Notable that it's the author of the article calling people peasants and talking down to workers, not Karp.
Fuck you Joe Wilkins. I hope Karp is right and you have to work with your hands like 'a peasant' in your words. You might have to do something useful for society instead of writing ragebait for Futurism.
You can't scale the energy a solar panel generates per day from the nameplate capacity because you don't get days of uninterrupted sunlight. It doesn't make much sense to try to estimate at a higher resolution either because of clouds.
Why would you want to do that? And what kind of lighting system in 2026 uses 400 Watts?
A commercial one might and because that's the first step to figuring out how much it uses in a 5 day work week, or per month or year.
Are you seriously saying that when you’re using your 2000 watt hair dryer, you want to pretend that you used it for an hour, and then scale that back to the few seconds you actually used it?
No because if you're measuring usage of something in seconds it isn't going to have a meaningful impact on household consumption.
The reason most people think kWh is intuitive is that they’re used to it because their electrical utility uses it.
Ok even if that is true and they're both equally unintuitive you're the one who wants everyone to switch to an unfamiliar unit for no apparent reason. Why does it make so much more sense to talk about solar and electric car charging on the scale seconds of power than hours that everyone should change units?
Are you seriously trying to say that if you're talking about a solar panel it makes more sense to talk about how much energy it produces per second than per hour. If you wanted to think about the amount a panel can produce per day are you sitting there thinking about how many seconds of sunlight it will get in a day.
If you want to estimate the energy usage of a 400 watt lighting system during an 8 hour workday you think it's more intuitive to go 400 * 3600 * 8 / 1,000,000 than 400 / 1000 * 8?
The reason seemingly every electrical utility in the world uses kWh is because hours are the more intuitive unit of time for this context.
Nyaa is normally so well seeded that it can be difficult. I'm on a fresh OS install so I lost my history but I've tried seeding popular shows for weeks and not gotten above 0.5
kilowatt hours ARE more intuitive than watt seconds when talking about something like solar panels, electric cars, and household energy where generation and consumption are better understood on the scale of hours.
'I'm anti rape except on tuesdays. The anti rape people hate this'
Yeah wonder why.
If you recognize something is morally wrong it's fucking weird to carve out arbitrary exceptions.
*Oh weird, the people who don't think it's wrong to hurt animals are upset by the idea that vegans see hurting animals as wrong. If you actually think something is morally wrong you would find the hypocrisy to be offensive.
If you're talking about systems that generate and consume power measured in watts. Why would you then convert to joules so that you can say 'this generates ___ joules per hour' when you could just infer kwh from the nameplate wattage. It's an extra conversion for no reason.
Every roundabout in the US needs to have a sign "use signal when exiting roundabout" until drivers here become civilized.
There is a roundabout in my town that I do my best to avoid because I will regularly see people signal to enter the roundabout and I have never seen anyone signal their exit.
In a perfect world sure but I categorically refuse to care about the land usage of solar when we waste so much more land on stuff that is actively harming the planet. Once the cost of moving the grid to 100% renewables is no longer the barrier then we should care about reinstalling the panels somewhere else.
Every MW of solar not built is a MW of natural gas being burned. Until that's not the case building more renewable energy should be the top priority.
You don't need unused land you just need to displace agriculture. If you have any land used for cattle grazing for example you can have enough grass to feed 1 cow or you can have enough solar to power 20-40 homes. Pretty obvious to me which is the more productive land usage there.
Frosted flakes had one with some awful gimmick voice control software for your pc that would let you open a web browser with voice commands in like 2005. Nobody at school believed me because they thought that was crazy cutting edge tech.
I agree but also the only times I've gone camping that I've really loved and love looking back on were in winter. Something about a snow blanketed forest just can't be touched.
Not worth it at the end of the day and I'm glad I moved somewhere that almost never snows but still.
Nah, pressing →→→BB 20 times to water plants every day in stardew valley is actually the same as nailing an aerial in rocket league because 'they're both tasks.' The only difference between games is the aesthetics and you're a worse person if you like the game with the aesthetics of warfare more than the one about homesteading.
Well now I'm taking some solace knowing that libs who wanted to ignore the Palestinian genocide still think leftists are why they lost. Meet our demands next time I guess.
Weird how you still want to blame leftists for having demands like 'stop the genocide' instead of blaming kamala for refusing to agree to such a simple demand. Kind of says a lot about how little Palestinian lives matter in your eyes.
You're right, you should go make a conlang to be sure that none of the words you use have ever been said by a racist in a racist way.