@cstross @gsuberland Almost certainly not worth it, going on the gut reaction alone.

France's perfectly-functional not-at-all-exploded complement of nuclear power stations already release more tritium and deuterium than this into the ocean on an ongoing basis. I'd be interested in learning more about how the waste actinides being removed from the water before it's diluted and dumped are handled, but that's mostly from a "ooh, trivia" perspective than a "I have legitimate concerns for safety here" perspective.

@benjohn @gsuberland Bah, I'm under-caffeinated!

Still, a thousandfold drop in activity from "this is legal in drinking water where I live" should help, right?

@benjohn @gsuberland By the way, our legal definitions of "low-level radioactive waste" were drafted with ass-covering in mind rather than realistic concerns. British Telecom used to distribute land line phones in the 1960s/70s (the BT Trimphone™) that were banned from UK nuclear sites because if they got in they had to be treated as low-level waste—the plastic in the illuminated dial was tritiated:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimphon…

1960s British telephone model

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Yay!

I've legitimately been amazed and overwhelmed by both how many older trans people I've met, and by how many younger trans people have sidled into my messages on Tumblr to ask questions. I've been adopted as the 'nerdy trans uncle' by a couple of people and it brings me so much joy ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

Howdy! I turn 40 in January. But if we're only as old as we feel, then I turn 87 in January!

I'm a trans woman, and I've been on a long, slow road through transition. I got out of denial in 2017 but spent most of my time in the closet, since Tennessee didn't feel like the safest place to be visibly and openly trans. (Other, braver people manage it, but I don't know how.) Now, I've escaped the south, and I'm in the process of escaping the closet!

@ariaflame Oof, though I bet they were both still easier than using a NES controller and the icon bar in NES Elite. After playing Elite on keyboard and joystick, the NES controller feels super-restrictive. Though the fact that the interface works at all is some kind of miracle!

You can’t beat keyboard for old-school Elite, I reckon… 😀

@C8H10N4O2 Yep, the NES version contains the full Trumble mission (though without the C64 sprites that smother the canopy). There is no escape!

bbcelite.com/nes/bank_0/subrou…

The BBC Master version contains most of the code, but it’s never activated… phew.

The TBRIEF (Bank 0) subroutine - Elite on the BBC Micro and NES

Annotated code for the TBRIEF (Bank 0) subroutine in BBC Micro Elite

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Oh damn, there's the little b*#"@!&s still hiding there in elite-source-bank-0.asm....

JMP TBRIEF ; Jump to TBRIEF to offer the Trumble mission, returning

@C8H10N4O2 Thank goodness for the hints sections in computer magazines! That escape pod thing is particularly harsh.

I’ve not played the mission in the C64 version, so don’t know if it also does this, but the NES version has two dedicated sound effects for the sound of Trumbles dying in the heat. It’s quite entertaining - I’m just finishing off some NES deep dives, and will include the audio in the one on the Trumbles mission… 😀

our stoves generally run at 400V. they use a special plug and everything: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perilex

edit:
oh yeah the current. that should be about the same then. hm.

@robotistry actually now that I think about it the situation may be reversed; i've definitely seen 1200W microwaves in stores but i've never seen someone own one, possibly because of the aforementioned cheating thing.

also the "it makes your food radioactive" myth is unfortunately still alive and well in some circles.

I'm still using my old Malaysia-no-name-Cherry-clone (bought July 1993 here in Germany) as my primary keyboard.
It has only a DIN connector, but PS/2 adapetrs work just fine.

Happy birthday! 😉