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- Comment on Entropy? Never heard of it. 5 days ago:
This might work on the scale of a building to even out its own power usage throughout a day, but to make a difference on a city grid scale, you need an insane amount of height and/or weight.
Check out Pumped Water Energy Storage. It’s the same concept but uses water as the weight. Doing the math on the Ludington Pumped Storage Power Plant active calacity, it stores over 100 billion pounds of water.
- Comment on Entropy? Never heard of it. 5 days ago:
I’m sure the AI datacenters would have a few GW to spare if we put the LLMs on pause.
- Comment on Entropy? Never heard of it. 5 days ago:
Is that using numbers for carbon capture from the atmosphere? Carbon capture directly on the exhaust of a fossil fuel power plant would probably be an order of magnitude more efficient. Obviously you can’t sustain everything by only using fuel combustion, but you could probably reduce to total emissions per kWh quite a bit without even looking at renewables.
- Comment on What Refutes Science... 1 week ago:
Speech-to-text set to the wrong language or something?
- Comment on Thank you for your service 5 weeks ago:
Reply-all:
Guys, stop responding to this thread with Reply-all!
- Comment on Same 5 weeks ago:
With how much Factorio I’ve played, I’m down to less than $0.10/hr with the Space Age expansion. I’m nowhere close to done.
- Comment on Same 5 weeks ago:
2 of those games are from 2022 and 2023
- Comment on A delicate balance 1 month ago:
It’s certainly an argument I’ve heard a lot when talking about inconsistencies in the Bible. Usually it’s blamed on translation, missing context, or exaggerated retellings. It was written by many different people who weren’t necessarily talking to each other after all. I have a hard time taking any of it seriously.
- Comment on You'll never see it coming 1 month ago:
I’m going to file this under the category of philosophy similar to “what if we’re living in a simulation?” and “parallel universe” theory. As far as I’m aware we have no evidence that there’s even such thing as a false vacuum, so this is all just speculation based on some theories.
- Comment on I love my smart TV (From Mastodon) - Repost 1 month ago:
These don’t seem to be particularly new panels. $600 and only 97% of the sRGB color space (= ~78% DCI-P3), meanwhile a similarity priced LG “QNED” can do 90-95% of DCI-P3. I’m not sure can even call those TVs HDR, they’re only 8-bit color. None of these models can even remotely compare to a brand new OLED TV.
- Comment on A ton of bollocks, more like 1 month ago:
You’re thinking of a mammogram , a maritime is a long-distance running event over a distance of about 42km.
- Comment on Diamond market 1 month ago:
It really is unfortunate that someone spending the time to craft a well written comment explaining something looks so much like a ChatGPT response. It’s what they trained it to do after all…
- Comment on Diamond market 1 month ago:
Diamonds turn to coal under pressure? I thought it was the other way around. i.e. formed from coal under high pressure.
The fact diamonds can burn is pretty crazy, but it makes sense since they’re mostly (entirely?) carbon.
- Comment on oh man 2 months ago:
I agree that it’s possible to arrive at the conclusion “pain is bad” as an individual, but I guess what I’m arguing is that there’s no absolute hard line on what is and isn’t ethical. Each individual person might have their own personal line, but there is no guarantee that line will be the same as another person’s. Case-in-point, a psychopath is someone with reduced or no empathy for others. They may very well not consider pain in others bad at all.
- Comment on oh man 2 months ago:
How does that study account for the fact a high income individual is significantly more likely to have access to a doctor to diagnose them with a personality disorder?
- Comment on oh man 2 months ago:
Statement #3 is hearsay. I would argue the only thing you can know is that you personally do not like pain. There is no absolute good or bad, only what aligns or doesn’t with your passions.
The Golden Rule of “treating others as one would want to be treated”, is a logical conclusion that comes from experiencing the world and seeing that there’s a high probability that others will return actions in kind. It’s not perfect since everyone has different preferences (just look at the variety of sexualities and kinks out there).
- Comment on oh man 2 months ago:
Something I’ve come to realize recently is that everyone has selfish motivations, some people are just a lot more careful about how those motivations effect others. Personally I worry quite a bit about how I might be inconveniencing others with my actions, and tend to stay rather isolated as a result.
- Comment on oh man 2 months ago:
I feel like I’m learning a decent amount from this thread. I definitely consider myself a (overly) rational person. I haven’t really thought about it before, but obviously I’ve still got some passions driving things.
If I was to put it into words, I’d probably say I’m passionate about learning how things work and finding elegant simple solutions to problems. Which is generally tied to my selfish goal of having more free time to just experience the world without responsibilities.
Thanks for inspiring me to think about this, maybe I should go read some more philosophy…
- Comment on bestchem club 2 months ago:
There’s cleary only one Oxygen, it should be formatted
C10 H14 OOr better yet, C~10~H~14~O - Comment on Electric Cars Could Last Much Longer Than You Think - Rather than having a shorter lifespan than internal combustion engines, EV batteries are lasting way longer than expected 2 months ago:
This is a bit difficult than MTBF like on harddrives. Batteries are usually warrantied to 80% capacity because it’s a wear thing, not a random chance of complete failure. A battery isn’t going to last twice as long as another one by chance, this is all about determining the average or worst-case operating range the battery will be in and using that to figure out a warranty period where they think all cars will fall within.
- Comment on New oven and they lock the air fryer functionality behind wifi. 2 months ago:
Why the fuck does an oven have a touch screen? That’s a horrible idea. Good luck cleaning your kitchen without accidentally hitting “buttons” on the oven! And heaven forbid food splatter turns on your oven broiler.
- Comment on Just the essentials 2 months ago:
I did not use a calculator the first time, but I don’t think I was that far off.
This calculator says that if you live in California making $400k a year, your takehome pay is $238k
- Comment on Just the essentials 2 months ago:
You pay like 40% tax at that salary.
- Comment on Just the essentials 2 months ago:
That’s like 400k a year pre-tax salary. If they’re making that much and still can’t afford a nice meal, they’ve got some serious problems with budgeting and restraint.
- Comment on True horsepower 2 months ago:
Definitely lots of hate for touchscreens and modern
featuresspyware.I haven’t seen as much hate for driving in general like fuckcars has, but I’m definitely still in agreement that most cities are too car dependent. I actually enjoy driving for fun, but HAVING to drive to go anywhere sucks. I miss living downtown in a walkable city.
- Comment on Bottom of the Ocean 2 months ago:
Also the majority of it has been recovered and brought back up. The hull and billionaire bits are back on shore somewhere.
- Comment on But yes. 2 months ago:
Definitely dangerous, but I’m less scared of that one. I’ve got detectors for that, and that’s more of a “go peacefully in your sleep” kind of danger.
- Comment on But yes. 3 months ago:
Well, now this is on my list of invisible things that scare me:
- Radiation
- Methanol fires
- Supercritical steam jets
- Comment on Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy 3 months ago:
babe
- Comment on Trick OR Treat 3 months ago:
I had to double-take since in Python a common alternative to
trick ? treat : notreatis(trick and treat) or notreatBut I don’t think this translates to overlapping circles very well. “trick implies treat” is only defined inside the trick circle, outside is undefined if treat is true or not.