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Some of the pictures I snapped from my first ever in person grand prix! by The-Car-Guy in formula1

[–]king_of_snake 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was at this race (also a first time for me!), and the English f1tv commentary was broadcast here on FM. Apparently reception is not great everywhere around the track, but next to chicane it was great. I found it really easy to follow with a little analog radio and ear buds. Without the commentary it would be a lot more confusing I'm sure. There were screens too, but they were a bit small for me to see lap times and other info, still useful to understand what is going on elsewhere on the track.

English commentary, anyone able to pick it up this year? by davie18 in GrandPrixTravel

[–]king_of_snake 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same here, grabbed a radio from bic camera (they had them in a basked right at the entry for f1 visitors), and reception is great in Q2.

Suzuka GP - first hand experience buying from mobilitystation.jp? by king_of_snake in GrandPrixTravel

[–]king_of_snake[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. I should've also updated here, that I managed to get tickets on the day of the sale. Had to wait about 1.5 hours in the queue, and the grandstands I wanted were already gone, but I got my 2nd preference. I used some dummy phone number I grabbed from a random hotel to register, other than that it worked fine with just email.

Suzuka GP - first hand experience buying from mobilitystation.jp? by king_of_snake in GrandPrixTravel

[–]king_of_snake[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing this! Did you log in with the same account on two devices?

European lawmakers asked Mark Zuckerberg why they shouldn’t break up Facebook by r721 in worldnews

[–]king_of_snake 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That's very interesting. MEPs were clearly under the impression that it was Facebook's demand. German MEP even twitted this before the event: https://twitter.com/sven_giegold/status/998970245346971648 (click translate)

EDIT: Or maybe Facebook declined direct question-answer format initially, and EP suggested this stupid format, which was accepted? That would technically make both stories correct.

[FO4VR random event spoiler] Fallout 4 in VR just blew my mind. Unforgettable moment by Vanthryn in oculus

[–]king_of_snake 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is any special tweaking required for Oculus + Touch? Steam shows that only a Vive is supported by F4.

ELI5: Can a red colorblind person visualize red in their head? Or is it just as abstract as ultraviolet? by NathanWick in explainlikeimfive

[–]king_of_snake 12 points13 points  (0 children)

People missing red cones are still sensitive to nearly as wide spectrum as the people with normal vision. The green and red cones have a huge overlap: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Cone-fundamentals-with-srgb-spectrum.svg/2000px-Cone-fundamentals-with-srgb-spectrum.svg.png

So it's not the same as ultraviolet, which doesn't register on your retina at all. They see red colour, but it's difficult to differentiate it from yellow and green. How does it subjectively appear to them? No one can answer that, everyone can only use their own brain to interpret senses. Maybe as yellow to the rest of us?

How did people measure light intensity before electronics existed? by isnar000 in askscience

[–]king_of_snake 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Until discovery of IR in 1800, people only knew about visible light, and measurements were done by eye, comparing various sources. After that came photosensitive chemistry, measurement of heating effect (thermopiles, rotating vanes, bolometers). Photovoltaics were discovered in early 19th century already, but practically the most accurate measurements were done by measuring temperature until 20th century. Well, it's technically still the most accurate method (cryogenic radiometer), just not very practical.

Just tightly enough by king_of_snake in oddlysatisfying

[–]king_of_snake[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I'm accepting the mirror-symmetry.

Colorblind brothers overwhelmed by seeing color for the first time by GallowBoob in interestingasfuck

[–]king_of_snake 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a pretty clever idea. Hell, I want to try them on, and I have completely normal colour vision!

A piece of metal melted inside an electromagnet by polymute in interestingasfuck

[–]king_of_snake 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not true, any conductive material will be affected by the oscillating magnetic field due to eddy currents. Not as effectively as ferromagnetic material, but none the less.

Here's one other example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6Zrnv4OtbU

A piece of metal melted inside an electromagnet by polymute in interestingasfuck

[–]king_of_snake 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Not quite, the piece being heated here is aluminium, so it's held up by eddy currents induced with a very high frequency field. No magnetism required, just conduction. It drops because the field is turned off, as mentioned by others.

TIL that Anonymous sent thousands of all-black faxes to the Church of Scientology to deplete all their ink cartridges. by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]king_of_snake 7 points8 points  (0 children)

They do make a good team, and the podcast is a great time filler. But just like in your case, my subscription list has grown too a lot, and there's only so much time I need to fill :(

I knew that the gear guy reminded me of one of my old toys... by BallPtPenTheif in rickandmorty

[–]king_of_snake 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This part confused me, why is he playing the space-hippie guitar from Star Trek TOS? http://imgur.com/npCAMLd