JohnDClay
@JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Trump to get $25 million in settlement with Meta 16 hours ago:
Is this just a bribe?
- Comment on Will solar panels overrun farmland? The two are more likely to coexist. 5 days ago:
I heard from a solar installer a while ago that most of their panels on northern areas are bi-facial, since they get noticable efficiency improvements from light reflected off the snow.
- Comment on [sh.it.post] We're #5! We're #5! 1 week ago:
I’m surprised lemmy.ml isn’t on there, it seems really big from my limited experience.
- Comment on The State of Lemmy (drama) 2 weeks ago:
My impression is that Lemmy has a sizable demographic of people whose communities have been banned from Reddit. I’m thinking hexbear especially, but a lot of .ml and others too. Several violently pro communism anti west groups. (I have a theory that they’ve been defusing to other instances too, but idk.) I think that’s part of the reason why you get so much America bad rhetoric.
- Comment on Beijing slams US over potential Chinese drone ban 3 weeks ago:
What does slams even mean in this context? Made a vaguely worded threat? That word is so useless in modern reporting.
- Comment on Chicago keeps its New Year's resolution: All city buildings now use 100 percent clean power 3 weeks ago:
Nuclear, Illinois is over half nuclear. Great for base load.
- Comment on Chicago keeps its New Year's resolution: All city buildings now use 100 percent clean power 4 weeks ago:
It’s a lot easier to go green when you use 50% nuclear. Great to hear.
- Comment on The Economy and the Environment are two sides of the same coin. 4 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t call it zero sum. I would think of that as more determent to the environment would always be more profitable. But in reality, some industries, like fossil fuels, agriculture, and mining have an outsized impact compared to things like software development, craftsmanship like watch making, and media.
- Comment on bird flu 4 weeks ago:
Do we have an effective bird flue vaccine yet? The trouble is the couple of years before one is created.
- Comment on Putin vows 'destruction' on Ukraine after Kazan drone attack 5 weeks ago:
He should be happy Ukraine is denazifying Russia.
- Comment on sampling bias 2 months ago:
Which means 0.2% lied
- Comment on I made this animation of a Brain Slug 2 months ago:
Poor thing starved to death
- Comment on In 4 years, US power grid increased battery storage to the equivalent of 20 nuclear reactors | The Optimist Daily 2 months ago:
Energy capacity is in kWh, discharge capacity would be in W.
- Comment on Stop Wasting Pumpkins! 2 months ago:
Planter doesn’t work very well, they shrivel and rot within a few weeks.
- Comment on Is it cheaper to use a plug-in oil radiator to eat an individual room, or run the central heater to heat an individual room and living room? 2 months ago:
Okay, that’s resistive heating. So it’ll be the same efficiency as a oil heater or any space heater. So heating less space with it will save money.
- Comment on Is it cheaper to use a plug-in oil radiator to eat an individual room, or run the central heater to heat an individual room and living room? 2 months ago:
Most all forms of heating are near 100% efficient, since it’s the waste heat you want. Unless the central heating is using a heat pump instead. Does your central heating use gas heating? If so, using it will probably be cheaper. If it uses resistive heating, the individual unit might be cheaper. But if it uses a heat pump, it might be cheaper to use central again. There are a lot of variables it’s hard to know.
- Comment on Source: Father, H. , Son, H. Spirit, H. (2024). Visions from God 2 months ago:
Source it like this:
- Comment on We are at the Wolfenstein stage of capital. 2 months ago:
I’m sure they have side effects, but I’d think that’d be better than breaking teeth.
- Comment on We are at the Wolfenstein stage of capital. 2 months ago:
Apparently that’s better for the teeth? It’d be the attack training that wears them down.
- Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second 3 months ago:
Sometimes it requires Wi-Fi for setup. In that case, change the Wi-Fi password after you set it up.
- Comment on Square! 4 months ago:
- Comment on Inaccuracies 4 months ago:
Here’s a podcast from the show writers on the compromises and consolidations they needed to do for the mini series.
- Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 4 months ago:
Linus didn’t say piracy is theft to my knowledge. He pirates a bunch of games.
- Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 4 months ago:
You have I have very different ideas of tech illiterate. Most of the hosts have forgotten more than I care to learn. I guess if you work very technical tech stuff 24-7 you have a higher standard.
- Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 4 months ago:
That’s the way that yields the longest combined watch time from the audience.
Do they go back and change thumbnails after a while? LTT does focus on a lot of evergreen content as well.
- Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 4 months ago:
The only thing they could have done better was have the third party release the report. I don’t think they released it yet, but they had intended to at one point. Maybe the lawyers told them they shouldn’t?
- Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 4 months ago:
I wonder if those are less likely to be blocked on networks.
- Comment on China and Philippines trade blame as ships collide 4 months ago:
It’s a game of chicken, but I’d blame China as they’re the ones trying to expand their maritime claims into the Philippines waters.
- Comment on Apple, Nvidia Are in Talks to Invest in OpenAI 4 months ago:
They were supposed to be when they started, but I think they closed up pretty fast once there was money to be made.
- Comment on New York Times 1924, Hitler leaves prison 5 months ago:
