LostXOR

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 months ago

Windows will sooner kill itself than learn how to play nice with others.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Brb making a necklace of crystal oscillators to heal and balance my body. (And yeah 32768 Hz is a pretty common value for oscillators; interesting the crystal pseudoscientists use it too).

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (3 children)

If you're not talking nicely to the plants, you're not a vegan in spirit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Crystals do have their own energetic signature frequencies though! Quartz is a good example; we use its piezoelectric and resonance properties to make cheap but relatively accurate oscillators.

[–] [email protected] 90 points 3 months ago (5 children)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

I don't know the specifics of the chip design, but plenty of materials don't react with water even at high temperatures, so they probably used one of those.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sometimes knocking an idea down is justified, especially in the case of astrology.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Should be pretty easy to put a lightweight Linux distro on it and use it as a TV + media player. According to Microsoft it only has a 4th gen i7 and 8 gigs of RAM, so there's not much point using it as an actual computer these days anyways.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I think I'm too young for Facebook, and I deleted my Instagram account about a month ago. I was primarily using it to socialize with friends, but decided that wasn't worth the privacy cost.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's a good plot for a book, but as for actually happening in the real world haha no way.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That comes out to a speed of 7.5km/h or 4.7mph, barely above a brisk walk. Good to know if I ever need to outrun humanoid robots it won't be hard. (The self-driving cars are another matter).

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Robots are a lot more energy efficient than humans. Human muscles are around 25% efficient while robotic motors can be >90%. However they lose massively in energy density. 100 grams of carbs has 1.7 MJ of energy, which is equivalent to 2-3kg of lithium batteries. A human can run for hours on a kg of calorie dense foods, while a robot would need a bulky battery or constant battery swaps/recharges.

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