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by lmpdev 3y ago
That’s a bit disingenuous The thread is about road cars Road cars don’t run their engines at 20,000RPM Displacement is one of the main predictor variables of road cars’ top speeds You are completely right technically but it’s not an apt c
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by lmpdev 3y ago
Reminds me of Japanese cars having rather high maximums listed on their speed dial, despite most never getting close My ‘89 Mazda 626 had 240km/h, but similar era cars had 320km/h Despite these usually being a ~2L inline-fours
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by lmpdev 3y ago
Electric doesn't eliminate cornering and braking noises unfortunately, which I find as more pronounced open problems
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by lmpdev 3y ago
Not all locomotives are equal, electric is much quieter than diesel Both older DC and newer AC trains are effectively silent when coasting on a straight The main sources of noise are cornering and braking. I live in a rare city that has n
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by lmpdev 3y ago
Adobe Illustrator and more importantly, a good graphic designer
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by lmpdev 3y ago
I was birding years ago with two ornithology grad students We were primarily relying on sound for many but not all species Australian birds are MUCH louder than European and North American birds It’s logistically easier to verify specie
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by lmpdev 3y ago
Yes I remember the same for The Games Factory 2/Multimedia Fusion
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by lmpdev 3y ago
Unemployment is also a poor metric in and of itself as it discounts large groups of people Participation rate is much more meaningful IMO Example, the participation rate is currently ~67%, so its inverse is 33%. This means that 33% of the w
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by lmpdev 3y ago
One underrated aspect of the show is the backgrounds being grounded in reality I live in the city (Brisbane) the show is set in Effectively every detailed background is recognisable but tastefully selected (not shoved down the viewer’s thro
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by lmpdev 3y ago
All people in my network have moved on from EVs being the “solution” to transport The real solution we seem to roughly agree upon is getting cars as a whole off the road where possible Permanent investment in mass transit and any tech whi
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by lmpdev 3y ago
They dropped the ball because no major part of their current business model involves creating a better operating system for the sake of attracting new users They seem to aim at minimising users leaving and maximising the extraction of data
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by lmpdev 3y ago
Drinking a XXXX right now It certainly doesn’t deserve all those views even if they were real
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by lmpdev 3y ago
I wonder if effective psychiatric wards are more egalitarian in that way
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by lmpdev 3y ago
I wonder if there’s been work done to find the most “effective” ontology for targeting screen sizes Like Mark Weiser’s HCI work but down to the pixel/dot/vector size Surely it is better to target more than one screen size but it
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by lmpdev 3y ago
I don’t know if it’s the “answer”, but it followed a pretty simple logistic curve for our curriculum at uni First course was almost purely frequentist Second was half and half with several weeks approaching the frequentist bayesian approach
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by lmpdev 3y ago
Even if this might be true in isolation it doesn’t generalise For example the poor public transit available to developed places such as West Sydney, or Bijlmer in Amsterdam have lead to increases in crime rates Poor physical mobility for
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by lmpdev 3y ago
Can we attribute the decline in quality to the decline in informative content proportional to garbage content? Garbage content seems to be making massive gains year on year, while informative or high quality content has stagnated or even de
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by lmpdev 3y ago
Also “Doin’ doin’” seems to be increasingly filling this role For anyone interested, the Australian criminal/entertainer Spanian is an excellent look into contemporary “eshay” culture https://www.youtube.com/channel&#x2
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by lmpdev 3y ago
Anyone aware of a search engine for DEM and LIDAR? Australia has ELVIS which makes it fantastically easy for the whole country Every other country seems to have a very fragmented approach to elevation data though I’m aware of OpenTopography
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by lmpdev 3y ago
That’s why it’s meant to be taught in highschool You needn’t be an expert but you should be able to read the chemical terms and data in a data sheet and not make a dangerous or sufficiently risky choice on component selection This is especi
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by lmpdev 3y ago
I notice target voltages that engineers often pick similarly highly composite integers 3, 9, 12, 24, 48, 56, 72, 96, 480, 600 etc There are many other factors which result in these as well though
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by lmpdev 3y ago
I mean you could swap out the units and you’re describing uranium
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by lmpdev 3y ago
Yeah my dude Didn’t think there’d be more than one of us on here Such a wild west company to work for. I enjoy meeting the many very bright people who work for us before they inevitably move onto other things
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by lmpdev 3y ago
Do not attempt a hybrid system with different voltages DIY In an industrial setting it can be done but you need an extremely well designed and made termination point for one system and an interconnect for another, I’ve seen customers usin
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by lmpdev 3y ago
Victron is an amazing manufacturer I love that they don’t keep releasing new products so they can properly support their existing (extremely well made) lineup Look into data centre infrastructure if you want to find interesting brands and
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by lmpdev 3y ago
Nah there’s been mandated standards since the 90s eg OBD I/II/III Protocols like CAN, LIN, SENT and XCP are all standardised point to point and bus protocols for automotive stuff I personally think the standardisation is actually
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Vale
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by lmpdev 3y ago
Probably because they weren’t setting out to create a unit of measurement Such a unit was originally and predominantly used as a marketing tool for early industrial engines
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by lmpdev 3y ago
I get this a lot I work at an electronics store in Australia This week I had a customer dumbfounded why his 3,500W inverter almost caught fire He was using 8-gauge wire (~56A max) He needed 00-gauge (almost 300A max) If he’d have run the sy
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by lmpdev 3y ago
My father was a magazine editor in the 1980s. Paragraphs for his publications had to be short due to the limitations of magazine layouts. “For the bulk of your work, a paragraph can only be one or two perfectly written sentences” he insiste

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