If I’m already out, the hassle isn’t bad at all to get 1-2 days of groceries with the bike, excluding liquid or paper goods. But since I gear up fully, that’s the real hassle. I do my 20-min work commute on the bike about 1/3 the time though and that’s perfectly fine because half the gearing is done on the clock
Please note it’s Dec 11 EST. You may have seen my old comment that said the title’s 12th EST. So it’s best to follow the direct pages linked in the article for your timezone
Things like this make you realize eclipse as a bit of an arbitrary term to cover what we feel isn’t quite a transit and isn’t quite an occultation. Total solar eclipses are occultations and annulars are transits. Lunar eclipses are very disproportionately occultations but we’re sitting inside the cozy Earth looking out like office gophers commenting “it’s really coming down now” about snow flurries. When the Martian rover saw Phobos in front of the sun, it was a transit.
Asteroid belts are really sparse. Those scifi space fights in asteroid fields with constant bobbing and weaving could probably only happen within a few years of a planet being blown up. Anything that dense would be condensed into larger bodies very quickly. Turns out space is a whole lot of nothing
And what we got was an improvement through newer technology. A 90s or even 00s movie would have been green screen galore, with cgi producing most of the scene. Instead, cgi evolved to be able to erase the cables and other safety items to make most of the movie a practical stunt. As Miller kept dreaming up more crazy cars, those too became reality with time as improved materials and engineering allowed them to exist. Iirc, the biggest surprise in Fury Road development was the “pole cat” cars.
Yeah, cool, welcome to statistics and distibuting results to the gen pop. The basic values of mean, median, and mode can skew perception by themselves. I ask, would you agree to walk across an ocean with an average depth of 2ft? Because, statistically it’s fine, but it’d be a 99% death rate
OP is probably in the northern hemisphere with a colder temp than expected, but then heard Brazil is having an unusually hot day,mean8ng we didn’t buck the trend of average global temp
For those that know about trails and the ease of removing them from images through stacking as I thought, it isn’t about that, despite the cover image. It’s about momentary glints disrupting searches for momentary events. Not too much more to the article though, just raising awareness
Yes, as mentioned in the article by the person who formally made the suggestion. Either stop using people’s names or accept we’ll change views of past figures over time.
Are you getting your information from fictional TV shows? You know they’re all actors right? None of them were actually there? Most of them aren’t even the right nationality? And they didn’t have TV back then?
Stars, the sun, and, if they change, seasons. The moon is a nice guide from month to month but it’s not really used to keep track of time over a year. Usually there’s 12 full moons, but sometimes it’s 13. The stars have long been used as a time-keeping constant and the path of the sun too. With the Earth’s axial tilt, everywhere on the planet sees variation in where the sun rises, peaks, and sets - even at the equator. The visible constellations vary through the year and are what we still use to measure Earth’s position (and therefore the date).
The date is a position in orbit. The time is a direction you face. Our measure of time isn’t arbitrary
29 minutes to animatedly blast one of the two claims that were “nutter bullshit”. This isn’t worth the watch. There’s maybe 2 minutes-worth of content refuting the 80% loss of energy due to reflection claim. Nothing is actually discussed about the TIPA’s attempt to improve output with higher angular offset from the sun. He also forgot part of their total efficiency improvement claim comes from greater packing density. Granted, the vertical array would get a reduced watt/m2 density per panel, but it could still have an overall improvement for daily/annual solar angles. Probably not worth it compared re-angling standard panel arrays a few times a year.
So the improvement percentage is bullshit and the leader gave a shitty response - nothing new here. That doesn’t mean the concept is entirely trash. But this could have been 5 minutes
I donate to the Mozilla foundation, and I love Firefox a ton. But I can’t seem to like the UI by installing a theme, and when I change it to look better the browser slows to a crawl. Does it really matter all that much if I use Chromium?...
Browser ram usage will just about always max out the available ram. It’s by design. It’s keeping open as much as it can for a faster user experience. As you run other programs, the browser should be giving up ram (blanking more tabs) to give it to the programs demanding it.
Exactly. Your lungs don’t burn when you hold your breath because O2 is low, they burn because CO2 is high. Any other gas to displace the O2 is undetectable (aside from irritants and smells). It’s why huffing helium doesn’t burn but can make you light headed faster than you realize. That’s why CO poisoning is so dangerous. CO2 poisoning is torture. And yet CO2 pits are still legal for kill pits…
That’s the neat thing. The speed of light is constant. It doesn’t change. It’s always 1c whether you’re traveling at +1c, - 1c, or 0c. Buckle up for some relativity. The wavelength can compress or expand, but it always travels at 1c.
Let’s say you’re on a ship capable of moving at any speed between 0c and 1c. You’re passing a particular star and want to travel to a planet 1ly away. You have a powerful laser and the other planet has a powerful telescope to detect it. There are calibrated timers on both the planet and on your ship that are synced to each other. .
