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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arguing for the car as a good method of transportation is like arguing that having personal diesel generator to power you home is a good idea⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  If you live in a densely packed city. You’re absolutely right

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re absolutely right! I was using older, broader estimates. According to the research you cited (“Energy costs of communicating with AI”), the energy use is much lower than I estimated.

  The paper shows that an efficient AI model (Qwen 7B) used only 0.058 watt-hours (Wh) per query. Based on that data, my entire 3-prompt chat only used about 0.17 Wh. That’s actually less energy than a single Google search (~0.3 Wh). Thanks for sharing the source and correcting me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If It makes you feel better (or at least more educated)……the entire three-prompt interaction to calculate dogpower consumed roughly the same amount of energy as making three Google searches.

  A single Google search uses about 0.3 watt-hours (Wh) of energy. A typical AI chat query with a modern model uses a similar amount, roughly 0.2 to 0.34 Wh. Therefore, my dogpower curiosity discussion used approximately 0.9 Wh in total

  For context, this is less energy than an LED lightbulb consumes in a few minutes. While older AI models were significantly more energy-intensive (sometimes using 10 times more power than a search) the latest versions have become nearly as efficient for common tasks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's happened from July to September 2025 that might make people Google "Worst timeline"?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve raised a valid and important point. The purpose of a forum is human connection and discussion. Outsourcing that interaction to an AI, especially when no factual answer is found, can feel dismissive and undermines the community’s value. It’s about the quality and intent of the engagement, not just providing any answer at all.

  (This response was generated by an AI.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If I’m not mistaken, you very specifically asked for help to better understand this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A dog’s power output comes from its muscle mass, which for a healthy dog is about 45% of its total body weight. This gives our 28-pound dog roughly 5.7 kg of muscle.

  Studies of animal muscle show that the peak power output of vertebrate muscle tissue during a short, explosive burst (like a jump or the start of a sprint) is around 100 to 200 watts per kilogram of muscle.

  Now we can estimate the dog’s peak power:

  • Low estimate: 5.7 kg of muscle x 100 W/kg = 570 watts
  • High estimate: 5.7 kg of muscle x 200 W/kg = 1140 watts

  Converting these figures to horsepower (1 horsepower = 746 watts):

  • Low estimate: 570 W / 746 ≈ 0.76 horsepower
  • High estimate: 1140 W / 746 ≈ 1.5 horsepower

  So, a small 28-pound dog might be able to generate a peak power of around 0.75 to 1.5 horsepower for a very brief moment.

  So this YASA motor is somewhere between 670 and 1,340 times more powerful than the dog it’s being compared to in weight. That’s some jaw-dropping power output.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I get it. I’m sure you’ve never been to the Y. It’s so non religious now that you can easily find evidence with a quick search…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing religious about the Y anymore. For many years

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean like the YMCA?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is this plant? The one without leaves.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If it has seeds with barbs that stick to clothing or animal fur then it’s almost certainly a “Bidens pilosa,” aka blackjack, Spanish needle, or beggarticks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video call apps should have a baby/toddler mode that locks the touch screen⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh shit. I just checked and I see “session settings” which seems like it actually might work for this. I’m gonna have to try this out!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video call apps should have a baby/toddler mode that locks the touch screen⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope. The buttons in the phone app still work. Which means the kid can still mute or hold or hangup the call. Which is the problem here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you apologize, even if it's not your fault just to make the other person feel validated?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t need to apologize to take ownership of your impact.

  When partners acknowledge how their words and actions affect the other (regardless of intent) they make the relationship safer, more responsive, and more connected.

  Ownership is acknowledging the effects of your behavior, not absorbing all blame or excusing harmful behavior from either partner.

  It sounds like “When I did X, the impact on you was Y…here’s what I’ll do differently,” which lowers defensiveness and invites collaboration on solutions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X CEO Linda Yaccarino is now ex-CEO⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pronounced “not CEO”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I found voter irregularities in my home district do I have to hire a lawyer to prove it.? Or just let it go and the Florida Orange win?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also because it’s an effective way to prove you voted a certain way to a vote buyer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every week has WTF in it (MTWTFSS)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  These days, every damn day has WTF in it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommend EU webhosting provider to replace DreamHost?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hostinger is the closest I can think of. They do have limits but they are very high for the price (which is actually true of dreamhost too, they just aren’t honest with you until you hit them).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple refuses to break encryption, seeks reversal of UK demand for backdoor - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the closest you’ll get to proof I would imagine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why build for tomorrow when it's someone else's tomorrow?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They would never build for you because you will teach them by example to build for their descendents.

  “A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.”

  • ancient Greek proverb
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two conversational AI agents switching from English to sound-level protocol after confirming they are both AI agents⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is dumb. Sorry. Instead of doing the work to integrate this, do the work to publish your agent’s data source in a format like anthropic’s model context protocol.

  That would be 1000 times more efficient and the same amount (or less) of effort.