myrrh
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- Comment on Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis 4 days ago:
…i learned this word from the big book of amazing facts in 1978!..
- Comment on Things at Tesla are worse than they appear 4 days ago:
…nah man, that’s on the dealers + automakers deciding not to market small affordable cars in favor of big profitable road-tanks…
- Comment on You know how fire trucks, ambulances, and cars all have strobe lights? Well, if you add up those lights, street by street, there is a single street on earth that has the most strobe lights. 1 week ago:
…that’s okay; some folks drive BMWs…
- Comment on *Doesn't look like anything to me.* 2 weeks ago:
…funny thing is aperture science isn’t even included in that graphic but it fits right in…
Image - Comment on Is it time to stop? 2 weeks ago:
…i was scrolling usenet around 17.30 CDT on april 29th, 1992 when a friend posted that a riot was gathering outside his window; the new broke about an hour later…
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 2 weeks ago:
(yep, but i’ll leave it: just woke up as i was typing)
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 2 weeks ago:
…get that f*ucking plural-comma out of my face…
^(1 head + 5 handle)^
- Comment on The Circle of iLife 2 weeks ago:
We’d love to, but manufacturers keep trying to force them down our throats.
…that’s not where they’re supposed to go…
- Comment on When you are ruining your day ranting about something remember THIS 3 weeks ago:
…i use base 12 every day; it’s fantastically useful and foundational to civilisation for good reason…
- Comment on Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market 3 weeks ago:
…my mazda 2 outhandles my MX-5s and is the only car i’ve driven which keeps pace with my elise; we’ve been waiting for an electric subcompact hatchback for about ten years now but the stateside market keeps doing everything it can not to offer me one…
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 4 weeks ago:
…if they don’t want to be called fascists, maybe they should consider not being f*cking fascists…
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 4 weeks ago:
…i always use my signals to unambiguously communicate intent; the only time i’ve been embarrassed is after carrying that habit onto the track, but it’s tough to break…
- Comment on At least Quark had some integrity. 5 weeks 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 1 month ago:
- Comment on FL wants more child labor 1 month 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 month 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 month ago:
…adults shouldn’t have to be earning money either; good luck with that…
- Comment on FL wants more child labor 1 month 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 month 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? 2 months 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’ 3 months ago:
…you forgot these: * *…
- Comment on Elon Musk email to X staff: ‘we’re barely breaking even’ 3 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’ 3 months ago:
…sounds like a good reason to cease operations and liquidate assets…
- Comment on Solar Array 250 Miles Long to Power Beijing 3 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 3 months ago:
…ye gads, just imagine the heat island of 750 square miles of black glass…
- Comment on It shows you love them 4 months ago:
- Comment on Go into debt if you have to 4 months ago:
(ha - getaway car)
- Comment on Go into debt if you have to 4 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 4 months ago:
…NCSA mosaic won the web, absolutely…