T minus zero. You flash the laser at the planet as you fly at 0.5c, or 1/2 lightyear per year. The light travels at 1c, or 1ly per year.
1 year after the flash, the planet sees the flash. It traveled 1ly in 1 year. 2 years after the flash, the planet sees your ship arrive. All is normal so far.
From the ship, you know the light traveled at 1c away from you. You arrive at the planet 1 year after the flash, according to your on board timer. One. The light took half as long as you.
Time is not constant, c is constant. The faster you go, the slower time passes. In 1 year of fast travel, you arrive 2 years later, according to the stationary planet. So all of the light physics apply the same, no matter the speed. Time dilates to make up the logical difference. If you reach 1c, time effectively stops and you arrive instantaneously, from your perspective. When we look up at the Andromeda galaxy, some 2.5 million lightyears away, the light we see was emmited 2.5 million years ago - from our perspective. If we see a star go supernova in Andromeda, it happened 2.5 million years ago. But those photons of light, created by a star that died 2.5 million years ago, experience no time passage at all. They instantaneously go from the star to your retina, from their perspective.
That’s basically why lightspeed travel is effectively impossible within our current models. Traveling faster is out of the question because none of it makes sense. It’s not a simple matter of making a new model or believing scientists are idiots. There are many experiments that hold true to the model (such as the atomic clocks used on a plane to test the effect of speed and gravity on time dilation) as well as satellites using the current model to maintain time accuracy. The energy required to get to those speeds is not even remotely feasible. The fastest man made object at 450,000+mph, the Parker solar probe, is still in the 0.0005c range. We tried our best and it’s still just a tiny fraction of 1c. And that’s by using some gravity slingshots and spiraling down into the sun’s gravity well, nothing about leaving the solar system. The Voyager probes that slingshotted out of the sun’s gravity well are down to under 40,000mph.
I used to complain about the promotion of hatchback for cargo space because they were really a regular trunk turned vertically. Your Wikipedia link shows that well with the ~2008 Focus examples. If you compare the 2012+ focus, it’s a bit clearer because that generation offered a 5 door hatch alongside the 4 door sedan. I disliked the tradeoff of the large rear opening (with folding seats) because it came with a shortened trunk length and the sloped rear glass reduced total volume (compared to a wagon typically having more vertical glass and being longer overall than the sedan). However, the shorter version do have a purpose if you frequently park in the street or any other urban/dense lots. They’re easier to parallel park and less likely to get swiped in garages and such as people swing wide. They offer 4-5 seats, they offer a large cargo area, just not at the same time. That makes enough sense to me for vehicles living their daily duty as single-person vehicles.
That’s basically how my daily driving duty is now split between a small motorcycle and, for bad weather, a 4x4 (hi/lo) body-on-frame convertible 2-door suv smaller than a miata Geo Tracker.
The Lexus RX350 convinced consumers that crossovers are cool and SUVs/CUVs are great for daily driving. But, the real culprit behind the transition was the Plymouth that CAFE classed as a light truck: the PT Cruiser, the wringer that lifted the Ram’s fleet fuel economy overnight
I can’t instantly jump to nefarious purposes. I mean I’m sure there’s nefarious purposes baked into it, but it’s reasonable that a marketing group knows the common reasons people leave their product. I’m guessing these listed options will actually trigger a popup/page that explains how to correct these exact things, like a FAQ. I’m not trying to be apologetic for MS, it’s just that the choice between edge and chrome is how you balance your data… Emissions? Both suck for that reason
People are paid to review all kinds of things. If you want to just look and say “pretty picture good” or “pop song easy” or “wild movie fun”, nothing is stopping you. These things keep selling because they’re easily consumed by masses. This applies to the most boring cars in the world being popular, the most invasive home cameras being the most popular, or the least-indexed or least-respecting social media being popular. Facebook, Reddit, Ring doorbell, Toyota Camry, and photo-realistic art all get hammered by critics within their fields, but they’re all super popular by comparison to other options.
So why is that important? Because without more experience, you rely on professional reviews to guide you to the smaller details. You may not know who influenced an artist to include significant blue tones or large aggressive strokes, what sites can provide community with less invasive policies, what sites aren’t singular entities, what cars are just as reliable but bring excitement, or what camera systems haven’t divulge your stream to authorities and data analytics groups.
Critics are paid to be experts in their fields. This parasocial trend highlights how average reviewers (social media commenters, Amazon customers) don’t (or shouldn’t) carry the same weight on your decision process for a product you value. You don’t have to look for them and listen to them if you’re not concerned about the nuances of the product. But I’m sure you find professional reviews for something
An animal does not know pain until it dies since most injuries are fatal without societal support. Humans know the pain of dying and prolong it. Which is more brutal?
