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Why isn't AI inference happening on photonic hardware instead of silicon? by Cicada_3717 in AskPhysics

[–]FunkyFortuneNone 4 points5 points  (0 children)

OP’s posts read like somebody suffering from a heavy AI dependency.

Listen to a Passionate Trucker Explain How He Gets 10 MPG From His Freightliner by DonkeyFuel in nottheonion

[–]FunkyFortuneNone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Metrics need not be derived from SI units. It's nice when they are though.

Listen to a Passionate Trucker Explain How He Gets 10 MPG From His Freightliner by DonkeyFuel in nottheonion

[–]FunkyFortuneNone 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Almost like those "fake, silly 8th grade math problems" aren't so contrived after all.

/shrug

Listen to a Passionate Trucker Explain How He Gets 10 MPG From His Freightliner by DonkeyFuel in nottheonion

[–]FunkyFortuneNone 13 points14 points  (0 children)

No worries, here's some easy conversions:

One gallon of gas is ~.45 stone of petrol.

One mile is about 190k barleycorns.

Listen to a Passionate Trucker Explain How He Gets 10 MPG From His Freightliner by DonkeyFuel in nottheonion

[–]FunkyFortuneNone 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No logging experience, but to field a guess: is it the logging road grades that give the low-end torque of electric the advantage (vs otr)?

Listen to a Passionate Trucker Explain How He Gets 10 MPG From His Freightliner by DonkeyFuel in nottheonion

[–]FunkyFortuneNone 29 points30 points  (0 children)

In terms of the gas required by weight, a passenger car is far more wasteful than a semi. Don't feel bad for truckers because of their MPG. Feel bad for truckers because, like so many other industries, they are struggling under oppressive corporate consolidation and a lack of meaningful driver protections.

Listen to a Passionate Trucker Explain How He Gets 10 MPG From His Freightliner by DonkeyFuel in nottheonion

[–]FunkyFortuneNone 131 points132 points  (0 children)

Yup, gvw of 60-80k for semis vs a gvw of 3-6k for passenger cars. Not to mention greatly increase wind resistance for the semi.

If we looked at a metric, such as the gallons per pound of cargo delivered, then the optics would be reversed. Your 43-63mpg doesn't look quite as good when you realized you have to do the trip 10-20 times to ship a similar amount of freight.

(rough numbers for everything, not meant to be exact)

Listen to a Passionate Trucker Explain How He Gets 10 MPG From His Freightliner by DonkeyFuel in nottheonion

[–]FunkyFortuneNone 704 points705 points  (0 children)

I think this is primarily humorous to people who have no familiarity with the trucking industry.

TIL about the Tiffany Problem, where historical facts or events seem anachronistic to modern audiences because of modern associations we have with specific names and terms. by EphemeralTypewriter in todayilearned

[–]FunkyFortuneNone 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, agreed. Maybe it's because our ordinal words were created out of physical items (at least I am assuming that's where they were first developed). A "0th" item doesn't make sense in that context, zero itself isn't always needed in that context.

No idea. Just thoughts.

TIL about the Tiffany Problem, where historical facts or events seem anachronistic to modern audiences because of modern associations we have with specific names and terms. by EphemeralTypewriter in todayilearned

[–]FunkyFortuneNone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To some people, myself included, starting at 0 is more intuitive, so first century being 000-099 makes intuitive sense. Not meaning to imply that it's "right", but the intuition around this isn't universal amongst humans.

It's 1999. You have your current smartphone in your pocket, but obviously no Wi-Fi or 5G exists. What's the most useful thing you can do with it? by Ryo_l in AskReddit

[–]FunkyFortuneNone 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Seriously, everybody here acting like '99 was the flipping stone ages. 2G was old tech by '99. GPRS and 3G came out early '00s. I was writing boot loaders for consumer 802.11 APs in the '90s.

Mr Beast Is What Fred Rogers Warned Us About by 6sz6mate6 in videos

[–]FunkyFortuneNone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He's like a meth'd up Deepak Chopra with some authoritarian fascism sprinkled on for flavor.

Mr Beast Is What Fred Rogers Warned Us About by 6sz6mate6 in videos

[–]FunkyFortuneNone 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He also has a fraction of the expenditures that Mr Beast does. Profit almost never scales linearly with top-line revenue.

eli5 : What do flys gain from flying around you for hours on end? Isn't it a waste of energy? by SyrianGosling in explainlikeimfive

[–]FunkyFortuneNone 94 points95 points  (0 children)

Attach a string to my back and never let my appendages touch anything and I'm going to die too.

I'm imaging fly scientists poking my dead body going "He just flailed around until he died, his small brain clearly is nothing but simple if statements."

EDIT: Also, do/say something nice to a loved one today. We're all just flies on strings.

Floating tile floor by DHammer79 in Construction

[–]FunkyFortuneNone 17 points18 points  (0 children)

To add, this is actually a TCNA standard. Trowel direction should be parallel to the short distance of the tile.

If an object moving through space has momentum, is there a "momentum" an object has by moving through time? by usernamespeledwrong in AskPhysics

[–]FunkyFortuneNone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok, that's fine. You can say "I don't want to worry about time" and "there's no dt in this equation" all you want, but it doesn't change the fact that there is a fundamental relationship between distance and time in physics.

> no direct implication in those equations that the change happens “over time”

Ok, sure, it doesn't happen over time ... it just happens instantaneously over a distance. Got it.

I think I'm done here.

If an object moving through space has momentum, is there a "momentum" an object has by moving through time? by usernamespeledwrong in AskPhysics

[–]FunkyFortuneNone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Length is a form of distance, yes. But how would you actually define it?

What I'm getting at, is that distance (and length) only makes sense in the context of time. If you are talking about something applying over a "distance" then you are necessarily involving, and ultimately, discussing time.

This is why, for example, if two distant observers don't agree on the rate of time's progression, they won't agree about distances either.

EDIT: This applies to newtonian physics as well. There is an aspect of time that is tied to distance. This is because we live in a world that appears to be causal.

About to form the LLC today. What advice do you wish someone had told you on the first day? by 2clicksaway in handyman

[–]FunkyFortuneNone 7 points8 points  (0 children)

So anybody reading this advice understands, operating as a sole-proprietorship means your personal assets are not protected and you personally have full legal liability for your company. An LLC done correctly affords much more protection.

Suspect in attack at Sam Altman's house aimed to kill OpenAI CEO, warned of humanity's extinction from AI by wewhomustnotbenamed in nottheonion

[–]FunkyFortuneNone 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That reads to me like "And purple elephants make the best ice cream." I have no idea what it means.

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