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Weekly Ramblecast 113: Teaching Sand How to Think
🕑 Added 2023-08-08 23:18:29 +0000 UTCOn this week's ramble: power bricks just keep getting smaller, we're all way into trains, Clash Royale exhibits surprising all-ages appeal, the computer heat needs to get expunged, and it seems that SOME superconductors just aren't so super.
CHAPTERS
(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:00:33) Beating the (PC) heat in the summer isn't easy
(00:06:47) LK-99 more like LK-WHATEVER (got 'em)
(00:15:20) Can I get a superconducting laptop charger?
(00:21:24) We should all aspire to a cyberpunk workbench
(00:25:33) Electricity: still difficult!
(00:31:21) The future is probably not now after all
(00:31:42) BUILD MORE TRAINS
(00:43:42) Hacking the route planning as a social experiment
(00:49:13) Hail the noble taxi cab
(00:51:54) Time to really break in the house
(00:57:03) The youth have discovered Clash Royale
(01:02:36) They've also discovered the classic memes
Comments
Morgan Kocotis
I picked up the pine power. Perfect for my needs. I’ll report how it works with an iPhone Xr, 12 Pro and 13 Pro.
Ken
I work in a Primary Standards Lab where we have something called a Josephson Voltage System that uses a superconductor to realize the volt. We have to keep it at 4 Degrees Kelvin for it to work. A room temperature superconductor really would be amazing. We use a combination of liquid helium and vacuum to get it down last low with this newer system. Our old system used tanks full of liquid helium that we would have to get refilled every month or so. Helium isn't as easy to get as it used to be and it's even more scarce when the Large Hadron Collider is operational. That's why we went to the new system. Much less helium to worry about.
