drdabbles

@drdabbles@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whoever wrote this headline has never encountered a passenger train before in their lives⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They could have just illegally cut down the trees like they illegally used too much water, or any of the other things they did against their agreement with the government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whoever wrote this headline has never encountered a passenger train before in their lives⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I do realize. I also realize things like weight of the train, cost of the battery packs, the fact those packs will wear and need to be replaced faster than anything else in the system, and much more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whoever wrote this headline has never encountered a passenger train before in their lives⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess if by a kernel of truth you mean an existing train was used on an existing track, then you could almost make it make sense? But since all of this existed before, it’s just a lie.

  I’ll also point out that anybody introducing battery electric trains instead of just electrifying the remaining parts of rail is making an astoundingly bad choice, but that’s almost certainly Germany and not Tesla.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whoever wrote this headline has never encountered a passenger train before in their lives⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also just an outright lie. But, I guess that doesn’t matter anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Toyota Is Intentionally "Falling Behind" On EVs | Morning Brew (10:10)⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but all of these companies have had Hydrogen programs. GM had hydrogen cars back in 2009 on the road. BMW’s hydrogen program is still going strong. Toyota was just smart enough to capture the incentive money while they could pretend it wasn’t a boondoggle. 😆

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Toyota Is Intentionally "Falling Behind" On EVs | Morning Brew (10:10)⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Toyota makes hybrids, they outsell all other hybrid manufacturers, and middle-america “doesn’t want” electric vehicles while also demonstrating they don’t know about electric vehicles. Same story over the past decade, not too much has changed except the number of BEV on the road in total.

  Toyota is a conservative (not the political kind) company, so it’s not that big a surprise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A genre of Country Music...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a foolish response. We aren’t going to live anywhere but this planet, and only a moron thinks humanity is leaving this planet. Truly stupid shit, spoon fed to the incredulous by a billionaire dipshit and a century of science FICTION stories.

  Back to the Zubrin books for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A genre of Country Music...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing we’re doing is going to prevent “one big rock” from changing life on earth. And there’s a solutely no possibility of moving humanity anywhere else. Science fiction isn’t a reason to support nonsense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A genre of Country Music...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  … You don’t realize that commercial entities have always built space craft for the government, so nothing you’re saying has any credibility. You should probably know something about the topic before arguing about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A genre of Country Music...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  NASA isn’t a company, and they’ve always paid contractors to make their vehicles. Crucially, noone is doing anything that hasn’t been done before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A genre of Country Music...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  lmao

  Hot staging didn’t hot stage, flight termination failed again, it didn’t reach its target altitude, a bunch of engines flamed out unexpectedly again.

  That’s not a success. Not exploding on the pad doesn’t make it a success. Stop believing the YouTube simps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Almost all remote-work news is negative now but was positive in the beginning of the pandemic. Have you noticed this or am I going crazy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Landlords trying to charge rent again. All of the real studies happening show employees are happier, more productive, and consider not going through a hellish commute to sit in a building with a bunch of people they don’t know or like to be a benefit. It’s only executives and commercial real estate owners desperate to get people into offices so they can feel useful again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨During an Australian parliamentary meeting, Twitter exec, Nick Pickles, tried to defend an account that posted child sex abuse images. It did not go well.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The crime in the Christchurch terror attack wasn’t the video of the attack. The crime in CSAM is the video itself. Only a true piece of shit would bring up terrorism to defend their position on child sex abuse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you find relevant technical information online?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For all of those topics, I use domain specific sites. So for research I’ll look at arxiv or one of the sites that make research freely available. For programming, I’ll search language mailing lists, documentation, and examples. Searching GitHub also isn’t a bad idea, but watch out for license issues.

  Be wary of using tools like got to summarize articles or outright answer questions. There’s no guarantee it will be correct, and if you don’t know the answer you won’t know it’s wrong.