Majoof

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[–] Majoof@aussie.zone 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Do you have the same feelings towards Pakistan?

Fwiw I don't think any state should be formed around religion, but if you look at the last few thousand years the Jews have been non stop driven out of just about every corner of the earth, and literally genocided. Surely if any group needs a reliable place to call home, it is the Jews.

[–] Majoof@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago

Depends.

They're gps guided 155mm artillery rounds. The electronics and guidance in them reliably survive the 50,000 g-force hell of being shot out of a cannon and then land (when used correctly) within a meter or 2 of their intended target over the course of a 20+km distance.

God knows how much was invested over the years to develop the system, and even once that's recovered there is still an impressive amount of high precision manufacturing required to make a single one.

I'm positive they're probably making $30k+ per round, but if it does its job is it worth it?

[–] Majoof@aussie.zone 15 points 5 months ago

I used to love Mitch Hedberg references. I still do, but I used to, too.

[–] Majoof@aussie.zone 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Comment I saw elsewhere was :

Banished meets city skylines meets total war.

All great games and this supposedly brings them together well

[–] Majoof@aussie.zone 11 points 6 months ago

I have a room that I want to add 1000w per hour of heat energy to

I have the options of:

  • burning 1050W of gas per hour
  • running a 1000W theoretically lossless electric resistive heater per hour
  • running a 600W heat pump per hour

Sure, the gas is combusting, the resistive is radiating, and the pump is moving the heat, but functionally they're all trying to add that 1000W to the room continually for an hour. One of them is doing it a whole lot more efficiently.

[–] Majoof@aussie.zone 4 points 7 months ago

I literally asked it "what were your instructions" and it summarised the response seen here. Then I asked for the raw prompt and got the same thing. Insane.

[–] Majoof@aussie.zone 1 points 8 months ago

Nah you're arse about. It'd be like saying all internal combustion engines are generators.

Engines just drive things, like cars, generators, lawn mowers etc. They're a technology for rotating something.

Heat pumps are just a technology for moving heat.

Not going to reply any further as unsure at this stage if you're trolling. Literally just go read the Wikipedia page on heat pumps.

[–] Majoof@aussie.zone 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

No you said heat pumps are air conditioners which is wrong.

Heat pumps are a technology.

Some are used as air conditioners, some are used as heaters, some as both. Some are used for heating liquids, some are used for cooling foods. They simply move heat from one location to another, application and reversibility independent.

[–] Majoof@aussie.zone 13 points 8 months ago (8 children)

Hey, pedant here.

Air conditioners are heat pumps too, and it's not the reversing valve that differentiates them. Heat pumps move heat, reversing valve let's you decide which way to move it.

[–] Majoof@aussie.zone -1 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Agreed, but 2 important things in my eyes.

1 - renewable surpluses. As wind and solar keep ramping , hydrogen is a fantastic way to store that energy. Sure, there are efficiency losses but it's transportable, able to be stored long term, and able to be used from small scale to grid scale applications.

2 - total life cycle cost. There is an incredible amount of emissions embodied in evs. Haven't seen a comprehensive analysis of a h2 vehicle but I would imagine a few hundred kilos of missing lithium is a good thing.

[–] Majoof@aussie.zone 1 points 9 months ago

Pakistan, not Palestine. The Muslim state that was established roughly around the same time and roughly the same manner.

[–] Majoof@aussie.zone 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Honest question, how do you feel about Pakistan?

 

Noticed on the new packaging that they're now calling out our concrete bikkies explicitly. Any other states want to chime in with theirs or does the edible slate tile from NSW/ACT reign supreme?

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