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The Geek's Raven
[An excerpt, with thanks to Marcus Bales]

Once upon a midnight dreary,
fingers cramped and vision bleary,
System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor,
Longing for the warmth of bedsheets,
Still I sat there, doing spreadsheets:
Having reached the bottom line,
I took a floppy from the drawer.
Typing with a steady hand, I then invoked the SAVE command
But got instead a reprimand: it read "Abort, Retry, Ignore".

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Tuesday, March 01, 2022

Any thoughts on the Polywell?

At least it's a cheaper alternative to the Tokamak laser based design. By using electrostatics rather than lasers, it's much simpler and cheaper. But, we still have this ongoing problem of "just give us a little more money, and we're almost done!" At least, it's a million dollars with the Polywell until we're "almost done", rather than a billion dollars, as with the Tokamaks! Frankly, I don't see the slightest possibility that either approach will work. Perhaps I'm mistaken? They simply haven't taken the design concepts far enough to ensure that they are really practical.

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