neidu4
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- Comment on The world is changing faster than most realize 7 hours ago:
Counterpoint: Can’t be dead in the water when the datacenters have used up all the water.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Mushrooms aren’t animalia
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Well, we are computer geeks, we just (sometimes) have other avenues of interest too.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Sorry to be that guy, but: venomous*
If you get sick from biting it, it’s poisonous.
If you get sick from it biting you, it’s venomous. - Comment on Why did they only want the poopdeck swabbed and not the whole deck? 3 days ago:
While certainly of utmost importance, there was no pooping on the poop deck. That was done on the Head, usually mounted near the bow, just behind the forecastle.
- Comment on Why did they only want the poopdeck swabbed and not the whole deck? 3 days ago:
I’d wager that they wanted the entire deck stabbed, but with extra attention paid to the poop deck. That’s where the important stuff happened.
- Comment on Show me what slimed you. 5 days ago:
It’s a picture of my cat yawning
- Comment on If just before a cremation, I lined the coffin with 30 phone batteries, would the resulting lithium ion fireworks display have any meaningful effect on the proceedings? 5 days ago:
I’ve witnessed many lithium battery fires with my own eyes, as part of my job (long story, not as interesting as it may sound), and while there is a lot of heat and energy involved, to the point where it competes with a hand grenade in terms of energy density, the energy release isn’t nearly as instantaneous (except from special circumstances regarding primary cells, but that’s also a long tangent that isn’t as interesting as it may sound).
The main concern is the offgassing and the heat. I am not a corpsologist, but I believe offgassing shouldn’t present a problem in a crematorium. I hear they have advanced hitech gadgets such as “chimnseys” and “filters”. (Citation needed)
As for the heat, lithium fires reach 1100 degrees C under optimal condition and while that is, to use a technical term, hot as fuck, anything built to withstand cremation temperatures every day for years should be able to withstand lithium fires that one day. It will certainly get hot, but probably not destructively so.
As a final note, yes, there will be pressure release, but the pressure wave is most likely negligible compared to the structural integrity necessary for a crematorium to carry its own weight. As briefly mentioned before, the pressure release of a battery is not instantaneous, and this is by design.
- Comment on How come manufacturers use base 10 units when calculating the space of a hard drive? Giving you 931GB per TB Hard Drive. Why not advertise the number windows reads? 1 week ago:
That’s several feet, yes, but clearly smaller than 6.
Q.e.d
- Comment on How come manufacturers use base 10 units when calculating the space of a hard drive? Giving you 931GB per TB Hard Drive. Why not advertise the number windows reads? 1 week ago:
Lies, nobody can make a burger that big
- Comment on How come manufacturers use base 10 units when calculating the space of a hard drive? Giving you 931GB per TB Hard Drive. Why not advertise the number windows reads? 1 week ago:
Should’ve called it a 2/6 pounder
- Comment on Do both travelers and citizens still have to pay tariffs for brining in stuff physically (not via mail)? 1 week ago:
Generally, personal items don’t raise any eyebrows. I’ve carried my own gadgets widgets and doodads through customs in a bunch of countries, and nobody ask any questions.
I also b(r)ought a laptop to Brazil for a coworker there, so he could avoid tariffs, and that was fine. But I made sure to get rid of the original packaging just so it wasn’t obvious that I was bringing something brand new and recently purchased abroad.
- Comment on How do "pirates" go about getting their username uploaded with a torrent? Like Fitgirl or NoSteam or something? How do they become big and famous? Can the average joe do this? 1 week ago:
Pretty much this.
I was part of the piracy scene in the early 00’s, and it pretty much went like this:
- be early. It gets people’s attention when you’re among the first to provide something fresh.
- be prolific. It builds a brand when you have a lot of scene releases to your name.
- provide quality. It causes people to prefer and distribute your releases.
- Comment on In this House, We Forget. 1 week ago:
That’s his birthday name, yes. But as an artist, his stage name was Joseph Goebbels
- Comment on In this House, We Forget. 1 week ago:
Yes
- Comment on laughs in 12 hours, while still driving through texas 1 week ago:
Looking at the map, I think I’ve actually been to all of them except Brandenburg and Saarland.
- Comment on Why do we need legal genders at all? 1 week ago:
I can count your ribs faster than I can look up government documentation, and even that’s assuming you’ve already been identified.
- Comment on laughs in 12 hours, while still driving through texas 1 week ago:
I know. I just never bothered to learn them, on the account of being scandinavian.
But I picked up somewhere somehow at some point that Munchen is in Bayern.
- Comment on laughs in 12 hours, while still driving through texas 1 week ago:
I only count one. Mostly because I only know of one and its location with certainty.
- Comment on Why do we need legal genders at all? 1 week ago:
Yup, that’s my point. I don’t think a government (should) need this.
On that note, I learned from another commenter that in Germany you can have your gender deleted from their database.
- Comment on Why do we need legal genders at all? 1 week ago:
I can think of a handful of ways of confirming someone’s biology without checking official documentation. After all, hospitals still check blood types and tissue types
- Comment on Why do we need legal genders at all? 1 week ago:
Does it need to be tied to the legal system, though?
- Comment on Why do we need legal genders at all? 1 week ago:
Yeah, that’s what I think some of the replies is missing: Whether or not it needs to be tied to the legal system. I can think of a decent amount of ways of confirming someone’s biology without checking their passport or drivers license.
As for rights and legal protection, I fail to think of a situation in a just society where the same rights and protections shouldn’t apply to both/all.
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- Comment on Can you tell the native language of the people from these clips? 1 week ago:
1 sounds like NZ to me
2 sounds like non-english, trying to come off as English
3 sounds slightly ScottishSo my answer is one of these:
- South Africa, because the suffers I’ve met spoke wildly different dialects
- UK, because I don’t know all of the UK dialects, and person 1 and 2 can just be from an area I’m not familiar with
- Comment on Pfft 1 week ago:
I think you’re in the vast majority.
When it comes to the readers expectation, things become a lot more complex. I don’t remember the exact words, but Brandon Sanderson talked about promises to the reader, where it’s OK to do surprising things, but expectations must be carefully managed in that surprises must not feel like betrayal. Poor execution of this is why everyone hates the “…but it was all a dream” trope.
- Comment on Would the world look different if we adopted Truman's League of Nations instead of the UN? If how so? 2 weeks ago:
Not much has changed since this question was asked 11 days ago.
- Comment on Roughly how big is the internet in matters of like storage such as gb and tb or more? 2 weeks ago:
I remember seeing some estimates in terms of total amount of data (In terabytes) available via HTTP in the late 90s, but I think it’d be impossible to get a reliable estimate these days
- Comment on Pretty Weird For A Revoluntionary & Politcal Philosopher, But Ok 2 weeks ago:
World’s first week was in 1890
- Comment on Tech hobbyists, How are you avoiding the crazy prices for computers and newer tech? 3 weeks ago:
I scavenge old hardware from work. My rack is now com0lete (hardware wise, at least), as I powered up the JBOD cabinet today, consisting of a bunch of harddrives left over from disk upgrades at work. It’s a bunch of 10TB and 3TB SAS drive. That server used to be an automation controller, now it’s my storage server. I had 160G of DDR3 RAM laying around from a machine I retired a while back, which is nice to have with ZFS.
My VPN concentrator was a datalogger for two industry robots.
My web crawler was supposed to be a test-server for the software department, but they needed to upgrade.
The only new hardware is my game server, and RAM was over half the price.
My networking hardware is also from work, as I detest consumer grade networking hardware.
