You’re still being reductive. An indicator LED can work without any part of it more than 10 °C above ambient temperature. No incandescent light bulb can achieve this.

And yes, there are indeed lighting systems that use many low-power LED chips spread over a large area, none of which get hot even by human standards. These cost a lot of money but last extremely long.

Power density of the Sun is approximately 276.5 W/m³. That’s counterintuitively little. A classic LED 3mm plastic package has the volume of less than 40 mm³ and some white ones can handle about 100 mW without a heatsink. Even leaving space for connections and airflow, you can easily overpower the Sun by volume by orders of magnitude.

A fun article mentioning that 276.5 W/m³ is about a reptile’s metabolism (and they famously produce little body heat): https://what-if.xkcd.com/148/

On replacing the Sun with another light source: https://what-if.xkcd.com/151/

Basically, as this Stack Exchange discussion correctly states, human intuition is quite useless when thinking about things orders of magnitude outside our experience.

Meanwhile, you say “hot” because that’s what your finger felt. Not really convincing of your ability to think in cosmic proportions.

I’m trying to get you to stop reducing temperature scale to “anything over 60 °C is hot” because it’s not useful: a clearer distinction should be made between something that regularly causes house fires and something I unscrew while it’s on to put under my blanket when my toes are cold. Human perception of temperature (classic 0-100 °F) just does not allow comparing things an order of magnitude higher (in Kelvin ofc). There’s also more to heat, its effects and how it’s perceived than a single measurement of temperature: thermal mass, conductivity, color (exchange via radiation differs between black and white bodies) etc.

Also, it’s indeed ad hominem but you did choose the username yourself.

Nah, too cold. It stopped moving and the computer can’t generate any more random numbers to pick from the LLM’s weighted suggestions. Similarly, some LLMs have a setting called “heat”: too cold and the output is repetitive, unimaginative and overly copying input (like sentences written by first autocomplete suggestions), too hot and it is chaos: 98% nonsense, 1% repeat of input, 1% something useful.

Username checks out

Boiling hot, as opposed to METAL-MELTING REMOTELY-SCORCHING HELL-BLAZING INFERNO

How long before you admit there is a point to calling them “cold light sources” because their color temperature is higher than what black body radiation (incandesce) can do?

From a human’s standpoint, we say they’re “hot”. The fact that humans can’t handle 150 °C nor 2700 °C does not mean there’s no difference between the temperature of a sausage fresh off the grill and magma. (Yes, by the time it gets to the surface, lava is too cold)

LED chips can’t get above 150 °C or they fail. So high-power LED lights need appropriate cooling. And the heatsink is big and thermally conductive, making it feel hotter to the touch than it is (it delivers more heat to your finger over time). Meanwhile, the glass of some bulbs can exceed 300 °C but cools down to safe levels in a minute (or less if you touch it with something) because it’s thin.

Also, 150 °C (420 K) objects do radiate heat as black-body radiation but not that much, also it’s far-IR so only detectable with thermal cameras. Meanwhile, a light bulb’s filament is 2700 K (3000 K in halogen ones) and the Sun’s surface is 6000 K, and both produce copious amounts of near-IR light that largely contributes to the heat felt on one’s skin when illuminated (although the visible light does too).

Did she just use sarcastic quotation marks?

More like centuries, looms are the OG job takers

But the socks’ design does look OK. A few colors and made out of “pixels” of the grid-like textile pattern.

It’s not a part of the title but yes, “app” is the official descriptor now.

You’re right: strange how they keep shoving things nobody wants in the name of their product - first “Office” became “Microsoft 365” (subscription-only), then “with Copilot” (opt-out upsell) and now the mandatory Copilot upsell.

The silver lining is, small and medium-sized companies are increasingly ditching the pricey offering for employees who don’t have document editing a major part of their duties, making them realize LibreOffice is now good enough for their personal needs.

Fair, I still use Office 2007 via Wine. Even the newest one has the killer features (unless it’s the awful web version) but your willingness to use it depends on how strong your aversion towards proprietary OSs and AI is

Microsoft 365 Copilot App

Oh, you’re right. Without “App” though, that slipped through because someone wrote “the Microsoft 365 Copilot app” (a string you’ll see in official MS texts) in title case.

That doesn’t exist. It’s Copilot 365 now so you’re not missing much.

Yes! And I’d much rather haz ICAN than ICANN. They are OK with numbers but their names department is run by a bunch of clowns.

• - “Can I uze a word plz?” - “Submit an application, we take them every 10+ years for $300K each and you’ll get a reply in 12-18 months”
• - “You’re deprecating .io? What about my domain?” - “Get fucked”

I’m referencing “ICANN haz .meow?”, a slogan by the .meow campain (Fully funded now!)

Phew. I’m glad Trump doesn’t remember my country exists.

Is that what the bus joke is about or is there more to it?

I originally thought it was a kind of Sphinx riddle

Ich kann dir alles geben, was zum Thema zu lernen ist (es geht nicht um vieles). Die Frage kommt von mir (in der YT-Version werde ich aber nicht erwähnt) und es handelt sich um diese Tastatur: https://feddit.org/comment/9000852

Sie haben aber die Frage editiert, ohne mir Bescheid zu geben…