solomonschuler
@solomonschuler@lemmy.zip
- Comment on Feelin like a snack 5 days ago:
for me its 11-12 hours, 8 hours in the morning and another 3-4 hours in the afternoon
- Comment on Is there a way I can get someone or some company to get me books that are illegal in the US? And if so how would I go about it without losing half or all my money? 6 days ago:
anarchist cookbook.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
simple answer, yes, but that depends what you are going for.
for something as simple as an electrical heating element, it works by a short circuit. non shorted circuits have grounds (of which voltage is 0) this is accomplished by adding resistors, capacitors, or inductors in parallel/series (generally speaking). Now a short circuit is where you have a source connected to a wire and as current goes through that loop it will increase the amount of current since you have no element disappating the voltage/current and that energy must go to heat.
this is why I say “never to use floor heaters” since they are incredibly inefficient, energy costs go up which will end up costing more for a few hours than if you just turned on the central heat a few degrees.
as for modern transistors, its different than just doing a short circuit, there’s actual resistors and capacitors inside it than it just being a short circuit as per my previous answer. where the heat accumulates is the 20+ billion of those that’s 5 cm x 5 cm in size. for integrated (IC) circuits, electrical/electronic engineers usually work in the mW or 10^-3 W the fact that CPU’s/GPU’s (especially the desktop varients) use 120 W to 400/500 W puts into scale how much fucking energy these motherfuckers use. Heat is a given in these circumstances, were talking 10^5 larger in wattage than most IC circuits and elements (op-amps, resistors, capacitors, inductors) would ever use.
- Comment on Hous 1 week ago:
its never lupus.
- Comment on Would it be possible to model 9/11 using hot dogs for the planes? 1 week ago:
but accelerating that hot dog to the speed of light and you could probably do some damage…
- Comment on Boomer comics 2 weeks ago:
goddammit I will never unsee that. thanks for burning it in my mind, I’m now going to chuckle when some says SAAS.
- Comment on How do I unrot my brain from AI, and is improv a good enough way to fix an AI-rotted brain? 2 weeks ago:
you forgot emacs, JavaScript is BS anyways for research, its only good for logging into portals/externally hosted services. for research you just need html
this HTML website summarizes JS pretty well: justfuckingusehtml.com
- Comment on How is RAM size measured? Why doesn't it match the marketed size? 2 weeks ago:
electrical engineer here
if you’re familiar with memory allocations like in C or C++, you would know that before allocating memory on the heap, there is some memory used by the OS that is strictly inaccessible to the languages. taking that operation and abstracting it to the hardware level, before giving the rest of the unallocated memory to the OS, specific system processes and hardware reservations use some of that memory. When a resource monitor (like btop or htop) reports memory, it only reports memory within scope of the memory allocation inside the OS. that’s why you see 61.3 GB instead of 64 GB, ~2.7GB is being used to run the hardware.
- Comment on How is RAM size measured? Why doesn't it match the marketed size? 2 weeks ago:
I would have assumed that much like memory on heap there’s some memory that’s inaccessible by the OS (and hence resource monitor) so when it fetches the size of the memory, it only fetches the amount pre-allocated to the OS.
- Comment on Why doesn't more software support ODF / ODS files? 2 weeks ago:
OpenOffice and libreoffice are a few that support ODF/ODT files.
- Comment on ChatGPT to start showing ads in the US 4 months ago:
Having watched the “wanna develop an app” episode from R&M, this is the end of openAI. Everyone hates ads and will say fuck this shit i’m out.
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 4 months ago:
I’ve said this to my Jewish family countless of times how unethical the practice is. After all, I saw a statistic which said 70000 Jewish babies die each year from urinary tract infection because of this ritualistic performance.
To me, for someone who stopped believing 3 years ago, I’ve waited for this ban to happen.
- Comment on I love science 4 months ago:
In my experience, it really wasn’t an “advanced subject” for me. Sure, the majority of majors who are trying to become doctors, CS, or computer engineers only have to take up to calc 2 (and diff eq) for their bachelors, but I still wouldn’t say MVC or diff eq is an advanced math subject. Real analysis or algebra – where you have to take a math course on mathematical proofs before taking these classes – is where I’ll say math becomes more abstract on its applications and advanced.
