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hot_mocha_decaf@lemmy.cafeto
Technology@lemmy.world•Google Search as you know it is over - but there are alternatives (see post)English
131·2 months agoI haven’t used Google search since 2008, when I starting using Linux and Duckduckgo was the default search engine for Firefox.
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hot_mocha_decaf@lemmy.cafeto
Technology@lemmy.world•While refrigerators and air conditioners still rely on gases that can leak, a Cambridge startup raises $10 million to create refrigeration with plastic crystals that cool when squeezed.English
1·2 months agoAnd plastic deformation can’t be reversed, its a one-shot deal, when its bent its bent. Loses integrity as well when its deformed.
hot_mocha_decaf@lemmy.cafeto
Technology@lemmy.world•While refrigerators and air conditioners still rely on gases that can leak, a Cambridge startup raises $10 million to create refrigeration with plastic crystals that cool when squeezed.English
13·2 months agoI had to study properties of metal for an engineering class. There was no elastic deformation that I remember, unless you pass the materials elastic limit. Important concepts to be clear about. You don’t want something plastic if you need elastic.
hot_mocha_decaf@lemmy.cafeto
Technology@lemmy.world•While refrigerators and air conditioners still rely on gases that can leak, a Cambridge startup raises $10 million to create refrigeration with plastic crystals that cool when squeezed.English
110·2 months agoIts not deforming at all though. Its compressing and decompressing, like a spring. Plastic is plastic, elastic is elastic. You can’t say “this plastic is elastic”, its a different property altogether.
hot_mocha_decaf@lemmy.cafeto
Technology@lemmy.world•While refrigerators and air conditioners still rely on gases that can leak, a Cambridge startup raises $10 million to create refrigeration with plastic crystals that cool when squeezed.English
33·2 months agoExcept, what they’re describing seems to be elastic, not plastic. Plastic deformation is permenant.
hot_mocha_decaf@lemmy.cafeto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•We need a word for "literally" that doesn't also mean "not literally"English
9·2 months agoThe word has been enshitified.
hot_mocha_decaf@lemmy.cafeto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•the opposite of a little should have been a lottleEnglish
3·2 months agoThat alot is alittle weird. Maybe even alot weird.
hot_mocha_decaf@lemmy.cafeto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•the opposite of a little should have been a lottleEnglish
4·2 months agoThanks alottle!
hot_mocha_decaf@lemmy.cafeto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•the opposite of a little should have been a lottleEnglish
14·2 months agoPeople would still spell it alottle.
hot_mocha_decaf@lemmy.cafeto
Technology@beehaw.org•Vintage chatbot lives in the past like an elderly relativeEnglish
8·2 months agoHappy and I’m smiling,
Walk a mile to drink your water.
You know I’d love to love you,
And above you there’s no other.
We’ll go walking out
While others shout of war’s disaster.
Oh, we won’t give in,
Let’s go living in the past.





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