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- Comment on Just say it gurl 7 hours ago:
There’s always someone who likes it. The real secret to good sex isn’t any specific technique. It’s being open with your partners about what you like and explore that in a safe and consensual way. The rest is details.
- Comment on Dik Piks 1 day ago:
Send them a random dick pic back.
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 1 day ago:
It’s worth noting that some data reporting issues mean OS X and macOS are sometimes split, even though macOS is the newer branding for OS X. When combined, Apple’s desktop presence is around 24%
- Comment on Dik Piks 1 day ago:
Or they just think if they see tits it makes them horny so women MUST be the same way?
This one. The problem is that by the time 90% of the hetro cis male population of one generation has figured this out, a new generation of teen hetro cis males are right behind them. A better sex education class would cover this.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 1 day ago:
If there’s higher redundancy, then they are already giving up on density.
We’ve pretty much covered the likely ways to calculate parity.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 1 day ago:
Not necessarily.
The trouble with spinning platters this big is that if a drive fails, it will take a long time to rebuild the array after shoving a new one in there. Sysadmins will be nervous about another failure taking out the whole array until that process is complete, and that can take days. There was some debate a while back on if the industry even wanted spinning platters >20TB. Some are willing to give up density if it means less worry.
I guess Seagate decided to go ahead, anyway, but the industry may be reluctant to buy this.
- Comment on Intolerance doesn't discriminate 1 day ago:
Oh, those were cassette tapes of My Book of Bible Stories. Barr had a very grandfatherly voice, so they had him narrate.
- Comment on Intolerance doesn't discriminate 1 day ago:
I presume that you, too, had to go to sleep listening to Barr’s voice on this one.
- Comment on Not great, not terrible 2 days ago:
China has a working prototype today. There weren’t any theoretical issues, someone just needed to put the money down.
Same thing with fusion, really.
- Comment on Not great, not terrible 2 days ago:
It removes the “hope intelligent life evolves fast enough”.
If it was only Uraniam, then you need U-235. That has a half life of about 700M years. Cut in half 2 more times, and there’s almost none left. So if intelligent life took another 1.5B years to develop on Earth (which it easily could have), then that path is cut off.
With Thorium, the sun would probably expand to a red giant first.
- Comment on Not great, not terrible 2 days ago:
Thorium-232 has an extremely long half life (longer than the age of the universe) and it’s reasonably abundant. That’s the isotope useful for the thorium fuel cycle.
So it’s not quite that bad for threading this needle. The fuel cycle is a little more complicated than uranium–it’s not fertile as it is–and that could slow down R&D of a new nuclear program by getting stuck at some step.
- Comment on Scientists make game-changing breakthrough that could slash costs of solar panels: 'Has the potential to contribute to the energy transition' 2 days ago:
Thanks. There’s way too many people who don’t see the problems with rooftop residential solar. Commercial/industrial rooftop can work out, but fields are the cheapest electricity you can get.
- Comment on Scientists make game-changing breakthrough that could slash costs of solar panels: 'Has the potential to contribute to the energy transition' 3 days ago:
My numbers were wrong:
www.nrel.gov/solar/…/solar-installed-system-cost
Hardware costs (module, inverters, etc.) are about half the price of the installed residential cost. The rest is “soft costs”, and labor is included in it, but it’s a pretty small fraction of it. The “other” soft costs are the big thing–stuff like permitting and planning and sales taxes. Better efficiency might somewhat lower it, but not a lot.
Notice that when things get to utility-scale, those soft costs shrink a lot. The best way to do solar is in large fields of racks, and it isn’t even close. The solution to this is community solar, where you and your neighbors go in on a field. Some states ban this, and that should change.
- Comment on the universe about to have a little minty b 3 days ago:
At least it’s a testable hypothesis. That’s way farther than most pseudoscience does.
- Comment on Scientists make game-changing breakthrough that could slash costs of solar panels: 'Has the potential to contribute to the energy transition' 3 days ago:
IIRC, this sort of thing has been floated before. The issue is that you can’t just focus that much light on the solar cell. It’ll burn out.
- Comment on Scientists make game-changing breakthrough that could slash costs of solar panels: 'Has the potential to contribute to the energy transition' 3 days ago:
Honestly, we don’t need the technology to get any better than it is. It’s nice, but not necessary. Labor costs of deployment are the biggest limiting factor.
