GreyEyedGhost
@GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca
- Comment on I'm not a doctor, nor have I played one on TV. 10 hours ago:
I absolutely agree, for me, but is it enough to attract a doctor who probably has $240k in student loans to pay off and can make more elsewhere? To someone in that position it may not be worth responding to.
- Comment on I'm not a doctor, nor have I played one on TV. 13 hours ago:
Assuming you get 5 12-hour shifts per month, that’s only $216k per year. Sure, you have a lot of time off, but you can make much more as a doctor, depending on what kind of specialty, of course. Maybe OP can tell us what kind of doctor he isn’t.
- Comment on Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer — DIY MANPADS includes Wi-Fi guidance, ballistics calculations, optional camera for tracking 19 hours ago:
Is that the sliding pipe gun? I think all you need is materials, a hack saw, and a drill. But with a machine shop, the materials list is just steel and some springs, and you can have a gun as good as any we had prior to the last century.
- Comment on Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer — DIY MANPADS includes Wi-Fi guidance, ballistics calculations, optional camera for tracking 1 day ago:
Reminds me of a time when I went to a maker space open house, and they were showing all kinds of cool stuff, including fairly advanced 3D printers for time. They mentioned there was programming to halt prints of things like gun parts, so it would be very hard to make guns using them. I commented, “Besides, you can make better ones in the metal shop in the other room.” He replied, “Yeah! <brief pause> No!”
- Comment on The Productivity Paradox: Why Technology Makes the Economy More Efficient But Most People No Richer 4 days ago:
Giving you an upvote for using three metaphors in a sentence that small. Impressive!
- Comment on HP's ink-blocking firmware may violate new global sustainability rules 5 days ago:
Brother has also started down the proprietary toner road. Source.
- Comment on Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away." 2 weeks ago:
It was referenced in every episode, but one episode was about the people who had one.
- Comment on Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away." 2 weeks ago:
It’s a greentext from 2013 apparently. It can be found on reddit, and I’ve seen it here, but I doubt I could find it.
- Comment on The Physics of Data Centers in Space 3 weeks ago:
The current solar panel system of the ISS weights about 8 tonnes, the Falcon Heavy can deliver 63 tonnes to LEO. That’s about 715 launches of the Falcon Heavy, assuming space solar panel W/kg hasn’t improved since then, that Starship never becomes commercially viable, and doesn’t include batteries, cooling, or the working components. This still isn’t in the range of feasible for a data center, but could be an option for microgravity industry. The value of a more successful or precise silicon crystal production method, for instance, may make it worthwhile.
- Comment on New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater 3 weeks ago:
Well, I know the difference between alkaline, NiCd, NiMH, and lithium batteries, and that they don’t grow on trees, so at least I have that.
- Comment on Ouch 3 weeks ago:
To be fair, all names are made up, and not just for places. But yes, Farmington is a little more simplistic than say Louisiana.
- Comment on New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater 3 weeks ago:
Well, the downside of this not being a 4x game is that sometimes research doesn’t pan out, and you don’t know which ones until after you’re done.
- Comment on New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater 3 weeks ago:
We’ve had 3 major changes in battery chemistry in the last 45 years. Energy density, lifespan, cost, and dangerous materials have all generally improved. We also have 2 new battery technologies in the process of becoming generally commercially available. Also, batteries went from 500 mAh batteries about the size of your smartphone to 3000 mAh as a minor component of that same smartphone, about an order of magnitude in energy density.
- Comment on New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater 3 weeks ago:
No, that’s why we use the same batteries Voltaire did on his frogs.
- Comment on Fuck the IRS 3 weeks ago:
Here’s a quote I stumbled across a couple decades ago.
I like paying taxes. With them I buy civilization.
- Comment on Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial 3 weeks ago:
A lit of these products used to be good. 25 years ago, Outlook was the only option for mail and calendar because they worked well and nothing else was as simple or integrated. Windows XP brought an enterprise-class OS with true multitasking to the consumer. MSN messenger didn’t have all the features of Teams, but it was a serious contender in the IM space. And now, I have Outlook every now and then telling me I have new mail but I cant see it until I restart the app, Windows gets shittier and more intrusive every day, and Teams on Android cant send me a notification about an upcoming meeting until the meeting actually starts, if I get a notification at all. I also wonder how they ended up this way given they were class leaders just decades ago.
