BussyCat
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- Comment on Only people with money don't understand that being morally just while poor means your threading a needle through a litany of only bad choices. 1 day ago:
Why are you so mad? You are making a bunch of disjointed statements and I’m literally just tying to get you to connect the dots. If people are misinterpreting you have you considered you are not being clear?
- Comment on Only people with money don't understand that being morally just while poor means your threading a needle through a litany of only bad choices. 2 days ago:
And that makes logical sense to me that’s why I was surprised by the other commenter
- Comment on Instead of Orange Man doing Tariffs would it not have been better for him to talk about shopping locally and so forth. And giving more tax breaks to companies that stay and sell in the US? 2 days ago:
That’s factually not true; what happens to a company with no competition but also no customers and no suppliers? There is a reason why the most successful companies aren’t isolated from the world
- Comment on Only people with money don't understand that being morally just while poor means your threading a needle through a litany of only bad choices. 2 days ago:
But especially reusing things should be a priority if you are broke right? Like that’s a way of saving money
- Comment on Instead of Orange Man doing Tariffs would it not have been better for him to talk about shopping locally and so forth. And giving more tax breaks to companies that stay and sell in the US? 3 days ago:
The problem is if you hit everyone with a stick sometimes they just leave and you are left just playing with your carrot by yourself
- Comment on Only people with money don't understand that being morally just while poor means your threading a needle through a litany of only bad choices. 3 days ago:
So you listed a bunch of things that make sense for illegal things you might have to do in order to acquire food but just because you are poor why can’t you recycle?
- Comment on 1994 white Kevin 5 days ago:
It’s also run by people vetted by the school who are also employees so they generally have other responsibilities and then the service doesn’t generate a profit. Which is a long way of saying it’s not even remotely close to being the same
- Comment on 1994 white Kevin 5 days ago:
Speaking as a person who does not fit the demographic for this service, the big problem I see with it is how you trust that the walking buddy is actually going to be safer than nothing. Uber drivers are somewhat regularly in the news for assaulting women and I know several women that don’t like riding them alone
- Comment on 5 days ago:
You take one hand and count with the thumb as 1 and the pinky as 5 and the middle number is 3. If you switch and start with the pinky as 1 and the thumb as 5 the middle finger is still the middle number. Talking about the gaps can be useful but anatomically we name things for what’s there and what’s not there and we talk about fingers much more than we talk about the gaps
- Comment on How come id Software / Bethesda have never sued Bungie / Microsoft over the similarity between Doomguy and Master Chief? 5 days ago:
Halo reach came out way later, and doesn’t look half as good as master chief but that’s not due to the coloring and instead the worse looking armour
- Comment on Five-minute EV charging: CATL says "Hold my electrons and watch this" 1 week ago:
For low travel areas slower charging and batteries make a lot more sense as the investment in ultra fast charging is not viable and I don’t see that changing
I think regulatory inertia Is always going to be a problem but if we are regularly adding charging stations it will get faster as power companies have an incentive to build them and you get staff trained up on them
Gas stations can still have single point failures for example if their underground tank gets contaminated or damaged and they don’t have a back up and electric doesn’t need to have single point failures you can run them in parallel with breakers able to isolate portions of the system and have redundant transformers
EV works best if most people charge at home/work and people only charge in public if they don’t have the ability to do it at home or they are on a long drive. So you don’t need to meet the same cars per hour as gas stations.
I don’t see a world where fast charging is as cheap as slower charging just due to increased losses and more expensive equipment so I believe having 10 500kw chargers would be a better investment than 6 1MW chargers even though technically the MW chargers have a larger throughput they are more expensive to produce/run and have more issues if for example 8 people arrive at once
- Comment on Five-minute EV charging: CATL says "Hold my electrons and watch this" 1 week ago:
Electricity is not my forte so correct me if I’m wrong but if you had a long gap in cars using the charger a capacitor would quickly become saturated. Which means you would need more wattage going to the capacitor at all times. Whereas with a battery if you have a car on a 5 minute charger with 5 minutes in between you could pretty easily run 500kW constantly to the battery and then as the battery dropped in level you could slowly ramp up the power draw
- Comment on Five-minute EV charging: CATL says "Hold my electrons and watch this" 1 week ago:
It doesn’t need to be, high voltage transmission lines can run 1000s of MW then you can use a transformer to step the voltage to what you need and then use a rectifier bridge to convert to DC.
The problem I see is the effect of trying to turn on and off 1MW power from a grid could cause problems so the battery could work a bit as an expansion tank to smooth out grid power, so that you always charge it at 100KW and if you need to increase supply you can slowly increase your power draw without shocking the grid.
