cityofdelusion (u/cityofdelusion)

cityofdelusion commented on "Green Llama" did not just beat Cascade Platinum Plus foxchapelresearch.substac... · Posted by u/searealist

embedding-shape · 2 months ago

> Then why don't manufacturers recommend this?

They literally do! https://i.imgur.com/gCDuZZM.png

Rather than jumping into this whole thing in the middle, I'll ask you to begin from the beginning, catch up on what you missed on (the two earlier Technology Connections that were made before the submission article), so we can at least have the same base-level understanding of the situation first, then you can come back and we can argue the entire day.

cityofdelusion · 2 months ago

I have a high end euro-style Bosch, largely seen as one of the best washers out there. No indication in the manual of running hot water. In fact the manual shows the temperatures that all the different cycles run at, and the "pre-rinse" cycle does not show a temperature. The manual also doesn't say to add any detergent other than the main cycle and recommends pacs. Its always at the top of industry testing, so I am thinking a random YouTuber might not be correct here.

cityofdelusion commented on Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race nbcnews.com/politics/elec... · Posted by u/jsheard

ikety · 2 months ago

Highly disagree. The commissary on most military bases are awesome. Spent most of my life going there with my parents. Not sure where you heard they were bad. Never got that impression from any military serving people, like ever.

cityofdelusion · 2 months ago

I feel like the commissary these days is really far behind private grocers. Yeah, 15 or 25 years ago they were awesome, but now it just resembles a poorly stocked (and much smaller) Walmart. Regional grocers have gotten really good in my lifetime. Used to go to the commissary regularly to save money and have a good selection, but those days are just long past. Same deal with base liquor stores, they are merely "OK", but again your regional private option is just so much nicer in the 2020s.

cityofdelusion commented on UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport avherald.com/h?article=52... · Posted by u/jnsaff2

octaane · 2 months ago

This is probably the worst way a plane could go down in terms of damage caused. Maximum effect in term of damage. Cargo plane apparently reached V1 (go/no go speed) on the runway, and suffered a catastrophic engine failure. They passed V1, so they knew they were going down. Engine was shedding large debris, including the housing (!!!) which is a shrapnel shield.

They were on fire just as they reached V1.

Plane was fully loaded with 38,000 LB of fuel for 12 hour flight to hawaii. Worst case scenario.

Pilots did the heroic thing - they tried to take off instead at 160 MPH to minimize collateral damage (highway and warehouses at the end of the runway) and crash and die somewhere else, instead of go beyond the runway at that speed. Accelerating a fully loaded jet plane at ground level beyond the runway has obvious consequences. They had one choice.

Instead, they clipped the UPS factory because they were so low, they tried to clear it but did not. Plane then hit the ground port wing down, shearing it off entirely, smearing a fireball of jet fuel across half a mile (not an exaggeration) before the plane flipped. Crew were likely dead by before this, footage shows the cockpit being slammed into the ground like a mousetrap by the flip once the port wing was gone and gravity took the starboard wing over.

Physics took over. Plane flipped and rolled upon loss of port wing, smearing a rolling fireball of the remaining fuel load from the starboard wing for another half a mile.

Louisville is now a firestorm as a result.

Respect to the flight crew; rest in peace, they made the best they could out of a really shitty scenario. They flew it all the way down.

Footage:

https://x.com/osinttechnical/status/1985845987684855969?s=46

https://x.com/faytuksnetwork/status/1985849267152699741?s=46

https://x.com/faytuksnetwork/status/1985848132500885995?s=46

https://x.com/faytuksnetwork/status/1985843126934614297?s=46

cityofdelusion · 2 months ago

Standard procedure at V1 is commit to the takeoff and diagnose the problem in-air. Much of your comment is pure speculation until flight data recorders come back, we have no idea what the crew was thinking or what issues they were even aware of.

cityofdelusion commented on US hits $38T in debt. Fastest accumulation of $1T outside pandemic apnews.com/article/trump-... · Posted by u/testing22321

darksaints · 2 months ago

They don't care about the spending. They yammer about it as a way of shifting funds towards things they care about, like the military or their new gestapo or buying votes from their disaffected constituents, but they've never given a shit about the deficit, and have never done anything to stop it.

