Warl0k3
@Warl0k3@lemmy.world
- Comment on Apple brings age verification to UK users in iOS 26.4 beta - Users who don’t verify their age may not be able to download or purchase apps. 14 hours ago:
If only you didn’t have to give google money to be able to install it.
- Comment on Fr🤮nch 17 hours ago:
… Illegal?
- Comment on We should be able to buy this today 17 hours ago:
Both are correct, although the use of “lighted” as in the above is becoming archaic.
- Comment on New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater 1 day ago:
I won’t let it go to my head. I promise. Probably.
Anyways tho for an actual opinion:
This thread is a bit of a mess and I would caution taking anything being said (except by me, the absolute authority) without a large grain of salt - however mostly people aren’t contradicting each other, it’s just a hugely complex topic that quickly devolves into semantic-adjacent arguments about how we should be comparing battery chemistries (on market / in lab / cross-chemistry) and what degree we should be considering the “soft factors”; things like the number of recharge cycles, robustness of the cells to damage, cost of manufacturing and/or recycling the cells, etc.
Sodium batteries are a big deal, and as far as I’ve seen we’re finally at the point where they’re starting to become market viable, but they’re still a largely unproven technology. Arguing that battery tech hasn’t improved in the last decade is obviously wrong, but it’s also not wrong to say that there hasn’t been any dramatic improvement in the technology in the last decade. None of the many “miracle battery tech” that promises to have double-or-better the capacity of lithium chemistries has panned out, we’ve just been making slow gains across many chemistries and those cumulative 10% improvements to battery life year-over-year are finally starting to add up to where the average consumer can really notice them.
- Comment on New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater 1 day ago:
Start of my villain arc right here. Like unidan, but with more buttholes.
- Comment on New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater 1 day ago:
Did you mean to tag me?
- Comment on 29 years since our homecoming queen was taken from us 2 days ago:
(You can edit post titles on lemmy, fwiw)
- Comment on EA invents new microtransaction nightmare as it breaks paywall promise on Skate: rent a playable area for 24 hours or buy a premium pass, bucko 3 days ago:
In this one case EA is to blame, but I do know what you mean. I think it’s just that YouTube videos have had a large impact on the form media takes, and that’s trickled out towards other forms.
- Comment on I don't know the reason why. 3 days ago:
Red-dyed ones were all over the middle east when I was a kid, but I’ve never once seen them in the US sold this way. I think it just depended on what exporter your region mainly used.
- Comment on Littering 🚯 4 days ago:
While that’s a factor, it’s a very minor one - soft metals (lead and copper) are used as projectiles primarily because the bullet itself deforms to engage with the rifling when fired (softer materials also present far less wear on the rifling as a result - this is why shotguns, which are smoothbore and thus far less delicate, often use steel projectiles). The weight of the projectile is largely secondary to the mechanical properties of the material while it’s being fired.
- Comment on Would you reboot the router for a Scooby Snack? 6 days ago:
Man, I haven’t seen this image in a decade and I can still spot it.
- Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 6 days ago:
They upload the following protocol to everyone’s printer and call it a day:
- Comment on Microsoft 365's buggy Copilot 'Chat' has been summarizing confidential emails for a month — yet another AI privacy nightmare 6 days ago:
In this case there’s no evidence showing that it’s being spread widely - the bug reports are entirely about users being shown their own content. If you have something to dispute that I’m all ears.
- Comment on Nomenclature 6 days ago:
Are there really herpetologists saying “don’t say snek”?
- Comment on Goth Girls 6 days ago:
Yeah it’s the new LemmyNSFW (or aims to be) and same, the 18+ is impassible here too.
- Comment on Microsoft 365's buggy Copilot 'Chat' has been summarizing confidential emails for a month — yet another AI privacy nightmare 6 days ago:
For clarity, it’s only being summarized for the users that wrote it, it’s not leaking them to everyone. A comedically inept bug to allow though, holy shit.
- Comment on McBludda Please 😫 1 week ago:
Yeesh no that’s what they’re after, they’re spaming this drivel everywhere to promote their youtube channel.
