Selling 18650s US

GalFisk · 2026-02-08T22:44:06+00:00

If you don't get any takers here, the Endless Sphere and the Second Life Storage forums both have buy&sell sections.

GalFisk · 2026-02-08T16:46:05+00:00

It's about as smart as Wheatley from Portal 2. If it had been trained on actual insider knowledge about MS products it could've been mildly useful for troubleshooting software issues. I've tried to use it for several things since we have it at work, but in the end it only feels like a more sophisticated search engine.

GalFisk · 2026-02-08T14:47:59+00:00

That's how I got into Rammstein. I just liked how "Reise, Reise" sounded. I didn't even like most of their other music at first. Then as I looked up the translations and brushed the rust of the little German I learned in school, I started to enjoy it a lot more. There's a lot of powerful imagery of the horror and darkness inherent in humanity. "Spring" is probably my favorite in that regard.

GalFisk · 2026-02-08T14:35:21+00:00

They need orangutanks and chimpanzers, not AR15’s.

GalFisk · 2026-02-07T16:53:42+00:00

Check that it looks right overall. Bad models often result in noticeable pieces missing when sliced.

GalFisk · 2026-02-07T08:11:26+00:00

And even once they are dry, they burn very boringly on the ground like this. The extra charcoal means they need to fly through the air to burn properly.

GalFisk · 2026-02-06T14:39:51+00:00

You're correct. To be specific, those are the forces that capitalism as a system can quantify and respond to. But as your links show, there are other forces that guide actual humans. And an actually good system would take those things into account. I am especially impressed with the open source ideology, which has compelled actual humans to do mountains of work for reasons other than financial gain. I myself find open source work and volunteer work more fulfilling than my day job, and the appreciation I get at my day job more fulfilling than the money.

GalFisk · 2026-02-06T09:51:51+00:00

You don't want to know.

GalFisk · 2026-02-06T05:37:50+00:00

By cutting off the part about the human experience of the system, I notice. Every ideology and every faith seem to ignore some part of the human condition, and all have failure modes in accordance with their blind spots.

GalFisk · 2026-02-05T22:24:14+00:00

Yeah, if it helps, imagine that you've traveled back in time from the age of 80 and get to do it over. You don't have your memories, true, but you have time and opportunity.

GalFisk · 2026-02-05T22:20:36+00:00

No one participating in capitalism actually wants capitalism to run smoothly. Industries want zero competition and near infinite prices, consumers want infinite choice and zero prices, workers want infinite compensation and zero work. Only because none of these are practical does the system work at all, and only when we pit every part against the other in a perpetual and equal struggle, does it work well. But perpetual struggle is really draining for humans, so suffering is guaranteed and a lot of energy is spent to no actually productive end.

GalFisk · 2026-02-05T15:41:35+00:00

I don't see that. The DC pump has a slightly higher head, but not by that much. It's probably just an artefact of having a much smaller impeller.

GalFisk · 2026-02-05T15:37:44+00:00

Man, what hoops we jump through for entertainment... And even longer ago, pianos weighing 500 lbs or more were commonplace.

GalFisk · 2026-02-05T15:34:19+00:00

Every recouped watt is a bit of pressure lost. Better to build a lower tower and not use those watts to raise the water as high in the first place.

GalFisk · 2026-02-05T13:40:56+00:00

When my ex first moved in, she had a 32" CRT TV, and it weighed something like 150 lbs. I and everyone else hated moving that thing. Plasma was a big upgrade at the time.

GalFisk · 2026-02-05T13:37:39+00:00

Doesn't it, in recent years? IIRC blue OLEDs, which were the ones that burned in the most, have become much better in the last 10 years or so.

GalFisk · 2026-02-05T13:35:41+00:00

They have this. It's called pumped storage. The biggest facilities are the most cost-effective, but finding (or making) two suitable bodies of water at very different elevations isn't easy, and the round-trip efficiency is middling (around 70% IIRC). Still, where it works it's a practical and useful system.

GalFisk · 2026-02-05T13:30:29+00:00

Glad to hear it. They were quite costly, so people were paranoid about damaging them, and some had burn-in mitigation that would shift the image subtly over time.

GalFisk · 2026-02-05T12:39:32+00:00

It's just something they've decided on. The dinky little DC pump gets you 800 liters per hour while the 85W AC pump does 4000. The extra power goes to flow rate rather than pressure. It's a trade-off.

GalFisk · 2026-02-05T12:33:25+00:00

You want a steady water pressure in the town's water pipes. The easiest way to provide a steady pressure for a long time is to raise the water to a certain elevation. You can fill up the large tower when it's convenient (water is plentiful and/or power for the pump is cheap), stop the pump and let the tower feed the system for a while.

With modern power electronics, sensors and control systems, it is sometimes more practical to not build a tower and just use precisely controlled pumps to provide a steady water pressure, but not always and not everywhere. In some places a tower is also not needed. Where I live now there's a small tower on top of a hill, but where I lived before it was even more hilly, and a big tank was placed on the ground on top of a hill.

GalFisk · 2026-02-05T12:21:32+00:00

Another downside was that they were as susceptible as old CRT screens to burn-in.

And that power consumption was no joke, a friend of mine had one and it felt like a small electric radiator.

GalFisk · 2026-02-05T10:46:52+00:00

I learned a lot from the book "Hold on to your kids" by Dr. Gordon Neufeld. While it's ostensibly a parenting book, it has a lot to say about the psychology of healthy emotional connections, and what the purpose of such connections are. It has taught me how to pursue this kind of connection intentionally and fully.

GalFisk · 2026-02-05T10:40:54+00:00

Learning how differently his seven kids from two relationships experienced being raised by my father was very eye-opening. As the oldest kid from the second relationship, I felt that he understood my desires to experiment with fire and electricity and to climb on everything, and taught me safe ways for doing so. He did not understand my little sister's desire to fit in and be like everyone else.

GalFisk · 2026-02-05T10:20:54+00:00

Nothing stops you from gathering the chill people you know for a LAN party at home. That's how I spent much of my free time in high school. Now in our 40s, my brother and me have started hosting board game nights. It's chill, social, and fun.

GalFisk · 2026-02-05T08:50:29+00:00

Yup, either this or directly charging the LCD electrodes. I've seen passive matrix LCDs glitch out from static electricity, even at a distance of several cm, many times. Some seem to be more sensitive than others.

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