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- Comment on Is there any reason not to charge my laptop with a USB C phone charger? 1 day ago:
Good advice about the 80%! But just to add: Check if this is really needed, I’ve seen a bunch of devices where 100% indicated actually means 80% of the physical cells. The BMS won’t allow charging over 80%, so that’s where it caps out.
Also, even if the BMS doesn’t self limit, check how you use the laptop. If it’s plugging in 99% of the time, just keep it plugged in and let it sit at 100%. The laptop will run directly off the wall power and the BMS will trickle charge the cells to keep them topped up. This prevents discharge-charge cycles, which is usually better for the battery in the long run.
I’ve seen people say to always fully discharge the battery before charging it, absolutely do not do that. Deep discharge cycles are terrible for modern batteries. Just use it as needed and as soon as there is the convenient option to charge, just charge it right away regardless of the level.
- Comment on Unhinged... I'm gonna start doing that 6 days ago:
:-)
- Comment on Never understood this. If something foreign enters you your white blood cells go after it like a dog in heat, Would this not mean that our cells are smart enough to discern bad from good? 1 week ago:
Most explanations you read/see about how the immuun system works do a lot of anthropomorphising unfortunately, usually because the actual processes are too complex to explain. White bloods cells don’t do anything, they are just cells, they float around. They have no agency, they have no purpose, they have no directive.
- Comment on whatever tf this is 1 week ago:
Second floor basement?!?!!
- Comment on Yes, that's the plural 1 week ago:
Def a murder
- Comment on meanwhile on instagram 1 week ago:
Why didn’t Jesus ask the giant eagle to take the ring to Mordor?
- Comment on we're all a little gay inside 2 weeks ago:
I think the use of the word bow for curve or bend was used before all of the uses you mention. It comes from the word used to describe something turning back or a person taking a bow or bowing down. Bow specifically meaning bend comes from the word bugan. Where the bow used in archery comes from the word boga.
All of these do have the same origin meaning bend or curve. Specifically a bend in a river or the action of bowing. I can’t find definitively if these were once separate things or always the same word.
Note the use of “arch” in archery also meaning a curve.
- Comment on Anon likes archaeology shows 2 weeks ago:
Fun fact: every time they had any human remains (or the expert thought it highly likely to be human remains), Time Team had to stop digging it out and call the local coppers. They would come out, make a report and have the experts state it wasn’t anything recent (like in the past 50 years or so). Only after they’d done that they could resume digging. When they were digging a cemetery or something like that, they’d usually have a team from the local authorities on site.
They often mentioned this, but I think there was also a special where they went into it a bit more. They had interviews with I think a chief of police or something to go into the why and how. I also think a producer once mentioned they got in trouble when they were in France or Spain and didn’t follow the procedure to the letter. This led to them opting out of foreign digs for a while.
- Comment on Which is it?. 2 weeks ago:
May I see it?
- Comment on Admittedly and unfortunately, so am I. 🫤 3 weeks ago:
Is Prince Andrew a leader tho? Leader of the loser society perhaps, but beyond that.
- Comment on Admittedly and unfortunately, so am I. 🫤 3 weeks ago:
Also, this isn’t a picture of the Milky Way galaxy, so we are most definitely not there. And even if it was, our Sun is about halfway from the center in the disc part of our galaxy, not all the way on the outskirts. And this isn’t even the right kind of galaxy, our galaxy has a bar in the middle and more pronounced arms.
- Comment on If you had native-level fluency in a language, and don't talk in that language for a while, can you develop an accent later-on when trying to talk in that language again? 4 weeks ago:
You can actually change accents when you move to a different area, even though you are speaking the same language. I’ve even heard peoples accent change because they got a new work from home job, where they talk to people with another accent each day all day.
- Comment on HD 137010 b 4 weeks ago:
In theory yes, in practice we have absolutely no idea how to actually do that and use the energy in an efficient or practical way. Even just on paper without limitations of technology or costs, we have no idea. Physics simply isn’t as clean or neat like that in real life.
- Comment on HD 137010 b 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think we have the technology or will have the technology any time soon to send a focused enough powerful enough radio signal over 150 light years. As radio is subject to the inverse square law, the amount of power you’d need is gigantic. Like black hole swallowing a bunch of stars levels of energy. Iirc anything over 25 light years is pretty much a no-go for radio as the detectors get ridiculous and the signal to noise ratio makes it indistinguishable from background levels.
- Comment on Trump audibly loses control of his bowels during a press conference - via Forbes Breaking News 4 weeks ago:
Yes he is an old man who’s been wearing adult diapers for at least the last decade or so. He shits his pants regularly. Which is totally fine and understandable for old people, it’s not uncommon at all. Often when they get as old as that they have daily help or are in a facility where they can get help quickly. I remember my grandma going thru that when she was 75, as a strong independent woman it was very hard for her.
Now when it’s the goddamned president of the United States, it’s somewhat more of an issue. He is in rough shape both physically and mentally. Just go watch some clip of the man from 10 years ago and compare it to today. But he has a whole bunch of cronies that protect him. Otherwise there is no way this man would have been allowed to still have any sort of job, let alone an important one.
