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cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 09:06:55 JST 
cjd
Thoughts on fusion:
Compression based -> I'm not convinced, lets say you can make a shockwave that amplifies the pressure by 1000x, now you just need 250 MILLION atmospheres instead of 250 billion.
I'm not generally a fan of doing things "the right way", usually the right way is the way everyone has already researched and proved unfeasible. I want to cheat, I want to attack the problem in a way that nobody is thinking about.
Here's a brief summary of where I'm thinking there might be cheat codes:
1. Chemical reaction that triggers fusion -> Take for example some kind of hydrogenated nitroglycerine, when the molecule - reorganizes - you can imagine it creating enough localized energy to fuse the hydrogen atoms.
Ironically when you start down this road, you end up bumping into all of the Stanley Meyer water car stuff. If you pay close attention to his videos, you'll notice that he never really made enough hydrogen to run an engine. An obvious point is that the tubes carrying the hydrogen are hilariously under-sized. If there was ever anything to his claims (which I still find dubious), it is that he found a way to make hydrogen burn much more violently than is justified by the chemical energy. There are other people who claimed to have figured this out as well, and they speak about three distinct types of hydrogen combustion, only one of which will work in an engine. If you take them at their word that they got the car to run, but refuse to believe that they understood at all what was happening, the most likely explanation is that they somehow managed to make some of that hydrogen go nuclear.
2. A catalyst. Perhaps there's some kind of metal that squeezes hydrogen into close proximity in a lattice or something and then a little bit of energy is all it takes to fuse it.
Interestingly this is precisely what was supposed to be happening in the Pons and Fleischmann cold fusion experiment. To quote ChatGPT: "Palladium has a unique property: it can absorb large amounts of hydrogen or deuterium into its lattice structure"
3. I was going to say modifications on a Farnsworth fusor, but these things have been built so many times, I'm pretty sure every idea has already been tried, so I don't think there are any cheat codes to be found there.
4. From the work of Mike McCulloch on Quantized Inertia, trying to see if there's a way to go around the rules.
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I think #4 is probably the best direct path, a lot of work has been done on #2 and cold fusion remains at best a neat party trick. That said, the Stanley Meyer / HHO stuff is like a rock in my shoe, it's hard to stop thinking about it... -
cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 02:16:14 JST
cjd
Linux Desktop Question:
I currently use a Mac, but I'm thinking my next machine might be a desktop. There's no way I'm gonna use Windows so that means Linux.
I'd like Distro recommendations.
My applications:
1. Brave
2. Thunderbird
3. VSCode
4. Libreoffice
5. Terminal
6. CPU & Memory meters in the top bar
My requirements:
NO BUGS, absolutely not one single bug. I will move heaven and earth to get the thing setup right, but I will not tolerate one single screw-up, no apt-get dependency conflict fuckery, nothing.
I'm open to minimalistic UIs like XFCE or LXDE if they can deliver no bugs. I need control+tab and control+tilda for switching windows.
Any recommendations? -
cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 23:45:07 JST
cjd
Recently I've been thinking a bit about hydrogen fusion.
The pressure required to make H2 spontaneously fuse is around 250 billion atm, which is enough that there isn't really any material that you can build a suitable piston or cylinder out of.
A recent approach has been to try to force a liquid (in this case a hot metal) to compress a bubble of hydrogen plasma in the hope that as it collapses, the inertia of the liquid will create a shockwave that far surpasses the pressure of the vessel, reaching the target pressure at the center.
In this design, they center the plasma by spinning the entire apparatus in order to drive the heavier liquid to the edge by centrifugal force - not an ideal requirement for an engine. In addition, the number of independent pistons is annoying compared to a single reciprocating piston with a number of equal length tubes between it and the reaction vessel.
There's something I find quite amusing about the notion that humans may in fact make it to the stars, but with EM drives* that are powered by what are glorified internal combustion engines. Nothing will define the aesthetic of future asteroid miners better than a spaceship that sounds like a Camaro.
* Contrary to popular belief, the science behind "flying saucer" tech is pretty much sorted and it's just an engineering problem that remains. -
cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 01:52:21 JST
cjd
PKT DNS is here !
As of today you can now register PKT Domains, and when you do, they become a subdomain of every participating PKT "infrastructure domain".
See: https://cjd.pkt.wiki for an example.
https://thegoodwork.substack.com/p/pkt-dns-is-here -
cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 00:01:34 JST
cjd
ANNOUNCE: Cjdns Release v22.1
Major changes:
* DNS Seed auto-peering means you no longer need to add peers. You can still manually peer, and you can disable DNS seeding in the config, but default configs going forward will seed from a list of public peers which is here: https://vinny.cjdns.fr/ptest/
* Cjdnstool binary is now built with cjdns, making administration easier.
