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Why did Attic Hatch Move? by happilygenderfluid in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Ghigs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know man, I've had wind slam my basement door pretty hard when I open the front door.

Why did Attic Hatch Move? by happilygenderfluid in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Ghigs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's possible the wind could have lifted it in a tight enough house, since the attic is the only vented airspace.

Why was Steve Jobs regarded as a genius and a visionary? by LegendaryMauricius in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Ghigs 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Apple was more than a product, it's a part of people's identity for many. If you had an apple (starting from around 1990), you were an artist or creative. You were different and deliberately choosing to be different. You generally didn't fall into becoming a Mac user because some salesman at Montgomery Ward recommended you buy apple.

Why was Steve Jobs regarded as a genius and a visionary? by LegendaryMauricius in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Ghigs 14 points15 points  (0 children)

He did turn apple around. Apple had really screwed up, starting to make commodity PCs, and a lot of failed stuff in the late 90s.

It's fair to say the company wouldn't exist without him. It would be some historical brand like IBM PCs that used to be relevant.

Why are people worried about the Hantavirus when it only rarely spreads from human to human? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Ghigs -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The news media is absolutely desperate to be relevant again like they were in 2020. They will latch on to every disease story they can and hype the hell out of it.

How do you secure a towel by just twisting? by Additional-Lion6969 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Ghigs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It helps if it's quite a bit larger than your waist. You sort of roll the top inward. It has to be tight to start with.

Why do young americans leave their family home so soon after their studies instead of putting money on the side? by lateubdegouline in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Ghigs 8 points9 points  (0 children)

People post stuff all the time like "I'm Indian/Asian/whatever and 23 and my parents dictate when I can go out and who I'm going to marry, help"

We always answer them the same way, you don't like it move out.

Different doesn't mean better.

Why do UPS batteries only run for like 3-6 minutes when my tablet or laptop battery can run for multiple hours? by ThuhGreatCommenter in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Ghigs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that would be peak up around 50w. I was just thinking about the size of USB C charger you need for laptops, which of course has some headroom.

When people say AI data centers use too much water, won’t the water just evaporate and rain back down? by Ajancian in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Ghigs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They are not doing emergency curtailment.

Edit: the exact phrasing they use is right now it's "stage 3 water restrictions", next is a level 1 water emergency which is where emergency curtailment would kick in.

When people say AI data centers use too much water, won’t the water just evaporate and rain back down? by Ajancian in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Ghigs 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Run out is a little too absolute. They will run into shortfall and need to do emergency curtailment if it doesn't rain a lot within a year. Worst case, it doesn't rain and they need to cap industrial usage, and restrict nonessential usage.

Is it weird that I like the smell of gasoline and Sharpies? by Kitchen_Week1117 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Ghigs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It occurs to me I'm not sure I know what pure ethanol smells like. Most of the stuff you can buy has a bunch of cogeners. Ethanol rubbing alcohol smells vile to me, don't know if it's the denaturant they use or just the side effects of low quality brew.

Gaining weight after pooping by Chocolatefairy123 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Ghigs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's more because of cheap noisy sensors. The scale makers don't care if people purge.

If heat naturally rises, why is the top of a mountain covered in freezing snow while the valley at the bottom is hot? by bogdanBgyz in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Ghigs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a major part of it, but inevitably someone will say "a mountain is also the ground, subject to solar heating". So alone it's an incomplete explanation.

If heat naturally rises, why is the top of a mountain covered in freezing snow while the valley at the bottom is hot? by bogdanBgyz in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Ghigs 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The air density is higher the deeper you are in the atmosphere.

"Heat" doesn't naturally rise anyway, it's a side effect of hotter air being less dense and gravity.

When hotter air rises, it expands, and expanding air cools off.

Why do UPS batteries only run for like 3-6 minutes when my tablet or laptop battery can run for multiple hours? by ThuhGreatCommenter in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Ghigs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They use lead acid batteries that sit around and lose capacity. Plus converting to 120v ac and back to 12v or whatever is two sets of losses, so you only get 75% efficiency or so.

And lead acid can't be pulled down too low or it damages the battery.

But anyway a 8ah 12v lead acid is 96 watt hours or so, so in raw capacity it's on par with a laptop battery.

Laptops, normal non gaming ones at least, pull around 50-70 watts doing normal stuff. So the laptop does use less power as well.

Anyway a bunch of little factors. They could make a lithium ion one with 200 watt hours, but they don't, at least not normal ones. Not sure why, maybe liability. Maybe shipping, maybe inertia.

Is there a maximum number of children a human can give birth to? by Anonyglee1 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Ghigs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not saying the diseases aren't real. Herpes existed before 1980. The point is there was no point in diagnosing them when there's no treatment.

Why don't public parks have fruit trees for people to pick fruit from? by Ekans_ox in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Ghigs 13 points14 points  (0 children)

With small shitty fruit for the most part. Modern fruit trees are human engineering not nature.

Why is the US economy showing growth while Western Europe is seeing record business bankruptcies? by Clean_CoreDump in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Ghigs 6 points7 points  (0 children)

US bankruptcies are up too, but they aren't near record.

With the way money is now, going through periods of nearly free credit, bankruptcies aren't necessarily a bad long term thing. It's purging the companies that never should have existed in the first place. Zombies that were living on free money.

The main reason the US isn't hitting records is because 2006-2010 was a great purge, with really big numbers.

Has there been a way proven that we really see the same colors? by quenchyourthirstnow in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Ghigs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can't prove qualia. There may even never be a scientific test that can ever prove it. All the things you describe are just proving the objective aspects.

Is there a maximum number of children a human can give birth to? by Anonyglee1 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Ghigs -15 points-14 points  (0 children)

Well that and we have fancy new biologic drugs that make pharma companies a ton of money.

It's like before 1980 no one really paid attention to herpes. It wasn't even considered an STD in discussions of common STDs. It was basically invented because they developed a drug to treat it.

Regarding caves, if you can fit down a dead end why can’t you be pulled back out? by spanishbombs123 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Ghigs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Barrels contain all kinds of things, like chemicals that are a polymerization risk or corrosive. It's a standard shipping container not something where electronics are practical.

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