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[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

you can just put a flywheel on synchronous machine and it also works, especially where you have infra left over after coal plant shutdown or something similar

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 6 points 4 days ago (9 children)

they might have done it this way because hydro, nuclear (or any steam turbine based) or gas (or any gas turbine based) generation is rotating generation, which helps to stabilize grid in a way that solar or (some of) wind power doesn't. on top of that, many of solar installations won't output energy without mains (grid-followers). getting rid of that would be a is a complex problem that would require infrastructure buildout and policy changes

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 10 points 4 days ago

random sample of 1000 people is a decent one, they even included error bars:

The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points at a 95 per cent confidence level.

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago

really, happens to the best of us

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago

the same way they did in 2021

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

ah yes chatbot seller says these things will become so capable, they're gonna destroy the world, just you wait and see, but need trillion dollars in financing first. op have you eaten your daily recommended pebble today?

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

you don't accidentally launch 13 (or so) drones from belarus going west

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

if your brain does that without drugs i'd suggest you check it with a neurologist because it's not usual. maybe there will be some new kind of epilepsy named after you

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I have excellent vision normally and don’t need glasses, I can see things from extremely fair away and my eyes have a wide FOV (my peripheral is great)

it sounds a lot like psychedelics and not any usual human experience

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 3 points 2 weeks ago

can these things be reflashed?

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Manufacturers, knowingly or unknowingly, use commercial-grade PG when making cough syrups to cut costs.

i'd note that there's zero technical reason why DEG would end up in PG. reaction of water with ethylene oxide gives you ethylene glycol, diethylene glycol and higher analogues and these are then separated by distillation. propylene glycol is made from propylene oxide instead, and it's more expensive than ethylene oxide. diethylene glycol has little use on its own, at least compared to other glycols

however,

The physical properties of diethylene glycol make it an excellent counterfeit for pharmaceutical-grade glycerine (also called glycerol) or propylene glycol

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 17 points 2 weeks ago

this can be dealt with

After the Nazi invasion of Denmark this placed them in danger; it was illegal at the time to send gold out of Germany, and were it discovered that Laue and Franck had done so, they could have faced prosecution. To prevent this, de Hevesy concealed the medals by dissolving them in aqua regia and placing the resulting solution on a shelf in his laboratory at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen. After the war, he returned to find the solution undisturbed and precipitated the gold out of the acid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_de_Hevesy#World_War_II_and_beyond

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