Several reasons. Outside of the reactor core itself, almost all items that “become” radioactive are just contaminated with radioactive waste. The item itself hasn’t turned radioactive, it’s just covered in radioactive particles that are usually very difficult to remove.
However, when you expose something to very high levels of neutron radiation (like you would find in a reactor core), it is possible to turn the atoms of the item itself radioactive. This is known as “activating”, and it’s how we produce many types of radiopharmaceutical drugs and other research isotopes. The amount of neutrons required to do this are basically nonexistent outside of nuclear reactors and particle accelerators, so it’s usually not a concern.
Source: my job is to put things into a nuclear reactor and turn them radioactive.
This is just my anecdotal experience, but most of the time when I compare Waymo and Uber prices in my city, Waymo is cheaper.
For example, I’ll use both apps to calculate the fare to the same destination. Waymo is almost always slightly cheaper, and that’s before considering that you aren’t expected to tip.
Even if it was slightly more expensive, I’d prefer Waymo every time. Not having to deal with a driver, being able to put my own music on, and the flexibility of being able to edit my route at any time are great.
Operating system and CPU architecture are useful for sites to serve the correct binaries when a user is downloading an application. I know you could just give them all the options, but the average idiot has no idea what the difference between ARM and x86 is, or whether they have a 64 bit system. Hell, I wouldn’t even trust some users to accurately tell me what operating system they’re using.
Wind turbines actually have a fuckload of grease and oil in them. I used to work for a company that runs wind farms. A single gearbox can contain around 100 gallons of oil.
Still more environmentally friendly than fossil fuels though.
This is a similar situation to mine. I tried running Linux on my work laptop, ran into too many issues that made it unreliable. Especially during business trips, when I really needed my laptop to work.
Not to mention that I still needed to use business tools that are only available on Windows. Redacting and signing PDFs in Acrobat, creating images for Windows machines (I’m also the IT department), Autodesk software, etc.
Windows + WSL allows me to get the best of both worlds, with all my Linux apps running alongside my Windows ones on the same hypervisor. I just wish they would support PCI device passthrough, as part of my job involves writing and debugging kernel drivers for some custom FPGA accelerators.
Huh, I’ve been using grub to boot into windows 11 for a few years now. Never had an issue with it. Are there specific grub versions that were affected?
It will be taken out of her estate and her son will get zero inheritance.
I mean, yeah. Reddit is so big that they don’t give a shit whether you use the platform or not. They can continue falsely banning thousands of people each day because their user base is so big that those lost users wouldn’t even be a rounding error.
Stop patronizing places that don’t give a shit about you beyond how much they can sell your data for.
Yes, that is exactly how our home toilets work. Many commercial toilets are tankless and rely on water pressure to operate, but I doubt that’s what’s being discussed here.
They just built a massive chip fab outside Phoenix so there’s clearly some US-based division the government has jurisdiction over.
Well yeah, how are we going to get rich if we aren’t taking money from 5 year olds?
They work great in parking lots.
Source: Ridden in several Waymos
The car is still completely functional without an internet connection. You could just disconnect the cellular antenna and drive perfectly fine forever (just without ever getting software updates, traffic and map updates, and being able to use music apps in the car).
Have you ever visited an Asian country?
I love Mlem. The iOS native design reminds me of Apollo.
I’d love to see the article but unfortunately the site is unusable with full-page ads and popups the moment you open the page.
Everyone in the UK* less safe. AFAIK, the data encryption feature was only disabled for UK users.
An open-source distributed storage service you can self-host to fullfill many needs.
Note: I am not affiliated with this project in any way. I think it’s a very promising alternative to things like MinIO and deserves more attention.