thebestaquaman

@thebestaquaman@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In this specific context it is quite relevant that they’re an atheist, and therefore presumably relatively sceptical of religion in general. That’s a bias colouring their response that they’re disclaiming that they have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The wonders of how the human body works⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There do of course exist (far too many) people out there that objectify women, but that’s not what this post is about (at least the way I’m reading it). I can definitely relate to the situation where some random woman will do some mundane everyday thing, like put on a purse or let down her hair, and my body just decides to react to that.

  It has nothing to do with objectifying women, and of course I don’t make a point out of it, but just push it out of my head and move on with my day. The point of the post is that it’s funny and relatable how the body can just decide to send a puff of hormones around your system as a response to the most mundane things, even though you know that it’s wildly inappropriate. I’m sure you’ve experienced the same thing at some point?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sir, this is a shitposting community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you save, we will charge you more⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The transformer is dimensioned based on the max capacity of the houses in the neighbourhood, which are standardised.

  100 houses with 200 A main fuse each? Supplied by a 20 000 A transformer (plus safety margin obviously).

  If cryptoboy wants a non-standard main fuse size that requires an upgrade of the transformer, he has to pay for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you save, we will charge you more⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is definitely a simplification, which is why I pointed out the possibility of distributing costs among the consumers based on how much of the total consumption each consumer is responsible for.

  I think the major point still stands though: In order to take advantage of production at scale, you need to build some minimal size production facility. For stuff like hydropower, that minimum can be quite high, depending on available geography.

  If marginal cost is zero, it makes most sense to charge some form of flat rate to have access to power, rather than a consumption-based price, because it’s not necessarily feasible to downscale the facility, even if there’s low demand (in that sense, hydro or nuclear would be better examples than solar).

  The details of how this more or less flat rate should be distributed among consumers is a discussion in itself (should those living further away pay more since they require more power lines? etc.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you save, we will charge you more⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re making the argument yourself here:

  A 1000 A transformer costs more than a 10 A transformer

  Yes. And that is true regardless of how heavily it is used, which means you should pay a flat rate for maintenance of the infrastructure you use, and another rate for the power you draw.

  Residential buildings use standardised infrastructure, which then leads to the same standard fee for everyone. Industry that needs heavier equipment pays a different fee, because they require different infrastructure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you save, we will charge you more⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, they’re arguing that the price of power should be split:

  • A fee for grid maintenance (equal for all)
  • A fee per unit of consumed power (scales linearly with consumption)

  This makes sense, because regardless of you much power someone uses, the costs associated with maintaining the infrastructure that allows them to draw any power at all remain the same. This also happens to be the model used in Norway, so it’s not an untested concept.

  Another option, relevant when the cost of building the power plant is large and the cost of energy production is negligible, is that everyone connected to the grid pays a near-flat fee in total, which is distributed among consumers depending on how much power they use. I’ve never heard of that option being used before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you save, we will charge you more⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m all for eating the rich, but I’m still going to point out why exactly this can make sense.

  Let’s say you have an energy company that owns a solar farm, you’re not looking to turn a profit, just provide clean energy to the world: You produce electricity at effectively zero cost.

  However, your solar farm needs to be paid down within its lifetime of ≈30 years, which is independent of energy consumption. So you decide to charge a rate that ensures 1/30th of your production costs are paid back each year, so that you can replace the solar farm after 30 years.

  This effectively means you are charging a constant rate for access to energy supply, independent of consumption. This again means that the rate per kWh goes up if average consumption goes down.

  Individual customers can still save money by reducing consumption relative to the other customers, but nobody saves money if everyone reduces consumption. This makes complete sense when your “marginal cost” (i.e. the cost of producing energy) is negligible compared to the initial investment of building the power plant, and also applies more or less to nuclear, hydropower, and wind power as well.

  Given that this is not an ideal organisation though, I wouldn’t put it past them to increase the rate such that it more than offsets the decrease in consumption, thereby increasing their profit. In that case: Fuck them.

