I’m not really down to watch a 90 minute video on the dramas of astrophysics, so I’m not sure what it says, but interestingly Sabine Hossenfelder took an extremely minor swipe at him not too long ago. Guess the dude is at least legit-enough for that? Haha

Dave does a lot debunk videos but this is just a clickbait title as it's an interview with Anton.

Clickbait which you made worse? Come on man, don't do that.

Continuing the joke on Antons titles, lighten up.

I worked for a financial org with over a trillion in assets, and they had a 100% acceptable variance on project length predictions. Made for a laid-back atmosphere at work but boy. How they ever swung that is beyond me.

“We predict a year, so it’ll take anywhere between 8 seconds and 24 months!” AND IT WORKED???

Thanks to blackbody radiation, every human skydiver briefly becomes a star by this definition! ;)

It needs a core generating energy through fusion, which has density requirements, for what it’s worth.

To add on to the other response, think of it like the star “leaking” into space. It’ll be defined as a pretty radically different size at some point in the future, even as it’s still undergoing fusion.

In the context of a link aggregator, it’s arguably the only thing that matters

I think it has become common, but I never heard it until a few years ago. Now it's seemingly everywhere. When I was a kid, it was just "Here kitty kitty" or making a clicking noise with your tongue or something.

> making a clicking noise with your tongue or something

I still do that today, and it works better than pspspspsps. When I was young, if my cat was outside on the porch I could click my tongue and he'd come running from a half block away. What a good kitty he was.

The wiki article on it says it was known to locals. I think the problem is that they kept describing tilcayo, and everyone who wasn't there but was listening said "Oh that sounds exactly like an oncilla. must be a second name or something."

Yeah that's what I'm curious about. "Known to locals" is very vague, and there are a lot of situations that could fit that description. The situation you mention is probably the most reasonable concrete interpretation, but my guess is that there was a game of telephone from locals -> scientists -> journalists -> wiki, and any nuance we could read into has been lost.

I’ve read that if you’re trying to overturn a habit with a new habit, it’s best to undo whatever it is you did the old way, then redo it the new way.

So if you want to use ctrl-r, but you’re using the up key, use the down key to navigate back to a clear line, then use ctrl-r. Do it enough times and your brain will work overtime to find a shortcut (aka just doing it the new way).

Temporarily binding the up arrow in the shell to echo "Use Ctrl-R" is probably the quickest way to un-/re-learn

I learned to type `ls` properly the first time, every time, shortly after installing `sl`.

I’ve done this, nowadays asking Claude to rebind things so that I’m forced to learn. It comes with interesting side effects!

ive just done this, thanks for the suggestion:

"Use Ctrl-R for fuzzy history, or Ctrl-P/Ctrl-N for history entries"

(I have those bound to bindkey '^P' up-history and bindkey '^N' down-history instead of up and down arrow's "up-line-or-history" which is really annoying with multiline commands)

I use ctrl-c to abort command entry and start with a clear line.

I’m certain engineers have considered this, but it doesn’t seem answered anywhere: why not just pump the original brine back in to move around the oil? Wouldn’t that at least prevent eroding the storage unit and causing it to fail?

Unrelated: dang, he wasn’t underselling this being a pretty elegant solution! I never would’ve thought of it, for sure.

Yes, that's what they do. The brine is stored in huge pools next to the extraction site.

Wouldn't you then need to solve the similar problem of where to store the brine in the meantime?

Yeah, but that’s probably easier to solve than eventually losing the whole dang structure!

Depends a lot on how quickly it erodes the salt dome and the costs of using and storing the brine instead of using fresh water. Storing that much brine runs into the same space issues that storing the oil above ground would, slight ameliorated by the brine at least not being flammable.

Looking broadly at the costs to use brine instead of fresh water you'd need a combo of stored brine and a method to generate brine from freshwater (for withdrawals) and then desalinate the brine (for deposits). And that would require quite a bit of infrastructure to store and process the salt generated and used by the freshwater <-> brine process in both directions. Depending on how quickly you want to be able to draw down the SPR you'd need to store a significant amount of salt at the location.

At a maximum to be able to withdraw the entire reserve you'd need 1.3561 × 10^7 cubic meters of halite (this number uses the density of halite as a solid crystal not the density of a pile of ground up halite they'd actually use) weighing 2.94273 × 10^10 kg or 29.4273 Tg (teragrams, a rare treat to get to break out that unit). [0] That number gets smaller when you allow for receiving shipments of salt during the drawdown since they can't instantly pull out the full reserve so they have time to allow for receiving salt shipments.

[0] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%28714+million+barrels+...

I’ll never understand people so desperate to find villains in the world.