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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Flashlights are actually where wall-plug efficiency matters most, because nicer flashlights are limited almost entirely by heat. Even if we got to 98% efficiency, going from there to 99% would nearly double the brightness that you could fit in a given size.

  Power input isn’t a problem at all, by contrast. A tabless 21700 can do 70A continuously without breaking a sweat, which is over 250W, and that’s with a 5Ah cell, which is plenty of capacity. A 6Ah cell can do about 10A, and that’s plenty for basically any single-cell light out there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The highest I’m seeing for wall-plug efficiency (i.e. the percentage of the consumed electricity that’s released as light rather than heat) is 83.2%, and that’s for red LEDs. For anything you’d want to use for general-purpose lighting, the number is much lower.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  LEDs produce about half their input energy in heat, with the other half being light. Incandescent bulbs output about 90% as heat and 10% as light.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With all this talk about Ai not being profitable why aren't we using it in video games? I dont mean replacing developers I mean in NPCs in the game. I make them more realistic.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I am a fan of using LLMs specifically to imitate the VAs on demand to pronounce character names. They’re generally good enough that a single word can blend in, and you have a couple minutes during the opening cutscene to run the computation. Just having all of the characters never say the custom player name and instead address them in the second person or with a title is a bit jarring

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lab anxiety⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “Successfully replicated the findings of Miller, et al, 1962 that dropping the test tube on the way to the spectroscopy machine makes the custodial staff annoyed with you”

  Solving the replication crisis, one untied shoelace at a time!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bo'le of wa'er⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s one guy, and he isn’t exactly popular. If Sir Keith were the only one over there who talked funny, we wouldn’t clown on you guys so much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can we convince Trump voters to NOT vote for Trump (or Vance) in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually wouldn’t be surprised if Leo specifically endorsed a Democratic candidate, especially if Trump runs for a third term (assuming he even survives until late 2028). Remember, he’s from Chicago and he’s allegedly to the left of Francis, who had some choice words for American fascists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everybody: If There Was a Meme Museum, What Meme(s) Would You Put In It? (down below)⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s (in)famous enough to have its own Wikipedia article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/None_Pizza_with_Left_Beef

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everybody: If There Was a Meme Museum, What Meme(s) Would You Put In It? (down below)⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  None Pizza with Left Beef is one of my personal favorites.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Their loss is our loss too⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t it spelled Criss?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there anyway I can screw around with ICE? I need a new hobby I come from a long line of immigrants. If i send my home address and phone number will they actually come and deport me to choose a cntr⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re ex-wives, and the ICE agents are already looking for excuses to shoot them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beer is for GIRLS⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can keep your bread-flavored soda. My water is flavored with ROCKS (minerals added for taste).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’m not saying that I agree with right- or center-wing views, and I do condemn transphobia. However, do you think there should be a distinction between critiquing beliefs held by transgender people, and engaging in transphobia?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That would be great, but it still doesn’t address dysphoria, which is actually about sex, not gender, despite the name. We use “gender” to refer both to the societal roles that you (and I) want to abolish and to the sex characteristics that a person wants their body to have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facts to share at dinner #1: Shagreen⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The guy whose source was “I once sanded an entire dining set with a shark” was really cooking there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Wall People⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s been pretty quiet lately, though. I wonder what he’s up to? It isn’t like I gave his finger back or anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨History of Biodynamics⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I get that it’s woo (e.g. burying quartz crystals stuffed inside a cow horn), but I don’t see any racism. Care to elaborate?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do you change your towels?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotta rotate between two in case you want to swap them and not do laundry just yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you "feel" gender?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One more instance where our language around sex and gender really muddies things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you "feel" gender?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I simply accepted my AGAB

  you are cisgender.

  Huh? Plenty of trans people accept their AGAB for some amount of time before realizing that it isn’t correct.

  i want to ask if you are certain of this, because simply not possessing any feelings positive or negative about your gender doesn’t mean you’d be fine if you woke up as the opposite or something in-between… you would also be forced to see your body and yourself differently because others would treat you as the new gender you are now presenting as. still don’t care?

  In my case, still no. I mean, it would be inconvenient to explain to everyone I know why I suddenly look completely different, but beyond that, I don’t think I’d care. Obviously, I can’t know for certain unless it happens, and any experiment that attempted to find out would be absurdly unethical, but I’m as certain as I reasonably can be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solidarity⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does the RoK not have selective enforcement laws? In the US, I think the 39 colleagues’ testimony would get him off without anything else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember when that was all anyone did with Facebook.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there an actual picture of Mohamed or painting that we can view? Without pissing off all of Islam?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There are no surviving depictions of Muhammad made during his lifetime. Although there are surviving descriptions of Muhammad’s appearance, these are not detailed enough to create a perfectly accurate image of him. Because of this, no image of Muhammad can be perfectly accurate, meaning that any image that purports to represent him is, in some way or another, deceptive.

  That’s quite a contrast with White Jesus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No one else in the world matters but me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a much more rational mentality. Driving is absurdly dangerous. If you’re killed by a human, it’s overwhelmingly likely that it will be because they hit you with a car.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unethical Life Protip⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as it’s right next to the real posters, I can’t imagine that it would actually hamper the pet’s return.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No one else in the world matters but me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the people with this mentality are probably the same people who refuse to ride buses under any circumstances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you don’t make a moral distinction between humans and other animals, it seems difficult to justify scavenging with any logic that couldn’t also be used to justify grave robbing or even necrophilia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨challenge⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wood glue won’t hurt (though you do have to wait for it to dry), but friction alone is often enough to do a decent job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨challenge⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Otherwise known as a drywall anchor or wall plug. My parents also call them mollies, but those are different (though also often used for screwing things into drywall).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has a bully⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, alcohol burns very quickly and not really that hot (as far as fire is concerned). While it definitely can burn you, it actually won’t necessarily do so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The moment we've all been waiting for: you now can have targeted ads on your 2k smartfridge⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d be worried about either compromising the insulation or having to charge my fridge camera. Remember, this is me going to great lengths to be lazy.