MechanicalJester
@MechanicalJester@lemm.ee
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 5 months ago:
Sometimes. You cannot go to a store and buy the freshest, most mouth watering and delicious fruits because they cannot handle being shipped even locally.
A warm, juicy peach right off the tree is an amazing experience.
Also, you know 100% of what what was and what wasn’t done to your stuff.
That said, I don’t have the time or will to grow all my own veggies that I like daily.
I can, however make enough other stuff that’s saleable so I can afford fresh veg year round.
- Comment on Caution or How-to, it's your choice 5 months ago:
This is no joke.
2 kids were killed in Forest Grove, Oregon hiding in a leaf pile on the edge of the road to surprise dad when Dad came back outside but instead were run over by teens deciding to drive the the leaf piles…
Tragic AF
- Comment on But they wouldn't know the taste 6 months ago:
Right? Or prehensile tails and yodel like the Swiss do when you carefully crush their nuts in a vice?
- Comment on Life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone 6 months ago:
And pain Sunshine and the rain
- Comment on ah, conservation 7 months ago:
We didn’t break it. It’s evolution. The barred owls simply out nest out, compete and out survive the northern spotted owls.
First, it was claimed that the northern spotted owls could only live in Old growth forests, but that was proven to be false. I’ve personally seen that it was false because they lived near me.
Then they said that the barred owls and the northern spotted owls did not interbreed, and I felt that that was false because I was pretty sure I came across hybrids. That was then proven to be the case too.
It is illogical to conserve one species by making another endangered. Nothing will change that makes the northern spotted owls better at breeding and surviving than The Barred owls that are similar in size, shape and even coloration.
- Comment on my eyes hurt 7 months ago:
Guys I tell you what I don’t see what the fuss was I totally looked right at the eclipse and I am fine…
Because it was very cloudy and dark. And then the eclipse happened and it was still dark.
- Comment on ah, conservation 7 months ago:
I’ve never had a lick of problem with the barred owls. The northern spotted owls look rather similar really. They also interbreed.
I hate this owl murdering nonsense. Why are we funding this?
- Comment on This was the first result on Google 7 months ago:
If your dome light isn’t an LED, then you should replace it with one. It won’t completely fix your problem but it will give you 9 to 10 times longer to catch it.
There’s really no reason that every car doesn’t have a voltage cut off to protect the battery such that it can still start. Additionally, if they just included a super capacitor then even with a heavily discharged battery, it could charge up the super capacitor to then start the car.
But if we went around doing smart stuff like that then we could potentially wreck the entire lead acid battery industry and that would just be awful…
- Comment on CFCs 7 months ago:
No, also the massive SO2 that Mt Pinatubo put into the atmosphere slowly went away. And the CFCs.
Pinatubo created more sulfur emissions during its eruption than 10 years of all human coal burning.
And also on top of that we were also wrecking the Ozone.
Nature can always make our mistakes much much worse.
- Comment on Apple fans are starting to return their Vision Pros 8 months ago:
I can’t come more than 20 times anymore. What do I do with the other hour and a half of battery time?
- Comment on Scientists develop game-changing 'glass brick' that could revolutionize construction: 'The highest insulating performance' 8 months ago:
It’s made from sodium silicate… Which is made from sand.
- Comment on Lights bulbs 8 months ago:
Oof ouch owie
- Comment on My pick is Rubberband Man by the Spinners. 8 months ago:
I’d like to teach the world to sing youtu.be/wlR0KElxxVg?si=OF1lyl34M2zSZFS7
Knuckles connecting on the 2 and 4
- Comment on Call me an idiot, but I would die laughing even if something like this happened to me 9 months ago:
Most aren’t studded and they do make a difference… But that was rink ice under snow.
Even the tractor got pushed around.
- Comment on Games that force you to make hard choices 9 months ago:
Just answer our increasingly difficult questions.
Trolley problem: One track is one person, the other is 10
Next level
Okay well now the one person is your mom, and the 10 are 1 year olds you don’t know
Next level
Okay the one person is your best friends mom and the 10 are young kids from your immediate or extended family
Next level
Okay the one person would cure cancer tomorrow, and the 10 are friends or family
…
- Comment on Hackers can infect network-connected wrenches to install ransomware | Researchers identify 23 vulnerabilities, some of which can exploited with no authentication 10 months ago:
But of a slippery slope. What else do we need to encode?
A barcode doesn’t have enough bits to be unique and also contain useful information. It’s just a unique identifier that can be used to look up a wide variety of information.
For bolts, it could be metal grade, thread pitch, load ratings, manufacturer info etc
- Comment on What is the best way to safely and completely erase all data from old laptops? 10 months ago:
Since no one mentioned it: VCR tape eraser.
Basically just an electromagnet that oscillates because it’s running directly from AC current.
With an extension cord you could erase all the hard drives in a computer lab just waving the eraser vaguely where the drives are.
Physical destruction is better though.
