ilinamorato @ ilinamorato @lemmy.world

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It's hard to have a strict definition when there are only 4-12 of them. We didn't have a strict definition of planets until less than 20 years ago.

Or when a lake becomes a sea. The Alboran Sea is smaller than Lake Superior. The Caspian Sea is a lake. Everything is made up and nothing is real.

• Digital Wellbeing. Enforce the decisions you made about app usage. Honestly it's kinda saved my sanity, particularly this year.
• Scheduled text messages. This should be in every single messaging app. I schedule reminders for other people, I schedule messages that I think of at ridiculous hours to go out at reasonable times, I even schedule messages so that sometime else reminds me to do something.

Brilliant. For a while I have wanted to do a Victorian/Steampunk gothic fantasy "monster rally" campaign in the vein of Werewolf by Night/League of Extraordinary Gentlemen/Van Helsing/Universal Monsters, and I think I may have just found my hook.

Greatest call ever. Yes, absolutely.

"Pal, look. If you had your gold coins stacked in your cave, and put in a couple tables, we'd just call it a 'counting room.' Then we'd be talking maybe a little citation for not spacing your dragon-discouragement columns close enough together. But what you've got here, with all your gold and gems and statues just like...piled up on the floor? I gotta be honest, I don't know how you don't at least have a little wyrmling in here yet. This is absolutely a hoard, and if we don't remediate now you're gonna need exterminators by the end of the week."

I mean, the real reason is that Chrome added them four years ago. Like it or not, when Chrome adds something, it becomes a de facto standard for browsers.

People work for corporations.

They are mostly the same as keeping them in separate browser windows, but with the advantage of being in one browser window. They also have the advantage of being label-able.

I don't keep tabs open forever, but back when I used Chrome I regularly used tab groups when I was working on multiple projects simultaneously; the Jira ticket, the PRD, the API documentation, the necessary AWS consoles, and the GitHub PR for one project go in a tab group. Name that group and collapse it, and now you can easily reopen it again when you're ready to switch contexts.

"Why not just put them in a separate window?" Sometimes that's preferable. Sometimes both solutions together are better. On a single monitor, having everything in one window is usually preferable for my workflow. In any case, you can't name a separate window. And if you use a sidebar extension, they aren't persistent across multiple windows.

"Why not just use bookmarks?" Bookmarks are a long term solution. Tab groups solve the short term problem. They're ephemeral.

"Why not just close the tabs until you need them again?" I do that as much as I can. But it's not practical in all cases. One project is in active development, one is in PR Review, one is in QA, and I have a support escalation I need to work on in the meantime. Each of those tabs might be needed at any time during the week.

Horseless carriages work great in a city, anywhere else they don't. This is why horse-drawn carriages make sense.

Except you're saying this in the 1930s.

Ok, I see misinformation like this on like every social media site now. I didn't know it had made it to Lemmy.

So, you know that conversion of energy causes energy loss, right? So how is it that converting that energy four times (original source > electricity > hydrogen > electricity > motion) sounds more efficient to you than converting that energy twice (original source > electricity > motion)?

Especially when you consider that electricity already has a network of well-established, proven, global distribution infrastructure whose transfer loss has been obsessively optimized over the last century, while hydrogen emphatically does not?

From the point of view of pure physics, it makes more sense to charge up a bunch of batteries and put them on a truck than to put a bunch of fuel cells onto that same truck. And remember, you can make those batteries more convenient by sending the electricity through the grid instead.

Charging times are quickly decreasing. They'll eventually reach a reasonable parity with gas tank fills, but they'll have become the dominant transportation energy source long before that. The current state of battery technology is the worst that it will ever be, and multiple industries are working together to make them better. Hydrogen pretty much only has wide applications to one industry.

Would all of this have been true if both technologies were starting from zero? Probably not. But electricity has a hundred year head start over hydrogen in the consumer space, and a lot of money is still being put into it. Plus, it's obviously going to be the eventual winner because physics, so why bother with the transitional source when what we would transition to is already a more mature technology?

The war is long over, and anyone who pretends otherwise is just ignoring the laws of physics.

Edit: I recognize that I'm papering over the transfer loss of electricity > battery > electricity. That's because the transfer loss of charging a battery is <10%, while the transfer loss of generating hydrogen is >20%.

What about like...humans?

It's been on Trek fandom lists of best movies because the fans noticed.

Trek fans prior to 2010-ish tended to not take themselves too seriously. They took the show seriously, sure (maybe too seriously) but not themselves.

The bottle filler is activated by proximity. I think that's totally doable for the other part, too.

"The GOP" can be used synonymously with both "The Republican Party" and "Republican lawmakers." One of those is singular, the other is plural.

The problem is that the people who can get votes are the ones who would break away, but the people who control the money are the ones who would stay. You need both to get anyone elected.

Splitting the party would be a hail mary; you'd be betting that you could make enough in small-dollar donations from individuals to run successful campaigns and get people into office. And if you were wrong, you'd be leaving the second-most-powerful party in the country in the hands of people like Pelosi, Clinton, and Manchin--and burning the bridge behind you.

It's not an impossible idea. In fact, it's happened before (remember the Whigs?). But it's a really tough road. I get why they're leaving it as the last choice.

Not giving up, and even making a little bit of headway. It's impressive, given the open disdain from even members of her own party, how far she was able to get in this process.

He'll issue an executive order directing every American to just move to Florida.

Well, gerrymandering is still a thing, but anyway it would be like adding another California to the US, electorally. The populations are pretty close. And actually, the less-populous provinces are a little more conservative (the truckers protesting covid restrictions were canadians, remember), so actually maybe each individual province being added as a state would work in Trump's favor.

Not that he's thought any of that through, of course.

After the last ten years in America, I'm thinking maybe we give Chuck a shot.