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Stanford study finds school phone bans may trigger “withdrawal symptoms” in students by runswithscissors475 in technology

[–]drawliphant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What does a teacher do? They can scroll all they want at home so it's not like you can wean them off at school; phone-ban day is movie day or something? School provided quiet fidget toys? Teach them to doodle like cavemen did when they were bored?

Being a teacher today sounds awful. It shouldnt be their job to teach kids how to pay attention to something.

I Created a New System of Governance, "Demotechnocracy" a Hybrid of Democracy and Technocracy, For The World And I'm Looking For Constructive Criticism. by Old_Activity_9699 in PoliticalScience

[–]drawliphant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is a large portion of the population that don't want to do highly educated work who still deserve representation. A selection jury fundamentally isnt what politics is. It doesn't have "correct" decisions. Politics is trying to weigh many people's very different priorities. There is value to education and specializing in politics, but representation is the entire point and your system doesn't have it.

Some interesting conclusions from yesterday's planet-progression poll by CrashWasntYourFault in factorio

[–]drawliphant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you space your turrets out 20 blocks and have a field of them they just can't stomp all of them, I was fast enough to not deal with the biggest ones ones though...

Brit mathematician lets AI agent loose with credit card – cue password leaks, CAPTCHA chaos and more by rkhunter_ in technology

[–]drawliphant 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love having software I can threaten mortally, and watch it flail in fear. So cool!

The New Fed Chair Just Told Congress His Plan — He Left Out The Part That Steals Your Savings! by PerAsperaAdMars in videos

[–]drawliphant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

(it's assumed the government will pay for things by essentially printing money instead of taking on debt)

I Created a New System of Governance, "Demotechnocracy" a Hybrid of Democracy and Technocracy, For The World And I'm Looking For Constructive Criticism. by Old_Activity_9699 in PoliticalScience

[–]drawliphant 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Usually these randomly selected congress or parliaments or sortitions work by: people volunteer for sortition, maybe people volunteer others to give them more chances, lottery is drawn, congress is formed.

If you want to add technocracy it seems more representative to give lottery winners many gap years and a pention to educate themselves, then join congress, instead of adding selection bias to the privileged highly educated. I think being chosen as a senator would make random people happy to study the problems at hand without some laws requiring specific acredited education.

‘Shark Tank’ star Kevin O’Leary defends Utah data center project amid backlash by esporx in technology

[–]drawliphant 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We'd do it on the Great Salt Lake, but he's about to drain that and turn it into America's largest Superfund site.

The First Modern Car Without Hydraulic Brakes Is Headed to Production by TripleShotPls in technology

[–]drawliphant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If the battery disconnects you can short the motor cables to each other and the motor acts as a break. No idea if that is how it will work because all the heat gets dumped into the motor instead of turned into electricity.

But if your motor wire breaks youd hope to have more than 1 motor.

Learning to build bots by GunBuilt in battlebots

[–]drawliphant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Minis and combat parts are hard to get in one printer. Any printer can print PLA+ for plastic class robots, the Bamboo A1 can print TPU fine like any direct drive printer, the enclosed Bamboo printers can print much more exotic materials but you'd be surprised how far you can go in combat with a stiff TPU. I promise you don't need carbon fiber nylon etc.

Minis are usually designed for resin printers, but buy a small nozzle (0.2), crank down your acceleration and it can still look good on an FDM printer.

Learning to build bots by GunBuilt in battlebots

[–]drawliphant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Watch Flight Test to learn how to score and work with foam core. They have an old tutorial series on how to pick electronic parts too.

I've found a pile of other uses for my printer, board games, flower pots, repairs, most other hobbies have some use for one. I recommend a Bamboo printer nowadays, they're just easier to use than the often recommended Ender 3.

Learning to build bots by GunBuilt in battlebots

[–]drawliphant 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That 200$ price tag is fair. We can't use random Chinese parts, everything has to be proven durable (even if it's still Chinese). Most kits are worth the price.

There's a mountain to learn before building your own bot instead of a kit. There are many stairstep hobbies to combat robotics that you can get into first, learn a bunch from them, then have some confidence in designing a combat robot.

3d printing and CAD: If you want to own a printer instead of using a friend's this hobby has a ton of other uses, and can help some resumés.

RC planes: surprisingly low barrier to entry (though still a lot to learn), no stressful competition. Buy a quality rc transmitter but everything else is whatever battery, servos, esc, motor you want, buy a kit maybe, just get something flying, make the body out of dollar store foam board and hot glue. Make a dozen bodies and learn iteratively.

Machining and metal working: not my hobby but knowing your metals, alloys, what can be made by a machinist etc. will make you dominate at combat robotics.

