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diabeetusman commented on Free software scares normal people   danieldelaney.net/normal/... · Posted by u/cryptophreak
pwg · 4 months ago
The portion you've overlooked is there is an entire population of users out there who have never seen, nor used, a command line, and telling them to "just type this out" ignores all the background command line knowledge necessary to successfully "just type this out":

1) They have to know how to get to a command line somewhere/how (most of this group of users would be stymied right here and get no further along);

2) They now have to change the current directory of their CLI that they did get open to the location in their filesystem where the video is actually stored (for the tiny sliver who get past #1 above, this will stymie most of them, as they have no idea exactly where on disk their "Downloads" [or other meta-directory item] is actually located);

3) For the very few who actually get to this step, unless they already have ffmpeg installed on their PATH, they will get a command not found error after typing the command, ending their progress unless they now go and install ffmpeg;

4) For the very very few who would make it here, almost all of them will now have to accurately type out every character in "a-really_big_filename with spaces .mov", as they will not know anything about filename completion to let the shell do this for them. And if the filename does have spaces, and many will, they now need to somehow know 4a) that they have to escape the spaces and 4b) how to go about escaping the spaces, or they will instead get some ffmpeg error (hopefully just 'file not found', but with the extra parameters that unescaped spaces will create, it might just be a variant of "unknown option switch" error instead).

diabeetusman · 4 months ago
To add on to this, there's no standardized way of indicating what needs to be typed out and what needs to be replaced. `foo --bar <replace me>` might be a good example command in a README, but I had to help someone the other day when they ran `foo --bar <test.txt>`, not realizing they should have replaced the < and > as well as just the text.
diabeetusman commented on Tesla Recalls Almost 13,000 EVs over Risk of Battery Power Loss   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/zerosizedweasle
ferongr · 5 months ago
The vacuum reservoir of the brake booster in cars with vacuum servo brakes (whether vacuum is generated by the engine or an electric pump is irrelevant) stores enough energy for 3-4 full applications of the brakes.
diabeetusman · 5 months ago
It's 3 years old, but this video [1] goes over Tesla's electric brake booster (and its lack of vacuum)

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRZ8XDNz2vU

diabeetusman commented on Starcloud can’t put a data centre in space at $8.2M in one Starship   angadh.com/space-data-cen... · Posted by u/angadh
hartator · 8 months ago
> There, 24/7 solar power is unhindered by day/night cycles, weather, and atmospheric losses (attenuation).

Wouldn’t the earth still get in the way of the sun or it’s too far away?

diabeetusman · 8 months ago
Normally yes, but the L1 Lagrange point always would have an unobstructed view of the sun. Granted, L1 is a lot further away than LEO (~3x the distance to the moon), so that makes it harder and more expensive to get to

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diabeetusman commented on Cuttle – a MTG like game using a standard 52 card deck   pagat.com/combat/cuttle.h... · Posted by u/7thaccount
antasvara · a year ago
For those that are interested, there's an online version available: https://www.cuttle.cards/signup
diabeetusman · a year ago
The repo for the site is here: https://github.com/cuttle-cards/cuttle
diabeetusman commented on How Mihoyo's monetization works   moonbearmusings.com/lets-... · Posted by u/future10se
diabeetusman · 2 years ago
Why'd you disable right clicking and highlighting?

Edit: If you're not the author of the post, feel free to ignore :)

diabeetusman commented on Show HN: I'm 16 and building an AI based startup called Factful with friends   factful.io/... · Posted by u/helloduck1234
diabeetusman · 2 years ago
I typed "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog", clicked "Check Everything", I get a brief spinner, and

    [plugin:vite:import-analysis] Failed to parse source for import analysis because the content contains invalid JS syntax. If you are using JSX, make sure to name the file with the .jsx or .tsx extension.
or nothing happens

Edit: if I open the editor, type the same text, and then click "Fact Check", I get the same error

diabeetusman commented on MTA board votes to approve new $15 toll to drive into Manhattan   nytimes.com/2024/03/27/bu... · Posted by u/jaredwiener
foobarian · 2 years ago
Wonder about the road damage aspect of this. If the relationship is a 4th power of weight, assuming a single vehicle with 2x the weight, it would need to replace 16 individual cars to break even.
diabeetusman · 2 years ago
"According to a 2022 study from the Environmental Protection Agency, the average weight of a car is 4,094 pounds."[1]

Going from 1 person of 200lb to 4 people totaling 800lb (in a 4,000lb car) increases the damage by less than an additional car (4,800 / 4,200) ^ 4 = 1.71

[1]: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/average-car-weight-140033718....

diabeetusman commented on United finds loose bolts on plug doors during 737 Max 9 inspections   theaircurrent.com/feed/di... · Posted by u/etimberg
ethbr1 · 2 years ago
Pilots are definitely trained how to disable the autopilot, if needed.

Afaic, the fault apportionment was Boeing documentation > airlines >> pilots > Boeing technical design.

diabeetusman · 2 years ago
Not sure why you’re bringing up autopilot— the MCAS system runs even when the autopilot is disabled.

Edit: Also, how does the fault lie with the airlines? Boeing didn’t document the existence of MCAS in the flight manual or training materials.

u/diabeetusman

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