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Comment on Donald Trump administration moves to cut off transgender care for US children in ~lgbt
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Comment on EU drops 2035 combustion engine ban as global electric vehicle shift faces reset in ~transport
PuddleOfKittens Link ParentIn light of @skybrian's comment bringing up the subject of cars in cities, I have a radical proposal for a far, far greater efficiency improvement: Lower the speed limit to 30KM/h. Air resistance...The biggest efficiency improvements are from more aerodynamic vehicles.
solar stuff
In light of @skybrian's comment bringing up the subject of cars in cities, I have a radical proposal for a far, far greater efficiency improvement:
Lower the speed limit to 30KM/h.
Air resistance goes up proportional to speed squared IIRC, so halving the speed from the typical 60KM/h will reduce drag 4x. Reducing speed also reduces the stress on the vehicle, permitting it to be far lighter, and also massively reduces the danger of crashes - which permits even more weight be stripped out (from safety-feature overbuilding to handle a total of 120KM/h speed difference in a 60KM/h zone), while still being far safer.
There's also less need to overbuild the engine to handle 0-60 in 3 seconds flat, when you're only going up to 30. This permits even more efficiency gains - both from lighter engines, and from more engines that don't have to optimize across a wider range of speeds, and thus are more efficient at the speeds they do operate at.
And of course, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts - having less motor/batteries means the whole car is lighter, which means it can have a lighter frame, which means it can have even less motor/batteries.
And lastly, once far lower power draw is needed, solar becomes a major factor and can displace a substantial portion of the battery!
A car with a max speed of 30KM/h has a cost of <$1k. Less power usage both reduces costs, and also reduces the needed infrastructure - if you can rely heavily enough on solar, you might not even need to plug in the car!
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Comment on EU drops 2035 combustion engine ban as global electric vehicle shift faces reset in ~transport
PuddleOfKittens Link ParentThe magnets are optional, even - you can do all sorts of fun things with electromagnets. Also you can literally pull the electric motor out of a washing machine and use it in a car.They're not. At all. They're far less complicated than an ICE engine. Wind some wire around a stator, slap some magnets on a rotor, apply voltage and you get locomotion.
The magnets are optional, even - you can do all sorts of fun things with electromagnets.
Also you can literally pull the electric motor out of a washing machine and use it in a car.
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Comment on Your grocery store is a bewildering sea of overly processed food. Here’s why and what to do. in ~health
PuddleOfKittens Link ParentIMO it's honestly insane that we expect everyone to cook. We have a perfectly functional professionalized model - restaurants. A restaurant chef cooking a huge-ass dish to feed 10+ people at a...IMO it's honestly insane that we expect everyone to cook. We have a perfectly functional professionalized model - restaurants. A restaurant chef cooking a huge-ass dish to feed 10+ people at a time will basically inevitably be more efficient than every single, couple, or family of 4 cooking their own tiny little meal. Instead, we have restaurants charging high prices for one of several dozen different meals, which has no real economy of scale.
Half the problem is the standard saving-money advice of "cook your own meals!", which is basically grassroots austerity, and just as bad as regular government-policy austerity - decreasing market participation destroys jobs, drives the remaining sellers upmarket and destroys economy of scale. Fuck austerity.
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Comment on How NVIDIA turned 'gaming GPUs go brrr' into 'actually we can read the language of life now' (part 1 of 2) in ~science
PuddleOfKittens Link ParentFWIW I just copied the title directly.FWIW I just copied the title directly.
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Comment on The Windows 11 crisis in ~tech
PuddleOfKittens Link ParentMaybe edit the title and also add "link in comments", or even ping @deimos to just modify the post if you can't do it yourself. Seriously, @herson just mis-used the system, and made a self-post... -
Comment on How NVIDIA turned 'gaming GPUs go brrr' into 'actually we can read the language of life now' (part 1 of 2) in ~science
PuddleOfKittens Link^_^^_^
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How NVIDIA turned 'gaming GPUs go brrr' into 'actually we can read the language of life now' (part 1 of 2)
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Comment on The Windows 11 crisis in ~tech
PuddleOfKittens LinkTitle: The Windows 11 Crisis (by Cold Fusion)- Exemplary
Title: The Windows 11 Crisis (by Cold Fusion)
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Comment on Twenty years of digital life, gone in an instant, thanks to Apple in ~tech
PuddleOfKittens Link ParentI tried to set up Samba on my NAS and I couldn't get it to work - I can't tell whether it's Samba breaking, the dolphin integration that's breaking, or the connection between the two that's...A basic Linux box with Samba and whatever other basic file sharing daemon is pretty turnkey after you’ve set it up so long as your distro doesn’t push breaking updates (looking at you, Ubuntu).
