Very much recommend Dan Olson over Netflix’s Flat Earth documentary. Behind the Curve is much more about having a Curb Your Enthusiasm ending and going “look how silly these people are” than any attempt at understanding motivation or background.

Also he makes an amazing shot of a lake demonstrating curvature and explains how / why, including having a separate video about it and how to do so yourself.

Why?

Every vehicle doesn’t need to do everything. Otherwise we’d all buy turbocharged Hummers with a trailer for extra fuel. It’d be nice to have some middle ground between a smartcar that confined to surface streets and something you’d take a roadtrip in. A worst-case ~150-200 mile range is enough for a boatload of people to commute 50 miles and not have to worry. If you can plug it in overnight, even on just 120v, charging speed is a negligible concern.

I think a lot of range anxiety is weird. A lot of gas cars from the 80s/90s/00s have ~300/400 mile range per tank, but that’s because you don’t want to go to a gas station every day. If you could just trickle in gas overnight they could’ve had much smaller tanks too.

Probably a me problem but kept having problems with that docker on unraid, it’s just in the community apps ‘store’. The vm seemed to just crash randomly.

I switched over to their B2 storage and just use rclone to an encrypted bucket and it’s ~<$5/mo which I’m good with. Biggest cost is if I let it run too often and it spends a bunch of their compute time listing files to see if it needs to update them.

The Puma Gen-E is what I was thinking of, could’ve sworn it was a 2-door though. Must’ve confused it with something else.

The little Ford EV hatchback they sell in Europe is a lot more attractive than a Tesla personally. I just wish we could get them in the US, but the CEOs have apparently decided by fiat (hah) that no small cars are desired.

The show Bones had a lot of weirdness, but I did appreciate that they consistently (at least the first few seasons when I was watching) stripped the bones down and even had a bug guy on staff to do it efficiently.

My knowledge doesn’t extend much past driving a manual. There are automatics I believe but they’re rarer. (And not as much fun!) So far my biggest challenge was getting an oil change because the standard lifts don’t go narrow enough. I was able to get it into a place with a pit, it had about an inch to spare between the tires. Turns out it just takes a Toyota oil filter and the other ‘consumables’ like belts/bulbs are likewise fairly standard.

I’m vaguely hoping something will break so I can use it to slowly become more knowledgeable about cars. In theory it should be a great project vehicle, the only electronics are the lights / A/C / radio. There’s a few others around town and I think it’s funny they’re all vaguely different in what people have done to them. Extra lights, hand painted, etc. They’re cheap enough (11k freshly imported, licensed, and delivered to my door) and all metal so that’s at least a bit of the draw it seems like.

In WA we can get them licensed for road use you’re just not allowed on the highway, which you would be silly to try. Mine gets up to 50 mph fine, have pushed it to ~60 but the engine’s basically flat out at that point.

If most of your driving is under ~40 they’re perfectly usable. Not super fast on the acceleration but personally think it’s fun to have 30 mph be 4th gear. 30-40 mpg in and around town. Have had friends that borrowed it talk about how it’s kind of zen to have people blow past you when you’re doing the speed limit and then you both sit side-by-side at a stoplight for a while. And the next light and the next.

“Vet” covers everyone from Air Force Tower Controllers to Navy Seals to the guy in charge of records in a basement in Alaska and more.

For 4 years active duty and 4 years reserve most people are involved in logistics or records, and few of those have to know anything about radar.

He didn’t say that as a bad thing.

The Communist Manifesto spends time talking about how compatible early Christian teachings are with Marx’s goals.

If my family hired an actor to impersonate me at my killer’s trial and give a prepared speech about how I felt about the situation it would be thrown out of court.

If my family hired a cartoonist or movie studio to create a moving scene with my face recreated by digital artists and a professional voice actor to talk about my forgiveness for my death, it would be thrown out of court.

That they used a generative program to do it and the Judge allowed the video to influence the sentence as if it were a statement by the deceased is deeply troubling.

A company going through the regulatory trial and approval process is not evidence of wrongdoing or bribery. The problem wasn’t Boeing paying for the fuel and pilots to test planes, it was that they said “we promise we tested everything and it was good” and nobody looked at the paperwork.

I was averaging ~1-2% blocked using the firebog and a few other lists, I also have ublock origin on everything I can. Added hagezi’s ‘pro plus’ list last month and it’s up to 39% blocked.

F1 maxes out around 6/7Gs, but they’re not solely limited by tire friction, they’re effectively upside down planes that use their airfoils to get more traction. A lot of the difference is sideways Gs are harder. A pilot getting pushed down into their seat while banking through a turn can have more control than a driver getting pulled to the outside of the turn.

I bought a trmnl and it’s pricey but works pretty good. I’ve mostly been using a few out-of-the-box plugins for it.

There is a selfhosted/offline version of the server you can run for it, so it can be ‘offline’ in theory. I keep meaning to mess with it more but haven’t put the time aside.

There a lot of numbers higher than the 9Gs that are safe-ish and reasonable-ish for human drivers/pilots to experience regularly. A big bag of water with bones inside that likes to breathe doesn’t take well to high levels of acceleration, eg. really fast turns.

I think this r/askhistorians answer is fascinating too.

Black Beauty, published 1877, has a paragraph complaining about drunk carriage drivers and how a friend was permanently injured by one. Single horse in a small town, probably no biggie. Team of horses, not so great.

“Very little fiber”, “Frequently have a lot of oil”, and “Relatively high in salt and sugar” aren’t a classification, they’re vibes.

“Use of Emulsifiers” is worthless. Eggs, garlic, and butter are emulsifiers.

NOVA is not about finding stuff out, it’s about creating a science-y sounding framework to replace the food pyramid.

“Real bread” meets that definition of ultra-processed. It’s a bunch of individual constituents (flour, water, yeast, etc.) that are mixed together.

You don’t even have to show the gold. Just say you saw it and it’s now in that tent over there. No you can’t go in. This is what was written on it though. Oh it’s in a language only I can read. Don’t worry, I’ll translate. Give me your wife.