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Really, really old sci-fi book "When Worlds Collide" I believe had atomic rockets in it. Yep I found them
When Worlds Collide - Wikipedia[^]
and
After Worlds Collide - Wikipedia[^]
Now try to find them in a library.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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I would have expected those to be on Project Gutenberg, but no luck (nor at my library, double drat)
TTFN - Kent
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Found them here
When Worlds Collide book by Philip Wylie[^]
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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They are available as Kindle books.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Regarding the usability of not highly enriched uranium, there is a paywalled article in the current edition of Science:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado8693[^]
It tells us that uranium enriched to more than 10% U-235 can be used to build a bomb, but you may need a ton of it.
On the other hand, when such 10-20% enriched uranium is used - and thus produced - for commercial purposes, the currently clear line of distinction of "weapon uranium" and "civil uranium" gets blurred, and non-proliferation checks fail.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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A new model lets scientists run ions through thousands of supercapacitor pores instead of just one at a time. Is it a diode? A relay? No, it's SUPERcapacitor
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With a name like Kent, that reference doesn't surprise me.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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We built a new benchmark called "Bug In The Code Stack" (BICS) to test how well LLMs can find syntactic bugs in large Python codebases. After it put them in there?
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Hmm .. did anyone commit code with syntactic bugs ? 
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How did this iconic screen saver come to be? Wait for the tea pot
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Oracle has started to dispatch Java audit letters to Fortune 200 companies for the first time, according to one licensing expert. "May we see your papers, please?"
Seems like I'm running on a WWII movie theme. Must have been the recent D-Day commemorations.
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Oracle: "We need money, cause that's what we need. We need money, cause we full of greed..."
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An experienced MySQL database engineer has questioned whether Oracle might unintentionally kill off the open source database with its preference for adding features to its proprietary systems. Has he considered investing in a support contract?
Some days I'm ashamed of my running gags, some days I just have to run with them.
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Security researchers are reporting that a “significant volume of data” has been stolen from hundreds of Snowflake cloud storage customers via compromised login credentials, with the incident being linked to massive data breaches at Ticketmaster and Santander Bank. But all the breaches are unique
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Starting on September 16, Outlook personal accounts will no longer support signing into them with what the company calls Basic Authentication, which is the old-fashioned user name and password method. All you're getting is my name, rank, and serial number
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MS has already eliminated basic authentication for Microsoft 365 based email accounts. This is the completion of this process. What the article didn't mention is that Basic Authentication isn't guaranteed to be encrypted.
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Apple debuts new catchall AI branding, generative features during WWDC 2024 keynote. Get it? It's still AI. Oh, what clever elephants.
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A new survey of 1,000 finance and engineering professionals in the US reveals that 58 percent of respondents say their cloud costs are too high. And the pendulum swings back the other way...
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Fear rising life costs could mean... Work harder, not smarter??? 
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So they are saying that they are having a hard time ... keeping their head in the clouds?
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Apple at WWDC today announced a new Calculator app as part of iPadOS 18 that features special Apple Pencil support and a maths notes feature. Sorry all other OSes, you've lost.
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Wonder if theres a setting where you have to write your equation like some of the old HP calculators?
Or how about a learning mode where you have to show your work?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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As long as it uses perfectly rounded buttons to implement those features.
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What new radical thing is next? WordPad?
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