satiric

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43737353

I think both are good, it's nice to have variety. It was very satisfying as a user to think that the photo of all the people might be of the Egyptian revolution in 2011, then end up getting the year exactly right. Some photos are inherently gonna be easier to tell than others. Wartime photos can have a fun game of "figure out which war it is based on the equipment". I think the problem with the subway photo is that it's a very memorable situation, to use subway tunnels as shelters. But there are plenty of wartime photos that aren't gonna be that way.

I also like trying to figure out where the photo was taken, even if that isn't strictly part of the game. So I'm glad that the photo caption is there.

4878, avg 2.4 years off. Way better than I thought I'd do, I think I just got lucky. I agree that it's a lot like chronophoto.app, but that also has freeplay. This has a nicer looking UI but I think a worse feature set. In particular the scroll-to-zoom and freeplay on chronophoto are nice to have.

Edit: I had seen the photo in the subway before, or something very similar. It's an interesting decision to use photos from big events that people might recognize. (Not inherently bad IMO, just not what I would have intuitively chosen)

Oof yeah I can see how a roundabout would cause a headache. I really enjoy the trolleybuses; there are some plans in place to expand the system, but not enough IMO.

We also have both streetcars and trolleybuses, and some strange junctions like the one at 5th and Jackson: https://maps.app.goo.gl/4TuLXmRLY5yK6HGJ6

There are some nice blog posts from a Seattle bus driver that go over some of the nerdy details of our system: https://www.nathanvass.com/blog/i-dont-know-what-a-trolley-i... https://www.nathanvass.com/blog/i-dont-know-what-a-trolley-i...

"No steam locomotive in the world had ever been run with in-cab digital signalling – until now."

The word "digital" is doing a lot of work here: here in the US, the Pennsylvania Railroad had in-cab signaling back in the 20s. Here's an article about it [pdf] https://www.jonroma.net/media/signaling/railway-signaling/19...

With the recent mandate of Positive Train Control on all mainline trains in the US, some steam locomotives have been retrofitted with PTC, notably UP 4014 and CPKC 2816 (which seems to the be basically the US version of what the brits are doing here).

But regardless of pedantry, it's neat to see the reassurance that they'll be able to operate on modern mainlines safely.

Do the poles fall off the wires a lot? Our trolley buses in Seattle have a bit of a problem with that. According to the folks I know in San Francisco, theirs do too. They're great otherwise though. Seattle's newer trolley buses can operate off the wire for about 3 miles/5 kilometers (on a LiFePO4 battery) which helps a bit.

Huh, I've only heard the term in the video game Cyberpunk 2077. I didn't know it was a term outside of that

https://www.hauptwerk.com/ is paid software but has a few Schnitger organs, although not the one shown off here.

Sounds great, even from so limited a platform. One octave is enough to have some fun with, if you're creative. Would have been nice to be able to combine the stops, but the plenum at least gives you a solid sound. You can really hear the character of the organ.

Turns out that pronfs uses fsck in the background to provide the delay

Seattle's streetcars have been changed on a whim, check out the Broadway extension. Just because they've laid tracks doesn't mean nimbys can't prevent them from running.

It depends what orientation you mount the gyroscope in, but yeah the "correct" way would be to make it axis vertical to limit pitch and roll

I can understand putting the tall stuff on its own shelf/shelves to save space

I successfully made "explore your ass and you will see god". I'm not sure why I made it, but it's there, at least for now.

https://fridgepoem.com/#x=-4636&y=-8233

I don't have a lot to add to the conversation, except that this is a neat project, and pulls off the exact feeling of fridge poems very well. I guess everyone gets the same fridge, like the old /r/place experiment on reddit?

I like the "Click OK to terminate" error. As though it wants to make sure it has my permission to crash.

Here's a neat paper about Boeing's use of CAD and CAM in the 50s and 60s. I particularly like the story about their first computer-made part drawings. There were no printers, and plotters were too inaccurate; but they had CNC mills and they realized "if you can cut in three dimensions, you can certainly scratch in two." So Boeing's first computer-made part drawings were engraved on sheets of aluminum.

https://inria.hal.science/hal-01526813v1/document

Yes, it's disingenuous. Free means $0.00.

Well do you talk about Nissan Leafs, or Nissan Leaves? I'd probably use the former

I tried this with my personal Google drive and am not really using the numbers. It's just a little extra work to set up. I don't see much of a benefit to it personally, but if you do then great. The important thing is to have a system you like

They're siding with the Republicans because they don't want to be seen agreeing with the folks who hate what the Israeli government has been doing in Gaza; Netanyahu especially so. So the strongly pro-israel sources are too biased.

Apologies in advance for nitpicking a small detail.

In lesson 9, you say "The CEO of the Perplexity.ai search platform argues that AI has made blue links obsolete.

"But without sources you are driving blind."

Isn't the entire point of perplexity that it gives you the sources?

Then how come your URL has two acronyms in only seven characters /s

No, I know what you mean. There's a balance between using the right lingo to communicate clearly with subject matter experts (SMEs if you will) and communicating clearly with those who only have a passing interest. A buddy of mine from college had a 2JZ FC RX7, but he could have also just said it was a japanese sportscar with an engine swap. Depends on the target audience. I guess on the internet, you're often talking with both kinds of people which makes it tricky.

True. But the article states at the bottom that they "do not skew data for any purpose", and this is literally the definition of skewing the data.

I don't think it's very honest to include the Cybertruck in Las Vegas that was packed full of gasoline and fireworks. Electric cars do catch fire occasionally, but they don't explode unless you put explosive stuff inside.

What about dryer motors? I mean, I don't much care what rpm the dryer runs at, but it should change speed with the grid frequency right?

One way to tell that a video isn't worth my time is if after the intro they say "To tell this story, we need to go back to 1724" or whatever. If they're going way back in time to explain a modern concept, they're often just doing it to pad the runtime. Obviously doesn't work for all topics; like I expect a history video about the american revolution to go back to at least the mid 1700s.

Thanks, that makes sense.

What about for microcontrollers? I've seen some sequences of fairly specific capacitor values for 3.3V power in some microcontroller datasheets, and I always wondered how much that mattered.

Here's what I originally typed out before googling:

The "something about the geometry" is called caster, and is the same effect that makes the front casters on a shopping cart go straight: the point where the steering axis intersects the ground is ahead of the contact patch of the tire. On a bike, this is mostly determined by the angle of your head tube when looking at the bike from the side (if the fork is "bent" from the side view, this would also contribute to the caster effect).

But I've now googled, and found a paper that says that a bike can be stable without gyroscopic or caster effects [1]. It seems like the specific mass distribution of the steerable mass (front wheel, fork, handlebars, etc) vs the rest of the frame matters, and of course all of these variables interact in complex ways. They do agree that caster plays an important role though.

Vehicle dynamics is notoriously tricky stuff. I can say with experience that it doesn't get easier when you go to four wheels.

[1]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/51051995_A_Bicycle_...

...What would you replace crown molding with that is more expensive?