I_Has_A_Hat

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[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

The only time you should be doing head calcs as an engineer is to double check that you have a reasonable answer with the actual calcs on your actual calculator.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 28 points 15 hours ago (6 children)

Never, in any engineering field, have I EVER seen anyone simplify pi to 5. For that matter, I have never seen anyone simplify to 3. It is always 3.14. I feel like pi simplification is a weird meme that people think engineers do but is never practiced anywhere.

It's like if there was a meme about chefs saying they always replace eggs with grapefruit. No they don't, and it's nonsense to think they do.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not every penguin is a Linux penguin. Don't you think if that's what they were going for, they would have at least made it black, or gotten the shape right?

Like a boomer calling any game console a Nintendo...

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Suffer and die slowly? Where's the profit in that? Now organ farms, THERES a moneymaker!

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

You know what's awesome about humor? Out of all the positive emotions, it's the only one that is never fully eaten by depression. I think that's kind of amazing about the human mind, that even in the deepest darkest pit, there is always some laughter to be found.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Oh, see, you're under the impression that this is about public safety. It's not. It's about giving insurance companies an excuse to deny claims.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Anyone who understands the concentration of CO2 in the air knows that these things are nothing but a PR stunt. You're not going to pull enough out of the air to have any meaningful contribution; there's just not a lot there to pull out. For all the harm it's causing, CO2 makes up a tiny part of air composition, only about 0.04%.

These things are built for idiots who think the solution is as simple as "just run the air through a filter" and don't grasp how much air there actually is, and how little there is to pull out.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Still and quiet feline form,

In the sun asleep and warm.

Tail down and whiskers drooped,

Man what could make this cat so pooped?

-Calvin

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I soured on it when a guy shows up to this hyper advanced, futuristic, utopian society and goes, "I challenge the king to combat, and you have to let me do it, and then when I win, you have to make me king." And everyone just shrugs like "Welp, thems the rules. Nothing we can do about it."

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

The one that combusts material is worse.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Pole reversal only matters if you're basing it off magnetic North and not true North.

 

Is it just a matter of not being worth it? I see cooling towers releasing what appears to be a ton of steam, pretty high up. If that steam were captured at the top and allowed to condense, wouldn't that result in a ton of water with a lot of gravitational potential energy? That water could then be released and used to power water turbines. Maybe I'm overestimating the amount of water being released as steam, or underestimating how much is needed to spin a water turbine to get a meaningful result, but it seems like wasted energy to me.

 

I'm moving across the country in a few weeks and am trying to plan my route as I'll be driving a moving van with a car towed behind it. The entire drive will be 16-17 hours.

Google maps seems limited for searching everything I'd want to take into account for the route (pull through gas stations, height requirements, avoiding mountain highways, etc.) and was wondering if anyone knew of a better way to plan out the trip?

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