flyingjake

@flyingjake@lemmy.one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are laptop adapters so much larger than phone adapters of same power rating?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Watts are part of the electrical properties along with volts and amps. Laptop chargers have the same watts and volts but more amps. 
  

  This is incorrect, Watts (power) is the product of amps * volts. The formula is P = IV. Anything with the same power and voltage will have the same amps.

  The volume of power consumed would be Watts * time and gets you to capacity and usage units like watt-hours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly what I was thinking, I’m not sure of any example coming before the original Charlton Heston version.

  Don’t have a name for the trope tho

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Or we could do metric time⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Christmas is already after New Year’s in the current calendar year ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do birds find it unpleasant to be out in the rain?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean just because you like taking a bath or swimming doesn’t mean you’re going to enjoy standing in the rain too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This person's rejection reason⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if an argument could be made that birthdate is a component of your genetic information including family medical history? It is also potentially age discrimination?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek Resurgence Giveaway⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny I never had much Star Trek gaming experience but have recently gotten into gaming more and been a lifelong Trek fan (maybe not an official Trekkie tho). this game looks pretty interesting and I’m now just learning about it since I also don’t pay attention to the epic store!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stonehenge campaigners’ last-chance bid to save site from road tunnel⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Brian?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will youtube eventually run out of storage?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I work in cloud computing and it’s amazing to me how magical people like you think it is. Yes Google owns YouTube, but could still run out of resources if Google chooses, they are still at the mercy of their provider.

  Services may be setup to dynamically grow but they are still consuming finite physical resources and would run out if the provider doesn’t expand those resources.

  The cloud most certainly can lose data due to hard drive failure and other hardware issues; the services are designed to make that very unlikely, but cloud services also have disaster recovery options you must implement if you want to be truly isolated from a given hardware footprint.