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- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 3 days ago:
Right, but in the daytime, the portion of sunlight that is scattered on the way through the atmosphere to a given spot is partially made up for by sunlight that was scattered to that spot away from other areas, which wouldn’t happen under this scheme.
I’m curious how much scattering occurs - I have no idea how to find or model that.
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 4 days ago:
Thanks for the write up!
I’m curious how strong an effect atmospheric scattering would have, even after all that!
- Comment on Got Banned for Fixing Roku — The Paul Blart Mod Chronicles 1 week ago:
Yeah, post the fix here!
(Think you could get away with linking the fix post here from Reddit?)
- Comment on Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders 1 week ago:
Yeah, I’m just pissed that even with that they’re still head and shoulders above the competition
- Comment on Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders 1 week ago:
According to sources familiar with negotiations, Microsoft’s bid suffered as it refused to accept some of Israel’s demands.
…why is Microsoft the upstanding company here?!
- Comment on Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings 1 week ago:
This isn’t the first time I’ve seen this meme; but what’s it from?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
As I recall the exchange, Paul Ryan said at one point that RATM was one of his favorite bands. Morello was asked about it in an interview, and said something to the effect of “He can like what he wants, but he’s part of the machine we’re raging against”
- Comment on 16-inch laptop with Blu-ray drive, USB 4 and AMD Ryzen 7: Fujitsu FMV Note A launches 2 weeks ago:
…so do people not expect to upload their own rips anymore?
- Comment on This man is suffering 2 weeks ago:
I honestly think that a large part of their appeal is that you can pretend to be subtle
- Comment on 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds 1 month ago:
Fair points, I hadn’t considered the economic side of it; or even the mass beyond how it affects lift.
- Comment on 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds 1 month ago:
True, I hadn’t considered the economic angle at all!
- Comment on 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds 1 month ago:
Also for unmanned aircraft, using helium instead of hydrogen is just crazy
Is it? Hydrogen is about half the mass of helium, but the trick is what you’re displacing to generate lift.
1 cubic meter of air is around 1.2 kilograms, depending on a variety of factors.
1 cubic meter of helium is around 0.18 kilograms, displacing the atmosphere to generate about 1.02 kilograms of lift.
1 cubic meter of hydrogen is around 0.08 kilograms, displacing the atmosphere to generate about 1.12 kilograms of lift, a shade under a 10% increase over helium.
That can be significant, depending on other engineering constraints; but is it “crazy” different?
(Numbers will vary with temperature and pressure, back of envelope calculations, etc. etc.)
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 1 month ago:
If Tylenol caused autism, there would be a lot more support for trains in the U.S.
- Comment on Explain that 1 month ago:
I’m sorry. I’m not Peter Parker.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Wish Netflix still mailed DVDs, be nice to have another way to fill in the gaps.
Need to look at what DVDs the library carries…
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 1 month ago:
Maybe - but the marketing that won’t affect you isn’t what you need to worry about. It’s the parts that do still work on you need to be careful of - and if you assume nothing will ever work on you, you won’t even notice when something does take. Whether that’s buying a trinket that doesn’t actually make you happy, or joining a group that turns out to be a cult.
Always better to assume you can be manipulated, and check in with yourself periodically.
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 1 month ago:
This… strikes me more as self-aggrandizing than informative.
Yes, many technical folks are put off by certain marketing tricks. Good marketers just use different techniques when targeting people in this market, when they bother to at all.
We’re not immune to manipulation; and thinking that we are makes us more susceptible to it.
- Comment on Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack 2 months ago:
Just went through this with both kids… The word “need” always implies a goal. “I need x (to do y)”. Without context, the goal is generally either survival, or more often, comfort: “I need a drink.” “I need a break.”
When you’re speaking in the context of doing something, as superglue was, that becomes the implied goal. “I need those recommendations to automatically populate (in order for my wife to be comfortable using this)”.
- Comment on That's an impressive drop. Any ideas why? 2 months ago:
Ah, okay, I didn’t see that from the comment tree. I don’t think that’s gender specific though; if anything, women seem even more likely to be rejected due to age than men. And there’s also other confounding factors with age: as your cohort ages, they get paired off, and have less time to devote to dating, and do have a somewhat decreased sex drive pushing them out there. So the dating pool is quite a bit smaller - even if your looks didn’t diminish, it likely won’t carry you as far as your dating pool ages regardless of economic factors.
- Comment on That's an impressive drop. Any ideas why? 2 months ago:
Ever heard about STD rates in nursing homes? There may be a factor that’s correlated with age, but age itself doesn’t stop sex, or even slow it down that much.
- Comment on FTC chair Andrew Ferguson warns Google not to filter or suppress emails sent by Republicans over Gmail 2 months ago:
Ahh, fair point on the source. I should probably let myself wake up more before posting :P You’re right though, it’s a weird “study”… feels more like a quick test I’d run locally to check my processes than anything with real rigor.
- Comment on FTC chair Andrew Ferguson warns Google not to filter or suppress emails sent by Republicans over Gmail 2 months ago:
… doesn’t it say Republicans claim similar spam from Democrats got through?
My main takeaway is the Republicans want to block Democrat messaging, and via projection, assume Google is doing the reverse.
- Comment on Make it make sense 2 months ago:
I feel like regular patrol cars might work like this already - who’s going to blow past a cop driving down the road?
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 2 months ago:
Okay, that’s the disconnect - you do not need to dehumanize someone to consider them an enemy. Police and militaries often do so, because it makes people easier to shoot; but it is not necessary. And the cognitive dissonance of dehumanizing their targets leads to a lot of the issues soldiers face later on. (And oh, hey - look who’s become rife with fascists!)
Fascism absolutely needs stopped. It and the people supporting it are an existential threat. But the way that fascism starts out is by treating some people as less than human, as something other. And if you have to make an enemy a nonperson to beat them, then the groundwork is already laid for fascism to return with the next generation - after all, you’ve just shown dehumanizing people can get the results you need, right? Why not make a habit of it?
- Comment on Not stealing 2 months ago:
I think that really depends on the kid too. I’ve had one behave like that fairly regularly until he grew out of it; the other will get upset rarely, and never in public.
The post read to me as the dad cracking a dry joke, not actually making an excuse.
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 2 months ago:
Who’s arguing against violence? I’m saying don’t dehumanize them. Humans are quite capable of being monstrous and horrible all on their own.
Absolutely fight back against the fascists! My grandad did, and I think he’s a fine example to follow. He didn’t have to treat them as something other than people to do that, though. He just treated them as the enemy they were.
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 2 months ago:
I’m not talking about name-calling. Go hog wild with that, it seems fairly effective.
I’m talking about dehumanizing them. Deciding that any means that will end them is justified. Treating them like feral animals. Harvesting their organs for profit, like outhouseperilous suggested further up. That’s what I’m pushing back on.
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 2 months ago:
Right - fight them! Resist them! But do not let them push you into being inhuman yourself.
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 2 months ago:
At this point, my best guess is these guys just don’t actually read any Punisher material.
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 2 months ago:
Man, bit of a tangent, but even as a fast thought experiment, Thanos’s idea was bad. Just his motivation was (debatably) good.
The problem is, the vast majority of species populations can easily double in a generation, given plentiful resources - and plentiful resources was what he was aiming for! Even if everything went exactly as he thought it would, he’s just kicked the can down the road for one generation.