halcyoncmdr
@halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
- Comment on We have the best shaped states, don't we folks 10 hours ago:
After learning about the chef, it becomes impossible to not see him anymore when looking at the states.
- Comment on Not So Fast! Judge Halts Infowars Sale To Onion Due To Shady Auction Procedures 2 days ago:
What a surprise. The bid the families are backing to win despite not being the highest, is being challenged.
The higher “backup” bid is a company setup by Alex Jones sycophants to maintain control of their propaganda brand, despite the purpose of the entire defamation lawsuit and the reason for it being sold in the first place.
They can go fuck themselves. The reason it is being sold off in the first place is the damage done to the families. Their opinion should have weight, if not outright make the decision of who wins the bid.
- Comment on But yes. 2 days ago:
I’ve never heard of Hydro power boiling water. Usually hydro power is natural or pumped storage.
You’re just taking water from an upper reservoir and dropping it to a downstream river. Either a naturally-filled reservoir/lake, or a pumped storage reservoir where you use other cheap power during low usage periods to pump that water to a higher reservoir to utilize later. The pump doesn’t heat the water, it just moves it uphill to utilize later, like the Taum Sauk Hydroelectric Power Station in Missouri.
- Comment on But yes. 2 days ago:
Nearly all power generation comes down to boiling water to steam which spins a turbine.
I can only think of two common exceptions off the top of my head. Solar is an exception and Hydro power is an exception ironically, that usually uses the vertical difference and gravity to spin the turbine.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 4 days ago:
Same with the Model 3.
I have to disagree with them not being obvious however. Nearly every new person in my Model 3 goes to grab the emergency release immediately. I even added vinyl door open stickers next to the button to make it more obvious and it still happens almost every time.
- Comment on Anger in Taiwan over reports SpaceX asked suppliers to move abroad 1 week ago:
SpaceX will for sure be exempt. Justification will probably be national defense, which is a decent justification to be honest.
Tesla, probably lumped in there because there is a lot of cross-work between Tesla and SpaceX with battery tech, electric motors, engineering, etc.
It won’t affect them at all.
- Comment on Penguins 🐧 2 weeks ago:
Were they as annoying as seagulls? Because I could see that being a fairly valid reasoning back in the day.
- Comment on Moderators protect us from the worst of the internet. That comes at huge personal cost. 2 weeks ago:
There are varying levels of moderation, and not all moderation is unpaid volunteer like lemmy and reddit. Not all moderation is just morons fighting or porn being posted where it shouldn’t. There are dedicated moderation teams that handle the worst things like child sexual abuse verification and reporting at sites like Facebook, etc. Those are pretty objective based determinations that don’t need to handle moderation criticism or concerns in any way shape or form.
- Comment on Moderators protect us from the worst of the internet. That comes at huge personal cost. 2 weeks ago:
It sounds like it might be a good job for sociopaths. Since nearly everything I’ve read from those who have actually done that moderation is about the effect on them due to their empathy, a lack of natural empathy seems like it would be advantageous.
I wonder if there’s been a study on that.
- Comment on WordPress demands conf organizers share social media logins. 2 weeks ago:
Blood is in the water. The sharks will come to feed on the corpse. If one manages to make an alternative that can be a nearly seamless switch from WP that will probably succeed.
- Comment on What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs 2 weeks ago:
So just another variation of the “you’re using it wrong” excuse. Gotcha.
- Comment on What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs 3 weeks ago:
Because of course there’s absolutely no program a regular person outside of work could possibly need Windows for. None at all. Not a single application. Not a single game. Not a single piece of hardware they’re using (like many laptops with hardware needing specific drivers that don’t exist for linux).
Nope, absolutely nothing a regular user could have a need for Windows.
- Comment on Do PhDs HAVE to use Dr? 3 weeks ago:
To be fair, lawyers get the much cooler Esquire, AND it is appended to the end of their name instead of the front. Definitely stands out more than the generic Doctor.
Although only a douchenozzle would insist on it being used.
- Comment on As Corporate Landlords Spread, a Mold Epidemic Takes Root 3 weeks ago:
While individual landlords can be terrible, a lot of them did actually own the buildings and care for basic maintenance at least.
For corporate systems it’s usually just numbers on a spreadsheet.
- Comment on San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks 3 weeks ago:
And that cost includes decades of support.
