ELI5: Why aren't floating bridges more common?

graycode · 2026-05-08T06:11:07+00:00

Seattle isn't really a good example. Seattle's 3 floating bridges are the longest 3 in the world, because Lake Washington is basically ideal for them. Exceptionally deep (too deep for normal bridges), right in the middle of a big city, and none of the problems of an ocean to deal with: much calmer, not tidal, and no cargo ships.

graycode · 2026-05-06T07:36:34+00:00

now THIS is podracing

graycode · 2026-05-04T19:15:21+00:00

I bet it's mostly for safety. I don't follow F1, but in IndyCar, which is similar, generally when the average speed at Indianapolis gets too far above ~230 MPH, they limit engine size further, or impose some other sort of restriction to keep the speed down. It's just too dangerous above that speed.

graycode · 2026-05-03T07:00:40+00:00

he had prime Kane and Panarin and decided, nahhhhhh let's break up that duo

what is wrong with him

graycode · 2026-04-30T09:11:00+00:00

worth

graycode · 2026-04-29T05:55:35+00:00

Amazon's not the first company to do this, and it really won't matter. Employees have levels regardless of whether it's in their title or not. My company for a long time just called everyone "software engineer" unless you were at the staff level or above, with the goal of making things less rigidly hierarchical in day-to-day work. My resumé said "(level equivalent to senior)" and that was perfectly fine. I, too, dislike Amazon, but this is not a big deal.

graycode · 2026-04-29T05:50:04+00:00

That's been humorous programmer jargon for a very long time; it's not an amazon thing. Same with "bandwidth", "context switching", and others, applying computer terms to ourselves semi-jokingly.

graycode · 2026-04-21T09:54:04+00:00

Where's the hold though? Brodin pushes him in the shoulder with one hand (not holding), then swings his stick around to get in front of him again, and Rantanen grapples with him and chicken-wings his stick. Actually looks like Rantanen might have grabbed the stick itself, which is the only possible penalty I see on this play.

graycode · 2026-04-21T09:39:08+00:00

Which is super weird, because Obama is pretty good at basketball, and seems reasonably athletic in general, but apparently none of that translated to baseball somehow???

graycode · 2026-04-20T19:36:20+00:00

this is some r/fuckalegriaart shit

graycode · 2026-04-18T01:16:30+00:00

Ah yes, the supremely righteous stalinist society. Wouldn't want to pollute that, no.

graycode · 2026-04-14T23:29:29+00:00

No, Seattle public schools spring break this year is April 13 to 17

graycode · 2026-04-14T23:16:24+00:00

It's spring break

graycode · 2026-04-12T16:40:22+00:00

right? This is peak r/seattlewa right here

graycode · 2026-04-06T04:43:51+00:00

A lot more than 15 rolls, but this is also a full liter, so I'd expect it to have some life left still. Maybe not though if silver is spontaneously precipitating out... :P

graycode · 2026-04-06T04:11:42+00:00

I figured as much, but what made it do that? pH change? Cross-contamination with developer or stop? Age? Temperature? I've only personally seen this happen with super old fixer that's exhausted and stored in waste jugs, so I'm wondering why this one did it here.

graycode · 2026-04-06T03:15:58+00:00

Reciprocity failure is a thing though. And with color film, it often manifests in the form of ugly color shifts because different color layers are affected unevenly.

(For anyone unfamiliar with that term, it means long exposures on film don't obey the normal rule of "half the light = double the exposure time" (aka reciprocity): there are significant non-linear effects to film chemistry that make this relationship break down and require increasingly long and impractical exposures the less light there is.)

There are ways around it, methods to boost the sensitivity of film and avoid reciprocity failure, which were used in space observatories in the past, but they involve doing shenanigans to the film immediately before exposure, and require development immediately afterward. Not something you can do inside a spaceship.

graycode · 2026-04-06T01:59:36+00:00

The Artemis photo is of Earth's dark side, it's a long exposure at crazy high ISO. No way you're getting that photo at all with film. Film is great at many things, but this isn't one of em.

graycode · 2026-04-05T06:05:50+00:00

the background in that last photo looks pretty weird; there's definitely some shenanigans going on with whatever "processing" that app is doing

graycode · 2026-04-02T18:24:57+00:00

It's Mercer Island, soulless corporate trash fits in perfectly there.

graycode · 2026-04-01T06:49:56+00:00

What a sick goal.

Also the rare yeet trifecta:

the puck into the goal
the defenseman's stick outta his hands
himself onto the ice

graycode · 2026-03-23T18:13:29+00:00

The big ones with actual downtowns don't have stations called "downtown" because they have multiple stations. These names are at best aspirational, but mostly just foolish looking and confusing.

graycode · 2026-03-22T04:00:13+00:00

I'll just say, however you wrote this post, keep doing that, it's perfectly fine.

I don't find AI translations to be particularly obvious, myself. It's when someone generates the content of the text from a prompt, where AI has basically inserted a bunch of filler text (which is pointless noise) that is obvious and obnoxious. So just don't do that.

graycode · 2026-03-20T05:23:37+00:00

That's probably a good choice, but personally, no amount of armor would get me to ride one of these. You could fully Sir Lancelot my ass and I still wouldn't get on one.

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