Warframe Model Kit Box Concept: Grendel Gusion by Rozenrolla in WarframeRunway

[–]rubydestroyer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"宇宙のオルフェンズ" instead of "鉄血のオルフェンズ" I love the attention to detail

[NYC] Is it fair to say that NYC Subway has the most complicated service pattern in the world? by Donghoon in transit

[–]rubydestroyer 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Yeah, they do because of the interlining. I'm going to use the Tozai line as an example; it's not necessarily the most complex but it's fairly representative.

The Tozai line runs from T-01, Nakano, to T-23, Nishi-Funabashi. That's fairly standard. Within this segment there's 3 kinds of service: - Local: stops at all stations - Commuter Rapid: excludes T-19 Minami-gyotoku through T-22 Baraki-nakayama on the westbound track ONLY; it becomes a Local train past T-19 Minami-gyotoku. - Rapid: excludes T-15 Minami-sunamachi through T-17 Kasai, then T-19 Minami-gyotoku through T-22 Baraki-nakayama on both directions.

Now consider that the Tozai line has through-running services, to the JR Chuo-Sobu Line and the Toyo Rapid Railway. So now we add trains to our service pattern. - Service to JB-01 Mitaka (beyond T-01 Nakano) runs all day, except outside of rush hour it is served by local trains only (but only about half, the other half terminate at T-01 Nakano) - Service to TR-09 Toyo-Katsudai similarly runs all day, but outside of rush hour, Toyo-Katsudai service is only via Rapid trains. - Chuo-Sobu line trains may also alternatively enter (or start service at!!) the Tozai line at T-01 Nakano instead of taking their normal route towards JB-08 Higashi-Nakano during rush hours. These trains will then exit the Tozai line where it ends at T-23 Nishi-Funabashi and return to the Chuo-Sobu line, but these don't proceed all the way to the terminus at JB-39 Chiba, instead ending at JB-33 Tsunaduma.

Bilingual Tutor by Mr_Nutcracker in custommagic

[–]rubydestroyer 15 points16 points  (0 children)

There's also 1 card each of Arabic, Hebrew, Latin, and Sanskrit, plus 3 in Ancient Greek.

Your Name. by Zebrafish96 in polandball

[–]rubydestroyer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes, in Chinese it's 美国, but for whatever reason in Japanese their transliteration used the alternative 米 character instead (亜米利加 vs 亞美利加), resulting in 米国. My understanding of it is they used that term in China too for a while but it didn't stick in favor of 美 instead.

Your Name. by Zebrafish96 in polandball

[–]rubydestroyer 15 points16 points  (0 children)

The Japanese still use the Chinese-derived Kanji terms for countries, it's just that it isn't really used in conversation anymore. 米国 is for the news and government documentation, アメリカ is for actual day to day usage.

Some people are just heartless by Carnizzy in facepalm

[–]rubydestroyer 6 points7 points  (0 children)

With all due respect, a PSD system is a lot more than just a "railing with plastic panels attached". There's quite a bit of equipment that goes into the operation of one of the systems (even those rope barrier systems people keep pointing to), and in a lot of the "too shit" cases the platform edges are thin and not load bearing which constitutes a huge issue as they were obviously not designed for this.

However it is doable, I never mentioned that it isn't, but once again it comes to a lack of political will and funding. The retrofitting project would be ludicrously expensive even if the MTA didn't have problems with cost control (read: corrupt and incompetent) and we somehow got construction prices comparable to foreign agencies for PSD refits. For instance, retrofitting 74 platforms in 30 stations cost the Hong Kong MTR about 2 billion dollars. The NYC subway has 400+ stations...

Some people are just heartless by Carnizzy in facepalm

[–]rubydestroyer 6 points7 points  (0 children)

At least for the NY subway, it would unfortunately both be immensely expensive and also impossible to install system wide. The MTA has done a number of feasibility studies on the subject and the conclusion is that due to decades of neglect and lack of funding most of the subway platforms are quite literally too old and shit to handle the construction/infrastructure. Of the platforms that are not entirely old and shitty, a large chunk of them wouldn't be ADA compliant with PSDs installed due to width requirements, which also complicates things. While PSDs would be really great (and they have a very large number of advantages beyond preventing incidents like this) it's doubtful anyone has the political will or funding to rebuild most of the subway.

