I wonder how many of the pipes are made of wood. I forget the source, but I heard a decent number of pipes in Montreal are very old and made of wood (which is better than the proliferation of lead pipes that are still being removed)
Readit Newsvaughnegut commented on Trees on city streets cope with drought by drinking from leaky pipes newscientist.com/article/... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
That 100X zoom example is pretty amazing
In fairness it's AI "upscaled". What kind of car that is isn't actually present in the original image's data, it's a best guess from the AI.
vaughnegut commented on Why Tap a Wheel of Cheese? cheeseprofessor.com/blog/... · Posted by u/speckx
- "For all their expertise, I am sure a technical solution would also easily be able to detect what they are looking for: voids within the cheese, or lack of uniform density..."
Out of pure curiosity, how would an industrial process engineer approach this problem, de novo?
It feels simplistic, but if the primary problem is fissures and pockets forming, I'd assume they would be full of air. If you know the volume of the wheel and the density per pound, you could weigh it on a very precise scale
I’ve had a Kindle since the very first model. I’ve bought 380 books for it, so probably like $3000.
This recent shift by Amazon ends that. I’m buying a Kobo reader and I’ll be buying all my ebooks from bookshop.org as soon as they launch their (promised) Kobo integration.
I understand this may have been how things worked all along, but Amazon making visible changes to reduce my feeling of ownership of my ebooks is a sign of bad things to come and I won’t support it.
I already downloaded and de-DRMed my whole Kindle library this week. Took an hour, well worth it.
For Kobo format ebooks, you can use calibre. There's an extension that automatically converts the files for you when you send to device.
On Kobo you also have access to your library and pocket integration.
Honestly Kobo feels like the more feature complete device
Anyone know how it does in wintery places? I'm seeing that it's in Michigan now
I sort of wish they showed a picture of the ad (I understand if they don’t want to link to it). I’m left wondering if this is a spoof of the CBC or like a babylonbee spoof, the tweet they quote sounds like a joke
At the very top of the article is a collage of them
vaughnegut commented on Show HN: I organized Bluesky feeds by categories and growth rankings bskyinfo.com/feeds/... · Posted by u/laimingj
I know it's a minority opinion with this crowd, but sports has such a large presence on X and I don't know why it's lagging moving to BlueSky. I like the categories on this site but "sports" doesn't even make the cut while "eSports" does.
I've found a lot of NHL content on Bluesky, to find people I went to a subreddit and searched for Bluesky to get recs on who to follow
vaughnegut commented on No GPS required: our app can now locate underground trains blog.transitapp.com/go-un... · Posted by u/dotcoma
Can we take a moment to appreciate the engaging, conversational tone of the writing? The article was a pleasure to read, even when it gets into some weeds explaining the frequency charts, etc. (I read the English-language version).
Whoever wrote this did a fantastic job.
Their product release posts and their engineering posts are usually really well written. Transit App is a gem
vaughnegut commented on Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more aboutamazon.com/news/devi... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
I hope they’re not abandoning page turn buttons for good, like my Oasis has — the only reason I bought the Oasis. Touch screens are just not a good reading experience, for me.
That's why I love my Kobo Libra 2. Physical buttons, sweet spot for size, easy to sideload or I can buy on Kobo on device/mobile/desktop or sync pocket or get library books from overdrive/Libby.
I have a remarkable 2 but don't use it much anymore, mainly because it doesn't have a backlight.
Oh, and page turning swipes were hit or miss. that was annoying.
I bought it for the same reasons you allude to - open, not locked down, cannot enshittify something you don't have to update. I didn't really buy it for the pen.
I tried a 6" kobo klara 2E for a while. You can mount it as a USB device, but you have to hack it somewhat to get "sideloading" of books to work. Nice device, but 6" was a little smaller than I wanted.
But then I found the Pocketbook Inkpad Lite.
It is my primary reader now. 9.7" screen with backlight.
No account, no subscription, no hacking to get it to work.
Out of the box, just hook to usb, transfer yoru files, start reading.
Also, it will read most file formats directly - so if you want to use .mobi instead of .epub, that works. It also says .azw, but I haven't tried it.
note it doesn't do handwriting. But it is $185.
What did you find hard about sideloading on the Kobo? I've had a Clara and now a Libra, sideloading books is as easy as plugging in a USB cable and clicking and dragging files onto it like it's a usb stick.
It's optional, but you can use Calibre with an extension to convert epub to kepub as well.