psud
@psud@aussie.zone
- Comment on Australians, especially men, are reading less than ever before 1 day 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 day 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 5 days 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week ago:
You lost a bit of credibility when you misspelt atoms
- Comment on Oh Boy!, Golly! 1 week 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 3 weeks ago:
Really it was “find something that is different to the reseller scales”
- Comment on Ask the crickets 3 weeks 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... 3 weeks ago:
Room temperature is another great way to get decoherence
- Comment on Always there 3 weeks ago:
The next one after nuclear
- Comment on Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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
- Comment on Protection 3 weeks ago:
It is probably more of a reflector rather than blocker, sending the signal back through the wall
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 3 weeks ago:
You missed that the image on the right is a zoom in of part of the background of the image on the left
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 3 weeks ago:
And you only see the error in classical physics is the very fast orbit of mercury or the precision of GPS satellites
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 3 weeks ago:
That’s close enough for radio. You can’t cut an antenna much closer than that precision, and it’ll stretch or shrink with temperature anyway. I guess the error could add up enough to be a problem in lengths of fibre optic cables, especially as they run at about c/3
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 3 weeks ago:
There is no way of producing pi as a number. There aren’t enough atoms in the visible universe to write out pi in an 8 bit font. There aren’t enough atoms to write out pi in binary with atoms representing ones and empty space representing zeros
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 3 weeks ago:
I think you need this symbol: ≈
- Comment on Absolute unit 3 weeks ago:
Cubic metres. I guess they find 32m^3 less clear
- Comment on *pat pat pat* 3 weeks ago:
Sea bird
- Comment on Dear Kevin 3 weeks ago:
PEMDAS for order of operations, we had BEDMAS which seemed memorable on it’s own, since we called these ‘()’ brackets and multiplication and division are equal so can be either way