  I just think we should be aware that our current understanding of energy prices as linked to day-to-day consumption (because the primary expense for a thermal power plant is the cost of fuel), will become outdated as we move to clean energy sources. At some point, we should be paying a near-flat rate for “access to power”, rather than a rate for each unit of power consumed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USA Air Force issues new guide regarding acceptable phrases to be used when on duty⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For added effect, read the right-hand side in the voice of a British aristocrat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These dames wanting inclusivity⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To me this feels like you could say “Guys, <insert sentence directed at a group>”, as a general term to catch the attention of/refer to a mixed genre group as a whole. Anyone getting upset that you’re using “Guys” in that context to refer to both men and women is just looking for an excuse

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These dames wanting inclusivity⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When did “people with vaginas” unironically become a way to refer to anyone, especially as an alternative to “female”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Posture is important⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My wrists though… if I’m using a laptop without peripherals, it’s because I currently don’t have access to peripherals, and need to use the keyboard and trackpad on my laptop…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has marital problems⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This might be a language think, but as I understand “abuse” implies some degree of intent, repetitiveness, or suppression of the victims response, no?

  If someone is punched, you would typically call that assault, while if they are punched on several occasions while being prevented from seeking help, you would call it abuse.

  Likewise, if someone is yelled at or scolded or manipulated on one occasion, you usually would say that they were “yelled at, scolded, or manipulated”, while if it occurs systematically over time you would refer to it as abuse.

  Please correct me if I’m wrong here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has marital problems⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree, I don’t think these two are comparable.

  Physical violence cannot be undone. Saying that you want to leave someone, and then breaking down upon noticing your mistake is something that can be talked through. If someone beats you, and says it was an accident, you’ll still be bruised and feel unsafe around them, even if you understand them and have empathy for them. On the other hand, if you understand and have empathy for a partner that said they would leave you because they honestly though you would be happier without them, you can help them get better and move on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has marital problems⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mentioned it in another comment, but I’ll repeat it here: This doesn’t necessarily have to be emotional abuse. It can well be a result of the wife being in a bad place, having little self-worth, and convincing herself that anon would be better off without her. Perhaps anon’s response caused her to re-think and reconsider, hence the subsequent breakdown.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has marital problems⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, it doesn’t have to be mind games, she could have been in a bad place and somehow figured out for herself that the best thing to do was to end the relationship, but realised that she was wrong. There are people who genuinely believe that they can make other peoples lives better by leaving them (a kind of “you would do better without me, I’m only pulling you down” mentality), that could do something like this not to manipulate the other person, but because they actually care about them, but are in a bad place themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evil⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was thinking the same thing, does anyone have any context as to why the Beer license is not considered free? If I’m to guess it probably has something to do with copyleft-restrictions (or lack thereof).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wait, my body's own heat is enough? Always has been.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Right chilly today innit?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jake Rule vs Mike Ruleson⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely! I remember going from “holy shit this guy is terrifying and we have video evidence of him being able to kick ass” to “what the fuck? These not-as-terrifying looking people are messing him up bad!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should I bring to far-north Scandinavia?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a lot of good advice here already, especially that wool is the gold standard - nothing synthetic cuts it. I want to add that the absolute key is about layering, and not over-stuffing.

  What keeps you warm is primarily the air trapped between your layers, which means that three thin layers can be a lot better than one thick layer. This also means that you will be freezing if your layers are too tight. If you have two thin layers, and put on a sweater, and that sweater feels tight, that likely means you’re pushing out the air trapped in your inner layers, and they won’t be as effective. The same applies when putting on a jacket.

  So: You want a thin base layer (think light, thin wool shirt + long johns), then an optional medium layer or two (slightly thicker wool shirt, I have some in the range of 200 grams), and finally a thicker sweater for when you’re not moving. These should increase in size so that they can fit the thinner layers underneath, and you want your jacket big enough to fit all the underlying layers.

  Finally: When you’re moving around, you will get stupidly warm and sweaty unless you take off clothes. It’s better to take off some stuff and be a bit cold for the first 10 minutes of moving than to get sweaty and be cold for the rest of the day. If (when) you do get cold, running in a circle for 10 min will fix it (run at a calm, steady pace, if you’re really cold it might take longer to get warm than you think, but you will get warm if you move).