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 3 days ago:
C started as B, which came from BCPL. The successor should be called “P”.
“USB P” would be easily confused with “USB PD”. The USB Implementers Forum would consider this a feature.
- Comment on YouTube's Latest Update Shows That Online Monoculture Is Dead 3 days ago:
I think that’s what they mean, but it’s not a well written headline.
- Comment on Eating would be weird if we didn't enjoy it. 3 days ago:
Whenever some fundie says something about sexual education, replace it with food in the argument.
Nutritional education should be a private matter between a parent and child.
Teaching about food in school encourages kids to eat more food.
We don’t make this sort of argument about literally any other subject. The very fact that they make these arguments shows they are putting sex in a special place, and will be completely incompetent at actually talking to their kids about sex.
- Comment on Every time 4 days ago:
We had a real union before. If there was a natural disaster in California or Texas or Florida or New York, we all pitched in to help. That’s what federal taxes that go to FEMA do.
That’s breaking down. No matter why it’s happened or who is responsible, this is a bad sign.
- Comment on USA 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸 USA 6 days ago:
The loopholes on the farm bill are so big that I don’t know why we’re debating legalization at this point.
To meet the 2018 farm bill requirements, your thing needs to have <0.3% delta-9 THC by weight. This opened up the delta-8 market–less potent but you can just add more of it–but that was only the start of exploring the new legal territory this opened up.
10mg of THC delta-9 is considered a good sized dose in edible products. A standard can of soda is about 225 grams. So do the math: 0.01g / 225g = 0.004%. Close to two orders of magnitude under the farm bill limit, and a lot of THC seltzers come in bigger cans than that. You can sell that in every state that hasn’t specifically banned it otherwise.
It gets even better. To get 10mg of THC delta-9, a gummy only needs to be about 3g to make the 0.3% limit. Not that big at all.
That mostly leaves smoking/vaping as the only methods that don’t have an easy loophole.
Just legalize it already. This is stupid.
- Comment on USA 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸 USA 6 days ago:
Speculating here, but taxes are one reason.
Almost all the rules about what counts as wine, beer, whiskey, etc. comes from some country making definitions for tax purposes.
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- Comment on stock market 1 week ago:
And the most important advice is to leave the money the fuck alone.
I got lucky in that I started having enough money to invest after the 2008 crash. Those years had crazy good gains. The real test comes when the market crashes 30% in a few days. Can you stick to the plan? That happened in 2020 when lockdowns started, and if you stuck to the plan, you still did very, very well that year.
- Comment on stock market 1 week ago:
They aren’t worth the money they’re being paid. It’s really not hard to do the most long time proven plan, which is to balance a portfolio between higher risk things like an SP500 index, and lower risk things like bonds. You weight it towards the index when you’re young to get high average returns, then back it off into lower risk as you get older to lock it in.
“A Random Walk Down Wall Street” goes into how this strategy has been proven out over decades when so many others have failed. You technically can beat the SP500 (and be sure to include transaction costs), but only by taking on even higher risk.
The best investment advice for most people is really, really boring.
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 1 week ago:
It’s unsustainable to keep prices lower than costs. The Amazon example didn’t have low prices forever.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 1 week ago:
Sorta. Maybe best to ignore advertising quotas.
Producing beef outputs a lot more greenhouse gases than pork, and chicken is less than either one. Fruit and vegetables are less than any of them.
None of these are better than the others for how they treat the animals. Unnecessary brutality all around. It would not cost that much to treat them with some level of ethics, and if that small cost reduces how much meat people eat, that’s probably a good thing.
- Comment on [Technology Connections] Induction lamps: fluorescent lighting's final form [30:05] 1 week ago:
My question is if we could attach an induction loop to a standard T8 bulb. If a bulb has burned out its electrical contacts, perhaps it could still be reused as it is.
I’d guess that even if it were possible, it needs a lot of special electronics. Not worth the effort compared to getting an LED bulb.
- Comment on Breaking: Netflix has made another minor change for their subscribers. 1 week ago:
So what you’re saying is, Happy Gilmore 2 will not save streaming?
- Comment on Someone should make an anticapitalist Dexter. A serial killer who kills evil rich people. 1 week ago:
There should be a Poison Ivy movie of basically that.
