I've not tried tin foil. The insulation seems to be more robust, and it wants to lie flat. It's also optimised for IR reflection, tin foil isn't.
Downside, it's a near perfect blackout material. I only put them up when it's going to be ridiculously hot, and only on the sun facing side of the house.
The gloves and overalls, that might possibly have been exposed are also 'nuclear waste'.
It's sometimes better to think of it as "heavy metal contaminated" waste. Most of it won't show up on a gigar counter, but has enough heavy metals byproducts that you don't want it sat in the water table.
The only stuff to seriously worry about is the high/medium level waste. This only makes up a tiny fraction of the overall waste.
You can get wall insulation that is, effectively a stiff bubble wrap made of milar foil. It's not even that expensive I cut it to match windows, then used suction cuts to fix it in place.
It's amazingly effective at keeping heat out. During the 45 degree weather, I barely had to use my air conditioner, to have a comfortable temperature.
Let's say a benevolent alien ship passes by, and discovers a planet with a 90% child mortality rate, due to disease. They introduce vaccines to the population which drop it to under 10%. That's great.
They return a few decades later, and the civilization is in shambles. It turned out that birth rates didn't change much. The population started doubling every 5 years. Food production couldn't keep up. The subsequent wars famine and civil unrest devastated the society.
We've seen similar problems, to a lesser extent, on earth. Providing cheap, second hand cloths to Africa ended up destroying the local textile industry. Many places are now dependent on that aid.
In star trek, Star fleet seems to do fly by visits to many places. They are not equipped to assess the results of interference. That would require a team onsite for long term study and assistance. You would need to improve multiple areas at once, each supporting the others. We see some evidence of this, in some episodes, though it is lacking.
The pre-warp limit also makes some sense. It's an obvious marker for a society. By that point they have likely learnt the lessons with neive help internally. They can assess the risks, and introduce them carefully. They are also likely close enough in technology that the boost won't destabilise their economy etc.
It's far from perfect, but as a rule for fly by captains, it makes a good amount of sense.
It can be used more empirically. The more matching points, the less likely a given match is down to random luck. A smudge will have relatively few useful points, and so far less reliability.
The big problem is you can either use fingerprints to identify someone to a scene, or to search for a match in a database. 1 in a million sounds impressive to a jury, and is in a 1 to 1 test. Compare it to a database of 10 million, and you will expect to get 10 matches by random chance alone.
It can be a good balance. It's private enough not to have random people just gawking at you, but public enough to meet new people, who might be interested. Easy access to drinks and bar food is a very nice bonus.
If it helps, like often attracts like. My diagnosis was delayed because my wife insisted I was normal. It turns out we both have ADHD and autism. 🤷♂️ Also, an impressive number of our friend have now been diagnosed as various neurodiversities. It set off a bit of a chain reaction.
If it helps, at least in the UK, a lot of country pubs will let you rent a side room/back room for free, or close to it. They rely on getting you in and drinking and buying food.
I don't know about the cyber truck specifically, but there is definitely already open source hardware and firmware designed for this. It interfaces with the battery via canbus. It then presents as a standard battery to most solar inverters. I know it definitely works with standard tesla batteries.
I used both options. It's worth mentioning that, depending where you live, using a drying rack indoors can cause major mold issues. The humidity needs to go somewhere.
It's also worth noting that modern dryers are massively more efficient than the older ones. Many older dryers (at least in the UK) could run at around 2.5-3kW. my new one is down to 500W. That energy also gets dumped into the living area as heat, so isn't wasted in the winter.
Basically, the equations are not as simple as they first appear.
Something like the allwinner A13 is down at the low end of practical. It's about $1 per chip, wholesale. People have gotten it running on an ATMEGA before. It required a bunch of helper components however, and took 2 hours to boot up.
Just to play devil's advocate. There was recently an unverified report that some inverters contained an undocumented cellular modem. If true, it could, in theory, allow for remote modification or control, even when fully "offline" as far as the client was concerned. Basically a mobile phone based back door.
The solution is better verification, rather than bans however. Grid scale devices should have the hardware randomly audited. The software should also be audited and check summed. This would be burdensome at domestic levels, but seems reasonable at grid levels.
I personally suspect the crash in solar panel prices is a result of them deciding to get on with fixing the problem. Basically turn it from a political problem to an economic one.
They are also pushing hard for both modern nuclear fission and nuclear fusion power. Once they start coming online in bulk, their CO2 output will likely plummet.
I've noticed that people often put in near minimum acceptable effort to go optional tasks. The trick seems to be to make the easiest "acceptable" solution, to be an acceptable one.
Shopping carts are another example. The perfect solution is for people to return them to the front of the store. But that's too much effort for many. They leave them wherever they can dump it. An acceptable one is to return them to collection points. It's not optimal, but it's better, and most people will actually do it.
I suspect paradox are just taking a fuck you attitude here, but that's a separate point.
Like it or not, Linux is a very small part of the gaming ecosystem. We also now have proton, that makes it far less of an issue.
Give all this, I would rather a reliable windows version, with an eye towards not fucking over the proton translation. Any Linux version would likely lack a lot of bug testing etc.
The goal is a stable fast game that runs on Linux. How that is achieved is almost irrelevant. At this point, asking them to play nice with our translation layer is the best option.
I suspect that would be too close. You need a light year of lead to stop 50% of neutrinos. That makes distance the only real shielding. I'd guess 10AU should be enough to push the dose down to reasonable levels. About the distance from the sun to Saturn. If we put the oven in Saturn orbit, that could work. We would need to evacuate that side of the solar system, but that's not too hard.
The real challenge is getting your steak to the table in a timely manner. A relativistic missile could work. Unfortunately the exhaust of earth approach would be a hassle to deal with. The G forces also won't likely do your dinner any good.
Neutrinos can interact with my quarks (and so the nucleus) and electrons. The energy transferred however is very small. Supernova neutrinos are at around 10-12MeV. A photon with the same energy would be around 0.1mm wavelength, or 2.9Ghz. For comparison, you need a wavelength of around 120nm (2500Thz) to crack DNA. This is in the UV band.
In short, neutrinos would damage via thermal effects. There would be effectively no shielding by other tissue, leading to near perfectly even heating. Your spaceship will also be kicked by the force. However, it would be evenly spread over every atom present. You wouldn't experience any g forces, just the feeling of being cooked alive, perfectly evenly. An external observer would see you get pushed back.
I'm now wondering on the kitchen utility of a neutrino microwave. It would deliver perfectly even cooking, unlike an oven, or microwave oven... The safety shielding and power requirements would likely be non-viable, however.
I've not tried tin foil. The insulation seems to be more robust, and it wants to lie flat. It's also optimised for IR reflection, tin foil isn't.
Downside, it's a near perfect blackout material. I only put them up when it's going to be ridiculously hot, and only on the sun facing side of the house.