It’s used like sweating. We lose heat by havibg water evaporate off our skin. Right now get warm water and put it on your arm, then blow on it. It gets cold until it is fully evaporated. For water to change from the liquid to the gaseeous phase it needs energy. Think like water molecules are holding hands in a liquid. If one of them wants to come free and fly through the air it needs to somehow get the energy to break free from the grip of the others first. When water evaporates from your arm it tales this energy in the form of heat. It turns heat and uses it to get to the gaseous phase. As long as there is water on your arm it can be cooled that way.

That’s what data centers do as well. They take water to cool their processors and the let part of it evaporate into the air. That way the parts of the water that remain are like your arm - the get cool quickly.

It’s very effective. But if you live in a small town and next door there’s a massive datacenter that takes out all the groundwater and basically just boils it until it disappears, you might get angry after a while.

Sorry, but you’re wrong. That movie is in fact a solid 10/10.

I really liked Tom Lehrer. We named our daughter partly because of one of his songs (which my grandmother loved and often talked about) - Alma. Fortunately Her and Tom’s Life have a little bit of overlap.

Moneyball - very good choice. I’d like to add “The Big Short” as well.

Nice. This seems heavily inspired by Giovanni Batista Piranesi’s “Carceri” (1750). I love these graphics. They’re like a weird dreamworld. I saw some as a kid once and remembered them even decades later, but only thought they were from a remembered dream - until i saw them in a museum again. I hope this comic expands on them a bit.

Yeah i din’t think of complete (=admin) access. Maybe that’s a good thing to keep to oneself. There could be an inheritor which would gain access if ypu would abandon the project.

But regarding lower level administration (blocking stuff, checking that rules are followed and all that - things that take up most of the time of an administrator working in social media) could ve delegated maybe? Similar to reddit moderators of subreddits. It would be nice to have transparancy of which moderator moderates which other communities.

Maybe you could think of a way of finding some people in real life that could be a promising candidate.

Thanks for the reminder. Just added a standing order. It should be executed late in the month. I started low, but i could slightly increase it. It would be nice to read an update on the situation maybe ins 1-3 months?

I think it would also be a good idea if you don’t shoulder everything alone … Single point of failure and all that. You could think about which tasks ypu could (partially) delegate to other people in order to have less workload.

It would make sense to setup a roadmap for ypu maybe? I don’t think it’s healthy to have administrating take up so much space that you cannot work another job.

Let us know where you might need support :-)

And thank ypu very much! I quite like it here!

Dammit, we all think alike nowadays… XD

That’s why there’s quant mechanics. The simulation can always invent invent thinga on the fly to reduce computational load. It’s like lazy execution when soneone’s looking i.e. me - let’s not kid ourselves: the simulation is only simulating my surroundings - of which all af you are part of. Yadda yadda, there’s only me.

On another note: the simulation can also always rewritebparts of my brain and retroactively change stuff in my memory making me believe different things. So i could also be reprogrammed to believe I saw this or that insteas of

Maybe you know it but if not read Mark Twain’s Essay “The Aweful German Language”. It’s a fantastic and bellyachingly funny thing to read. I am a native speaker and have to admit Mark makes so many brilliant points.

Yes! Unexpectedly good movie!

Apropos Shampoo Ich hab ab Covid angefangen mitm rasierer die Haare selbst zu schneiden. Seit dem brauche ich aucv kein Shampoo mehr. Trocknen können sie auch von alleine.

Captain Obvious would like to chime in: (sorry 😅)

Every color that we see is created by different types of receptors being stimulated together. A linear combination of three of these types. Arguably there isn’t really a wavelength that only stimulates one type of receptor exclusively as their absorbtion areas overlap - so it isn’t even that precise to call one receptor the “green” receptor as it sees a continuum of wavelength (of which a lot are also detected by the (so-called) “red” receptor.

It’s a little egg-and-hen-problem with the naming here.a way out of it would be to only speak about spectra if it’s in the physical realm and color of its in the percetral realm.

I’ve been using the commandline for so long but was always too lazy to look up the rest of these commands after ctrl+a/e and ctrl+r THANK YOU!!!

post this commend again and again! There’s always lazy idiots like me who will be helped that way!

I can only imagine. I think there’s few cities that have undergone such a transformation as has paris in the last 10 years. It’s lovely to see. But all the anger that people have felt from that is probably almost exclulively projected onto her. She’s the lonely reason for alll the hardships that the carbrained old people in Paris have to endure. That’s what they feel everyday.

I think she should have a Car-only-day before the election where everyone who switched to a bike is driving by car for the day. The resulting chaos would be a nice reminder for what the city has gained in lofe quality during the last decade.

It’s easy to get accustomed to improved circumstances like more bike travel. But people seldomly forget if something has negatively affected them - especially if it was caused in some remote way by her policies.

Die idee ist sicherlich auch, dass die von einem speziellen Schienenfahrzeug automatisiert verlegt, gereinigt und gewartet bzw getauscht werden können. Das ist schon recht clever wenn man mal ein bisschen mehr drüber nachdenkt.

Die müssen ja auch nur halbwegs geräumt sein. Solange sie nicht komplett schneebedeckt sind wärmen sie sich durch die sonneneinstrahlung auf unf schmelzen den rest des schnees weg. Das wird meistena auch im winter funktionieren außer es ist halt richtig krass kalt.

Das ist ein wichtiger Punkt.

Der Vergleich mit Deutschland ist da schon echt krass. In Berlin hat mit zum großen Teil den Stimmen der Außenbezirke die CDU gewonnen und sofort angefangen Radweg-Projekte zu stoppen, bzw sogar zurückzubauen. Diese Radwege waren aber fast nur in den Innenbereichen, do wo die CDU keine Mehrheit hatte. Das ist unglaublich Rücksichtslos. Denn solche Radwege werden (bei uns) typischerweise nicht auf stadtebene geplant, sondern auf Bezirksebene. Das sind eher so pilotprojekte, die aufgrund von lokalen Initiativen entstehen. Die baut die CDU wieder ab mit der begründung, dass irgednwelche Außenbezirkler dafür gestimmt haben. Das isr absolut übergriffig.

In Paris werden solche Radwege zum Glück nicht bezirksweise von irgdnwelchen Initiativen geplant, sondern direkt zentral. Dadurch konnten die auch so einen Fortschritt machen. Ich bin recht regelmäßig in Paris und diese Transformation ist großartig zu sehen. Vor 10 Jahren hatte ich um meinen einsam Fahrradfahrenden Freund dort große Angst. Jeden tag durch das Getümmel aggressiver Autos zu fahren schien selbstmörderisch. Dann wurden stück für stück Autoparkplätze durch Leihräder-Parkplätze ersetzt, wichtige Straßen für Autos gesperrt. Sehr radikal und gegen riesiges Geschrei wütender Leute. Aber es hat gewirkt und inzwischen fährt die halbe Stadt Rad.

Someone should do this! There’s already this drain-unvlogging-videos. Now I need powerwashing the inner city videos. Cleaning-algae-from-driveway-videos are lame. I want filth removal under a busy bus-stop! Get yourself a neon construction vest and let’s go!

Now we’re talking!

Well doing it so abruptly would probably cause a lot of trouble. I would already be glad if there was a transitional phase where ip would cease to exist once you’re dead and next would only last for x amount of years (not your entire life).