Regulations mean nothing. Regulations are just a set of rules. The question is how meaningful the regulations are in relation to the topic under discussion, and the answer is not very. US cities, especially near industrial regions are fucking feral when it comes to particulate emissions. Just ask all the people who roll coal what rules are failing to prevent them from doing so.
It's a question of enforcement. Most large cities actually do a good job of it. I only see people "rolling coal" in rural areas with minimal law enforcement.
I *am* a good programmer, but there's a lot of boilerplate that sucks when you have to type it all out...
It is AMAZING for documentation. I've had ChatGPT create excellent documentation of my code... and then warn me about a few edge cases I forgot to handle...
Yes, and when they get to a power gain of two orders of magnitude they will have generated (but not extracted) as much energy as it took to fire the lasers that created the implosion since these use 300MJ/shot only delivering ~2MJ to the pellet.
...or they could use more efficient lasers.
Whereas NIF’s 1990s-era technology is only 0.5% efficient, Campbell says that modern lasers can get as high as 20%.
Nothing motivates a man more than to see his boss put in an honest day's work.