Most injuries in the wild will lead to death quickly. Any kind of broken limb means no hunting and makes for easier prey. So not the most direct point initially, but the point was that the pain typically doesn’t last long before starvation or death by a predator. So it doesn’t hurt long before death comes. We drag it out as a society with medical support, familiar connections with people, and sharing news of atrocities at no benefit to us. I’m not saying one is better, I just feel one has a much shorter term of pain
That’s not really unique, is it. Tech has always been working to increase output for a given unit of work or money. Animators used to sketch and record every frame. Then famous animators made key frames and outsourced 80% to sweatshops. Now you can animate scenes by layer and by object on your computer. I do have concerns about nefarious use (regarding both material and employment replacement) but this isn’t a distinct AI issue, it’s a normal greed issue with a new scapegoat
What’s a common package for battery units? A full Leaf dropout is an awkward shape and 4 buckets of 18650s are a headache. Is there something common in between? I’ve got nothing but empty space between my frame rails and figured that’d be a good place to add some batteries without having to go crazy in the ex-gas tank spot
1" means 1 arcsecond, not 1 inch, for the Americans. 1 arcsecond is 1/60th of an arcminute. 1 arc minute is 1/60th of degree. So the 1" scale shown represents 1/3600th of a degree. The object is measured at 1.54 arcseconds
Elon Musk says no primates died as a result of Neuralink’s implants. A WIRED investigation now reveals the grisly specifics of their deaths as US authorities have been asked to investigate Musk’s claims.
Or the movie was based on real life. Animals aren’t as dumb as we pretend. Other mammals are just that: mammals. The same as us. Mammals have the same feelings as us, the same emotions, the same fundamental chemical reactions, the same socialization. We just have big brains and written language to amplify basic mammalian traits.
The famous star Betelgeuse will briefly disappear tonight (www.astronomy.com)
My cousin said the gas savings for a prius and a motorcycle were the same. (lemmy.ml)
Mathematically they’re equivalent, but the feelings could not be further apart.
One of the brightest stars in the sky will 'blink out' on Dec. 12. Here's how to watch. (www.livescience.com)
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I can’t recall a time when I wasn’t lost in the inner solar system. Currently I’m stuck on the third dot - how do I proceed?...
IRS be like (lemmy.ml)
FURIOSA : A MAD MAX SAGA | OFFICIAL TRAILER #1 - YouTube (youtu.be)
Everyone's upset a Youtube blocking adblockers, meanwhile this exists (lemmy.today)
What is your favorite type of inflation? (lemmy.ml)
Earth has a cold (lemmy.ml)
Columbine vibes (lemmy.ca)
New Evidence: Chinese Rocket And Secret Payload Caused Double Crater on The Moon (www.sciencealert.com)
Satellites Make up to 80,000 Flashing Glints Per Hour. It's a Big Problem for Astronomers - Universe Today (www.universetoday.com)
The Magellanic Clouds must be renamed, astronomers say (www.space.com)
What would life be like if we had 2 moons? With 2 different lunar cycles, how would we tell which time of the year it is without months?
Just EEVBlog calling out tech scams (odysee.com)
My final costume for our Halloween party! What a great night! (lemmy.world)
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How much does it really matter to use firefox?
I donate to the Mozilla foundation, and I love Firefox a ton. But I can’t seem to like the UI by installing a theme, and when I change it to look better the browser slows to a crawl. Does it really matter all that much if I use Chromium?...
Tarantula crossing road causes traffic accident in Death Valley National Park (www.cbsnews.com)
I remember, assholes (lemmy.world)
What the Hell Happened to my Cookies? (lemmy.world)
Only about 1/4 of them did this
If a vehicle were traveling through space at/near the speed of light, then what would happen if it turned its headlights on?
NASA Brings Back Actual Sample Of Asteroid But Can't Open The Lid (www.iflscience.com)
NASA has hit a significant problem. Two fasteners are stuck.
So how is everything? (endlesstalk.org)
The average car purchased in 2023 emits higher levels of carbon dioxide (CO₂) than its 2013 equivalent. This is due to the large proportion of SUVs in the mix, which tend to be bigger and heavier. (english.elpais.com)
Microsoft now pops up a poll asking why you'd want to use another browser when you download Chrome (www.theverge.com)
Stock Meme (discuss.tchncs.de)
Tiktok's most popular painter sends followers after art critic for negative review of gallery exhibit (news.artnet.com)
What happens when people die with metal in or on them?
Like if they die with braces, a metal retainer, earrings, a gold tooth, a pacemaker, et cetera.
This is like a nightmare Romanticist version of David Hasselhoff eating that burger (startrek.website)
What would it take to change an Internal Combustion Engine Car to an EV? (lemmy.world)
JWST discovers massive and compact quiescent galaxy (phys.org)
We have vehicles for all types of nature's elements except for fire
We have cars for earth, boats for water and planes for air. Nothing for fire. Not that I want to ride on fire.
Oracle customer support solved another problem
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The Gruesome Story of How Neuralink’s Monkeys Actually Died (12ft.io)
Elon Musk says no primates died as a result of Neuralink’s implants. A WIRED investigation now reveals the grisly specifics of their deaths as US authorities have been asked to investigate Musk’s claims.