Blue_Morpho
@Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
- Comment on USA | Trump imposes 25% tariffs on Colombia as deported migrant flights denied 3 days ago:
Oh no, Columbia won’t be able to sell oil and coffee to the US. Too bad there is no one else in the world who wants oil.
I’d like to see some global unity against these shenanigans. Everyone is acting like they just need to get through the next 4 years and everything will go back to normal.
- Comment on Dr. Stone is a refreshingly, persistently upbeat series 4 days ago:
I love the series but I assume there’s a little mistranslation of culture in the idioms of some of the characters. (I watch dubs) Like Senku’s constant “I don’t care a billionth” and “you get 1 billion points.” and Gen’s constant pig latin. Those idioms are cute when used sparingly but it seems like it’s most every sentence.
- Comment on Tiny anime girl cyberprison shown at CES 2 weeks ago:
I’ve seen this before. Japanese dude bought one and the company quickly stopped supporting it leaving him with useless e-waste.
- Comment on Me at CES today 3 weeks ago:
Are you talking about the 9600x3d?
- Comment on France's ex-president Sarkozy on trial over alleged Gaddafi pact 3 weeks ago:
Sarkozy’s mistake was not owning a hotel so bribes could be laundered through his corporation.
- Comment on Justin Trudeau resigns as Canadian prime minister - live updates 3 weeks ago:
So who is Musk going to replace him with?
- Comment on How Star Trek: Lower Decks Managed To Get Enterprise’s Jolene Blalock To Appear, And Why She’s Only Credited By Her First Name 3 weeks ago:
None of the actors were the problem with Enterprise. Except maybe Scott Bakula because he was too well known.
- Comment on Video outline of scrapped content for Lego Dimensions 4 weeks ago:
What a waste. They flooded the market and destroyed their own market for short term profits. It’s odd because what has made Lego work is their long term releases. Although seeing the disaster of Dimensions makes me think the only reason Lego hasn’t destroyed themselves with oversaturation is because they are physically limited by factory capacity.
- Comment on Why do airplanes have big front "headlights"? 4 weeks ago:
The red zone has always been for loading and unloading, and there is never stopping in a white zone.
- Comment on Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds 1 month ago:
As the owner of various cats over 50 years it does nothing to adult cats. It will hurt an adult cat because their weight is too much for the skin to hold. As a kid I tried it many times because I heard the myth and it only made my cat more angry.
I don’t believe kittens are affected other than being physically unable to do anything. Sort of like if you were put in a half-Nelson hold. You wouldn’t be catatonic, just unable to fight back.
- Comment on Repairing a TV remote using powdered graphite 1 month ago:
Interesting but I’m unsure how long it will last. The original carbon conductor was glued on. It seems like rubbing graphite on the pads will come off quickly and will come off onto the PCB creating a permanent button press short.
I don’t know an appropriate glue but some type of glue on the rubber before applying graphite would make it last longer.
- Comment on Terror suspect on FBI’s most wanted list arrested in north Wales 2 months ago:
"There’s a right way and a wrong way to express your views in our country, and turning to violence and destruction of property is not the right way.”
Unless you are the President of the United States.
- Comment on Elon Musk Says He Owns Everyone's Twitter Account in Bizarre Alex Jones Court Filing 2 months ago:
And to continue that analogy- Twitter didn’t assign the name, the user created it so they hold copyright on the name.
- Comment on Elon Musk Says He Owns Everyone's Twitter Account in Bizarre Alex Jones Court Filing 2 months ago:
Gee wizz, I don’t think you understand Capitalism at all. Musk gets the profits and you get the liability.
- Comment on Microsoft tries to convince Windows 10 users to buy a new PC with full-screen prompts 2 months ago:
Yet MS lets you run 11 in a VM on a PC that it says can’t run 11 if you try and install it to bare metal. So I have 11 running in a VM on a Windows 10 PC.
And no, it doesn’t necessarily need to be replaced soon. My Xeon is faster and more capable than the N4500 PC I bought as a raspberry pi replacement. Yet it came with Win11 and MS doesn’t complain.
