halcyoncmdr
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- Comment on Biden is Hamas now 2 hours ago:
Wait wait wait… Netanyahu and Lil Dicky went to the same High School?
That’s a crossover I never expected.
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 2 days ago:
EV conversions are definitely a thing. And the Golf platform seems to actually be one of the most popular.
After a quick Google, it looks like there are even some premade kits for the Golf specifically, even with installation available. Although I can only find UK/EU links quickly. May be more built-it yourself in the US.
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 2 days ago:
You obviously don’t live or drive in a semi-rural area at night with larger wildlife that tends to dart across the road in front of cars. All it takes is hitting a deer or javelina hard and going into a ditch.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 5 days ago:
Phone numbers aren’t exactly unique. It’s really not much different than being assigned a static IP address from your ISP. They’re assigned and if a line is cancelled or you change your number, it goes to a dormant state for a while then is reassigned to someone else.
Your phone’s IMEI on the other hand is a unique number, similar to a MAC address for network devices. Unlike a MAC though, it is illegal to spoof or clone an IMEI. Infrastructure however wasn’t designed to use the IMEI or MAC as the publicly accessible address, it was designed with a middle translation layer in mind.
Not 100% sure, my early history is lacking a bit, but I think that was simply because the fundamental network design underlying everything we use predates unique identifiers like MAC addresses existing.
- Comment on Gas stoves increase nitrogen dioxide exposure above WHO standards – study 6 days ago:
Also not everyone is doing western dishes everyday. The world is kinda big if you haven’t realise and there’s shit tons of cuisine that doesn’t do deglazing.
You’re right. Cooking with a wok is famous for working best on electric and induction cooktops.
- Comment on Gas stoves increase nitrogen dioxide exposure above WHO standards – study 6 days ago:
Deglazing isn’t exactly uncommon when actually cooking. Sear a protein, deglaze the pan and make a simple sauce to go with it using all that otherwise wasted flavor.
Not everyone just makes simple shit from a box like hamburger helper.
- Comment on Gas stoves increase nitrogen dioxide exposure above WHO standards – study 6 days ago:
Because that has a charcoal filter and is the entire issue with gas ranges, they need to be vented outdoors…
Not sure what you’re saying here… The combo literally comes with a vented hood. It does vent outside, and comes with the vent for it.
You’re suggesting every unit be about 3-5k more just so it can used a cheap gas unit…? What…
I didn’t say every unit, or anything of the sort. I was just saying that a cheap gas stove is better to cook with than a cheap electric. I wasn’t talking about anything else, and made no other claims.
But since you want to go into other shit unrelated to what I was talking about about… Electricity costs more than natural gas in a lot of places. Here in AZ for instance the electricity to run an electric range costs a shit ton more than the equivalent gas (especially in the summer with higher grid load from A/C usage). If a house is already plumbed for it, switching to electric is just going to cost more for a worse experience. No one was ever talking about retrofitting a place without gas for it.
- Comment on Gas stoves increase nitrogen dioxide exposure above WHO standards – study 6 days ago:
Exposed coil burners take a long time to heat up and don’t change temperatures quickly. That’s fine if you’re cooking something simple that you’re just throwing in a pan for a few minutes and don’t really need to adjust at all like a box of hamburger helper, but for actual cooking those are limitations that just don’t need to exist. There is a reason restaurants don’t use coil burners.
Lowes currently has a GE gas range with 4 burners, a griddle, convection oven and even includes a range hood for $179.00 after a $20 discount. That’s pretty dang cheap for a much better cooking experience than a similarly priced electric.
- Comment on Gas stoves increase nitrogen dioxide exposure above WHO standards – study 6 days ago:
Ah yes exactly what everyone wants to do when their gas range with 4-5 burners and an oven needs to be replaced… getting a tabletop induction burner. Perfect replacement.
Lowes currently has a gas range with 4 burners, a built in griddle, and a convection oven from GE for $179.00 right now, and it even comes with a range hood, usually sold separate.
Meanwhile the cheapest random Chinese “brand” single induction burner I can quickly find on Amazon is $89. For 1 burner, that’s a tabletop using up counter space instead, and will likely fail within a year because it’s not from a real brand. The company probably won’t even exist in a year so they don’t have to handle warranty claims.