  In short: Being in a cold climate is just as much about how you use your equipment, and how you activate yourself to stay warm, as it is about what equipment you have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨my idiot friend printed parts of my 3d printed gun experiment with pla instead of abs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Using the wrong filament isn’t Darwin Award worthy. Test firing a newly manufactured weapon with your hand is. And that would be true even if this wasn’t an experimental home-made design…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grr Windows⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Totally justifiable IMO. In my day-to-day life its much more important that my shit works when I need it to than that I get whatever potentially something-breaking latest hotfix patch for everything on my system. Put simply: My OS, and the packages I use, work. If I don’t update, I’m sure it will also keep working. When I have time for an update to break something, or want to pull in some new feature or patch, I’ll run an update.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clever, clever⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The whole “maybe if the homework can be done by a machine then its not worth doing” thing is such a gross misunderstanding. Students need to learn how the simple things work in order to be able to learn the more complex things later on. If you want people that are capable of solving problems the machine can’t do, you first have to teach them the things the machine can in fact do.

  In practice, compute analytical derivatives or do mildly complicated addition by hand. We have automatic differentiation and computers for those things. But I having learned how to do those things has been absolutely critical for me to build the foundation I needed in order to be able to solve complex problems that an AI is far from being able to solve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions physics⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What you’re thinking about is the relation between energy, temperature, and heat capacity. When you add energy to a system (e.g. heat) the amount of energy you need to heat it up a certain amount is described by its heat capacity. If your molecules can “wiggle” (i.e. they’re multi-atomic) a portion of the energy you’re adding will go to increasing the “wiggling” rather than the mean speed of the molecules.

  What we perceive as temperature is related to the mean speed of the molecules, so because molecules that can “wiggle” more will require more heat to see the same increase in mean speed as non-wiggling molecules (because some of the heat is going to increasing the wiggling) they have higher heat capacity.

  It should also be mentioned that even the concept of temperature is really a statistical concept, so it doesn’t really make much sense to talk about the temperature of a single isolated molecule, or even a pair of them. Temperature as a concept starts to be fruitful to talk about in the thermodynamic limit which classically means “a whole shitload of molecules”, but (relatively) recent research suggests “a whole shitload” can be as little as 10-30 molecules. Once you go below the thermodynamic limit, we’re not really talking about the temperature of a system, but it’s energy, which is still well defined (although definitions may vary depending on context). Depending on who you ask, it can make sense to define a temperature also for single-particle systems, but at that point we’re talking about applying thermodynamic definitions that work (and are correct in the macroscopic limit) and no longer about what we classically perceive as temperature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It appenes that my email has gotten on the hands of some scammers with a botnet or something. What do I do?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never had an issue with this before, and as of now, my filter is catching most of these mails, so in that sense it’s not too bad. Unless the topic of the phishing attempts suddenly change completely, in which case I’ll have to start building the filter again…

  Anyway: The scam they’re running is relatively specific (a specific banking-thing that pretty much everyone in my country uses, written in not-English, probably LLM generated). Do you know if there’s any way I could alert my email-provider about this? I can imagine it’s being sent to quite a few people, and should be relatively easy for someone higher up the chain, with more sophisticated tools, to filter out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It appenes that my email has gotten on the hands of some scammers with a botnet or something. What do I do?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Since you chose to point it out: My reason is that I regularly need to be able to log into things on a non-personal machine, sometimes without access to my phone. So no, a password manager for all my accounts is out of the picture. I either write stuff down, remember it, or - sometimes - forget it and need to reset my password.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It appenes that my email has gotten on the hands of some scammers with a botnet or something. What do I do?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks! I’ll definitely look into that, though the only issue I can imagine is keeping track of which email that goes to which service (I’m one of those kinds of people that uses “Forgot my password” effectively as a password manager, don’t hate me for it, I have reasons).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It appenes that my email has gotten on the hands of some scammers with a botnet or something. What do I do?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks! There was nothing there, so it may be from an older breach like you suggested :/

• It appenes that my email has gotten on the hands of some scammers with a botnet or something. What do I do?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawless society⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not quite sure what assumptions you’re talking about, but I do want to hear what you have to say.

  What you’re answering to is about opposing external hostile forces, that wasn’t what I was talking about. I’m talking about internal criminal environments that are dispersed in the population and make a living off anything from fabricating documents or scamming people to trafficking or smuggling. Just like modern organised criminal environments, these are not groups you can “wage war” against.

  My question is related to how these will be dealt with if not by involuntary imprisonment/re-education/some other involuntary and enforced way of preventing them from exploiting society?