Notices by Alex von Kitchen (dangerous_beans@aus.social)

@clarity bonk meter? https://www.trainerroad.com/blog/what-is-bonking-causes-dangers-and-prevention/

@clarity they're procedurally generated in response to the player. There's no defined course like in a race. The game spawns in pursuit vehicles, road blocks, and the like, and you have to escape them using racing abilities and the environment

@clarity a lot of need for speed games have car chases as a mechanic?

I am being a mean human and stealing her eggs (which are unfertilised and would just get smelly)

@dalias maybe? Apparently muscles are 20-30% efficient, and coefficient of performance for an air conditioner is 3.5 to 5, so it's close

There's an apple tree here that is shooting from the root stock, so Winnie gets some fresh chew toys

Rabbit who needs many head pats

@coolandnormal is that a rhetorical question, or do you want an answer?

@coolandnormal nah, you totally could
Basically it's efficiency of manufacture
Ebikes don't have regenerative braking, because the motor is separated from the wheels by a freewheel system. The freewheel is usually in the rear wheel hub, because this allows them to use a standard bicycle hub. This means the motor cannot be driven as a generator. This also means they don't have to bother with designing the motor to handle being used this way
So to charge the bike you would need a separate generator system that attaches to the bike, like an indoor trainer
So they're not built to do that, because they use standard parts

Apparently such generators do exist, although I don't know if your ebike can support charging from a couple of hundred watts

Project maintainer: "we're struggling to review all this slop-code"

AI bro: "have you tried using a slop generator to review code? I'm very smart"

I am fucking sick of these wank puffins

Fucking Mr/Mrs titles are such bullshit, and more people need to stop using them
Expecting people to indicate as part of their name if they're a man, married woman, or unmarried woman is such self evident misogynistic garbage

(Dr is ok, because if you're foolish enough to get a PhD we should get some warning :blobcatblep: )

Also there's a suspicious correlation between people who buy into the cult of genius and being racist arsehats

Enjoying the hot weather

"We hired 10x engineers and now our product sucks"

Funny, it's almost like hiring egotistical dudes creates a terrible environment. It's almost like human groups are defined more by their ability to work together than their individual ability at the task

But hey, what would I know? I'm just a woman

@dalias it's the same problem, your just suggesting using a heat pipe to get around pumping requirements. With the available heat gradient you have to move too much working fluid for it to be practical
If you improve the heat gradient the cost goes up

@dalias yeah, water in a liquid phase. The numbers get worse for gas or other working fluids. Increasing the thermal gradient makes the fluid flow lower, but requires more digging and pumping work
The idea could work, it does in places like Iceland where they use geothermal power, but it's not practical cost wise

@dalias that's fine if you power the actual pump part externally, but to get it purely passive you'll need a sufficient energy gradient to cover pumping the fluid. via a thermosiphon or some sort of heat engine at the top
and the deeper you make it the larger the energy needed for pumping, since it's all against gravity

a KG of water at 17c, if your room is 15c, is only bringing up ~8KJ, if you assume the heat exchanger is 100% efficient. That's 30-60L/min to match a typical split system, which is quite a lot of water. That's without considering fans, pumps, however energy is recovered to drive the system

@dalias cost of drilling a hole deep enough to get a sufficiently large energy gradient for it to work is too high

@gazafamily hey
Tagging people in conversations on here tends not to be received well, and may get your account blocked. reach out to @aral, he's working with others from Gaza to understand how to raise money here

I get it's a tough problem with you all just trying to survive Israels actions here

@aral thank you
They did seem desperate and unaware of how things worked here (totally fair given their situation), i'm gald someone has finally gotten in touch with them to help