Addv4
@Addv4@lemmy.world
- Comment on Hood Classic 2 weeks ago:
Thank Mr skeltal!
- Comment on Super Bonsai Entertainment System 3 weeks ago:
Started out with kettle corn and cider. Breakfast of champions! Hope you enjoyed, the garden displays were quite lovely this year.
- Comment on Super Bonsai Entertainment System 3 weeks ago:
Someone else went to the state fair I see.
- Comment on YouTube Shorts can now run up to three minutes 5 weeks ago:
They don’t seem to be: youtu.be/BPWX5MYs5Zk
- Comment on YouTube Shorts can now run up to three minutes 5 weeks ago:
They’ve begun to realize how they’re kinda impossible to really make a profit off of.
- Comment on Three Mile Island nuclear plant set for restart on Microsoft AI power deal 1 month ago:
Truly erasing the carbon footprint for hundreds of miles around!
- Comment on y hello there 1 month ago:
So is it Copper or sulfate?
- Comment on Nice 2 months ago:
Nice.
- Comment on USA | Law enforcement leans on 3D-printer industry to help thwart machine gun conversion devices 2 months ago:
Yeah, but when you are doing that you are basically just comparing to what it can’t be. This would be looking at any possible way to design a mechanism to (for instance) turn a semi auto to a full auto, which is to say having something that can independently look at stuff, automatically redesign them in all of the unexpected ways, and ban those from ever being printed.
- Comment on USA | Law enforcement leans on 3D-printer industry to help thwart machine gun conversion devices 2 months ago:
Yep. Plus, what measures would be required to defeat basic printer blocks? Could it defect differences in tolerance? What if you redesigned an internal part to make the overall print slightly different? It an endless task that doesn’t seem like it will be very useful for anything other than random surveillance.
- Comment on USA | Law enforcement leans on 3D-printer industry to help thwart machine gun conversion devices 2 months ago:
Sounds like they are trying to crack down on people trying to print bump stocks or something. Truly sounds like a damn stupid sisyphisian task that can be used to survail what is being printed on common printers.
- Comment on Swiss Researchers May Have Solved Hydrogen Storage 2 months ago:
Interesting concept, but it’s basically trying to store hydrogen for winter, with up to 60% losses. It’s main advantages are that it’s kinda simple and shouldn’t have a charge/discharge limit, but it’s really just meant for cold climates where you would have a surplus of solar in the summer and you could use it much later, like in the winter. Not gonna be great for grid level storage, to lossy.
- Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election? 2 months ago:
Plus since they are the figurehead of the party, if they are lackluster in their proof it could affect downstream elections.
- Comment on US grid adds batteries at 10x the rate of natural gas in first half of 2024 2 months ago:
Heating/cooling probably, but renovation of older structures is generally expensive and complicated, whereas grid batteries can scale until newer construction (which should be more insulated) can keep up. It’s not an either or, but more of both that will compliment each other as time progresses.
- Comment on US grid adds batteries at 10x the rate of natural gas in first half of 2024 2 months ago:
But then you’re just having another system for storing energy, which probably isn’t very easy to implement. An easier solution if you don’t want to use grid batteries is just to improve housing insulation and schedule heating/cooling for non peak hours, so that you are just using less energy overall. The problem in my mind is that that would require a lot of renovation on older homes, which is just more expensive and slower than adding grid batteries. Don’t get me wrong, those changes should be mandated for newer housing, but expecting it to be implemented in older housing probably isn’t gonna happen.
- Comment on Are there any good critical thinking courses online? 2 months ago:
It’s mostly written for to attract nerds who liked Harry Potter. Hp fanfic can be all over the place, but HPMOR was one of the better ones. Hope it helps!
- Comment on US grid adds batteries at 10x the rate of natural gas in first half of 2024 2 months ago:
There are plenty of alternatives for lithium batteries, chiefly sodium and a redox flow. Heating/cooling is good as well to store, but not every structure is energy efficient enough that it would make much sense. Good thing to work towards, but grid batteries would probably be faster and easier to implement. I have reservations towards pumped hydropower, in part due to watching how hard it is to decommission a lot of hydroelectric dams these days in US as well as the cost to create the areas to hold the water (a lot of the areas that are geographically advantageous for pumped hydropower tend to be nature reserves or national parks, soo…).
- Comment on Are there any good critical thinking courses online? 2 months ago:
I’ve heard from some of the people I recommend it to that they didn’t like it, so it’s very much a ymmv thing. I remember it because it actually made me question my religion with some of the points discussed, which got the ball rolling towards becoming an atheist.
