ByteJunk

@ByteJunk@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has a very specific goal⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Life’s hard enough as it is, don’t go looking for challenge levels.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has a very specific goal⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Was that how you came up with your username?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah? Well when you PRESUME you make a pres out of u and me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Live fearlessly⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We’ve all been there. Do you need me to go grab something for you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Playbird⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re playing fuck, marry, kill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Full circle.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure if this is a jest, but it isn’t true.

  People move to other countries sometimes with little more than the clothes on their backs - just look at historical immigration to the US.

  If you have the luxury of doing it the proper way - getting a job offer, a place to live, etc - then that’s perfect, but desperate people will do desperate things to survive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gotta go fast⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ooooooooh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gotta go fast⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love how fucking biased that article is. It mentions Obama like 10 times, including this gem:

  Clearly, the Obama administration decided to spend taxpayer funds on a technology that was poorly conceived and quickly outdated.

  Thanks for the hindsight. Now how about we replace all those heliostats with modern solar panels? Sounds like a great opportunity…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gotta go fast⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What? Hydroelectric power stations use gravity and the falling or flowing water makes the turbines turn.

  Thermal plants (nuclear, coal, gas), including solar thermal plants, use steam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A job's a job⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed.

  If you’re gonna steal groceries, might as well pick up stuff that the dealer needs and deliver them to his door for full price + delivery fee.

  With how crazy prices are getting at the supermarket, might as well start selling smuggled eggs from dark corners…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨marriage update⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right? What devilry holds them up like that, and how are they so neatly aligned, almost like in a line??

  Throw them in the fire!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  True, but that’s just one part of the process. Compared to actual chemical energy in the source fuel, most plants

  If nothing else, there’s an absolute efficiency limit from Carnot’s theorem. Even for the most modern and efficient gas plants, the limit seems to be ~60%, and for nuclear or coal, it’s much lower at around 30-40%.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I call it Bytejunkium, but I don’t think it catched on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  …they found a clever way to induce a current using temperature differentials between the molten salt and some sort of coolant mass?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But you’d have to allow the sun to leak out of the donut, which may not be OSHA approved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I refuse to believe this.

  You’re telling me that Humanity is able to understand what goes on at the heart of stars, and is on the brink of being able to harness that power (“Soon TM”), and the best we can come up with is a big tea kettle? I’m not buying it.

  There’s got to be a better way of capturing all that energy - like, solar panels but for other types of radiation? Or if that’s not possible because wavelengths or something , maybe make something glow and use normal panels? Or like, can’t we take a particle accelerator and flip it around and pull energy from the particles that go zooming?

  I’m sure there’s a reason why all of that is hard, but surely not impossible?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exactly⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I heard that attending one of her parties changes, like, down to your core.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everything I do is normal. You're the weird one.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The author seems to be implying that they’d get their tongue stuck in Perlica’s pit creases, if you know what I mean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And we conquer that fear daily. Many could be tempted to attribute that to our bravery, our grit, our resolve. They’d be overlooking the simple explanation that some of us fear hunger and cold slightly more than we do the grueling and backbreaking 9-to-howlongisitreallyfuckineedtosleep hours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought it was calling someone childish and immature, like, “come back when your balls drop”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  w my boys, good job showing that men don’t turn to slobbering buffoons at the sight of breasts, no matter how shapely. It’s always a choice, and unless you’re roleplaying something kinky, it’s always the wrong one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m probably just really tired, but why would people expect that? Posting cool stuff is a huge service that I’m really grateful for, I wouldn’t have such an amazing feed without all of you guys who are active posters, if anything you should be offered uh… services, if so desired, not requests to provide them wtf.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨owo⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s actually a good example for how I see it. If you could push amps, you’d fill the capacitor without having to pull from the other side, but that doesn’t happen, only a tiny amount of current gets in depending on how strong the other side is pulling, which is very little.

  In any case this is just mostly about colloquialisms and convention, because neither is an accurate description of the physics behinds it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨owo⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m lost. How do you “push amps”? Technically it’s just Ohm’s law, and “pulling” or “pushing” are only colloquial terms, but in regular usage, a device “pulls” or “draws” a specific current.

  The definition of voltage kinda supports this, because voltage isn’t something that exists at a single point, like pressure - you can measure pressure in a single point of a fluid, for example, but not so with voltage: it’s the difference in potential between two different points.

  I’m trying to think of something like a taser gun, where you’re kinda trying to “push amps” through some body, but even then there’s two barbs that need to hit, if one of them fails you don’t get the jolt (as far as I understand it, please correct me if I’m wrong), so if anything you’re “pulling” the current across with voltage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon misses flash⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Risky click of the day…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My glasses⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’ve confused his job. The study of fields is very interesting for birds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plastic hinges on modern headphones⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Built to Fail*

  *after 3 years, when mandatory warranty expires in the EU.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨<3 <3 <3⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes or no lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨0mg⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I automatically read it as zero milligrammes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For some reason this reminded me of a “in between two ferns” interview, I don’t remember with who, where Galiakcnshjjkzzzz goes “I hear you’re very reserved and hate personal questions. So when did you first get your period?” and I thought that was so stupid that it was hilarious.