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- Comment on It's 54 degrees Fahrenheit (12 Celsius), raining moderately hard, the rain is cold, and there's a guy blowing around wet leaves with a leaf blower. What the hell is the obsession with leaf blowers? 4 days ago:
You’re correctly identifying thermal mass as why they feel cooler to the touch, but this is mixed up in some incorrect and contradictory statements.
The ceramic tiles in your house aren’t really “colder” than you
This is incorrect. Flooring is literally colder, unless your floor temp is above 92℉ (33.5℃). You can measure this with a thermometer. If something is the same temperature as your skin you won’t feel anything - there’s no heat transfer. You could have a copper floor if it was the same temperature as your skin, you wouldn’t feel a thing.
[Ceramic tiles] also have a high thermal mass … they easily lose heat to the air.
These two statements are directly contradicting one another. High thermal mass means it has a harder time losing heat to the air. Given identical conditions, ceramic will take longer to change temperature than fabric. The reason fabric feels less cold is because you can easily change the temperature of it, due to its low thermal mass.
- Comment on It's 54 degrees Fahrenheit (12 Celsius), raining moderately hard, the rain is cold, and there's a guy blowing around wet leaves with a leaf blower. What the hell is the obsession with leaf blowers? 4 days ago:
You can hold a ceramic tile in your hand and apply a blowtorch to the other side. They’re better insulators than conductors. That’s why you see ceramics used for insulating hot food bowls from wooden tables, or a more extreme example, ceramic tiles on re-entry vehicles. Ceramic is not a good conductor of heat.
Wood is about 0.1 W/mK, ceramics about 1 W/mK, and copper is about 400 W/mK.
A more apt comparison would be ceramic floor vs wood flooring, or ceramic vs air temp, not ceramic vs skin temp. Your skin is absolutely warmer than a ceramic floor tile.
Tiles do not feel cooler because they “easily lose heat to the air”. They are the same temperature as the other flooring in your house. They feel cooler because of thermal mass, which you’ve identified. Your body can warm the low mass of fabric or wood faster than it can ceramic, thus those materials feel less cold when you step on them.
If you’re going to be pedantic, at least do it right.
- Comment on It's 54 degrees Fahrenheit (12 Celsius), raining moderately hard, the rain is cold, and there's a guy blowing around wet leaves with a leaf blower. What the hell is the obsession with leaf blowers? 4 days ago:
The ceramic tiles in your house aren’t really “colder” than you
Yes they are; they’re not warm blooded mammals, and they’re at the lowest level in the house, where the coldest air is.
Ceramics generally have poor thermal conductivity. Metal is a good conductor of heat.
- Comment on Every time I search a windows error 4 days ago:
To be clear, it’s not that I’m saying sfc /scannow and chkdsk are altogether worthless, it’s just that they’re reflexively repeated as a solution to seemingly every issue posted on those forums. It’s more so the advice is frequently useless for the given issue, rather than the specific commands themselves.
- Comment on Every time I search a windows error 4 days ago:
Applies to macOS as well. These official support forums are such garbage.
Windows: did you run sfc /scannow and chkdsk? (This has never solved a single thing in my entire building PCs life, so since about 1999.)
macOS: did you reset SMC and PRAM? (This is basically a fancy restart and with Apple Silicon devices, it is literally just a restart.)
- Comment on As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved 6 days ago:
Ah, yeah that makes sense now.
- Comment on As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved 6 days ago:
How does that help Amazon if on the price tracker it appears $20, but with the coupon it’s actually $10?
If I’m using a price tracker and see it for $20 pre-coupon but another site has it for $15, wouldn’t that just drive my business to the other site?
It seems like with using coupons it’s just artificially inflating the price on whatever trackers, and that seems like it would be bad for sales to me.
- Comment on As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved 6 days ago:
For Amazon, I use camelcamelcamel to see price history. Personally I’ve not seen price increases just for holiday sales but I also don’t buy a lot of stuff on these sorts of days, I just set a price alert and wait for the email.
- Comment on As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved 6 days ago:
It is in the US.
The FTC’s Guides Against Deceptive Pricing generally require that a seller offer an item at a price for a reasonable, substantial period of time in good faith, and in the regular course of business, before advertising that price as the former or regular price (16 C.F.R. § 233.1). The FTC considers it deceptive to offer an item for sale at a higher price for a short period of time in order to support a claim that an item is discounted when the price is then lowered. This practice is prohibited.
Additionally, most states have consumer protection statutes that prohibit sellers from making false or misleading statements of fact concerning the reasons for, existence of, or amount of a price reduction (for example, Cal. Civ. Code § 1770(a)(13)). Several states also expressly regulate the length of time an item must be offered at a regular price and amount of time it is on sale (for more information, see Practice Notes, Promotional Pricing: Specific State Laws and “Up To” Discounting Law and Practice: Promotional Pricing: State-by-State Requirements).