At the end of the day I personally think 1MW charging is overkill and a 10 minute charge time is a perfectly reasonable goal
- Comment on Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market 1 week ago:
It is hard to get a light EV when the batteries themselves are around 1/10 the energy density of gasoline and people want them to have a longer range than a gas car to make up for charging so you end up with a battery that’s 500-1000lbs. To put that into perspective a Miata weighs around 2000lbs
- Comment on British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies 1 week ago:
If you block the radio waves then isn’t that accomplishing the same thing as overloading it with radio waves?
- Comment on British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies 2 weeks ago:
Which will raise weight, costs, and reduce functionality. It’s like a U lock for a bicycle it’s not impenetrable it just raises the bar
- Comment on A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data 2 weeks ago:
There is a huge difference between asking a LLM “ translate the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog” and “ write a sentence about a fox and a dog” when you ask it to translate you can get weird translation issues like we saw here but you also get those sometimes with google translate but it shouldn’t change the actual content of the paper
- Comment on A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data 2 weeks ago:
They were translating them not actually writing them like obviously it should have been caught by reviewers but that’s not nearly as bad
- Comment on A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data 2 weeks ago:
It probably is decently common to translate articles using ChatGPT as it is a large language model so that does seem likely
- Comment on For the First Time, Artificial Intelligence is Being Used at a Nuclear Power Plant: California’s Diablo Canyon. 3 weeks ago:
The closest conflicts I have seen is varying codes required and there is usually clear language to use the strictest code. For example one code might require piping with 1/8” thickness if it holds water at X pressure and another will requires 3/16” thickness if that water is going to have a chloride content above X amount so you if it meets both you use the 3/16”.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Launches on June 5th Worldwide; 1080p Screen With 120 FPS and HDR Support, Docked Mode 4K Resolution Support Confirmed 3 weeks ago:
They currently don’t affect digital goods but there is no actual reason they couldn’t make one that does we are in some truly interesting times
- Comment on Please choose one 4 weeks ago:
By evil company standards that’s pretty benign
Like Hershey uses slave labor, Chiquita helped transport weapons for paramilitary groups, nestle well we have all heard about what nestle does.
Just about everything you listed that they do can be summed up as they vehemently protect their IP that while they are overkill they just aren’t even close to other video game companies like blizzard who protect sexual harassers
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Launches on June 5th Worldwide; 1080p Screen With 120 FPS and HDR Support, Docked Mode 4K Resolution Support Confirmed 4 weeks ago:
It doesn’t matter if it’s data, tariffs are meant to be protectionist so you could easily say that since Nintendo is headquartered in Japan or because the majority of their workers are in Japan or because their name sounds vaguely Japanese that all sales of their product in insert country here has to pay an additional 10% tax
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Launches on June 5th Worldwide; 1080p Screen With 120 FPS and HDR Support, Docked Mode 4K Resolution Support Confirmed 4 weeks ago:
Nintendo is one of the last game companies that actually release a finished product that’s not filled with micro transactions and your mad that they add an extra $20 to the price of something you will likely put hundreds of hours in as prices of everything have increased. Would you rather they release it for $60 but you have to pay an extra $5 for each character/vehicle/map like all the American companies are doing it
- Comment on Texas Needs Equivalent of 30 Reactors to Meet Data Center Power Demand 1 month ago:
How do you condense the steam back to water?
- Comment on flouride 5 months ago:
It’s 10 million times more acidic than drain cleaner!!! And the government is trying to force you to drink it by forcing it to be used in municipal drinking fountains
- Comment on flouride 5 months ago:
Just because a concentration is low doesn’t mean it’s safe. Water with 0.7 mg/L of Po-210 is lethal.
You can put an amount of it in a 55 gallon drum that is not visible
It’s a natural substance
Fluoride is in fact safe at the amounts that the FDA regulates but saying it’s a small concentration or that it’s natural are not the reasons it’s safe. It’s the hundreds of peer reviewed research articles that show that it’s safe
- Comment on Microsoft builds first datacenters with wood to slash carbon emissions 5 months ago:
The nuclear plant isn’t obsolete… it’s a PWR and with modern fuel cell designs it can reach the same efficiency as modern plants
- Comment on Microsoft builds first datacenters with wood to slash carbon emissions 5 months ago:
Like starting up a nuclear power plant to avoid burning fossil fuels?
- Comment on But yes. 5 months ago:
And then using that salt to heat water into steam and using that steam to turn a turbine