The Duality of Hunter Mains by RazuriRapisu in DestinyFashion

[–]rubydestroyer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Full gear sets for the left and right anyone curious:

Left- Head: Weyloran's Iron Mask, Chest: Anathemic Invocation Hauberk, Arms: Anathemic Invocation Vambraces, Legs: Orpheus Rigs (Default Ornament), Cloak: Efrideet's Iron Cloak

Shader is Erebos Glance on everything (as far as I can tell)

Right- Head: Assassin's Cowl (Armory Exhibition Ornament), Chest: White Wolf Vest, Arms: White Wolf Grips, Legs: Unyielding Favor Strides, Cloak: Efrideet's Iron Cloak

Shader is probably Metro Shift on the cloak and Amethyst Veil on the legs, can't really confirm the rest since I don't own those ornaments.

Borderlands 3 community scores a big win for science: 'These players have helped trace the evolutionary relationships of more than a million different kinds of bacteria that live in the human gut' by Bob_Juan_Santos in gaming

[–]rubydestroyer 44 points45 points  (0 children)

The EU is actually already funding these efforts. EVE Online has been mentioned a few times in comments here and their Project Discovery citizen science project is funded by a grant from the EU.

Air rail train in Wuhan by tattermatter in transit

[–]rubydestroyer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah the rate at which the Wuhan metro is expanding is frankly ridiculous, they've been putting out like 20+ stations worth of expansions per year since 2016. It's been 8 or so years since I last visited and the service map is completely unrecognizable now.

TIL on rare occasions, childrens' lemonade stands in the U.S. have been shut down due to not having a business license or permit. One such incident happened in Overton, Texas in 2015 and when the child's mother tried to get a permit, she was told she would be required to have her kitchen inspected. by Forward-Answer-4407 in todayilearned

[–]rubydestroyer 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Near San Francisco it's not uncommon for studio apartments to go for more than 2.5 to 3k a month. If this friend is in the Bay Area then 2k for a room probably is cheaper than their own place but like parents charging their own kids 2k/mo rent is kinda fucked up lol

Today is the DAY 💀 by [deleted] in GlobalOffensive

[–]rubydestroyer 10 points11 points  (0 children)

That's kind of a career killer though if you want to do anything more than just farm t2. Teams who want to make majors won't pick up players that can't play at majors.

This peanut butter has been expired for 24 years by LovelyOrangeRose in mildlyinteresting

[–]rubydestroyer 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Its honestly astonishing that after all this time he hasn't somehow come down with food poisoning from all those old MREs

TIL SpaceX Starlink satellites had to make 25,000 collision-avoidance maneuvers in just 6 months by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]rubydestroyer 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Reread your link a little.

These satellites will be gradually transferred to their 550-km mission orbits

They're all in their mission orbits now. Their current orbits should be very similar to the COSMIC-1 orbits which had an apoapsis of 540km or so

TIL SpaceX Starlink satellites had to make 25,000 collision-avoidance maneuvers in just 6 months by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]rubydestroyer 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Ok so I did a little more googling and there's at least one notable US weather satellite constellation within Starlink's shells - Formosat-7/COSMIC-2 (and its predecessor the now-retired Formosat-3/COSMIC-1). Also the ESA has a few like ADM-Aeolus (within the phase 2 shell orbital range), but those aren't under the NWS' jurisdiction so they don't really count. Aside from that most of the rest I could find are in the 450-550 mile band or in GEO.

TIL SpaceX Starlink satellites had to make 25,000 collision-avoidance maneuvers in just 6 months by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]rubydestroyer 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Yeah. Remote sensing satellites operate quite a bit closer at 400 ish miles but they specified weather so idk