14th_cylon

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14th_cylon , (edited )

Are those two things actually important?

yes, they are. they make difference between actually usable technology and engineer's dream.

Electric motors are a lot more efficient, and battery technology is quickly approaching the place where you can get the same range with an electric motor as with an ICE.

i doubt we even have enough rare metals for 8 or 16 billion batteries. most of them are being mined in politically unstable or to western civilization unfriendly countries, with terrible effect on the environment.

efficiency matters, it is not a question of how good single battery is.

As for refuel rate, I spend no time waiting for my car to charge because it charges at home while I’m sleeping, so the refuel rate doesn’t matter.

oh good. YOU have it solved, so the rest of the world does not matter, i assume...? fuck all these people, right?

https://i.imgur.com/krFICor.png

14th_cylon ,

Fuel density doesn’t matter, what matters is how far you can drive on a charge.

Charge time doesn’t matter if you can swap a battery in 3 minutes instead of waiting to charge.

  1. they matter for the reason i explained. you are acting like we can simply build as much batteries as we want, which is not true
  2. and change them as conveniently as filling up the gas tank, which is also not true.
  3. and the whole "just swap the battery" concept leads to need of more batteries -> go to (1)

Also you’re ignoring that fossil fuels are also dug out of the ground

i am not, i am not defending fossil fuel, i am just pointing out that the ev concept has problems that are not widely talked about.

just because some other strategy has problems doesn't mean your strategy is problem free.

14th_cylon ,

your beef is with internal combustion engine, not with the car.

14th_cylon ,

private planes are much more dangerous, being almost as dangerous per mile as a regular car

that is because they are operated by semi-competent people who often have less practice then they have in car.

imagine how competent driver you are when you have your fresh license. it is the same with piloting license. and now imagine you are a hobby pilot and can afford to spend in the cockpit 3 hours per month. your skill is not really going to get significantly better. you are probably flying airplane that is at the end of its life, because that is only one you can afford, and there may be no one keeping an eye on you telling you "this is not how we do it, it is risky, dangerous, and you will get someone killed".

14th_cylon ,

ok, that's fair, never thought of that...

14th_cylon , (edited )

bon apetit. when you are done, i will donate one million dollars to charity of your choice. i don't have one million dollars. i will still honor my promise.

there is 2^64 - 1 (roughly 5.53 * 10^17 1,84 × 10^19) grains of rice on the board.

according to google, grain of rice averages at about 30 miligrams (per random google result), which makes the rice on the board to weigh about 553 402 322 211 metric tons.

The total world rice production for 2022 was 776 461 457 metric tonnes (per wiki).

((2^64−1) × 0.03) / (10^6) / 776461457 = 712,72

so there is about 712 times as much rice as the whole earth's 2022 rice production.

this is why it is important to understand basic math in school, even if you don't plan to become a scientist.

because then the covid comes, and all these university of life graduates with their youtube research and common sense have absolutely no idea how fast the exponential curve is growing and what it means for the spread of the illness.

i understand you might have known this and being sarcastic with your post.

14th_cylon ,

This seems wrong…

10^17 milligrams

(2^64−1) × 0.03 = 5.53 × 10^17 is weight in grams.

but i had an error in the second paragraph where i said this number is number of grains.

the ultimate result (712 times the annual production) is correct.

sorry for the confusion and thx for catching that.

How to pass low voltage ethernet cables through drywall with insulation

Hello everyone, I am pulling my home’s existing ethernet cables from the garage and into my home to install a network rack. Currently my garage does not have insulation (for a future project), so it get’s too hot during summer for my router to live there, so I want to install it in my mudroom where there is insulation. My...

14th_cylon ,

the smaller the hole, the smaller the heat transfer. you can also fill it with some kind of montage foam, once the cables are through.

14th_cylon ,

the thing that actually happens when you get hit by such a large object going at such a speed is that either stars or birds start circling around your head

and what do you think these circling stars do to others? they just further hurt anything in close proximity. have you considered that?

14th_cylon ,

the only issue there is is you have to install the panel during night, it is quite hot there during the day.

On Coining a New Term ( kbin.social )

Edit: alright I'm sticking this up here because a number of people seem confused--this post isn't trying to convince you that "fediverse" is a bad term--rather it's a discussion of why I think "threadiverse" is a good umbrella term, for the forum-based part of the fediverse specifically. (lemmy+kbin)...

14th_cylon ,

did you seriously wrote like a million paragraphs to explain why it is crucial to start saying “threadiverse” because “fediverse” is bad? 🤣

14th_cylon ,

I think their explanation is valid and important

you mean this explanation?

TL:DR: “Threadiverse”: Thread+Universe+Diverse+Fediverse+Threadiverse

i think it is a joke. people who are staying on reddit right now are doing that because they don’t care about fediverse and are still happy with scrolling through w/e they are scrolling on reddit right now. if that changes in the future, it is not going to be because someone changes fediverse to threadiverse.

Early adopters not caring about branding is one of the reasons their software stays in a minority

that is absolute nonsense. it is the product that makes the brand, not the other way around. if you have good product, you will make word-class brand from random mix of characters like “google”. if you have bad product, no brand is going to help you.

that is not to say that fediverse is bad product, it is purely comment on people overestimating the almighty brand.

14th_cylon ,

I’m not saying that it’s vital we have a good name to sum up this segment of the fediverse for it to succeed; I’m saying it’ll probably succeed faster if we have one.

i am saying it does not matter. people go to buy/use product or service because it is good product, not becaus it has nice name.

beside, i question your idea that threadiverse is for some strange reason better than fediverse. it is longer, harder to pronounciate and write, and people really do not care whether it is somehow mix of four different words.

14th_cylon ,

perhaps I wasn’t clear enough; but I’m not saying fediverse is a bad term that needs replacing; nor am I saying the threadiverse won’t succeed if it’s not called the threadiverse– I’m saying that fediverse is a broad term that encompasses all of the connected sites here; not just the thread-based forum ones–it’s a broad umbrella term, and a good one.

i get that part, but i am saying that the name is not a reason why people did or did not came here and will have zero name on the speed of the migration.

people who are here now are mostly people who are fans of opensource and were willing to go through the birth problems because of that. they did not came because of the name.

the rest of the people will number of their friends here reach some critical mass for them to notice.

you have live example of this in musk trying to rebrand twitter right now. he thinks he will change the clusterfuck he created by changing the name, but he doesn’t get that name is not the problem and will have zero effect.

unless you have real name for changing the brand (like two companies merged and you want the branding to reflect that), changing the brand is usually desperate act of clueless manager who just doesn’t have better idea.

You’re perfectly entitled to disagree, but I’d appreciate it if you didn’t try to shut down productive discussion just because you personally don’t see the need for more specific terminology.

  1. having opposite opinion is not "shutting down the discussion"
  2. you are overestimating my powers - i can guarantee that people will say their piece without regards to what i did or did not say ;)
14th_cylon OP ,

i almost feel sorry for that yellow fruit that is going to die horrible death 😞

https://i.imgur.com/1W4RXjj.png

14th_cylon ,

the prevailing opinion seems to be that we should promo “fuck spez” and it is already underway 😆

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