ByteJunk
@ByteJunk@lemmy.world
- Comment on marriage update 2 weeks ago:
Right? What devilry holds them up like that, and how are they so neatly aligned, almost like in a line??
Throw them in the fire!
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
True, but that’s just one part of the process. Compared to actual chemical energy in the source fuel, most plants
If nothing else, there’s an absolute efficiency limit from Carnot’s theorem. Even for the most modern and efficient gas plants, the limit seems to be ~60%, and for nuclear or coal, it’s much lower at around 30-40%.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I call it Bytejunkium, but I don’t think it catched on.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
…they found a clever way to induce a current using temperature differentials between the molten salt and some sort of coolant mass?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
But you’d have to allow the sun to leak out of the donut, which may not be OSHA approved.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I refuse to believe this.
You’re telling me that Humanity is able to understand what goes on at the heart of stars, and is on the brink of being able to harness that power (“Soon TM”), and the best we can come up with is a big tea kettle? I’m not buying it.
There’s got to be a better way of capturing all that energy - like, solar panels but for other types of radiation? Or if that’s not possible because wavelengths or something , maybe make something glow and use normal panels? Or like, can’t we take a particle accelerator and flip it around and pull energy from the particles that go zooming?
I’m sure there’s a reason why all of that is hard, but surely not impossible?
- Comment on Everything I do is normal. You're the weird one. 3 weeks ago:
The author seems to be implying that they’d get their tongue stuck in Perlica’s pit creases, if you know what I mean.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
And we conquer that fear daily. Many could be tempted to attribute that to our bravery, our grit, our resolve. They’d be overlooking the simple explanation that some of us fear hunger and cold slightly more than we do the grueling and backbreaking 9-to-howlongisitreallyfuckineedtosleep hours.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I thought it was calling someone childish and immature, like, “come back when your balls drop”.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
w my boys, good job showing that men don’t turn to slobbering buffoons at the sight of breasts, no matter how shapely. It’s always a choice, and unless you’re roleplaying something kinky, it’s always the wrong one.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I’m probably just really tired, but why would people expect that? Posting cool stuff is a huge service that I’m really grateful for, I wouldn’t have such an amazing feed without all of you guys who are active posters, if anything you should be offered uh… services, if so desired, not requests to provide them wtf.
- Comment on owo 4 weeks ago:
I think that’s actually a good example for how I see it. If you could push amps, you’d fill the capacitor without having to pull from the other side, but that doesn’t happen, only a tiny amount of current gets in depending on how strong the other side is pulling, which is very little.
In any case this is just mostly about colloquialisms and convention, because neither is an accurate description of the physics behinds it.
- Comment on owo 4 weeks ago:
I’m lost. How do you “push amps”? Technically it’s just Ohm’s law, and “pulling” or “pushing” are only colloquial terms, but in regular usage, a device “pulls” or “draws” a specific current.
The definition of voltage kinda supports this, because voltage isn’t something that exists at a single point, like pressure - you can measure pressure in a single point of a fluid, for example, but not so with voltage: it’s the difference in potential between two different points.
I’m trying to think of something like a taser gun, where you’re kinda trying to “push amps” through some body, but even then there’s two barbs that need to hit, if one of them fails you don’t get the jolt (as far as I understand it, please correct me if I’m wrong), so if anything you’re “pulling” the current across with voltage.
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 4 weeks ago:
We need openWrt for TVs :(
- Comment on My glasses 5 weeks ago:
I think you’ve confused his job. The study of fields is very interesting for birds.
- Comment on <3 <3 <3 1 month ago:
Yes or no lol
- Comment on 0mg 1 month ago:
I automatically read it as zero milligrammes.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
For some reason this reminded me of a “in between two ferns” interview, I don’t remember with who, where Galiakcnshjjkzzzz goes “I hear you’re very reserved and hate personal questions. So when did you first get your period?” and I thought that was so stupid that it was hilarious.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Insert “Hello, HR?” meme
- Comment on Amazon service was taken down by AI coding bot 1 month ago:
That’s just par for the course, like with emails, slack messages etc, always assume they have access to everything.
- Comment on Amazon service was taken down by AI coding bot 1 month ago:
I don’t get these companies that are trying to force AI down people’s throats.
I really like how mine is handling this. They gave us Gemini like 6 months ago, along with about a paragraph at most saying that we must stop using AI services from unvetted providers (GPT, etc) with company or customer data, because we needed to have legal agreements in place for that.
Nobody ever mentioned it again, at all. They probably provided us with that AI because we had people using all sorts of services and it was becoming a nightmare, so they signed some contract to cover data protection requirements and said “here, use this one if you must”.
Now it’s just there. There’s zero pressure to use it. Some Google guys wanted to come over to make some presentations, some people signed up for those but they were entirely optional.
You use it if you have a use case for it, or don’t, doesn’t matter. The only metrics are the one we’ve always had - deliver good work, on time. How you do that is up to you.
- Comment on US judge upholds $243 million verdict against Tesla over fatal Autopilot crash 1 month ago:
You guys still have hair?
- Comment on No, really, I will! 1 month ago:
Same joke here (YouTube)
- Comment on No, really, I will! 1 month ago:
I don’t get why are you guys
- Comment on Not gonna lie, I kind like it 1 month ago:
Also with how expensive a plot of land is these days, no way we’re splurging for individual accommodations.
- Comment on Just stand still and don't speak 1 month ago:
Hey it’s the Madagascar crew, nothing sus here.
- Comment on Rate my setup guys 1 month ago:
The mouse needs to come closer, you’ll end up putting too much strain on your right arm otherwise.
The legs will be buff af though.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Perhaps we could consider investigating the train of circumstances that have led you to sleep naked in the past, as I feel it may shed some light into the volatile rectum situations.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Why are feet the human radiator?
One would expect that an extremity that is so far away from the core areas, with its limited blood flow and lack of any particularly relevant component, would be supremely inefficient at radiating heat.
That is until you wake up feeling like an ice cube and grumpy enough to shoot the first thing that looks at you funny because one foot was uncovered.
- Comment on BIG (like Americans) IF TRUE 1 month ago:
Best I can tell, the criteria for calling something “cheese” in America is containing 51% cheese.
That’s just ridiculous. Either it’s cheese l, or it’s a product.