JohnDClay
@JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Why is currency so essential? 1 week ago:
The ability to purchase items you want with money gives it value.
- Comment on Why is currency so essential? 1 week ago:
For the things the money buys. Because it’s really though to trade food directly for them.
- Comment on Renewable energy passes 30% of world’s electricity supply 1 week ago:
Cool. I guess I was thinking in the US. Globally is still getting more
- Comment on Renewable energy passes 30% of world’s electricity supply 1 week ago:
The trend line looks good though, we’ve been mostly maxed out on hydropower for decades.
- Comment on Renewable energy passes 30% of world’s electricity supply 1 week ago:
Is this installed capacity, or actual power output? If installed capacity, you’ll need a lot more than 100% since that’s just the nameplate max capacity, not the average. I’m glad we’ve gotten this far, but we still need to transition to 100% or more very soon.
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 1 week ago:
Okay… You seem needlessly confrontational…
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 1 week ago:
I judge based on probability and severity, and the probability is small enough even though the severity is high for me to not be concerned.
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 1 week ago:
I estimate that the probability of injuring my arms and that no one else is around to call for help is low enough to not worth the monthly subscription.
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 1 week ago:
I think my car only came with a free trial for that service, I think you needed to pay after a certain amount of time. Cell phone works well enough for me.
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 1 week ago:
My car microphone stopped working
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 1 week ago:
Pulling the fuse that includes OnStar at least keeps it from calling home. But there’s usually some collateral damage.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 1 week ago:
I thought hdi did take into account using the median instead of the mean metrics, but I’m not super familiar with how hdi is calculated.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 1 week ago:
Here’s human rights index. Lots of different ways to measure things, none of them great.
- Comment on Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production 1 week ago:
100+ miles is fine for most any EV. My bolt during the winter was still able to get 200mi+ at 70mph in sub zero F weather. With a home charger it’s fine. It’s road trips that would push further. I’ve found charging adds maybe 25% time to long trips. But that doesn’t seem to be the use case you’re referring to.
- Comment on Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production 2 weeks ago:
Where do you live that it’s often -30? And if you need to drive 300mi to a doctor’s for a medical emergency at that one time if year, do you have someone else you could ask or only drive there and worrying about charging later?
- Comment on Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production 2 weeks ago:
Desalination is also a good way of getting lithium right now, it’s just a bit less cost effective than surface mining dried oceans currently. Maybe if sodium demand also goes up, it’ll be effective to capture desalination salts for both lithium and sodium.
- Comment on You did not escape it by going to Lemmy Shitpost. 2 weeks ago:
We’ve got up votes not likes
- Comment on Why can't people make ai's by making a neuron sim and then scaling it up with a supercomputer to the point where it has a humans number of neurons and then raise it like a human? 2 weeks ago:
We didn’t know which things mechanisms in a nuron are important, and we don’t have anywhere near the computing power to model all of them. We have guesses as to what’s important, and that’s what a lot of modern AI is built on. But because computers have different strengths and weaknesses, we can’t simulate a whole human brain yet.
- Comment on histories mysteries 2 weeks ago:
What’s up with the narrator? He’s got like 20 big channels he reads for. Are the channels connected and run by the same group, or does he host for a bunch of independent channels?
- Comment on Holy Grail 2 weeks ago:
Less phallic than I expected.
- Comment on Why people are boycotting Asus all of a sudden? Asus outrage explained 3 weeks ago:
Videos are the most monetizable way to communicate small amounts of information.
- Comment on Fisker now expects to go bankrupt within 30 days 3 weeks ago:
The power train is the most expensive and largest part of an EV. So stuffing it info a vehicle that isn’t meant for it is pretty tricky. It’s easier if you sacrifice the truck or back seat for batteries, but it’s still hard.
- Comment on Boston Dynamics introduces a fully electric humanoid robot that “exceeds human performance” 4 weeks ago:
Electro mechanical punch accelerators!
- Comment on Long time 4 weeks ago:
By driving at 10mph, you could drive around the entire moon in one day, and it’d still be the same time of day.
(6786mi/29.5days/24h)
- Comment on NASA 4 weeks ago:
Which only allows 1080p streams. That means the highest pixel quality streams of SpaceX launches are from third parties like everyday astronaut.
- Comment on awooga 5 weeks ago:
!superbowl@midwest.social would love this! Looks like it’s already posted!
- Comment on How is the hydrogen made? 5 weeks ago:
Extra solar and wind capacity ideally, but again, I don’t trust BP with that.
- Comment on How is the hydrogen made? 5 weeks ago:
Looks like it’s 27 to 30x over 100 years.
- Comment on How is the hydrogen made? 5 weeks ago:
Great to grab a metric energy density, okay volumetric energy density, great availability, terrible charging efficiency, and complicated handling and storing mechanisms. Lots of tradeoffs.
- Comment on What's inside the London Tower Bridge? 5 weeks ago:
The tower is London is straight up a castle, the tower bridge is newer and is about 5 min walk away.