myrrh
@myrrh@ttrpg.network
- Comment on At least Quark had some integrity. 2 days ago:
…it’s how you imagine people look or it’s what you imagine people look like, but not both…
- Comment on The NGage Has A New Boxed Game For The First Time In 20 Years 3 days ago:
- Comment on FL wants more child labor 1 week ago:
…siding?..i do what i must to survive but, if that comes across as advocating for serfdom, you’re inferring something i certainly didn’t imply…
- Comment on One of the terrible things about having a close friend or relative die is that it is a subtle reminder that you've moved up in the line towards the end. 1 week ago:
…nothing wrong with dying; when you die it’s not your problem anymore…
…problems are for the folks left behind…
- Comment on FL wants more child labor 1 week ago:
…adults shouldn’t have to be earning money either; good luck with that…
- Comment on FL wants more child labor 1 week ago:
…born in the seventies, i was working by fifth grade and overnight by high school; longest shift i ever pulled was twenty-six hours without a break…
…kids born in the eighties enjoyed nineties child labor laws, which were kind of a mixed blessing: less exploitation but also less opportunities to earn money…
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 1 week ago:
…depending upon the week, somewhere between ⅔ and ⅘ of my workflow can be in outlook…
…our IT policy required a shift to new outlook last year and it devastated my productivity: i struggled against its user-hostile interface for a couple of weeks and eventually just stayed home so i could get work done, despite our back-to-office mandate…in short order i was given an administrator account and i’m back on old outlook again…
- Comment on Chat, is this true? 5 weeks ago:
([did you miss this one?]<forbes.com/…/trump-renames-denali-to-mount-mckinl…))
- Comment on Elon Musk email to X staff: ‘we’re barely breaking even’ 2 months ago:
…you forgot these: * *…
- Comment on Elon Musk email to X staff: ‘we’re barely breaking even’ 2 months ago:
…i have a virulently-antifascist friend who laments emperor oompa-loopma 24/7 and he
won’t.
leave.
xitter. - Comment on Elon Musk email to X staff: ‘we’re barely breaking even’ 2 months ago:
…sounds like a good reason to cease operations and liquidate assets…
- Comment on Solar Array 250 Miles Long to Power Beijing 2 months ago:
…i’ve only done urban installations, but recently i’ve been giving a lot of thought to the localised effect of high-albedo reflective roofs (and other materials) and transpirative tree canopies (and other vegetation) being replaced by low-albedo solar photovoltaic arrays: it measurably increases heat load on the local environment, reduces radiative cooling at night, and drives up overall cooling demand, which presents a deep rabbit-hole of cost-benefit analyses in the tradeoff between reduced grid use during the day versus increased grid use at night, the net reduction in carbon emissions therefrom, the added carbon emissions from manufacturing and maintaining solar photovoltaic infrastructure, and the loss of ecosystem carbon capture and biodiversity services from decreased solar exposure and increased heat island effect…
…it’s a poorly-understood subject of ongoing academic study in both urban and natural environments, with the largest arrays i’ve read subjected to that sort of rigorous analysis measuring on the order of 1/300,000 the scale of this proposed project…still, apples-to-apples, that larger study was performed in desert scrubland and measured about 4°C increased local temperatures, which is significant but not a good proxy for the weather effects one would see generated by 750 square-mile convection cell over truly barren desert…
…back to your original question, most solar photovoltaic panels loose somewhere on the order of ¼ to ½ percent efficiency per °C incease in panel temperature, but like most things in the real world it’s actually a much more complicated that a straight multiplier…the short version is that investors wouldn’t be building desert arrays if they didn’t present an short-term economic gain, and they certainly do provide plenty of power despite the increased heat, but the long-term environmental impact of radically altering surface albedo at such a large scale isn’t well-understood relative to the implied let alone actual changes in carbon-intensive energy generation…
- Comment on Solar Array 250 Miles Long to Power Beijing 2 months ago:
…ye gads, just imagine the heat island of 750 square miles of black glass…
- Comment on It shows you love them 2 months ago:
- Comment on Go into debt if you have to 2 months ago:
(ha - getaway car)
- Comment on Go into debt if you have to 2 months ago:
…maybe they like charge up at some lush port with a cheap grid surplus, sail across the atlantic to like, i don’t know, maybe texas during a polar vortex, supplement that grid for a couple of days, return + repeat for like a couple dollars’ profit?..
- Comment on Plebbit is a peer-to-peer Reddit alternative that allows you to self host and own your own community 2 months ago:
…NCSA mosaic won the web, absolutely…
- Comment on Plebbit is a peer-to-peer Reddit alternative that allows you to self host and own your own community 2 months ago:
…i remember going to our computer lab in the early nineties and seeing a flyer about this new protocol called the world wide web, thinking to myself in what way is that better than gopher?..
- Comment on got one of the last ones for christmas 3 months ago:
…my wife is mortified when she sees what those beta magic cards we ebayed to make rent go for these days…
- Comment on got one of the last ones for christmas 3 months ago:
…i still regret having to sell off my playmates starships during the dot-com crash…
- Comment on Canadian minister says Trump was joking when he said Canada could become the 51st state 3 months ago:
…unless?.. 👉 👈
- Comment on Anotha one 4 months ago:
…always there are two: a master and an apprentice…
- Comment on Turning automotive engines into modular chemical plants to make green fuels (discussion: is this a useful tech?) 4 months ago:
…isn’t that essentially a port with extra steps?..
- Comment on USA | Trump speaks with Putin and advises him not to escalate Ukraine war – report 4 months ago:
- Comment on Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn 5 months ago:
- Comment on smart engineering 5 months ago:
…IGN goes from 6.5 to 9.5…
- Comment on I don't want to call Twitter X out of spite, but calling the travesty that is X Twitter is an insult to the people that made Twitter what it was. 5 months ago:
