It’s 3D compared to pinball videogames from the 70s/80s, which were decidedly not. It actually looks like a pinball game that could exist, the ball moves relatively realistically, and has paths that go ‘over’ the main play field.

The site seems to autoredirect to idlewatt.foundagent.net? Which is something to do with HIPAA vendors.

Veritasium(?) has a video about jerry cans that boils down to “Surprise! The Germans over-engineered the crap out of these!” and how most modern ones aren’t as good because its significantly cheaper to make ones that just look similar.

Still better than the plastic ones usually but you kind of have to hunt for the older style at this point to get the best of the best.

Which is the point. It’s not good, it meets the spec.

Sometimes the spec means it’s overbuilt compared to a civilian version. A lot of the time someone not-the-government is willing to pay more for different features than the spec.

An AR trigger going to a 19 year old just out of basic does not need to be match quality. Most of them suck as marksmen. Most of them will rarely shoot a rifle after basic because their MOS doesn’t require it, and they don’t need a good (read: more expensive) trigger to qualify for basic competence.

Gain of salt because it’s the university’s press release but seems like a really cool machine learning project.

It’s isolated forest and mountains. There’s along history of self-described neo-nazis making compounds and trying to succeed from WA/OR/ID to be a white ethno-state.

Spokane is a purple dot in the wilderness but most of it’s police/representatives live in the county and vote deep red.

FWIW apparently for polo it’s the people that own the horses that need to be wealthy, because horses, and you have to have a lot of horses. The riders are usually doing it for fun and/or because they’re good enough to get asked back.

This is going off the Jon Huertas episode of Once We Were Spacemen podcast so you know, grain of salt.

Thing is, in the movie he then reverses course to get the world spinning the right way again. He changes the rotation twice. I feel like the “visual representation of time travel” explanation is from people who haven’t watched the whole movie, just the clip.

Maybe he overshot and went too far into the past and had to catch up, with raises the question why he didn’t stop everything bad in the movie by punching Lex Luthor right at the start…

This video shows the whole sequence, he un-reverses the Earth’s spin at ~1:38.

Fair enough. Really appreciate the work ya’ll have put into this, definitely going to have to mess around with it. Just brought it up because of the community this is in.

Are only VPS relay’s supported at the moment? Presumably so the feed is accessible over the web?

I get that the project seems to be going for replicating a ring/wyze/etc style experience but being able to self-host a relay somehow seems like a logical addition. Would probably have to disavow connecting outside of the home network and leave that the responsibility of the user.

They’ve done those studies and context switching has historically been where the most problems occur. Whether they’ve repeated them with modern electronic medical records and systems, I don’t know. I think most people agree there’s probably a better middle ground between 8 hr shifts (3 handoffs a day) and the standards set by a dude who liked to experiment with coke and meth.

One of the big issues that I feel like doesn’t get touched on as much is longer shifts allow less doctors, which reinforces the artificially low doctor graduation rates. The national board in the US pegs the graduation at X thousand new doctors every year and that number is mostly tradition / vibes. No we don’t want to compromise on the ability of new doctors, but “gestures vaguely to US healthcare” good lord do we need more of them. Much the same could be said for nurses.

And all of that circles back around to not wanting to dilute traditionally higher paying job markets with more practitioners because the for-profit system will try to wring out every cent they can.

The newer ender printers are definitely less drama than the older ones. Unless you go higher end with them where they have bed leveling and more sensors I’d recommend something more plug and play.

Big fan of Prusa.

The ISS has a lot of big solar panels. The other big panels they have are thermal radiators.

They have to have quite large thermal radiators because it’s very inefficient. The ISS has people and a very small amount of computing power.

Data centers generate several orders of magnitude more heat. You would need several orders of magnitude more thermal radiators than you would solar panels. The bigger you make the data center, which is important for density since you’re introducing a lot of lag due to the speed of light, the less room you have to put thermal radiators or solar panels.

Then you need to work out how to get spare servers, and/or server parts up and down from the Data Center. All of these things are consumables, and all of them have significantly more wear and tear outside of the Earth’s atmosphere.

It is possible. It is not efficient or sensible. It sounds cool, it doesn’t require buying land, and there aren’t currently international agreements about doing dumb stuff in space in the same way there are for doing dumb stuff in the ocean.

