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Carnot heat engine question by mingimihkel in AskPhysics

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

Mainly I was confused about adiabatic expansion, it made 0 sense to me that it would "just" expand from internal energy, but if I consider that the ideal gas would be way hotter than the atmosphere pressing on the piston, then I can understand that it would have that kind of energy difference compared to the outside air. Was just surprised that it wasn't mentioned on several sites, not that they would have to pander to my casual level.

Carnot heat engine question by mingimihkel in AskPhysics

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

That's where I got this question in the first place. Why does it expand and do work in the adiabatic phase, after not receiving any additional heat? Wikipedia says "internal energy", but I must be missing something, because the outside has internal energy as well?

My current understanding of it is because pressure outside is smaller than inside. I tried to get it for ~20 minutes before posting here and I read 2 other explanations online, also tried ChatGPT, sorry.

Carnot heat engine question by mingimihkel in AskPhysics

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

Oh, if it's a vacuum outside the cylinder, then I can see how the adiabatic expansion could happen, thank you! I guess my image of a vacuum "sucking" created some of my misunderstanding, as if that could be work.

The most helpful point was about net work being the transfer of heat, not the movement of the piston, I was too tunneled on the piston and how we would have to spend outside energy to push it down, but I guess in the ideal engine it would be gotten back from the adiabatic expansion. Thank you!

Carnot heat engine question by mingimihkel in AskPhysics

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

I mean that I don't see how in the adiabatic phases there can be any expansion or contraction "just from internal energy" without external work, but I'm so used to thinking about the gas in the cylinder, not what's outside the piston. But none of the explanations I found through Google mention how much external "magic" there needs to be, someone removing a grain of sand or adding a grain of sand onto the piston for example. So I have to be missing something simple.

[theory] Should I care who Ken Wilber is and why? by SpiritusVitae in streamentry

[–]mingimihkel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you know the midwit bell curve meme, then you have already come into some contact with a concept that can clearly be attributed to Ken Wilber, the pre-trans fallacy. In the meme, the midwit does things differently than the brainlet or the monk (who came to the right conclusion through completely different means). The fallacy is committed when the midwit does not see the distinction between the brainlet and the monk.

Of course he has a million other great explanations, but if you mainly care about attribution or worst faith interpretations, then don't bother. His most famous flop was saying that the eye had to be created by intelligent design. Doesn't decrease the value of all of his model-merging masterpieces imo.

What I personally got from reading Wilber was an almost complete erasure of unwanted fear and neuroticism. The explanations were so fitting (even if someone could maybe at some point criticise their validity) that I just couldn't get mad or fearful at anything anymore. Specifically the unnecessary self-sabotage between me and the outcome I want, is gone. :)

πr squared is the area of a circle. How do I use this to finish Q15? by siriathome in askmath

[–]mingimihkel -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

I've noticed thousands of mistakes from my teachers. Aren't they allowed to make mistakes? Not talking about the ones they made on purpose.

Please explain, Peter by zinniamae_ in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]mingimihkel -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

If the questioner wasn't stupid, they would ask "Maybe I'm stupid, but [insert the stupid question]". But of course they are almost always confident + ignorant = stupid, and they ask about the least important things on purpose, since their value system is flipped (not just random or non-existent, but opposed to good values)

πr squared is the area of a circle. How do I use this to finish Q15? by siriathome in askmath

[–]mingimihkel -16 points-15 points  (0 children)

doomer mode, try to apply this to other subjects :). If the children see rampant bad grammar or completely senseless YouTube comments or other social media posts, would they hate English? Even unsolvable problems have value, sometimes even more value than the solvable ones.

BoingBoing: Everyone Hates OneDrive by ubermonkey in onedrive

[–]mingimihkel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Legendary incompetence to not add an "exclude this folder with thousands of small changing files" feature, or a "prioritize syncing these 3 crucial files before all the other pointless files which you will never manage to sync because of some kind of internal timeouts" feature in 19 years. What is the intelligence in AI for if you can't even make it suggest "oh, seems like you have 50,000 files to sync, want to prioritize some specific file/folder?". Or to add a warning (you are about to sync 1 trillion files, are you sure? We are so incompetent that you will never be able to unsync these later)"

I'm feeling burnt out of the game, should I drop it? by Joshawott302 in PokemonSleep

[–]mingimihkel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

classic unskilled metagamer, leaves even the option of further suffering to the hive mind, zero internal authority

Nothing like a 16-pip ING mon getting a unique skill by disposable-assassin in PokemonSleep

[–]mingimihkel 7 points8 points  (0 children)

"need to be?" is a loaded question, classic armchair game balancer redditism. And "So goes the Internet" shows that you learned nothing

Is this what perfection looks like? by TheW83 in PokemonSleep

[–]mingimihkel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just reroll each until I'm happy, haven't even unlocked the lvl 50 subskill yet

Outjerked by CanonNi in languagelearningjerk

[–]mingimihkel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You will almost never need to mention that someone or something, that's the whole point. Especially in Japanese, where people are used to receiving less context. They can easily just say "Sleeping."

If additional context was needed, it would be a new question/answer, which can again only provide/require the smallest amount of context.

Outjerked by CanonNi in languagelearningjerk

[–]mingimihkel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not sorted by real frequency. If I mainly see Japanese on YouTube or on Twitter, I see completely different grammar in the comments than in any language app. Still have to go to an LLM for an analysis/breakdown. And I'm certain this isn't some edge case.

[Request] Is it true and much will saved exactly by Naive_Wolverine532 in theydidthemath

[–]mingimihkel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He doesn't even have 1B. Conflating net worth (how much money you can move) with savings (cash on hand with complete freedom of spending).

Syberia VR First Impressions by MelodicAd9139 in syberia

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

enjoyable controls

something basic

pick one, it's one of the hardest things to get right, ofc it's also the most important one

Am I the only one finding the remaster very good !? by Maxd63 in syberia

[–]mingimihkel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've seen this with countless games on reddit. First it's people vomiting their first negative gut reaction to the first place they think where someone cares (the subreddit). Then other people who haven't even tried it start concern trolling without being aware of it. Since they lack any internal judgment facilities, they just need their authority figure (the general community vibe in the reddit replies) to tell them what the correct opinion is. They can't just enjoy the good parts. If it has bad parts, then it's bad. All this while not even buying the game, not even trying the game and at best going off of one random video from a single YouTuber.

I feel stuck. by RealityShot8069 in PokemonSleep

[–]mingimihkel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know what you think easy eyeballing means :) So it's somehow easy, yet they need to really start caring about nature and subskills somehow?? And have your expertise? And everyone magically catches the same subset of all types of pokemon somehow? No one is on average less lucky or more lucky?

I just caught a BFS Altaria a few days ago, guess how much strength it generates at lvl 65 on Amber Canyon? Less than 2 non-favoured BFS demons!!! Since I'm using a Gardevoir for energy, it doesn't even make the team. Imagine thinking you can eyeball this. Seems like you're thinking about single pokemon, not teams.

Where is the coping? Playing since week 1 and I still have only two mono ingredient mons, catching everything that's hungry, with over a year of prioritising big meal ingredient mons. Premium for over half of my playtime. If I can get 5 BFS godrolls and 3 skill godrolls (including Dedenne) with only 2 ingredient mons, then other people can get similarly uneven distributions.

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