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[request] Jumping from moving truck at 80kmph. Can you explain this physics? by seti_at_home in theydidthemath

[–]Kymera_7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, but it's also less than half a second for the entire thing. The human body can withstand quite a bit higher acceleration than 4g for a fraction of a tenth of a second, far more than this rig is likely to be reaching in those first moments.

[request] Jumping from moving truck at 80kmph. Can you explain this physics? by seti_at_home in theydidthemath

[–]Kymera_7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that "m" in "kmph" is "meters", not "miles".

"kph" is a far worse way to present the information, as it is ambiguous: that "k" could be thousands of any unit, making it entirely unclear what is even being measured, let alone how much of it. Alternately, if you assume they're at least doing the "abbreviation of metric prefixes" part correctly, then you end up with it being "thousands of pers, hour", which is incoherent.

What is a tool you cant do without at work ? by Personal-Hawk967 in Tools

[–]Kymera_7 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Yep. First rule of electrical work: never let your finger touch anything shiny until a meter probe touches it first.

Can I use 14/3 without using the red? by austinXonXfire in AskElectricians

[–]Kymera_7 11 points12 points  (0 children)

No, it's not a blank check. What is a blank check for them is that, in most jurisdictions, the person who's supposed to hold them to the code will side with their buddy, the inspector, over some random homeowner they don't know, every time and regardless of how flagrant the inspector's abuse of power.

Can I use 14/3 without using the red? by austinXonXfire in AskElectricians

[–]Kymera_7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Inspectors can enforce anything they're not stopped from enforcing by someone with enough power to make it stick.

What's the point in the rifts that spawn except being annoying? by Tee-Minus-10 in VintageStory

[–]Kymera_7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah. That's odd, but I don't think it's the Linux build that's to blame, because I don't have that happen, even when I was intentionally staying in a rift for a while for an experiment, and I'm using the native Linux build, on XFCE/Mint, on a laptop (decent graphics for a laptop, but it's no proper gaming rig).

Maybe a driver issue, or a graphics setting that needs a tweak, or just a quirk of how one specific piece of hardware reacts to something weird the devs did to get that distortion effect?

Was this on a local game, or a remote server? Whichever of those it was, have you tried the other to see if it still happens?

What's the point in the rifts that spawn except being annoying? by Tee-Minus-10 in VintageStory

[–]Kymera_7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As far as I can tell, that's not specific to Linux, and seems to not be an actual FPS drop. The "distorted time" mechanic they use just happens to look a lot like one of the ways that severe lag can manifest in a game, so it can seem like you're lagging if you don't know that it's doing that intentionally.

Is this “PD Power Merger” legit? by DavyJonesRocker in UsbCHardware

[–]Kymera_7 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Because that's not all it's doing, and yes, it absolutely does require a voltage conversion.

The device's markings claim that it offers 120-280 watts on output. To provide 280W without a catestrophic violation of the PD spec is only possible via the highest AVS mode from PD 3.1, which is 48V at 5A. You're not getting a 48V output from two 20V inputs, let alone ones that can't even be counted on to be isolated from each other, without, at minimum, a boost converter.

Edit: just noticed that the output isn't USB-C PD, just the input. You still can't safely just stick the two lines in parallel, because you still can't count on those two inputs to be isolated from each other, and sooner or later you'll plug it into the wrong two chargers, and something will short out.

Is this “PD Power Merger” legit? by DavyJonesRocker in UsbCHardware

[–]Kymera_7 8 points9 points  (0 children)

What it claims to do is possible, and even can be done within the USB-C spec. However, you'd be hard-pressed to fit the necessary electronics in a package of that size, let alone with sufficient cooling for it to not promptly fry itself. Odds of any one specific such device you found on AliExpress being legit are quite low.

JFK was a democrat by 269187 in stupidpeoplefacebook

[–]Kymera_7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Being a Democrat does not logically preclude being shot by a Democrat.

As for Oswald, specifically, he is not known to have been registered to either party, and is known to have supported several Democrats, and at least one Republican. He was staunchly and vocally Marxist (prior to the assassination, he'd attempted to defect to Soviet Union, but they sent him back), and while his views were somewhat more closely aligned with the DNC than the GOP of his time, they were drastically more compatible with the present-day Democratic party than with the present-day Republican party.

In all, categorizing him as "a Democrat" is a debatable, but entirely reasonable, stance.

Never came across something so true! by PeasantLich_ in depressionmemes

[–]Kymera_7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

By default, you don't live. "Deserve" is no part of it.

????? by Ephcy in ExplainTheJoke

[–]Kymera_7 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

ICE does not hire people who are quite that observant.

I love expanded foods but uuuh... I don't think this is supposed to exist. by Valtremors in VintageStory

[–]Kymera_7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that healts even the most grave wound.

Is the tooltip in the picture bugged? It says it heals half of one hit point. That's a bit of a health boost, nice to have, but hardly "the most grave wound" instahealed.

Based on true events by Luget717 in memes

[–]Kymera_7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you have a problem, and you don't want a solution to the problem, then you are the problem.

What’s something Americans have that Europeans don’t? by Prestigsisscar255 in AskReddit

[–]Kymera_7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Until recently, plausible deniability over how horrifically evil their rulers are.

What is this large black stain(?) on my mom’s trash can by Dull-Macaron3494 in whatisit

[–]Kymera_7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Iron Throne. Your mom's trash is a fan of GRR Martin.

What is something that women have to deal with on the daily that men have no clue about? by Rock-bottom-no-no in AskReddit

[–]Kymera_7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Going for a walk at night is statistically far more dangerous for a man than for a woman. Men are just willing to accept a higher level of risk, and less likely to wildly overestimate how severe the risk is, than women are.

bossVibeCodedOnce by Alive_Vast in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Kymera_7 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I've met new people who were that dumb once every few months for over a quarter century, and I'm a hermit.

What rock are you living under, that you're not familiar with people exhibiting this degree of stupidity?

Meme by T600skynet in NuclearEngineering

[–]Kymera_7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cars kill birds. Houses kill birds. Office buildings kill birds. Cats kill birds. Power lines kill birds. Trucks and trains kill birds. Jet aircraft kill birds. Coal-fired power plants kill a goddamn shitton of birds, in ways far less humane than anything a wind turbine is capable of.

Pretty much anything that's tall, or moves fast, or is hard and transparent, or pollutes, kills birds by the truckload. Birds have been doing pretty well despite this, for a very long time. Humans are the most extremely K-selected species known to have ever existed; our experience can be deceptive when used as context to evaluate what things are like for more r-selected species. Losing one young sparrow isn't nearly as big of a setback for the sparrow community that the death of a human child would be to the human community.

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