grandkaiser

@grandkaiser@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨True horsepower⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Riding a horse while drunk is illegal in most countries

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Know thy enemy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh certainly. Power storage is a real problem, especially with up-down renewables. I just didn’t understand why you were saying oil can’t be produced but hydrogen can. Synthesizing oil for power storage is a terrible idea 😄

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Know thy enemy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Neither is hydrogen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Know thy enemy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We absolutely can ‘make oil’. Been doing it since world war II. Synthetic oil is extremely common.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon thinks it's too late⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I pretty much re-invented myself around 20

  Same. I was an absolutely horrible person. Was a total failure headed for jail. Finally realized it one day when my ex girlfriend sprayed me with mace. Was that day, face puffy and swollen, that I realized I had become bad guy that people live in fear of. I completely reinvented myself. Lost all of my friends, girlfriend, apartment, basically everything. Joined the military with $200 in my bank account and no debts unpaid. 10 years later and I have a successful career, good friends, wife, and expecting my first child in two months from now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon thinks it's too late⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “In 20 years from now, you’d give anything to be your age again with the opportunities you have available to you right now”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drink it, I dare ya⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Alright, so let’s say this bottle suddenly appeared on your kitchen counter:

  t = 0:

  • The liquid C₂O immediately begins to decompose. Since it’s highly unstable, the bonds between carbon and oxygen atoms start breaking apart, even more rapidly in the presence of air.
  • The immediate breakdown will produce carbon monoxide (CO) and elemental carbon ©.

  t = 0 to t = 0.01 milliseconds: The initial decomposition reaction of C₂O releases a significant amount of heat. The heat from this reaction will cause the wax paper bottle to begin melting almost instantly. This would expose the highly reactive C₂O directly to the air. Since the wax paper is flammable, the intense heat would cause the bottle to ignite, adding burning wax to the mix.

  t = 0.01 milliseconds to t = 0.1 milliseconds:

  • The carbon monoxide (CO) gas and solid carbon particles being produced will come into direct contact with the air. In the presence of oxygen, the carbon monoxide (CO) would start to burn, forming carbon dioxide (CO₂) and releasing even more heat: 2CO + O2 --> 2CO2
  • The wax paper bottle will likely be completely engulfed in flames at this point, burning rapidly due to the intense heat generated by the decomposition of C₂O and the oxidation of CO.

  t = 0.1 milliseconds to t = 1 millisecond:

  • The wax paper, now fully aflame, is contributing to the fire, adding smoke and soot from the combustion of hydrocarbons in the wax.
  • As the heat from the fire builds, any residual liquid C₂O would further vaporize and decompose, intensifying the reaction. The decomposition continues to produce CO and solid carbon, while the surrounding air feeds oxygen to the burning CO, turning it into CO₂.
  • At this stage, the pressure inside the remaining wax paper bottle would become too high, likely causing the bottle to burst in a small explosion, spraying any remaining liquid C₂O into the air.

  t = 1 millisecond to t = 1 second:

  • As the explosion occurs, the now airborne liquid C₂O particles would decompose instantly, reacting with the available oxygen in the air and producing more CO and CO₂. The additional heat generated would cause a fireball to erupt, consuming any remaining wax from the bottle and intensifying the flames.
  • Carbon soot (from the solid carbon produced in the decomposition) would mix with the smoke from the burning wax, forming a thick, black cloud.
  • The surrounding air would become superheated, and the fireball would quickly dissipate as the remaining C₂O fully decomposes and reacts with oxygen.

  (t = 1 second and beyond):

  • The result is a scorched area where the wax paper bottle used to be, surrounded by the remnants of burnt wax, carbon dioxide (CO₂), and solid carbon (soot).
  • The carbon monoxide initially produced would be mostly oxidized into carbon dioxide due to the presence of oxygen, though some trace CO might still linger.
  • Soot and charred remains of the wax bottle would coat the immediate area, while the air would be filled with the smell of burnt wax and carbon.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imma writer... 🧐⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Human: rearranges words and phrases they have learned over the course of their existence 😙👌 masterpiece

  Computer: rearranges words and phrases they have learned over the course of their existence 😡 plagiarism

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ok boomer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly! Back in my day, people used to fill up my gas for me and carry my things up to my hotel room. Young people are getting lazy! Makes it hard to humiliate the poors of they make ME do the work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 69 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Zomboid was originally inspired by CDDA. Much of the game flow and ideas are 1 to 1 copies. The biggest difference is that CDDA is a turn based game that is played on tiles (think rogue or nethack). From the inventory system to crafting to base construction to reading books, it’s all there.

