SideburnsOfDoom

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by SideburnsOfDoom 4d ago
They could just unplug the network cable? No internet connection, problem over. IDK, this whole hype seems painfully obtuse.
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by SideburnsOfDoom 6d ago
> Can't we accelerate past 1G constantly? It's hard to accelerate at or beyond 1G for very long with current technology. Roughly speaking, the rocket runs out of fuel soon. Packing more fuel makes the rocket heavier, meaning di
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by SideburnsOfDoom 7d ago
3) article is paywalled. Yeah, I know they can be bypassed, but it's yet more friction, not worth it for a really dubious headline.
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by SideburnsOfDoom 7d ago
Cstross certainly did say that in 2017. > I'm talking about the very old, very slow AIs we call corporations, of course. https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/dude-yo...
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by SideburnsOfDoom 7d ago
> running generator to charge battery to drive the wheels is somehow better than just driving wheels directly In some ways it is, yes. The engine design is not the same, it doesn't need gearbox, variable power output etc to charge b
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by SideburnsOfDoom 7d ago
2 things can be true: the 2011 Volt would be classified as an EREV, and "your average hybrid" would not. No, this design is not totally new. Despite the article implying this.
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by SideburnsOfDoom 7d ago
> Wait, how does one of these new extended range EV’s have the complexity of both systems because it obviously has both a battery+electric motor system and a gasoline storage+ICE motor system? It has both systems. It can only be much mo
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by SideburnsOfDoom 7d ago
This is EREV (Extended-Range Electric Vehicle) where the fossil fuel engine is used solely to charge the battery, as opposed to a PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle) where it can also drive the wheels. Either way, the cost is that the ve
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by SideburnsOfDoom 13d ago
gambling in the UK "as destructive and predatory as it is in the US" is not something that I have a measure for, and anyway it is the wrong measure. Even if that is true, UK gambling really is not a force for good, quite the oppo
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by SideburnsOfDoom 13d ago
> redundancy comes from multiple independent fuel tanks. And in larger aircraft, multiple independent engines. See for instance ETOPS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETOPS From the pictures, I see that this new aircr
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by SideburnsOfDoom 13d ago
It is the British English use of the word "knobhead" ?
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by SideburnsOfDoom 14d ago
And also being a person of colour, which is tough in the "hard-line social conservative" lane, where that is often a negative with those voters. Against another person of colour, who could pick up the other voters for whom it is a
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by SideburnsOfDoom 14d ago
Sure, but wait for 2028.
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by SideburnsOfDoom 14d ago
> don't think that's true it all. It's not true of them all, but it definitely is true of at least some of them. I know this because I heard it said in those words in a vox pops interview shortly before the Brexit vote.
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by SideburnsOfDoom 14d ago
> almost unheard of in the US for an elected politician to poll lower than 30%, it seems to be a floor Alan Keyes apparently set the floor at 27%, which is not far below 30% > Obama vs. Alan Keyes. ... Keyes was plainly, obviously, c
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by SideburnsOfDoom 14d ago
I disagree not because "brainwashed MAGA crowd" but because people saying "it can't be worse" are almost always wrong. Unless you're starving in the ruins of your house in one of the world's war zones, in
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by SideburnsOfDoom 17d ago
Agreed, though the other point is that the larger charging system (battery, charger, grid etc) being the bottleneck in need of optimisation is not typical. It happens, but not every time. For overnight charging, you want L2 and usually the
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by SideburnsOfDoom 20d ago
I agree with this, there does seem to be a volume and tone about AC that seems inauthentic (in general, not specifically on this site) Yes, AC is harder in old building with solid walls as is common in UK & Europe. We have a portable A
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by SideburnsOfDoom 22d ago
> related battery articles over the last decade. All of them promise new and magically. None have upturned the market Yeah but nah. I think there are at least 2 things going on 1) articles tend to hype. 2) Only a small percent of &quot
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by SideburnsOfDoom 22d ago
> If not, the charging is not done correctly For some value of "correct" but not others. For EV's, most of the time, the "correct" thing to do is to plug it in overnight, and let the software do the rest to optim
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by SideburnsOfDoom 24d ago
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49406021 Curiously, this other submission is listed as 8 hours prior, yet at the time I submitted, I first checked and could not find any other submission. I had no intent to s
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The USA's real Covid-19 scandal is still unfolding(economist.com)
6 points by SideburnsOfDoom 24d ago|1 comments
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by SideburnsOfDoom 24d ago
"I'm one of the few people you'll meet who's written more books than they've read." - The Great Garth Marenghi https://www.garthmarenghi.com/about/ (If you're unfamiliar, it's a
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by SideburnsOfDoom 25d ago
> Not with 50%+ of the country supporting this administration That's not even close to an accurate number now. There are many sources e.g. (1) It's a shame that people mostly learn the hard way, and forget easily. But that&#x27
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by SideburnsOfDoom 27d ago
Given a population of people, you should aim to change some peoples minds. Indeed in a democracy it is important to get a majority or plurality in agreement. But you cannot hope to change everyone's minds, and so that should not be a
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by SideburnsOfDoom 28d ago
> Iron is iron. How is it different that it "came from a meteorite?" Actual metals are never 100% pure any one element. There are always alloys and impurities that speak to it's origins and history. e.g. "The signifi
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by SideburnsOfDoom 28d ago
I want you to travel with half a gallon of gasoline (i.e. 2 litres of petrol) in your hold and/or hand luggage. See how that goes for you. And yet, people travel with one or often more than one battery devices as a matter of utterly un
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by SideburnsOfDoom 28d ago
The USA has Mr Vermin Supreme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermin_Supreme
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by SideburnsOfDoom 28d ago
> The thing is most of those people made rational objections. The problem is their reasoning was based on false information. This is how Typhoid Mary understood her status: > It did not take Mary long to react to this suggestion. She
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by SideburnsOfDoom 28d ago
"A civil conversation about my statement" quite. I'm not buying it and you shouldn't be selling it.

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