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  • blackbelt352@lemmy.worldtoxkcd@lemmy.worldxkcd #3109: Dehumidifier
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    2 months ago

    No I’m saying you told your family to stop turning off the dehumidifier and they haven’t stopped doing that. No amount of home automation or smart devices is going to change your family turning the dehumidifier off. You don’t have a dumb system problem, you have a dumb people problem. And unfortunately a dumb people problem doesn’t get solved by a smarter system.

    Dehumidifiers are already automatic. Black mold isn’t going to take over your bathroom in 10 minutes.



  • But dehumidification doesn’t need to be proactive, it’s entire point is to kick on when there’s too much humidity and turn off once it gets to where it’s set to. This is the kind of building a solution to a problem that doesn’t actually exist.

    And you’re vastly underestimating how quickly diffusion works, especiallu for water vapor in air. When I take my shower in the morning the air very quickly saturates with humidity. I don’t have a very dry half of the room and a very humid half of the room. The entire room is humid. It doesn’t take 10 minutes for the humidity to diffuse into the dehumidifier. And then I leave the bathroom door open after which the humidity very quickly dissipates and equalizes the relatively high humidity of the very small bathroom into the comfortable humidity of the very large everywhere else that the small amount of humidity will have a negligible impact on.

    I’m failing to see how putting more unnecessary stuff between the hygrometer and the cooling loop of a dehumidifier makes it better.


  • blackbelt352@lemmy.worldtoxkcd@lemmy.worldxkcd #3109: Dehumidifier
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    3 months ago

    And how does a well designed automation system measure how much moisture in the air? There must be some kind of measuring device that measures moisture, a moisture scope! Ooh wait let’s latinize it to make it sound more impressive and sophisticated a hygro…me…ter… oh… uh… this is embarrassing.







  • Domination victory is literally one of the victoru conditions of Civ 6. You’re allowed to go full steamroll and go to war with everyone. Some of the civs are focused on going to war and expanding quickly through warfare like the Aztecs. Just don’t be surprised when you keep attacking other civs and the other players use the other diplomatic strategies to their advantage.

    I’m Civ it’s also important to know how the other players perceive you and how to manipulate that perception to your advantage. Manufacture Casus Belli, poke and prod until others make the first attack and you “defend” yourself by taking their cities. You’ll be less of a warmonger.







  • blackbelt352@lemmy.worldtoxkcd@lemmy.worldxkcd #3038: Uncanceled Units
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    8 months ago

    It definitely does provide information as my 50 watt lightbulb will run for an absurd number of years when hooked up to a nuclear generator and will be completely vaporized by the nuclear bomb.

    Also keep in mind your average person likely doesn’t remember their physics classes and how joules, time, and watts all relate to each other and that introducing new names to something just creates more confusion and headache and dumbasses phoning into their electric companies about how “my lightbulbs don’t take joules they take watts and why am I paying for joules when I want watts.”

    kWh conveys the relevant information without introducing other names that can create confusion among the stupidest and most karen-like people you know.


  • The important thing is that leaving units uncanceled is a valid way to communicate the relevant factors of what a number represents.

    Yes technically kWh cancels down to joules, but that doesn’t communicate the relevant info of how a device uses that energy during a period of time. In other words Work (Watts) multiplied by Time (hours).

    Uranium has 2x10¹³ joules of energy stored. You can use all that energy at once in a bomb and explode a city in a second, a lot of Work done very quickly, ooooor you could put it into a reactor and power a city and do a lot of Work during a much longer time period.