NeatNit

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[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 months ago

How could you be sure of any of that? For all we know, nuclear war could start tomorrow. Or, a bit more realistically, next year. How fast can these factories be built?

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Welp, Ars Technica has another theory:

Microsoft's Azure status page outlines several fixes. The first and easiest is simply to try to reboot affected machines over and over, which gives affected machines multiple chances to try to grab CrowdStrike's non-broken update before the bad driver can cause the BSOD. Microsoft says that some of its customers have had to reboot their systems as many as 15 times to pull down the update.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/07/crowdstrike-fixes-start-at-reboot-up-to-15-times-and-get-more-complex-from-there/

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 3 months ago

That's some high quality speculation

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I am so confused. What's supposed to happen on the 15th reboot?

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

site isn't loading for me, but I'm guessing it's one of those "combine two things to get a new thing" games like Doodle God, but with AI answering on the fly instead of it being handcrafted?

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 4 months ago

I don't think that PS1 model of a car will ever look acceptable to me. It's not a design that grows on you or you get accustomed to. It's just bad.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 4 months ago (5 children)

There might be some double counting, but it doesn't matter - this just illustrates the insane scale of these companies.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago

Exactly! Windshield reflectors try to make the sunlight bounce back out before it has a chance to heat up the interior.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Happy to hear :)

I should also say, I think I used the term "greenhouse effect" incorrectly. What I described is how a literal man-made greenhouse works, but "greenhouse effect" refers to a phenomenon on the world scale that is reminiscent of greenhouses, but operates on entirely different principles. For that, the composition of the atmosphere is actually relevant, and the term "greenhouse gases" refers to gases that contribute to warming. For an actual greenhouse though, as I said, it doesn't really matter.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 4 months ago (4 children)

As @FuglyDuck@lemmy.world said, you're building a greenhouse. Nearly all sunlight that gets through the glass will contribute to heating up what's inside, and none of the heat will be able to get out. The major reason for the greenhouse effect is that there's no way for hot air to escape.

Under an open sky, the sun heats up the ground, the ground heats up the air, and the hot air gets blown away by wind and rises through convection, being replaced by colder air from surrounding areas. An equilibrium is reached when the air takes away the same amount of heat per second as the sunlight brings in. But in a greenhouse: the sun heats up the ground, the ground heats up the air, and the air is trapped. It has nowhere to go, so everything continues to get hotter and hotter. The air heats up the glass walls and roof of the greenhouse (the sun helps with that too), until the walls are hot enough to expel all the heat that's brought in by the sun, in the same way as the non-greenhouse ground would. The end result is that the inside of the greenhouse is way hotter than the outside.

Note that this has very little to do with what chemicals the air is made up of. Even if the gas inside the greenhouse has a "sun blocking effect", it would still have to absorb all that energy from the sun, and that heat would still be inside the greenhouse.

See other answers for better alternatives :)

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 months ago

I never tried to keep track, but I always assumed each correctly identified lie/truth gets a point, and each mistake gives a point to the other team. Keep in mind that the show gets edited down and you don't see everything that the audience did, while the score probably includes those things you didn't see.

But like, absolutely no one watches this show for the score, so who cares? It might as well be QI's scoring system :)

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