Diff eq was not challenging at all, I spent probably 6 hours a week on average (which includes the 4 hours of lecture). Its as simple as solving a linear equations, with it being slightly more tedious. If you understand derivatives, integrals, and partial fraction decomp (for Laplace transforms) its a breeze of a class.
MVC on the other hand was slightly more challenging, but having finished calculus 2, that too was also very enjoyable.
Point is, MVC and diff eq aren’t hard classes I wouldn’t even call them advanced classes as that title goes to analysis.
- Comment on Glass 5 months ago:
Viscous baby oil
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
225 * 2 = 450 ≠ 550. I initially thought it was 550 which makes sense since I was a math major. its been 3 years since I actually studied arithmetic leave me alone.
- Comment on French Anatomy 5 months ago:
Is this the trojan horse V2?!?!
- Comment on Why isint lemmy more popular? 5 months ago:
“Because I fucking hate my privacy, and Lemmy and other FOSS media platforms is like veggies on my dinner plate – I don’t want it.
I want people to know when I get my first boner, when I inevitably kick the bucket, and when i announce I got a new position (while users on the platform give context that I was hard the entire interview process). Because why celebrate with family and friends when I got the whole internets asshole comments to read and respond to.”
This is my interpretation of why users don’t join Lemmy.
- Comment on What browser(s) should I use? 5 months ago:
Librewolf on desktop, ironfox on mobile.
By default these applications come with no Firefox suggestions, no AI bullshit, and even turns on strict security. This is what I use personally because I don’t like to reconfigure the settings every time I install Firefox, this just works.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Dark matter isn’t matter, I know shitty name to call something “matter” that isn’t matter, Dark matter is a force. The most common example where dark matter shows up is in astronomy, where galaxy positions aren’t where we calculated them to be, hence there is some external force that is being applied, that we don’t know and haven’t found a way to take into account. I guess we call it “dark matter” instead of “dark force” is because for a force to be applied there must be some mass. Still i think it’s illogical to assume that dark matter is a matter, because we don’t know what force is exerting on it. For all we know it could be the accumulation of other galaxies applying a force on the observed galaxy that we’re simply not taking into account.
- Comment on My "privacy" browser now adds an extra unique tracking URL to every link that I share, to advertise itself and track the opening rate 6 months ago:
Don’t use Firefox, as in, don’t use the official Mozilla release, even that has gone to shit. Pretty much everything has gone to shit, in terms of search results and web browsers. I use librewolf (a fork of firefox) on my laptop and Ironfox on my phone they both by default come with the security features by default. No AI generation built in the browser, no Firefox suggestions, no tracking, none of it. I’ve also stopped using standard search engines like google or DDG and replaced it with marginalia search. This combination has allowed me to eliminate AI generated content and tracking from my browsing experience.
- Comment on Gaming Laptop with Linux Preinstalled and 32GB+ RAM? 6 months ago:
I would say I’m fine supporting Microsoft by buying their laptops, I just don’t want it to be surveiled and capitalized off of through spyware in the OS. I suggest going used instead of new, reason being, you can get really good specs that makes the license practically free. My current laptop is a thinkpad E14, the previous owner loaded it with 40 GB of ram and a 1tb ssd with a ryzen 7 7730. I paid $400 for that machine. If you don’t mind going used with slightly older specs, maybe a haircrack or two, the payout is worth it.
- Comment on So much... 6 months ago:
No. physics is generalized to algebra, you don’t need to know a lot of math to learn physics. Having more math will allow you to do more complicated problems and understand concepts the way it was discovered, but it isn’t limited to those who know calculus.
- Comment on Dear God 6 months ago:
I didn’t fully understood the joke, my only understanding of episilon comes epsilon-delta proofs… I forgot that epsilon in that context measures the certainty of the “Infinitesimal” displacement in x. So when epsilon is really large everyone looses their shit as if the world’s going to collapse into a black hole. 😂
- Comment on Just up the production quality and they'll love it, Trust me bro 👍 6 months ago:
Why did I read this as nodes. Am I seriously that married to CS that I read Nudes as nodes (as in nodes from linked lists).
I guess it doesn’t help that the they’ve used the character ‘•’ in place of the ‘u’ to solicite the word “Nudes.”
- Comment on Fictional 6 months ago:
“I was wondering where the units went” noted: c = 1 dumbass ≈ 3 * 10^8 m/s