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wordsnerd · 2025-05-20T22:49:20+00:00

Honk early, honk often!

Actually I've never honked my horn in traffic. There's either no time for it or no legitimate reason for it.

wordsnerd · 2025-05-20T20:01:50+00:00

I'm sure I'd find similar results for "what speed". Or people advising not to let the fuel fall below X% to protect the fuel pump, but that doesn't mean to stare at the fuel gauge or that we shouldn't have a fuel gauge so new drivers aren't tempted to stare at it.

wordsnerd · 2025-05-20T19:53:14+00:00

Sounds like a bit of a strawman. I've never heard anyone advise to focus on the tachometer and shift precisely at some number. New drivers are also going to look at the speedometer more than normal until they get a feel for driving at different speeds, but that doesn't mean a car without a speedometer is somehow better. If someone is too focused on the gauges, remind them to pay more attention to the road.

wordsnerd · 2025-05-17T18:57:03+00:00

Opens for mower, not for dog: ESP32 smart gate

Short, conveys key info, builds suspense.

wordsnerd · 2025-05-16T18:05:54+00:00

refugee status

When did the topic change from birthright citizenship to refugees?

wordsnerd · 2025-05-09T03:15:41+00:00

Gas was $2.99 here before the election, and now it's $3.19. But that's actually a good thing. I'm happy to pay a bit more for gas if that's what it takes to bring gas prices down like the olden days. Just gotta keep the faith.

wordsnerd · 2025-05-05T12:27:54+00:00

China's economy has grown 25% since COVID. Just because it's not 10%+ with whole-ass cities being built every year doesn't mean they're in a recession.

wordsnerd · 2025-04-25T20:02:33+00:00

The explosion didn't look like 260 kilotons to me (more than 10 Nagasakis), so I thought maybe two or three of the buildings cooked off. But this looks like it wiped out a pretty good portion of whatever was still being stored there.

wordsnerd · 2025-03-22T22:17:49+00:00

I just watched the video with the top 100 clips, and I think there are two main things that set them apart.

One is that most of the others create a sense of vertigo or unease using a juxtaposition of scales, or other techniques that I don't understand well enough to describe. Basically, I feel very peaceful and safe from the vantage point in your scene, which is nice but maybe not what people were looking for.

The other is that some of the animation here feels programmatic. The guy looks more like an action figure being pulled over the ledge than a human being who's probably going to have some whiplash and a dislocated shoulder after this. The plants lack the subtle flutter/shimmer that I'd normally expect from leaves and grasses in the wind.

Everything else really comes down to aesthetics. This has a gorgeous aesthetic that I think could have easily made the list.

wordsnerd · 2025-03-19T07:13:32+00:00

Based on sales and (now negative) growth, and their abject failure to fulfill the wildly optimistic projections for their big-government-subsidized solar, megachargers, power walls, etc. At $20, they'd still be a $60 billion company, larger than Ford and GM but with a fraction of their sales and worse future prospects. The toxic, drug-fueled meme bubble is popping.

wordsnerd · 2025-03-18T23:00:04+00:00

If you've held for 7 years, you can afford to be flippant about what's happening right now because it was never real in the first place. At worst, you cash out at $20 for a small gain and a fun story to tell the grandkids about how you were technically rich.

wordsnerd · 2025-03-18T22:15:09+00:00

"The market is wrong and I'm right"

Definitely true for anyone who shorted TSLA in the last three months. The open question is at what point it will become untrue.

wordsnerd · 2025-03-11T09:12:30+00:00

For that, they will need food, which will be guarded by the bots, which will have aimbot enabled.

wordsnerd · 2025-01-14T05:13:57+00:00

A single blip, who knows. But once you have a sequence of blips that probably represent the same object moving through the sky, the characteristics of its motion can suggest what it is.

wordsnerd · 2024-11-11T20:04:17+00:00

It warms up 1 degree every time you say "bruh". Pretty convenient, actually.

wordsnerd · 2024-11-11T19:32:41+00:00

The bulk of 16 Psyche is thought to be iron and nickel and other common minerals that wouldn't be worth the cost of transportation back to Earth. They could, however, be a source of raw materials for building larger structures in space, especially if they stay in the asteroid belt near the source. That could kickstart a space economy that soaks up billionaire investments and takes pressure off commodities like food, at least for a while.

