ooterness
@ooterness@lemmy.world
I’m an electrical engineer living in Los Angeles, CA.
- Comment on CATL announces sodium batteries that cost as little as $10/kWh, a massive price reduction compared to the current average of $115/kWh for lithium-ion batteries. 1 week ago:
Where are they getting batteries for $115/kWh? Going market rate for LiFePO3 seems to be at least 10 times that.
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 2 weeks ago:
Yes, they were organic dyes. At the time, those were the only kind. Maybe it’s gotten better over the years.
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 2 weeks ago:
This is terrible advice. Writable DVDs degrade quickly, even if they’re stored away from sunlight and heat. Every single one of my burned DVDs from more than s few years back is completely unreadable.
- Comment on Hell Yeah 2 months ago:
🙀 Quite right, my mistake.
- Comment on Hell Yeah 2 months ago:
“Yours” should not have an apostrophe.
- Comment on Naughty rats get the tube 2 months ago:
You’re saying that the rat in an icing bag meme is real!?
- Comment on Dredd Sheeran 2 months ago:
I AM THE LAW!
- Comment on Brooklyn electronics company Adafruit hit with surprise $36K tariff bill: "pay in one week" 3 months ago:
- Comment on A Judge Accepted AI Video Testimony From a Dead Man 3 months ago:
This is basically “Weekend at Bernie’s”, using the likeness of a dead man as a puppet.
- Comment on If trump shaved his head and didn't wear any makeup do you think you would recognize him? 4 months ago:
It would be obvious the moment he opens his mouth. That stupid word salad is instantly recognizable.
- Comment on Rocky rock rocking 4 months ago:
Rock and stone forever! ⛏️
- Comment on Rocky rock rocking 4 months ago:
DID I HEAR A ROCK AND STONE?
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 4 months ago:
I switched to Ubuntu a few months ago, and all my Steam games work just fine. Never looking back.
- Comment on Nokia Put a 4G Cellular Network on the Moon but Couldn’t Make a Phone Call 5 months ago:
That’s correct. IM-1 in Feb 2024 and IM-2 in Mar 2025 both ended with tipped-over landers.
- Comment on Nokia Put a 4G Cellular Network on the Moon but Couldn’t Make a Phone Call 5 months ago:
Headline is misleading. The Nokia hardware worked fine; it’s the host vehicle from Intuitive Machines that tipped over and ran out of power.
- Comment on Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data, including DNA, in one big Oracle system for AI to study 6 months ago:
At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don’t Create The Torment Nexus.
- Comment on Google will use machine learning to estimate a user’s age 6 months ago:
That’s weird, the computer says everyone was born January 1, 1900.
- Comment on Advice on enjoying your life 6 months ago:
All I see is “Crush your enemies, see them driven before you”.
- Comment on If scientists could make you immortal but could only do it by transferring your consciousness into a single video game for ever, which game would you choose? 6 months ago:
Factorio, because the factory must grow.
- Comment on Today I found out about blinking LEDs 8 months ago:
There are also LEDs with a built-in “candle flicker” effect. This teardown shows how it’s done with two dies integrate into the LED package: the LED and an ASIC. They also demo a circuit using a small flicker LED and an amplifier to control a much larger LED.
- Comment on Trump’s FCC chair is Brendan Carr, who wants to regulate everyone except ISPs 8 months ago:
Fuck Donald Trump and all his cronies.
- Comment on Back Home 9 months ago:
- Comment on Pressure vs Temp 9 months ago:
- Do you know anybody from “Ohio”?
- Have you ever been to “Ohio”?
- Do you know anybody who has ever been to “Ohio”?