- Comment on While everyone is watching the world stage and some are predicting WWIII, isn't there a good chance that the USA is getting close to some kind of civil war? 11 months ago:
I played a little paintball, and the most impressive game was when I had sprinted along the perimeter to get a sniper angle on a path, wait 20 seconds, and have a Marine Recon AD barrel roll from behind a tree 30 feet from me that I never heard and put a single round in my goggles before I knew what was happening. It bounced but I wasn’t about to call that anything but legit AF.
I saw the military haircut and asked him after the round.
I’m great against paper targets…but that’s not the same as combat and I am crystal clear about it.
- Comment on Google Wrapped 2023 | Everything Toxic Google Did in the last 12 months. 11 months ago:
Someone complained about… Staplers?
I haven’t needed a stapler at work in tech for uh…at least 5 years.
- Comment on California clean energy industry rocked with widespread jobs losses, bankruptcies, following state’s dismantling of rooftop solar program 11 months ago:
It’s almost as if deregulation of the energy industry was a bad move…
- Comment on New Battery Crushes Tesla's Tech, Unveils A Solid-State Marvel With 300% Higher Energy Density, 15-minute Ultra-Fast Charge 11 months ago:
I think hybrids need to be built like EVs with on board range extender generators. I believe the Volt was that way but if you had enough battery to cover 120 miles full EV with plug-in recharge most of the time it would be full EV. Long trip? Generator kicks on at mile 100 and takes you an absurd distance.
The latest Toyota hybrids are pretty great but they need competition. Sadly the Volt died.
Kia/Hyundai/Ford/Audi should make “Range extender” versions trading half the battery pack for generator and fuel weights to up the pressure.
Full EV might not be great for long trips, but full ICE is silly compared to a hybrid.
Make the F-150 standard truck get 40mpg on gasoline on trips, EV around town and you have a winner.
- Comment on New Battery Crushes Tesla's Tech, Unveils A Solid-State Marvel With 300% Higher Energy Density, 15-minute Ultra-Fast Charge 11 months ago:
LiFePo batteries are pretty safe and last a long time. The just need a heated blanket for sub freezing to charge. There’s some videos showing puncture resistance/fire resistance between battery types. Neat stuff.
Will Prowse has one I think
- Comment on New Battery Crushes Tesla's Tech, Unveils A Solid-State Marvel With 300% Higher Energy Density, 15-minute Ultra-Fast Charge 11 months ago:
Me too. And their revolutionary hydrogen car that everyone will turn to by the year yesterday
- Comment on New Battery Crushes Tesla's Tech, Unveils A Solid-State Marvel With 300% Higher Energy Density, 15-minute Ultra-Fast Charge 11 months ago:
The same Toyota that declared that electric vehicles were a non-starter and that hydrogen vehicles were the future?
I think hydrogen will be in the future, but not for a while. Toyota is having to make lots of promises to make up for Kia and Hyundai eating their lunch.
- Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout 11 months ago:
You’re right. As a Tesla owner there’s every reason to want the power, range, and maybe a couple of the features but with tangible controls etc
The Kia/Hyundai offerings are probably your closest bet.
I almost never use the assists. I don’t mind the idea that if the computer sees a looming impact it will brake for me though.
- Comment on Report: HSBC to ban text messages on company phones | Fortune 1 year ago:
What about chat in games? IRC? Conversation had by making comments on Lenny posts? Jerry, we can’t go with the suggestion Ann just made because we’ll look really stupid.
Delay this until Q1 2024
- Comment on This Ukrainian guy has been trying to develop his home brew solar focusing system to power homes on the cheap for the past 10+ years. 1 year ago:
Air transfer heat pumps just seem like poor planning to me. Ground or groundwater heat sink is so much better. Some initial expense when building a house but works forever.
Air medium heat pumps: Let’s heat the house to 70F using 20F air Let’s cool the house to 70F using 110F air
Groundwater medium heat pumps: Let’s heat the house to 70F using 60F groundwater when it’s 20F out Let’s cool the house to 70F using 60F groundwater when it’s 110F out
- Comment on Texas grid paid firm to stop mining crypto during heatwave 1 year ago:
Yep. Architected a bunch of software to measure baselines, prove or disprove responses to demands within requested periods etc.
You don’t want giant arc furnaces running full tilt in the midst of an energy crunch. It’s enough compensation to cover NOT producing anything that day which the ratepayers pay for but also benefit from.
Everything had to work sub-second round-trip, fun stuff, egomaniacal boss.
- Comment on All of Japan's Toyota Assembly Plants Shut Down for a Day Because Their Server Ran Out of Disk Space 1 year ago:
I blame lean philosophy. Keeping spare parts and redundancy is expensive so definitely don’t do it…which is just rolling the dice until it comes up snake eyes and your plant shuts down.
It’s the “save 5% yearly and stop trying to avoid a daily 5% chance of disaster”
Over prepared is silly, but so is under prepared.
They were under prepared.
- Comment on Official Safety Memo 1 year ago:
Dang that was my immediate reaction too!
Ever tried moving an alligator snapper? It’s quite the adrenaline pump…