It’s a perennial thing with Jellyfin that it doesn’t have the app / remote access support Plex provides. By itself it’s a fully functional network media server, but by design it doesn’t have the ability to reverse tunnel and it doesn’t have the corporate infrastructure that gets it’s app onto devices.

Yes you can set up wireguard / VPN access. Yes there are workarounds that can get Jellyfin streaming to most devices.

None of that matters when trying to talk someone on the phone through connecting to your server through the internet.

Plex is an account, it looks like a streaming service, it requires zero knowledge. I’m fairly certain some of my relatives have no idea it’s streaming from a server in my basement. Jellyfin they have to trust you enough to setup separate other apps / configuration and have the patience / attention span / ability to follow directions to do so.

I understand the pushback against it being “not unix” philosophically, since it’s a large system instead of many small systems working together.

At the same time systemd is still kind of just a collection of config/script files. And as annoying as it is, the perennial “well just contribute to / code for the thing you like instead” mantra applies. init.d is falling out of favor with maintainers because they find it comparatively harder to maintain and update.

I have the vague feeling that a lot of the people that would care the most have moved to NixOS or esoteric stuff like it.

Registering is fine, a lot of people voluntarily register their expensive bikes with local police that have those programs anyway.

Insurance is weirder. Cars require as much insurance as they do because they weigh multiple tons and can kill people and destroy infrastructure. A powered bike can do a lot of damage, especially if it rams someone, but it has an order of magnitude less destructive potential than a car. Especially for a limited powered bike insurance “should” be significantly cheaper.

The bad ones I’ve been on are:

• between old small town stations, so now it’s suburb to suburb and you can’t access anything in between so they’re useless for commuting. If the rail-to-trail revamp continued on it would go on through the former rail hub of the local large town, but that part hasn’t been built out yet, and may never be because at some point they’ll have to deal with crossing (hopefully over / under) highways and stroads that have been built up since.

I have a proper bike trail in my home city that goes along a river and it’s amazing that it winds along for dozens of miles with stuff to look at and breezes. You’re not confined to a corridor with overgrowth on both sides causing stifling heat that’s trying to imitate a highway. It’s a pleasant commute if you happen to live along it and a relaxing recreational ride if you’re not.

• long gradual grade. Coast one way, which is nice, Sisyphean bike ride with no rest for miles the other way.

I might’ve come off harsh, I do generally like rails-to-trails. They’re better than nothing, and you’re right that having an ebike takes the arduousness out of it, but they’re very much a hand-me-down version of proper infrastructure. I would rather have the passenger light rail service.

In the 1900s the small MS town I’m thinking of had a few hundred people and a rail station. You could pay the inflation adjusted ~$15 for all the transfers to go back and forth to the coast ~100 miles away. We didn’t discard passenger rail in the US because it wasn’t useful, but because it was hard to extract profit out of the public service.

Lots of non-stop wars in Europe after WWII?

The US was built on railroads, we just ripped up and paved over most of our passenger service in favor of cars. A lot of highways going through cities use the land the old main rail line used. Basically every city over a few 10s of thousands of people had some kind of light rail service. And then we decided that every public service had to also be independently profitable. So instead of pooling transportation costs across a population we each have to buy and operate personal vehicles for everything, not just leisure or convenience.

They also feel like something designed by someone who hasn’t ridden a bike since they were 16.

I get it. “Might was well” use land where the right-of-way is already clear, etc. But a miles of straightaways followed by gentle curves designed for a train don’t make for a very engaging bike ride. I’m sure this could exist, but I haven’t been on any that would actually be useful as bicycle infrastructure. They mostly go from nowhere to nowhere and there are few options to get on or off the ‘trail’.

The podcast Blank Check goes into it while talking about the movies, but that’s admittedly “long form”. Wikipedia has a good summary.

In short, George Miller was an Australian ER doc horrified by what cars can do to people. So he got some funds together with some other doctor buddies and made Mad Max. He and Byron Kennedy wrote and filmed it because they couldn’t afford to have someone else do it. Mel Gibson was a local guy in film school. Most of the cast doubled as crew and basically made their costumes from scratch themselves. It became a bit of an indie darling in the US and Miller went back to Australia with more money and more expertise and made Road Warrior. More or less the same happened with Thunderdome. His work partner died, he made the Happy Feet and Babe movies, and he retained the entirety of the rights to Mad Max so he decided to make Fury Road and Furiosa a few decades later.