CookieOfFortune
@CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world
- Comment on What's your favorite sport to watch or play? 6 days ago:
I play and watch rock climbing. At the moment the competitions are mostly free on YouTube and happen weekly or so when the season starts up.
- Comment on New Cars Don't All Come With Dipsticks Anymore, Here's Why 1 week ago:
Seems like 60k miles for brake fluid replacement and 80k miles for low conductivity coolant replacement. Then also replace the normal coolant at 120k miles. This is for an Ioniq5.
I feel like most electric cars don’t need to use brakes going downhill. The regen is heavy enough to maintain a reasonable speed.
- Comment on New Cars Don't All Come With Dipsticks Anymore, Here's Why 1 week ago:
Hmm do brake calipers age? You’re not really using your brakes during normal driving.
Power steering and other hydraulics would need changing eventually.
- Comment on The Home Depot tax at work! 3 weeks ago:
Note that it will warp further when you get it home since Home Depot wood is unlikely to be fully dried and the environment in your home will be different as well.
You’ll need to wait a couple of weeks to see what shape the wood settles into. If you try to build something now it might end up warping after construction.
Even if you’re working with S4S lumber you still need to let it acclimate and then finish milling it if you really need very square pieces.
- Comment on this post is just 42kib 3 weeks ago:
It’s just extra information. Not an attack or disagreement.
- Comment on this post is just 42kib 3 weeks ago:
JPEG also reduces color depth as it’s first step but just in a smarter way. RGB is converted into YCbCr.
- Comment on The Pentagon is the best shape for a large buildings as long as all surrounding buildings are also Pentagons 5 weeks ago:
Room for parks!
- Comment on What ongoing projects are you working on? 2 months ago:
- Comment on Aptera’s production-intent solar EV completed its first road trip traversing over 300 miles 2 months ago:
While that’s quite sad, in the case of their road trip, the comparison was made against the many splatters on the chase vehicles making the trip with them.
- Comment on Aptera’s production-intent solar EV completed its first road trip traversing over 300 miles 2 months ago:
One interesting tidbit not is that due to the aerodynamic design, bugs are swept over the windshield and don’t splatter. This effect was theorized in simulations but they were able to demonstrate it during the roadtrip.
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 2 months ago:
The issue is the plastic internal mechanisms will wear out eventually. The Pentels have a metal core which has never worn out from my usage. I always end up losing the pencils before they break. The same can’t be said for the BICs.
- Comment on Tinder-alternatives for the Fediverse 3 months ago:
Then you’d need some organization with resources to store this data? You’d still need to trust someone to do this correctly.
- Comment on US fab construction costs twice as much, takes twice as long as Taiwan 3 months ago:
But America has a higher suicide raterate?
- Comment on New thermoelectric generator converts vehicle exhaust heat into electricity, boosting fuel efficiency 3 months ago:
So in a solid, you can imagine each atom connected to each other by springs (bonds). They can vibrate on these springs. If they vibrate too much (by heating) then they can break the bonds and escape as a gas. Gasses basically have too much energy to bond again.
- Comment on New thermoelectric generator converts vehicle exhaust heat into electricity, boosting fuel efficiency 3 months ago:
Molecules interact with each other. Energy is transferred as they bump around. If you were to follow a single molecule it would move around randomly. What we can measure is usually the average of many molecules.
- Comment on A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible. 3 months ago:
Only if there’s no collisions. With lots of collisions it’s far from constant.
- Comment on Solar should be packaged with consumer appliances 3 months ago:
A 3kWh battery is like >$1000? Wouldn’t this double the price of a fridge?
- Comment on Solar should be packaged with consumer appliances 3 months ago:
Except batteries are heavy and expensive? Which appliances can feasibly be battery powered for a practical amount of time?
- Comment on circuits 6 months ago:
Also the money. I’d love to do more hardware heavy stuff but the pay just isn’t there.
- Comment on Classic shooters Unreal and Unreal Tournament are now free and preserved on the Internet Archive 6 months ago:
This game is the reason my eyes and vestibular systems are disconnected.
- Comment on The ability to be spontaneous in life is directly proportion to the size of your bank account 7 months ago:
Murder. It’s how many kids you’ve murdered. Therefore you will be in prison and have negative spontaneity.
- Comment on Should you trust that doctor? 7 months ago:
JD should definitely be higher than Strange on the Y axis. He cares way more for his patients.
- Comment on Should you trust that doctor? 7 months ago:
So Dr. Strange is trained in neurosurgery, which is a 7 year residency compared to 3-4 years for internal medicine. He may have also done a neurosurgery fellowship for 2 years.
- Comment on Should you trust that doctor? 7 months ago:
But that’s the Y axis. Training is on the X. As a neurosurgeon, he’s had at least 2 more years of training than JD, possibly a lot more.
- Comment on Should you trust that doctor? 7 months ago:
Dr. Strange should have more formal training for his surgery specialty. Did JD specialize or did he just stay in internal medicine?
- Comment on Should you trust that doctor? 7 months ago:
And does he actually have no formal training? You’d think at some stretch of his life he actually became accredited somewhere. Possible on multiple planets.
- Comment on How do our brains process reality? I heard our eyes were just low-res cameras and our brains were doing all the heavy lifting in 'rendering' reality. 8 months ago:
You can test this: ismy.blue
Obviously not perfect since it depends on screens and lighting conditions.
- Comment on Mazda's $10 Subscription For Remote Start Sparks Backlash After Killing Open Source Option 8 months ago:
Yeah the problem is Mazda was abusing the DMCA instead of setting up their API properly. The API should fail if you try to use it without a subscription. It seems like this check was done elsewhere, which is just bad design. And then they used the legal system to cover it up.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
I know some people upgrading Pixels every year because with trade in and sales they only need to pay like $200. I don’t think Sony will take an existing PS5 though…
