Strykker
@Strykker@programming.dev
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 1 week ago:
Yeah for Hawaii that pricing is sort of expected, but for anything mainland that prices is just disgusting
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 1 week ago:
50 cents per kW sounds fucking insane to me. That’s like 5-6 times more than I pay in Canada.
- Comment on We can do all three things at once 2 weeks ago:
Power from nuclear plants in Ontario is some of the cheapest to produce in the province, because the plants have been running for literal decades.
- Comment on We can do all three things at once 2 weeks ago:
www.opg.com/power-generation/our-power/
Fuck you
OPG manages power production for all of Ontario, with 2 nuke plants putting out over 3 GW each, for a total of ~6.5GW, OPG generates about 18-19GW so 30% is covered by two plants
The majority of the remainder is hydro across 66 fucking plants. And nothing else comes even close in output
And these are CANDU reactors, they don’t require refined uranium, and don’t contribute to proliferation like other plants, they also don’t meltdown explosively since boiling the coolant reduces the nuclear reaction rate.
- Comment on We can do all three things at once 2 weeks ago:
That’s why we have governments though, for the long time low return infrastructure, like power grids.
Somehow we are willing to spend billions yearly on new roads but can’t be assed to build a new nuke plant once a decade to grow power production.
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 4 weeks ago:
But celery is blocky and has gaps and doesn’t pack well, the amount you get changes drastically depending on how fine you chop it and on random packing.
- Comment on Hooooooooooooooooooot 5 weeks ago:
Because it’s a funny fucking meme my dude.
- Comment on Hooooooooooooooooooot 5 weeks ago:
I mean the main steam cycle solar plants are built in dry sunny hot regions, not exactly a great source of water, but probably not completely void of it either.
- Comment on Hooooooooooooooooooot 5 weeks ago:
Same for all the others like coal and nuclear though. So that’s a dumb distinction to try to make.
Steam is always just a transfer mechanism if it’s part of the power generation
- Comment on Total superiority 1 month ago:
The moon also doesn’t orbit at the same plane as the earth around the sun, so sometimes it’s above the sun and other times it’s below
- Comment on CFCs 1 month ago:
There wasn’t much of a real “threat”, in that planes wouldn’t fall out of the sky. but banking systems would probably get quite confused, and potentially lead to people being unable to access money easily until it got fixed.
- Comment on Tesla starts shipping $3,000 Cybertruck tent, looks nothing like what was unveiled | Electrek 2 months ago:
Sometimes people go for more than a single day, or you book weeks in advance and have to deal with whatever shit weather you get.
Weather can also suddenly change over a single day.
- Comment on The White House wants to 'cryptographically verify' videos of Joe Biden so viewers don't mistake them for AI deepfakes 2 months ago:
Do it basically the same what TLS verification works, sure the browsers would have to add something to the UI to support it, but claiming you can’t trust that is dumb because we already use that to trust the site your on is your bank and not some scammer.
Sure not everyone is going to care to check, but the check being there allows people who care to reply back saying the video is faked due to X
- Comment on Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought 2 months ago:
I like it for stationary games, such as flight and racing sims, or rhythm games like beat saber. The ones where you do a bit of walking around tend to result in finding walls and furniture too quickly.
- Comment on Why do we still use stepper motors? 4 months ago:
If you are buying industrial grade 1000+ dollar servos you are no longer “hobbyist” in the price range that hobby level 3D printers exist steppers are more precise than servos.
- Comment on Wi-Fi 7 Signals the Industry’s New Priority: Stability 4 months ago:
It also reflects something probably half the industry would push for since they can monetize it.
- Comment on Reddit Falls Short of Ad Growth Targets Ahead of Likely 2024 IPO 4 months ago:
Censorship is fascism when it’s the government that does it. When it’s a forum then it’s other people telling you that your a fucking asshole.
Free speech is not freedom from consequences, or freedom from judgement.
- Comment on Pray for their safety 4 months ago:
I know it’s a quote, but if the brakes failed on an escalator then yes it would be unusable even as stairs, however you wouldn’t be stuck on it at that point, you’d be in a pile at the bottom.
- Comment on You're Supposed To Be Glad Your Tesla Is A Brittle Heap Of Junk 4 months ago:
I mean wouldn’t any article about Tesla build quality come off as a hit piece due to how shit the build quality is?
They ain’t doing anything good in there.
- Comment on Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content 4 months ago:
No you don’t have to tolerate their existence.
We fought a war against Nazis for a fucking reason.
Their ideals are shut and anyone who pushes them is worth less than the air they breath and the dirt they shit in.
- Comment on Spotify doesn't make profit from music streaming, despite having over 400M monthly active users, because it pays two-thirds of all its revenue to the rights holders. 4 months ago:
No it’s not because people here don’t like Spotify, but the stupid ass takes y’all have that lead to Spotify hate bleed through in half the other content on here that people don’t like either.
That fact that you thought ops comment was about disliking Spotify specifically reinforces it.
- Comment on xkcd #2867: DateTime 4 months ago:
All dates and times shall be stored and manipulated in Unix time. Only convert to a readable format at the top of the UI, and forget trying to parse user inputs :P that’s just impossible
- Comment on Fear of cheap Chinese EVs spurs automaker dash for affordable cars 5 months ago:
Man over 90% of the population is most countries lives in a fucking city.
Helping them get off cars would be a massive improvement.
- Comment on The stainless steel body of Tesla's Cybertruck is reportedly leading to issues with gaps in between the panels 5 months ago:
I think the majority just use regular steel. Ford was a talking point when they started using aluminum for the F150 body panels. And then they started running into corrosion issues where the aluminum meets the steel fasteners and frame.
- Comment on Second SpaceX Starship launch ends with explosion. What happens next? 5 months ago:
SRB boosters are quite close to literally just a big steel tube, and they reused them by dropping them into the ocean under a parachute.
They still had to clean out and refurb every booster launched. And that was without the complex rocket engines that would get destroyed by being submerged in the ocean.
- Comment on Elon Musk vows ‘thermonuclear lawsuit’ as advertisers flee X over antisemitism 5 months ago:
You rule out the other options first, and then you shoot them in the face.
- Comment on Canada's Carbon Price Working, So Of Course It's Being Attacked 6 months ago:
Because the federal carbon tax rebate has no income threshold, I would know since I get it and my income is double your theoretical threshold.
- Comment on Canada's Carbon Price Working, So Of Course It's Being Attacked 6 months ago:
The carbon tax rebate is given regardless of income. Stop spreading bullshit
- Comment on They won't teach you this in Drivers Ed 6 months ago:
When I’ve driven an auto rental a few times the most I accidentally do is try to put my left foot through the floor when going for the clutch that doesn’t exist. The brake is far enough to the right your engrained habits shouldn’t cause you to reach for it with you left.
- Comment on US to build new nuclear gravity bomb 6 months ago:
A nuclear gravity bomb is a standard nuclear bomb that is dropped from a plane, instead of launched on a rocket.