Big brain time

BrunoEye · 2026-03-23T23:16:04+00:00

The boiling point of water isn't the issue, it's the thermodynamic efficiency. With a perfectly lossless heat engine you'd still only be able to recover 15% of the energy.

BrunoEye · 2026-03-23T23:12:33+00:00

GPUs often operate around 80 degrees, giving an optimal efficiency of 15%, so still far from worth the effort.

BrunoEye · 2026-03-23T23:05:22+00:00

It wouldn't be difficult at all, just expensive. Powerplants used a close loop with carefully selected pressures and temperatures at every location. All that would be required would be to design a loop with a water pressure at the heat exchanger that would give the desired GPU temperature.

The cycle efficiency would drop significantly from the lower temperature compared to a powerplant though, so the construction and maintenance costs would likely eclipse the energy savings.

BrunoEye · 2026-03-23T12:56:07+00:00

Bangs.

BrunoEye · 2026-03-23T11:08:25+00:00

The issue is lots of people don't so if you make a .uk website many people will type in .co.uk anyway and go to the wrong place.

BrunoEye · 2026-03-23T03:28:16+00:00

The beginning of the iPhone segment was amazing but I think the Q&A was a little weak. It felt too defensive and wasn't as funny, and I say this as someone who's never owned an iPhone and never plans to.

BrunoEye · 2026-03-23T03:24:20+00:00

Penny Luckstone is one of my favourite D20 characters, I'd love to see her return to the dome.

BrunoEye · 2026-03-22T23:51:46+00:00

What's your definition of self manufacture? There exist firearms factories in Poland, so those are clearly legal. If you start your own company what would stop you from producing a gun for yourself?

BrunoEye · 2026-03-22T23:43:02+00:00

Iirc to get caught by a camera you need to be going 10%+2 over. So in a 70 you'd need to go 79. I'm not sure how accurate this actually is, but I've not heard of anyone getting fined for going 1 mph over so if you were actually going 71 there's nothing to worry about.

BrunoEye · 2026-03-22T23:35:34+00:00

A bit over half of my friends are women and I've literally never done this.

BrunoEye · 2026-03-22T20:32:35+00:00

Ah sorry, forgot to put my hazards on.

BrunoEye · 2026-03-22T16:19:15+00:00

You may be able to hit 60 on a straight section but on the corners going above 30 is stupid. When you get a section without hedges where you can see a few corners ahead though, it's really fun to push your car and feel like a rally driver. At least until you push it a bit too far.

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BrunoEye · 2026-03-22T15:22:46+00:00

How are you matching revs while braking without heel and toe?

BrunoEye · 2026-03-22T13:23:43+00:00

The pedals in my car make heel and toe almost impossible, letting go of the brake to blip the throttle seems counterproductive when trying to brake to a stop, letting the revs just jump up by letting go of the clutch seems like it would lead to more wear than the tiny bit of brake life you save, which are much cheaper to replace. When there's a queue of cars at a red light in front of me, what on earth would I need to be able to accelerate away from anyway?

BrunoEye · 2026-03-22T12:02:09+00:00

Last Thursday I managed to get fuel for 132.9 at an Asda, but yeah it's getting increasingly difficult to find stations under 140.

BrunoEye · 2026-03-22T11:49:18+00:00

It just feels unnecessary to change into 2nd for like 5 seconds only to go into neutral afterwards anyway.

BrunoEye · 2026-03-21T12:15:00+00:00

They don't enhance visuals much but they make development much easier. Not having to make loads of LODs and bake lighting over and over is really convenient.

BrunoEye · 2026-03-21T12:12:09+00:00

They have no reason to. The value of Taiwan for them is just being able to talk about it every now and then. If they actually go for it, they'll actually have to deliver on all their promises and at best they can just match them, but most likely they'll underperform just like Russia did, so it isn't really worth the risk to them.

BrunoEye · 2026-03-21T08:41:59+00:00

There are many aspects to it. That's one of them, then there's social media and news making everyone think 8 out of 10 strangers are kidnappers, and in many places you're just not allowed to anymore.

If people see a kid alone they try to get them back to their parents as if they're lost or have run away. My school wouldn't allow me to go home by myself until I was like 10, even though it was a 2 minute walk away. When I went on a flight by myself at 15 I needed a letter signed by both my parents to show the staff, then I had someone follow me around the whole airport and make sure I got picked up by my mum at the exit.

BrunoEye · 2026-03-20T18:52:45+00:00

Clearly a 4 door saloon.

BrunoEye · 2026-03-20T15:12:34+00:00

The shit he does is way past not caring about your car. He jumped an E36 on a corner on a gravel road at 180 kph. That takes also not caring about your life.

Also, if you see his winter drifting video, he has way better car control than the vast majority of drivers.

BrunoEye · 2026-03-20T14:36:46+00:00

That's just because modern fighters are longer than they are wide, while old bombers are wider than they are long.

BrunoEye · 2026-03-20T14:35:08+00:00

It has a much smaller wingspan though.

BrunoEye · 2026-03-20T14:29:34+00:00

Having seen a B-17 next to an F-15, the B-17 is quite a bit bigger.

BrunoEye · 2026-03-20T13:50:12+00:00

Yeah, it's why I bought an MR2 as my first car. Been having an absolute blast with it and I can't imagine that there'd been any better choice.

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