apparently ww1 era british soldiers figured out that cordite works like amyl but shittier (more specifically, nitroglycerin part) https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/abaf/009c8713aadd8accbb03b2b40a93b5c3c77a.pdf

smokeless powder is, sort of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitroglycerin#Industrial_exposure

Sr-90 that was involved in cases you mention is strong beta emitter, but Pu-238 isn’t, it’s mostly-alpha emitter, so it’ll only get dangerous if somebody ingests it, but it’s a piece of ceramic inside a strong case

it’s not the type of plutonium that is fissile, 40% of it decayed by now, and it was formed into hard, chemically resistant ceramic in the first place

have you read the article

it’s hacky and wrong. or you could use different hardware, maybe from competition, because result isn’t worth electricity it used

gpus as used for genai aren’t really suitable for normal loads like aerodynamic simulations, genai uses low precision data like fp8, fp4, blackwells and such are optimized for it so hard that you can’t really do anything else on this thing

“article” is entirely too charitable, this is a substack post

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at this point just leave your phone at home or get burner for this exact purpose

it also means more interceptions per sortie, because it’s 7 missiles in pod per hardpoint, instead of one. this also makes it all cheaper, on top of cost of missiles (fewer sorties = less pilot’s time, less strain and wear on plane)

oh you “did your own research”. i work in pharma and there’s plenty of real problems to be solved instead of chasing wishes of dead chinese emperors

no serious pharma company tries to do that, it’s all high proof uncut transhumanist nonsense, served by crackpots, feeding on old scifi and rooted in the same impulse that driven alchemists in search of immortality

i’m of course not gonna stop you from believing in anything, do what you want

yet another reason for installing pihole

you might end up like ray kurzweil, aging no matter what despite 300 pills popped every day

thiel isn’t funding unlicensed drug trials for longevity/immortality just so that he’ll become more progressive in the process

with 200, 300 year old oligarchs values they grew up with are gonna stay influential much longer

For the record, i just intend to outlive my enemies

my background in biochemistry makes me think it’s almost guaranteed to be impossible, so i don’t worry about it.

however, in hypothetical case it isn’t, i’d argue that it would be proper to destroy this technology in all cases along with inventors, because it would be horridly expensive initially, and first people to get it would be people like peter thiel and larry ellison. there was a recording where putin and xi admitted that they are also interested. then what you’ll get would be class of immortal oligarchs. planck once said, progress in physics happens one funeral at a time, it’s really more general than just physics, and you can say goodbye to any progress from that point on

I’ve seen that Ukrainians got their jet (su-27?) destroyed when parked, but that was due to ballistic missiles, not drones, and 1y+ ago

Notice that also air defence radar was targeted. There’s a lot of russia and apparently not enough air defence assets, and something will slip through, some of the time

he’s a clown, that counts i guess

Tax reasons perhaps? In some countries ethanol with (certain kinds of) perfume mix can be taxed as denatured alcohol, otherwise some other kind of denaturant would be needed