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- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] "Google is Getting Worse," ft. Wendell of Level1 Techs 1 week ago:
Yahoo is still around in some form or another.
Alphabet has enough money to persist well after they lose relevance.
- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] "Google is Getting Worse," ft. Wendell of Level1 Techs 1 week ago:
Is GN going to put Google on a Performance Improvement Plan like they did with Asus?
- Comment on Evidence 1 week ago:
Fortunately the big bang isn’t actually a bedrock of anything outside of cosmology and can entirely ignored by the rest of physics.
- Comment on Whats the best way to remove mold stains from clothes? 4 months ago:
Color-safe bleach seems to be Hydrogen Peroxide based, so you were probably safe.
Traditional Sodium Hypoclorite bleach should never be mixed with vinegar. That can release chlorine gas which is very bad for you even at low concentrations.
In general, use one cleaning agent at a time with thorough rinses in between. It can be hard to predict how cleaning agents will react. You’re likely to reduce the effectiveness of them by mixing, and there’s a chance of making dangerous byproducts.
- Comment on Betavolt's miniature battery could spell the end of smartphone chargers 5 months ago:
large.stanford.edu/courses/2015/ph241/degraw2/
Medical devices is an obvious potential application for beta decay power. In the past, nuclear power sources were at a major size disadvantage and chemically powered cells can also provide very long service life at such small power draw.
So this definitely isn’t nearly as much of a new concept as the media is suggesting. The question is whether they have achieved a compact enough design to be preferential over competing chemically powered cells.
Another application would be cmos batteries for holding memory states. Using ssds in external enclosures is compelling to reduce the amount of time it takes to actually read and write a full drive. But ssds need to be powered every once in a while. Of their internal power storage depletes they lose data. Backup ssd drives with an indefinite power source would definitely be a compelling option. I do however doubt if this technology could ever be cheap enough for such an application. The materials used seem rather expensive.
- Comment on People who order "a decaff coffee with an extra shot" - why? 5 months ago:
All the decaf coffee I’ve tried has less flavor than normal. The soaking process to decaffeinate it presumably also removes some of the flavorful compounds. If I use 3 shots decaf it ends up tasting close to as flavorful as using 2 shots of normal.
- Comment on Alaska Airlines Grounds Fleet of Boeing 737 Max 9 Jets After Midair ‘Incident’ 5 months ago:
Yeah reality and satire are getting close enough that I almost wonder if I should add a disclaimer that’s more obvious than the video link.
- Comment on Alaska Airlines Grounds Fleet of Boeing 737 Max 9 Jets After Midair ‘Incident’ 5 months ago:
Interviewer: This airplane that was involved in the incident off Western Oregon this week…
Senator Collins: The one the door plug fell off?
Interviewer: Yeah.
Senator Collins: Yeah, that’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.
Interviewer: Well, how was it un-typical?
Senator Collins: Well there are a lot of these airplanes going around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don’t want people thinking that 737 max 9’s aren’t safe.
…
Senator Collins: Well, some of them are built so that the door plug doesn’t fall off at all.
Interviewer: Wasn’t this built so that the door plug wouldn’t fall off?
Senator Collins: Well, obviously not.
Interviewer: How do you know?
Senator Collins: Well, because the door plug fell off at 20,000 feet and all the air spilled out. It’s a bit of a giveaway. I’d just like to make the point that that is not normal.
Interviewer: Well what sort of engineering standards are these 737 MAX 9’s built to?
Senator Collins: Oh, very rigorous aerospace engineering standards.
Interviewer: What sort of thing?
Senator Collins: Well, the door plug’s not supposed to fall off for a start.
…
Interviewer: So the allegations that they’re just designed to carry as many passengers as possible no matter the consequences, I mean that’s ludicrous isn’t it?
Senator Collins: Absolutely ludicrous, these are very very strong vessels.
Interviewer: So what happened in this case?
