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- Comment on BREAKING NEWS: We did it, guys! 20 poptarts! 4 weeks ago:
In this economy?
- Comment on The Unbearable Inefficiency of Fossil Fuels 5 weeks ago:
As the blog post discusses, there are multiple ways to measure efficiency; energy density is one, and possibly the most important advantage of hydrocarbons. The first figure in the blog post describes another: quantity of mineral extraction per energy production. From that metric, renewables are much more efficient.
Personally, I’m not bothered by the blog post. The advantages of fossil fuels are well known - that’s why they continue to be widely used. Their main disadvantage, emissions, are also we’ll publicized. The perspective of the blog post is that there are other, less discussed metrics under which renewables have an advantage.
- Comment on Frankenbeans 5 weeks ago:
Great song - but the title is “The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song.”
- Comment on 🤡🤡🤡 5 weeks ago:
Unilluminated? Night?
- Comment on 🤡🤡🤡 5 weeks ago:
FYI - "dark side of the moon" refers to the far side of the moon (that never faces Earth). Dark here has the same meaning as in dark energy: "unknown."
I have no answer to your actual question, but would also be interested.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 1 month ago:
Of course. I was trying to make something less useful than knowing the strides in a mile.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I always enjoy Mad Elf around Christmas. It's a dark ale with Belgian yeast, cherries, and honey.
I've never tried to brew it, but there are plenty of clone recipes around to use as a starting point.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 1 month ago:
Thousandths of an inch are also used in some engineering applications and are called "mils." Not to be confused with millimeters.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 1 month ago:
It's not a good tip, but this is how I hear it:
1: One
San Fran: Seven
Cisc: Six
O: OhI just came up with it off the cuff, but I may use it going forward. I've never been able to remember feet or yards in a mile.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 1 month ago:
And to remember the number of yards in a mile: 1 San Francisco
One-seven-six-oh
- Comment on Driver claims cyclist punched him in face and threw bike at car, causing £1,000 worth of damage, after motorist hit him “at about 2mph” 1 month ago:
Their post history is interesting - it's like watching someone lose their mind.
- Comment on Honkwiching 2 months ago:
The original post is from 2017 - LLM were not in common use then.
- Comment on Strange relations between numerical expressions and physical constants 2 months ago:
I could be bothered:
- Comment on Strange relations between numerical expressions and physical constants 2 months ago:
- Comment on Incident 2 months ago:
Got it, thanks. Looks about the same, for what it's worth: recommended ratio for children 13-35 months old is 4:1.
- Comment on Antarctic researcher remains, working for Falklands’ Dependency, 66 years ago, found in receding glacier 2 months ago:
And a much clearer version only needs two more words:
Remains of Antarctic researcher, who worked for Falklands' Dependency 66 years ago, found in receding glacier
- Comment on Incident 2 months ago:
What federal limit are you referencing? Federally funded Early Head Start classes serving students under 36 months old must have two teachers with no more than 8 children (4:1 ratio). CFR 1302.21(b)(2). Kids in diapers will probably be under 36 months.
Many states have their own requirements.
- Comment on A small art gallery in Japan just happened to have these pictures next to each other. And then it morphed into a popular meme template 2 months ago:
They're not saying that. Check the community and try to have some fun
- Comment on Duffy to announce nuclear reactor on the moon 2 months ago:
This might have something to do with it:
The first country to have a reactor could “declare a keep-out zone which would significantly inhibit the United States,” the directive states, a sign of the agency’s concern about a joint project China and Russia have launched.
Unexpectedly, it doesn't seem like this is a primarily technical decision.
- Comment on OP cleans his fridge 2 months ago:
Please put an NSFW tag on this. I was on the train and when I saw this I had to start furiously
masturbatingvomiting. Everyone else gave me strange looks and were saying things like “what the fuck” and “callthe policean ambulance”. I dropped my phone and everyone around me saw this image. Now there is a whole train of menmasturbatingvomiting together at this one image. This is all your fault, you could have prevented this if you had just tagged this post NSFW. - Comment on OP cleans his fridge 2 months ago:
Fuck, flag as NSFW next time
- Comment on Startup Claims Its Fusion Reactor Concept Can Turn Cheap Mercury Into Gold 2 months ago:
Sure - they're claiming to do two very difficult things simultaneously (net positive fusion and transmute mercury to gold at scale) which makes me even more skeptical. It's like saying "Not only can pigs fly, but we've taught them to simultaneously do calculus."
- Comment on Startup Claims Its Fusion Reactor Concept Can Turn Cheap Mercury Into Gold 2 months ago:
This article says (5 tonnes/yr) per GW produced. It's a fusion reactor, so it's making electricity, not consuming it.
At $0.05/kWh, 1 GWh of electricity is $438 million. At $3400/troy ounce, 5 tonnes of gold is $545 million. So that jives with the company's estimate on the article that the sale of gold could double their revenue.
All bunk, of course
- Comment on Fullstack Engineer - Waifus (for people looking for job) 3 months ago:
The job posting uses the word "obsess" twice - no frigging thank you
- Comment on I wanted to do this for few years... 3 months ago:
That's a cool project - good luck and update us on how it turns out.
Here in the US, high strength (95%) ethanol is widelybavailable. We would occasionally do shots of it when I was (much) younger.
- Comment on What if the moon turned into a black hole? 3 months ago:
To you, what is the difference between the moon being turned into a black hole and being replaced by a black hole with the same mass?