The $212 million contract includes support services from Hitachi for “20 to 25 years,” the Chronicle said.
- Comment on Ukraine ‘will seek nuclear weapons’ if it cannot join Nato 4 weeks ago:
couldn’t maintain the nuclear weapons that the Soviet Union left behind.
Not sure Russia has either. They certainly haven’t maintained the rest of the Societ military infrastructure that was left in Russia.
- Comment on Ukraine ‘will seek nuclear weapons’ if it cannot join Nato 4 weeks ago:
If I recall correctly, the reason Ukraine got rid of their previous nukes was an agreement with Russia. Essentially remove your nukes or face annexation by Russia… And yet here we are, unsurprisingly to be honest.
- Comment on Why do residential skyscrapers always seem to include balconies that never get used? 4 weeks ago:
A different design other than a basic box would allow them to make a large outdoor area at basically any level they want, not necessarily the ground, but that’s of course more expensive as well.
- Comment on Nevada is getting the world’s first lithium-sulfur battery gigafactory 4 weeks ago:
It references a single factory that can produce over a gigawatt of energy capacity annually.
When Tesla announced the first gigafactory around 2013, the plan was for the factory to produce more lithium batteries annually than the entire planet did at the time.
- Comment on Google considers sourcing from nuclear power plants, says CEO Pichai [Nikkei] 1 month ago:
Eh, that’s their software side. Google doesn’t do that with hardware infrastructure like data centers.
- Comment on Google considers sourcing from nuclear power plants, says CEO Pichai [Nikkei] 1 month ago:
To be honest, I’m surprised Google/Alphabet hasn’t tried to get into running their own reactor by this point. Energy seems like the one thing they haven’t touched yet.
- Comment on Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time 1 month ago:
Phantom Liberty is a great expansion in its own right, combined with the 2.0 changes just made the entire experience better.
- Comment on Telegram is exposing their users privacy. 1 month ago:
But then you can’t sell your customer’s data for profit. Even if you don’t now, you still have that option in the future.
- Comment on FTC Announces Crackdown on Deceptive AI Claims and Schemes 1 month ago:
Amazing what happens with adequate funding. How long until Republicans open some sort of bullshit Congressional investigation that won’t find anything but waste time and money, and as usual try to reduce funding by obviously punitive levels?
- Comment on FTC Announces Crackdown on Deceptive AI Claims and Schemes 1 month ago:
Surprisingly fast for a government organization to react to something new.
- Comment on Starlink kit found amid wreckage of Russian drone 1 month ago:
Oh I’m sure that’s the case for nearly all large social media and network systems based on the US. I’m also willing to bet that for some of these companies, almost no one even knows it’s there, either because a 3 letter agency put it there themselves without being noticed, or an employee implemented it for them without corporate approval.
The US is worried about other countries doing this because we 100% are doing it ourselves. From a national security perspective, it’s basically common sense. Ensure you have access to everything, even if you don’t use it now, you might in the future and it will save time.
- Comment on Starlink kit found amid wreckage of Russian drone 1 month ago:
A wiretap is different than having something like backdoor access at will for military use.
- Comment on Starlink kit found amid wreckage of Russian drone 1 month ago:
The problem is that not all of those terminals are being purchased by Ukraine, or supplied through official channels. There are tons of equipment being donated from third parties not directly affiliated, including Starlink terminals.
That’s great if the Ukraine military were the only users in the region, but they aren’t. Regular Starlink service is available in the country, outside military use. Even though the Ukraine military is using it, Starlink is not designed to be a military network. It is a civilian network that just happens to be available and extremely useful in this case, even with the Russian attempts to interfere with signals in the region.
- Comment on Starlink kit found amid wreckage of Russian drone 1 month ago:
Yeah, but it’s not a government satellite system, it’s an independent Internet provider. It is always possible that the US government/military has access on the back end, but that’s not guaranteed. And since Ukraine is using Starlink, they can’t exactly just disable all access in the region.
Kind of makes sense for Russia to try and use Starlink at least a bit to test the waters and see what sort of Intel the US has access to directly through it.
- Comment on Starlink kit found amid wreckage of Russian drone 1 month ago:
They do, but Ukraine uses Starlink, so they can’t really disable usage entirely in the contested areas. They could disable the individual terminals, but that would require knowing which ones the Russians were using in the first place.