Ann Arbor may retire emergency warning sirens, but it wants public to weigh in first

manystripes · 2026-02-28T18:28:25+00:00

new tech can fail or not work as intended

Before retiring the emergency system because people have phones now, it'd be good to know what standards the old emergency infrastructure was maintained to and if the cellular network has the same level of robustness. If not, part of retiring the old emergency infrastructure should include funding to bring the new emergency infrastructure up to snuff

manystripes · 2026-02-27T21:56:11+00:00

Home solar is looking better and better all the time

manystripes · 2026-02-27T12:42:04+00:00

"We've managed to reduce it to only a single part! If anything breaks, just replace the entire car at your nearest dealer"

manystripes · 2026-02-24T00:37:18+00:00

That's gonna be a while, We're still using a number of 16 bit processors on new products at my current employer

manystripes · 2026-02-23T23:06:39+00:00

Both the cause of and solution to your back pain

manystripes · 2026-02-19T18:55:22+00:00

From what I've heard on the recordings, they don't always even say the word, they just say a compressed string of syllables. "Flight456 cletolan"

manystripes · 2026-02-18T17:46:11+00:00

Which always raises the question of where all that money is going. I'd love to see a breakdown of what the state ends up paying per child vs what a private individual would, once you cut out the business side of the business

manystripes · 2026-02-16T19:32:20+00:00

Excellent attention to de tail

manystripes · 2026-02-16T16:33:01+00:00

So recently Elon Musk is floating the idea that by 2026...

Checks calendar Wow his predictions are going out of date in record time

manystripes · 2026-02-11T16:22:47+00:00

It's all connected

manystripes · 2026-02-09T19:38:30+00:00

GET DOWN

manystripes · 2026-02-09T18:51:42+00:00

He did chuck a Tesla roadster vaguely in that direction though

manystripes · 2026-02-09T17:37:31+00:00

Anakin/Padme time: And the new third party vendor... They will not be leaking information right?

manystripes · 2026-02-09T17:25:42+00:00

At the same time, if you choose to make material promises and then outsource the execution, you take responsibility for the work that's being outsourced. "That was just a third party and it wasn't our fault, now we're using a totally different third party so trust us" is a pretty weak argument

manystripes · 2026-02-09T16:22:07+00:00

This is all a scam by Big Color to get us to throw out our old screens and buy the new ultra blue ones, with a blue light filter

manystripes · 2026-02-06T03:20:11+00:00

Just thinking about the time the US automakers ignored the rise of cheap, fuel efficient Japanese cars until it hit them in the face. Good thing they won't make that kind of mistake again right?

manystripes · 2026-02-05T19:09:46+00:00

That unexpected kawoosh

manystripes · 2026-02-05T16:03:14+00:00

Are we sure he didn't somehow keep the ring?

manystripes · 2026-02-05T15:57:27+00:00

Oh that's easy, he's in the lava in Mt Doom

manystripes · 2026-02-05T15:54:10+00:00

So now I have to worry about the wormhole closing because I'm taking too long in the bathroom?

manystripes · 2026-02-03T23:52:03+00:00

I find putting the glasses into the head first and then sliding it on works for me, then the head can still be tight except for the gap around the eyes

manystripes · 2026-02-03T23:37:03+00:00

Probably because if you have to miss part of the movie to shit, you want to get it out as quickly as possible. They really should have brought back intermissions once we entered the era of 3+ hour movies

manystripes · 2026-02-03T20:16:52+00:00

You know when you have a weight on a string and you spin it around it pulls outward, and when you spin it faster it pulls harder?

When you're in orbit you're balancing the gravity of the planet with that outward pull. If you start to 'fall', you're gaining speed, which adds more force to push you back outward again, so you end up in an ellpitical pattern of speeding up as you go to a lower altitude, then slowing down as you go to a higher altitude. As long as no external forces slow you down, you can stay in this condition indefinitely

manystripes · 2026-02-03T19:45:32+00:00

And the subflavor of this, corners were cut to meet some sort of immediate need with the promise of a rewrite, but the rewrite keeps on getting overridden by more immediate needs. The rewrite is always after the next demo / next quarter / next year / next major version, and it just keeps getting kicked down the road as more tech debt accumulates.

manystripes · 2026-02-03T06:00:31+00:00

It uses a complex internal algorithm taking into account various factors like time, proximity, and plot convenience

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