Were they drinking soda in a lab room filled with fissile material?

NVidia is an AI hardware/ software company now. Anyone expecting good news about gaming cards is set up for disappointment.

From a product development viewpoint, the gun is an uninteresting part. It's better to use something that already has a mature production line and has been thoroughly field tested. It's the vision and control systems they are interested in developing, the gun is just the chosen end effector for this application.

Even when they're ready to start deploying systems like this, there's a lot of value in using compenents that the military already has a lot of spare parts for and that personnel know how to maintain. I wouldn't expect a custom gun until units like this are commonplace.

I don't know the answer, but I found this discussion which seems relevant.

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/69666/atx-power-supply-front-end-how-does-this-work

The explanation given says it has to do with the functionality allowing the psu to be used with either 110VAC or 220VAC mains.

Does the psu you measured without input capacitance have a physical switch for selecting 110V or 220V?

It would have originally powered the machine, but someone has swapped the old foot powered machine for a more modern electric unit.

Bioluminescent ferns bordering a wooded path would be rather magical.

0 C wouldn't quite be frozen solid for chicken since it's not pure water. According to a quick search, chicken (unbrined) freezes at -3 C. So technically it is defrosted, but it should start out closer to 10 C for good results.

Real estate seems to be a popular place for seemingly unnecessary middlemen.

Imagine thinking that PhD's and postdocs aren't exploited by capitalism.

Optometrist: the glasses are half off.

Well the bucket would get very scared.

I remember my 7am calc lectures with a prof who would almost get lost between the podium and whiteboard.

The original article that this article is about.

Well the context was a concern about a defamation suit resulting from this post. If the company never found this post then the anonymity of the poster is irrelevant anyway. The company could easily tell who made this post based on the timing of their already existing email correspondance seeing as this is clearly not a request they receive often.

That's flawed logic. The company would pretty easily know who has been emailing to request the source code for that specific tool in the timeline just before this post. The lemmy profile may be anonymous, but I doubt OP's emails were.

You can't harvest energy from a static magnetic field without putting more work into it than you get out. This harvests fluctuations in the magnetic field that are given off by high power electronics like motors. This isn't free energy, it's recollecting a small amount of wasted radiated energy.

This author cites his own tweets and offers no evidence. It is complete speculation. We need better writing than this to consider such an extraordinary claim seriously.

Two suggestions: run a humidifier. Preferably use a steam one with distilled water. The ultrasonic cool mist ones introduce any minerals and bacteria that are in the water into the air.

The easiest suggestion is to change your blanket. I'm guessing you're wrapping yourself in a fuzzy fleece blanket. Synthetic fibers like polyester transfer way more static charge than natural fibers. Try looking for a cotton or wool throw. Or for something fuzzy, find a sheep pelt with wool on it. Even using a cotton sheet between you and your current blanket should reduce the amount of charge buildup.

A side benefit of changing blanket materials, is that any blanket that generates a lot of static charge also holds loads of dust and pet hairs. A less static generating blanket will stay cleaner longer.

The easiest way to discharge is to touch a metal faucet. If you have copper pipes, they'll be grounded, but even just the tap water is conductive enough to dissipate most of the charge.