SamVimes

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[–] SamVimes 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depending on context, value is also often required. That can be in the form of nutrition, taste, flavor, preservation, or appearance. Take edible gold leaf, sugar free fairly nutrition free candies, spices, or hot sauce as examples. Their ingredients too, there's wood fiber derivatives used as fillers sometimes.

On the flip side, a gold wedding band can pass through a digestive tract quite safely, and is materially identical to edible gold leaf. Generally not considered edible though. A sheaf of printer paper? Not edible. Some small paper wrappings, often edible. Similarly a marble would pass through with no danger unless chewed. In many ways safer than a very strong hot sauce or some baking ingredients. And yet...

Edible is quite a wiggly term.

[–] SamVimes 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is a delight piece of work, and well worth the research needed to make it.

Sometimes you have to draw a line in the sand about strange low-stakes terminology opinions you're passionate about.
I had a similarly passionate "what counts as a jumpsuit" debate not too long ago. The key difference in opinions was about sleeve length.

I will begrudgingly call a jumpsuit with short sleeves a jumpsuit, but once it has no sleeves at all it cannot hold the title anymore. Jumpsuits were designed as full body garments for jumping out of planes, fancy dress overalls just aren't jumpsuits, regardless of the slow bastardization of the term fashion has allowed. There's no great title for it, overalls shares a similar niche but not quite. Romper also comes close, but requires shorts, not full length legs.

Thanks for the rant.

[–] SamVimes 4 points 1 year ago

The cool thing is that they're floating because of gravity. Specially, the thing they're floating in is heavier than they are, so the float medium gets pulled underneath the object.

[–] SamVimes 1 points 1 year ago

I see your musical Aliens, and raise you Wes Anderson Star Wars: https://youtu.be/d-8DT5Q8kzI?si=7AykWmw_wzvPZ4Sc

[–] SamVimes 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

By free search allowance, do you mean the one time trial of 100, the 300 per month if you're paying $5, or something else?

[–] SamVimes 2 points 1 year ago

Marlon Williams is easily one of my favorite artists. I love the direction he's taking his newer music too. Top three from his most recent album for me are Promises, Thinking of Nina, and River Rival. He's also a truly authentic and kind dude. A+ on stage and off.

In a totally different flavor, he had a guy called Merk opening for him for part of his recent tour, and he's got some funky stuff worth checking out.

[–] SamVimes 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

While there is a certain level of innate technical mindedness that people have.. Being willing to try to fix it, and the lessons you'll learn from either fixing it or not is huge. Regardless of outcome hopefully the experience will be somewhat fun and pay dividends in terms of being able to recognize where vacuums get bound up with clogs, hair, etc. Occasional deep cleaning will make all the vacuums in your future live longer and suck harder.

Projects that are 'either it gets fixed or tossed' are great, there's so little pressure, and so much you can learn.

Feel free to ask more specific questions if you get deep inside it and come up with them!

[–] SamVimes 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] SamVimes 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It'd take quite a few more to power anything vaguely first/second world houselike...

Watts=voltsamps. 1.5v0.01a=0.015w. That makes 67 per watt, presumably at ideal lab conditions. 670 per ten watts, 6,700 for 100, 67,000 for 1000, of course.

For reference a old slow phone charger is 5w, new ones are commonly 10-18. Household led bulbs 2-10 watts, incandescent 40-100. Any heating device (space heater, hair dryer, toaster) tends to be 1500w to 1875w.

I sometimes live in a van with 750w of solar panels, and if you're especially energy conscious, it's a very reasonable amount of power in the summer, but it's also easy to blow through, especially if you're using any of it for temperature control or cooking, or it's winter, cloudy, shady, or worst, a combo.

Still always exciting to see new energy generation tech, fingers crossed it gets cheaper and more effecient and doesn't end up in the energy tech graveyard.

[–] SamVimes 4 points 1 year ago

Bumble bees bumbling along, who would have guessed?

Seriously though, interesting article, it's always exciting learning more about bees.

[–] SamVimes 2 points 1 year ago

Snuff by Terry Pratchett.
I'd read about 35/41 Discworld books out of order, a few many times, but never a full chronological read through and a couple I've missed, so I figured it was time.
It's my favorite series and he's my favorite author, so the prospect of finishing and never having any new Discworld books to read is a bit emotional. It's been a wonderful ride, Snuff is #39 of 41. Thankful there's a few non Discworld books I do still have to read of his when it finish this run. I may save them for a bit though.

GNU Pterry

[–] SamVimes 1 points 1 year ago

Wow, yep I did.
This is actually a different one which looks slightly better. To be clear, I don't know if any if them are worthwhile, I don't own any, I just searched for "payload Air2S" on Amazon.

https://a.co/d/5GZFWCP

Not sure how to tag people on Beehaw, @Freeman pleas let me know if this tags you?

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