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- Comment on If someone was shrunk down to the size of an ant would they be able to make a little ant sized campfire with the same principles? Does it scale like that? 1 day ago:
If you scale a human down to the size of an ant (somehow?), they would quickly die. Our metabolism is very slow, we don’t generate enough heat to be alive at those sizes. Since our mass would scale down with the power of 3 and our surface area with the power of 2, the mass to surface area ratio becomes such we would quickly cool down and die.
This among the many many other issues a tiny body would have.
As for creating fire by friction I assume? There needs to be a concentrated amount of energy to create enough heat. Such a energy output would be impossible for something that small.
But say you get a bunch of tiny sticks and somehow also have it catch fire. It still wouldn’t work, since the speed the fuel burns is related to the amount of available resources. So you could definitely set some tiny amount of sticks on fire, but it would burn the same as you would do it yourself at current scale. So a little flame, similar to a candle probably and burn that tiny amount of fuel in 3 secs. Compared to the tiny size, the fire would be pretty large.
So no, it doesn’t scale like that at all. Scaling stuff like that is all make belief, so you can make up the rules as you go along.
- Comment on Seagirl 2 days ago:
They used to be a real big thing, in the before times
- Comment on Gaming industry right now 6 days ago:
And this should include any terms or conditions! No more “Please accept our updated privacy agreement”. Fuck you, I bought the thing, the thing should remain as I bought it. No more planned obsolescence, selling of data and all of the other bullshit. Companies have been getting away with this shit for far too long.
- Comment on I'm currently at the toilet while posting this does this count as shitpost? 1 week ago:
I’m reading it while at the toilet taking a massive shit, so yeah I’d say it qualifies.
And for those of you worried about the germs on my phone because I use it while shitting: It’s absolutely fine guys, I lick it clean right after!
- Comment on Would a metal gazebo be safe during a lightning storm? 1 week ago:
The thing being metal has a very tiny impact on being more likely to be struck by lightning. There is no such thing as “attracting” lightning. Lightning starts as a widespread charge in the clouds, until it reaches a tipping point and discharges. Often this discharge is between two parts of the same system in the sky. However sometimes the discharge can be with the ground itself.
When the electric field is large enough, a similar field is induced in the ground. These fields are often on the large side, with one pair of fields being able to serve a lot of strikes and each strike being a whole bunch of discharges. At the top the air begins to break down and form a lightning channel. This follows a random, often branching pattern, moving generally downward being attracted by the field in the ground. When this channel gets close to the ground little “feelers” begin to discharge from sharp edges of everything near the channel. Once one of these feelers touches the lightning channel, the actual strike happens. That single channel will be used to transfer energy, due to the difference in field charge. The air becomes super heated and turns into a hot plasma. We see the bright white lighting arc and a wave of expanding air moves out from the strike. Often these strikes pulsate, where the channel moves a lot of energy, heats up, stops moving energy, cool down and heat up again. I’m not sure how many cycles one strike has, I think something around a dozen or so. Sometimes when there’s multiple suitable channels available, it will jump around between these, which can look very pretty.
As I said these fields are usually on the big side and that’s what determines where abouts the strike will occur. The bit on the ground only plays a part in the last few meters of a process that is often hundreds of meters long. The material doesn’t matter all that much, as the charge is enough to break down the air itself. If something has sharp edges often matters more than the material, but the biggest factor is height.
Large towers, a singular tree in a field and stuff like that is said to “attract” lightning, because we dumb monkeys see those things get hit more often than elsewhere (but not exclusively so). Like I said the lightning channel is formed up to down, because of the two opposing fields. When the channel gets close to something, it can complete the channel. So things being more up are more likely to do so, just by virtue of being up.
Just a little tangent not directly related to your question tho. If you want to ground the thing to make it less likely to explode when hit by lightning, sure go ahead. But remember a lighting strike is very violent, so it will never be safe. Best to stay indoors during a heavy lightning storm.
- Comment on Why don't urban/suburban streets and roads use a center storm channel? 1 week ago:
Civil engineering is a very complex thing, which also has been around. A lot of the things they due is because of lessons learnt in the past. If you have questions like “Why don’t they just?”, I’m sure an actual civil engineer with knowledge of the situation can tell you exactly why. It’s all much more complex than you could imagine.
I’d suggest watching some of Grady on Practical Engineering on YouTube to get a basic idea of how much goes into projects such as designing and building a road. In my experience a road contains a lot of infrastructure around and underneath, way more than you’d assume.
- Comment on *laughs nervously* 1 week ago:
Sounds like you are speaking from experience
- Comment on *laughs nervously* 1 week ago:
I also pay specific sewage tax, which is legally required for anyone with a sewage connection to their home. And for people who don’t, they probably have some kind of septic system where they pay for the materials and personnel to upkeep that.
- Comment on I've been using this simple trick to keep cool in the heat wave (UK) 1 week ago:
MHI makes the best shit!
- Comment on Is there any good thing for using AI for the middle class and poor? Instead of just the oligarchs ripping off the middle class and poor? 2 weeks ago:
Well in an ideal world it would make everyone more efficient, letting us do more in less time. Thus we would need to work less for the same amount of money. Like switching over to 4 days a week, same amount of hours per day, for the same salary.
