hobovision

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[–] hobovision@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

I think they mean the "superheavy" (somehow a more stupid name than starship) booster rocket is the most powerful. I'm pretty sure by thrust metrics it is. It's just that the superheavy-starship system can't put much up in LEO because the starship is huge and heavy on its own.

If you put an expendable second stage on top of the superheavy booster instead of a starship it could put a lot more up to LEO.

[–] hobovision@lemm.ee 29 points 1 month ago (4 children)

The horrible AI slop looks so bad if you look at it for longer than a second. Do better yall.

[–] hobovision@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago
  1. Coil stoves get red hot by resistive heating of nichrome, reaching 700-900C, near or above the melting point of most common alloys of aluminum.
  2. Even cheap coil stoves should have a thermal fuse that shuts off the coil if it gets too hot but it could have been disabled or otherwise not prevented heating the aluminum to over 500C
[–] hobovision@lemm.ee 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fr tho the hydration obsession is marketing wank you get you to buy Gatorade, fancy water, water bottles, etc. If you're thirsty, drink water. If you are doing exercise, drink extra water. If you're drinking alcohol, too bad, you're getting a hangover even if you drink a shitload of water because you're in your 30s now.

[–] hobovision@lemm.ee -3 points 1 month ago

I'd argue that it wasn't really "net-positive". Certainly it was a positive energy gain, but it took way more energy to create the fusion than just the input energy. There is a ton of efficiency losses to create the input energy, which is defined by the energy in the laser beam that triggers the fusion. A lot of energy is also used to maintain confinement during the reaction.

I would like the term net positive to be more inclusive of all of the recurring energy used to support the fusion. It's fair to not include the energy used to construct the machines, but anything that would need to be put in to a fusion plant each reaction to get out energy should be considered.

[–] hobovision@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Isn't occams razor the idea that it's stupidity, not malice?

You explain two types of "malice" - one which is primarily driven by a lack of critical thinking and another which is an intentionally planned attack.

Occams razor would say the former is more likely. You may have well said "fuck occams razor I believe it's Russian bots"

[–] hobovision@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This could be really useful for someone who doesn't even realize that there are trains some places, but I think in cases where the train is so much better than flying they should put it at the top:

Chicago to Milwaukee

[–] hobovision@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Bandcamp seems decent but it's got a small and niche catalog.

[–] hobovision@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

One of the concerns I would have with custom ROMs for TVs is that I think a lot of the image processing magic that makes the image look good on these high end displays is done in some proprietary method that the custom ROM wouldn't be able to use. Either in software or in hardware.

The magic of the high end TVs isn't actually in the panel itself as much as in the driving of the panel.

[–] hobovision@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Cut your nose to spite your face then. You'll keep paying for genocide even if you won't "vote for it."

The things you can do are support groups and politicians that will push the country in the direction you want it to move. Really think about what action (or inaction) does for the things that matter to you. You have an opportunity to do something to help reduce overall suffering and make the country and world a slightly better place.

[–] hobovision@lemm.ee 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That part of Chile is almost 100 miles of desert. Croatia is only like 10-20 miles wide in that area!

[–] hobovision@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

So you have three options, all having a bad outcome on the most important thing you care about.

One of the options maybe has better outcomes on some other things you care about.

Another option has bad outcomes in almost everything you care about, plus maybe even a worse outcome to your most important thing.

The third option is to leave it up everyone else to pick between the first two.

I know what I'd pick, what will you do?

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