Now if we can get alternatives that don’t have all the problems of Microsoft at its heyday, let alone now, that would be amazing. I already have my console alternative, just a few more pieces.
- Comment on Must be nice 4 weeks ago:
One definition of humor is pain plus distance. The pain is possibly moderate, and the distance for me to do that is impossible to bridge. Sounds pretty funny to me.
- Comment on ‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront 4 weeks ago:
I think what they mean by “community blocklist” is a blocklist maintained by the community which users can have applied to them. This means, rather than everyone having to deal with blocking the trolls individually, only one user has to and the rest get the benefit of that.
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks 4 weeks ago:
Is that the sound of the warp drive in space? It certainly isn’t the sound effect the explosions in space use.
If it wasn’t for artistic license, they could have gone with what happens when the inertial dampers fail in the spaceships in David Weber’s books, which is a more realistic outcome (assuming realism is what you’re looking for in a setting with warp drives and inertial dampers), but writing off the crews of ships that don’t matter to the storyline in a red paste probably wouldn’t go over well in a family drama. About as well as people sitting around in a pitched battle with the occasional hum or shudder.
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks 4 weeks ago:
I suppose if they’d been in a more relaxed pose they would have flown farther?
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks 4 weeks ago:
And where are the seat belts?
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks 4 weeks ago:
These ships all had inertia dampers, otherwise the crew would be paste during most maneuvers. Seatbelts would just cause a different kind of mess. And even if they didn’t, are you suggesting Picard’s grip is sufficient to combat those forces? Because he didn’t have a seat belt, either. Maybe it was the force of his presence that you think was going to keep him seated?
- Comment on New nickel-iron battery charges in seconds, survives 12,000 cycles 4 weeks ago:
Sorry, didn’t notice the different user name.
- Comment on New nickel-iron battery charges in seconds, survives 12,000 cycles 4 weeks ago:
If I have seen further [than others], it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Once upon a time, that giant invented the wheel.
- Comment on New nickel-iron battery charges in seconds, survives 12,000 cycles 4 weeks ago:
Fusion power isn’t commercially practical. We could make a working fusion plant right now. It would suck and provide almost no power, but we could make one. And the difference between the one we can make today that barely works and isn’t useful and one that would be useful will be some number of additional incremental steps between where we are today and when that would work. Which is exactly the point. And your attitude of, well we aren’t using it today, so nothing has actually been done, is what I’m criticizing, so thanks for making the point even more obvious.
- Comment on New nickel-iron battery charges in seconds, survives 12,000 cycles 4 weeks ago:
Fusion power is based on the aeolipile and work by Marie Curie. Just because you don’t see the all the incremental steps connecting those devices doesn’t mean they aren’t there.
- Comment on Been putting a lot of thought into this 4 weeks ago:
The ideal technique for when they’re sweaty or sticky.
- Comment on Been putting a lot of thought into this 4 weeks ago:
The ideal technique for when they’re itchy.
- Comment on New nickel-iron battery charges in seconds, survives 12,000 cycles 4 weeks ago:
An order of magnitude more power in the same form factor in 30 years isn’t a tiny increment. It was certainly a number of tiny increments to get there. And for those big leaps you’re so desperately looking for, it isn’t one little group sitting down together thinking how they’re going to do something. There are decades of research building out a number of tiny discoveries, combined by a group at an opportune time to put it all together so everyone can talk about this momentous leap that they, from the outside perceived as something new that sprung out of nothing.
- Comment on New nickel-iron battery charges in seconds, survives 12,000 cycles 4 weeks ago:
And yet we have somehow gone from rechargeable phone batteries that were about 3 times bigger than the phone I’m typing this on and had a capacity of about 500 mAh to where we are now with the battery that powers my phone being some small part of it and having a capacity of 3000 may, with only two major technology changes on the way. Meanwhile, we’ve been using the same technology for over a decade and the capability keeps getting better. I wonder why that is?