Wandering Adventure Party

@NullNowhere my point is exactly the latter one: while there's nothing inherent about joules that makes them intuitively graspable, the jump from "J" to "something well known" is shorter, especially in a global context

even if your goal is to make things comprehensible in comparison to mundane events, you could use "can bring to a boil X ml [or cups if you wish] of water"!

water's heat capacity is 4200 J/kg/K, it's a very convenient number even if you are doing mental math

"that amount of energy is sufficient to charge 10 completely drained iPhone batteries"

this is literally the electrical engineering equivalent of measuring things in football fields. what is it about americans and using real units

"a single braking event of a small car can dissipate over 0.12 kWh worth of energy"

i am begging people to use joules

[excerpt from a video about engineering of brakes]

i have finished the git-pages administrator's manual, a nearly 5000 word long document covering basically every aspect of configuration and operation

please enjoy / use / criticise https://git-pages.org/running-a-server/

@xgranade i think you can probably put a data center in space (fsvo "space"). it's stupid but cosmic rays aren't gonna stop you

people have been launching COTS, non-hardened, literally from nearest radioshack, electronics to space for decades now and it is mostly just... fine? you might have to reboot it sometimes. but i think it is counterfactual to imagine that if you put a blade server in space cosmic rays will prevent it from doing the serving