kuberoot

if it didn't invent grip buttons it was my first exposure to them

Ironically, I think it was those very buttons that infringed on a preexisting patent and led to Valve getting sued

If I'm understanding correctly, it's a noncommercial variant, so if you use these files to design a custom replacement shell, you can't sell it, right? Seems understandable, but a bit of a shame.

That's presumably (and hopefully) not GenAI, but a much lighter classification model built with the sole purpose of judging if an image is problematic, I have no problem with those.

To be clear, I was referencing this: https://clickhole.com/heartbreaking-the-worst-person-you-know-just-made-a-gr-1825121606/

It's not the same thing as the post, but I think it's pretty negative about that.

That's some "The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point" energy

I'm pretty sure we got taught about that in school, though I forgot most of it, including what you're supposed to do...

It's just a shame I hate raisins and most of them have those. Absolutely do recommend though.

To my understanding, you can't really do more than bring the parts together in a compact arrangement and keep them like that, so if the demon core would stay together (and not, say, get blown apart by the release of energy), then the issue would be a lack of fissile material (or reflectors), no?

See also an image of a nuclear bomb design (I think Little Boy) from Wikipedia, which illustrates the idea of sliding a rod of fissile material into a hollow cylinder, though the bomb did it in reverse. I think the design might be obsolete due to inefficiency, and it might need the tough shell to hold it together (and act as a neutron reflector).

This has been explored to death, e.g. via the Demon Core experiments

If I'm not mistaken, in case of the demon core accidents, the reaction was always interrupted by the experimenter frantically separating the two halves, right? Doesn't mean it would detonate, but using it as an example of why it wouldn't doesn't seem to check out if I'm remembering correctly.

Do you actually need conventional explosives? I had the impression all they do is reliably stick the big hunks of radioactive material together in a big bomb that needs to be delivered at high speeds and detonate automatically. Wouldn't it be enough to quickly shove a cylinder into a bigger core, perhaps with a motor or even a tensioned spring?

That of course doesn't waive the issue of the amount of fissile material, or the fact it needs to be all put together (you can't spread it around a vest)

The quote is that it can download an application though

IIRC people were testing cybertrucks for some auto-closing functionality, and if they encountered resistance, they would back off... Then try harder, slicing through hotdogs