  Oh. Except bites aren’t instant death. There’s no zombie virus. Dead bodies rise up (including yours!). You can still get infections and die from them, but you can also just clean your wounds. 1v1-ing a zombie is suicide though unless you have a decent weapon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey nerd⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  this is a comic man, you might be reading into it more than the artist intended… I was bullied in high school by a single, lone dude lots of times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In order to pay import duties, these crazy fuckers are expecting me to enter my bank logon details into their website. What. The. Fuck.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  lol whoops. I do like the idea of that tho.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 69 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re enjoying Project Zomboid, you might want to check out Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (CDDA). It’s a fantastic open-world survival game with a similar vibe, but it offers a lot more depth and complexity in its gameplay mechanics. Best part? CDDA is free and open-source.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In order to pay import duties, these crazy fuckers are expecting me to enter my bank logon details into their website. What. The. Fuck.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Partners are the stupidest fuckers on the planet. I won’t name names, but I have sicced my governance team on fucking http (NO S) websites, usage of certificate pinning, public-facing databases! (Protected by a shitty 2000’s-era username+password login interface) transferring credit card numbers in CLEAR TEXT. I swear I’ve seen every possible idiotic move from partners.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In order to pay import duties, these crazy fuckers are expecting me to enter my bank logon details into their website. What. The. Fuck.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Baking network engineer here: Never give out your login details. Not to your mom. Not to your brother. Not to me. Not to a company. Not to a random guy in India. Don’t do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You probably shouldn't trust the info anyway.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I do hope you can find it! It’s especially strange that the companies all implied that there was no answer (especially considering that reducing hallucinations has been one of the primary goals over the past year!) Maybe they meant that there was no answer at the moment. Much like how the wright Brothers had no way to control the random pitching and rolling and had no answer to it. (Of course the invention of the aileron would fix that later.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You probably shouldn't trust the info anyway.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s right around 9% lower than the statistic that 62% of all statistics on the Internet are made up on the spot!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Academic writing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  *thesaurisi

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon falls in love⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course you can! This is Lemmy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AskReddit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So what’s out there then?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon starts asking questions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been riding for 20+ years and never had this issue. I’ve tried cleats. Tried it for a year before I eventually switched back to a good set of pedals + a good set of shoes. Admittedly about half of my riding is mountain biking though, so that might be part of my bias.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon starts asking questions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Over engineering problem

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Posting the shopping cart theory because people had questions in a separate thread⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The wind howls through the empty parking lot as the dim streetlights flicker above interrupted by the faint screech of an unreturned cart, left abandoned in the cold silence, rolling aimlessly across the asphalt. A masked man steps out of the shadows…

  “You think it’s nothing. A small act of carelessness, a moment of laziness. But that cart, left adrift, has a price. A price in scraped cars, twisted ankles, in the chaos that spreads like rot in the hearts of men. You see, I don’t care about your excuses. I don’t care if it’s raining, if you’re in a hurry. Order is what keeps us human. And you… you spit on it with every cart left behind.”

  Knuckles crack in the darkness

  “I’m the reckoning you never see coming. You think no one’s watching when you shove it into the next spot, but I’m always watching. Every cart out of place, every rule ignored, it leads to something darker, something worse. And that’s where I come in—to stop the small sins before they become something more.”

  The masked man takes a step forward, his voice low and gravelly.

  “I am Cart Noir, the last line of defense between order and chaos. You think it’s just a cart? It’s never just a cart.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Artefacting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Somewhat interestingly, the module of your brain that cooks up the image of an apple doesn’t know what an apple is either. It just knows what they look like. Many modules come together to produce what you consider an apple, then the interpreter module accepts their input and realizes it.

  When you decide to draw this, commands are sent to the cerebellum to direct the hands to move your hands to make the realized image. Your cerebellum doesn’t understand what an apple is either, it’s just accepting input to draw specific shapes as directed by various parts of your brain that know how to draw. (And those parts don’t understand what an apple is either, they’re choosing what to draw based on the synaptic information of an apple).

  No part of your brain knows what an apple is in isolation. Is easy to think of your brain as having a section for “apple” but it’s actually different parts of the brain keeping their own local records of what an apple is. Combining them creates what an apple is to that brain

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon drives a bus⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Who are you talking to? The 4chan user that posted this last month on 4chan?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Break science with this one weird trick⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Firefighters hate this one easy trick!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Break science with this one weird trick⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Big oil strikes again!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Many such cases⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Got bad news for you bud… Same bank.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fromsoft classes like⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  😏

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I too love watching CP 😍⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cheese pizza?