zaphod
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- Comment on Last year China generated almost 3 times as much solar power as the EU did, and it's close to overtaking all OECD countries put together (whose combined population is 1.38 billion people) 1 day ago:
Trucks? If you move coal for a power plant using trucks you’re going to need a lot of trucks, you use trains or ships instead, or just build the power plant next to the mine and use conveyor belts.
- Comment on Last year China generated almost 3 times as much solar power as the EU did, and it's close to overtaking all OECD countries put together (whose combined population is 1.38 billion people) 1 day ago:
Coal is unreliable
How? I would’ve said coal is very reliable, it worked for over a hundred years.
- Comment on French is such a beautiful language 1 day ago:
The noun death is always la mort (le petite morte as used by the other poster is just wrong). The dead person can be le mort (masculine) or la morte (feminine). The adjective for dead is mort for masculine and morte for feminine, as in l’arbre mort (the dead tree, masc.) or la fleure morte (the dead flower, fem.).
- Comment on French is such a beautiful language 1 day ago:
No, that would be la petite mort.
- Comment on Software is evolving backwards 3 days ago:
It’s also devolving, having less features, being slower/less optimised and so on. Cramming “AI” into it isn’t devolving, it’s enshitification
- Comment on The bizarre, dismal page you see if you open YouTube without an account. 3 days ago:
Yes and no, I don’t have an account but I also don’t use the frontpage because why would I, it’s empty. When you watch a video you still get the recommendations in the sidebar.
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 4 days ago:
That actually sounds like a reasonable response.
If you give the driver enough time to respond, which tesla doesn’t. They turn it off a second before impact and then claim it wasn’t it self-driving mode.
- Comment on spicy one 5 days ago:
How to achieve peace in the middle east with this one trick.
- Comment on Europeans have a meter fetish 5 days ago:
Mètre.
- Comment on So um, america just started another war in the middle east. We're going to need a shit ton more memes to americans from the nightmare they are enduring. Thanks in advance... 6 days ago:
- Comment on PoV you found oil 6 days ago:
Looks more like some variant of the Leopard 2.
- Comment on Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny 6 days ago:
Honestly I think examples like this are counterproductive, the average man will never be considered for one of these positions, nor will the average woman. It is useless to get angry at such a situation and it only serves to engage people in the “gender war” which only serves to distract you from the real issues which are almost completely class issues. Instead of getting angry that some woman “took away” the job of some man who was “more deserving”, you should get angry that that person is most likely getting paid a hundred times more than you and will cut your job in an attempt to make the company appear more profitable.
- Comment on Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny 1 week ago:
Every once in a while my uni has some interesting events (at least based on the description), public announcement sent to everyone, and the last sentence has almost always been some form of “women only”. There is usually no gender neutral equivalents to these events and they’re done in the name of gener equality. So I very much feel excluded by gender equality.
- Comment on Protection 1 week ago:
Probably because for most people as long as it works it works and there’s no reason to upgrade.
- Comment on Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny 1 week ago:
I’m sure it varies from country to country, but in the US women could not study medicine until the late 1800’s
In Germany at the moment around two thirds of medicine students are women and I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s the similar in most western countries.
- Comment on Protection 1 week ago:
It’ll more likely act as a faraday cage.
- Comment on Protection 1 week ago:
And if I look at the frequency spectrum I see that all my neighbours use 2.4GHz (9 wifis in channel 8) and I got the entire 5GHz spectrum to myself.
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 1 week ago:
That’s kind of the beauty here, you only get a relative error (0.069%) and it’s mostly insignificant to the point of being smaller than your fabrication tolerances. This should also be the case for fibre optics. The error can’t really add up, you scale everything to a multiple of the wavelength and you calculate the wavelength using the speed of light.
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 1 week ago:
If I’m not completely mistaken M_PI is not part of the C standard, so depending on your stdlib or compiler or even compiler flags you will have to define it yourself even in C.
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 1 week ago:
I just use the pi from my calculator or numpy/matlab.
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 1 week ago:
Transistors were mostly developed for telephone systems (the ones with wires) as a replacement for tubes. And the modern tech used for radios is very different from that used for computers.
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 1 week ago:
No, Hertz never lived to see applications of his discovery. Guglielmo Marconi (was a fascist) started working on radio telegraphy in 1894, shortly after Hertz’ death.
- Comment on "Sad thing to be, nonsensical thing to want to be" 💔🥀💔🥀 1 week ago:
Very unlikely, the people who claim to have some european origin are generally not the descendants of slaves. Descendants of slaves generally have very little knowledge about the origin of their ancestors. Slaves in America came mostly from Africa, most likely even displaced within Africa. Very little records were kept of individual slaves origins, because why would anyone do that, they’re slaves. These people identify as “just” African Americans.
- Comment on Seems like a simple solution 2 weeks ago:
I do wash it out, it’s why I drink so much.
- Comment on As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG 2 weeks ago:
The first game wasn’t bad, but it didn’t really feel like a full price title.
- Comment on Deez peets 2 weeks ago:
I keep repeating this to everyone who’s listening and add that cats have clown feet.
- Comment on So many bands emphatically demonstrate that successful communication is not about what you say, but how you say it 2 weeks ago:
Every song is about sex, change my mind.
- Comment on Good job 2 weeks ago:
decided they were shit
I don’t recall this. I recall our corpo overlords taking away the glass from us without asking.
- Comment on Stable build go brr 2 weeks ago:
And some are eternally stuck in the PoC/MVP phase.
- Comment on How do you keep track of what games you have played over the years? 2 weeks ago:
I keep a list in a plain text file. It has sections for each year and one section for games I’m interested in. The list used to be on paper and I’m considering going back to that.
