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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's disingenuous to say rural areas are too poor to install public transportation. It's that there's too much to install (too much space) for any given user. Just economics of rural areas. It doesn't make sense unless we can significantly reduce the capital investment and running costs of public transport.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hard disagree. People are far more cunning and twist the news more than an AI ever could. AI would in most cases remove bias and improve understanding among their audience. Case in point: current.report

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah well put. It should be said that regulations OFTEN cite certifications from non-regulatory bodies. Regulators are often legislators and executors, not scientists that understand the rationales behind good practice. Certification bodies (like UL, as one example, or SAE for automotive) have the scientists to do the requirements.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Important article. Why is it posted on fediverse

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I feel the need to step in here. Certification != regulation. Regulation means there is a body that can enforce the requirements with monetary or other damaging repercussions. What Oceangate faced were certifications and their decision to side-step them were met with no repercussions except their reputation with those who wouldn't ever want to step inside their sub anyways.

Point is - regulations would have prevented this, but there are none.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah probably not what you're looking for but Out There on Android is a sleeper. Think The Martian (yeah the novel) mixed with No Man's Sky. Some free and open elements with a journal-driven story progression. Difficult as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

First of all, best user icon. Saw it before, commenting on it now

Second, the intent of supercaps shouldn't be range but batter loading. The limit of regenerative braking is not in the torque of the motor but what you need to do to transform the generated current into chemical energy in a battery. It's not as simple as passing the current through a capacitor, but with supercaps it is. So with the supercaps you can dump extreme currents and either use the energy for taking off or redirect it to the battery.

I demonstrated this in my senior design project at uni and it worked well. Didn't have a load I couldn't absorb with a bunch of the caps. The issue was they're very low voltage, so similar to the li-ion cells you need a lot of them in series to match the system voltage.

 

Seriously some of these sets' depreciation are worth more than my whole house. Is a used set worth it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'll give my thoughts for anyone dropping in from a search or wherever. I have a pair of MB42s (non-x) powered by a cheapish Amazon 20w DAC+amp and love the sound. Great for movies, music and gaming all around if paired with a small (8 or 10") sub. They're quick and detailed, but not too analytical. Great separation. You can close your eyes and really get yourself in the setting or pick out the instruments and reason about their construction or the method they're being played. Yet unlike a pair of monitors, these speakers are actually fun. They're not completely flat and lifeless, nor ever siblant to my ears. As I alluded to, though, they fall off around 120-140hz so you need a sub if you're watching movies (explosion kicks are completely missed by the MB42s) or listening to anything needing prominent bass like electronic or metal.

My only gripe is their field of listening is quite small. On my desk I need a couple of speakers stands to point them at my ears to get the most out of them. They're certainly good outside the sweet spot but if you're really trying to enjoy the media you need to position yourself right. If I even relax too much I find I'll miss the super high-end details. For this reason they're not at all suitable for the R/L channel of a home theater system.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Windy is it. Great initial view of favorites for the quick check and beautiful visualizations, but man does it get deep if you want to double click.

For instance, a few weeks back I wanted to see why the sun looked orange and the sky was pale at ~3pm, so I pulled up the particulates map. I could see a 6hr moving map of particulates making their way from Alberta CA over to the skies to my west.

Also, they show a breakdown of all the major weather service providers' forecasts and detail which are better in which situations, helping you understand if that forecast you're planning on is really going to happen or it's just wishful thinking.

Oh, and you can set up alerts to notify you days ahead of time if conditions are right for activities, like if it's cool enough and good enough air quality to go for a run or if the wave swells will be high for surfing or what have you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They'll make a movie

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Heh, I feel like I was more active on Reddit during family gatherings...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I love that you can identify Hubble vs JWST images by the light diffraction spikes (someone tell me what they're called please). 4=Hubble 6=JWST

 

Server usage isn't free. I didn't see anything in the 2023 Roadmap, but it'd be great to be able to throw a monthly thanks for hitting the site a few times a day or for feature updates. It's the most sustainable way to keep this thing going. I know I'm not alone

 

Server usage isn't free. I didn't see anything in the 2023 Roadmap, but it'd be great to be able to throw a monthly thanks for hitting the site a few times a day or for feature updates. It's the most sustainable way to keep this thing going. I know I'm not alone

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