I go back and look at my old code and find it clear and beautiful, easy to understand, a pleasure to read. “Ah yes,” I’ll say to myself, “that approach was clever and elegant. Gosh, past me was pretty smart!”
I like to appreciate it in this manner. Because that way, for a moment at least, I can forget about how it doesn’t actually work.
Well, precisely!
A watt is a unit of power. It’s an energy rate, it involves time. It’s 1 joule per second (J/s).
A watt-hour is the amount of energy delivered at a rate of 1 watt over the course of one hour. (J/s x h). And here we get into the trouble already. (The kilowatt-hour is just 1,000 watt-hours, that’s not the source of the trouble.)
Now we have a unit of energy (the watt-hour) that includes the names of a unit of power (watt, which is a rate) and a unit of time (hour) but the watt-hour (and the kilowatt-hour) measures neither of those things. The watt-hour is defined as ((energy / time unit) x different time unit). It’s insane. Even though the time units should cancel out, we keep the ghost of both time units in the name, to no purpose. It works out to just joules; 1 Wh is 3,600 joules. 1 kWh is 3,600,000 joules.
Measuring energy in terms of kWh is exactly analogous to measuring distance in “meter-per-second-minutes,” when you’ve got meters right there.
Would you measure distance in “1,000 meter per second minutes?”
KWh is super dumb, though, like they were trying for maximum confusion when they invented it.
“Off road” pretty much always means “on crude roads,” and this bothers me more than it should
It is committed long-term maintenance that separates a road from a desire pathway.
It is committed long-term maintenance that eventually makes software solid enough to be someone else’s substrate.
/bombast
I like metric fine, I just figure US audience is more familiar with small engine HP.
30W is 0.04 HP. That engine is just way, way bigger than you’d use if you were designing something like this from scratch, I think. Like putting a truck engine in a go kart, and being surprised that uses a lot of gas.
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LLMs are going to evolve into a position where being wrong sometimes and hallucinating sometimes won’t matter, because organizations are already built to deal with it: managers.
Pretty wild to make that streamliner body and then stick the driver out in the breeze like an afterthought.
Pre-recorded reel-to-reel tapes (and 8mm movies) were packaged in thin cardboard boxes like those. My grandfather had a few.
Maybe you were joking. Sorry.
Edit: In fact if you search Ebay for “reel to reel album” there are tons of listings with pictures.
You have to let me bring them into the store, they’re my emotional support wolves
These aren’t charges they’re dismissing. They’re dismissing convictions. Dismissing a conviction sounds a lot like a pardon. I didn’t know it was legally possible for a prosecutor to do that.
These people were found guilty through due process. Now the DOJ is re-writing history.
Even in pre-history, men were somehow convinced that what women really wanted was: bigger dicks. Bigger dicks than human men could possibly offer.
It’s such a weird preoccupation, and it seems like it’s got to be deeper than just a cultural thing.
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