- Comment on Couple spends close to $1,000,000 making their Texas family home 'optimized for LAN parties' and the result is pretty staggering 2 months ago:
This isn’t the first time this has happened
How about quote from the article where it says they spent $1M just on the Lan party part of the house instead of insults?
I said they didn’t spend $1M. You replied, <sic>“$75k from the article plus custom desks”.
Then you got hostile?
- Comment on Couple spends close to $1,000,000 making their Texas family home 'optimized for LAN parties' and the result is pretty staggering 2 months ago:
Did you not read?
" The house overall was a 7-digit number"
Nowhere did they say they spent $1 million for the PCs, networking, and custom desks.
- Comment on Couple spends close to $1,000,000 making their Texas family home 'optimized for LAN parties' and the result is pretty staggering 2 months ago:
Ok, so I was right. The house is a $1m house, not that they spent $1m to make it a lan party house.
- Comment on Microsoft tries to convince Windows 10 users to buy a new PC with full-screen prompts 2 months ago:
I use a Haswell Xeon server as my desktop. It’s not only fast enough for 10 but I run 10 with Linux VM’s.
It could run 11 but MS won’t let me.
- Comment on Couple spends close to $1,000,000 making their Texas family home 'optimized for LAN parties' and the result is pretty staggering 2 months ago:
12 gaming PCs networked together for $1,000,000???
I think it’s bad reporting. It’s a $1M house that they spent $100k for a custom game room. No one is that stupid to pay that much for so little.
- Comment on X adds Twitch to its advertising boycott lawsuit 2 months ago:
It should be thrown out but Elon is Trump now and Trump will make sure his platforms are protected.
- Comment on Weekends were a mistake, says Infosys co-founder Narayama Murthy 2 months ago:
He’s absolutely right. That’s why he should come work for me on his weekends. I’ll pay him $15/hr!
What? He won’t work for that? Lazy CEO.
- Comment on Surprise! Nintendo Tracked Down Alleged Switch Pirate in Arizona via Reddit Posts and Repair Orders 2 months ago:
I expected him to be selling pirate Switches and/or games. Nope. They are suing him only for talking about it. Insane.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 2 months ago:
Yes you have to build for worst case. That’s what I already said.
You are comparing overbuilt nuclear but acting like bess can’t be over built too. That’s why the cost of storage is the only important metric.
You need an absolute minimum of 2 nuclear reactors to be reliable (Belgium has 7). That doubles the cost of nuclear. But it doesn’t matter because that’s factored in when you look at levelized cost. You look at cost per MWhr. How reliability is achieved doesn’t matter.
Bess is $200 per MWhr.
- Comment on The ZX Spectrum Just Got An Amazing New Donkey Kong Port, But Don't Expect It To Be Around Long | Time Extension 2 months ago:
Why the link to an ad? There’s nothing about Donkey Kong, just a company selling retro hardware.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 2 months ago:
It looks at the cost of power generation
Yes.
But then you added the requirement of 90% uptime which is isn’t how a grid works. For example a coal generator only has 85% uptime yet your power isn’t out 4 hours a day every day.
Nuclear reactors are out of service every 18-24 months for refueling. Yet you don’t lose power for days because the plant has typically two reactors and the grid is designed for those outages.
So the only issue is cost per megawatt. You need 2 reactors for nuclear to be reliable. That’s part of the cost. You need extra bess to be reliable. That’s part of the cost.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 2 months ago:
This is old news now! Here’s a link from 5 years ago. forbes.com/…/new-solar--battery-price-crushes-fos…
This is from last year: lazard.com/…/2023-levelized-cost-of-energyplus/
As to uptime, they have the same legal requirements as all utilities.
I was pro nuke until finding out solar plus grid battery was cheaper.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 2 months ago:
Solar with Battery grid storage is now cheaper than nuclear.
- Comment on I put on my robe and my wizard hat 2 months ago:
Every ten times you search for dice it puts one vote in the dm category. The next time you need to search 100 times.
- Comment on “Star Trek Origin” Movie Reportedly Headed To Greenlight For Production Start In Early 2025 2 months ago:
Origin of Purple Klingons.