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satiric··on ADSL works over wet string (2017)
It might have dialed 112, as that sometimes also links to 911 (and 112 is much easier to accidentally dial).
satiric··on First sodium-ion grid battery opens with cells that can be charged in 12 minutes
What's the difference? My understanding (perhaps an incomplete one) was that they worked essentially the same way, just optimized for different things (power density vs energy density).
satiric··on Elegant Wind Turbine Blades Made of Wood Can Outperform Composites
I know what they mean by the headline, but isn't laminated veneer lumber itself a composite? I guess they mean it outperforms fiberglass.
satiric··on US opens probe into 130k Ford vehicles over hands-free tech
I know this was just a lighthearted comment, but for folks like me who like to take things too seriously... "grand" has the same value, and has the benefit of already being in common use.
satiric··on A small lathe built in a Japanese prison camp (1949)
It's not specifically about Changi, but you might also be interested in the book "Rats of Rangoon" by Lionel Hudson which is all about the author's experiences during WWII in the Rangoon prison camps (also run by the Japanese of course)
satiric··on Work begins on a $12B high-speed rail line between Las Vegas and Los Angeles
In the US, it was only required in 1952 (due to the aforementioned law passed in 1947), and there was very little experience with it before then. By 1947, it was clear that diesel was going to replace steam due to steam's significantly higher maintenance costs (and the lack of MU). If you're running a mainline railroad in 1947, you already know that you're gonna be replacing almost all your steam locomotives within the next 10 years, so why bother upgrading them?
satiric··on Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone
Agreed. But people hated 10 more than 8.1, so they labeled 10 as a bad release and 8.1 as a good release so that the pattern could fit. Now that people hate 11 more than 10, people say that 10 was good so that the pattern can fit.
satiric··on TSMC unveils 1.6nm process technology with backside power delivery
If I buy 2 gallons of gas, and my car gets 30 mpg, then I can go 60 miles. Doesn't seem that hard to me. Need the other way around? I need to go 100 miles. At 30 miles per gallon, that's a little over 3 gallons. This is simple mental math.
satiric··on Modern EV Batteries Rarely Fail: Study
The battery chemistry is completely different; You can't assume similar characteristics.
satiric··on Modern EV Batteries Rarely Fail: Study
Cells often get sold with a "# of charge/discharge cycles until you hit 80% capacity" rating, at least on the 18650 datasheets I've looked at. So my guess is that they took that number and multiplied by the range per cycle.

The problem is that (1) this is simplistic, and doesn't take into account temperature fluctuations, ac usage, etc, and (2) battery datasheets are essentially sales brochures, and often stretch the truth. (For instance, it's rare to see a battery that can actually hit the rated capacity under realistic conditions).

satiric··on Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone
Agreed. Back when windows 10 was out, 8.1 was considered a good release and 10 was considered a bad release. Now 10 has suddenly become good somehow, and 8.1has been lumped in with 8.
satiric··on Work begins on a $12B high-speed rail line between Las Vegas and Los Angeles
For those interested, this is a good video that summarizes the US's high speed steam locomotives, from a YouTuber who works on steam locomotives (despite the title, it's fact oriented and there's not too much flag waving). There is some evidence, but it's not conclusive.

https://youtu.be/hVtVk3T80hA?si=Y8PYYt4IRakKLRDg

satiric··on Congress sends Biden a bill that could ban TikTok – after the 2024 election
Yup. It's not because of the personal security risk, it's because of the national security risk (whether you think that risk is a big deal or not depends on your personal opinions, but I guess the folks in DC think it's important).
satiric··on Work begins on a $12B high-speed rail line between Las Vegas and Los Angeles
There's a lot of anecdotal evidence that some American steam locomotives went >120 mph in passenger service (the Milwaukee Road's F7's and the Pennsylvania Railroad's S1's, for example). I believe if you look at the PRR timetables, they had some routes that averaged 80 mph between stops, meaning they almost certainly hit a max speed at least over 100 mph. The US didn't have the same speed record contests that the Brits did though, so there's no official record.

