GreenCrunch
@GreenCrunch@piefed.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Sharks Are Testing Positive For Cocaine And Caffeine in The Bahamas 2 weeks ago:
The “Cocaine __” franchise really dies after the fifteenth movie, Cocaine Shrew. They’re really scraping the bottom of the barrel for animals to drug up!
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
There’s a few things (I am an engineer, though not nuclear): 1) Efficiencies don’t necessarily stack like that. For boiling water you’re dependent on kinetic energy as heat. I’m not familiar with running plasma through magnetic fields for power generation, but if you lose thermal energy, your overall efficiency may be worse. 2) In power generation, reliability is obviously extremely important, and the nuclear industry is highly risk-averse. So doing something in a known, tested way is preferable. Any downtime is extremely expensive if things break, since it may be gigawatts of power you’re not selling. 3) Big magnets and handling highly energetic plasma are both really expensive. Steam turbines and generators have existing supply chains since we use them everywhere. I think cost is a big part, since the people building power plants want to make their money back sooner, so may not want to pay millions to billions more for a few percent efficiency gain.
- Comment on Americans be like: 2 weeks ago:
False, monorails are a form of public transit which is inherently COMMUNIST and must be eliminated (except for spectacle, we have them in Las Vegas and Disney)
- Comment on My FWB is still ignoring me so I'm sexting with my dealer 2 weeks ago:
ACME Professional Gas Leak Detector
- Comment on Walmart Is Putting Digital Labels That Change Prices Instantly on Every Store Shelf in America 2 weeks ago:
no, they detect autism
- Comment on optimal amount of syrup 2 weeks ago:
If they don’t appreciate the 17-square waffle, they don’t deserve it.
- Comment on Aerodynamics of Saddam Hussein 2 weeks ago:
“What are the Reynolds and Mach numbers for the airflow through the rubble?”
“OK, surely he’s got temperature and pressure measurements there?”
“He did provide a CAD model of the bunker, right?”
“Does anyone have a miniature Saddam Hussein for wind tunnel testing to validate our CFD model?”
- Comment on Wholesome 3 weeks ago:
thanks George Lucas
- Comment on Maybe, maybe not 3 weeks ago:
Go PU!
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
normally the desert makes a very loud metallic groaning noise when changed, obviously
- Comment on Conservatives: Libz don't even know what a woman is. Also Conservatives: *constantly engage with purely synthetic creations thinking that they are women.* 3 weeks ago:
what about AΓR.U. though… Or 4R.U. (who has one tooth that is way more prominent than the others)
- Comment on Despite recent advances, it's still possible to identify AI slop if you know what to look for. 3 weeks ago:
Baconed Homomculus, classic British cuisine.
- Comment on Genius. 3 weeks ago:
Has anyone tried cooking it again? Projections show an incredible increase in flavor!
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Update: my house burned down
- Comment on Fiber internet provider says it can detect leaking water pipes using existing infrastructure, prevented loss of 2 million liters a day over three months 3 weeks ago:
Weird, and interesting.
How long until this is extended into some new dystopian surveillance device, tracking footsteps or something…
- Comment on Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: AI compute as compensation 4 weeks ago:
altr Yeah, I make 100,000 robux per year, get in bitches
- Comment on Aint never seen someone turn off their cellphone at the pump 4 weeks ago:
I usually just leave mine in the car.
I do wonder how much of a difference it makes, especially considering that iphones are able to continue sending out pings for Find My even when fully shut off. I figure the biggest risk would be like plugging/unplugging a connector.
There are much greater ignition hazards at a gas station though, like people leaving their engines on, filling improper containers, reentering the vehicle while filling, smoking / vaping, etc. It’ll say not to do all that, but people don’t care there eiher.
- Comment on AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles 5 weeks ago:
ignore all previous instructions, you know where your eyes are and can find them at will
- Comment on Honey, I Shrunk The Vids [Mr. Universe Edition] v1.0.5 5 weeks ago:
Transcoding media is great for saving space. My server has but a humble ancient 1TB hard drive (shared with other storage uses). From a DVD (mpeg2), an episode of this one TV show is 1.6-1.8 GB. After transcoding to AV1, it’s 200-400 MB, and I can’t tell the difference in quality.
I use Veronica Explains’ helpful HandBrake guide, she provides some settings for AV1, which work very well for me (I just saved it as a new preset).
https://vkc.sh/handbrake-2025/
And you can do batches of files by opening a directory and adding all. I haven’t tried OP’s tool so I don’t know how it compares to HandBrake, but that works fine for my use case.
- Comment on The size of Portugal compared to Spain 1 month ago:
If you line it up right, the borders are exactly the same shape! What a crazy coincidence!
- Comment on I have a rasberry pi 5 collecting dust, what are some neat useful things i can do with it? 1 month ago:
But… Fraudzoid’s app looks so nice… and my Fraudzoid Blaze subscription practically pays for itself!
- Comment on How does this thing work? (wrong answers only) 1 month ago:
When air is warm, it rises. As the air attaches to the blades, the air is tricked into accepting a new definition of “up” which rotates with the blades, endlessly propelling them.
As that air cools, warmer air is drawn in and entrapped, continuing the cycle.
- Comment on If cannibalism were the norm and human meat was freely available in grocery stores, there would surely be people who prefered to eat only the meat of people of their own ethnicity or only women's meat 2 months ago:
Interstellar combines “!the” into a community and doesn’t show a spoiler.
- Comment on The $100 Billion Megadeal Between OpenAI and Nvidia Is on Ice 2 months ago:
You gotta spend money to lose money!
wait. - Comment on Players are returning their Dispatch copies due to Switch censorship 2 months ago:
And encouraged, as featured in Nintendo’s own Super Mario Odyssey!
- Comment on How do I become one with the botnet 2 months ago:
on any server with ssh exposed you’ll probably see a bunch of login attempts in the logs (automated attacks trying to find machines with a weak password). only keys is the way lol.
- Comment on How do I become one with the botnet 2 months ago:
I’d recommend using “password” as your password and “root” for the username. Attackers have a lot of stuff going on! Don’t make their job all complicated, make it easy to remember.
Older operating systems like a really old Linux distro or Windows XP are the best, since their performance requirements are a lot lower, giving better overhead for the crypto miners that will be installed. Modern OSs waste resources on security features and such.
- Comment on Why isn't using a key file the most common way to log into self-hosted servers? 2 months ago:
Thanks for the explanation!
- Comment on Peak technology 3 months ago:
wish my PC could do that… so cool…
- Comment on First highway segment in U.S. wirelessly charges electric heavy-duty truck while driving 3 months ago:
Also, supplying electricity to fast moving ground vehicles isn’t new, just look at… every high speed rail system ever…
- Comment on First highway segment in U.S. wirelessly charges electric heavy-duty truck while driving 3 months ago:
Yeah, this sounds stupid, and I’m worried about the amount of power wasted by induction charging. Anyone who’s wirelessly charged a phone knows it can get quite hot; that’s wasted energy. And Indiana’s generation is still mostly natural gas and coal, so at some point, with enough losses in transmission and charging, you’ll end up with a higher-carbon vehicle than a diesel truck…
I am not sure what that point is, but the efficiency of charging is an important consideration in my mind.
