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- Comment on YSK You may have unclaimed funds held by your government 1 day ago:
I used to work for (3-letter US pharmacy chain)
Having done the same (well, a smaller company they bought well before I started), you have my deepest sympathies.
- Comment on The proliferation of 3D printers probably had a negative impact on the sales of Altoids 5 days ago:
I think few people were buying Altoids for the box (not nobody, I know exactly what you’re talking about, but I’m just saying it was a small piece of the pie) and the fad kind of faded.
- Comment on AI Electric Bills 1 week ago:
Energy is not created or destroyed, it only gets transformed from one form to another. Fuel represents a storage of energy. So when you burn fuel, you are taking the energy contained in that fuel and using it to create heat energy, harness it to make a car move, generate electricity (which you seem to agree is energy as well), or whatever.
Think about high school physics. Bring a 200 pound weight to the top of a tower, and it has potential energy. Nothing happens, just as nothing happens to fuel without a spark, but if you drop it out turns into kinetic energy. Let it hit the ground, and the sidewalk will absorb some of that energy as it breaks, it gets absorbed into sound energy, the whole process repeats on a smaller scale as it bounces, etc. All energy, and not in the hippy “the universe is all energy, maaan” kind of way.
The first part of this Technology Connections video also shows how propane is stored energy that gets converted: youtu.be/OOK5xkFijPc - just because that spark was needed to convert the energy in that propane to heat, doesn’t mean the spark is the source of the energy. If you’re going to be pedantic enough that I have to explain that.
- Comment on AI Electric Bills 1 week ago:
I never said it would happen immediately 😉
- Comment on AI Electric Bills 1 week ago:
Gas isn’t energy
It absolutely is. Do I need to explain why that’s a ridiculous take, or have you had enough coffee by now to realize it?
- Comment on AI Electric Bills 1 week ago:
I mean… Gas prices are relatively low right now, at least here in 'Merica. I’ve seen them more than double what they are now, how did that happen?
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 1 week ago:
It does? I honestly love it and it will be very hard for me to go back
- Comment on AI Electric Bills 1 week ago:
Still nothing terribly new here. Energy has always had inelastic demand, meaning usage doesn’t change much with price. Whether gas costs 1, 3, or 5 dollars people still need to get to work and will still buy stuff. Maybe people will start to combine trips or whatever with higher prices, but nothing huge.
- Comment on AI Electric Bills 1 week ago:
Which wasn’t a factor before? 😉
- Comment on AI Electric Bills 1 week ago:
I’m not sure about that. The way I see it, there will be more supply for the below-expectation demand, which would make prices go down
- Comment on AI Electric Bills 1 week ago:
The same way you pay more for gas in summer or when the economy is doing well: demand is higher so prices go up.
- Comment on Why do US airports have a lot more jet bridges than EU airports? 2 weeks ago:
Yep, it’s got a rubbery grippy surface to follow the plane. As the plane goes down, the wheel will creep up a little bit so the jet bridge height will go down a tiny bit too.
Fun fact: they also have an alarm if something funky happens, like if someone pulls on the unit when it’s in use.
- Comment on Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 2 weeks ago:
Shit, with the way computer horsepower has improved over the years, how hard can it be to add a legacy Windows emulator or whatever WINE is, especially when you have the original source code available?
- Comment on Why do US airports have a lot more jet bridges than EU airports? 2 weeks ago:
Bluecifer*
- Comment on YSK: if you dont have Kagi, the next best thing is to search DDG with date range set before 2012 (ish) 2 weeks ago:
You can never regret pizza.
- Comment on Whats the best use for 75 dollars? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve got 4 Pis in my house right now:
- Octopi server for my 3D printer (Zero 2 W)
- Home Assistant server (400, but this was before I understood how Home Assistant worked and how much I didn’t need easy display access
- This adorable retro thingymabob: www.printables.com/model/…/files (I think on a 4?)
- A nearby flight display thingymabob: github.com/c0wsaysmoo/plane-tracker-rgb-pi (another Zero 2 W)
I’m also looking at making one of these (put a few parts on the Christmas list 😀 ) github.com/fatihak/InkyPi
- Comment on YSK: if you dont have Kagi, the next best thing is to search DDG with date range set before 2012 (ish) 2 weeks ago:
Guys, have you heard of this thing called Bitcoin? You can get a bunch of them for like $3, worth a try to see what happens!
- Comment on Whats the best use for 75 dollars? 2 weeks ago:
Do you have a 3D printer? $75 won’t buy one in full, but it can help get a decent entry-level one like an Ender 3 V3 SE. If you already have one, maybe some filament.
Also, a Raspberry Pi can be used for some nice things. I love my Home Assistant setup, for example!
- Comment on Why do US airports have a lot more jet bridges than EU airports? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve only been on a Dash 8 a few times, but I think I’ve boarded one from a jet bridge once?
- Comment on Why do US airports have a lot more jet bridges than EU airports? 2 weeks ago:
Nah, I worked at an airport that only has CRJs and we had a jet bridge. I’ve even boarded Saab 340s from them. There are some differences like a little bridge instead of direct connection, and they can’t use the jet bridge’s auto-level feature (as the plane gets loaded and unloaded it slowly sinks/rises not unlike what a car would do; auto-level has a stick with a wheel to track that and move the jet bridge to match) but other than that it’s pretty seamless.
Ok, there is a limit and you probably couldn’t use a jet bridge on, say, a Cessna Caravan… But the minimum is most definitely not a mainline plane.
- Comment on Why do US airports have a lot more jet bridges than EU airports? 2 weeks ago:
Denver is the second largest airport in the world after Dammam, Saudi Arabia, which doesn’t even seem to use much of its enormous amount of land from a quick look.
Denver’s airport is relatively new, was built way outside of town before the city really had a chance to grow into it, and is about twice the size of Manhattan.
- Comment on LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems 2 weeks ago:
Every article like this makes me want to hug my 13-year-old Costco Sharp (is that brand still a thing?) TV that barely has apps and doesn’t get butthurt when I don’t do anything with them
- Comment on Why does everyone put celery in soup stock? 3 weeks ago:
You take that back!
- Comment on Why does everyone put celery in soup stock? 3 weeks ago:
And if it is done right it can add a dimension of flavor. Carrot and onion develop a bit of sweetness when cooked a while. Nothing inherently wrong with that, but it’s not exactly what you’re looking for in a bowl of chicken noodle. Celery, being disgusting when raw, doesn’t do that and helps break that pattern up.
- Comment on Why does everyone put celery in soup stock? 3 weeks ago:
Do you mean the leaves, AKA cilantro? Do you have that gene?
- Comment on Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI 4 weeks ago:
Ok Boomer
- Comment on YSK that in most countries, traffic fatalities have been falling. But in the U.S., the opposite happened. Americans die in rising numbers 4 weeks ago:
I’m going to guess that those highways between metro areas, especially where speeds like that are even feasible (highest speed limit in the US is 85) are so remote and sparsely traveled that that’s not where the deaths are happening.
- Comment on People that have face/butt labeled towels must do a terrible job washing their butts 4 weeks ago:
I make those smears with the poop knife
- Comment on People that have face/butt labeled towels must do a terrible job washing their butts 4 weeks ago:
That’s why I have a poop counter so I can keep track
- Comment on Is it even feasebal to find 12 people who have not been screwed over by insurance for the Luigi trial? 4 weeks ago:
feasebal
Well, that’s a new one