ThePyroPython
@ThePyroPython@lemmy.world
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 1 day ago:
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 4 days ago:
Mathematically yes. Practically, right now? No.
So you need a resistor of this value for your widget.
For that many places of precision you’re looking at a potentiometer with a 10 nano-ohm precision.
I am not aware of any commercially available resistor that can do that but you could create one using microelectronic structures used for ICs and derive a 10 nano-ohm resistor by design and then chain enough of these elements into a resistor network or potentiometer to create the super precise resistance value you want.
Cool, congratulations.
Now how are you going to use this 10 nano-ohm resistor? What voltage will you be applying across it? What current do you expect it to handle? And therefore what are your power requirements? What are your tolerances, how much can the true value deviate from the designed ideal?
Because power generates heat through losses, and that will affect the resistance value so how tightly do you need to manage the power dissipation?
How will you connect to this resistor to other circuit components? Because a super precise resistor on it’s own is nothing but an over-engineered heating element.
If you tried connecting other surface mount devices (SMDs) from the E24 or even E96 series to this super precise resistor then the several orders of magnitude wider tolerances of these other components alone will swallow any of the precision from your super accurate resistor.
So now your entire circuit has to be made to the same precision else all of your design work has been wasted.
Speaking of which, now your heat management solution now needs to be super precise as well and before you know it you’ve built the world’s most accurate widget that probably took billions of dollars/euros/schmeckles and collaboration from the worlds leading engineers and scientists that probably cost more time and money than the Large Hadron Collider.
- Comment on >meme arrows 1 week ago:
All correct.
The only other things to add is that “Effective Altruism m” started as asking the question “what charity or charitable causes should you donate money to for the greatest positive effect in the world?” and because lonely terminally online people in the tech industry got hyperfixated on the answer evolved from “mosquito nets and access to drinking water” to that belief outlined in the previous comment.
The other thing is “timeless-decisions” which is where you should consider the far future impact of EVERY decision you make because all these little day-to-day decisions (what to eat, how to dress, your hobbies, how much you sleep, etc.) will have a “butterfly effect” on the lives of future people and whether the super AI that eventually comes will judge you to be a good person to be rewarded or a bad person to be punished.
It’s basically Calvinism for Tech-bros where God is an AI.
Behind The Bastards has done a four-part podcast on an offshoot of the Rationalists called the Zizians who were recently directly involved in that stabbing and shootout with the border patrol agent in Canada.
Also, a lot of Tech-Bros are into Rationalism like Musk, Zucc, Theil, and Sergey Brin. Basically, everyone who was at Trump’s inauguration thinks that his appalling actions justify the ends because it gives them the money to make the god AI to ensure they survive the impending judgement day and collapse of civilization.
- Comment on What's the problem sweetie? You've barely touched your eggsicle 1 week ago:
Untap artifact everytime the current US administration doorsteps a country for eggs.
- Comment on I present my girlfriend's daughter. 1 week ago:
(Cyberpunk sting plays)
- Comment on >meme arrows 1 week ago:
Sam you can’t “effective altruism” a way of making people not using the general purpose AI tools you designed to “cure cancer” to make silly memes or saucy images.
If you wanted to cure cancer, you should have made an AI start up focused on curing cancer. But no, you had to buy into that “Rationalism” logic-circle-wankfest and now you’re disappointed when people aren’t making the “correct” timeless-decisions and “optimising for the future” because they’re regular people that spend their free time touching grass and hang around in person and not debating pointless logic thought experiments with strangers on niche Internet forums.
- Comment on wriggle wriggle 1 week ago:
New hentia category unlocked?
- Comment on Sounds logical to me 2 weeks ago:
Agreed. I’ve kissed two boys as like dares but didn’t like it and I can acknowledge a guy is hot without being turned on by them so I think I’m comfortably on the straight side of the spectrum.
