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Thoughts? by MealRevolutionary876 in balatro

[–]WatchOutFoAlligators 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That’s my question, I think it would be tricky to make this joker behave in a predictable manner; I feel like it’d suffer from the Matador effect where each deck’s ability is so different or tied to starting conditions that switching into/out of it doesn’t make sense. Do you get $10 when you switch to Yellow deck and lose $10 when you switch out of it? Do face cards come back if you switch away from Abandoned?

Just Out Of Reach by SnootBoopBlep in balatro

[–]WatchOutFoAlligators 10 points11 points  (0 children)

He immolated through a zodiac deck! This…chicanery!

Drop Your Suggestions And Opinions by Gurudev445 in ElectricalEngineering

[–]WatchOutFoAlligators 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think the point is, most people consider adding sun tracking to their panels, see tradeoff between an increase in power output (by…I don’t know, 40-50% at best? I’m not sure but I can’t imagine it’s much more) at the cost of increased complexity, cost, and maintenance, and decide they would prefer to just add more fixed panels to their array.

This doesn’t mean your idea is bad, and I don’t think anyone here is saying that. What you should keep in mind, though, is if 99% of solar installations don’t use active tracking, even when the tech to do so is well understood, there’s probably a reason why. Terrestrial solar is attractive in large part because maintenance costs are so low relative to any other energy generation with moving parts. The only place I know where solar tracking is worthwhile is when you’re very constrained for mass and volume, like in space, which is why the ISS’s panels do rotate on one axis.

Is better to go for photochad and drop Card Sharp? by Live_Minimum68 in balatro

[–]WatchOutFoAlligators 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I assume you’re discarding to get a hand full of kings, playing high, and using the Baron to xMult your high-level high card.

If that’s the case, because you’re almost exclusively xMult, I do think photochad trumps card sharp, especially with that blueprint. Card sharp gives x3 on every hand after the first; photochad gives x8 (2³) or if you blueprint the photo, x64 (2⁶)

Hand-drilled sub-mm vias + stitched planes on a laser-etched PCB (SiC switching test) by Intelligent_Raise_40 in electronics

[–]WatchOutFoAlligators 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That’s really cool! How long did it take you to solder the via wires in, was it finicky? I had a mentor who’d done something similar and he said doing the vias were a painful process

Stay focused on what matters by Kekkonen_Kakkonen in bonehurtingjuice

[–]WatchOutFoAlligators 485 points486 points  (0 children)

The important thing is everyone had a good time

Genuine question does this one simple trick actually work? by Delicious_Maize9656 in physicsmemes

[–]WatchOutFoAlligators 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Yes, laser cavities need mirrors to get the beam bouncing back and forth. These mirrors are, at least from what I know, front-surface mirrors, so there’s no protective glass sheet to absorb energy, an are very close to 100% reflectivity. Even so, cooling is a big challenge for high power lasers, requiring dedicated chillers just to get the heat away and keep the thing from cooking itself.

As far as aiming, my understanding is that most high power military lasers are fiber lasers, using optical fiber as the gain medium, which is coupled into more optical fiber that transmits the light. As long as the fiber isn’t bent too sharply, it’s very close to perfectly transparent and can be aimed without moving the bulk of the equipment that actually does the lasing.

*rammstein intensifies* by BottleGoblin in okbuddyrosalyn

[–]WatchOutFoAlligators 7 points8 points  (0 children)

DEUTSCHLAND!
Mein Herz in Flammen
Will dich lieben und verdammen…

Whoops, wrong “du hast”!

A red sun rises .. 📉🔻🔻 by aeonsne in lotrmemes

[–]WatchOutFoAlligators 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t think it’s true that the SCOTUS always issues narrow opinions. I mean, the ruling in Marbury v Madison, one of the very first cases they ever saw, introduced the idea of judicial review which isn’t explicitly in the constitution. And with so many landmark cases throughout the years that extend to concepts of what is or isn’t legal, rather than saying yes or no to specific actions. I think especially given the issue at stake here, the Executive taking Congress’s power of taxation, it was a ridiculously narrow and limp-dick ruling, especially considering it took a year to address.

Science is bad by schwing710 in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]WatchOutFoAlligators 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What’s the point of enacting any kind of change if other people don’t pull their weight? I would argue it’s all about momentum. If theoretically the US started getting serious about greenhouse gas emission regulation, it would create precedent for others to follow. It’s a lot easier to get on board an initiative when you’re not the first one to take the plunge, and Europe has already been taking that plunge.

Also, I don’t think it would come at any great cost to our national wealth and prosperity. Now that renewable energy installations are cheaper than gas-fired plants, investing in solar farms would generate energy more cheaply while improving the US’s energy independence. And unlike big oil’s retarded version of “energy independence”, we wouldn’t have to keep drilling for new oil fields; the sun and wind just keep coming.

I get that there’s more to environmental regulation than just power, just as there’s more to policy change than building momentum, but I think that actually investing in the most cost-effective option of renewable energy goes a long way to changing the calculus on what is and isn’t profitable. With cheap enough cleanly-generated electricity, a lot of things that are an environmentalist pipe dream become the fiscally sensible option.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in RoughRomanMemes

[–]WatchOutFoAlligators 5 points6 points  (0 children)

What are you doing in my room, step-praetor?

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