psud
@psud@aussie.zone
- Comment on Stop the free ride: all motorists should pay their way, whatever vehicle they drive 1 week ago:
That’s what it is presented as. It functions as a disincentive against EVs
- Comment on Magic Rocks 3 weeks ago:
I loved hanging out with an entomologist during the brief time xkcd’s geohashing was popular. Just sharing the love of the insect world they had
They also taught me how to make a drosophila (fruit fly) trap (cut the to off a soft drink bottle, flip it, tape the two parts together, bait it with wine)
- Comment on And nothing of value was lost 3 weeks ago:
The politics of the victim probably couldn’t be mentioned during the trial. They often suppress that sort of stuff
- Comment on Wood heater pollution is a silent killer. Here's where the smoke is worst 3 weeks ago:
I have also heard about it from an Australian science radio show. It’s not just my ideas
- Comment on Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages 3 weeks ago:
I’m using signal right now for a family group, so complex solutions won’t work
- Comment on Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages 3 weeks ago:
Is it available for both smartphone ecosystems?
- Comment on Wood heater pollution is a silent killer. Here's where the smoke is worst 3 weeks ago:
The valley I live in holds thousands of houses, there are hundreds of fires during colder parts of the year
Every now and then we get seriously thick smoke from the coast on the sea breeze
I have been to rural areas where the density is far less and have seen a single house’s chimney fill a valley in still air
- Comment on Wood heater pollution is a silent killer. Here's where the smoke is worst 4 weeks ago:
A single high efficiency wood heater can fill a valley with visible smoke. I can’t believe that breathing that density of smoke can be healthy. The valley I live in is full of smoke from mid spring through to new years, I wonder how many are killed by that smoke
- Comment on Driver who killed a father and injured his 6 year old son sent 44 Snapchat messages while driving 100km/h before fatal crash 5 weeks ago:
A lawyer in Canberra killed a cyclist by driving too fast on an exit ramp and missing the road on three inside of the curve where the cycle lane is and where a cyclist was.
He was speeding, was likely drunk as he neither sought help for the cyclist nor turned himself in for several hours after the collision. All in all he was about the worst case of recklessly injuring someone and carelessly leaving them to die
He was fined a twenty thousandth of his salary
- Comment on Australians, especially men, are reading less than ever before 1 month ago:
Funny that the retirees read a lot. Their friends are dead and they don’t have a steam account
- Comment on Australians, especially men, are reading less than ever before 1 month ago:
Same thing that happened to the generations after x: computer games, consoles. Books were big for me when I was young, but I hardly have time to read now
Also not much of generation X is retired
- Comment on I can fix her 1 month ago:
You can get keen and competent without them being crazy
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 1 month ago:
Minecraft has private servers (at least on Minecraft java) as well as their own server platform “Realms”, also every client is also a server. Though the authentication system is a Microsoft account so that’s likely to still be online well into the future
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 1 month ago:
I don’t know how you could do that without staying exclusively on open source
I’m old enough that the games I’m nostalgic for are on floppy discs on my shelf, but now the games I play are downloaded and rely on whatever company keeping a server up to authenticate me
Who knows what Microsoft will do with Minecraft in 30 years
Who knows what Steam will do with the licences it’s sold me
- Comment on Can all the milk replacements bubble if you blow thru a straw in it like a child? 1 month ago:
I was allergic to cow milk products as a kid and usually had goat milk products, and even that tastes nothing like cow milk. I couldn’t imagine anything made of a plant being any kind of replacement for cow milk when a different pasture raised ruminant’s milk isn’t close enough
- Comment on Can all the milk replacements bubble if you blow thru a straw in it like a child? 1 month ago:
If I correctly recall the Hoffman video on frothing fake milk you need different temperatures and techniques compared to milk, and you get an inferior result
- Comment on ‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing 1 month ago:
A stuck pedal turns the steering towards the barrier? I think the driver had a stroke or heart attack and stopped steering
- Comment on ‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing 1 month ago:
At 3.18pm on 10 May 2018, Stefan Meier lost control of his Model S on the A2 highway near the Monte Ceneri tunnel. Travelling at about 100kmh (62mph), he ploughed through several warning markers and traffic signs before crashing into a slanted guardrail. “The collision with the guardrail launches the vehicle into the air, where it flips several times before landing,” investigators would write later.
The driver crashed, it doesn’t sound like it was in self driving mode.
- Comment on Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear 1 month ago:
Indeed, but cheaper than enough batteries to cover those times
In the off grid home scale one I’d size and set the generator to run for several hours in a row to fully charge the battery on days when the battery was at a sufficiently low charge entering the night, at least that’s what my current modelling suggests. Diesel gensets work best when running fully loaded for at least long enough to warm up
- Comment on Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear 1 month ago:
The diagram shows that they fall short on winter mornings
My own modelling to decide what size battery I want for my house says it’s easy almost every day, but when you have three rainy and overcast days in a row you need a battery far larger or an alternative. For me the alternative is the grid; at grid scale it’s gas generators
- Comment on My reason for wanting HomeAssistant and a locked down VLAN... 1 month ago:
I use keepass, it’s a little more work than many closed source ones, but it’s only as online as you want it to be, and runs on anything
- Comment on My reason for wanting HomeAssistant and a locked down VLAN... 1 month ago:
My “smart” bulbs are at the less online end of the spectrum, they host local wifi or bluetooth for configuration via their app, but even that can bite you
I added a wifi range extender to address the problem of stuff at one end of the house regularly losing connection and needed to point one of a particular brand at the new wifi
Its app hadn’t been updated and I needed to dig out my old phone stuck on an old version of Android to set the bulb up again
- Comment on My reason for wanting HomeAssistant and a locked down VLAN... 1 month ago:
You lost a bit of credibility when you misspelt atoms
- Comment on Oh Boy!, Golly! 1 month ago:
There are rules in Australia that if you set a trap for an animal you must check the trap at least daily. I don’t know that people actually follow that when it comes to nice though
- Comment on Ask the crickets 2 months ago:
Really it was “find something that is different to the reseller scales”
- Comment on Ask the crickets 2 months ago:
Using the metric version you can get zero with no chirps. The method doesn’t work at all for the current temperature though, you can’t get -1°C any way
- Comment on if I fits... 2 months ago:
Room temperature is another great way to get decoherence
- Comment on Always there 2 months ago:
The next one after nuclear
- Comment on Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp 2 months ago:
I use it mostly for family chats, I got the extended family to use it rather than Facebook Messenger
What makes you not trust signal?
- Comment on hol up 2 months ago:
Much the same in Australia, though we now have more American style churches appearing and I’m not yet willing to judge the people who attend those