You can thank MOSFETs for that.

The alternative would be using BJTs (bijunctional transistors) which are far less efficient because whichever mode the transistor is conducting in, there will always be a 0.7 voltage drop from the gate to the emitter (since after all they are diodes). In N-channel MOSFETs there is no voltage drop from gate to source. There’s also no current going into the gate, where as with BJTs there are.

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I like my definition better 😂

What the hell does slammed mean?!

No wait let me guess, there was so much pressure in the carcass that it imploded into a black hole and sucked the human into its singularity.

Instead of eating 6 devilled eggs, Try drinking a jug of eggnog!

You assume that by increasing gas prices it would result in people not buying it and hence less CO2 emissions.

The production process for gasoline also contributes in CO2 emissions whether or not humans use it.

The current issue with gasoline (and why prices are increasing) is that gasoline companies aren’t opening up more reserves, because by doing so it will decrease their revenue. I’m not sure what will happen once US gas reserves are finished.

You’re right that it is helping the climate, not for the reason gas prices are expensive.

Each uranium rod has a life of around 6 years before needing replacement, the relative abudance of uranium-235 is about 0.9% compared to uranium 238 which has 98℅

Sure, the decay chain of uranium 235 is long, but the usability of in converting it to nuclear power the uranium rods last 6 years, not billions.

Even if we take all our uranium-235 reserves (which is about 56,304 kilo-tonnes of uranium-235)

1.) It’s unrealistic because we use U-235 for other things 2.) This is a global reserve. Countries haven’t made peace with another yet.

I know niche points, i’ll admit I really dug through the barrel with this one. Nuclear power plants are also quite expensive to maintain and build since these are often built based on the selected site. Also very inefficient as each reaction loses 1.4 neutrons (or else kaboom).

These reasons are why (despite it generating 17℅ of the US electricity with only 92 reactors), countries don’t invest more into nuclear power. Inefficiency + large costs make it unappealing compared to wind which generates 40℅ or even 60℅ (with offshore) of the energy the wind pushes.

I think there’s a very simple explanation, the renewables as in solar and wind energy generation methods show that the world isn’t perfect, that even ignoring the basic notion that natural gas and coal generate CO2 emissions; natural gas, U-235 (used for nuclear power generation), and coal are of a finite supply.

That destroys their ideology that we live in this perfect world with infinite resources, because most conservatives come from a religious background. They are beyond condescending (I know this because I lived in one), even with the world crumbling from gas prices and food, I don’t think they’ll even give a damn that prices are exponentially growing. They live in this fabricated environment abstracted away from the rest of the world.

I recently attended a lecture on dynamic charging of EVs. Theoretically speaking slapping a solar panel on a car to charge it is feasible, but by putting on solar panels it will add a lot more additional weight and will result in larger wind resistance.

The car would ultimately use more if not the same energy (with the additional energy supplied by the solar panel) then if it didn’t have it in the first place.

Please, please don’t tell me right above the toilet is the septic tank…

It not only gets hot, it rapidly gets hot. At my university, it takes a couple of minutes (2 or 3) to reach the Max temperature of 800°F

Just so you know, the byproduct of over integrating technology systems is how monopolies are formed. By implementing tools to only do specific functions, it is fighting against monopolistic power. That is what the “Unix way” is describing.

In essence people are predictable. If people have a google home in their house, they will most likely be using google for email, searching, and messages, and its all tightly over integrated (IE: the home has access to the email, to the messages, and it integrates it into a single device). For me, I dropped google a few years ago. For other people, they may depend on google services more often, so it isn’t just painstakingly forwarding your new email address to applications, they’ll also loose the integration as well that comes with google.

Generally speaking, to combat technology monopoly’s you want to diversify your applications. You basically want to make a system so complicated no one single software has control over it aka a decentralized system. Octave is a decentralized system, in that packages are developed by members in the octave community. Octave integrates those packages in a server but octave doesn’t have control over those packages. Linux, delta chat, lemmy, mastodon, these are all uniquely decentralized systems with all of them inadvertently following the “Unix way.”

I’ve used it before when trying out IDEs. Its really good, its a no bullshit solution to VS code. If you’ve used sublime text, Kate is similar to that as it is quite minimal.

On a spectrum of minimalisim and memory consumption, you have emacs, Vi, VIM at the lower end of the curve. This is for users to customize or to use the smallest memory footprint, than in the median its kdevelop/Kate sublime, and VS codium, and on the far end of spectrum you have your bloat software VS code and ItelliJ idea.

Personally I’m using Vim for my projects in C, C++, Python, octave scripts, sh scripts, and markdown. I like to keep my memory footprint small which is why I use a text editor over a full blown IDE. I have used amd’s Vitis IDE for embedded systems (which is just a fork of VS codium).

Well with Microsoft edge using more memory than Ubuntu desktop or fedora workstation. Fuck yea we are greedy for memory!

Oh this would be so funny if a hanged this image around my university’s fab lab.

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I mean I turned my hobby of math and engineering into a major worthwhile pursuing.

I still don’t hate it yet.

OK, where credit is due, that was a good use.

Touché!

(Yes I take my shitposts seriously)

I thought this meme template was intended to be subtle. Now were just saying weird shit

" you eat hotdogs because you like the cylindrical meat in your mouth"

“I eat hotdogs because I get to drink the hotdog water after”

“We are not the same!”

Do you see how generic this meme has gotten? Literally think of any topic, show one viewpoint and an alternative viewpoint. and you can slap that “we are not the same!” line after.

Heres another one: “You pour your milk before your cereal first”

“I pour my milk after my cereal”

“We are not the same!”

“Flying” cars…

Oh wait, I forgot, we also had that 10 years ago