Them being in space really is the only comparison. I wouldn’t expect to see something like Let That Be Your Last Battlefield to feel like a good Star Wars story in the same way that I wouldn’t expect Riker and Picard to fight each other with laser swords atop planetary Mt Doom while screaming their feelings at each other after 2 movies of building up their relationship.
So a lightyear is an acceptable non-cancelation of units [(m/s)*year] but kilowatt hours [(j/s)*s] isnt. Got it.
It definitely does provide information as my 50 watt lightbulb will run for an absurd number of years when hooked up to a nuclear generator and will be completely vaporized by the nuclear bomb.
Also keep in mind your average person likely doesn’t remember their physics classes and how joules, time, and watts all relate to each other and that introducing new names to something just creates more confusion and headache and dumbasses phoning into their electric companies about how “my lightbulbs don’t take joules they take watts and why am I paying for joules when I want watts.”
kWh conveys the relevant information without introducing other names that can create confusion among the stupidest and most karen-like people you know.
The important thing is that leaving units uncanceled is a valid way to communicate the relevant factors of what a number represents.
Yes technically kWh cancels down to joules, but that doesn’t communicate the relevant info of how a device uses that energy during a period of time. In other words Work (Watts) multiplied by Time (hours).
Uranium has 2x10¹³ joules of energy stored. You can use all that energy at once in a bomb and explode a city in a second, a lot of Work done very quickly, ooooor you could put it into a reactor and power a city and do a lot of Work during a much longer time period.
Glad to see reading comprehension is at an all time high and I definitely didn’t explain how total joules doesn’t actually mean anything for something drawing power in relation to the time its drawing power. And I didn’t make any comparison about how a 2lb lump of uranium contains the same energy whether it’s detonated in a bomb or slowly released in a reactor.
Because the power draw of appliances is measured in watts, so a 60 watt light bulb when lit draws 60 watts of power over the course of one hour. So if I have roughly 100 lightbulbs at 60 watts hooked up to my house, then I’ll be using 6 kW of power each hour.
It tells us more information about the rate of use of that energy. It’s like the difference between a 2 lb sphere of uranium being exploded in a fraction of a second vs 2 lb lf uranium fuel in a reactor operating for however long that much fuel lasts for. Both contain the same amount of joules of energy at the end of the process, one just uses all of those joules in one go and the other slowly releases that energy over a longer period of time.
I could imagine a scenario where gal/ft² is useful. Like with grocery store shelving figuring shelving and product stacking. If liquid storage containers are stackable then you have have more gallons per square footage of shelf space. Or of they’re not stackable, then taller containers would hold more liquid in the same shelf space than shorter containers with the same footprint.
Yeah it seems odd to represent something as a volume/area, but that is the relevant information you’re comparing and it’s intuitive how that number changes based on changes to volume as projected onto an area. Bigger number points toward a more efficient use of shelving.
The difference is negligible. The widespread opiate crisis in the US isn’t because of street drugs and militant cartels and gangs. It’s because of over prescribing of opiates by doctors overworked in understaffed hospitals, or because it’s the only med insurance will cover. The end result is the same, both are corrupt private organizations that have taken power from their respective governments through flexing violence and money. And if you don’t think major corporations can’t be violent, just ask any number of whistleblowers who are 6 feet under.
and those numbers will skyrocket with Republicans in power as weapons flood into Israel.
Let’s not pretend Republicans aren’t going to actively make the situation 1000x worse compared to the dems.
It’s a lot. Like a lot a lot. GPUs have about 150 billion transistors but those transistors only make 1 connection in what is essentially printed in a 2d space on silicon.
Each neuron makes dozens of connections, and there’s on the order of almost 100 billion neurons in a blobby lump of fat and neurons that takes up 3d space. And then combine the fact that multiple neurons in patterns firing is how everything actually functions and you have such absurdly high number of potential for how powerful human brains are.
At this point, I’m not sure there’s enough gpus in the world to mimic what a human brain can do.
Why not? There’s still people born who’ve never played those games and come across them. And besides preserving legacy media is actually a worthwhile cause.
It’s just how basic demographics analysis works. There’s a lot more people who are struggling with mental health problems/mental disabilities that make them more prone to believing scams. And so many games and storefronts use dark patters to make it extremely easy to make undesired purchases or have no safeguards to prevent children from using their parents credit card for purchases.
All these kinds of people vastly outnumber dumb finance bros on their yachts making stupid money decisions.
Def email the researchers, so many of them would gladly give you access to their research papers because they also hate the science publishing industry.
people violating your trust?
Implying any of us are equivalent to a $1.5 trillion social media monopoly that has more political and social power than any other organization on the planet. Sure Jan, any one of us is exactly like that.
The severity of punishment does not match the severity of violating the policy. We’ve already figured this idea out in real life and across numerous genres of fiction that at this point is a common trope. It’s literally a sci-fi trope at this point of the paradise planet that everyone loves but the biggest flaw is that any infraction against the law however minor is tje death penalty. The concept of fair punishments is literally baked into the constitution through the bill of rights with the 8th amendment, no cruel and unusual punishments, no excessive bail or excessive fines.
Honestly, it holds up. Sure there’s fewer polygons, but more polygons doesn’t mean it looks better.
https://www.copyright.gov/what-is-copyright/
Read up on how exactly copyright works, as soon as you fix a work in a tangible and communicable form, you have a copyright to it. Taking a nude photo of yourself gives you the exclusove copyright of that photo. Taking a tourist photo does give you copyright to that specific photo, but also doesn’t necessarily supercede another existing copyright if that photo is of something else that already had a copyright.
And depending on jurisdictions, your tourist photos might not be fine. For example, in France, they have very strict privacy laws and copyright enforcement, the Eiffel Tower might be public domain, but the light installation is still under copyright. And any modern buildings designed by an architect who died within the last 70 years is still protected by copyright. And on the privacy front, accidentally taking pictures of other people even in tourist areas could actually open you up to a lawsuit, but nobody’s actually tried that yet so it’s up in the air whether it would hold up.
Not what I’m saying. I’m saying using copyright enforcement systems as the workaround to getting non-consenusal nudes taken down from a website is putting even more burden onto already heavily abused systems. That doesn’t have anything to do with the Zucc running ads, it’s because copyright enforcement systems don’t work very well to begin with and are very easily abused by bad actors. It’s not the right tool for the job, and it would be much better to have something specifically dedicated to getting the non-consensual publishing of nude images taken down instead of some bubblegum and twine hack of a solution through copyright enforcement.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/publicity
Its the Right to Publicity. Walmart can record security footage but they shouldn’t be able to use a recording for commercial purposes unless you explicitly give them permission to use it.
It’s been that way for well over a decade, probably based on the vibe of Morpheus breaking the illusion of the Matrix to Neo without actually quoting it correctly.
KYM kinda confirms that theory, paraphrasing the idea of the scene without quoting it directly. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/matrix-morpheus