- Comment on the wok agenda 1 week ago:
God, it really is.
- Comment on Lemmynsfw is down, possibly forever. The server is still serving images and videos though - if anyone wants to archive do it now! 1 week ago:
It was throwing a 521 so maybe? As far as I know it’s still just speculation, nobody’s been able to get ahold of the head admin that I’ve seen.
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 1 week ago:
I’m sorry, I’m not sure if you’re satirizing the initial poster or not :(
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 1 week ago:
… Because they tell a compelling story? How is that relevant?
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 1 week ago:
What? What does that have to do with it?
- Comment on Home renovations 1 week ago:
I suppose an argument could be made that a battery simply sitting around is only connected to one circuit (itself thru the air) and thus there’s not an “unintended” one it’s also connected to - but really, my unstated point this whole time is that this is not a usefully rigorously defined term. The definition on wikipedia is as close as we’ll get, and it’s extremely broad by it’s nature.
- Comment on Home renovations 1 week ago:
(I’m sorry I hate doing these, but I’m tired and I had to stab my partner with a microohmeter to verify the numbers and now she’s real horny so you get the low effort version)
but it is small enough to be considered an open circuit for engineering purposes.
The current flowing when you complete the circuit with with your hand is about 0.2 miliamps (measured at ~47,000Ω resistance so I rounded to 50k). If any engineer is considering that an open circuit
they should be driven through the streets in a waymoI would very much like to see the application in which they consider that an open circuit because none is springing to mind (outside of clear outliers like some of the really weird switches used in high voltage electronics which I can’t even remember the names of).
Shorts are unintended low impedance paths.
That is one type of short, yes, however if we look at the formal definition from wikipedia:
A short circuit is an abnormal connection between two nodes of an electric circuit intended to be at different voltages. This results in a current limited only by the Thévenin equivalent resistance of the rest of the network which can cause circuit damage, overheating, fire or explosion.
We can see that it is not actually a requirement to have a circuit with zero impedance; it’s just a common form a short takes. This makes sense of course: a short across a signal wire is obviously not going to dump the full potential of an entire system, only that portion that provides current to the shorting circuit. In the case of a car battery, the leakage current is the part of the absurdly low current circuit (something like 30 picoamps) which you are shorting when you make contact with the terminals.
However at the risk of still being right, let me say that this is… an incredibly dumb semantic argument to be having. Yes, technically, you are shorting the battery. In a more formal setting I probably wouldn’t have phrased it like that in an effort to stave off the chance of a tedious argument like we’re having right now; however this is a shitpost community so I figured brevity instead of defensive technical inaccuracy was the ideal course of action.
Clearly, that was the wrong call.
- Comment on Sleep well 1 week ago:
You could reproduce something like it, but I’m going to stand by the assertion that the subtle color gradients that give the AI piece depth are realistically impossible.
Those are all amazing; but they’re working with the limitations of the medium masterfully, not recreating something pre-dictated. Stupid metaphor: It’s like how the graphics in windwaker still hold up while most of the other games on that platform look horrible by modern standards, they produced art that looked good on it’s own instead of art that relied on you to fill in implied details.
- Comment on Home renovations 1 week ago:
No, there is absolutely current flowing when you touch both terminals, it’s just an incredibly tiny amount. You can do the math yourself and see, it’s a basic application of Ohms law. The formula is (I=V/R).
- Comment on Home renovations 1 week ago:
Yes exactly, I cannot stand the idea of you plebs learning things. How dare you.
- Comment on Home renovations 1 week ago:
How do you mean?
- Comment on Home renovations 1 week ago:
You’ve put a worrying amount of thought into this.
- Comment on Home renovations 1 week ago:
It’s just the common parlance. I wouldn’t have done this were it a more technical setting, but this is a shitpost community - so I’ll just have to beg forgiveness for my imprecision. Fortunately, should anyone go to test this by fondling their car’s terminals, no harm will befall them due to my lack of strict accuracy in the description here (though they might get rebuffed by their car if it’s not in the mood).
