Ooh, I can finally short!

So basically we didn’t have a material that could function as a cathode until now?

Fair point - I’m not really that good with the physical sciences personally so apologies for my ignorance

We had a shortage in Canada… but after looking into it, it appears to have been caused by a labour strike. LOL

That’s a capitalism problem, not a resource problem. All resources require labor to harvest, renewable or no.

expand and improve public transit dammit!

Currently living in Shenzhen and you’d be surprised that you can actually have it both ways. You can get around via transit quite easily, but also driving isn’t too difficult. The problem with US cities is mostly just single family homes, which waste a bunch of space. If everything is less dense, you have to drive further to get to where you want to go, and building public transit makes less sense since it needs to service more areas to reach the same amount of people

Yeah, I’m quite curious myself as to why it’s more difficult. My chemistry knowledge is chem1 level so all I know is that sodium atoms are larger and the energy levels for state change are slightly different

I find it interesting that, on a post about sodium ion batteries, your comment completely excludes them

Ah shit, I googled the number but it looks like I got the number for a battery in an internal combustion engine car, apologies. I’m an electronics person, not a car person

I’ve been surprised by USB-C. I recently bought a Xiaomi phone and it takes like 10 minutes to charge with the charger that comes with the phone (and it still works with the other ones). It’s 120 watts

At that rate it’d still take 12 hours to charge a 1440 watt hour battery, which isn’t the hour or two that people are used to with superchargers these days, but actually surprisingly servicable.

In the US, the Government does not represent the people, but those who buy elections. The people who buy elections have no incentive to change anything, and nothing will change in absence of a violent communist revoution

Wait, haven’t I heard of dental fillings that remineralize teeth years ago?

Paper cheat sheet? What’s the point when you have the man page?

They could still close down and post a link to lemmy like r/piracy did - people would still have a way to get their news

That’s nothing, my most upvoted reddit post was a lazy-ass post on r/shitposting that got removed by the reddit admins. Not the mods - the admins.

Shouldn’t be yet - for facebook (I’m not fucking calling them meta) to track you across the internet on websites you don’t use, they use a tracking pixel - a 1 pixel image that is included on the webpage which is loaded from facebook.com. To load this image your web browser sends facebook.com the cookies it always sends to facebook.com - i.e. your login information, and that’s how facebook knows that it’s you on that random-ass website that has nothing to do with facebook.

But note - you have to have cookies on facebook.com for this to work. So long as you never visit lemmy.facebook.com or whatever tf their federated instance is, they won’t be able to track you since they can’t associate you with your login via the tracking pixel - If I go to another lemmy instance, that lemmy instance has no idea that I’m actually @theblueredditrefugee@lemmy.dbzer0.com.

Well, this is based on my knowledge of how facebook tracking works. Maybe it’s changed since I worked there.

Edit: Should note that, obviously, everything you post on lemmy is public, keeping a log of everything a user posts should be pretty easy, like what they did with revddit and such before the apipockalypse.

Didn’t take that long to sign up for reddit myself, but I also only used the main app. But it already feels like reddit has moved here and I’m loving it

I mean most posts on the fediverse have way less votes. But I see similarly many comments as I used to see on reddit. It just feels like reddit is here now.

Stronger evidence: there’s documented cases of people’s deleted comments being restored. Whether or not that’s intentional by reddit, I can’t say for certain, but if I were a betting woman, you bet I’d bet on them doing it on purpose. And if they are, then we’re talking about reddit losing a substantial enough amount of content just from people deleting their accounts in protest, substantial enough to impact their bottom line. And that’s just those of us who are deleting our content - I’m not among them since I still need to occasionally look at my saved posts since there’s important and useful information in there. They’ll stop getting content from way more people. That’s gotta terrify them.

Obviously the fediverse lacks a lot of the polish that reddit had. Mostly by virtue of reddit being around longer and having more developers - lemmy’s had like 2 developers for 4 years, kbin came out a few months ago, and I’m not sure about mastodon. But with time, that’ll change. A lot of reddit power users are programmers, and now that they can touch the code of the site they care about, I bet we’ll see a lot more polish in the coming months. I’ve certainly gotta get off my ass and dig into the code a little bit.

I wouldn’t call myself a power user, or even an especially good programmer, but I have my moments, and I feel more at home here than I’ve felt on reddit in years.

lmao I thought I was dumb for not understanding despite having a BS in CS. Distributed systems are just inherently confusing (and I took distributed systems in college!). Definitely gonna be something that I contribute to on github though, it’s just a matter of time before I learn what I need to learn

Wait I’m new here, is Mastodon federated with Lemmy?

undefined> Say what you want about the guy but I think he’ll figure Twitter out.

You know you’re talking about the guy who literally asked people to print out all the code in twitter’s codebase, right?