It would be nice if this told you upfront how many questions there were - after sixteen with nothing changing I figured it was probably endless but apparently there are twenty?
Readit Newsskykooler commented on Show HN: Do you know RGB? maxwellito.github.io/do-y... · Posted by u/maxwellito
Over the many years Wayland has been promising to be a better toaster, I have tried to use it.
Every single time, I had to go back to X11 because shit simply don't work.
At this point, I am dead convinced that Wayland is simply broken by design.
As a matter of fact, they justify their existence by systematically pointing out how broken the architecture of X11 is and how a "modern" replacement is severely needed.
True, X11's architecture is indeed bad and creates lots of problems.
However, unlike Wayland, it DOES WORK.
Also, and very unfortunately for Wayland, the team working on it seem oblivious to the fact that trying to replace a badly designed system does not automatically make the replacement any better.
At this point, I would call Wayland a complete failure.
Worse, they've been at it for over 15 years and it is still fundamentally unusable.
The fact that Ubuntu is planning to deprecate X11 is, at this point in time, a catastrophe as far as I'm concerned.
The only reason I use Wayland is display scaling - with a high DPI screen, many apps are blurry or inconsistently scaled under X11. Given the parade of other issues Wayland brings, I wish the development effort were instead spent on improving highDPI support in X11.
What makes that curve exponential?
Starting at an initial density of air, suppose you descend a distance D such that the air density doubles. Now your air is twice as dense, which doubles the pressure underneath it, meaning if you descend a further D the density will double again. Continue ad infinitum (or at least until the ideal gas law stops being a good approximation).
This is because of Newtonian gravity being inversely proportional to the square of the radius, right?
Gravity changes little over that distance - it's more because of the compounding effect of atmospheric pressure (the deeper you go, the more air you have above you which raises the pressure, raising the density and meaning that pressure increases exponentially faster).
skykooler commented on What Is "Induced Atmospheric Vibration"? physics.stackexchange.com... · Posted by u/belter
What I've been reading from multiple sources is that the electrical grid was in a brittle state because of the large percentage of solar and wind energy, as these sources are intermittent and unable to maintain the required AC frequency on their own. Apparently, it would be possible to make a renewable-heavy grid more resilient to these kinds of events, but Spain had not invested enough on the necessary infrastructure.
At the moment of the blackout, ~70% of the energy was being produced by solar and wind when sudden events caused a large loss of power and that brittle grid was knocked down as a whole.
There is a huge political row at the moment because the government has encouraged investment in solar and wind for a long time, so they are unlikely to admit that they might have contributed to the problem. Furthermore, they have closed down and demolished the remaining coal plants, and they plan to close down all the nuclear power stations.
My understanding is that coal/nuclear/gas plants provide a certain amount of stability thanks to the rotational inertia in the turbines. It seems like a relatively inexpensive way to retain that capacity would be to keep the old turbines to function essentially as flywheels, to stabilize the grid, after the plants powering them are shut down.
skykooler commented on A unique sound alleviates motion sickness nagoya-u.ac.jp/researchin... · Posted by u/miles
and to test it here (it might be very loud!):
CTRL+SHIFT+I and in the console
let o, a=new AudioContext();
document.addEventListener("mousedown",function(){
if (o) {o.stop(); o = undefined}
else{ o=a.createOscillator(); o.type="sine"; o.frequency.value=100;
o.connect(a.destination);o.start()}
})
It sounds like a pitch that you might hear from an airplane propeller, which leads to the question why airsickness exists if the antidote is ambiently present?
That's just not true, though. Stainless (e.g. AEB-L) is up to four times tougher than simple low-alloy carbon steel (e.g. 1095). See https://knifesteelnerds.com/2021/10/19/knife-steels-rated-by... for example.
High hardness simple carbon steels do have their place in knives, but what you're saying is factually incorrect.
Toughness is not the same as strength.
skykooler commented on I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses tomsguide.com/computing/i... · Posted by u/T-A
How can the xreal one glasses be 3Dof and stay in place while this guy is moving forward and backwards in his chair?
https://us.shop.xreal.com/cdn/shop/videos/c/vp/bc70020e90a74...https://us.shop.xreal.com/cdn/shop/videos/c/vp/a2b82ae2ea714...
I appreciate its a marketing video, but this is just a lie, no?
What is the actual supported input resolution of the display? How do virtual monitors work - are they just a composite screen that needs to fit in that max input resolution, or is there some virtual viewport that is being managed by the connected device?
There is so little information about these on the website, and the few reviews I can find are basically people who got them for free (youtube is seemingly full of these right now) and clearly don't use multi-monitor setups to any great extent.
They do have accelerometers as well as gyroscopes, so technically they could integrate acceleration twice to keep track of position...but in practice it's way more reliable to just keep it at a constant distance from the head.
skykooler commented on Aptera's First Solar Road Trip. 300 Miles, One Charge aptera.us/apteras-first-s... · Posted by u/geox
For a family of two?
I guess it could be a family of four if you have two of them and both parents drive.