I tried to set up Samba on my NAS and I couldn't get it to work - I can't tell whether it's Samba breaking, the dolphin integration that's breaking, or the connection between the two that's breaking. To be fair it might be easier if I didn't try to do it with Nix. I've been ignoring the thing since I moved and got stuck with a horribly misconfigured router from 2010 and I haven't switched on my NAS in a year or so.
Ironically I chose Nix because I wanted a Linux server that would be fairly turnkey (and very stable - I love the idea of Nix, and if I wait long enough for someone to write the documentation then it might work out well in practice, too).
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Comment on Twenty years of digital life, gone in an instant, thanks to Apple in ~tech
PuddleOfKittens Link ParentThe problem is that it takes time, and every anti-corporate timesink you dive into means less time for all the other anti-corporate timesinks needed to avoid other corporate ratfucking.It's your data you want to save, it is up to you to do it.
The problem is that it takes time, and every anti-corporate timesink you dive into means less time for all the other anti-corporate timesinks needed to avoid other corporate ratfucking.
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Comment on The iconic ‘Home Alone’ house is being renovated by its new owner (The interior is being restored to match its appearance in the original 1990 film) in ~movies
PuddleOfKittens Link ParentWhite is good for lighting, it helps make natural light go further. Small-seeming furniture (e.g. no headrests) make the house look larger by comparison and therefore pricier. And white/beige goes...The ultra white minimalist look just won't die. I don't know why so many people apparently want to live inside a cleanroom.
White is good for lighting, it helps make natural light go further. Small-seeming furniture (e.g. no headrests) make the house look larger by comparison and therefore pricier. And white/beige goes well with all the Ikea furniture you'll buy - furniture which is only sold in beige or flax (a slightly yellowy beige) or beige-y green or the ugliest shade of red you've ever seen.
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Comment on China’s growth is coming at the rest of the world’s expense in ~society
PuddleOfKittens Link ParentIs this the case for China in specific though? China isn't a Free Market, and is famously restrictive of Chinese people trying to move their money overseas.A country that exports more than it imports is increasing its investments in other countries (since they don't do it for free)
Is this the case for China in specific though? China isn't a Free Market, and is famously restrictive of Chinese people trying to move their money overseas.
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Comment on Rapid Support Forces massacres left Sudanese city ‘a slaughterhouse’, satellite images show in ~society
PuddleOfKittens Link ParentPresumably, Genocide Lite - also known as cultural genocide (which is still 100% genocide according to the original genocide definition, FWIW).Presumably, Genocide Lite - also known as cultural genocide (which is still 100% genocide according to the original genocide definition, FWIW).
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Comment on Four proposals to improve the design of fuel economy standards in ~transport
PuddleOfKittens Link ParentA planned push, but it hasn't succeeded yet AFAIK.A planned push, but it hasn't succeeded yet AFAIK.
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Comment on Four proposals to improve the design of fuel economy standards in ~transport
PuddleOfKittens Link ParentThe web scraper says CAFE is essentially dead as of Trump's 2nd term, because violating it doesn't result in fines and thus there's no point in obeying it in for-profit car companies. They'll...The web scraper says
Published May 14 2018
CAFE is essentially dead as of Trump's 2nd term, because violating it doesn't result in fines and thus there's no point in obeying it in for-profit car companies. They'll still obey some regulations though, because they need to obey California regs to sell in California, and making two versions of everything to skirt regs costs more money than it saves.
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Comment on Can we maybe have an informal agreement to avoid posting articles that require you to sell your firstborn child to the devil just to read them? in ~tildes
PuddleOfKittens Link ParentI'm assuming everyone does this - the point is that a "better article" often has different sources and takes and such, and if two different people use two different articles while treating them...If you're sufficiently curious about the topic, do a news search and see if you can find a better article that way. (That is, someone else didn't do it, but you still can.) Assuming you can tell what to search for from the headline. Alternately: Ask someone to post a quote from the article summarizing it.
I'm assuming everyone does this - the point is that a "better article" often has different sources and takes and such, and if two different people use two different articles while treating them the same, they can end up thoroughly miscommunicating due to not sharing a reality. And reading a better article doesn't actually change the dilemma of whether to read the original article or not, and if it's okay to comment after only reading the alternative better articles but not the original title article.