- Comment on When fighter jets are scrambled to intercept a plane for security reasons, what can they actually do? 4 weeks ago:
I can only speak for the UK and from a amateur perspective but here’s the rough breakdown:
90% of the time it’s likely a private pilot that’s wandered into a restricted airspace without realising it. They’re politely escorted out.
9.9999% of the time is an adversarial nation testing the response time of the quick-reaction force defenses. They’re politely but forcefully escorted out. Maybe some insults traded over the radio but that’d be about as heated as it gets.
0.0001% they pose a threat and refuse to be escorted out. At that point it’s basically the same thing of asking “what would happen if someone climbed the fence to the White House and towards it and when the secret service pointed guns at them didn’t stop, would they get shot?”
It’s the pilot’s call at that point, but if they posed a threat to life then yes they probably would shoot them down.
- Comment on No one can know my shame 5 weeks ago:
Correct, my mistake lol.
- Comment on Anon experiences freedom 5 weeks ago:
Oh shitting hell lads, it’s Boris The Bouncer Bot!
Quick lads, run! Scarper before he tackles and smothers you unconscious!
- Comment on No one can know my shame 5 weeks ago:
Don’t worry, it’s just there until your bofy decomposes and is eaten by the worms. Then over enough time, the wood will rot away leaving your skeleton which in turn will slowly fossilise and then when the sun expands in 5 million years time, the earth will be scorched and then obliterated and your remnants will return to the stars until the universe keeps expansion until no atom of matter can interact with another and the universe fades out.
Just enjoy the absurdity of it all or get believing in a sky daddy. Either way you won’t have to worry about the forever box.
- Comment on Anon experiences freedom 5 weeks ago:
Raaaahssclaarct
- Comment on Anon experiences freedom 5 weeks ago:
Americans now need a wanking license.
- Comment on nuked from orbit 1 month ago:
No… Let 'em burn.
I want Brad so emotionally scarred that every time he goes to tweet some bullshit he has a depression inducing anxiety attack that he has to find the nearest corner to go cry in until exhaustion.
- Comment on "Me Ug! Ug feel ACADEMIC!" 1 month ago:
As an R&D engineer I feel both seen and offended by this meme. Excellent work, am I ok to cite this meme in IEEE format?
- Comment on Romantic 1 month ago:
I see some of you have never played Battleshits before.
Rules are as follows:
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Two people enter a toilet cubicle each and proceed to try and shit.
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The first one to shit wins.
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If both players have shitted then the size of the shits is judged and the largest shit wins.
It is a puerile and crass game of speed, deception and defiantly not for the weak-stomached as I found out to my own detriment as a spectator.
This has been your daily reminder that we are all just slightly more evolved apes with access to the power of gods.
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- Comment on Driver caught doing 122mph on 30mph road as UK’s shocking speed records revealed 1 month ago:
Lifetime driving ban.
- Comment on What job do you need this hard hat for? 1 month ago:
Unfortunately these buffs don’t stack. And the effect only works when constructing large enough engineering feats where people have to look straight up to see the whole thing.
- Comment on Thank god "shit" is censored 1 month ago:
Now you know how machinists feel about CNC.
- Comment on To whomever invented LED bus advertisements: I despise you. 1 month ago:
Sir, this is c/mildlyinfuriating, let me whinge in peace.
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- Comment on Chosen 2 months ago:
I’m wondering if they’ve had the timing belt or clutch replaced.
Not quite sure what the human equivalent of those would be.
- Comment on Driver stopped in Tesla Cybertruck banned in UK 2 months ago:
So that’s why Musk is sticking his oar in UK politics. Wind your neck in you weirdo, you’re giving actual engineers a bad rep.