Minor changes:
* Libuv is completely removed, all OS bindings are through Rust/Tokio.
* SECCOMP BPF is no longer part of the security strategy.
Where to download:
* Linux: https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns.sh makes it easy to run a node, including public peer.
* MacOS: As soon as this PR lands https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/203576 , `brew install cjdns` will be enough.
* Source: https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns required a C compiler, Rust, NodeJS, make, and linux-headers in order to build.
Special thanks:
* To the PKT community for contributing public peers for seeding.
* To those who contributed to tip4commit https://tip4commit.com/github/cjdelisle/cjdns thanks to you, my rent is paid for this month ❤️ -
cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 22:41:06 JST
cjd
Where is ? -
cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 04:19:13 JST
cjd
Happy New Year.
I don't do "new year's resolutions", I do goals and experiments.
The difference between a resolution and a goal is that a goal is about establishing where you want to end up, so that you remember to keep taking concrete steps in that direction. A resolution is about trying to talk yourself into staying motivated. A resolution is a tacit admission that you are not in control of yourself, and I am, so I don't make resolutions.
Experiments are a third category. An experiment is when you decide to TRY a certain lifestyle change to see if it "works" to carry you toward your goals without serious side-effects.
For New Year, I decided to begin some experiments:
1. I'm stopping the use of twitter because growing an account there is so slow that I'm not motivated to invest the time, and it's a slop-factory which is wasting my time doing anything else. This is actually not starting an experiment but rather ending one, which I started about 6 months ago to see if I could grow my twitter account.
2. I moved my computer into my office and for the most part, I'm leaving it here. As I type to you now, I'm in the office. My long term DREAM is to have a tech-free personal life and keep my computer equipment in an office setting for work purposes only.
It's been 5 days and this experiment has already helped me to understand that dream better. I don't have a TV in the living room, so without the computer I don't have access to YouTube. My YouTube feed is fairly high quality because I don't watch very often and I subscribe to interesting and informative channels. I don't think TV belongs in the living room, but it might be that this lifestyle is better with a home theater room of some kind.
Obviously I can watch YouTube in the office, as I'm writing to you now, but I am making a conscious effort to enter the office with objectives, and leave when those objectives are complete.
So far, I've been significantly more productive than I had before so I'm counting that as a win. Because this is an experiment, I can learn from it and make changes to it as I go, something I intend on doing.
So anyway, Happy New Year and this is why I might be posting a little bit less. -
cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 05:11:04 JST
cjd
Github Copilot is getting really good.
I wrote the comment and I think the first line. It completed it as a giant one-liner and I broke it down. -
cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 10:16:17 JST
cjd
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cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 10:16:00 JST
cjd
There's a term for this, it's called "eating the seed corn", it's what you do before you collapse. -
cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 08:17:56 JST
cjd
Based -
cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 07:19:21 JST
cjd
You know what, I was thinking about that and that's a fair fucking point.
If we could see like who produces the better athletes between ethnic British, ethnic Irish, ethnic French, ethnic German, and so on, that would be interesting to watch.
It might become boring if one team just dominates everyone else, but it would be interesting in the mean time.
As it stands, pro sports is just a bunch of random teams made from random picks of pro athletes from around the world and for some reason they expect people to have team loyalty to one of them.
What's the difference between different teams and why should I care? -
cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 07:17:23 JST
cjd
"We printed too much money we need to import cheap labor to control inflation" has sawdust in the bread vibes.
How about just stop printing money? -
cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 07:00:36 JST
cjd
Yeah I'll stick with my bank, they don't kick me out over shitposting. -
cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 05:21:05 JST
cjd
Redditor.
Sexually attracted to losing. -
cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 01:18:44 JST
cjd
Sam Hyde is dragging on Elon
https://x.com/wigger/status/1873892448692486480 -
cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 17:42:29 JST
cjd
Facefuck dying. -
cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 07:24:16 JST
cjd
And modern ethics is shit. Every NGO that brings in boatloads of "refugees" to Europe and the US is a Christian NGO. -
cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 07:05:54 JST
cjd
Christianity is a failed religion. A serial rapist who "repents" and "finds Jesus" is considered equivalent to any other Christian, and in fact BETTER than me, an athiest. -
cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 07:05:52 JST
cjd
In my usage of the word, the one on the hill.
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