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SomeoneSomewhere

@ SomeoneSomewhere @lemmy.nz

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  • Windows vs. Linux User

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  • It's not just AI, but new android phones drive me spare.

    You can't disable that. You can't uninstall that. You can't make a backup of the whole phone. You can't make a backup of one app and restore it to a different phone, unless you go through Google. We're going to install these apps you don't want, and there's no way to cancel it.

  • Its just my car dieing. No worries.

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  • Industrial music in an industrial facility can be a real pain. Is that something going thud every cycle? No, it's someone's speaker.

  • Pelamis Wave Power Converter feeding Energy into the grid

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  • Off-shore wind has no moving parts in the ocean.

  • Pelamis Wave Power Converter feeding Energy into the grid

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  • But that doesn't mean anything about whether or not it's windy at the same time.

    If the waves are too severe to allow servicing of the wind turbines, how do you think you're going to service wave generators? (yes, the answer is to wait until the sea and wind conditions are better)

  • Pelamis Wave Power Converter feeding Energy into the grid

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  • The converters in the video have a nominal capacity of 450 Kilowatt. For an experimental plant at this development stage, this is huge. It took wind power plants over three decades of high-tech development to become larger.

    Because they needed to wait until semiconductor technology could support high-power frequency converters. Note how large wind turbines arrived at virtually the same time as VVVF drives on trains, and ships, and everything else. Unlike hydro, wind turbines can't efficiently generate at constant speed in widely varying conditions.

  • Pelamis Wave Power Converter feeding Energy into the grid

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  • The issue with wave is usually less the maximum capacity and more achieving reliability.

  • Names to be left off Canadian "victims of communism" monument after more than half of names linked to Nazis

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  • The Eastern Front happened; surely communism was one of the biggest killers of Nazis?

  • Ukraine’s “Sub Sea Baby” Drone Cripples $400M Russian Submarine in Black Sea Port

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  • A good number of bombers got taken out, so two parts is not entirely out of the question.

  • HDMI Forum is unwilling to disclose the 2.1 specification for open-source (Linux): according to AMD, they had submitted a functional, HDMI 2.1-compatible driver [for linux?], which the Forum rejected.

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  • It's a 'why not both' thing.

  • HDMI Forum is unwilling to disclose the 2.1 specification for open-source (Linux): according to AMD, they had submitted a functional, HDMI 2.1-compatible driver [for linux?], which the Forum rejected.

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  • My experience is that digital signage displays are still HDMI-only.

  • Porsche Is Adding Fake Gear Shifts to Its EVs, 2027 Taycan Will Be First: Exclusive

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  • Manuals can still be faster if you know you're about to put your foot down, and you're in the cheaper end of the market.

    Edit: I should have specified while already driving e.g. overtaking or accelerating out of a roundabout.

  • Am I (An) Asshole for wanting politically correct insults?

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  • Did you not find an answer yourself; i.e. 'asshole'? Most other anatomical inserts also apply, at least the non-gendered ones.

    • Does not offend any particular group, except perhaps those with a colostomy.
    • Still an insult.

    The remainder are generally insulting because they imply you're so X that you must be a member of group X. I.e. calling someone brain-dead, an idiot, a moron, slow, the French word for slow etc. You can't call someone stupid without calling them stupid, even in an indirect way.

    Edit: Neanderthal and troglodyte might work on the grounds that you're comparing them to extinct species, and of course you could go for inanimate objects e.g. thick as pigshit, as smart as a bag of rocks etc.

  • Just to be safe

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  • Presumably you do need to tell them "no nuts because I'm allergic".

  • What is too high for a pending authorization charge for a gasoline purchase?

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  • Funny, $200 is standard in NZ if you pre pay. Can usually post pay though as you say.

    Or guess how much fuel you're going to need and pre-auth a little more than that.

  • Moto G57 and G57 Power are now official and already on sale - they have a headphone jack

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  • I preferred when I was running custom ROMs and could just hold the power button for a second.

  • And now, you too can...

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  • It's Spaceball One... She's gone to Plaid.

  • How many cars are needed

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  • Paris's RER A is an extreme example, with 10-car double-deck trains moving 2,600 people, ~30 trains per hour. More than a million daily journeys.

    The Victoria line is a more frequency-heavy system, with 8-car single deck trains at 1100 passengers at 36tph, or 40k PPHPD.

    Fully underground systems usually have shorter trains due to the constraints and costs of building longer underground platforms.

  • How many cars are needed

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  • Partly this is because there are 2-4 roads in parallel attempting to move the same number of people, or demand is unmet because people can't get to where they want to go when they want to go.

  • How many cars are needed

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  • Honestly you're in the 11-15m range in most cases, because you want lineside equipment (signal cabinets, masts, cable routing etc) and ideally a 4WD path for maintenance access.

    9m is doable but you don't built an entire system like that unless you really have to. Equally, your roads have hard shoulders and crash barriers.

  • xkcd @lemmy.world
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    xkcd #3080: "Tennis Balls"

    xkcd.com /3080/
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    xkcd #2998: Ravioli-Shaped Objects

    xkcd.com /2998/