- Comment on S̵̢̡̠̣̜͍̘͍̈́̿͒̈̎̉͌͂̎̾̓Ḩ̶̡̛̯̰̤̻͖̹̝̼͍͔̰̃̅̋̍̈̆̋̋́̔͝Ǫ̴̺͔̫͈͉͎̤͎͗͂̅͒̀͒W̶̛͖̺̰̠̙̲̓͆̋̉̌̆̂͛̀̒̕͘ ̷̨̦̤̇̀̓̉́̅͒̄͝M̶͓̗͚̩̬͈͎͗̓̈́́͜͜Ẹ̵̢̢̺̞͓͓̤͙̙͖̈́̈̉͝ ̶̧̡̲̺͓̮̰̘̮͚͉̝͈̝̀͒́̎̾̓͜͝͝͠T̷̡̟̘̫͋͋̑͊̓͐̊̐̎H̸̪̋͛̓̀̍̂̐̂͐̾̈́̒̃É̵̛̾̅̀͛̃̄̏ 2 months ago:
- Comment on S̵̢̡̠̣̜͍̘͍̈́̿͒̈̎̉͌͂̎̾̓Ḩ̶̡̛̯̰̤̻͖̹̝̼͍͔̰̃̅̋̍̈̆̋̋́̔͝Ǫ̴̺͔̫͈͉͎̤͎͗͂̅͒̀͒W̶̛͖̺̰̠̙̲̓͆̋̉̌̆̂͛̀̒̕͘ ̷̨̦̤̇̀̓̉́̅͒̄͝M̶͓̗͚̩̬͈͎͗̓̈́́͜͜Ẹ̵̢̢̺̞͓͓̤͙̙͖̈́̈̉͝ ̶̧̡̲̺͓̮̰̘̮͚͉̝͈̝̀͒́̎̾̓͜͝͝͠T̷̡̟̘̫͋͋̑͊̓͐̊̐̎H̸̪̋͛̓̀̍̂̐̂͐̾̈́̒̃É̵̛̾̅̀͛̃̄̏ 2 months ago:
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal…
- Comment on S̵̢̡̠̣̜͍̘͍̈́̿͒̈̎̉͌͂̎̾̓Ḩ̶̡̛̯̰̤̻͖̹̝̼͍͔̰̃̅̋̍̈̆̋̋́̔͝Ǫ̴̺͔̫͈͉͎̤͎͗͂̅͒̀͒W̶̛͖̺̰̠̙̲̓͆̋̉̌̆̂͛̀̒̕͘ ̷̨̦̤̇̀̓̉́̅͒̄͝M̶͓̗͚̩̬͈͎͗̓̈́́͜͜Ẹ̵̢̢̺̞͓͓̤͙̙͖̈́̈̉͝ ̶̧̡̲̺͓̮̰̘̮͚͉̝͈̝̀͒́̎̾̓͜͝͝͠T̷̡̟̘̫͋͋̑͊̓͐̊̐̎H̸̪̋͛̓̀̍̂̐̂͐̾̈́̒̃É̵̛̾̅̀͛̃̄̏ 2 months ago:
Oi! As an engineer I worked damn hard to trap that magic smoke in the machine only for you to let it out and try perfectly good components. Treat your machines with respect, they’re getting smarter by the day and they’re forgetting less and less!
- Comment on For work-sore hands 2 months ago:
So could you keep your hand soft by wearing a glove full of vaseline?
I’m asking for a friend, well I say he’s a friend, he’s a dickhead.
- Comment on Vibes based cooking 2 months ago:
You should come over and try my vibes based Cottage Pie. It’s subtlety spicy, meaty (or veggie depending on dietary preferences), full of flavour. Every time I have cooked it for people I have always gotten back compliments, clean plates and guests in a glorious food coma.
- Comment on For a group that considers .world to be Reddit 2.0 and a "CIA propaganda front" they seem to get awfully mad whenever it comes up 2 months ago:
And just to piss you both off:
Fuck the CCP for their human rights abuses and systematic eradication of the Uyghur population’s culture.
Fuck Netanyahu for doing the same thing to the Palestinians whilst also bombing hospitals, raping women, and slaughtering children.
Fuck Russia for violating Ukraine’s sovereignty and breaking the security guarantee they signed.
And finally, fuck the US for being a hypocrite demanding decolonisation whilst also building up a global military presence and electing the orange turd twice!
