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Acinyx··on Building an artificial sun that looks realistic [video]
lenses cause chromatic abberations though, the red/yellow halo around the beam you see in his cheaper version at the end.
Acinyx··on Lithuania is paying people to trade in polluting cars for escooters and ebikes
The batteries can be heated in cars with liquid thermal management systems which pretty much all new ones have (older Nissan leafs and others did not). This removes a lot of of the impact on range... except if you use use heat in the cabin.

Due to them being so efficient, most electric cars can't use waste heat like internal combustion cars, which means they need a separate electrical heater which of course has an impact on range.

This article: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/cold-weather-saps-electric...

> The automobile club tested the cars at 20 degrees and 95 degrees, comparing the range to when they were tested at 75 degrees Fahrenheit, according to a report on the study.

> At 20 degrees, the average driving range fell by 12% when the car’s cabin heater was not used. When the heater was turned on, the range dropped by 41%, AAA said.

> At 95 degrees, range dropped 4% without use of air conditioning, and fell by 17% when the cabin was cooled, the study found.

Acinyx··on Hacked billboards make Teslas see phantom objects causing them to swerve or stop
They put this "billboard" right at the height and location of a normal stop sign, location is not going to help for this.
Acinyx··on Microsoft submits Linux kernel patches to enable complete Hyper-V on Linux
One example I found recently is bluetooth headsets: On Windows it by defaults uses the high quality audio output profile, but switches to "headset" profile when an app requires a microphone and picks the headset. On Linux (Ubuntu to be precise) you have to manually pick the profile somewhere deep in Pulse, making the usage of the microphone pretty hard as you first have to figure out how to change it and secondly need to manually change it every time you get into and out of a call. I quickly gave up and now use a separate mic.

Its all kind of small things like this that make Linux grind just a little bit more for me than Windows, not saying Windows doesn't have its issues though, just a lot less.

Acinyx··on SpaceX Starlink average speedtest is 42.3Mbps down / 9.7 Mbps up
Yeah it sucks, but I think it is kind of inevitable that someone was going to do this, and even Iridium had similar problems. Now that we have at least 3 companies pouring in serious money, it seems likely that the economics will keep pushing for it.

My hope is that this will lower the cost of access to space with another magnitude, which should allow a serious scale up of the amount of astronomy done from space.

Acinyx··on SpaceX Starlink average speedtest is 42.3Mbps down / 9.7 Mbps up
Nothing specific, I think they are still figuring that out, but Gwynne Shotwell, the president of Spacex, is hinting a bit I think with:

> Shotwell said millions of people in the U.S. pay $80 per month to get “crappy service.” She didn’t say whether Starlink will cost more or less than $80 per month but suggested that would be a segment of the public the company would target as well as rural areas that currently have no connectivity.

Acinyx··on SpaceX Starlink average speedtest is 42.3Mbps down / 9.7 Mbps up
Where are you getting the 800 ms latency though? That's what Geo stationary satellite internet provides due to the physical distance they have to operate at (35786KM), but Starlink and OneWeb and other mega constellations are operating at 550KM which easily gets you below 100ms and likely close to 30 ms without sat to sat comms.
Acinyx··on Humanly Traversable Wormholes
I don't fully understand;

> if you're at A, you can travel faster than the speed of light and arrive before B happens

But if we assume A and B happen "at the same time" and your frame of reference is closer to A than B right? As the light showing B happening is still traveling to the observer while A has already arrived.

If that's the case,

> Then, after B happens, you can travel back to before A happens.

Doesn't make sense, If the following happens:

> Traveler starts at A, jumps the wormhole to point B and immediately jumps back to A, arriving 10 seconds after leaving A.

The observer would see:

> Traveler starts at A, arrives back at A + 10 seconds and a while later, they are seen exiting and entering the wormhole at B while also being visible at A (Assuming they didn't do anything after exiting there)

Acinyx··on Humanly Traversable Wormholes
But what makes this a paradox/time traveling?

We are talking about observers seeing wrong order (leaving the wormhole at point B before entering at point A), but that's because they are observing everything at a delay or something like that, but I don't see any time travel happening in this example or any order of flying through wormholes that I can come up with.

Acinyx··on Humanly Traversable Wormholes
Nice explanation, this made more sense to me than most of the explanations I have heard about this before. But, wouldn't this just constrain the possible features of a wormhole? The issue is fixed if traveling/observing through the wormhole has the same time dilation:

Both through telescope as through the wormhole, the clocks can be observed to go slower. After 20 years at A, both the telescope as observation through the wormhole show 10 years have passed at B.

If we don't stop B from spinning: The regular space traveler takes 5 years, as observed from A, to reach B, so reaches B at A:25 years, B:12,5 years. If they leave immediately after arrival, they'll end up again at A at A:30y, B:15y. Otoh, the wormhole travel leaves at A:20y ends up at B at 10y and gets back to A immediately: A still at 20y and B at 10y. Mixed travel:regular travel starts at A:20, B:10y, reaches B at A:25y, B:12,5 and jumps back through the wormhole at the same time as seen from A and B.

Acinyx··on Chrysler's Radical Space Shuttle Design
Every Day austronaut did show though that even theoretical aerospike engines are not a good choice if you don't go single stage to orbit, and even with aerospike engines, an SSTO is worse than a multi-stage rocket, especially if it can be (partially) reused like the falcon.
Acinyx··on We're making an open-source $30 GPS/mesh radio, would like advice
He didn't make the hardware, the higher end board with GPS, the TTGO TBEAM is about this expensive if you also add a oled screen.
Acinyx··on Firefox Preview 3.0
If you are using a different app to browse stuff you don't want in your history, say in the reddit app, this feature means clicking a link in that app will not immediately make it show up in your history.
Acinyx··on Sea-Thru: A Method for Removing Water from Underwater Images
I think it is more that this correction allows more generic algorithms like object classification to work. Of course you could do object classification without color, but that would be throwing away information. It is just that the back scattering currently is overwhelming the colors in such a variable way that it is hard to use color inclusive object classification without doing stuff like requiring the exact same distance between camera and object for each picture. And likely that doesn't even work yet.
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