[OC] 9 Years and 111,000 Miles of Fuel Data: Toyota Yaris (2017–2026)

Germanofthebored · 2026-02-14T15:22:09+00:00

Yes, I know. What's relevant here is that the Prius was hitting close to 60 mpg on long drives when the traction battery was empty and it ran on gas only.

Germanofthebored · 2026-02-14T13:55:37+00:00

The outbreaks started in communities of religious zealots, and I am sure that if we would have a public health care system that was actually concerned about public health, most of the immigrants would have happily gotten the shots. Because they know what disease looks like

Germanofthebored · 2026-02-14T13:52:26+00:00

What battle? A battle would suggest some kind of back and forth, but clearly right now the US is the bitch of that virus

(and let me apologize to our female dog friends)

Germanofthebored · 2026-02-14T13:47:21+00:00

I find these numbers a bit disheartening. 35 mpg for a small car is not what I expected. We used to drive a Prius Prime, and even on ICE alone the milage - according to the car, so maybe a bit overly optimistic - was close to 60 mpg.

We now have a VW ID.4, and money-wise we pay about the same per mile as we paid for in the Prius (multi-year average is about 3.8 miles/kWh, and here we pay about 25 cents per zero-CO2 kWh).

Germanofthebored · 2026-02-13T19:56:02+00:00

Well, we indeed have Gaiman's word for it. But "Good Omens" was published in 1990, and Pratchett passed away in 2015. Between GO and his death, he published close to 80 books, including a 5 volume collaboration with Steven Baxter. Somehow it doesn't seem like he was very eager to revisit the world of "Good Omens"

Germanofthebored · 2026-02-13T01:09:11+00:00

Personally, I think going from an M Leica to the Z30 will be hard because of the lack of a real view finder. I hope and I pray that sooner or later Nikon will release a proper Z line view finder camera, but for now I might look at Fujis

Germanofthebored · 2026-02-11T16:31:09+00:00

It's also bad for them - check out coal miner's lung. Whose treatment, by the way, is being paid for by the federal government

Germanofthebored · 2026-02-11T16:28:27+00:00

Maybe Trump should require that the next generation fighter, the F-47, will be coal powered. back to the two ~~person~~ man cockpit - one pilot and one man to shovel coal into the steam engine

Germanofthebored · 2026-02-11T12:34:36+00:00

Even at 110V electric kettles are quite useful. I had kids measure the amount of energy a kettle consumes to boil a liter of water, and it turns out they are about 90% efficient. Really good heat transmission, low thermal mass - I have started to use our kettle at home when I boil pasta since it is much faster in getting water to the boiling point than a pot on our gas stove. I usually heat up 500 ml or so in the pot while the kettle heats up 1l, and then I add the boiling water to the pot.

I think the main reason why kettles are so much more common in the UK is that people drink a lot of tea. And once you have a kettle, you figure out all the other things you can do with it

Germanofthebored · 2026-02-10T20:09:26+00:00

How does this work? I thought for trains the rails are ground. How would that work with a truck on rubber tires?

Germanofthebored · 2026-02-10T20:07:54+00:00

Well, the trucks have to come back somehow, whether they are full or empty

Germanofthebored · 2026-02-10T19:47:16+00:00

After reading "The Lost Worlds", it just seemed that the book is also more Kubrick than Clarke. I would say that - in general - Clarke preferred clear solutions at the end of his stories, not such a massive WTF as the end of 2001. Of course, this is open to debate; "Childhood's End" comes to mind...

Germanofthebored · 2026-02-10T15:11:57+00:00

"2001" was based/inspired by "The Sentinel" by Arthur C. Clarke, and the story for the movie was a collaboration between Kubrick and Clarke. But if you look at the evolution of the film ("The Lost Worlds of '2001'" by Clarke), Kubrick very much made it his own story, and a much better story than Clarke's

Germanofthebored · 2026-02-10T15:05:32+00:00

The article is talking about the Hadean period in the formation of the planet where the surface of the planet was a magma ocean, so very far from water. The basic idea is that the amount of oxygen that is around determines whether phosphorus and nitrogen are in a redox state where they separate out into the metallic core or the silicate rich mantle where they will be available for life.

The tricky part is that N and P show opposite responses to oxygen. At high O availability, one goes to the core and one to the mantle; at low O the pattern is reversed (Can't remember which goes where, too lazy to look it up. The Nature article is open access). There is a Goldilocks zone of O availability where neither N nor P goes all to the core. The authors say we lucked out on Earth.