Senator Collins: Well, the door fell off in this case by all means, but it’s very unusual.
Interviewer: But Senator Collins, why did the door plug fall off?
Senator Collins: Well air hit it.
Interviewer: Air hit it?
Senator Collins: Air hit the plane.
Interviewer: Is that unusual?
Senator Collins: Oh yeah. At altitude? Chance in a million!
- Comment on Are MRNA vaccines any riskier than other vaccines? 5 months ago:
I got long covid from an infection before the vaccines were available.
Getting the vaccination and boosters noticeably worsened my existing long covid symptoms. I still got the boosters because I assume a reinfection would be much worse than the vaccine’s effects. If I ever thought I could reasonably avoid risk of future infections I would not choose to get more boosters, but since exposure is inevitable, I’ll deal with the consequences of the booster.
When essentially everyone has had exposure to covid your statement can’t actually be tested. We don’t have a cohort of people we know got vaccinated but were never exposed to the virus.
Anyway, the vaccine is worth getting because the alternative is being exposed to the virus without protection, but that doesn’t mean the vaccine is actually free of side effects for everyone.
- Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 5 months ago:
Swap it with the windows key and put the windows key as the function modified keyless. As long as I can still disable that key, it would be fine.
- Comment on TIL - Linux supports tilted monitors... apparently 22° is best 5 months ago:
I’m still waiting for hexagon monitors as they are clearly the bestagon.
- Comment on Toshiba exec claims hard drives are 7X cheaper than SSDs and will continually evolve for large datacenters 6 months ago:
Wendel from level 1 techs really likes the multi actuator spinning rust drives. You still wouldn’t use them for a boot drive, but they’re fast enough to saturate a sata connection, while still being much more dense than ssds. They can achieve 500MB/s sequential speeds, so they’re plenty fast for large file access. Most consumers should be using SSD’s but if you’re dealing with more than a couple terabytes, the best solution isn’t as straightforward.
- Comment on Toxic comments are associated with reduced activity of volunteer editors on Wikipedia 6 months ago:
- Comment on The Cybertruck Is a Disappointment Even to Cybertruck Superfans / Looking at the specs alone, the car is delivering 30 percent less range than expected for 30 percent more money 6 months ago:
I wanna see large gravel chunks at 80mph not a baseball at 25.
- Comment on Japanese experimental nuclear fusion reactor inaugurated 6 months ago:
The biggest delays for ITER were all political in deciding where it would be built and who would contribute what. Yes, there’s been some technical delays since then, but compared to other projects of this scale it has actually gone fairly well.
The DEMO units to follow ITER should be able to be built by individual nations. Those should got a lot faster and hence cheaper. The whole point of structuring ITER the way they did was to give all the contributing countries experience in every critical system. That’s very inefficient for this particular project, but should make follow up projects a lot more feasible.
- Comment on Amazon exec says it’s time for workers to ‘disagree and commit’ to office return — “I don’t have data to back it up, but I know it’s better.” 6 months ago:
How do statements like that not spook investors? You’re telling me that leadership in the world’s largest internet hosting service are making decisions without collecting relevant data first, or worse, wilfully ignoring the data available that doesn’t support their preference? That is not a good sign for the future growth of AWS.
- Comment on Old RTX 3080 GPUs repurposed and modded for Chinese market as 20GB AI cards with blower-style cooling 7 months ago:
Blower fans are better if you want a bunch of cards in one system. Open air coolers dump too much of the hot air back into the case and are usually thicker. For non-gaming loads it’s frequently better to have more cards at less than max speed.
- Comment on From Outer Wilds to Core Keeper and a new Shantae, here’s everything announced at Indie World - Polygon 7 months ago:
You should try the talos principle 2. They’re not apples to apples, but I’d guess that most who loved outer wilds would like it. The first talos principle is also good, but far less refined than the second.
The outerwilds dlc does add a fair bit of content. Although, I really don’t like jump scares so the dlc was not my favorite.
