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danblondell , vor 2 Monaten

@TechConnectify @jalcine
I just finished an engrossing biography of Nero, and left with the impression that it’s either always been thus or that things like this are somewhat cyclical.

ThaMunsta , vor einem Monat

@TechConnectify Looks like a truely electrifying evening

oversteer , vor 2 Monaten

@TechConnectify my 2011 Nissan Juke would put the wipers into their service position the same way.

Nornec , vor 2 Monaten

@TechConnectify This got me thinking about if the glass got cracked what would happen to the sensor or if it would go haywire if, say, a rock flew up and chipped the glass near to the sensor.

mlepage , vor 2 Monaten

@TechConnectify Photon harvesting.

Thebratdragon , vor einem Monat

@TechConnectify Voltive Offerings?

steelman , vor 2 Monaten

@TechConnectify I like touch controls on my induction plate. YMMV. Cheers.

thousandleaves , vor einem Monat

@TechConnectify This was a neat video, and the best part about it for me was where you explain how glass-top stoves work primarily by /radiation/ instead of conduction (I would watch a whole separate video just on that). I feel better about ditching my gas stove after watching this. Thanks!

jonas_trostle , vor 2 Monaten

@TechConnectify my dad used to pull into the intersection, wait right until the last minute, then flick the turn light on and turn simultaneously. He liked to keep people on their toes

INeedaNewName , vor 2 Monaten

@TechConnectify It's funny, many times I will be in an exit only lane, and have my directional on. It crosses my mind routinely whether I need it on, or not, but I leave it on because why not. I learned to drive over 40 years ago, and we were taught to always use turn signals.

TechConnectify OP , vor 2 Monaten

@tomlegamer that's a cool label, I've never seen one here distinguish the defrost heaters as a load. All the ones I've seen just list a max current draw, which is always during defrost.

IIRC my fridge says it's a ~4A device, 400-500W ish, but plugged into a power meter it only draws about 100W when running

atatassault , vor 2 Monaten

@TechConnectify @gigantos

The refrigerator has summoned Maxwell's Demon to rid the air of all water molecules.

krinkle , vor 2 Monaten

@TechConnectify

A terrible cable mess, to make one cry, but it also looks like a face that's crying.

This picture is like a Quine. It is a picture of something that makes me feel the very same thing it depicts yet without being semantically equivalent (connecting the dual meaning).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing)

cabbey , vor 2 Monaten

@TechConnectify was this from simmerstat explorations and testing?

TechConnectify OP , vor 3 Monaten

@teotwaki And, not to put too fine a point on it, but when you approach the scale of a 2-million sub YouTube channel - algorithms simply are a must.

Mastodon leadership needs to engage with that fact if they want the platform to be usable for folks like me.

It's still alright for me at the moment, but I think that's purely down to how small Fedi remains at this point. I've got something of a reputation here when across all of YT the vast majority don't know who I am.

FifiSch , vor 2 Monaten

@TechConnectify @teotwaki I personally don't think Mastodon will ever offer this functionality as Mr. Rochko seems very deeply invested in this idea of early Twitter being the perfect social network.

But I also believe that as the ActivityPub itself is gaining a momentum, these options will sooner than later become available either via third-party services or natively by other fedi networks.

TechConnectify OP , vor 3 Monaten

And consider what that looks like from the other side:

"Suddenly this person is bringing up outside issues to muddy the conversation! The people I watch on the news warned me about this. They won't stay on topic because they're disingenuous and they know it."

We have to listen to each other and engage with the individual things we are wrong about. We have to be very careful about labeling an entire person as "wrong." That presumes they cannot change or improve themselves: a very dangerous idea

atatassault , vor 2 Monaten

@TechConnectify

"Suddenly this person is bringing up outside issues to muddy the conversation! The people I watch on the news warned me about this. They won't stay on topic because they're disingenuous and they know it."

I feel this with AI discourse on Mastodon. Virtually every anti-AI post that I see runs on emotion, and when I try to explain A) the physics of how new AI models are based on how our own brains work and B) Technology isn't evil, Capitalism is,

The emotional reaction from them to me is amplified tenfold. People are very unwilling to admit they are just fleshy computers and they hold that it's impossible for anything to surpass their own brains. And if they DO somehow concede that, the response is always of the form "the AI doesn't have a soul, therefore, I hate it."

mikebabcock , vor einem Monat

@TechConnectify I fully support this decision. I think you need a specific hashtag so we can all join in.
#mastadumb #mastodouche? Just saying.