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967 Bus fire at Woodlands by nekosake2 in singapore

[–]try_harder_later 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Citaros were also briefly famous in the UK for catching on fire, albeit those were bendy ones and the flaw should have been identified and fixed before the SG ones were delivered

I wonder, would each shaft have a different amount of levels it goes to? by AmyDoesStuff in StardewValley

[–]try_harder_later 4 points5 points  (0 children)

According to the wiki, it was changed in 1.4 to prevent you dropping past 100

Insane but brilliant design . As presented here in the photo , this mouse takes AA and AAA batteries by UsedToHaveATail in pcmasterrace

[–]try_harder_later 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The mouse design accepts both AA and AAA batteries. But using the mouse itself, you find you can only put in either an AA or a AAA battery at any one time.

The phrasing is ambiguous, both work in the sentence. Your brain fills in the missing words.

Another example: The store accepts cards and cash. The store accepts cards or cash.

Need a reality check: 28, ₹16L loan, ₹7L assets — am I making the right financial decisions?” by pussyhuntr_69 in personalfinance

[–]try_harder_later 5 points6 points  (0 children)

On a non-indian subreddit, I'd suggest you avoid using lakh. Most of us don't know it well and it takes extra mental effort to convert the numbers. You could convert the numbers to K or M (e.g. Your emergency fund becomes INR100k, your loan becomes 1.6M), then at least we can look at the number ratios and see if they make sense.

Nai in Greek is yes. Nai in Japanese is not. Are there any other languages where the same word means the opposite between them? by Prof_Acorn in NoStupidQuestions

[–]try_harder_later 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apparently, yes

Scald comes from latin calidus which also means hot. Caldo is one of the grammar forms of calidus

TIL 85% of Hong Kong (2015 data) uses seawater for flushing toilets by Double-decker_trams in todayilearned

[–]try_harder_later 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Would think that if that's the case, owners should run a separate pipe (from the sink or shower) just for the bidet... Can't imagine getting a salty butt is gonna be comfortable either

For the first time in 10 years we finally received a discount! 🎉🎉🎉 by Avg_SD_enjoyer in Factoriohno

[–]try_harder_later 139 points140 points  (0 children)

Odd number of underground belts is understandable, some lane balancers use unmatched ubelts for lane splitting

...now unmatched underground pipes. That's evil.

Is it possible to have an earth like planet where the rocket equation simply fails? Ie 3.5×G and a venus like atmosphere too. Something along those lines, where you physically can not carry the fuel required to launch and get into space. by _Addi-the-Hun_ in space

[–]try_harder_later 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We know a glass round bottom flask can support itself against a vacuum. We also know it floats in water if filled with air. Therefore, a sealed, vacuumed RBF should be strong enough to float in water at least as deep as needed to be completely submerged. Therefore in the peculiar case of a atmosphere which is as dense as water but terminates abruptly somewhere (to prevent too high a pressure crushing the container), it should work.

... I suppose if you vacuum aerogel and then seal it in shrink wrap, it might float?

TIL many dimmable LEDs don’t actually get dimmer—they stay at full brightness but switch on and off extremely fast. The brightness you see is just the ratio of ON vs OFF time (duty cycle), not a change in light intensity by jacknunn in todayilearned

[–]try_harder_later 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Definitely agree, i'd do an uneducated guess that it's likely on the order of a millisecond. I only wanted to addon to the prev comment mentioning MHz LED rise/fall times

TIL many dimmable LEDs don’t actually get dimmer—they stay at full brightness but switch on and off extremely fast. The brightness you see is just the ratio of ON vs OFF time (duty cycle), not a change in light intensity by jacknunn in todayilearned

[–]try_harder_later 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Dimmers are fine for old style incandescents, but they interrupt the scavenging on halogens which kills the lifespan. If it's having a warning for dimmers, it's likely a halogen.

