Kata1yst

Nah. Derision, public shaming, and ostracism are fundamental to the maintenance of the social contract. How else can we moderate extremists? The denazification of Germany was effective because they didn’t shy away from these methods.

When it’s a documented scientific process and it’s scaled up and used in the real world to displace the other methods, I’ll be ready to acknowledge hydrogen as a valid part of energy infrastructure.

Nope! And most hydrogen is fossil fuel (methane) derived and horribly energy inefficient. At this point it’s green washing at best.

Edit: adding data:
Steam-Methane Reforming (SMR) accounts for about 95% of all hydrogen production on earth. It uses a huge amount of heat, water, and methane to produce hydrogen.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SMR%2BWGS-1.png

For inputs:

• 6.2MWh of Heat
• 2.2 tons of Methane
• 4.9 tons of pure water

The outputs are:

• 6 tons of CO2
• 1.1 tons of H2

The overall energy in vs energy out is at most 85% efficient. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016236122001867

Hydrolysis, the main competing method, and the one most touted by hydrogen backers, accounts for about 4% of hydrogen production.
This method takes in only pure water and electricity, but it’s efficiency is abysmal at some 52%. In every case, a modern kinetic, thermal, or chemical battery will exceed this efficiency.

Other methods are being looked into, but it’s thermodynamically impossible for the resulting H2 to produce more energy than it takes to create the H2. So at best today we could use H2 as a crappy battery, one that takes a lot of methane to create.

Dishonor on you! Dishonor on your cow!

Quora is a lawless and godless place.

Quora is trash, but this thread has a breakdown of many of Lucas’ “inspirations”, which show he was always happy to directly copy other’s art. Most of it is hilariously blatant.

https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-Star-Wars-copied-an-old-French-comic

Playing Jared Leto works for Jared Leto.

Tbf, Russia has been sourcing ammunition from North Korea.

This is kind of like saying grass gets wet when it rains.

Their products are getting purchased much faster, both for use and for stockpile. Of course it’s profitable?

Lol… But why would it? There’s only 3 of these things and they’ve only launched 7 missions. They’re also only 29 feet long. And are payload hogs on their launch vehicles.

It’s about 500 times easier to just piggy back 20 micro-sats on the next atlas or falcon.

The whole “x37 is a spy program” was literally started by speculation in an opinion piece with zero evidence. It being a visible and public program mean it’s absolutely almost certainly not an active spy program. Especially combined with it’s mission profiles.

To be clear, it’s probably not a spy vehicle. It is probably testing technologies for use in spy vehicles.

You say “no one knows coffee better than he does”, while blatantly disagreeing with his entirely empirical points in his video on decaf, that it can be made by several processes, all of them are fairly good, and the result can be masterful?

I live in a hockey capitol. That makes me nothing like an expert. Same for you.

Okay, so you make brilliant decaf. That means your point in this thread is moot?

Funny thing on that “subjectivity” is when you disagree with other people in this thread, you’ve plainly said they’re just entirely wrong.

When someone disagrees with you, you hide behind “subjectivity”.

I encourage you to introspect.

You sincerely think you have a better grasp on coffee than James Hoffmann?

Much more likely you haven’t tried good decaf from a good roaster, tried a blind tasting, or your preparation is seriously flawed.

Yeah, well for many of us it’s decaf or no coffee due to health issues. You acting like it’s a foolish, childish thing is just tribalism/elitism.

And for what it’s worth, I’d put my decaf vs your coffee in a heartbeat. A good roaster with quality beans is great coffee, decaf or no. Just like Hoffman said.

What a weirdly unjustified, baseless attack on someone contributing a useful conversation. And when presented with evidence that you’re not just being a huge jerk, that you’re entirely wrong, you get defensive and continue to denegrate OP?

Shame on you. If you have had half the illustrious career you claim to have, you should have worked in enough places and with enough people to know when to eat crow.

Infighting and personal attacks like this from positions of false authority like yours are exactly why people have such low opinions of programmers as members of society.

Rofl. I just imagine OP furiously updating LinkedIn with “AI Programmer”.

A notebook and crayons? I think you’d just get back stick figure-esque drawings of cybertrucks with notes like “bulletproof” and “anti-gas attack”.

Just like the poor Tesla design team.

Super interesting, thank you for sharing. I’ve read a significant portion and will saving this for future reference.

It pairs nicely with this series on a foundational technical documentation framework: https://documentation.divio.com/

Git, Mercurial, Subversion, and Fossil are the ones i know. Git is so far in the lead it’s hard to even mention the others in the same sentence.

So much damn fun.

https://giphy.com/gifs/monday-the-it-crowd-workplace-c6DIpCp1922KQ