anton
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- Comment on bit rude, innit? 4 days ago:
That’s not my main point as I don’t think the heat capacity of food is so important over the long term.
I mean, that the inevitable inefficiency of the fridge in a closed system, is no different, that any other device consuming the same amount of energy, as it all ends as waste heat.
- Comment on bit rude, innit? 4 days ago:
An indoor refrigerator in the winter is essentially a resistive heater. It’s not nearly as good as a heat pump, but may be better for the environment that burning gas, depending on the local electricity mix.
- Comment on Save as PDF 5 days ago:
To be fair, they added stuff to it, like selectable text on a scanned page.
- Comment on Hrmmm 5 days ago:
I don’t care if it’s a firefighter or a puppy therapist, whomever stands behind trump is acceptable collateral damage.
- Comment on If I hear "% is a mathematical operator" one more time... 1 week ago:
And since it’s a function with one argument we can interpret the exponent to mean repeated application.
xm³=x(1 meter)(1 meter)(1 meter)
xm³=x(1 meter)³
It all checks out. - Comment on How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving? 1 week ago:
It’s performative self-flagellation, same as you would do in any religious event or office setting. The pink dildo is just for better visibility.
- Comment on HD 137010 b 1 week ago:
If we can go back in time, we can recount the election, find those missing votes and have the person Americans actually wanted become president. Al Gore
- Comment on Unbridled Power 3 weeks ago:
Do whatever you want as long as you give them co-authorship.
- Comment on Too late 3 weeks ago:
To be fair, most bread is inferior when compared this:
Image - Comment on Lab anxiety 3 weeks ago:
In lew of a hand cranked centrifuge, we installed a Crank machine next to the centrifuge, for “
reforming offendersstimulating researchers by teaching them habits of industry.” - Comment on Starlink Alternative that can't be blocked 3 weeks ago:
You would need to filter by direction, that way it could only be spoofed by aircraft or another satellite. Sadly the only way to archive that, while going through the atmosphere would be with near visible light.
Besides needing a clear night sky and being a danger to everyones eyes, I don’t think having lasers pointing up is very stealthy either. - Comment on Why are they different shapes? 3 weeks ago:
Because you can stack rectangles into bigger rectangles, can’t really do that with hexagons.
- Comment on How to gain outside information / communicate safely if your government becomes oppressive and shuts down the internet? 4 weeks ago:
The idea with metastatic is, that you can just put a repeater and battery in a box, stick a small solar panel on it and put it somewhere outside.
If it’s found you are losing around 50$ instead of your freedom, as long as you left no evidence it’s yours. - Comment on Life pro tip for friends of pharmacists 5 weeks ago:
AARRRRG, that one hurt.
Enriching is about isotopes of the same element.
You know elements? The things that have the same chemical property?The whole challenge of enrichment is that you want to separate atoms by mass alone, and the difference is <2%. Nobody would build many expensive centrifuges if there was another way.
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 1 month ago:
Declining birth rates in Africa will become a problem for Europe, because immigration is how we keep our healthcare systems running.
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 1 month ago:
More scientists and inventors, more philosophers and artists, more people that share your niche hobby…
The only people who have a problem with that, are hipsters or just like dieing a preventable death. - Comment on On Ploughing 1 month ago:
I had the same question a few hours ago, but I found some science.
Tldr: 30% of energy use is in diesel, and about half of that is for tilling fields.Rant:
Note that this is energy use, so only CO2 emissions are counted, while methan is ignored. If we stopped farming animals, the effective emissions of the sector would be cut in half. Even if we are unwilling to change out diet, maybe we should look at reducing the amount of fertilizer instead. - Comment on On Ploughing 1 month ago:
The main problem is that, not ploughing increases the need for pesticides, currently around 8% of energy used and reduces yield. While not ploughing increasing requiring 3x the pesticides might not be the case, a 20% reduction in yield seems plausible.
The main energy consumption in farming is fertilizer at around 50%, but more importantly half the emissions are related to animal agriculture. Cutting back on that would actually make a difference.
- Comment on 'Chimpfluencers' Are Sticking Grass in Their Ears And Butts in Latest Viral Trend 2 months ago:
It was interesting, but why are we reheating news from 2023 every few month?
- Comment on Where is heart?! 2 months ago:
But they grow of air and water without significantly consuming the earth they grow in.
- Comment on South Korea police say 120,000 home cameras hacked for 'sexploitation' footage 2 months ago:
They may not have noticed the cameras or not have a choice to go elsewhere in a reasonable time.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 2 months ago:
The seed hides in the secure element of your device. (it won’t be impossible to extract, but the average kid is not gonna be able hack a secure element).
But only one person needs to “hack” it on their device to publish the key, allowing everyone to use it without “hacking” their own device.
You can’t store a key on a device and keep it safe from the owner.
- Comment on PetSmart won't let you leave a review if you have adblockers on 2 months ago:
It’s not.
I usually go into zapper mode on ublock to remove the pop up without agreeing, but they probably treat that as “accept and continue”. - Comment on Galaxy Brains 2 months ago:
It’s a tumbler thing, iirc it’s the only way to add your own text when reposting.
- Comment on How far you've fallen 3 months ago:
Just switches and numbers, no foreign language support, no screen reader, no tool tips, no drag and drop, no night mode, …
The only convenience feature was converting metric to imperial for display. - Comment on Chaotic Evil 3 months ago:
Should have used display port instead of HDMI because from certain angles you only really see the rectangular side. Not that I ever tried to plug a USB thing into mine.
- Comment on Cope 3 months ago:
I haven’t seen many clips, but the effect on me was more humanizing than anything.
It’s mostly funny and having religious nutjobs is a shared experience. - Comment on Banana 3 months ago:
Have you tried fresh banana picked a minute ago?
No, but if climate change keeps accelerating, I might be able to eat a home grown banana. Unless the gulf stream breaks of first, in which case I can heard reindeer.
Both are horrifying to think about. - Comment on Smells Great 3 months ago:
It could also be scaled (THz) or when working with light given as a wavelength (nm) and sometimes even photon energy (eV).
- Comment on Physics! 3 months ago:
