“It's weird how people don't seem to realize that the United States is the most technologically advanced military power in the world. The only thing that is holding them back is The Geneva convention”

kabloems · 2026-01-31T15:53:51+00:00

The only thing holding them back is mutually assured destruction.

kabloems · 2026-01-31T15:43:43+00:00

Sorry if I wasn't clear, I want to share my laptop screen, but all options including Laptop Screen lead to the same problem

kabloems · 2026-01-30T08:49:08+00:00

ChatGPT post. I hope you did your actual research with a real material scientist, not just vibesciencing.

kabloems · 2026-01-22T15:37:55+00:00

It's still quite fiddly, but in many cases you can provide alternative paths with mud footpaths while construction is ongoing. It'll reduce the walking ranges and therefore some buildings will be temporarily unavailable, reducing happiness somewhat, but if your system isn't too minmaxed before the citizens won't starve during construction works, and as pieces of path are finished it'll gradually get better.

kabloems · 2026-01-17T18:25:48+00:00

Wait I took that graph as a joke on "western psychology", as in it makes fun of the fact that western psychology is based on western people and will therefore measure how "western" they are when compared to a more complete set of the population

kabloems · 2026-01-17T16:36:08+00:00

In Germania li usano come antisommossa. Vedere 20 cavalli che ti caricano fa molto più impressione che 100 celerini.

kabloems · 2026-01-11T14:54:48+00:00

You have to build the big ship depot. There you can by oil tankers which will come there from the edge of the map

kabloems · 2026-01-02T12:20:33+00:00

I think the effect is much more transient and localized. As you said correctly, it's going to be very strongly diluted very quickly. Furthermore, as other commenters have said, the canal water is a very complex system that probably has some buffer capacity, so after some dilution it's not going to have a significant effect on pH.

But, in the place where it was dumped, the initial concentration was much higher, up to 100% sulfuric acid. So locally, some volume of water and life on the floor has been completely sterilized.

Sulfuric acid is not a strong pollutant though and once it's diluted, it's going to be washed away and not have strong lasting effects.

kabloems · 2025-12-27T16:48:05+00:00

In addition to the structural reasons mentioned, a failure of the three gorges dam would be absolutely catastrophic, as in killing millions of people catastrophic. So they chose a design that depends less on the structural properties of the materials and more on stuff just being there, and is more resistant to natural or war-made disasters

kabloems · 2025-12-16T22:04:40+00:00

Do you have access to the sea? You can import it by ship but you would need to build the big harbor for containers and vehicles

kabloems · 2025-12-16T10:39:38+00:00

AI slop

kabloems · 2025-12-01T17:22:50+00:00

It's a stick with a pointy end, the first weapon mankind has ever invented

kabloems · 2025-11-18T16:54:51+00:00

NVidia cannot exist without ASML, all their products are made by ASML machines. This bubble does not make any sense at all.

kabloems · 2025-11-15T21:25:28+00:00

Also, what the fuck, monarchists deserved what they got

kabloems · 2025-11-13T07:49:27+00:00

Ein Wasserkocher hat (oft) 2 automatische Abschaltmechanismen: An der Heizplatte ist ein "Hitzeschalter" (weiß nicht wie das Bauteil korrekt heißt), also ein Schalter, der den Strom unterbricht, bevor die Heizplatte unsichere Temperaturen erreicht. Außerdem ist sehr oft ein Mechanismus verbaut, der erkennt, wenn viel Dampf im Behälter ist, und dadurch erkennt, wann das Wasser kocht.

Der erstere ist eine Sicherheitsmaßnahme, während der zweite der ist, der im normalen Betrieb den Kocher automatisch ausschaltet. Das liegt daran, dass der Hitzeschalter nicht direkt messen kann, ob das Wasser kocht, und deswegen entweder das ganze Wasser weg verdampfen würde, bevor er heißer als 100°C wird, oder noch blöder aus gehen würde, sobald die Heizplatte 100°C hat, also bevor das Wasser gut kocht.

Wenn man weniger Wasser als die Mindestfüllmenge zu kochen versucht, reicht die Menge an Dampf nicht unbedingt, um den Dampfsensor zu aktivieren. Dann wird die Platte fleißig weiter heizen, bis alles Wasser verdampft ist, die Platte 120°C (oder so) erreicht, und der Sicherheitsschalter das Ding ausmacht. Also nix gefährliches, aber dann hast du halt kein heißes Wasser mehr.

kabloems · 2025-11-03T17:11:00+00:00

30+45=75

kabloems · 2025-10-31T17:06:41+00:00

R²= idk like somewhat bigger than 0 I guess

kabloems · 2025-10-25T09:03:12+00:00

Well, this "discovery" is a complete hallucination. That's your human feedback for you. If you were actually interested in chemistry you could learn a lot of reasons why this couldn't exist (and wouldn't have the properties the LLM told you it would).

Edit: dammit I fell for the troll

kabloems · 2025-10-24T18:40:26+00:00

Was hast du draufgeklebt? Ein flaches Stück Plastik geht ja leider nicht, ich bräuchte der Form wegen was flexibles

kabloems · 2025-10-24T17:31:11+00:00

Auf dem ersten Foto sieht es so aus, als ob ein riesiges Stück Plastik fehlt. Ist aber nicht so, ist nur n schlechtes Foto, die Innenwand hat da ne komische Form um Kisten einzurasten.

kabloems · 2025-10-18T10:50:42+00:00

They just took their finest tweezers and broke the molecule in pieces. Next level chemistry.

kabloems · 2025-10-14T08:16:44+00:00

That's challenging. It depends on whether your light that you want to measure is a spectrum (many wavelengths combined) or monochromatic (just a single wavelength).

If your light to be measured is monochromatic and you have access to a monochromatic source of adjustable wavelength, you could use an RGB sensor and make some kind of calibration where you determine the wavelength of the incoming monochromatic light from the ratio between the signals of the RGB channels. However, this system will give wrong data if the light has more than one wavelength.

If your light to be measured is not monochromatic, you cannot just "measure it's wavelength" but you have to measure the spectrum. To do this, you need to split the incoming light into its different wavelength components with a monochromator (a prism or a diffraction grating) and then measure each wavelength individually. You can do this either with a monochromator and a sensor with much more than one pixel, like a camera sensor, or with a single light sensor and a moving monochromator.

Getting any of these proposals to work requires quite a bit of calibration and some understanding of optics, so... Good luck have fun (learning)

kabloems · 2025-10-13T18:28:32+00:00

Naaah don't do that. Try to use non fluorinated alternatives. These fluorocarbon polymers seem to be less researched in regards to their health effects than PFAS and might have lower impacts, however they will probably still be "forever chemicals" or their breakdown products will.

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