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- Comment on Replaced my electric resistance water heater with heat pump, dramatic reduction in energy usage 2 weeks ago:
For areas where you want to cool or dehumidify the air these help though. So where I live, during the summer these would effectively be “free” - you were going to use that energy to cool the house anyway with your AC, now you’ve just put that heat in water instead.
- Comment on Slurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp 3 weeks ago:
Stuck on a NEMA 5-15 outlet, can’t draw much more continuously. I think like 1200W is the highest continuous load you’re allowed on a 15 A circuit here in the US, but I am not an electrician so I could be wrong
- Comment on Slurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp 3 weeks ago:
At some point you realize that the slushee has melted in the face of your system’s 1000 W TDP…
- Comment on Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse 4 weeks ago:
I have a Google smart speaker that I got as a freebie. I used to use it (>3 years ago) for timers, alarms, etc. and had few problems, I just stopped when I moved and didn’t set it up. I put them back up a few months ago and it sure seems worse to me. Always triggering on random conversations, or to dialog on TV. Anyway they are permanent residents of the closet now. They suck.
- Comment on cookie combs 5 weeks ago:
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Comment on electrostatic spider flight 5 weeks ago:
Uhhh, magnets, I assume. I’ve gone through the physics courses, scrapped through intro to electrical engineering, and i still don’t get magnets
- Comment on cookie combs 5 weeks ago:
I just woke up with my phone on this. My assumption is that remembering that optimal packing thing just caused me to pass oiyt, presumably to protect myself.
- Comment on You'd need to calculate the compound interest 5 weeks ago:
I feel like it may be more visually poetic - standing there, as a breeze blows dust past you, a dollar bill flies into your hand, somehow inexplicably preserved. Any archeological record of paper currency is long gone, so even if there was a human civilization, this strangely ornamented picture of a man’s head with various shapes around it would be alien.
Clearly the better choice.
- Comment on Do movie actors or actress keep the skills they learned? Like no one would screw with Keanu after seeing all the John Wick films? And if they did would they just be fucked from the start? 5 weeks ago:
Those World War 2 movies as well - like, we already had millions die during the war, and now we’re doing it again to make a movie out of it? (/s)
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 5 weeks ago:
Since you’re in a roundabout, you just need a large funnel into the gas tank. Every time around, someone standing at the side pours a bit of fuel in while you pass, so you get a splash of fuel per lap!
- Comment on Computer Scientists Figure Out How To Prove Lies: An attack on a fundamental proof technique reveals a glaring security issue for blockchains and other digital encryption schemes. 1 month ago:
Or, if you’re more fun, a giant wall of lava lamps! The coolest randomness in town!
(Cloudflare does this)
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 1 month ago:
Even USB-C is a nightmare. There’s 3.0, 3.1, and 3.2, which were rebranded as “3.2 Gen X” with some stupid stuff there as far as what speed it supports.
Then it can do DisplayPort as well. There used to be an HDMI alt mode too!
An Intel computer might have Thunderbolt over the same cable, and can send PCIe signals over the cable to plug in a graphics card or other devices.
Then there’s USB 4 which works like Thunderbolt but isn’t restricted to Intel devices.
Then there’s the extended power profile which lets you push 240 W through a USB C port.
For a while, the USB-C connector was on graphics cards as Virtualink, which was supposed to be a one-cable standardized solution to plugging in VR headsets. Except that no headsets used it.
Then there’s Nintendo. The Switch has a Type-C port, but does its own stupid thing for video, so it can’t work with a normal dock because it’s a freak.
So you pick up a random USB C cable and have no information on what it may be capable of, plug it into a port where you again don’t know the capabilities. Its speed may be anywhere between 1.5 MBit/s (USB 1.0 low speed) and 80 GBit/s (USB 4 2.0) and it may provide between 5 and 240 W of power.
Every charger has a different power output, and sometimes it leads to a stupid situation like the Dell 130 W laptop charger. In theory, 130 W is way more than what most phones will charge at. But it only offers that at I think 20 V, which my phone can’t take. So in practice, your phone will charge at the base 5W over it.
Dell also has a laptop dock for one of their laptops that uses TWO Type-C ports, for more gooderness or something, I don’t know. Meaning it will only fit that laptop with ports exactly that far apart.
The USB chaos does lead to fun discoveries, such as when I plugged a Chromecast with Google TV’s power port into a laptop dock and discovered that it actually supports USB inputs, which is cool.
And Logitech still can’t make a USB-C dongle for their mouse.
At least it’s not a bunch of proprietary barrel chargers. My parents have a whole box of orphaned chargers with oddly specific voltages from random devices.
- Comment on Is my shampoo smelling like fruit or is my fruit tasting like shampoo? 1 month ago:
The scalp bird takes advantage of this by nesting in people’s hair and consuming the fruit. This causes another symbiotic relationship as it spreads the fruit seeds.
- Comment on They are so clueless they don't realize that this just pisses everyone off. Shove your banana 1 month ago:
Sorry folks. Because of the banana handouts, the company is short on cash for the quarter, so there will be no bonuses or raises.
- Comment on Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear 1 month ago:
I mean there are ongoing costs with any form of power generation. Obviously there’s fuel costs for most, but even other renewables have maintenance costs. You’ll also need to keep investing anyway as power demands increase over time. So newer solar installations eventually replace the old.
- Comment on Microsoft is moving antivirus providers out of the Windows kernel 1 month ago:
I’m just speculating. It seems like, at least at the moment, anti cheat continues to be able to run as kernel. The article says Microsoft will have more to say on anti cheat “in the near future.”
It may be that they don’t crack down on the realtime applications as hard, since the number of users impacted is so much smaller. Antivirus and anti cheat are on many millions of machines and are usable by the average consumer. Specialty software may be considered differently, I. E. “You know what you’re doing and what risks you’re assuming” for the more technical customer.
It will be interesting to see where they go with this.
- Comment on Microsoft is moving antivirus providers out of the Windows kernel 1 month ago:
An interesting question. Assuming they’re only targeting security/antivirus products at the moment (see the discussion regarding anti-cheat) it may be that those applications get a pass for now.