Hirom
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- Comment on Russia orders state-backed Max messenger app to be pre-installed on new phones 4 days ago:
state media says it is not a spying app
State media has very specifically denied it. That’s quite suspicious.
- Comment on Strange relations between numerical expressions and physical constants 1 week ago:
There are so many numerical expressions and many physical constants. The number of possible combinations is huge. It’s fun but not surprising to see some expressions approximately match a physical constant. Chance alone can cause this.
- Comment on Stop the free ride: all motorists should pay their way, whatever vehicle they drive 1 week ago:
I’m unaware of any country that setup a road toll infrastructure on small road, tollbooth or otherwise.
This is only for highways and major roads.
- Comment on Stop the free ride: all motorists should pay their way, whatever vehicle they drive 1 week ago:
Have you heard of toolbooths?
There are variations that require neither self reporting nor tracking cars. Grab a ticket uppon entering the highway. Feed the ticket in the exit booth and pay with cash or credit card. The machine uses the ticket to compte the distance.
- Comment on Stop the free ride: all motorists should pay their way, whatever vehicle they drive 1 week ago:
The article has some suggestions
The payment should be based on a combination of vehicle mass and distance travelled. That’s because damage to roads is overwhelmingly caused by heavy vehicles.
- Comment on Stop the free ride: all motorists should pay their way, whatever vehicle they drive 1 week ago:
If a commuter and or courrier drive the same distance on the same road with a similar car, they should contribute the same road toll for maintenance.
A courier should be able to deduct the toll from his income, counting it as a business expense. So it’s a bit less of a burden for profesionnals who depend on their vehicle.
- Comment on Stop the free ride: all motorists should pay their way, whatever vehicle they drive 1 week ago:
That make sense.
Also, an hybrid vehicle may pollute more if it’s never recharged and only use gas. Or less if it’s frequently recharged.
So that change could get rid of an automatic insentive for hybrid. Taxing gas and fossil fuel is a more direct and efficient insentive. If gas cost more, hybrid owners will recharge more often.
- Comment on Common food bacteria could help make vitamins cheaper and greener 1 week ago:
… eventually, after the patent expires, once other private and/or public manufacturers can produce vitamins the same way.
- Comment on IBM and Moderna have simulated the longest mRNA pattern without AI — they used a quantum computer instead 2 weeks ago:
How much energy does this technique uses compared to AlphaFold?
- Comment on Think about it 2 weeks ago:
There are more quarks in a single water molecules than planets in the solar system.
- Comment on Shortcut to Weight Loss: No Nausea Required 3 weeks ago:
Tweaking brain cells to reduce appetite? Better be cautious with that.
A cautinary tale about unintended conequences: I recall a sci-fi movies about a planet that manipulated people brain to prevent violent emotions and reduce crime. Many lost all will, became lethargic let themselves die of starving.
It’s probably not going that bad. But tweaking the brain may not be free of side effects.
- Comment on GET BOMBADEERED, IDIOT 5 weeks ago:
The same way living thing evolve. Through millon or billion of years of mutations and natural selection.
- Comment on cookie combs 5 weeks ago:
I suspect having round shape pushing against each other isn’t enought to get a hex shape.
In the picture, cookies are tiled such that they are surrounded by 6 other cookies. So it probably has to do with the tiling.
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly kills its movies and TV store on Xbox and Windows 5 weeks ago:
Hopefully they focus their resources whatever game studios remain.
Just make easy to access movies and films from other sources on XBox, we don’t need a Microsoft monopoly on streaming.
- Comment on The Amount of Electricity Generated From Solar Is Suddenly Unbelievable 1 month ago:
Could you share a link to the infographic? I’d be curious to see the details.
Renewables line solar have a great potential at reducing CO2, but only if solar replace fossil fuels.
As an example, nig tech is wasting so much energy of AI they’re increasing both renewable and fossil fuel consomption to cover rapid rise in energy use. The end result is more pollution.
- Comment on The Amount of Electricity Generated From Solar Is Suddenly Unbelievable 1 month ago:
The amount of energy wasted on stupid shit is unbelievable as well.
We need to laud efforts put into renewables, as much as we need to decry wasteful energy usage.
- Comment on Inside China’s plan for ‘621mph floating train’ that goes faster than a plane 1 month ago:
Maglevs are overhyped. Adam Something call those GadgetBahn.
- Comment on oops 1 month ago:
Please, do name and shame.
- Comment on lik lik lik 2 months ago:
Murder mittens
- Comment on Finland warms up the world’s largest sand battery, and the economics look appealing 2 months ago:
Okay, I guess the heat pumps aren’t suitable due to the economics or maybe cannot reach high enough temperatures.
- Comment on CISA Warns of Active Exploitation of Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Vulnerability 2 months ago:
It was patched in early 2023.
Let’s rephrase the headline: CISA remind organisations to apply a security update for a bug already fixed more than 2 years ago
- Comment on Reappraisal of the Geologic Time Scale: Evidence for a 6,001-year-old Earth 2 months ago:
Referencing this parody as if it’s a serious study should be ground the rejection or rétraction.
I wonder if journals and reviewers have tools to help detect fake and/or retracted study in references. Some already screen for the phrase “vegetative electron microscopy”.
- Comment on Finland warms up the world’s largest sand battery, and the economics look appealing 2 months ago:
Pornainen’s battery is charged using electricity from the grid
How so, do they use heater resistors or a heat pump?
Electricity may be cheap sometimes but still, heater resistors aren’t the most efficient.
- Comment on Strange Radio Pulses Detected Coming from Ice in Antarctica 2 months ago:
Could it be another microwave hoven?
- Comment on Going viral, I guess 2 months ago:
- Comment on British photojournalist hit during Los Angeles protests to undergo emergency surgery 2 months ago:
So much for freedom of speech.
- Comment on India, a major user of coal power, is making large gains in clean energy adoption. Here is how 2 months ago:
How is coal consomption changing in absolue term? What matter most is the absolute amount of fossiel fuel being burned, and the amount of green houses gases released.
Developing renewable is great. But the article focus on share and relative figures. So it’s not clear if renewable are increasing faster than coal. Or if coal use is actually decreasing.
- Comment on Pulling energy out of a hat. 2 months ago:
I guess the amont of enthalpy or energy required to summon a rabbit
- Comment on Pulling energy out of a hat. 2 months ago:
There should be more textbook exercices like this. Know I want to know the answer.
- Comment on 'Two or three times the cost': Roadblock to synthetic fuel at the bowser 2 months ago:
There’s an app for that. engine-tone.github.io