time will see us realign

sophie | she/her | mid 20s | i don't really go here anymore, dm me if we're mutuals and I'll give you my discord

[srsfunny]

[contrabandtoxicant]

oh glados you really know how to make a test subject blush

[bigwizardhat]

my cat stopping me from petting her

[bigwizardhat]

her swift maneuver, for context

[thiscountry]

Got you!

[korrasamibottles]

Not enough people talking about how well broccoli holds a sauce

[contrabandtoxicant]

fortnite battle paahhs

i just shit out my arse

[literallymechanical]

This is a contender for my new favorite fusion paper. How does it feel to be the realest god damn scientist on the planet Dr. Smiet

[sleepsucks]

[contrabandtoxicant]

saw an animation of a PBM-driven ELM burst, with flux over the separatrix and onto the divertor strike plate and audibly moaned

[contrabandtoxicant]

Ah! Found it it's an example animation from the JOREK MHD code:

src: https://www.jorek.eu/gallery/imgs/mast_film.html

@literallymechanical @archacovercosine

[literallymechanical]

I love the long-ass MAST-U divertors. Like, what are u hiding in there!!

[contrabandtoxicant]

Excellent question! They are hiding nitrogen in there! The exhaust is practically a plasma torch so if we buffer it with a neutral gas, and give it a long path from the core to the divertor, it can radiate off most of its energy. MAST-U is small enough that ELMs don't usually burn through this detatchment, but it will happen in STEP/ITER/DEMO etc. so no ELMs are allowed there :( #myELMs

[literallymechanical]

ITER: what if our divertor can't hold onto neutral gasses good enough to promote detachment :c

MAST/STEP:

[grawly]

[contrabandtoxicant]

right click to access the context menu where you can kill and main and attack and wound any body you like

[dawatcher]

[gauntletknight]

It goes without saying I'm magnitudes more """pro-AI""" than this website's median bloody-minded luddite, but it is fascinating that part of the appeal of having LLMs do web searches for you is that having a power hungry, computationally intensive mathematical miracle hosted however many hundred km away fetch the page for you, read the raw code, generate analysis, and then stream output to back to you is on the whole a faster way to retrieve information than fucking rendering JS in-browser.

[gauntletknight]

And then webdevs have the gall to go and block Claude Code or whatever from downloading their websites because "ohhh 🥺🥺 so much downloading is massively costing us so much in bandwidth 🥺 we just can't afford it as if they can't not but send 150MB of CSS and React gibberish.

[meshugenist]

my 0.5 GB substack page #my0.5GBsubstackpage

[contrabandtoxicant]

i'm sophie :)

[ewzzy]

[seasonofhorror]

ALIEN

1979, dir. Ridley Scott

[transgenderer]

they should put this next to the doors of every grad school building. there should be a legal requirement to put it on the admissions website like a surgeon general's warning