JohnDClay
@JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on What if the Earth rotated 90 degrees? 18 hours ago:
That’s also a great demonstration of how map projections distort things.
- Comment on Trump hits UK with 10% tariffs as he ignites global trade war 19 hours ago:
This is actually the lowest of the tariffs, a blanket 10% on every country except those that are higher. It’s crazy. I wonder if this’ll kill anything not coming direct to consumer under the de minimis threshold. Unless they go though with eliminating that too.
- Comment on Israel’s Genocide Has Reportedly Killed More Journalists Than WWI and WWII Combined 1 day ago:
Fewer than 232 journalists were killed in WWI and WWII? 50 to 57 million civilians were killed in WWII, were fewer than 200 of them journalists? I can’t find the total number of journalists in 1940, but with that number you could estimate the percentage of the population and multiply by 50M.
- Comment on Ernie 4 days ago:
I was expecting projectile vomit to fling everywhere.
- Comment on UK greenhouse gases fall again - as renewable electricity hits 50% for the first time 6 days ago:
Their emissions per capita are skyrocketing, but their emissions per gdp and emissions per kwh are going down. The country is still developing, so it’s energy demand is going up. At least it doesn’t have large fossil fuel reserves, so pushes them towards renewables.
- Comment on UK greenhouse gases fall again - as renewable electricity hits 50% for the first time 6 days ago:
Looks like this is actual energy produced, rather than capacity. That’s impressive
- Comment on What phones are the government people using that are supposedly secure enough to discuss war plans? iPhone? Android? Some special custom-made phone specifically for the government? 1 week ago:
They have high side computers they referenced, those are specially vetted. These phones shouldn’t have had sensitive info on them. If the operating system or an app had a screen recorder or key logger, you’d have a leak, even if the encryption is secure. Plus there’s the physical vulnerability of people seeing it in public or losing the phone.
- Comment on 92.5% of New Power Capacity Added Worldwide in 2024 Was from Renewables - CleanTechnica 1 week ago:
If those both are true, that’d mean the green energy has a really abysmal utilization factor (power generated to installed capacity ratio). I think it’d imply a utilization factor of 0.038. I thought it was closer to 0.37 for wind and 0.25 for solar. Maybe there’s a difference in what each is counting as renewable? Or how they’re continuing non renewable production capacity?
92.5x/7.5=32/67, x=0.038
- Comment on How to delete your 23andMe data 1 week ago:
Why do they retain your genetic information? Isn’t that the whole point to get rid of that? What do they delete then if they keep everything of importance?
- Comment on c/complexity - a community focused on Complexity and systems thinking on Lemmy.World 1 week ago:
Thanks! I guess it’s the super category of things like control theory and model based systems engineering?
- Comment on c/complexity - a community focused on Complexity and systems thinking on Lemmy.World 1 week ago:
A more full description would be appreciated, I still have no idea what it’s about. Is this a philosophy? A field of mathematics? A physics concept?
- Comment on LAN (local area network) games 1 week ago:
Oh yeah, I remember now. It wasn’t registering the IP. But yeah there should be a way, I was just having technical issues with it.
- Comment on LAN (local area network) games 1 week ago:
I didn’t see a way to set it up on Java without running a local server. Is there? I prefer Java, but it seemed like a lot of hours of work to get a server set up.
- Comment on LAN (local area network) games 1 week ago:
Minecraft bedrock works over lan, I enjoy playing with my brother. Not exactly pvp though…
- Comment on YSK that some governments have technology known as Directed-energy weapons such as Long-range acoustic device and Active Denial System... (continue in post) 2 weeks ago:
Tech ingredients has some interesting videos on microwave crowd control weapons, and how to defeat them. It’s mostly metal mesh in your cloths or a shield.
- Comment on Untraceable airplanes 3 weeks ago:
C5 Galaxy big Jets? Private jet sized Lear Jets? 737 type refueler jets?
- Comment on Untraceable airplanes 3 weeks ago:
What type of aircraft were they?
- Comment on In first, private US spaceship lands upright on Moon 4 weeks ago:
So this lander was funded by NASA. It’s also increasing the access to space my making it cheaper and more payload capacity. I don’t see how keeping a NASA monopoly increases access to space.
- Comment on Bloomberg - Are you a robot? 4 weeks ago:
As I understand it, profit is price minus costs. Profit margin is the percentage of the cost that is profit. So I don’t see how they’re getting more profit out than the total price? Are they counting extra value from selling or training on the prompt data?
- Comment on In first, private US spaceship lands upright on Moon 4 weeks ago:
Love the upright qualifier, since the last one fell over.
- Comment on In first, private US spaceship lands upright on Moon 4 weeks ago:
Yeah I think decontamination is standard. But why is this bad for public space exploration?
- Comment on [Video] Mozilla lost touch with reality; how becoming rich through failure stunts mental & emotional growth 4 weeks ago:
And just backwards comparability. Web developers aren’t going to fix their old site for your new browser, so you’d need to use the ancient convoluted code base to access them.
Unless you’re okay with only using the big new websites. Is it most people only use 4 websites regularly?
- Comment on A new study found adaptive traffic signals powered by big data reduced peak-hour travel times by 11% in China’s 100 most congested cities – saving 31.73 million tonnes of CO₂ annually. 4 weeks ago:
It’s infuriating when a light turns red while only a few of the cars have gone though, makes sense a more inte to intelligent algorithm would be more efficient.
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 4 weeks ago:
We’d need to break the speed of light, which isn’t possible with our current understanding of physics, but who knows.
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 4 weeks ago:
Not till the heat death of the universe.
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 4 weeks ago:
You could also use a wormhole to travel to different universes. It breaks the speed of light, so all bets are off.
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 4 weeks ago:
It’d be interesting to see what a log scale would look like for this. I’ll see if I can find one.
Here’s one.
Log scale diagram of the observable universe pablocarlosbudassi.com/…/atlas-of-universe-is-lin…
Looks like the image at the top is a bit condensed comparatively.
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 4 weeks ago:
The edge of the observable universe is moving away from us faster than the speed of light from our perspective. (Due to space stretching) So we’d need to go faster than the speed of light to catch up.
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 4 weeks ago:
If we assume the hubble constant is the same in all directions, the farthest we’d be able to see would be a sphere, dictated by the time light has had to travel to us.
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 4 weeks ago:
Is the radial scale logarithmic? Or is it even more compressed than that?
