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I had been thinking something like

"if you have equipment dumping ~60° to the radiator, and it's coming out at -40°, what 'effective' radiator temperature can you get? Worse for bigger radiators w/ longer loops?"

"How good are heat pipes?" Basically
December 12, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Nice. I think my concern was about the realism of getting a uniformly high radiator temperature.

I didn't see input temperature to the radiator, but on second perusal it must be somewhere between 3—17°C, which is colder than I would have guessed.

Helps your point though
December 12, 2025 at 6:03 AM
This thing says the ISS can reject 70 kW with ~475 m² of radiator, for ~150 w/m², so real world losses look huge (?).

They're doing -40°C at the radiator outlet, which i guess is most of the difference.

Can a DC do better just with the higher (?) source temp?

www.nasa.gov/wp-content/u...
December 12, 2025 at 5:22 AM
"Flips him over and scoops out his soft underbelly" allegedly, though Wikipedia says it's a myth.
A fisher is a kind of large-cat-sized weasel that lives in the woods around here.
November 19, 2025 at 4:14 AM
For me it's tied to an early memory of my grandpa explaining how a fisher hunts a porcupine. Unclear how the technique could be made to work for social media accounts, but one can never be too careful.
November 19, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Brave of you to post this here; exposing your soft underbelly.
November 18, 2025 at 3:34 AM
It's the rough side
November 16, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Personal example of transition between groups is the Japanese Beetle (Popillia japonica), who I once thought was a pretty handsome bug, invasiveness aside.
Now that I mostly see them in my garden, they strongly trigger the "ew a bug" reflex, and seem to have no redeeming qualities.
November 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I feel the basic difference is something like:
Bugs that characteristically *are on* things ( branches, walls, flowers ) v.
Bugs that *come out of* things (spoiled food, holes I was about to put my hand in).
Plus culture, and special cases spiders, bees, & wasps?
November 14, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Where does the sun go at night?
On top of some guy's truck.
I know because I saw him on the highway once.
November 12, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Same handle less the dot, but I mostly lurk. I might have more total posts here even though I'm more "active" there.
November 11, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I think my default parse was "norvid, studies [of]" rather than "norvid, [who] studies", but the "wrong" one has been too strongly reinforced for me to see properly anymore.
kind of wordular analogue of the thebes derp mouth & godoglyness pizza slice situations.
November 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Are there many people willing to entertain machine sentience, who aren't also unusually generous about animals?
October 8, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Auger snails are long thin things that are a foot
September 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Have you ever noticed how people say "last night" as if there's never going to be another night? What are they so afraid of?
September 15, 2025 at 4:23 AM
How impressive is this vs what you'd consider a "normal" storage life, and how was the eating quality of the year old fruits vs fresh?

Notice any flavour diff in the purple fruits, or is it really just the colour you're after?

I've never met a tomatillo but maybe next year I'll squeeze some in.
September 7, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Bean sprouts / still look like sprouts to me another favorite
September 5, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I'm going to try this on my nephews next time I have a cabbage ( i mean a brussel ) handy.
September 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I kinda think if the cracks are showing so badly that we're seriously talking about "if the fascists win" while the cause of the restriction is only just passing out of living memory, it's fair to wonder if the restriction was all that useful in the first place.
September 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
August 30, 2025 at 4:34 AM
How often do you dive into these? Do you keep sort/index them further, or let inspiration guide you to the right one?
August 29, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Is this who you're thinking of?

bsky.app/profile/grim...
the level of misinformation sparked because of this bananas EEG preprint is just really tragic.

By the way if you think that a researcher caused cognitive decline to happen to participants in a study you should probably be freaked out by that
If you use chatgpt you're stupid. It's confirmed
July 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I don't know about true neutral, but for years I've been pretty happy with "Solarized" as nicely-dark light, and nicely-light dark palettes.
Too much software is not themeable, but I use that wherever convenient
July 18, 2025 at 10:56 PM