- Comment on Are there any good critical thinking courses online? 2 months ago:
Not really a course, but Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is a pretty good fanfic made with the intent of teaching critical logic concepts and logical fallacies to the reader. I found it a good read, and even if you might dislike some of the literary choices made (Harry makes fast friends with Malfoy, etc), it does cover most of the stuff in a critical thinking textbook in a somewhat approachable manner. It’s free, and you can read chapter by chapter if you just want to give it a glance.
- Comment on Japan vs. Manga Piracy: $800m Losses & 100 New Pirate Sites in One Month 2 months ago:
Yeah. A lot of those sites are actually translating them, often from donations by the users. I doubt anyone is getting well paid on the unofficial sites, as when they translations a lot of people flock to those as they are often higher quality images as well.
- Comment on All junk 3 months ago:
It’s a lot more rare for sure. Some still do have nice stuff, but it’s much, much more of shitshow than it used to be. Unfortunately not many independent thrift stores around me, and the fee that are generally have nice deals even less often than goodwill.
- Comment on may you live in interesting times 3 months ago:
“Looks at current price of sugar” - Lemon juice it is!
- Comment on AVP has yet to sell 100k units 3 months ago:
Also very, very obviously an open beta.
- Comment on World's largest sodium-ion battery goes into operation - Energy Storage 4 months ago:
Because I rent an apartment, thus can’t add a socket. I had a coworker trying to get them added our work parking lot, but to no avail.
- Comment on World's largest sodium-ion battery goes into operation - Energy Storage 4 months ago:
Oh, I don’t doubt it’s possible, but getting the avg person there is the issue. At my milage, if I really absolutely wanted to go electric, an ebike would frankly be a better option (admittedly, much harder to haul stuff, much less safe, and annoying during the summer which is very hot in my area) for low range stuff. Phev Hybrids are a decent option, but again, if you don’t have a place to charge at night a lot of the benefits are neglected. Not gonna lie, I do actually suspect that that will change in the next 10 years, as tesla have finally hit critical mass I my area, and they are much cheaper to fuel, something that isn’t highlighted enough in my opinion. And I suspect that sodium batteries will more than likely cause it. Having something incredibly cheap to drive is more than likely what will turn the tide of evs, and it is why I am very annoyed that Chinese evs aren’t being imported into the US without insane tarriffs. Once cheap evs are common, the need for charging might actually get some real notice. That being said, I think my considerations aren’t very far off from the concerns of many buying cars right now, and at the current moment those without a range of at least 200 miles are a much harder sell (and why lower range vehicles don’t seem to sell on the used market).
- Comment on World's largest sodium-ion battery goes into operation - Energy Storage 4 months ago:
I live about 5 miles from work. I usually drive about 20 miles a day, so about 140 a week. I also rent an apt where there are no options for a charger. I considered a mini Cooper se and even a fiat 500e for a bit (it’s really cheap when you can find it), but once I looked my driving, I was only going to be comfortable with a 200 mile range for the occasional (once or twice a month) trips that are 100 miles one way. While chargers along the trip might be available, most times I’ve seen them they are clearly broken (provided it isn’t tesla, which seems to repair them). I do live in a city, but even then the 100 miles range would be tough to accommodate. Not saying impossible (I’ve seen electric mustangs and electric Chevrolets in my apartment), but a range of 100 miles is a lot less feasible for most than I think the data suggests, although that might also be fine if charging was faster.
- Comment on World's largest sodium-ion battery goes into operation - Energy Storage 4 months ago:
That’s assuming you don’t have issues charging at where you live, which is a pretty big if for a lot of people. A 300 Mi charge would mean if you can’t charge daily, you would be able to go a couple of days without having to do so.
- Comment on Perfection 4 months ago:
Or a crocodile.
- Comment on How would you decorate this room? 5 months ago:
Figure out how to add lights to the fan to create a low poly spinning racoon meme to be able to tolerate the room.
- Comment on iPad Pro with M4 chip boasts impressive performance jump compared to just-released M3 MacBook Air 5 months ago:
I have an X380, it’s pretty decent for what it is. Sure, there are plenty of things I’d change (ram slots instead of soldered, 3:2 or 4:3 aspect ratio for the touch screen, maybe a bit lighter) but later gens actually have a few of those improvements. It’s not really a great replacement for an ipad, but it’s a pretty decent work machine (provided you don’t need a ton of power or ram).