If all you ever need is 1 small burner then awesome. I don’t know about everyone else, but I don’t usually cook entire meals using a single pan small enough to fit on a small portable burner however. So I’d probably need a larger burner, which is more expensive, and probably multiple burners to actually cook a full meal without having to do one thing at a time. Where I’m right back at the cost of just getting a range and hood that fits where the existing spot in the house already is.
- Comment on Gas stoves increase nitrogen dioxide exposure above WHO standards – study 6 days ago:
It’s because so many electric stoves fucking suck. A cheap gas stove is infinitely better to cook on than a cheap coil electric stove.
While people will talk about electric stoves and reference newer glass top ranges, and induction cooktop that heat the pan directly, that’s not what 90% of people have. They have the shitty coil burners from the cheap piece of shit model the apartment complex installed.
The price difference to get to a good electric means many apartment complexes and landlords won’t buy them, or it’s just cost prohibitive for current homeowners with the current economy when the current stove unexpectedly breaks.
- Comment on Nevada put big battery energy storage where a coal plant used to be 1 week ago:
Hydroelectric Dams are a gravity based battery. Crudely, water falling spins the turbine generating electricity. One of the few power generating methods that doesn’t involve first turning water to steam to spin the turbine.
- Comment on FCC Imposes Nearly $200 Million in Fines on US Wireless Carriers (AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon) for Illegal Location Data Sharing 1 week ago:
They only changed a letter, and are essentially just shortening Not.
Nitter = Not Twitter Neuters = Not Reuters
- Comment on Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths 1 week ago:
I never said it was a scientific calculator.
- Comment on Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths 1 week ago:
I’d wager most people, when talking about a plane’s autopilot mean the follow waypoints or Autoland capability.
Many people are also pretty stupid when it comes to any sort of technology more complicated than a calculator. That doesn’t mean the world revolves around a complete lack of knowledge.
My issue is just with people expecting basic Autopilot to do more than it’s designed or intended to do, and refusing to acknowledge their expectation might actually be wrong.
Also, it’s hard to argue “full self driving” means anything but the car is able to drive fully autonomously. If they were to market it as “advanced driver assist” I’d have no issue with it.
Definitely won’t get an argument from me there. FSD certainly isn’t in a state to really be called that yet. Although, to be fair, when signing up for it, and when activating it there are a lot of notices that it is in testing and will not operate as expected.
At what point do we start actually expecting and enforcing that people be responsible with potentially dangerous things in daily life, instead of just blaming a company for not putting enough warnings or barriers to entry?
- Comment on Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths 1 week ago:
You really want to get into reality versus marketing in this world? Very little marketing actually shows real world products and use cases in a real world environment. Heck, advertising often doesn’t even show the actual product at all.
Your McDonald’s burger is NEVER going to look like the marketing photo. You don’t want to get anywhere near that “ice cream” or “milkshake” from the ad either, mashed potatoes and glue are often used for those advertising replacements.
This doesn’t even get into things like disclaimers and product warnings, or people ignoring them.
- Comment on Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths 1 week ago:
I am so sick and tired of this belief because it’s clear people have no idea what Autopilot on a plane actually does. They always seem to assume it flies the plane and the pilot doesn’t do anything apparently. Autopilot alone does not fly the damned plane by itself.
“Autopilot” in a plane keeps the wings level at a set heading, altitude, and speed. It’s literally the same as cruise control with lane-centering, since there’s an altitude issue on a road.
There are more advanced systems available on the market that can be installed on smaller planes and in use on larger jets that can do things like auto takeoff, auto land, following waypoints, etc. without pilot input, but basic plain old autopilot doesn’t do any of that.
That expanded capability is similar to how things like “Enhanced Autopilot” on a Tesla can do extra things like change lanes, follow highway exits on a navigated route, etc. Or how “Full Self-Driving” is supposed to follow road signs and lights, etc. but those are additional functions, not part of “Autopilot” and differentiated with their own name.
Autopilot, either on a plane or a Tesla, alone doesn’t do any of that extra shit. It is a very basic system.
The average person misunderstanding what a word means doesn’t make it an incorrect name or description.
- Comment on Updating California’s grid for EVs may cost up to $20 billion 2 weeks ago:
Impatience wouldn’t make a difference if home charging was more widely available. New home construction to have charging requirements.