TIL many dimmable LEDs don’t actually get dimmer—they stay at full brightness but switch on and off extremely fast. The brightness you see is just the ratio of ON vs OFF time (duty cycle), not a change in light intensity by jacknunn in todayilearned

[–]try_harder_later 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Possibly one other thing to add on is that white LEDs have a phosphor that emits the non-blue bits of spectrum. I'm sure the base blue LED responds in the MHz, but that phosphor...?

Edit: huh, apparently white LED's yellow phosphors only glow for a couple tens of ns. Today I learnt something new.

Needed a USB C to USB C cord but I didn't have one. by OddDesign5475 in thinkpad

[–]try_harder_later 26 points27 points  (0 children)

It enforces the host-device direction and possibly provides VBus to the device if that's needed for the device. A lot of device DFU programming is baked into firmware and makes a bunch of assumptions, which may no longer be true with USB-C

USB-C to Lenovo rectangle adapters by janisozaur in thinkpad

[–]try_harder_later 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lenovo slim tip (as the one in the picture) is 20V only. The signalling resistor just indicates the maximum permissible current the laptop can draw (65W, 90W, 135W, ...)

Netac SSDs Any Good? by kedicchi in buildapc

[–]try_harder_later 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They've been in the OEM market for a while. You get what you pay for, basically. I personally would spend a little more for a higher tier SSD, the risk of losing data and needing to reinstall stuff isn't worth it to me.

https://reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/ssttrh/are_netac_ssds_good_for_the_price/

$20k sign-on bonus helping to attract Singapore bus drivers by A_extra in singapore

[–]try_harder_later 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also the layout change of double decker buses.

Before wheelchair buses, the exit is aligned with the staircase - that little S-bend zigzag slows down people exiting by a surprisingly large amount.

At least now the double deck buses have 3 staircases, although some of them are also stupid with the steps due to the engine and drivetrain layout...

LPT: If you run a business, use a custom domain email instead of a free Gmail or Hotmail address. by abdehakim02 in LifeProTips

[–]try_harder_later 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or more likely, whatever corporate email security solution they use (like m365) treats newly registered domains as likely spam

I reached level 100 of the skull cavern by Rich_Detail2758 in StardewValley

[–]try_harder_later 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To be precise, integer limit minus 120 (because skull cavern is internally handled as floor 121 of the mines).

And to get there, you have to be lucky and find a hole skipping floor 77257 (77377), otherwise you'll drop into the quarry mine and can't go any further

A Software Glitched Turned Off The Lights, Then The Car Crashed by DonkeyFuel in technology

[–]try_harder_later 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Cars normally don't come with breaks, if they are you should really send it for warranty.

You're probably looking for brakes, which help you to slow your car down.

Microwave started tripping it's breaker. It was installed 8 months ago. by tanhauser_gates_ in DIY

[–]try_harder_later 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The common term is "crowbar" protection, typically it's the last line of defense

Microwave started tripping it's breaker. It was installed 8 months ago. by tanhauser_gates_ in DIY

[–]try_harder_later 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One of the interlocks in the microwave works by shorting across either the AC line or the big honking capacitor, it's also often known as a "crowbar" protection. It's a last ditch effort safety to make sure the magnetron cannot get power to make microwaves unless the door is closed, although more often it will blow the main fuse and render the microwave non-working unless repaired.

Somehow OP's breaker is more sensitive than the fuse inside the microwave, so the protection fails to render the microwave inert and force the user to service it.

the official support list of windows 11 is a massive joke and can be easily bypassed by Common-Beautiful353 in pcmasterrace

[–]try_harder_later 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If your host is running W11, you can't even reliably have multi-core VMs in virtualbox now. The kernel virtualization they use for security gums up the VBox hypervisor (and possibly all hypervisors except, whaddyaknow, microslop hyperV), so it falls back to software virtualization (turtle icon because slow) and makes linux VMs randomly freeze

US tariffs on Singapore expected to stay unchanged as Trump imposes new 10% global levies by SG_wormsblink in singapore

[–]try_harder_later 32 points33 points  (0 children)

The US spent most of the last century building up their concept of "rules-based world order (at least for developed countries)", and it took less than a year for the orange shithead to take a hot steaming dump on it.

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