• sem@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            5·
            12 hours ago

            Here’s the thing. You said a “heatpump is a A/C.”

            Is it in the same family? Yes. No one’s arguing that.

            As someone who is a scientist who studies A/C’s, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls heat pumps A/C’s. If you want to be “specific” like you said, then you shouldn’t either. They’re not the same thing.

            If you’re saying “A/C family” you’re referring to the taxonomic grouping of HVACae, which includes things from fans to swamp coolers to radiators.

            So your reasoning for calling a heat pump a A/C is because random people “call the heat exchanger thingies A/C?” Let’s get refridgerators and freezers in there, then, too.

            Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It’s not one or the other, that’s not how taxonomy works. They’re both. A heat pump is a heat pump and a member of the A/C family. But that’s not what you said. You said a heat pump is a A/C, which is not true unless you’re okay with calling all members of the heat exchanger family A/C’s, which means you’d call refridgerators, freezers, and other heat exchangers A/C’s, too. Which you said you don’t.

            It’s okay to just admit you’re wrong, you know?

            • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
              3·
              10 hours ago

              Here’s the thing. You said a “heatpump is a A/C.”

              Er… No?

              I said “In this context” (using it to keep a room cool), a heat pump is AC.
              No generalization, specifically just this usecase.

              And while the rest of your rant is not wrong, it just does not apply to what I actually said…

              • sem@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                2·
                9 hours ago

                Here is the context of this copy-pasta: I am referencing an old redditor named Unidan, and this post was his downfall. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/unidan

                It is fun to take the copy-pasta and modify it to fit any all X are Y but not all Y are X type situations, to reference this bit of our shared internet history in a tongue in cheek manner. I don’t actually have any problem with calling heat pumps multi-purpose A/Cs.

                • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
                  2·
                  9 hours ago

                  Oh… So… LOL!

                  Thanks for the explanation, now this is actually really funny.

                  And you also did a pretty good job adapting it to the topic, thought you to be an actual ranting air conditioning nerd! :-)

    • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
      53·
      17 hours ago

      80% of the flats where I live have one above their balcony - and we are not even close to treeless.

      I was really bewildered by the idea that someone might not know what these are…

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
        171·
        17 hours ago

        In some places where air conditioning is omnipresent they’re uncommon. There’s a technology connections video about them that touches on it

              • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
                2·
                10 hours ago

                Well, it would also help blocking sunshine from heating their south wall too, but before that, something must have gone horribly, horribly wrong…

                [Edit]
                Only slightly off topic here: I can recommend Larry Niven’s short story “Inconstant Moon” :-)

          • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
            3·
            14 hours ago

            Balconies aren’t really a thing for most people in the American Midwest, which is where I’m from. You have porches and patios, but those are weather permitting structures and they’re mostly used when it’s a bit later so it’s not too bright.

      • Rooskie91@discuss.online
        2·
        12 hours ago

        I mean you have trees, so they’re mostly on the balcony. I live in a large city (not many trees) of mostly row homes, and they’re on like every window of the side of the houses that face the sun. Not just patios.

    • Grass@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      8 hours ago

      Huh… I would have imagined a falling person would rip the rivets right out of the fabric and have part of the frame go up their ass, killing them even harder.

      • sga@piefed.social
        English
        1·
        7 hours ago

        basically any amount of energy conversion is lossy - a loose fabric stretching and pulling on frame in a “wider fashion”, and any deformation of frame will require a lot energy - all subracting from your fall. and fame up in your tushie is at worst a life long pain in sitting or in bowel moments, a direct fall is iinsta death from basically anything above, lets say, 10th floor (pulled number out of thin air, but assuming a roughly flat contact, and human not falling like a diver reducing the direct load o spine(by crushing their arms))