• 1 Post
  • 57 Comments
Joined 3 years ago
cake
Cake day: June 30th, 2023

help-circle


  • Aermis@lemmy.worldtoxkcd@lemmy.world•xkcd #3211: Amperage
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    8 months ago

    Well for starters most residential outlets are rated for 15 amps. You don’t need to run a lot of stuff on that outlet, a vacuum and a space heater is most likely enough for the outlet to overheat. Toss in an extension cord and another appliance and the outlet is going to melt. And since you’re only pulling like 25 amps once the short happens when the live parts touch each other the arc explosion would be spectacular. Since you’re on a 500 amp switch gear breaker with selective coordination set in a way that not only is the outlet done, but the wiring I’m assuming is not ran to the outlet in 600kcm copper, so all the wiring from the outlet to the breaker is also going up in vapor. By the time the breaker trips your house just went through a neat fireworks show and it’s ablaze.



  • Aermis@lemmy.worldtoFediverse@lemmy.world•we need more users
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    edit-2
    10 months ago

    I don’t mind other opinions. I don’t mind different points of view. I don’t mind culture and mentality differences. I’m Ukrainian living in America so the views I have, while leaning heavily left, differ to the point of leftists vehemently opposing even the slightest push back to some policies or views.

    For this reason I never delete my comments and never block anyone. I need to see more. I need to see the different people and cultures. Otherwise we set up a community like parts of Seattle (where I live) that is in this political bubble that get shocked when anyone has views that differ. It creates this perspective that these other people don’t exist and that the world was stolen from them. And the reason they can’t comprehend other views is because they’re involved in communities where these views get erased.


  • Aermis@lemmy.worldtoFediverse@lemmy.world•we need more users
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    13
    ·
    10 months ago

    Yeah I’m turned off from interacting. I got banned (I’m guessing since I can’t even reply to people) from world news when Maduro was kidnapped and I mentioned that my Venezuelan friends were hopeful. As this was scary but good news. And my god how I got flamed. Theres no room for conversation I got tagged, replied to, people made fun of me and that’s it. I wasn’t even allowed to interact anymore so it looks like I just said something and ran away.

    I’m not even close to center, yet it’s all or nothing with politics here. It’s seriously become reddit 2.0. Pathetic.








  • If you want to talk money then it is in businesses best interest that money from their users is being used on their products, not being scammed through the use of their products.

    Secondly machine learning or algorithms can detect patterns in ways a human can’t. In some circles I’ve read that the programmers themselves can’t decipher in the code how the end result is spat out, just that the inputs will guide it. Besides the fact that scammers can circumvent any carefully laid down antispam, antiscam, anti-virus through traditional software, a learning algorithm will be magnitudes harder to bypass. Or easier. Depends on the algorithm






  • Physical encyclopedias are just time capsules of knowledge, sometimes irrelevant. And pricy too. Having them and then saying information is easy to find is entitlement.

    I see what you’re saying. Top up voted corporate social media posts and AI finding top results for search engines and query requests is exactly why people need to ask other people wtf is going on with anything. It’s confusing enough to try to parse through irrelevant information, maybe asking someone will narrow down what you need to know.


  • Aermis@lemmy.worldtoFediverse@lemmy.world•Don't reply "just Google it"
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 years ago

    It’s not hard. It’s that information from people has become more fact than a single persons opinion on a topic. Do you have any idea how many variables are involved in why my cucumbers are dying in my green house? How many links and articles I’ve read before just asking it to the community and finding the answer in literally the first person who replied?

    Information, wisdom, knowledge are all empowered by a community, and trusting a search engine to populate those will eliminate the community aspect of information gathering. It’ll cause the watered down, lost in information practices that we have going on today.

    Doing this, in 30 years no one will be able to grow cucumbers in their greenhouse becuase all the information you’ll have will be based off the same shitty technique and everyone’s attempt at that technique, and no one will talk about the nuanced variables.

    The cucumbers is an example.