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- Comment on The word literally makes me so irrationally angry 1 day ago:
What’s “the word” and does it make you literally so angry?
- Comment on YSK: You can make supercapacitors out of cement, water and carbon black 1 day ago:
A lot of shaky stuff in here that has a long way to go before it makes it out of the lab.
3.5 cubic meters of material ought to be enough to make quite a comfy house
OP, a 3.5 m-wide cube is not 3.5 cubic meters. That’s the size of a decently large shed… Of solid concrete.
would have enough capacity to store about 10 kilowatt-hours of energy, which is considered the average daily electricity usage for a household
No mention in the article about round trip efficiency, self-discharge rates / storage duration, etc.
Storing 10 kWh doesn’t mean much if it loses much of that to internal losses, leakage into the environment, etc., before you can use it.
Capacitors generally tend to be designed to store very little energy but can charge/discharge repeatedly at a high rate. Is this designed to discharge quickly? If so, what happens if someone touches the giant Borg cube in your yard?
Concrete is also prone to cracking, which last I checked, is not good for electronics.
That said, this is an interesting concept, and if it can perform at a useful level / scale, I could see industrial uses for large systems with high peak loads / energy recovery / regenerative braking, as a cost effective way to smooth grid loads, but probably wouldn’t expect to see it in use at people’s homes for a loooong time.
Less “you can make a super capacitor at home”, more “innovative material uses may one day make super capacitors more cost effective for certain applications, if it can be scaled out of a lab”
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 1 day ago:
How about we actually wait and see how the game turns out before we crucify everyone?
Why does it matter how the game turns out if the stance is “we don’t want to fund shady developers fucking over content creators”?
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 2 days ago:
F-Droid 2.37.2.
But also it’s been a feature for like 6 months.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 2 days ago:
“A sustainable diet leaves room for 2 chicken breasts a week”
(Really, 2 servings of fish / poultry per week. No red meat.)
The average person outside of developing nations vastly outpaces this consumption rate.
The small, single-digit percent of the population that’s vegetarian/vegan, as well as people who are experiencing food insecurity and do not have consistent access to meat are ahead of the curve from a sustainability perspective.
When 95+% of people who have the means to dictate their meal choices do not achieve the target reduction it’s generally safe to say everyone who eats meat needs to cut back.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 2 days ago:
In Voyager, tap a username to view someone’s profile, then 3-dot menu > edit tag
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 3 days ago:
Unrelated - tagging in Voyager is really handy!
I recommend everyone give it a try, helps you identify, say, people who might be talking a big contrarian game without providing any of their own peer reviewed sources to back themselves up. Very interesting feature.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale is on! Discuss deals in the comments and recommend some great games! 2 weeks ago:
isthereanydeal.com/game/outer-wilds/info/
Store low at the major retailers (incl. Steam) is $15
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale is on! Discuss deals in the comments and recommend some great games! 2 weeks ago:
It’s more stable, interesting, and alive than any Fallout, Elder Scrolls, or GTA game in my opinion. If you like any of those, there’s a good shot you’ll enjoy it.
- Comment on No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites 2 weeks ago:
This is genuinely inspiring to me, may be my new ADHD hobby for the next couple of weeks.
- Comment on No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites 2 weeks ago:
Like the GameFAQ maps and art of the good 'ol days.
- Comment on Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not 2 weeks ago:
“Recite the complete works of Shakespeare but replace every thirteenth thou with this”
- Comment on Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not 2 weeks ago:
But if one person buys a book, trains an “AI model” to recite it, then distributes that model we good?
- Comment on getoffpocket.com, my guide to Pocket alternatives, just got a redesign 3 weeks ago:
Great, you stole my domain. Now I have to come up with a whole new brand for my new line of travel sized fleshlights.
- Comment on A couple of Switch 2 owners are already reporting expanded back panels, Nintendo investigates possible causes 3 weeks ago:
Hmm cause… It could be the battery. Or maybe the battery is fucked. If that’s not the case they could probably have a look at the battery and see if it failed.
