gazter
@gazter@aussie.zone
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Formula 1 races average about 200kph, with a top speed of 375. These are the best of the best professionally trained drivers in multimillion dollar equipment tailored to them and designed to keep them (and others) safe at those speeds.
300km/h on the highway is essentially suicide by stupidity, not to mention manslaughter for whoever you hit. You are travelling fast enough that you literally don’t have time to react to something several hundred metres in front of you.
150 is really fast, 200 is stupid fast, and 300 is really fucking stupid fast.
- Comment on Is this green or blue? 5 weeks ago:
It’s a jpeg, it has lossy compression. There could be compression at any point in that chain, most likely right on creation of the screenshot, storage on your lemmy instance, download to my device, upload to my colour picker…
- Comment on Is this green or blue? 5 weeks ago:
Plurple
- Comment on Is this green or blue? 5 weeks ago:
There would have been a bunch of image compression and transcoding along the way. Are the other values as expected?
- Comment on Is this green or blue? 5 weeks ago:
That’s RGB 1, 122, 134.
So while it’s slightly more blue than it is green, I would argue that by calling it one or the other, you are cutting yourself off from a whole spectrum of wondrous complexity. Needing to win an argument denies you the subtle beauty of expanding your view of the world, opening your eyes to the possibility that not only is the other side correct, but you are correct as well.
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 5 weeks ago:
I believe that’s what dark energy is- the shortfall from not violating conservation of energy, given what we know about physics vs what we observe in the universe.
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 5 weeks ago:
I’m not sure if this answers the question, but it might help.
Everything in space is moving, but it’s not expanding outward from a central point, like an explosion. Instead, the space between the things is getting bigger.
The balloon analogy gets thrown around a lot, but I find it misleading- It’s not about the balloon getting bigger, expanding outward from the center of the sphere. It’s more about the surface of that balloon stretching.
The rubber sheet analogy helps. Scatter a bunch of things on a infinite rubber sheet. Now stretch that in all directions - the things get further apart, but are not moving away from a central point.
- Comment on Help Reviewing My Server Setup? 1 month ago:
I’m interested in why you chose the i5 for the automation, rather than the video server?
I’m no expert, but things like transcoding (or even just re-encoding) take a lot of grunt, which it seems the i5 would be good for.
The i3 would be good for more constant, lower power tasks like automation.
At least, that’s my thoughts, happy to be shown your reasoning…
- Comment on Are 3D-printed objects waterproof? 1 month ago:
If it’s non-critical, with a bit of work it can be made ‘waterproof’, at least at 1atm. But realistically, unless you need a specific shape, it’s going to be easier and more reliable to just use an off-the-shelf case.
- Comment on 18650 batteries still the best option for projects? 2 months ago:
Yeah, I get you!
What I’ve done in the past is just buy a few charging boards with an integrated holder. USB/12v input, 3.3/5v regulated output. You can even get ones with solar. Then my circuitry can be independent of the power system.
- Submitted 2 months ago to askelectronics@discuss.tchncs.de | 4 comments
- Comment on This is the life I dream of from my cubicle 2 months ago:
Old puppy
- Comment on New social experiment 3 months ago:
.config/
- Comment on What's the game you play when nothing else sounds good? 3 months ago:
I just know that I’m going to get so focused on the detailed work that we can do now, that I’ll never actually finish any builds.
- Comment on Starlink with self hosted? 4 months ago:
There is usually free tier packages available on the big cloud providers. You’ll get pretty limited resources, but you will get a static IP, and the ability to run a tunnel. There will be a couple extra steps, but nothing major. You’ll likely have the ability to run a couple services from there as well- maybe something to kick-start your home server if it falls over for whatever reason, or even your URL shortener.
- Comment on ugh i wish 4 months ago:
Of course there’s a difference. That’s like saying there’s no difference between a rare steak and a well done steak. Yes, they’re both steak, and to some extent they taste the same, but they are very different.
- Comment on The 50 best Australian songs of the 90s 4 months ago:
They still tour, and they bring the vibe!
- Comment on The country is done for 4 months ago:
I apologise for my attempt at a light-hearted joke, I didn’t mean to cause offence. Although I was, and remain, legitimately confused as to which camp you are in.
I’ll willingly admit I have minimal knowledge about football sports, but I always thought that broadly speaking American football was inspired by rugby, which essentially evolved from people cheating at soccer at a place called Rugby- I remember reading the little blue plaque there.
As for a ball, sure, if you’re about slang and the elasticity of the English language, a ball can be any shape really. But, pushes up glasses acksually, the word ball means a sphere.
- Comment on The country is done for 4 months ago:
I’m not sure if I understand which version you’d prefer- Do you want football to refer to the game where players use their hands to move an egg shaped object, or do you think football should refer to the game where players use their feet to move a ball shaped object?
- Comment on Lithium-ion batteries have ruled for decades. Now they have a challenger. | Sodium-ion batteries are emerging as a possible alternative. 5 months ago:
They’re lithium ion. It’s probably got more to do with good hardware design.
- Comment on BYD’s hybrid EV ute that could rival Australia’s bestselling vehicles goes on sale 5 months ago:
People are going to whine about the towing capacity, but can’t beat that price. I’m wary of being an early adopter, but I’m thinking of taking one for a test drive. Lightweight camper on the back, induction stove on board, should be tidy.
Pity it’s such a big vehicle, I’m not a fan of the chunky ute trend.
- Comment on The Force 5 months ago:
Study suggests children remotely move matter to extinguish birthday cake candles, to prevent wildfires.
- Comment on Mechanical engineering uni project 6 months ago:
I’ve been pondering a gear cutter setup. This is usually done with a mill and a rotary table, but I was thinking of something simpler.
The blank would sit on a rotating table, that spins about the Z axis. The shaft for the cutter sits parallel to the Y axis, and moves along the X axis to contact the blank.