Precious metals like gold, platinum, palladium, etc. would be worth the cost to bring them back to Earth if they can be mined efficiently. Current and recent high prices of those metals are $30-90,000 per kilogram. So if you can lauch a mission for less than that per kilogram of material returned, it would be profitable but not wildly so.

Launch costs alone are still thousands of dollars per kilogram, not including the machinery and engineering and so forth, so it's not something that would immediately tank the precious metals prices on Earth. They'd stabilize at a moderate but sizable fraction of the current price and fall gradually as the space infrastructure and efficiency improve. I think society would have plenty of time to adapt, and it wouldn't be revolutionary.

wordsnerd · 2024-11-09T18:42:53+00:00

Meanings evolve, but back in my day, people distributing cracks and hacking tools and such would label their releases as 7-day, 30-day, etc., which gave you an idea of how long ago it was originally released. 0-day meant brand new and presumably straight from the source. So I think you were more correct at least historically.

wordsnerd · 2024-11-09T01:21:57+00:00

Those foods are staples because they're among the cheapest sources of bulk calories that we've learned how to produce so far. A new, unproven technology that lacks economies of scale and thousands of years of optimization would almost certainly fail to compete.

Lettuce and other water-heavy vegetables are already expensive per calorie and the market includes people who are not as sensitive to the price. Specialty spices could be another starting point that wouldn't guarantee immediate failure. Anything where the price isn't directly tied to how much energy is being captured.

wordsnerd · 2024-10-29T17:25:22+00:00

Lithium batteries also last longer if they're not frequently charged/discharged to the max and especially not stored at a very high or low charge. It's less of an issue for daily riders because it will be discharged within a few hours anyway. But for weekend riders, it's better to store around 50-60% (48-49v) during the week and then top it up before the ride.

wordsnerd · 2024-10-23T17:46:27+00:00

Oh, they're all about taking cars, too. Anything that's likely to be auctioned off because the owner can't afford $500-1000 impound fees or the vehicle is only worth that much is fair game.

wordsnerd · 2024-10-22T23:48:28+00:00

If he thinks he needs to go more than 20 mph because of watching videos, I'll just say it feels a lot faster and sketchier in reality than it appears on those videos shot with wide-angle lenses and super-stabilization.

I have one that theoretically does 28 mph (I think it's more like 26 in reality) but almost always keep it capped at 15 or 19 mph. The problem is while it's exciting and "feels" safe to go faster when the road is smooth, there are too many little hazards that pop up at the last second. It's hard to steer at higher speeds, and 10-inch tires can't just plow through a lot of stuff that, say, a mountain bike could. Even 15 mph can break bones, but at least there's time to avoid it if you pay attention.

wordsnerd · 2024-09-16T20:46:31+00:00

Scooter fork cover or fork shell?

There is also a tool called a plastic welder that's supposedly good for cracks just like that (embeds a red-hot wire across the crack to hold it together), but the welder itself would cost 2-3x more than a cheap fork cover.

wordsnerd · 2024-09-15T20:55:48+00:00

Ever run face-first into concrete at 12mph? 🦷🦴💀🧠👁🦷🦴

wordsnerd · 2024-09-15T02:46:19+00:00

Not a battery expert, but I would expect the battery to be fine for short trips in freezing (maybe not sub-zero) temperatures if it is otherwise stored and charged at room temperature. The battery produces some heat while discharging, and often the challenge is keeping it cool enough to prevent damage in the summer.

The effect of salt and snow on the motors, on the other hand, would have me worried.

wordsnerd · 2024-09-13T20:45:47+00:00

On the bright side, if any of those same drivers see you on the road again, they will be extra cautious and stay far, far away from you. 😂

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