Magiccupcake
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- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Not quite, the true invariant quantity is the magnitude of the spacetime 4 vector, which depends on rest mass.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
It actually goes further than that. In spacetime you’re always going the same speed, the more in space, less in time.
At least from the special relativity perspective.
- Comment on 10 Spices That Make Your Food Last Longer 9 months ago:
Adding sugar in low amounts to food will makw is spoil faster. Sugar is only a preservative at high sugar concentrations to prevent bacterial growth.
Notably missing from this lists are acids: lemon juice, vinegar, citric acid which will lower ph and slow bacterial growth.
- Comment on Cursed 32 Gig NVMe drive? 10 months ago:
Sounds like intels optane drives
- Comment on YSK: You can search (most of?) lemmy as a search engine 11 months ago:
Because lemmy search sucks. Its very specific, and usually the most relavant stuff is buried by tangetially related things.
- Comment on Behold The Hyundai Uni Wheel. Transportation May Never Be The Same 11 months ago:
Do really need need 4?
If you cant get by on 2, you might have less power, but you can get better efficiency. With better efficiency you can have a smaller battery for the same range and reduce some of your increased cost that way.
- Comment on Behold The Hyundai Uni Wheel. Transportation May Never Be The Same 11 months ago:
If you’re gonna go through all this trouble, why not put motors directly into the wheels? Then you can bypass the drivetrain all together and directly power the wheels.
- Comment on Detroit's newest road can charge electric cars as they drive on it 11 months ago:
The newer technology at that time was cars and roads, and many European countries did try the American system of roads and suburbs.
Its just that most of them realized it wad a bad idea around 20 years ago and started rethinking their cities.
Many city centers were even turned into parking lots like American ones.
Again cities arent supposed to be static, and normally they grow denser, rather than sprawling.
The problem with American cities is partly zoning, and partly nimbyism, where people don’t want their places to change.
And sprawl sucks for pretty much everyone. Less arable land for farming, poorer anmeties, longer travel times, and finally huge transportation costs. Cars are by far the most costly method of travel, both personally and for governments.
- Comment on Detroit's newest road can charge electric cars as they drive on it 11 months ago:
The stupid thing is that fixing it isn’t even that hard.
Step one Get rid stupid zoning laws like single family housing and reduce parking minimums.
Step 2 Modify existing roads piece by piece to include alternative transit methods. Add bike lanes, if you can’t slow down roads and people will bike.
Actually run decent buses where peoole want to go, not oversized 50 person buses on 3 routes that nobody uses becasue it doesn’t go anywhere, and has an hour between the next bus.
That’s it, the market will build more housing in areas that need it if its profitable, then use that new tax money to drive transit infrastructure.
There’s a lot of fine details, but we’re bankrupting cities with cars right now.
- Comment on Detroit's newest road can charge electric cars as they drive on it 11 months ago:
It’s a good point that cities aren’t built anymore, and that’s part of the problem. Our population has grown drastically, but we don’t build hardly any new infrastructure for them outside of roads. So traffic is terrible despite enormous amounts of money from both government and people.
Cities aren’t supposed to be static, they’re supposed to grow and adapt to the needs of those that live there. There is a large need for non-car transport that is either ignored or sidelined for cars.
I’m not talking about 90% empty land, that’s not where people are.
When the car was invented, governments had little issue buildozing entire neighborhoods for highways, but now that some places are realizing that’s a bad decision, its really hard to undo.
- Comment on Detroit's newest road can charge electric cars as they drive on it 11 months ago:
There are places that would be wonderfully served by trains, but just aren’t.
Cars are best in rural areas, but by far the majority of peoole live in cities where cars are the worst, yet we still build them for cars.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Prey and outer wilds are games especially enjoyed blind with no prior knowledge.
- Comment on England worst place in developed world to find housing, says report 1 year ago:
While the free market should be able to correct the problem, it can’t.
I cant talk specifically about the uk, but in the US many locales have strict zoning regualtions that hamper building medium density cheap housing, perfect for all these people that can’t afford to live where there’s work.
Examples are things like minimum parking requiements, driveway setbacks, and limitations on multifamily homes.
- Comment on How hard can it possibly be? 1 year ago:
Admiral Pasalk may not have been evil, but he was a jerk.
- Comment on Best external SSD for high-uptime use? 1 year ago:
Recent controversy over an absurdly high failure rate.
theverge.com/…/sandisk-extreme-pro-portable-my-pa…
Might be fixed now, but i wouldn’t gamble.
- Comment on Best external SSD for high-uptime use? 1 year ago:
Your best bet is probably to make your own.
Find a high quality NVMe drive and put it in a USB enclosure.
If the USB ports or anything other than the drive fail, the data is easily recoverable.
Given your use case, buying an external drive is probably fine, just don’t get one from SanDisk.
- Comment on Another real estate software company sued over apartment price-fixing claims — The lawsuit follows claims of similar tactics by Richardson software company RealPage 1 year ago:
If housing was true free market, demand would drive new construction.
But its not, developers are artificially constrained into building inefficient single family homes, or giant luxury condos due to zoning and other hindering regulations.
Removing these regulations would allow new upstarts to vastly undercut the current market leading to more affordable housing.