[-] SomeoneSomewhere 134 points 7 months ago

Also, a number of them will still fail quickly. Survivorship bias.

[-] SomeoneSomewhere 105 points 8 months ago

The non-Hydrogen, non-Helium atoms are a larger proportion of total mass, but that's just because they're really fat.

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After initial tests created a series of large holes in the wall of the lab, the higher-power Scanning Tunneling Tennis Ball Microscope project was quickly shut down.

https://explainxkcd.com/3080/

[-] SomeoneSomewhere 82 points 1 year ago

That's not bad pricing wise. There's very very little prosumer gear that's multi gigabit and it's all much higher price, or it's just a PC with several NICs.

If and when we move to hyperfibre this is going to be pretty high up on the list.

[-] SomeoneSomewhere 101 points 2 years ago

You're probably not going to save 95% of the trees given the major earthworks likely needed for managing sewage, stormwater, and other utilities. You'll probably save most of them, though.

40k looks pretty optimistic for the size and number of buildings, too.

[-] SomeoneSomewhere 90 points 2 years ago

As Someone Somewhere, I urge you to post more.

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"It's a real accomplishment to mess up a ravioli recipe badly enough that the resulting incident touches all four quadrants of the NFPA hazard diamond."

explainxkcd.com/2998/

[-] SomeoneSomewhere 84 points 2 years ago

You don't normally need to specify that the sides are parallel if you specify four right angles.

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[-] SomeoneSomewhere 188 points 2 years ago

Electric buses have a battery from a probably reputable supplier, with a decent BMS.

Escooters often come from AliExpress.

There is a difference.

[-] SomeoneSomewhere 81 points 2 years ago

A series of such massacres against one people approaches genocide.

[-] SomeoneSomewhere 83 points 2 years ago

It's not clear, but I think they were referring to the version 1 Pi - the newer ones are much much much faster.

[-] SomeoneSomewhere 74 points 2 years ago

Being an SUV, it'll weigh 50% more than necessary. That outweighs almost any other sustainability considerations.

[-] SomeoneSomewhere 128 points 2 years ago

Musk said last week: “I disagree with the idea of unions. I just don’t like anything which creates a lords-and-peasants kind of thing.”

Isn't he the world's richest person currently?

[-] SomeoneSomewhere 221 points 2 years ago

“Spotify already pays nearly 70% of every dollar it generates from music to the record labels and publishers

Sounds like the issue might be with the record labels...

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