pavowren @groundie@qoto.org

Wendelstein 7-X broke yesterday its own record with the 100 s discharge duration and ca. 400 MJ total energy injected into plasma.

This infrared image shows almost no thermal loads to the first wall, i.e. plasma is well insulated from the surroundings, which is essential for a future reactor. We call such state of plasma - detachment. It allows for longer operation of the reactor.

With 100 s plasma duration this is probably a world record for the duration of the detachment. (C) IPP

We plan to reach 200 seconds by the end of this campaign with 1 GJ injected into the plasma.

'Southern Girls' is my offering for Mare Monday. These four ladies of the south Onaqui herd climb the rise behind the waterhole. Led by The Blue-Eyed Filly who is all grown up now.

Get Prints Here: https://fon-denton.pixels.com/featured/southern-girls-fon-denton.html

#ArtAdventCalendar #WildHorses #WildHorsePhotographs #Horse #Horses #BuyIntoArt #GiftThemArt #BuyWallArt #FediGiftShop #Equine #Animals #Nature #Utah #Onaqui #Mustangs #AmericanWest #GiftIdeas #Photography #PhotographyIsArt

A hotel in Germany uses 3D carpets to prevent guests from running in the passage...

Two beautiful old ash trees on a misty morning. I walk past this field most days when walking the dog #photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #trees #LandscapePhotography

1000 out of 1200 kids in this school in #Oulu, #Finland, arrive by #bicycle, even in winter. 100-150 walk, rest by ski, kicksleds and car. This day it was -17°C, some days it can be colder than -30°C.

Note that this is only one of the four bicycle parking areas of this school 🤗

#Wintercycling #MeanwhileInOulu

Desert Bighorn Sheep. Goler Wash, Death Valley National Park, 2021 I was off roading as it was a Sunday and no planes were flying. I decided to head up the wash to the Barker Ranch (where Manson was caught) and it took about 3 hours to go ten miles. Saw no life on the way there but was treated to these beauties. #sheep #DeathValley #wildlife #animals #photography

A sad day, indeed, one of the bright men died ... remember the quintessential book? The Mythical Man-Month....the author of it is Fred Brooks

https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1593478292341813248?s=20&t=rkaFAcbCVXG0lnPSr57xHQ

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1593478292341813248?s=20&t=rkaFAcbCVXG0lnPSr57xHQ

#linux #unix

Pat Martino Trio with John Scofield - Sunny #jazz #mastoradio https://yewtu.be/watch?v=8q742ZgZC28

Just landed, and straight into the player:

Elvin Jones - Revival: Live at Pookie's Pub (Blue Note Records)

Elvin Jones-d, Joe Farrell-ts/fl, Billy Greene-p, Wilbur Little-b, captured live July 28-30, 1967 at Pookie's Pub in NYC. Larry Young sits in on piano on one track.

@jazz

#MusicAgainstMadness #jazz #NowListening

#nowlistening #jazz #music #guitar

Ferenc #Snétberger #Romani #Hungarian

*For My People* with the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra
https://open.spotify.com/album/6yaBaw68d5ZcUjaEbFaCEY?si=LB-I4n0QSz-UAuB_k98raQ

#FerencSnétberger

@groundie Thanks for the info. I interned at Intel in the mid-1980s but don't recall the 4004 being mentioned.

I was there when the 80286 (or just the "286") was the hot new generation, the 8086 and 8088 were the bread-and-butter standards (excluding microcontrollers like the 8041, 8042, and 8051 series). The 80186 and little-known 80188 were compatible with the 8086 and 8088, respectively, but included core motherboard features like the interrupt controller on the processor chip.

That was also the time of Intel's 432 processor, a microcoded CPU that directly executed Smalltalk bytecode for object-oriented programming (OOP). The 432 was an interesting idea but failed massively in the marketplace because its microcoded architecture on a CPU core of that era was simply too slow to be viable for real applications.

Close-up shots of a common yellow swallow tail (Papilio machaon) butterfly, photographed in Epirus, Greece. #photography #insects #entomology

@groundie Or switch to a different theme which doesn't have tickers included.
@khird

#nowlistening #jazz #music

Wolfgang #Muthspiel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Muthspiel
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Muthspiel

Scott #Colley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Colley

Brian #Blade
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Blade

*Angular Blues*
https://open.spotify.com/album/4wxLJpGmJetMtZHslJz3DR?si=VEppV5vKTomJ1wxPklw6Gg

@groundie @obi Wow, if reading put me to sleep, I wouldn't be an insomniac! But reading to learn doesn't hold a candle to lively debates, in my experience. I read up on something to get started, but I don't really know something until I have to explain it to someone else. And have them pick apart and question my explanation, of course. Which tends to lead to more reading/research. It's what all my closest relationships are built on.