Why is it repost weekend this weekend? Feels like half of my feed sorted by active is reposts.

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.

Liberal encounters the concept of class status for the first time

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.

By the kilowatt hour per month.

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.

No. Why would anybody have an intuitive frame of reference for what a joule is.

This appliance uses 1 kilowatt, running it for an hour is a kilowatt hour. Easy.

*And I can’t even find anything suggesting any countries meter electrical bills by the joule so ???

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.

Oh, naturally it’s on archive.org https://archive.org/details/TalkingTony

It’s 56k people. The US doesn’t need to govern shit, they would probably just deport them all if they invade.

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