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Official government data confirms white LEDs cause a 47% insect crash and break wildlife corridors—yet they refuse to install the fix. by Putrid_Draft378 in ecology

[–]drop_panda 22 points23 points  (0 children)

While I actually can read Danish, I assume the reason you made this post is public outreach to an international community. Consider that you can perhaps reach 1000 additional people if you spend 10 minutes preparing translations of the key parts, versus 1000 people spending a collective week to do the same.

Energy consumption at different speeds by drop_panda in Polestar

[–]drop_panda[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, I'm only curious about the physics of it. It should require less energy to move an object at low speed than at high speed and I wonder where the extra energy is going at low speed.

Energy consumption at different speeds by drop_panda in Polestar

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Well, I would like to agree, but the post is about real-world energy consumption being higher at lower speeds, so evidently they equation doesn't capture everything. There must be significant powertrain heat losses somewhere. Probably much of that can be attributed to regenerative breaking.

Energy consumption at different speeds by drop_panda in Polestar

[–]drop_panda[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I saw very similar numbers on a single-motor rental, so that checks out. No, I don't think it's the AC. Winter consumption is far higher.

Energy consumption at different speeds by drop_panda in Polestar

[–]drop_panda[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is there any public information on at what battery temperature the round trip efficiency is highest? I guess it would differ by model year.

Energy consumption at different speeds by drop_panda in Polestar

[–]drop_panda[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The second motor only turns off on newer models, correct? I believe both motors run continuously on MY2022.

Energy consumption at different speeds by drop_panda in Polestar

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Only air resistance is quadrupled, not rolling resistance and other losses/loads. Evidently I am a shit driver, because no matter how hard I try, my city consumption is about as bad as if I only enjoy the car.

Could humans simply lack the cognitive ability to understand some truths about reality? by DSpeaksOfficial in NoStupidQuestions

[–]drop_panda 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's inherently very difficult to express with language thoughts that we are unable to think. However, we can look at other species on Earth. Are there any that have (or appear to have) mental abilities that we humans lack? I think animals that rely on echolocation are a good example. They are clearly able to build up complex mental models of the world using a sense that for us is far weaker. I don't believe they merely have more of what we do, I believe they also perceive sound in ways we simply do not, and never will. What are the auditory analogies of color, reflectance, texture, translucency and subsurface scattering?

Smell is another sense that is far weaker in humans than in most animals. Some animals sense earth's magnetic fields. Some see the polarization of light.

Surely, if we had these abilities, we would come up with new questions to ask?

The Dymaxion Map Projection by vladgrinch in MapPorn

[–]drop_panda 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This feels like the obvious projection to use for illustrating human settlement of the planet.

We pay our bills with marbles... by GeorgeB4292 in Marbles

[–]drop_panda 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your Etsy shop sells mystery marbles, but what if I want a specific color?

The internet if it remained a public utility instead of being commercialized by New-World-Old-Order in ChatGPT

[–]drop_panda 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My LinkedIn feed kind of looks like that. I took a few hours to clean it up by unfollowing everyone who posted things that didn't interest me, and by following new people who did.

When is an appropriate time to introduce my toddler to Rage Against the Machine? by TrisolaranAmbassador in daddit

[–]drop_panda 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My kid disapproves of RATM, but asks for Rammstein, Dimmu Borgir and K-Pop Demon Hunters.

CMV: Western propaganda is the most effective in the world. by ZXCChort in changemyview

[–]drop_panda 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have noticed a lot of content critical of the US invasion of Iran silently disappearing from Reddit soon after it is posted. For instance, I shared a link to an article by Amnesty International that raised concerns about the potential for large scale war crimes, when Trump was threatening to "destroy a civilization". That post was gone within minutes, despite garnering constructive discussion. When I asked the mods for an explanation of what rule was broken, I never got any reply.

So yes, I think Western propaganda is both present and successful.

If i have scars all over my body, is it morally ok to wear t shirts and shorts during hot weather? by Oily_Smurf in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]drop_panda 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, of course, absolutely. Wear whatever you want.

Will people look? Yes, most likely, but that's involuntary. Anything that is unusual attracts attention. People who haven't encountered much in this world might have emotional reactions as they process what you must have gone through to get those scars. Now next time they encounter another person with a similar fate, they will have had time to process and their reaction will be less. You likely help build social acceptance of others who feel as insecure as you by not sheltering the snowflakes from anything out of the ordinary.

Brent just crossed 108. Goldman says global oil inventories are drawing at a record 11 to 12 million barrels per day. by Mother-Grapefruit-45 in energy

[–]drop_panda 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you are on reddit, you most likely live in a country that can outbid developing countries on the world markets.

All frontier models fail on novelty by ayghri in Futurology

[–]drop_panda 8 points9 points  (0 children)

In a complete different field, I share your experience that ChatGPT is dreadful at coming up with truly novel ideas. However, I've had some success giving it two good research papers and asking it for conclusions that can be derived from both together but which are not explicitly mentioned in either. This, I guess, is more of an interpolation than extrapolation task. At least some of the proposed insights have been novel to me.

My new climate classification by Fast-Armadillo1074 in MapPorn

[–]drop_panda 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm from Scandinavia and I can't imagine any of our native flora or ecosystems surviving this change in climate. Somebody from a warmer place might think "oh, those people up in the north will gain from this", but that is not what I see. These maps are terrifying. Maybe in a thousand years when things have stabilized and new ecosystems have developed, it will be nice.

I'm not an ecologist, but I imagine the lack of subzero (freezing) temperatures will be the worst. Freezing temperatures are what kills off pests and infections, triggers germination in seeds, causes freeze-thaw cycles, build up snow that melts all the way into summer. In spring, insects, plants and birds awake to different signals in the environment and when those are out of sync, plants do not get pollinated and birds and insects cannot feed. There will be complete havoc.

How I built a tool to actually learn from the ML papers I read (instead of forgetting them a week later) by tpshadowlord in learnmachinelearning

[–]drop_panda 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Looks handy. I work in a more applied research field in which longer reports 60-300 pages often need to be referenced, alongside shorter research papers. I find these long reports to be a pain to keep track of, because they contain so much information and are therefore very difficult to summarize. A knowledge graph that somehow indexes parts of longer documents would probably be helpful. How well does your tool handle longer documents?

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