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- Comment on Turbines are our friends 14 hours ago:
Molten salt for heat transfer and thermal storage is a pretty mature technology that goes way back before we started using it in concentrated solar systems.
Isn’t the core problem with anything that uses molten salt is that when the heat
saucesource (thanks autocorrect, really, the context in that sentence means you should suggest “sauce”?) fails you just end up with a huge lump of solid salts that clog every part of your system?The Russian Alfa class had a similar problem due their use of lead-bismuth heated into a liquid.
When they lost power for whatever they’d essentially end up being written off as reheating them was incredibly difficult and very tricky.
- Comment on We've finally found the cure 15 hours ago:
OK, I gotta know: what’s a “sloppy toppy“?
Well it ain’t no where as good as a Rusty Venture…
- Comment on Schrodinger's Precious 3 days ago:
What’s really in the box are the 12 year old girls Schroedinger used to rape
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Stars are a lot cooler then fusion reactors.
It’s in their outer layers that they produce a shit ton of photons.
Fusion reactors are way hotter (like 100m Celsius) and although they make photons most are very high energy (think gamma, xrays etc).
So what would be emitted as visible light would never be enough to generate enough power via pvc to pay back the cost of generating the fusion reaction in the first place much less the cost of building the plant.
Also pvc is like at best 22%~ efficient. You’re losing a lot compared to say steam powered generators which, using ultra super critical hot steam made by a fusion reactor could maybe hit 60% (I believe that is high as you can go).
Asianonmetry has a great lecture on steam powered generators
- Comment on New kink unlocked 1 week ago:
I read a time travelling book (very old and dusty, relatively short, I think it’s from the 70s) where the protagonists discovers over time that he is his own father/mother. He travels in time so often that there are zillions of him at different ages in each time.
He just ends up partying with himself because he can be just himself. And with all the drugs and partying one thing leads to another. Also because he travels so damn much somehow that leads to a female version of himself.
That Ethan Hawk film Predestination is a less fucked up, similar version of the story.
- Comment on crazy stuff 1 week ago:
Came here to say, as well, that Steve1989 is well ahead of the game of eating strange cans of a 100 year plus beef
- Comment on Human experimentation, one way or the other. 1 week ago:
In Australia the wackos and feral teamed up with the conservative nut jobs in our rural hippie town of Nimbin.
All because of the vaccine.
Fucking morons
- Comment on The spirit is willing but the body is weak 2 weeks ago:
AliExpress lead lined fleshlight.
I too worry about radiation on my dick.
- Comment on Pretty much it. 2 weeks ago:
US billionaires have $1.5 trillion in assets. Firstly if distributed across 350m Americans this would be $4.2k.
But in no way would the assets or wealth be liquidated in such a stupid manner.
Taking a percentage of this would provide universal health in the US whilst maintaining the golden egg.
- Comment on fighting evil by moonlight 2 weeks ago:
Yet 20 million Chinese had to die to achieve that life expectancy.
- Comment on GTA6 is gonna be crazy 🔥 2 weeks ago:
Probably an insurance job coz no one was buying that shit
- Comment on Can't get better than this 2 weeks ago:
Why does he have so much space? Stupid bastard has overcapitalised.
My first place when I moved out of home was a room where I had a couch, a single bed and a coffee table doe my computer.
Clean clothes at one end. Dirty in a garbage bag. Small passage between couch and bed to move back and forth to the door.
Leaves more money for acid, MDMA and nitrous.
Maybe leave the nitrous out of it OP. Being a nitrous fiend is bad.
- Comment on Men wanna be me, women wanna be with me. 3 weeks ago:
That would be such a cool map for a new go karting game
Super market trolley racer
- Comment on Paging SpaceCowboy 3 weeks ago:
Great film, especially the native American language version
- Comment on I know. Somehow, I've always known. 3 weeks ago:
Wasn’t a jedi knight on the council either.
What a failure.
- Comment on [Physics Girl] My first science video in 3 years 4 weeks ago:
She fell asleep for like 3 years
She was continuously asleep for 3 years???
That sir is a coma. Not sleep
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Is this a new meme format? I’ve seen several of these in the last couple of days all with them inferring all sorts of craziness by “Faith” from the rationale professor.
- Comment on Yay, milkshakes! 4 weeks ago:
So they don’t get a blueberry fruit juice shake before they go back to their home?
