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[–] fhqwgads@possumpat.io 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I can't tell if people are using the headline as a jumping off point or the whole thread just... ate the onion. (Nick Offerman eating onion)

[–] fhqwgads@possumpat.io 22 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I don't see why not. Hot dogs are generally pre-cooked, you can eat a cold one straight out of the package. The real question is if you made coffee instead of water would you get a coffee flavor caffeinated dog?

[–] fhqwgads@possumpat.io 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

the not removable Google search on the home screen and non removable date on the home screen means that I will never buy another Google phone.

I'm fairly sure that's just a launcher limitation, you can swap out the entire launcher to whatever you want. If you don't want something radically different I think lawnchair is still around.

https://lawnchair.app/

[–] fhqwgads@possumpat.io 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

5 KILOwatt hours is a typical laptop battery? Aren't they more like 50-100wh?

[–] fhqwgads@possumpat.io 11 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Love the idea and article, but...

just 800 watts, enough to power a small fridge or charge a laptop,

I want to see a laptop with an 800w charger.

[–] fhqwgads@possumpat.io 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Seems like it could make wrestling news confusing.

[–] fhqwgads@possumpat.io 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

aren't you still limited by ambient air temp because the hot side of the Peltier needs to be cooled by air anyway?

No, that's why the baby fridge works. The peltier TEC in the fridge can produce temperatures below ambient, but generally not below freezing. Computer chip TEC coolers would go farther and push more power through the TEC and do things like water-cooling the hot side instead of a little fan.

The reason they don't get used anymore more complicated. It's my understanding that basically TECs have a sort of limit on the amount of heat they can push from the cold side to the hot side, because moving more heat means more energy used and thus more waste heat. Apparently most modern chips are past that limit. IIRC, TECs can only move something like 100w of heat - past that and they start to heat themselves up because of waste heat. Modern chips can be like 300w.

Sub ambient cooling also comes with a bunch of issues like condensation, so no one really uses it day to day. Also, chips are run so close to their limits now that cooling like that doesn't get you nearly the performance difference it once did.

[–] fhqwgads@possumpat.io 3 points 9 months ago

The light is immaterial (lol) to the holograms existence. They are only solid via fancy forcefield transmitted from the holo emitters. For all intents and purposes they seem to only exist as programs within whatever computer operates the holo emitters, whatever or whatever that may be. The only limit on where they can be is the speed of the computer system and links within it. They can send holo programs between the alpha and delta quadrants, but are limited by the speed and this can only send smaller programs. The mobile emitter often gets transported, but that's because they only have one. If the doctor is going somewhere with holo emitters they don't need to be transported and can just be data transferred.

Personal rant follows:

!The whole hologram plot in Voyager is honestly poorly thought out, and it basically feels like if you followed their logic Chat GPT would be a protected federation citizen. I get that the writers wanted to give the doctor legitimized personhood, but it feels like they forgot to think about what that would mean for literally every other hologram. !<

!Like, they give that one species holograms to hunt, does that mean they invented a species doomed to be reincarnated as prey forever? Is, Moriarty sentient, and if so is trapping him in a simulation moral? If they just run a hologram long enough does it gain sentience? How are they testing for this? Does that mean Vic Fontane is sentient even though he probably would say he isn't? What about that weird Irish bartender Janeway does - fair haven ran for a while, how long does it take? If you run a training program are you committing infanticide? Is turning off a hologram even moral?!<

[–] fhqwgads@possumpat.io 4 points 10 months ago

Unfortunately probably not. G3 events aren't that uncommon, there's usually one every couple months. It never hurts to go look for a few minutes though. It's a pretty rough prediction, it's not set in stone. The best I've seen was a G4 and not the big G5 a few months ago.

[–] fhqwgads@possumpat.io 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah IDK if people in the thread are actually familiar with the scale.

I'm fairly far north and I'm considering turning off my g3 email alerts and just leaving the bigger ones since it's generally a nothingburger.

[–] fhqwgads@possumpat.io 5 points 10 months ago

Yeah, it feels like the entire time he's really trying to link these games to actual deaths during war that seems pretty tenuous, largely due to his own "ick" factor that "his thing" is being used by the military.

The section in the middle where he essentially asks all his interviewees basically "have you killed anyone" is pretty awkward. Like, of course these people don't really want to talk about that. Nobody wants to go around thinking they're directly responsible for preventable deaths. It's like he wants someone to just say "Am i the baddie?" like that Mitchel and Webb sketch.

It also completely glosses over the way that "play" is often just training for something more violent. Tag is a fun game until someone brings a knife. But there's a world of difference between "you sunk my battleship" and the Bismarck. It's like he's somehow taken the stance that video games cause violence in the most roundabout way possible.

It's a shame because the video is good but it could be so much more interesting diving into examples about how these games actually work and are used instead of hemming and hawing the whole time over his imagined Cluedo to murder piperine.

[–] fhqwgads@possumpat.io 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

IDK, it's been a long time since I watched the episode but isn't that literally the point? That any amount of critical thinking makes their views make no sense?

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