Tannerite comes to mind. It explodes from a high impact, and little else. I’m not sure what sort of yield you’d get. That stuff mostly just makes a pop and smoke.

I have heard of people using it on stubborn tree stumps, but that’s several pounds of the stuff.

Atomize, from the original Ancient Greek adjective atomos, meaning “uncuttable” or “indivisible”.

Seems pretty apt to me. You have rendered it into its smallest constituent pieces through physical means, any further reduction requires chemical processes, or high energy physics. Coincidentally, a simple spark provides both.

As the bps space YouTube channel has shown, reliability is paramount in any launch, especially a guided launch.

That and people duck when shit flies at them, unless it’s supersonic, which again, as bps space has shown, control of a supersonic flight is extremely difficult to get right.

This is a guy who landed a hobby rocket like a tesla booster.

But at $100 a pop, you could have backups. (or payloads)

That particular archive has a nasty habit of changing the content of saved articles, and then hijacking your browser to launch DDoS attacks on people the secretive owner of the archive doesn’t like.

To be fair, the snakes could be poisonous, and the killer could be feeding you to them, but he’s just telling you his plans for body disposal, not his method of killing you. He’ll likely use a knife, that way he can give the snakes bite sized pieces. You will be alive for this at first.

That power grid thing is what will ultimately pop the bubble.

The lack of last mile fiber is what popped the dot com bubble.

Turns out, spending a fuckload of money on unusable infrastructure is a bad thing.

Don’t forget his child porn image generator, what sort of training data did he use to get that result?

That’s the personalized prices. That’s step two.

This one is the digital price tags that let the store manager or corporate office instantly raise prices throughout the store for everyone.

What it sounds like is the data centers are using untreated river water, and then are wanting to put that untreated (and now hot) water back.

This is better than using municipal water, which goes through expensive treatment to make it safe to drink.

Putting data centers in space is a good way to keep people from destroying them. Thermodynamics on the other hand, will have a field day with them.

Trump and Hegseth tried two different things simultaneously. They tried to deem Anthropic both a hostile actor, which would cut all DoD contracts off completely, and then also tried to declare them essential and force them to ignore the safety limits set forth in the contract, which is the supply chain thing.

So yeah, the incompetence is showing as it always is.

Reprap currently only prints in plastic. You need metal capability, which can be done but is harder to build. And then you need whatever newly patented tech was used here, which should be available for use in about 20 years.

Automation won’t do it right. And that’s the goal.

Besides, Wikipedia has always been human written for humans. Or at least, that too is the goal.

Altering the content of the archive certainly is different. And is undeniably worse.

Mostly it changes the version number.

Linus Torvalds wrote in the Linux 6.19 release announcement:

“I have more than three dozen pull requests for when the merge window opens tomorrow - thank you to all the early maintainers. And as people have mostly figured out, I’m getting to the point where I’m being confused by large numbers (almost running out of fingers and toes again), so the next kernel is going to be called 7.0.”