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- Comment on Plug-In Solar Panels Are Starting to Sprout in U.S. Backyards |Ten U.S. states have legalized systems that can be plugged into standard wall outlets. The technology typically does not require permits 1 hour ago:
I wonder how this works. Maybe it only functions when it detects the wall has 120V power? If it backfed during a power outage it would be like plugging a generator into your house with a cheater cord (never, ever do that) which can step your generators 120V back up into 12-25kV through your local transformer and zap the linesman working to fix your outage on the neutral (a generator backfeeds onto the neutral not the “hot” sides of the circuit. I.e. the “safe” wire suddenly has thousands of volts on it)
- Comment on it's finally time for corn 3d to shine 4 hours ago:
This is some less intelligent Terry Davis stuff
- Comment on IEEE 754 1 day ago:
The coolest part is you can do log math since you have the mantissa and exponent already for extremely fast multiplication and division (+ or - log values)
- Comment on Anon tries dating apps 4 days ago:
I have a Pavlovian response to seeing shelves of spices and dried peppers in unlabeled bags in a language I can’t read because of this. If I’m already hungry and I walk in to a new place and see that suddenly I’m ravenous.
- Comment on Which is it Lemmy? 4 days ago:
Yeah it does explain it if you use your brain for like half a second. Is the orange portal moving down to the cube or is the cube moving up towards the orange portal? We have the reference frame of the cube so it looks like the portal is approaching the cube.
- Comment on Anon tries dating apps 5 days ago:
The best food is usually in places like that too. My home city has this literal hole in a wall mexican place. You know it’s good when it’s also a grocery store and nobody speaks good English except for the kids. Best fucking food I’ve ever had and I’m gutted because they closed down 6 months later and I don’t know if they moved or went out of business 😭😭😭
- Comment on Which is it Lemmy? 5 days ago:
I think any answer is a ragebait answer because nobody here understands physics
- Comment on Which is it Lemmy? 5 days ago:
And as a matter of fact the fastest possible velocity you can get is with a hydraulic cylinder because of the immense amount of force it applies using the orange portal.
If you used magnetic levitation to move the orange portal the box would never make it through, because it’s made of metal and will be attracted to the levitation equipment.
- Comment on Which is it Lemmy? 5 days ago:
You need to cut the hula hoop in half. The bottom moves and the top is stationary off to the side. The cube pops out at the same speed the bottom half is falling, but because the top half of the hula is stationary, the cube seems like it’s moving upwards.
- Comment on Which is it Lemmy? 5 days ago:
This has been really heavily debated before and the unanimous answer is B IRL and A for portal.
How does the cube move out of the blue portal? If you ignore the orangep portal entirely and consider just looking from the side as the cube emerges from the blue portal, the top has to be moving extremely fast. The cube needs to be moving relative to the blue portal at the same speed as the orange portal is descending or it doesn’t work.
You can also draw a force balance diagram and you get the same result…
But you’re welcome to disagree with me! That’s part of the wonder of the internet.
- Comment on Which is it Lemmy? 5 days ago:
Yeah if this existed IRL B is the correct answer. If you tried this in portal the video game A is the answer.
- Comment on Which is it Lemmy? 5 days ago:
Using portals rules yeah A is the correct answer.
B would be correct if this existed in real life and had to be compatible with general relativity. If we took this exact same setup and moved it into space, how could you tell if the cube is moving towards the portal or the portal is moving towards the cube? You also can’t use the blue portal as a reference point since it could also be moving indipendantly from the orange portal.
- Comment on Which is it Lemmy? 5 days ago:
This is Einstein’s elevator thought experiment but with portals.
B
- Comment on Vaguely remember them 6 days ago:
Yeah it literally is. It’s also part of the brand if you’re expecting a key opener and suddenly get a pull tab. For a lot of people used to the same thing for decades it can be a sudden shock and makes loyal customers view a brand differently.
Also as a related fun fact, Hawaii has different soda cans than the rest of the world because an old canning line was shipped there and coca cola just ships syrup concentrate that turns 1:1000 into cola, and the old canning line cans it.
- Comment on My 98 Oldsmobile 6 days ago:
You’re in the middle of death valley in a heat wave.
It’s hotter than Venus outside.
Your mom turns the AC on low.
The weapons grade CFCs—now banned by the Geneva convention—form icicles on your eyebrows in seconds.
- Comment on Any politician who disagrees needs to go 6 days ago:
Considering the US tends to lose it’s wars on nouns maybe it’s a good thing they haven’t tried yet. What you really want is for them to declare a forever war on health and people will get sick less often.
- Comment on Rarity married for love instead of money💔💔💔 1 week ago:
They keep dying from heart disease and obesity related illness and the fandom isn’t growing faster than attrition.
- Comment on get a job you loser 1 week ago:
And typically the less money someone makes the more vital they are for society to function.
- Comment on Britain ‘Does Not Have Enough Water’ for Planned AI Data Centre Boom 1 week ago:
Or you can cool them using raw seawater since year around it’s cold AF and is well below the minimum temp needed. It’s just cheaper and less permits to use drinking water in evaporative coolers… And that’s besides the point too, since do we really need more AI datacenters when there isn’t a silver bullet use case? It’s been 5 years and there’s still no killer app for AI, just vague hand waving at certain jobs (which also quietly rehire their staff months later for some odd reason)
- Comment on China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns 1 week ago:
The point they’re making is this is like banning being wet while the Titanic is sinking, to prevent the Titanic from sinking.
- Comment on Pov It's 2035 1 week ago:
He might die before his term is up. The ultimate boomer “fuck you got mine”
- Comment on Outgoing British PM Starmer pushes IRGC terror label 2 weeks ago:
The Americans should get designated as terrorists first under that logic. That’s like their entire thing
- Comment on We can't keep tying healthcare to employment 2 weeks ago:
Maybe you Americans should wait until there’s 50 so you can evenly distribute them to all of your states for consumption.
Although I think you would then want 56 of them If you include American
vassalsterritories - Comment on It's the spelling for me 2 weeks ago:
Haha! I am glad you liked it as much as I did my friend!
- Comment on It's the spelling for me 2 weeks ago:
I think they couldn’t be arsed to actually respond to a comment that is kind of just an outspoken opinion?
They could have also done:
- Comment on It's the spelling for me 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on could I get an AI to just rewrite any software I want thereby not having to purchase the desired app? 2 weeks ago:
Try it and let us know how it goes.
God, I wish I had your world view…
- Comment on Why in America is .08 the legal limit for drunk driving? How come it's not an even 0.10? Who decided at what level being drunk starts? Then 4 beers of 12oz's is 0.08 why is it that small? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I agree completely, and I also agree with MADDs original mission: make tangible consequences for driving drunk.
They achieved it, and like you say having stores closed on a weekend means an alcoholic might turn to isopropyl alcohol, washing alcohol, hand sanitizer .etc it isn’t going to make them stop… If anything it shifts the burden onto our already overtaxed healthcare system as alcoholics destroy their bodies even more.
- Comment on Only 2% of Surrey car thefts end in criminal charge 2 weeks ago:
Yeah the group’s in Toronto could have your car inside a shipping container and on its way out of the country within days
- Comment on Why in America is .08 the legal limit for drunk driving? How come it's not an even 0.10? Who decided at what level being drunk starts? Then 4 beers of 12oz's is 0.08 why is it that small? 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s misdemeanour and felony probably? Like the difference between petty theft and theft over $5000
