lemming741
@lemming741@lemmy.world
- Comment on The bullet engravings as per WSJ 1 week ago:
- Comment on anon discusses car dependence 1 week ago:
That’s a lot of corn on the cob
- Comment on anon discusses car dependence 1 week ago:
Where do you live? Where I live, $70 is one week of frugal meals for a single 20-50 year old male. A family of four is $230 a week, per the USDA.
- Comment on anon discusses car dependence 1 week ago:
That’s our go-to lazy Sunday breakfast.
- Comment on Google sucks 1 week ago:
kagi has you beat 🤣 Image
$11,500 usd
- Comment on Americans have the gun industry so far up their ass that they don't even notice their asshole is gaping. There is no other country where uneducated morons are allowed access to guns easily. 2 weeks ago:
You know what you can do with gun permits? The same things you can do with voting restrictions.
- Comment on How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips? 2 weeks ago:
You’ve watched Google,Facebook, and apple do it the last 20 years. If a good idea is spotted early enough, they buy the whole company before they can make it to market and grow to become a threat. It happens in any emerging tech and you’re watching it happen now in the LLM space. Companies burn cash, waiting for their competitors to make a mistake or run out of money. Then they buy out the struggling company, absorbing any tech they might have, maybe some branding, but more importantly- their customers. Now they can jack up prices once market forces are eliminated.
If not for the threat of anti-trust laws, you would see single company rule in every single sector. That is the end goal of a company- a monopoly that crushes potential competition and squeezes consumers.
Railroads, telephone, petroleum, internet, airlines, all ended up as regional monopolies. - Comment on WATER! 3 weeks ago:
I think it’s more about extracting money from normies, not someone savvy enough to run a model locally. And I don’t know if they do or don’t, I was just trying to explain the comic.
- Comment on WATER! 3 weeks ago:
Much like Amazon has an incentive to not show you the specific thing it knows you’re searching for, people theorize that these interfaces are designed to burn through your tokens.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
George Carlin explains it pretty simply
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
At that point, you’re the guy doing 15 mph under the limit in the left lane.
Please only attempt this in the right lane.
- Comment on Mmm num ba de dum bum ba be doo buh dum ba beh beh 3 weeks ago:
In motor controls and power distribution, 600V three phase is low voltage. Up to 69,000 volts is “medium” voltage lol
- Comment on Mmm num ba de dum bum ba be doo buh dum ba beh beh 3 weeks ago:
Can’t be THAT high a pressure on a cast valve and rubber gaskets
- Comment on USB-C extensions are not allowed for a reason 4 weeks ago:
Looks pretty passive to me
- Comment on Anon tries running live USB Linux on his dad's computer 1 month ago:
- Comment on Anon tries running live USB Linux on his dad's computer 1 month ago:
Cold spare production floor machines. I’m sure there’s a better way, but you build the machine and put it on a shelf maybe 2 years before you need it.
- Comment on Anon tries running live USB Linux on his dad's computer 1 month ago:
My grandpa fixes all of his Windows problems himself
- Comment on Anon tries running live USB Linux on his dad's computer 1 month ago:
My password manager keeps a history, and it has saved my bacon twice now.
- Comment on What's the easiest way to get hookups without seeing escorts? 1 month ago:
This question is kinda like asking what’s the easiest way to get rich quick?
- Easy
- Rich
- Quick
Pick 2
- Comment on Everything is just an ESP32 away 1 month ago:
I’ve never bothered to reverse engineer the protocols they use between the main chip and ESP, but I have hooked the main loads, indicator LEDs, and push buttons into my own module. Air purifier, robo vacs, coffee pots, sprinkler controllers, garage doors.
The Shelly uni is awesome for stuff without dc power supplies. I’ve got one in my gas cooktop, and another in the range hood to run the fan any time a burner is on.
- Comment on Everything is just an ESP32 away 1 month ago:
What’s funny to me, is that most of the trash tier connected appliances also run an ESP32 but with the opposite design goals
- Comment on That sounds like a fun thing to do 1 month ago:
- Comment on American former tech executive explains how to make users more addicted 1 month ago:
I come straight to the comments where an article is either copy-paste if it’s worth reading, or called out immediately if it’s click bait or raw propaganda.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
There are different formulas for concrete, balancing cost, cure time, and ultimate strength.
- Comment on This new SSD will literally self destruct if you push the big red button it comes with — Team Group posts video of data destruction in action 2 months ago:
I’ve been H/W Quick Eraseing ESP32s and ATMEL chips for over a decade now
- Comment on Ads when you’re pumping gas 2 months ago:
This popped up today, if you’re still interested
lemmyverse.link/lemmy.ca/post/47682873
- Comment on 98 degrees upstairs, ac stopped working at 8am. 2 months ago:
Not quite- these motor capacitors provide a phase shift for a second set of windings. Without it, the motor will just hum and not rotate.
You are describing bulk or filter capacitors that go from supply to common on a DC circuit, parallel to the load. These motor caps are on AC and in series with the load.
- Comment on 98 degrees upstairs, ac stopped working at 8am. 2 months ago:
Motor capacitor for an A/C compressor. A $15 part that a service company is going to charge $400 for a guy missing most of his teeth to replace in 2 minutes.
- Comment on Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want? 3 months ago:
Go to a junk yard and look around the import section. Without a front bumper, it can be very hard to tell what make a car is.
- Comment on Ads when you’re pumping gas 3 months ago:
If you charge overnight, the base load is less likely to be fossil fuel. If it is fossil fuel, emission controls on a power plant are far more effective than anything with wheels.
The average car emits 400g CO2 per mile
epa.gov/…/greenhouse-gas-emissions-typical-passen…My power company emits 364g per kWh, which will take an EV about 3 miles. So that’s about 120g CO2 per mile, about one third.
climatiq.io/…/65ad9f91-28a1-45b2-bbab-3dcdd5de6a4…