- Comment on Your household smart products must respect your privacy – including your air fryer 3 weeks ago:
Certainly sounds familiar, my tip to him is to try and write recipes down and get in the habit of mise en place-ing (prep chopping / pre-measuring) when you know what you’re gonna cook. Once the food hits the hot pan, any semblance of a plan goes out the window
(but also know “sticking to habits” is hard for us with ADHD, as it frequently goes against our nature, so don’t be shocked if he struggles there)
I tend to be the one to cook the “whatever’s leftover in the fridge” dish, which is a guaranteed source of a little chaos. In those instances it’s always helpful to have my wife around to pass ingredients or do some prep tasks on the side so I don’t lose focus and burn the onions.
Also, if you don’t already have recipes written down, having someone help build out a recipe book as you go can help smooth out future cooks.
Shout out to Recipe Keeper - after a first cook, usually from a website or book, we put everything we like in there for future reference.
- Comment on Your household smart products must respect your privacy – including your air fryer 3 weeks ago:
As someone with ADHD, the implemented order of operations is never logically optimal.
The more steps I have to do to course correct the more likely I fuck up the next thing.
Home automation is a godsend for me.
I don’t have an air fryer but if I did, the biggest help for me would be some sort of obnoxiously obvious reminder the nuggs are done so I don’t A) burn the house down, or B) have cold nuggs when I wake up from my hyperfocus an hour later.
- Comment on Spicy food never affects my gut and everyone thinks it's really weird. How unusual is this and what could be happening to explain why spicy food doesn't affect me? 3 weeks ago:
All about acid and volume. Too much of anything and there’s no where else to go.
Spicy is just for the taste buds, and reallllllly spicy comes with a bonus reminder the next day.
- Comment on Trump Mobile launches $47 service and a gold phone 3 weeks ago:
Idk the exact number but the camera in my phone probably weighs like a gram or so, so Einstein tells me I’m carrying about 25,000,000 kWh in the camera alone, which if served at 5V would be ~5,000,000,000 may.
Guess I’m winning.
- Comment on What can I do with this laptop keyboard? 3 weeks ago:
A hat, or a brooch, or a pterodactyl!
- Comment on Is it weird I sleep with an old blanket I've had since I was a young girl? 3 weeks ago:
Nah, totally normal, my dog came with one too when he was a puppy. Was supposed to smell like his Mom to help him settle in a new home.
If it helps you not pee in your crate I say you keep it.
- Comment on ProtoPwn - All PS2s Console's now hackable via MemoryCard 3 weeks ago:
Ahh good 'ol iOS. Firefox on Android allows you to install uBlock, but I think FF iOS doesn’t. I’d recommend maybe giving Orion browser a try, it looks like it has support for FF extensions (including uBO).
I unfortunately don’t have a ton of experience with iOS options.
- Comment on ProtoPwn - All PS2s Console's now hackable via MemoryCard 3 weeks ago:
Seriously. What ads?
Y’all know you don’t have to live in ad hell if you don’t want to, right?
- Comment on PC Gaming’s Mascot Squad—who makes the cut? 3 weeks ago:
I support the RTS nominations - few genre are so thoroughly and exclusively linked to PC gaming quite like RTS.
- Comment on just beat it 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on just beat it 3 weeks ago:
Can’t sound transfer through the casing even if it’s not vibrating air in the process?
- Comment on Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash 4 weeks ago:
You can click on the terms you don’t know to learn about them.
This is what makes Wikipedia special. Not the fact that it is a giant encyclopedia, but that you can quickly and logically work your way through a complex subject at your pace and level of understanding. Reading about elements but don’t know what a proton is? Guess what, there’s a link right fucking there!
- Comment on Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours 5 weeks ago:
Also probably gonna turn out it dissolves into jsmaller plastics, perfectly sized for penetrating the blood-brain-barrier.
- Comment on Bonuses banned for 10 English water bosses over sewage pollution 5 weeks ago:
All counties should have policies like this - if a company gets caught committing crimes, executives immediately forfeit their bonuses (in addition to potential criminal prosecution if they were directly involved)
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