frezik
@frezik@midwest.social
- Comment on Swiss hydrogen-powered train sets 1741-mile record for nonstop travel 1 month ago:
Most of the items you mention are being overtaken by better batteries. Long haul trucking batteries will likely be at cost parity with diesel trucks this year. Big cargo ships should probably go to SMRs. Airplanes no longer look as out of reach as they once appeared.
Space flight is such a specialized use case. Of course hydrogen will be the predominant fuel there. More because there’s limited options than anything else.
- Comment on Swiss hydrogen-powered train sets 1741-mile record for nonstop travel 1 month ago:
We did pursue it. Batteries won for common use cases. There may yet be niches where it’s useful, but they’ll be the exception.
- Comment on Swiss hydrogen-powered train sets 1741-mile record for nonstop travel 1 month ago:
Or an overhead wire and don’t worry about batteries.
- Comment on ‘Dune: Part Two’ First Reactions: Rave Reviews Topped By Critic Who Claims, “It’s The Definitive Sci-Fi Epic Of A Generation” 2 months ago:
Not the first time that’s happened.
- Comment on Air: Where did that bring you? Back to me. 5 months ago:
The fact remains that most cars today will go to the junkyard with perfectly good engine and transmissions. Those sensors tend to kill themselves before killing other parts of the car, and then you just replace them.
- Comment on Air: Where did that bring you? Back to me. 5 months ago:
The one where he complained about the cost of running a pump and tubing out to a fucking swimming pool?
- Comment on Air: Where did that bring you? Back to me. 5 months ago:
When was the last time you had to replace a distributor cap on a modern car?
- Comment on Air: Where did that bring you? Back to me. 5 months ago:
Cars built today will outlast most of the old Beetles. There is a big survivorship bias at work. A percentage of them were built to slightly tighter tolerances and quality than all the others off the same line. A percentage of those will end up in the hands of owners that are meticulous about maintenance, never get in a major accident, and keep it going for decades. The handful you see left are the ones that went through several rounds of small percentage chances. There were a bajillion of those old Beetles made, so a few were bound to get through.
What cars have problems with today are things that rarely have to do with making the wheels go. They get into accidents. Their auto-dimming back windows no longer work. The GPS doesn’t get updates and thinks you’re three counties away. The engine and transmission, however, will probably go to the junkyard in perfect working order, even with shitty maintenance on the part of the owner.
- Comment on Air: Where did that bring you? Back to me. 5 months ago:
Surface area of the fin stack matters. An air cooler will always be limited by the space available around the CPU. A water cooling radiator has more flexibility to be placed in around the case.
That said, having less than a 360mm AIO is probably a waste. Also, higher end Intel chips these days are so power hungry that they can’t be physically cooled properly with the surface area available on the package.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1 5 months ago:
Best part of GTA V for me was the social satire and Trevor being a total sociopath. The story isn’t anything special, the final mission hits the wrong story beats (it should have ended with the big shootout of government bureaucracy pileup), and the gameplay has some design mistakes (like business income being completely useless, and money in general being a non-issue after the first big heist). It had bugs that prevented story progress without workarounds that were never fixed. It got a lot of praise at the time for having crazy draw distances in an open world game while working on an XBox 360. That’s no longer a big deal.
I don’t think it deserved all the five-star reviews it got back then.
Conversely, if the social satire is on point and the character building is solid, then I’ll be happy.
- Comment on Fuck Disney tbh 5 months ago:
Just to correct a few details that don’t contradict your main point:
Now its the lifetime of the original author + 80 years after IIRC
Life of author + 70 years.
Copyright has stalled so severely that the latest works to come into public domain are from the 19th century.
Things from 1927 entered the public domain in 2023: americanwritersmuseum.org/new-works-to-enter-the-….
- Comment on Revolutionary free thinker Andrew Tate 5 months ago:
Wow, I had no idea I was in control so much. As opposed to being invited to meetings I don’t need to be on and have nothing useful to contribute to.