sik0fewl

@sik0fewl@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Power isn't energy. The difference matters more than you may know. | Technology Connections⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The concept of Watt-hours was messing me up. I think I get it now.

  • Energy is the potential to do some work, measured in Joules.
  • Power is the rate at which work is done and is measured in Joules per seconds, i.e., Watts.
  • If you want to know how much energy something “uses”, multiply it’s power by how long it has been running.
    • e.g., something with a power of 100 J/s (i.e., 100 Watts) running for 10 s will use 1,000 Joules of energy.
  • For household use, Joules is not a very convenient unit, so we use Watt-hours (W•h) or kW•h, which is the number of Watts an appliance uses times the number of hours it runs. Watt-hours and Joules are both units of energy.
    • Watt-hours is not Watts-per-hour, i.e., it is not a rate. It means Watts-times-hours. If we break it down, we can convert back to Joules: W•h = (3600s•J) / s = 3600J.

  I hope I summarized it properly and didn’t make any math mistakes!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blobfish⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So I don’t need to lose weight, I just need to live somewhere with 1,470 psi of pressure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has VC killed more value than it’s created?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve just hit the article limit with your free Sifted account

  Apparently the article limit is zero.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asking the important questions.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought it was just gas!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Also: "spend billions rescuing me, please"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

     MATT DAMON
         IS
     MATT DAMON
         IN
  BEING MATT DAMON
  

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crossbow killer Kyle Clifford was 'fuelled' by Andrew Tate videos before rape and murders, court told⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m surprised it’s rape if it’s “his Louise”.

  What the fuck?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Severance the new Lost?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just hope the ending is a bit more satisfying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tig ol bitties⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ackshully, “galaxy” (or rather, “galaxias”) means “Milky Way” already, it’s just a translation. It was less ambiguous when the only galaxy we could see was the Milky lights that covered a lot of our sky.

  Of course, we realize there’s more than one galaxy now, so the meanings have diverged.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always applies 75% of the time⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why I never click on a link before looking at the URL.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chat, is this true?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Best I can do is this: chal-chew-KLEE-kway

  With some help from Forvo. The [t͡ɬ] sounds like KL to my Canadian ears and not TL (which doesn’t happen at the start of syllable in English anyway).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨are "brush" and "blush" really pronounced differently? i pronounce them the same.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  R and L are what are known as liquid consonants.

  They can be difficult to distinguish to the untrained ear (i.e., non-native speakers).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sun God⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And if I work from home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sun God⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Proof that light is a particle and not a wave?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨me want cookie⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is how many years old? Not sure why it’s being treated like news.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨smort⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tying intelligence to IQ seems like the left side to me. I’m still in the middle 🤔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨smort⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t get it? I’m still in the middle of the graph.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why hasn't the deep state stopped trump?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s been supported by the deep state. The deep state is the money influencing politics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨where??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You ain’t been high enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instant removal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And I get an upset stomach if I eat too much cabbage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Technically correct, the best kind of correct⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They wanted to know how to represent 6, but displayed upside down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Woden is “Odin” in English (which did autocorrect for me).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developers: "Yes, the users love cluttered homes, just put everything there and ignore guidelines"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ya, I’m just joking about apps, or especially scripts, not handling it properly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mod of a similar comm to one I started deleted my advertising post, now downvotes half the stuff I post in my comm⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like they might just be an asshole. Maybe remind them that all of their upvotes and downvotes are public.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developers: "Yes, the users love cluttered homes, just put everything there and ignore guidelines"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, those Windows directories might have a space in them and break things anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨moove on⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In Canada we call them Texas gates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boss Mode⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Relatively consistent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don’t Look Up director says ‘half a billion people’ have now seen film despite critics⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure that every Netflix movie does not get 500,000,000 views.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disgusting money driven mindset⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Would you have downvoted them if they said it was cancer?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disgusting money driven mindset⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s “choad”. But yes, he is one of those.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't railroads need expansion joints?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He probably just noticed this amazing video that is about what the title says - youtu.be/zqmOSMAtadc

  (It’s Practical Engineering).