But in reality we’ve already stepped up efficiency a lot and it never works out that way. It just devalues the work, so we need to produce more to get the same salary. We end up working the same or even more for the same amount of money, or even less money. All of the gains go to the people at the top, creating an ultra rich upper class that really should never exist.
However AI has so many more issues that even this best case scenario has huge downsides for everyone, which will hit the middle class and poor people the hardest. It’s really bad news across the board.
- Comment on Surviving a heatwave : Prison Edition 2 weeks ago:
Yes same. But I’ve heard the advice applied to both.
- Comment on Surviving a heatwave : Prison Edition 2 weeks ago:
I think these kinds of windows are often called Velux even if they are from other brands, just one of those brandnames that got synonymous with the product itself.
I’ve always been told never to put anything on the inside of multi-pane windows that can cause thermal shock.
- Comment on I love houses that trap heat! /s 2 weeks ago:
Modern windows can give oldskool walls a run for their money in terms of insulation. Although a proper designed and insulated wall can do better. It’s not just the glass, but also the gasses used in between the panes and special coatings applied.
- Comment on I love houses that trap heat! /s 2 weeks ago:
This is simply not true. Many Europeans have windows specifically designed to let infrared radiation in, but block it on the way out. So as soon as any sun hits any window, that’s a lot of heat coming in and not going out. Very nice when it’s cold, but not as good when it’s hot. Most people have blinds and curtains on the inside, which doesn’t help. I have blinds on the south side which are closed, but the rest of the house only has blinds on the inside. So for a lot of hours in the day heat does get in.
- Comment on What they say to me after an interview. 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on The Picard Video 4k 3 weeks ago:
I AM CUTE AS A BOAR!
- Comment on Map of all AI data center in Europe 4 weeks ago:
You might want to check what the Netherlands looked like in 1837, because it looks nothing like what you have here.
- Comment on GitHub spammers. 4 weeks ago:
I have never once had this happen? Are you sure it’s related to Github?
- Comment on Misaligned cabinet in apple wwdc 4 weeks ago:
Nah the rest don’t look perfect. In your last pic on the left side the line also doesn’t match up. I think all of the top units are just slightly bigger than the bottom units. It’s aligned on the left side, but then every unit is slightly more misaligned on the right side. Once we get to the end the differences stack up and it clearly sticks out a lot.
- Comment on What does the word data mean per se ? 4 weeks ago:
Which isn’t true in the strictest sense of the word. With modern phone networks everything is data and the phone is continually both sending and receiving bytes. These don’t count towards the data budget. Usually it’s the amount of data excluding metadata that has been exchanged with the wider internet. Or often even only the amount of data downloaded. These usually exclude all of the overhead and instead focus on actual package contents being transmitted. Now this can get very complicated when looking into stuff like a VPN and compressed data packages.
I’m sure the provider has some technical definition internally of how these metrics are collected and how the accounting works. But this isn’t something they will share with the outside world. There would probably be a legal document somewhere that states they are using industry standard means of collecting those stats. Depending on where you live there might be strict definitions the provider needs to adhere to.
As for the question posted by OP: This is way too vague of a question. If you ask a more specific question, you can receive a better answer. Data is one of those words with a whole bunch of meanings, depending on the context. If you strip the context, you also strip the meaning.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
What sort of genres have you tried? You mention 1984, but that’s a very specific book only very specific people would like. There’s so many kinds of books and genres out there, there might be something that does grab your attention.
- Comment on sjmmbmgvgdh 😱😱 noowomder,,,,, ghhbhh.. hb& 5 weeks ago:
Oh lord he chonk
- Comment on Elden Ring Tarnished Edition launches August 28 5 weeks ago:
Being able to dress up Torrent without the use of mods has been requested so much. On one hand I feel like it worsens the experience as it can break the immersion. On the other hand, people already abuse the character creation screen to make abominations (although the lack of a hide helmet option makes this not super useful). And mods are also used a lot for all sorts of weird visual stuff. If someone wants to have some fun, why not?
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer 5 weeks ago:
Still better than Nadella.
- Comment on Is this machine good enough to install QEMU considering that it runs on windows 10 ? 5 weeks ago:
It’s a really old cpu that was pretty slow to begin with. But it does have the required bits for virtualization, so it should work just fine.
It would be terribly slow tho, slower still than the system already is. And with only 4GB of memory I’m amazed it even runs Windows 10. It would run out of memory as soon as you do just about anything. If you can get some more memory into the thing, it would work better.
The info says desktop? But that’s a low end mobile cpu in there, 15W TDP, optimized to be cheap and have a good battery life. The downside is the performance sucks.
- Comment on Is it safe to use a non-gaming computer for light gaming? 5 weeks ago:
It’s human leather? OMG IT’S HUMAN LEATHER
- Comment on GTA 6 Developers Announce Rockstar Games Union 5 weeks ago:
Oops somehow Rockstar went bankrupt even though they GTA5 printed money for them. But luckily there’s this new investor, which totally isn’t the old owner wearing a fake mustache, who is willing to take a risk and take over the project and SOME of its personnel.
Tax the fucking rich!
- Comment on Dicks out for harambe 1 month ago:
Dicks out for Harambe and press F in the chat to pay respect.
- Comment on Is it true that you can't drink alcohol in a commercial? Like Shane Gillis pointed out to Post Malone in their commercial? 1 month ago:
This would depend greatly on where you want to air that commercial.
