Spyke
muhybreply
programming.dev

To be fair, I still have this Lemmy award idea, with a twist. The pay goes to awardee's preferred open-source project as donation.

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mander.xyz

Half of it split between the instances of the awarder and awardee, the other half as you said.

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lemmy.world

Trying to mine some Ethereum and accidentally ending up with with a shit-ton of hydrogen burning into helium

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Great, now my electron wallet doesn't want to work anymore. Said something about "busy influencing the fusion rate" and "please wait while I maintain the overall electrical neutrality within the plasma" or somesuch

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lemmy.ml

Okay hear me out, we got nuclear fusion, now place some water in a massive tub on top of the pc.
Create steam
Spin turbines
Generate electricity
Send to another server
Infinate power

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Ackshually this is well within the range of a Class F star, unlike our class G sun which is a bit cooler. This is getting cloe to the temperature of Procyon A which is noticeably whiter than the sun.

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Madison420reply
lemmy.world

Take both of them and slap a sterling engine between them. Unless both servers combined are eating thousands of watts an hour you could end up net energy positive.... Or you know perpetual energy.

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And that last 0.5 was probably a rounding error It's not showing double digit precision. :)

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lemmy.world

I guess technically. This makes me wonder what actually qualify as stars. Do neutron stars? Do black holes?

UPDATE: By the definitions on wikipedia, miriam-webster dictionary and britanica, a brown dwarf this cold may not actually qualify to be a star. I will search further for astronomical definition.

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Brown dwarfs are classified as substellar objects because they can't fuse hydrogen into helium and don't undergo the same lifecycle as stars. White dwarfs aren't stars either, they are stellar remnants that don't have enough mass to keep fusing heavier elements, usually stopping at carbon and oxygen.

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My Dell optiplex reports 126C, is this really normal dell behavior?

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jxk
sh.itjust.works

I'm more triggered by the missing degree symbol ° before C

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Agent641reply
lemmy.world

It's actually travelling at 6280 x the speed of light 😬

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

Oh now it makes sense. Temperature was less than Absolute zero now you can make 100% efficiency carnot engine

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feddit.org

Absolute zero is 0 K, which is the theoretical temperature at which particles have minimal vibrational motion. Since 6553.55 K is greater than 0 K, it is greater than absolute zero.

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piefed.social

It's because you have swap enabled and the server would rather just die in a fire.

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