way to interact with the world though. It doesn't help you do anything thinking that way and only makes everything pointless, including conversing with you for people who don't even believe this.

  • There are advantages to soldered RAM. It can be faster without extra cost. The issue is it's not upgradable. It depends if they're targeting people who will upgrade their device or people who won't on which is the smarter option.

    If you want SteamOS though, there are already plenty of options. SteamOS is just another distro based on Arch. It isn't doing anything special (except on the actual Steam Machine which will have extra hardware to, for example, turn on when you press the button on your controller). There is literally no reason you should be waiting for it, especially if you want just a desktop OS that can play games. If you want a console-like experience, where it's harder to access the desktop and more restricted, then there still isn't a reason but it is a thing you can do.

  • That's what I've been wanting, but I don't think so, at least not yet. I have a pretty powerful PC, and I don't care to use this away from it. I'm totally fine with a tethered requirement. Being standalone is cool, but it isn't worth the additional price in my opinion.

  • It's the digital age. As much as Russia has tried to stop it, anyone who cares already knows this. They just think it doesn't really effect them, or they buy into the bullshit Russia has said that they have to fight Ukraine because of Nazis or whatever bullshit.

  • I think, especially now in the age of drones, carriers are about obsolete too, yeah. They require the massive support fleets, are a huge, slow, expensive target, and nearly their entire job can be replaced with a much smaller drone carrier. It'll be an interesting time for naval innovation, but it's not going to be massive ships.

  • They did have a use, but they were obsolete. Obsolete doesn't mean useless. It means there are better options. You use what you've got, but you don't make more of things that are obsolete.

  • I agree with your premise, but only if it's stored locally and not sent to a corporation, who is likely going to share videos that help to convict other people of crimes but not allow access to video that shows cops doing something wrong.

    But also, there should be a legal requirement to have a light visible when recording. If you're found violating this, it should at least be a sizable criminal offense.

  • A lot of the comments look to me like part of the reason for the failure. At least the old ones continue to work almost forever. They product was so good that people aren't replacing them. This leads to them releasing overpriced crappy products to make up for it.

    I wish we lived in a world where making the best product, that is reliable and durable, for as cheap as possible was standard and made sense. We've essentially made it so it doesn't work.

    The correct option seems to be, to me, for them to not have scaled like they have. They should have been a niche durable action camera, and their costs would have stayed low. Every product that sells though is told they have to scale as much as possible forever, until it kills the product.

  • Yes. That doesn't mean it's cost rising doesn't increase the cost of everything else.

  • The bad thing is, this will effect all food prices. As one food price rises, people buy alternatives, which raises the price of everything else.

    Still, they aren't going to rise as much as beef, so it's still a good idea to switch. It's just good to keep in mind that no one is isolated.

  • I'm not disagreeing it's important, but you need to chill I think. You're getting angry at someone who is trying to become aware. I'm sure you realize how many innocent people die every day in the US. There's no way to keep track of it all, let alone so long ago. I wasn't aware of this, and I was alive for it, though I was very young.