In 1947 a law was passed requiring trains above 79mph to have some kind of automatic train stop system, so that ended most of the high speed steam service.

satiric··on Work begins on a $12B high-speed rail line between Las Vegas and Los Angeles
Private train cars never went away, as far as I'm aware. Amtrak has (always?) allowed folks to couple private cars to the end of their trains (for an eye-watering price, of course).
satiric··on WireViz: Easily document cables and wiring harnesses
RapidHarness is good, although it's paid. If you're at a university, they sometimes provide educational licenses for free if you ask nicely.
satiric··on WireViz: Easily document cables and wiring harnesses
RapidHarness is good, although it's paid. If you're at a university, they sometimes provide educational licenses for free if you ask nicely.
satiric··on Three major LLM releases in 24 hours
The UK is still in the continent of Europe. Last I checked, it hadn't swum across the ocean to America...
satiric··on The Lord of the Rings Family Tree
Would you still read the Ainulindalë and Valaquenta first, or would you save those for last?

I would also add that the chapter "Of Beleriand and its Realms" is OK to skip if it's not your thing, especially on a first read. It's mostly just describing what's on the map (of course it's still well written in Tolkien's prose). There are plenty of people that enjoy it, and there are plenty that don't.

satiric··on Starship's Third Flight Test [video]
Well, for one, the payload doors don't work.
satiric··on Linux TTY font for Chinese, but treat it as a syllabic writing
Worth mentioning that a spelling reform like Twain's would mean that every accent would need to be spelled differently, or the sounds wouldn't match for most speakers. It's quite possible that some British dialects would be very hard to read for some Americans and vice versa, even if they were used to the system for their own dialect.

For instance, Twain spells "after" like "aafte", but in my accent I would probably spell it "afdr".

Twain has also run in to the problem that spoken English has far more vowels then written English does. He uses "ai" in both "minds"/"maindz" and "replace"/"riplais", but presumably they represent different sounds.

Presumably OP's system has the same problems with the dialects of Chinese, now that I think about it. Although I know very little about Chinese unfortunately (only what I know now from a few seconds of googling).

satiric··on A UK college student explaining congressional procedure to Washington
This is a great idea; but surely you meant to say "demystify", not "mystify"? I'm not sure government procedures need to be any more opaque...
satiric··on Let Everybody Sing (2016)
I think it's more likely the old composers took the old part names and adapted them to congregational music. It's not that Shape note singers (we're talking Americans in the late 1700s, early to mid 1800s) didn't accept women in the congregation, it's that folks like Tallis had called the top part the "treble", and the creators of new tunebooks didn't bother to change the name of the part. So IMO shape note music has probably always accepted women on the treble part.

The alto part seems to be a different story though. In fact, in one of the old shape note tune books I've got (a reprint of The Southern Harmony, originally from 1854), the alto part is labeled "counter", suggesting it was adapted from the Reformation-era countertenor parts. It was occasionally sung by boys, or by women, but often left out entirely (most of the tunes in the Southern Harmony are three part, with no alto). Later on, this "second part from the top" reemerged as a standard alto part, labeled as such, and sung by only women and possibly boys (but by this time, certainly not men in falsetto).

satiric··on Let Everybody Sing (2016)
Voice crossing is also very common, especially between the tenor and treble parts ("treble" is what shape note singers call the top part on the page, where the soprano part would usually be). Both men and women sing tenor and treble, so there's a lot of overlap leading to a pretty thick sound.
satiric··on Let Everybody Sing (2016)
I've grown up with both shape note singing and regular "round note" singing. Shape note is best for music that doesn't change key, and doesn't use many accidentals. The more "modern" the harmony, the less useful the shapes are.

This is because a shape note singer learns to associate the shapes with the degrees of the scale. If a good shape note singer is given sheet music with just the shapes, with no staff, they can usually still sing it. But a shape note singer must "switch gears" every time the key changes or a note outside of the scale is used.

satiric··on Sweden to Join NATO
I knew there had to be a downside.
satiric··on KiCad 8.0
Editable power symbols is a very welcome change. It's a small thing but it was quite annoying not being able to edit them like you can in Altium etc.
satiric··on What Is an Uncensored Browser?
I imagine that browserling.com will just get blocked by e.g. school firewalls. What does this service actually solve, and why not just use Tor?
satiric··on Mathematicians have proved that Bach was a great composer
All they've proved that Bach's music is unpredictable; I don't see how that makes it "great". I know I could definitely write something that's both unpredictable and crap.
satiric··on The 100MHz 6502 (2022)
Oh I see, that's neat. That makes way more sense that what I was thinking.
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