The closest they ever came to actually caring about government was with Musk who went in and actually started (illegally) ripping shit out. But the things he ripped out were inconsequential things that conservatives didn't like, and he didn't even make a dent in the actual budget. All of the things that Musk got rid of were congressionally appropriated and could have easily been congressionally (i.e. legally) de-appropriated accordingly and it supposedly would be easy for them to do with majority control over the house, senate, executive, and judiciary...but they didn't do it, because they don't actually want to cut the budget.

cityofdelusion · 2 months ago

> they don't actually want to cut the budget

Eh, I would say its well-known in deficit circles that all politicians (intellectually) desire to balance the budget, but it is basically impossible. Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, and debt servicing are such large pieces of the debt pie that the entirety of discretionary spending makes basically no impact in balancing the budget. These are de-facto untouchable obligations because too many people's lives depend on them and any party that enacts austerity will be swept out of office. Neither party will increase taxes on themselves (the rich) and taxing the middle/poor guarantees you lose the next election. The only path forward in the U.S. is basically kicking the can down the road until it implodes like so many other high debt-load western nations before them.

cityofdelusion commented on A mechanic offered a reason why no one wants to work in the industry motor1.com/news/774805/fo... · Posted by u/thunderbong

add-sub-mul-div · 3 months ago

Does every fucking title need to be rewritten? The clickbait witch hunt legacy of Buzzfeed is more annoying today than it ever actually was when it existed.

cityofdelusion · 3 months ago

motor1 is a clickbait farm site that specializes in tactics like "make an article from a social media post". Unfortunate that it got so much traction here, probably because the audience here is not familiar with the subject matter.

cityofdelusion commented on A mechanic offered a reason why no one wants to work in the industry motor1.com/news/774805/fo... · Posted by u/thunderbong

potato3732842 · 3 months ago

It sounds like you are the one who has no idea.

There are a few basic things you have to not do in order to work on an EV, basically the same rules as for airbag systems but with physically larger components.

No modern car is electrically simple, but they all do a pretty good job telling you where you ought to be looking.

cityofdelusion · 3 months ago

This is flatly false. The HV operating procedures on cars add significant complexity and danger to working on them. In fact, any HV work will automatically add a huge chunk of labor hours to any work and is why anything touching the HV system instantly goes into the thousands of dollars as a baseline. We are talking hundreds of volts above fatal baseline and very high amps on accidental discharge. For comparison, its safer on your biology to stick a fork in 120VAC outlet deliberately than to make a mistake with HVDC.

cityofdelusion commented on Ask HN: What's a good 3D Printer for sub $1000? · Posted by u/lucideng

cityofdelusion · 3 months ago

You are sadly getting a lot of answers completely ignoring your requirements.

A Voron or RatRig are right up your alley. They are highly customizable, buy a kit as a base, then upgrade components as needed to do more complex printing. They are completely open source and repairable with no phoning home or any other shenanigans, the GNU/Linux of 3d printers. If you have CAD and machining experience it should be fairly straight forward.

My Vorons are both extremely reliable, I just hit print for 99% of my stuff and it just works with either auto leveling or static fixed offsets (depends on the Voron chosen). If something doesn’t work out, there is an enormous community with many swappable components and the machines are upgradable year after year, or can be kept in a specific older configuration.

cityofdelusion commented on Why you can’t grow cool-climate plants in hot climates crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

manoDev · 4 months ago

“Horse and buggy”. How dramatic.

If at least the US got in line with the rest of the world, we would be half-way there.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita

The problem is not the 8 billion people, is the handful that have an disproportionate impact.

cityofdelusion · 4 months ago

Disingenuous. Here is the correct chart to link if you want to assert emissions by country: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-...

cityofdelusion commented on New treatment eliminates bladder cancer in 82% of patients news.keckmedicine.org/new... · Posted by u/geox

anonymars · 4 months ago

Ultimately that's one reason why the US got the atomic bomb and not the Nazis. Ironic.

cityofdelusion · 4 months ago

Realistically speaking, Germany was never on track to produce atomic weapons before their war economy was obliterated by the allies. The program was not taken seriously or had proper investment. The war machine was already severely starved of resources prior to their even more significant land losses in 1944. I honestly can’t even think of an alternate (realistic) timeline where they achieve a delivery system for atomic weaponry.

cityofdelusion commented on "Just Fucking Ship It" (Or: On Vibecoding) coal.sh/blog/pandu_bad... · Posted by u/coal320

larve · 6 months ago

I feel like it is. What should happen? Everybody born after 2015 is forbidden to use a computer? Or should only be allowed under strict supervision to be typing in code by hand? When people told me that in the nineties, with my linux, putting up shoddy cgi-bins, I just gave them the finger and said "whatever man".

The people who made an influence in my life and taught me how to do things properly were those that took me seriously as someone building software. And this person built software, the same way I now build software without having to think about every byte and malloc, and knowing that I don't really have to gaf about how much memory i allocate. It's fine, because we have good GCs and a lot of resources to learn about memory management when things hit the limit. The solution wasn't to say that everybody not programming C or assembly would not be allowed near a computer.

cityofdelusion · 6 months ago

What should happen? Probably what happened here — disclose and when the developer chooses to ignore it, bring in the shaming and pressure campaign. Someone’s right to tinker and learn doesn’t trump the rights of the victims they are exposing. Releasing code for public consumption has responsibilities and no one is entitled to make money at the expense of others. If I started selling dodgey go karts made from scrap metal to kids it would be the same principle. I am entitled to mess around and even ride it myself, but bringing other people into your orbit of incompetence is another thing.