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- Comment on Why does the Music Industry allow Spotify/Apple to profit off of them? 1 week ago:
Bandcamp is a good option for directly supporting artists for the time being, especially if you queue up all your purchases for a Bandcamp Friday, where artists/labels receive all the money rather than BC taking their 20% cut.
- Comment on $1K a month is a good deal 1 week ago:
It’s only the shitpost community, I always feel like a nerd correcting stuff if it’s here but I can’t help myself.
- Comment on $1K a month is a good deal 1 week ago:
Yeah, that’s right. Edited.
Deny, Delay, Defend is the title of a book about insurance written in 2010.
Deny, Defend, Depose is what the shooter had written on the shell casings.
- Comment on $1K a month is a good deal 1 week ago:
Deny delay defend is what insurance companies say, deny delay depose is what the killer wrote on the bullets. Depose doesn’t make sense if you’re the insurance, you defend as in lawyers.
- Comment on GTA 6 will have a 'significant online mode' to generate revenue for years into the future 1 week ago:
When you say peer to peer, does this mean every player communicates with every other player, or does one person act as the “server”?
- Comment on TRIBES: The Most Influential FPS You (Probably) Never Played [video essay 52:59] 1 week ago:
Don’t forget the mods! You didn’t have to download anything, it was all server side. I forgot which mod I played most but you could set up all sorts of sensors, automated turrets, forcefields, etc using models and textures already in the game but repurposed.
Also, the net code was extremely good, it was very playable even on my 33.6k modem.
- Comment on Forgot your moms azz 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Uno what really happened 2 weeks ago:
They’ll do something about it alright, like further militarization of the police, increased government latitude to spy on civilians, and restrictions of what kinds of weapons were permitted to own.
- Comment on I have to be knowledgeable about a particular superstition in order to sign in to access a government form 2 weeks ago:
This isn’t a captcha, It’s identify verification.
- Comment on I have to be knowledgeable about a particular superstition in order to sign in to access a government form 2 weeks ago:
There are more than four signs, it could be N/A if you were in the other eight.
- Comment on There's a storm hitting us in about 6 hours. We're going to find out who's who. 2 weeks ago:
How does one hang a motorcycle on the wall?
- Comment on Is it possible to have a "free speech" platform that simultaneously stops "hate speech"? 3 weeks ago:
It’s inherently exploitative due to the age difference. Free speech doesn’t cover exploiting someone else.
- Comment on Thanks for the warning I guess?? 3 weeks ago:
Shouldn’t it be “everybody: <blank>” then?
Nobody: <blank> means that everyone has some feelings about it.
- Comment on Thanks for the warning I guess?? 3 weeks ago:
I really hate that “no one:” shit, it often doesn’t make any sense to me.
- Comment on Wish there was a community called !furiouslyinfuriating for shit like this... 3 weeks ago:
Login.gov requires KYC like authentication, as in upload a drivers license or do a video call and show your passport.
- Comment on Wish there was a community called !furiouslyinfuriating for shit like this... 3 weeks ago:
You need login.gov for all sorts of shit now. It’s also not a third party it’s part of General Services Administration.
- Comment on What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head? 3 weeks ago:
CHEEKI BREEKI
- Comment on S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl | Review Thread 4 weeks ago:
It’s way better than any of the prior games were years after release. Granted, I do have a powerful computer (3090/5800X3D) but I haven’t had any significant performance issues nor crashes. A mild bit of jank but nothing that’s totally broken, just some occasional glitching corpses or debris.
Really, really enjoying it so far. Had a classic STALKER experience while exploring, got ambushed, found some really cool mega-anomaly, thought I was safe and got owned. 10/10 would die again
- Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024's launch has been marred by long load times, server issues and now it has overwhelmingly negative reviews 4 weeks ago:
According to Asobo, this issue was caused by a cache that was overloaded and constantly restarting. This was used in part of the authentication process, I believe when they check what content you have. This explains why people had missing content if they were lucky enough to get in. This was my experience - got in after a very long load time and then couldn’t really do anything due to missing content.
This doesn’t seem like it’s a Microsoft cloud issue per se, it seems like Asobo had a single point of failure in the design that didn’t scale well. Today seems like the CDN limits are finally being reached, as it took a while to load up new areas. Getting into the game was no issue, though.
- Comment on AI slop animal abuse 4 weeks ago:
Damn autocorrect, I thought I had typed chloramime.
- Comment on AI slop animal abuse 4 weeks ago:
Looking at this article, there’s only millimolar concentration of ammonia in feline urine (mean 118mM, range 16.9-292 mM). I’d be very surprised if anyone was able to generate significant quantities of phosgene by mixing bleach with cat urine.
