Blue_Morpho
@Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
- Comment on Opinion | Don’t Do Trump’s Work for Him on Mass Deportations 10 hours ago:
I don’t know man, that Nursery/Garden Center across the street was covered in Trump signs. Of course the owner thinks deportation is for others, not his cheap labor.
- Comment on I built a Home Theatre for the Price of a Soundbar, and it SLAPS! 1 day ago:
No I’m not watching Linus tech tips talk about how great Facebook is.
I’m certainly not wasting time on the ground breaking news that buying used can save money.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 4 days ago:
Yes you have to build for worst case. That’s what I already said.
You are comparing overbuilt nuclear but acting like bess can’t be over built too. That’s why the cost of storage is the only important metric.
You need an absolute minimum of 2 nuclear reactors to be reliable (Belgium has 7). That doubles the cost of nuclear. But it doesn’t matter because that’s factored in when you look at levelized cost. You look at cost per MWhr. How reliability is achieved doesn’t matter.
Bess is $200 per MWhr.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 5 days ago:
It looks at the cost of power generation
Yes.
But then you added the requirement of 90% uptime which is isn’t how a grid works. For example a coal generator only has 85% uptime yet your power isn’t out 4 hours a day every day.
Nuclear reactors are out of service every 18-24 months for refueling. Yet you don’t lose power for days because the plant has typically two reactors and the grid is designed for those outages.
So the only issue is cost per megawatt. You need 2 reactors for nuclear to be reliable. That’s part of the cost. You need extra bess to be reliable. That’s part of the cost.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 5 days ago:
This is old news now! Here’s a link from 5 years ago. forbes.com/…/new-solar--battery-price-crushes-fos…
This is from last year: lazard.com/…/2023-levelized-cost-of-energyplus/
As to uptime, they have the same legal requirements as all utilities.
I was pro nuke until finding out solar plus grid battery was cheaper.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 5 days ago:
Solar with Battery grid storage is now cheaper than nuclear.
- Comment on I put on my robe and my wizard hat 6 days ago:
Every ten times you search for dice it puts one vote in the dm category. The next time you need to search 100 times.
- Comment on Swords suck, spears are a way more effective weapon 6 days ago:
I fenced in college against people with slightly longer arms and just that minor difference put me at a huge disadvantage.
- Comment on Swords suck, spears are a way more effective weapon 6 days ago:
At close range the spear becomes a staff which can block the knife and give a concussion thwack.
- Comment on Anon tries programming in Java 1 week ago:
Having error messages that match the language is actually helpful. A reference and a pointer aren’t exactly the same.
Like if Rust output “invalid word size” on a type mismatch.
- Comment on Anon tries programming in Java 1 week ago:
nullpointerexception is more likely the developper’s fault
Of course it was the developer’s fault. But it’s absurd a language without pointers throws an error about pointers.
- Comment on Anon's autistic cousin and Frasier 1 week ago:
Tell me it was Ari Gold!
- Comment on If you're in this meme, go buy a fibre supplement 1 week ago:
There are YouTube channels devoted to making those. But now with epoxy resin.
- Comment on Are there ways to use VR headset for realtime assistance? 1 week ago:
I’ve done it a few times. It’s not the best but vr would be far worse.
Do you think “how do I turn video back on?” would be easier in VR? You have obviously never used VR.
- Comment on “Star Trek Origin” Movie Reportedly Headed To Greenlight For Production Start In Early 2025 1 week ago:
Origin of Purple Klingons.
- Comment on Are there ways to use VR headset for realtime assistance? 1 week ago:
There’s nothing VR would give you that streaming video like FaceTime gives you. A smartphone is better because they can point it at things they couldn’t reach if they had a headset on.
Just video call and have them point with one hand while holding their phone with the other.
- Comment on Are there ways to use VR headset for realtime assistance? 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t recommend it either but your VR info is out of date. Quest3 can live stream and does inside out tracking so it never “loses” tracking. It can stream a live color view. Even my Quest 2 lets me walk all over the house but only with a grainy black and white feed.
- Comment on Bushtit isn’t much better 😭 1 week ago:
It’s pronounced Boo-shtit.
- Comment on How many Nintendo Switches do I need for a family of gamers? 1 week ago:
One but buy extra controllers so 4 people can play Mario Kart, etc together.
- Comment on Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy 2 weeks ago:
A more interesting calculation the mathematician should have done is how many monkeys are needed to write Shakespeare in the lifespan of the universe rather than starting with 200k.
- Comment on Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy 2 weeks ago:
The entire thing is utterly ridiculous. The meme is infinite monkeys.
The mathematician said, “What if it was 200k monkeys?”
Reporters claim mathematician proved infinite monkeys meme is wrong.
200,000 does not equal infinite!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The OP is missing something. The two specific funds of his 5 holdings that he said he bought are both up. The 3 he didn’t provide specifics are up too.
$15k should be all in Vanguard total market index. Smaller funds are riskier and could take decades to show their greater returns.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Your results don’t make sense. What are all the specific funds because the ones you listed didn’t lose money.
- Comment on Go fuck yourself, Mike 3 weeks ago:
The $800 is to be a game dev for their new release: warehouse associate.
- Comment on New ‘Spider-Noir’ Set Photos Show First Look at Nicolas Cage’s Live-Action Suit 3 weeks ago:
No one should let him start a new Spider-Man until he’s finished his Superman.
- Comment on Danny DeVito is an absolute unit. 3 weeks ago:
I’ve never seen Danny Devito in person. He could be over 6 feet tall like John Rhys-Davies in Lord of the Rings and everything is camera tricks to make you think he’s short.
- Comment on Eat lead 3 weeks ago:
Show me where I said that you were wrong.
You called my comment, which contained no insults, an insult.
If you can say the 7 day creation of the Bible isn’t literal, then Jesus’s resurrection can be non literal too. That’s not an insult. That’s pointing out hypocrisy.
- Comment on Eat lead 3 weeks ago:
You dismiss anyone who believes in the entire Bible as reading it wrong, yet find it insulting when it is suggested that you are the one reading it wrong.
I’m only pointing out hypocrisy.
- Comment on Eat lead 3 weeks ago:
Have you ever considered that I do believe in a literal Jesus that lived and died.
I know. That’s why I brought it up and you reacted so hostile.
You pick and choose what to believe. You believe in Jesus only because it’s in the Bible but don’t believe in the parts Bible when it’s inconvenient.
Science memes is for science jokes, not Christian apologetics.
- Comment on Eat lead 3 weeks ago:
It’s science memes. It’s not serious. I can reply with whatever I want.
Funny how you think only your posts are appropriate.