Homes with a garage should require at least 1 dedicated 50 amp circuit near a parking space. Apartment complexes should be required to install X number of chargers per unit. There are several options on the market to allow them to charge for the electricity on a per unit basis if utilities aren’t included in rent, or if they want to charge that separately.
- Comment on Chinese battery developer unveils new tech with 1,300-mile range that could revolutionize EVs: 'An important piece of the puzzle' 2 weeks ago:
Like the other responses, the battery chemistry is the major reason for cell sizes, but also, smaller cells means they can be isolated if necessary.
In a Tesla battery pack for instance, each cell is connected by a single small wire that also doubles as a fuse. If there is an issue with the cell the wire will heat up and break. opening the circuit and separating that battery cell from the rest of the pack. This also means that a failed cell doesn’t take out a significant portion of battery capacity. Other manufacturers do this as well, but not all, and some implement similar capability in other ways. This method functions as a sort of “passive” option since it doesn’t require the BMS to make a decision to remove those bad batteries from the pack, physics just does it and the BMS adjusts to compensate when the cell no longer is connected.
Good battery management systems that handle things like charge leveling individual cells, can mean the difference between batteries degrading noticeably in a few years and the pack as a whole lasting a decade before that noticeable degradation. There are a lot of poor battery management systems on the market, EVs are no exception and if anything they make this issue more noticeable because of the increased usage.
- Comment on US government says security flaw in Chirp Systems' app lets anyone remotely control smart home locks 2 weeks ago:
We need to start having both financial and criminal penalties for companies actively ignoring security issues like this.
- Comment on Scared the shit out of me ngl 3 weeks ago:
It’s just the newest icon update. They change the icon every once in a while to get people to open the app again.
It has nothing to do with your actual usage.
- Comment on I bought frozen BBQ eel and the best before date says LJ349. What does this mean? 3 weeks ago:
Not sure about LJ… but 349 could simply refer to the day number. Day 349 this year is December 14th.
This is using the Julian calendar (standard calendar for most things)… maybe the J in LJ?
- Comment on Car-size asteroid discovered 2 days ago flies 30 times closer to Earth than the moon 4 weeks ago:
Which on the scale of the solar system is essentially the width of a damned hair.
- Comment on Czech government invests six billion euros in new nuclear reactors 4 weeks ago:
What are you blathering about?
- Comment on Czech government invests six billion euros in new nuclear reactors 4 weeks ago:
Care to expand on that?
Nuclear is basically the only viable large scale replacement for base load generation to replace carbon fuels like coal and natural gas.
Things like solar and wind are great, when they can generate, and grid scale batteries can help with balancing and peaks to an extent, but the base load is an issue that they just cannot address.
- Comment on Millennials and Gen Z's trendy new splurge: groceries 4 weeks ago:
The original
- Comment on Investigation launched after Boeing engine cover falls off during takeoff 4 weeks ago:
Definitely maintenance, but the number of Boeing specific issues lately is alarming. Even given the media’s tendency to over report issues like these for headlines.
It’s not like Airbus is a small competitor with a fraction of Boeing’s sales. Airbus makes more planes than Boeing, and has for the last 5 years.
- Comment on Could the US Government Self-Host a Fediverse Server? 5 weeks ago:
Truth Social is already literally a Mastodon instance. They just don’t federate with anything else.
Trump could open up federation, but that would ruin their safe space, I mean echo chamber.
- Comment on ‘Even stronger’ than imagined: DOJ’s sweeping Apple lawsuit draws expert praise 1 month ago:
Where are they deriving this statistic from?
Probably new phone sales.
- Comment on The first 'cyberflasher' is convicted under England's new law and gets more than 5 years in prison 1 month ago:
It feels like something that should fall under existing sexual harassment laws at least, but probably doesn’t because of specific wording that requires a physical act, removing photo/video as qualifying.
- Comment on Security footage of Boeing repair before door-plug blowout was overwritten 1 month ago:
For large corporations, keeping recordings for a long period is common.
I was at Sprint retail back in 2010 when information was leaked by a coworker at my retail store. The internal security team that came to the store less than a week after the leak, had recordings from the cameras 6 months prior that they were referencing when talking to all of us.
A small business may only be keeping camera recordings for maybe a month on a local DVR, but a corporation with their own data centers are going to keep those a lot longer. ESPECIALLY a government contractor where the logging requirements are much more stringent.