Posts by lullabyman

WTF is solid state active cooling? We’ve just seen it working on a mini PC

Those peltiers are hugely inefficient. It needed a big fan and heatsink to work, and the energy consumption of the setup was huge (thus necessitating the cooling system so that it would remove the heat it created as well as the heat it transfered).

Engineers on the brink of extinction threaten entire tech ecosystems

Re: Obvious National Security Threat

same. ME with MetE minor, now doing software. Do a job search for engineers... only "software engineer" results.

i'm an ME who found himselfwith no job. Fat cats sent all mfg to china. We let them.

PsiQuantum envisions a datacenter-sized quantum computer

I'll believe it when I see it.

The only thing a quantum computer has been able to do is make a random number generator. I can toss a coin instead. Quantum supremacy for a practical purpose has yet to be proven. The problem is noise, an there's fair enough doubt to suggest that it's not a solvable problem. Perhaps this method, using light, will overcome that. I've wondered for 30 years why they haven't had light-based computers, nice they're finally doing it. I keep waiting, hoping, I'm not giving up that practical quantum supremacy will be a thing someday. Once it's able to prove quantum supremacy in the traveling salesman problem I'm shorting all cryptocurrency. Bye bye passwords.

Intravenous hangover clinics don't work, could land you in hospital

Australia seems to be a bit behind the times on this issue

Up until very recently (about the last 10 years) Intravenous Vitamin C (IVC) was considered by the rest of the world practically as voodoo, thanks largely to hit and run opinion pieces like this which amounted to nothing more that shoddy science and fear mongering. The data has been mounting ... Tom Levy's books (like Primal Panacea) have been chronicling the compounding data as properly recorded in peer review journals now over 1000 of citations supporting most of the contentions IVC supporters have had. Not just "opinions", not just "Dr. X of XYZ hospital said" sort of worthless data ... but statistically significant data from over 1000 of peer reviewed studies in respected medical journals. Critics have fought loud and hard but on the world stage in the last 10 years the reputable ones have been largely silenced by the compounding evidence that the disparaging studies done in the 80's (mostly the Mayo clinic studies where they used oral doses, and low ones at that, instead of the recommended protocols) were the wrong protocol. If you want to keep looking like a backward nation with it's head in the sand keep publishing junk like insinuating that the Mayo clinic says it causes diarrhea and other complications (which actually doesn't happen with IVC, but oral megadosing when done improperly). The "expensive urine" quote ... oh the horrors! What ... did you think all 50+g was going to converted to collagen in the body?! Idiotic. Or H2O2 - even worse - that would kill the patient. Are these IV clinics substandard care? I don't know ... I follow the numbers, have never needed an IV and know nobody in the IV industry ... but by following the numbers I know that stomach aches and low BP from IVC is completely unheard of. There are occasional complications, which is avoided with proper care (the iron thing - hemachromatosis, should be identified first, same for those with renal issues, or GP6D deficiency). Australia news outlets make a fuss about this with at least a monthly hit piece. They're the only country that still does. Even the medical journals have moved on ... the latest IVC criticisms being "the jury is out" made by those who used to scream that it was horrible and deadly until they've finally softened to "the jury is out". It isn't out ... it's in, and it's bad news for those who want to keep people sick.