- Comment on Dangerous, but worth it? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t want anyone to “eat my ass”, I never have, and I never will. Some things you just know you won’t like.
That’s what I said about boofing morphine.
- Comment on OP figures out love languages 4 weeks ago:
I thought this was going to end up where all green text comments end up, choo choo
- Comment on he forgor 4 weeks ago:
Oh yeah, absolutely agree. But I was utterly maliciously compliant in getting my guys their pay increases and bonuses.
I replied in this thread to another person raising a similar concern. Check it out.
- Comment on he forgor 4 weeks ago:
Sorry, but this is kinda separate: This is literally what labour unions are for?
I would love it if unions entered my workplace but we’re far to complex and technical. Not to mention in my industry we go through a good 2-3 restructures a year (yeah I know it’s bat shit insane)
In lieu of a union I made it my personal aim to get all my under paid employee bumped to much higher pays. Which was a problem because my team generally only took on existing employees who showed aptitude for technical and complex stuff.
In returned they got a detailed and complex training on everything from sql, to parsecing very large amounts of data, to building complex mappings and results.
Under older management they were often left on their previous pay. I found that really fucking disgusting so I made sure to build a rating system that fairly rated them but made sure that rated/scored/reviewed work automatically ended up on their end of year statement. It was all built using MS stuff. It was cool. I could go in, score their work, it graded them, weighed for complex vs simplex (and different roles) generating a single score. I could do it all year around so if something flag I could easily raise it in our catch ups. I had 3 teams across the entire country (I did a lot of travelling so I could meet my guys and hang, coffee, beers, lunch etc)
It basically meant that everything was documented and very fucking detailed, and because they were meeting the straight forward no sneaky lawyer trick KPIs it meant they were able to smash it.
So at EOY where we did peer review the other managers tried to shoot down my ratings for my guys (which gave them 10% bumps and hit their STI (approx $2-4k bonus) however kept coming up against the documentation.
It should be the number one goal for any manager to make it realistic and possible for their guys to get their bonus and pay raises.
Coz a happy team is a good fucking team. As a direct result of this effort we solved over 99% of all the work on our ledger by EOY.
If anything we were a little too successful. But that’s story for another day.
- Comment on he forgor 4 weeks ago:
Fun fact: I had a career in which I was in charge of hiring other people to fill the expanding roles in my department, and was tasked with hiring ‘more of myself’, but I was not allowed to even consider people with my own qualifications.
I had a similar problem. Writing JDs for new roles I had to fill I was constantly getting them knocked back by HR.
Finally HR called me and explained that for what the job entitled we couldn’t possibly pay the market price for it.
I was like but that’s the job. Shit I thought I had made the JDs pretty succinct and austere already.
Nup apparently we’d be paying upward for $100k for a job the guys in team were only getting $60k.
As you can imagine we got a lot of applications but 90% weren’t even close to what we needed.
I was mostly self-taught, and was only allowed to consider people with at least a bachelor’s degree in a field that didn’t even really exist yet.
Same.
I personally don’t like hiring uni graduates. Their utterly lost and difficult to motivate. And almost always what they learned in university does not help whatsoever in the role. Especially dev roles.
I’d much rather find people who can look at the work
- Comment on My girlfriend found a cool vintage tube of lipstick 5 weeks ago:
It probably has asbestos in it (no really).
Don’t open it
- Comment on "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade 5 weeks ago:
Check out Titanium Court
It’s very old school. Very impressive
- Comment on Call center's final boss 5 weeks ago:
Call centre boss gets paid all of $10k more then a CSR
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
It’s crazy how they give that shit out once you pass a certain age.
And yet if you have cancer or a serious, chronic or otherwise illness/injury you it’s like “have you tried paracetamol”?
- Comment on Fck it, we ball 5 weeks ago:
Fun fact: woodlice are terrestrial isopods, meaning they share a class (Malacostraca, the second-largest crustacean class after Insecta) with the decapods like crabs, shrimp, etc. Orders Isopoda and Decapoda are far away within the class, but they’re still in there!
So are you saying we can eat woodlice like we eat crabs?
- Comment on whatever tf this is 5 weeks ago:
No don’t do this. You’re giving gaijin ideas.
It’ll be the next tank on Warthunder, under the Italian tech tree.
- Comment on Because, f**k you! That's why. 5 weeks ago:
Linux distros have driver support for a Chrome book touch screen?
Lol, I’d like to see that