- Comment on Bay Area innovator stops shoplifting, gives shoppers power to open padlocked shelves 7 months ago:
It solves a stagnant demand for vending machines and gives a made up growth path for him to take to their investors.
This sounds terrible. If I can’t pick up a product and look at the packaging for specs or ingredients before deciding which item to pick, why wouldn’t I buy online instead? This is a great way for retail to finally cut one of their last benefits.
- Comment on The world's largest aircraft breaks cover in Silicon Valley 7 months ago:
Hydrogen has about half the density of helium. The fire risk is notoriously unpopular, however.
Wide-spread adoption of airships would almost certainly have to use hydrogen.
- Comment on Light and gravitational waves don't arrive simultaneously 8 months ago:
And if we had enough ligos throughout the solar system, maybe we could even image dark matter distributions.
- Comment on If the equator is the hottest part of the world, why aren't the deserts there? 8 months ago:
Check out this map of average daily solar irradiance.
…nrel.gov/…/NSRDB Graphic Update 2021 09 22.6d496…
As mentiined by other comments, water plays a huge role in absorbing and transporting heat as well as diffusing and reflecting light. As a result, many non equitorial regions are just as sunny as equitorial regions.
Your core premise also has a lot more nuance than you seem to realize. We have seasons because the earth’s tilt moves the maximum solar radiance up and down along multiple latitudes. The equator is only the sunniest latitude during the equinoxes. The change in latitude of the sunniest spot (subsolar point) shifts the fastest during the equinoxes since that’s the steepest part of the sine wave. The subsolar point stalls over 23.4 degrees N in June and 23.4 degrees S in Dec. These are the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsolar_point The increased length of day also exaggerates the effect of the subsolar point drifting. That makes the intensity of summer heat worse than the heat the equator experiences. Any latitude between the tropics actually has two periods of maximum solar intensity per year. If you look at a map of desert biomes, a lot of them are near the tropics.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
The strength of gravity at the orbital altitude of the ISS is 88% the strength of gravity at the earth’s surface, if anyone wants the actual number.
- Comment on 15 More Free to Play Overwhelmingly Positive Steam Games 8 months ago:
I too remember getting chewed out for randoming in an unranked match.
Now my friends exclusively play in private lobbies with bots.
- Comment on Amazon Has Turned Into an Monopolistic Shithole Littered With Pay-to-Play Ads, FTC Lawsuit Solemnly Argues 8 months ago:
Walmart is a last resort option. For example, my last purchase was an unusual size bicycle inner tube. I physically went to two other stores before ordering from walmart. I have no love for walmart, but Amazon poses the larger monopolistic threat. The damage amazon is capable of inflicting is only just beginning.
Btw their marketshare with aws scares me more than their retail presence. They will definitely use that market dominance to the detriment of society.
- Comment on Amazon Has Turned Into an Monopolistic Shithole Littered With Pay-to-Play Ads, FTC Lawsuit Solemnly Argues 8 months ago:
Between home depot, target, best buy, and walmart I can typically find most things I’m looking for.
I usually try to shop by reviewers first and check if the manufacturer sells directly. Retailers don’t need to get a chunk of every purchase.
- Comment on Stacked 3D cache is coming to Intel CPUs, and gamers should be excited (should we?) 9 months ago:
The 7 series are more efficient than the 5 series. They just are programmed to go as fast as thermals allow. So the reviewers that had really powerful coolers on the cpus saw really high power draw. If instead you set a power cap, you get higher performance per watt than the previous generations.
Having the clocks scale to a thermal limit is a nice feature to have, but I don’t think it should have been the default mode.
- Comment on Most U.S. adults don't believe benefits of AI outweigh the risks, new survey finds 9 months ago:
I am really dissapointed that crypto became synonymous with speculative “investing.” The core blockchain technology seems like it could be useful for enhancing privacy online. However, the majority of groups loudly advertising that they use crypto are exploitative money grabs.