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Comment on Can we maybe have an informal agreement to avoid posting articles that require you to sell your firstborn child to the devil just to read them? in ~tildes
PuddleOfKittens Link ParentBleh, I've made a mess. I don't think anyone is personally fighting me, but I do think lots of people are missing my point (which is at least partially my fault TBF) and that's really frustrating....Bleh, I've made a mess. I don't think anyone is personally fighting me, but I do think lots of people are missing my point (which is at least partially my fault TBF) and that's really frustrating.
Let me throw out some of what I've previously said and try again:
There's this problem in communities like Tildes, where if people don't engage in comments then the community dies, because a community is just a self-sustaining series of comments that attracts more people to read and post comments. Take a look at half of Lemmy; articles but no comments, or maybe 1-3 comments but nothing that ignites ongoing discussion. People need to post, and if a hypothetical person's ideology frequently concludes with "well then don't comment" then they're going to end up with a dead community.
Any functional ideology within these discussion boards ought to result in people commenting. If the ideology of your community basically stops people from commenting, then people won't comment and the ideology is moot, because people will go elsewhere with a more functional ideology.
And so, if one's conclusion on paywalled articles is "well then you should pay money and/or accept invasive ads from companies that have a history of permitting malware in their ads, before you comment" then again, people just won't, and you end up with a dead community. In the worst case scenario, everyone just switches to Reddit.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that any ideology that fails to grapple with real-world behavior is a dead ideology, "nice idea, wrong species" style. And I'm trying to challenge the ideology presented.
Demanding they tell you to either "pirate" the article (or whatever you qualify the archive link as) or "take a guess based off the title" and contribute more ignorantly" is bizarre.
So there are four options here:
- Don't comment
- Read the original article through archive.is et al, then comment
- Comment without reading the original article at all
- Read the original article directly, paying either via ads/tracking or through a $$$ subscription
You can imagine how I'd ignore #1, as per above.
#2 is a workaround for #4 but avoiding the explicitly demanded payment - it's literally piracy, I don't see how anyone could seriously argue choosing option #2 is anything but piracy. I don't know why you have quotes around the word "pirate".
The "more ignorantly" comment refers to #3 - commenting without directly reading the original article (even if you read all alternative sources of information) will always be more ignorant than commenting with directly reading the original article. It's not commenting ignorantly, but it is commenting more ignorantly, no matter how you slice it.
Maybe some people consider #4 a serious option - the sort of people who doesn't even have an ad blocker - but I basically didn't think about them because of how ubiquitous and easy
archive.isis.
Ironically, since we're (I'm?) concerned about commenting in general, nacho's choices and my own are both (almost) irrelevant; what matters is how the majority choose.
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Comment on Can we maybe have an informal agreement to avoid posting articles that require you to sell your firstborn child to the devil just to read them? in ~tildes
PuddleOfKittens (edited )Link ParentUm, what? If it's a paywalled article the only alternative is bypassing the paywall. An alternative article is a different article, which while possibly informative is irrelevant to a discussion...Um, what? If it's a paywalled article the only alternative is bypassing the paywall. An alternative article is a different article, which while possibly informative is irrelevant to a discussion of the original article (although obviously useful for the broader discussion).
What does your comment even mean?
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Comment on Can we maybe have an informal agreement to avoid posting articles that require you to sell your firstborn child to the devil just to read them? in ~tildes
PuddleOfKittens Link ParentOkay but here's what's going to happen: I'm going to see the bullshit cookies required, decline them, be blocked from reading the website and be prompted to pay $$$ after the website just told me...Original reporting is often only available from the original source. I believe we should support original reporting.
Okay but here's what's going to happen: I'm going to see the bullshit cookies required, decline them, be blocked from reading the website and be prompted to pay $$$ after the website just told me to go fuck myself, so I'm going to decline to pay. I'm going to either A) not read the article and just take a guess based off the title and thread comments, or B) go click an archived link that bypasses the paywall.
In either situation I'm not going to support them. So, which do you want me to do? The one where I contribute to the conversation more ignorantly, or the one where I pirate the article?
The problem here is that market systems only work when the buyer internalizes the costs/benefits in an emotionally impactful way, whereas articles are more of an "eat your veggies" sort of thing and thus their hardballing has no emotional grounding.
Everyone knows how to handle the constant liar - simply take him off the pedestal and be bluntly truthful with the wording. "The federal govt theoretically must XYZ, but the Trump presidency keeps ignoring the law and getting away with it so we don't know if they actually will XYZ."
The problem is that nobody wants to do so, because they fear the political blowback - either directly from the presidency and Rs, or indirectly via accusations of bias.