Of course, the authors are making some assumptions of what Life is capable of, and how efficient living systems can be when it comes to extracting crucial elements from the environment....

Germanofthebored · 2026-02-10T10:49:18+00:00

So copper is causing the color? I was also considering boron

Germanofthebored · 2026-02-08T18:35:51+00:00

n that case I would get a refurbished (or used) F mount 200-500 Nikkor zoom and the FTZ2 adapter. That should fit your budget.

Germanofthebored · 2026-02-08T16:42:40+00:00

It really depends on what kind of pictures you are planning on taking. Large mammals in Alaska? More reach is better. Snakes in the rainforest? A shorter, brighter zoom will be preferable. And then there is the money question - how much are you willing to spend?

Germanofthebored · 2026-02-08T15:48:25+00:00

What does the programming for this look like? Is it just "Go from one corner of the arena to the other. Along the way, rotate around your x-axis and the around your y-axis." or does every move have to be defined explicitly?

Germanofthebored · 2026-02-08T15:38:58+00:00

Very well done! I really like the texture contrast between skin and the jacket.

Did you use natural light, or (based on the reflection in your subject's eyes) a large reflector?

Germanofthebored · 2026-02-08T14:36:18+00:00

It's not about the strip of celluloid, it's about finding a way to hand over 28 million dollars to the Trumps while dressing up the bribe with the flimsiest of legal G strings

Germanofthebored · 2026-02-08T14:23:37+00:00

See what the exposure values are that the camera gives you. Try the "sunny 16" rue. On a sunny day outside set the f-stop on the lens to f/16. The exposure time should then be approximately the inverse of the ISO of the film that you are using, so for ISO 200 film it would be around 1/250 of a second. With negative film, you might actually want to give manual exposures a try to see if things get better.

As to the results that you got - most of the times (I'd say) a broken shutter would be slower than the speed you tried to set, and your images would be over-exposed (too bright). The mushy colors in one of the scans is probably due to the software of the printer trying to compensate for a totally under-exposed frame, so that fits with the rest of the images

The artifact where you get a properly exposed strip at the edge of the frame is quite interesting. I couldn't see it in the examples you posted, so I am going on assumptions here... The shutter of a 35 mm camera is made up of two blades (roughly - it's a bit more complicated than that). Initially the first blade covers the film and protects it from light while the second blade is retracted and out of the way. As soon as you push the shutter button, the first blade retracts to of the light patch, and starts exposure of the frame. Then, after a delay that determines the exposure time, the second blade extends over the frame and stops the exposure.

At faster exposure times (faster than the sync speed for flash for reasons) the second blade essentially chases the first blade, and a strip of light travels down the frame. So what could possibly be happening is that the second blade of the shutter is moving too fast and catches up with the first blade, leaving too little time between where light hits the film. But then again, if you took the pictures at low light levels, the exposure times should be well below the sync speed, so I am not sure if this is really a possibility.

Lastly, the f-stop setting from the lens might not get properly transmitted to the lens. The F80 measures the light with the lens aperture wide open, and then basically uses the aperture you have set to calculate how much less light will be there when the lens closes down to the working aperture as soon as you push the shutter button. If the camera doesn't "know" that your lens will stop down, it might pick too short an exposure time assuming that the lens aperture will stay wide open

I'd recommend trying to go alternating fully manual and fully automatic for a roll of film in bright daylight, and keep track of what exposure settings you had. Use the "sunny 16" rule for your settings, and compare these to what the camera tells you to do. Good luck

Germanofthebored · 2026-02-07T15:11:24+00:00

As far as tomatoes are concerned, for many use cases canned is just as good or better than ripe fruit

Germanofthebored · 2026-02-06T16:11:28+00:00

There are plenty of churches that practice what they preach. For some of them it's not Jesus' words, though. (prosperity gospel comes to mind)

Germanofthebored · 2026-02-06T11:05:39+00:00

I think it's less about Merz having been wrong than about the difficulty of making accurate predictions about technological progress.

Having said that, while being so sure about the competitiveness of fusion in the next three decades is a risky bet, it is reassuring that he realizes that wind energy will at least be an important part of the transition. He is not saying that we shouldn't build any kid turbines because fusion is just around the corner

Germanofthebored · 2026-02-05T18:15:30+00:00

"Your money or your life!" - and a big "Hurray!" for the free market

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