- Comment on HD 137010 b 4 weeks ago:
Oh only a billion tons of anti-matter. Good thing we’ve already made a few nanograms, so in a billion years or so we’ll have plenty.
- Comment on Just vibing 4 weeks ago:
So imagine a bus…
- Comment on Researchers find reducing salt in everyday foods could prevent tens of thousands of heart attacks and strokes 4 weeks ago:
Wtf is this headline? The money the NHS saves is the important part? Why is that even mentioned, sure it’s a useful side effect perhaps. But even if it costs more money, isn’t reducing heart attacks and strokes the important part?
Also “Without the public having to change eating habits” is BS. If you reduce the salt, by definition you are changing the eating habits. And in my experience, food with less salt tastes like shit. In the EU the amount of salt on crisps has been reduced. Which is a good thing for health reasons, however all crisps tastes like cardboard now. My favorite snack have been ruined. I still buy the crisps to enjoy on a Saturday evening with some beer and a movie, but when I eat then I regret it instantly. I know it’s not healthy, neither the the alcohol nor the crisps, but can it at least taste good if it kills me?
- Comment on It always makes news when the "Doomsday Clock" is moved by a second or minute. What would actually happen if it got to 00:00 5 weeks ago:
I’d recommend the movie Threads (1984), if you don’t feel like sleeping for the next week or so.
- Comment on obesity even kills stars, but the bigger they are, they shine brighter too 5 weeks ago:
Most of what is left after Jupiter is in Saturn and after that Neptune and Uranus take up a lot of the mass. The amount of mass in the small terrestrial planets, all of the moons, all of the asteroids etc. is less than 0.002% of the mass of the Solar system.
- Comment on Is such a thing even possible? Ancient astronaut theorists say yes. 5 weeks ago:
Uhm the Moonmen built the pyramids, why would we need to teach them? Man it’s sure going to be embarrassing if we get up there and proclaim: “Hello Moonmen! We are here to teach you about pyramids” and they are like “Dude, we know all about the pyramids, what else you got?”. Can you imagine how red the astronauts faces would be?
- Comment on obesity even kills stars, but the bigger they are, they shine brighter too 5 weeks ago:
And 0.1% is Jupiter, the other 0.4% is everything else…
- Comment on What's it like living in 2? 5 weeks ago:
Someone send this to Randall Monroe, how fucked would we be if we actually created this piece of land?
- 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. 5 weeks ago:
Yeah wall plug efficiency is much harder since you need to do the power conversion as well, in a small and cheap way for mass production. I’d assume they have a specialized power supply for the big LED in the sky?
There are super efficient LEDs used in flashlights, the lumen per watt figures these days are absolutely crazy.
- 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. 5 weeks ago:
This can very a lot depending on the LED. The average LED is indeed somewhere around the 50% and 60% mark. But there are LEDs out there that can get up to 90+%
- Comment on They played us for absolute fools 5 weeks ago:
Oooh that’s what you meant. I was referring to the time horses became obsolete almost over night and their population got reduced to only 10% of what it was before within a very short time.
- Comment on They played us for absolute fools 5 weeks ago:
Just don’t mention the part where 90% of them got killed off because they weren’t useful anymore.
- Comment on Spong Berb Adventures #6 1 month ago:
- Comment on He must be a great guy 1 month ago:
Did you tho?
- Comment on Mama! 1 month ago:
Fun fact, we do not just orbit the galaxy in a circle, we also have a motion perpendicular to that circle. We oscillate up and down through the plane of the Milky Way. The Milky Way is super thin, like super ultra thin. If the Milky Way were a pancake, it would only be the thickness of a sheet of paper, a sad pancake indeed. However in terms of human scales it is still huge, so we have a large way to travel. Our galactic orbit is tilted as compared to the galactic plane, so throughout the cosmic year we move up and down as compared to the center. A motion of 100-200 light year, so pretty big. That orbit also has procession, so we move through different parts.
The galaxy itself is also moving, although at that scale it’s easier to thing of the galaxy to be stationary and other galaxies moving towards or away from us. In general we are all moving towards a galaxy cluster known as “The Great Attractor” as it is the most massive (except for your mom).
It’s also often forgotten that our sun isn’t the only star moving in the galaxy. All of the stars orbit the galaxy in a lot of different orbits. And some don’t orbit at all, instead moving with escape velocity to get flung outside of our galaxy. Some have their own orbit in companion dwarf galaxies that in turn orbit our own galaxy. It’s easy to think of a galaxy as a fixed thing, with all the stars in the same place moving together like on a disk. But this isn’t the case at all, stars aren’t bound together and can follow their own path. Over time their relative positions change and the constellations we know won’t exist anymore.
The structures we see in galaxies like spiral arms for example are only structures in the same way a wave in the ocean is a structure. It is clearly a thing that exists, with properties we can at least somewhat constrain (like size for example). But the water inside that wave is just water like everywhere else. At one point it’s part of the wave and then at some point it no longer is.
