Blue_Morpho
@Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
- Comment on Call me SKEPT1KAL 1 day ago:
Special Relativity was the theory to explain the results of the Michelson Morley Experiment from 20 years earlier that everyone else ignored because it made them uncomfortable and didn’t want to do the math.
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Lower Decks' Finale May Not Be the End, Says Tawny Newsome 2 days ago:
I couldn’t believe it either!
- Comment on Need those unit conversions 6 days ago:
“We use the same word for all units.”
“Oh, you’re British!”
- Comment on Crisco in a Terracotta: Decoding the (Mostly) Useless Candle Meme 1 week ago:
Heating something close is objectively measureable.
A pot of water boils on a stove instead of standing next to a stove despite the stove releasing the same heat.
- Comment on He was pretty awful too, you know. 1 week ago:
Ford died in 1947. He’s not currently overthrowing democracy.
- Comment on And there was no on line manual 1 week ago:
If you didn’t already know that was how to set the station you’d get a scolding from your parent. “Stop messing with it or you will break it!”
- Comment on And there was no on line manual 1 week ago:
How did you know without the manual? I used to read the manual cover to cover many times because what else are you going to do on a car ride?
- Comment on And there was no on line manual 1 week ago:
You don’t need an online manual when there’s an in glovebox manual.
- Comment on Why virtual desktops always have same background? 1 week ago:
I’m not familiar with it but Google says Windows does allow different backgrounds with virtual desktops although there’s a bug with Win 11.
- Comment on This spoon. 1 week ago:
It’s a soup spoon. It doesn’t seem that unusual. You aren’t supposed to stick the entire spoon in your mouth.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
and made a big deal about Republican obstruction for more than a single soundbite
A huge factor is that they can’t because all mainstream media is controlled by Republicans.
You can’t get a message out when it won’t be aired.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
You don’t need to investigate thousands. You arrest Trump on Jan 7th and put him in jail without bail. Then you build your case.
On June 15, 1950, Greenglass was arrested by the FBI for espionage. He named Julius Rosenberg as a spy. On July 17, 1950, Julius was arrested on suspicion of espionage.
That’s one e month before arrest ON SUSPICION.
Execution on June 19, 1953.
It was three years from arrest to electric chair.
We have more evidence of Trump’s coup than we had evidence of Rosenberg’s spying.
- Comment on Charities of Employees from "non-profit" I was going to donate too 2 weeks ago:
Again, no. In most businesses the hard to replace workers are not promoted because they can’t be replaced. The ones that can be replaced are the ones who are promoted to management.
- Comment on Charities of Employees from "non-profit" I was going to donate too 2 weeks ago:
Talent and experience isn’t that rare. Nor does executive compensation correlate with performance.
- Comment on Intel Arc B580 'Battlemage' GPU announced - 1440p Ultra gaming for $249 2 weeks ago:
Nvidia says the $2000 5090 comes out in January. They haven’t even hinted at an announcement for the 5060 so it will be a very long time before it comes out.
- Comment on Have your parents or grandparents told you that you are a crybaby for complaining about the financial challenges young people face today? They are wrong and here's why. 3 weeks ago:
“Examine policies”
That assumes the politicians are telling the truth.
If you go by what a politician tells you they are going to do for you, you end up voting for Trump.
- Comment on Reddit morals vs Lemmy morals in the greentext community 3 weeks ago:
Lemmy.world does censor it.
- Comment on They nailed it 3 weeks ago:
I thought it was going to be an AoE joke too!
- Comment on Don't tell me what to do 3 weeks ago:
It’s a cue mark to let your browser know it’s time to load a new gif.
- Comment on Opinion | Don’t Do Trump’s Work for Him on Mass Deportations 4 weeks 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! 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago:
Solar with Battery grid storage is now cheaper than nuclear.
- Comment on I put on my robe and my wizard hat 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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.