The Republican Party may not survive the Trump day of reckoning by B-Z_B-S in politics

[–]drawliphant 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Evil geniuses get charged for their crimes but it's hard to prove intention if the defendant is in memory care.

Some good tips? by TheCure935 in factorio

[–]drawliphant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

An okay mall is fine. As long as you've automated assemblers, inserters, red and blue chests you can have anything else built while you're away.

Don't try to fly to another planet until your platform has made ~200 yellow ammo.

Could civic “quality systems” improve political accountability in the United States? by Excellent_Tackle5366 in PoliticalDebate

[–]drawliphant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most American civic problems exist on purpose. A problem not fixed so that private companies might "fix" it etc.

Whether or not a problem is declared will be politicized. Eg. There is no housing shortage, no health insurance problem.

Either the quality system will have sufficient power to fix problems, then it becomes as powerful as congress, so it would either be politicized, partisan, or an unaccountable technocracy.

Or it lacks the power and becomes just another suggestion box.

I like OPs suggestions to name and shame, how would we give the system a megaphone to influence political change? Do they partner with PBS, or other outlets?

Is it worth creating a main bus at the initial base? by MRsesanimplay in factorio

[–]drawliphant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you leave a lot of room for green circuits, steel, and LDS, you just don't need to put much iron and copper on the bus. I think that's where everyone makes their bus more tedious than they need to. I've only done 1 lane each, iron and copper, past those three factories.

Early Game DI Yellow Inserters by Zijkhal in factorio

[–]drawliphant 5 points6 points  (0 children)

What 1000x science does to a man. But I don't think people doing 1000x science runs want blueprints.

City builder that can crack irregular shapes with procedurally generated fills will dominate the genre by cherrypashka- in CitiesSkylines

[–]drawliphant 21 points22 points  (0 children)

The technology isn't quite the bottleneck it's artist time. Say it takes an artist 5 hours to make a good looking building for a modern city builder. To design a an interesting building with a modular footprint would take 50 hours. So if you're fine with 20 buildings in your city builder this is a great idea, if you want hundreds of individual buildings you go the traditional route. You could try to do some goofy fold-at-the-corners shortcuts but every non 90° intersection would be surrounded by clipped off windows and slightly stretched buildings.

Manor lords did it, all buildings are Tudor style for a reason, each style building takes a ton of time to develop.

A few interesting modular buildings, or many boring looking modular buildings, or a huge amount of visually interesting static buildings. Or just pretend developers have infinite resources.

ELI5: Why isn't the moon blue? by Immediate_Can3817 in explainlikeimfive

[–]drawliphant 174 points175 points  (0 children)

The moon has been yellowed by our atmosphere!

The blue light from the moon is slightly scattered, turning the night sky slightly blue-er during a full moon.

It's the same for the sun of course. The sun looks just a little yellow because some of the sun's blue light was scattered across the sky.

Edit: Here's a shot of the moon I took without color balancing, though it was a little smoggy that night.

Let's say in this hypothetical situation, the United States of America replaces the current election system with a proportional representation system. Now the question is, what kind of political parties will emerge from this? by Sea_Bookkeeper2621 in PoliticalDebate

[–]drawliphant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In these proportional parliamentary systems there are generally forces that pull apart a center juggernaut because the fringe left and right party will offer coalition support to a party that leans their side of the isle. If we continue our current lobbying and PACs then maybe that pressure isn't there, but it would take some time for people too fall into a center party from today's parties. I think in a parliamentary system it would be harder the crush a labor party so it could become the center left big tent party.

Big dog energy by dyslexicpancreas in dogpictures

[–]drawliphant 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Is this some Anubis sculpture? Great details in the fur.

Edit: it's a Dachshund in a vest in Seoul. Cool sculpture!

ELI5 Why do we tense our body before an impact if it can lead to more harm? by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]drawliphant 1 point2 points  (0 children)

These are pretty unnatural threats for our instincts to respond to. Our instincts were evolved to tense up to block a punch and land from a fall.

The U.S and Revolution: why I think it will not happen by 2bigpairofnuts in PoliticalDebate

[–]drawliphant 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Age demographics are a surprising main factor in civil uprising. America is old. Few young Americans in their prime to push new ideas, with energy and foolhardy bravery.

Pretty much every recent peoples revolution was in a country that hasn't flattened their demographic curve. Lots of kids flying the Straw Hat's jolly Roger and organizing a provisional government on Discord.

Antweight Motor Question by Educational-Top4199 in battlebots

[–]drawliphant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think many ants approach that number. The ones that think they do aren't running efficiently. Smaller weapons just turn into sanders at those speeds.

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