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China connects its first large-scale flywheel storage project to grid - Energy Storage
  • I've seen the wear and tear that goes into sync converters and actual flywheels for pulsed power applications.. good idea, let's see how these degrade.

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    Dumb future... for now.
  • I want to lick her cheeks.

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    Rule
  • Without good instrumentation. Almost purposely lacking..

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    3 massive Los Angeles-area wildfires have scorched more than 100,000 acres in a week
  • I remember the first time I ever felt the Santa Ana winds (having lived near Irvine), that shit was sooo hot and dry, like literally nothing I've ever felt, even having been in Dubai during the summer.

    Think riding a bicycle straight into a giant hair dryer in the desert at full blast. I ride a lot over long distances, but head on, the hot wind was powerful enough to make me stand out of my saddle consistently.

    Wildly, wildly unpleasant.

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    Happy Birthday America!
  • I'm really not about this. Do better.

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    I gave up on the "Trump lies" drinking game, I don't want to die of liver failure
  • I'm just glad to see she can handle being near a stressful moron and keep her rhythm regardless of what vile nonsense was getting regurgitated.

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    Latex programming socks
  • I use an actual dressing aid, there's a recipe from reddit I've been meaning to try but buying a tube is easy for now:

    PROPORTION RATIO 
    0.653 DIMETHICONE
    0.327 CYCLOMETHICONE
    0.020 PHENYL TRIMETHICONE
    

    Once the latex is on, your sweat will do the rest 😎

    If you get new socks, try out chlorination. I haven't yet, but people seem to like it.

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    In my ass [oc]
  • Looks great, but where's the lube??

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    Avid cyclist killed during group ride along Benbrook bike trail
  • As a motorcyclist and bicyclist, I don't agree with the idea that it's the victim's sole responsibility to be visible at all times; there is a minimum expectation of sanity behind the wheel of a multi-ton vehicle when it comes to following rules, expectations and the law.

    Based on this article, I don't think this person ought to be permitted to drive again, they've proven that it's too much responsibility.

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    Latex programming socks
  • Is this your first bit of rubber? Funny how wearing it for a while, you kind of forget it's on. I love the second-skin feeling.

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    Tuesday 9/10 Presidential Debate Megathread!
  • Me too, sheesh.

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    If only there was a way to get all of those people there and back home without a car.
  • If that's dodger stadium, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chavez_Ravine

    Ry Cooder has a really cool album about it too (this song is about the megalomaniac racist mayor at the time): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzhkLG6vRlw

    "Cement mixer's spreading the word around: this here is my town"

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  • COMSOL gang represent

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    Inside the GOP's Big Lie 2.0 — and their plan to shut down America this Fall
  • Hmm.. maybe that's why I got a "signature validation request" in the mail for my mail-in ballot in Seattle four our recent election.

    No problem, I'm voting in person, cuz fuck that noise, fuck Trump and 100% fuck the Gross Old Pissants.

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    Why YAML sucks?
  • I like TOML: https://TOML.io

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    Where’s the Beef? Trump Demands Harris Prove She had McJob
  • Wow, life gets weird I'm the silliest ways sometimes lol.

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    This country needs some fuckin' reform.
  • Well, fuckwit, good job on proving that you know how to multiply a couple of constants and volumes together, congrats!

    Consider the amount of energy that goes into welding a large automobile frame, casting high carbon conrods and crankshafts, producing all the plastic that goes into the 3100lb clown tank dodge ram you drive since you're no longer safe on two wheels.

    Holistically, quite a lot less energy goes into production of a motorcycle, and furthermore is tremendously easier to recycle in comparison. The much lighter mass from a smaller frame means less tire particulate, less brake dust, and equally important, less time idling in traffic because of lane splitting.

    Quality thinking in systems analysis is why engineers make money, versus fuckwits who merely multiply a few constants.

    Fuel pump pressures need to creep up to afford DFI (direct fuel injection) which has made up a lot of modern ICE efficiency and emissions improvements. The real solution long-term is electric, but energy density in the batteries needs to creep up a bit, which I'm waiting for with Samsung's new solid state batteries.

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    Pademelon
  • Hmm, I don't think that's true either. You as well, stranger.

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    Pademelon
  • Quite a long, pedantic response.

    I didn't in fact read your other links, nice to see you're unable to imagine others having lives and limited time. At no point did I say you ate meat, but that you are using similar tactics.

    Curious, how much writing you do when all I ask is whether you think animals experience curiosity, and how much of it doesn't have anything to do with that question.

    Rolling back through your overly elaborate discussions here, you'll note that I never said humans and animals had the same emotions, nor to the same level we as a species do. But I do say what they have is analogous, and that the line between anthropomorphism and observation can itself be a fuzzy concept.

    Do you understand that, or will you resort to ad hominem again?

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  • Anyone else hear these jets? They're zipping, and how.

    E: Blue Angels doing some practice.

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    Anyone have input here?

    I'm trying to decide which I like, yammie noob had a cool vid comparing the two with the xsr seemingly on top, but spec-wise, the z900 should be wild. I'm aware there are tune and exhaust kits to wake the undertuned z900 up.

    I like spirited riding, but mostly on straights as I roar off to a campsite in the mountains. What do you folks think?

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    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15358017

    > Google Pay alternative? > > Hey there, > I'm looking for an alternative to Google pay that'll allow me to use NFC payments etc. Thoughts? > > I don't have a Google account, nor am I interested in opening one.

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    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15358017

    > Google Pay alternative? > > Hey there, > I'm looking for an alternative to Google pay that'll allow me to use NFC payments etc. Thoughts?

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    Hey there, I'm looking for an alternative to Google pay that'll allow me to use NFC payments etc. Thoughts?

    I don't have a Google account, nor am I interested in opening one.

    E: Just to clarify, the payment part would be convenient, more annoying is how I don't get to use a single place for my subway/gym/ticketmaster passes.

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    What a way to start the day. Had a spare, so it added a few minutes to my morning. Carefully cleaned the dust from around the plug, swapped, started and rode.

    NBD, but what the fuck?

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    Exploring the city, it feels both dark and somehow inviting. New experience for sure.

    Wish I could figure out how to attach multiple photos in voyager.

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    So, after watching "Plagues and pleasures on the Salton sea" (available on YouTube for free), I decided to look into what was happening to it.

    Looks like we actually may help with restoration. But what does that mean, where are we getting the water for it? Will that money actually get to us?

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    Love this guy.

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    https:// eprint.iacr.org /2023/913.pdf

    Some interesting ideas on reducing the time to decrypt certain ciphered info, in spite of axolotl's large key-size.

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    How's the weather up there for riding? Not afraid of water, just careful with it.

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    Hey everyone.

    I built an mk3s+ from its kit form successfully, tested a few PLA prints with the stock 0.4 nozzle.

    I've set prusaslicer to use a 0.6 nozzle now that I've upgraded, and am using PETG. Prints look pretty bad, in spite of calibrating z-offset etc.

    If you were doing something like this for the first time, what would your setup steps be like?

    To be specific, using a diamondback 0.6 nozzle, matterhackers PETG at 235c.

    Issues I'm seeing are a really bad loss of detail, lots of stringing, etc.

    eta: added a photo of a moderately post-processed part. Notice how rough the top surface looks, there's a disconnect between perimeter loops, etc.

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