asteli

12 ms·

1.
by asteli 6y ago
Why no love for network switches? The old mechanical telephone exchange equipment is enormously satisfying to watch as well. https://youtu.be/_xI9tXi-UNs
2.
by asteli 6y ago
Saildrone's forecast app is like Dark Sky but even better and more beautiful. They don't have an android app yet, just iOS, but I believe one is in development, and they have a full-featured in-browser client. No affiliation, but
3.
by asteli 7y ago
I work in electronics and laser stuff, where we use german-style compound names like "multi-pixel photon counting" and "erbium-doped fiber amplifier." Even in low-level compute, packages are named descriptively e.g. Free
4.
by asteli 7y ago
Joke is on me. I picked those nouns at random but Pangolin is a bona-fide frontend framework[1] and Clamp is a text truncating utility.[2] 1: https://pangolinjs.org/ 2: https://github.com/josephschmitt/
5.
by asteli 7y ago
I used to troll my old housemate (web frontend guy) by saying something along the lines of "Oh, Node.JS? Yeah some people I work with use that, but they're mostly moving over to Pangolin with Clamp on the backend." (substitut
6.
by asteli 7y ago
Here's a hack I haven't seen anyone else mention: Look at the calendars of venues that you like. Their whole job is curation, and they book lots of local bands. Throw one song from each band playing at each venue for the next mont
7.
by asteli 7y ago
If you live in Florida, you can go down to the pawn shop, buy a gun, drive over to the airport and start shooting at planes. Doesn't take much sophistication to cause a lot of harm.
8.
by asteli 7y ago
Wait, that exists. USB is the standard. The UPS with standardized DC-outs is a USB power bank with integrated pass-through charging.
9.
by asteli 7y ago
The CFI let you do all those things?
10.
by asteli 7y ago
The aforementioned Swedes appear to be quite content paying their high taxes, given the benefits conferred. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/money/2008/nov/16/sweden-tax-bur... [2] https://taxf
11.
by asteli 7y ago
The unpainted steel of the DeLorean made it a pain in the ass to repair. You can't pull dents, apply body filler and repaint, you basically need a whole new panel if you want to restore damage.
12.
by asteli 7y ago
Apparently 41% of the land in the contiguous US is pasture or grazing land for livestock (548MM acre). Just staggering. To compare, land we use to grow crops that we directly eat account for for ~77MM acres. [ https://www.bloomber
13.
by asteli 7y ago
Some venues are better than others. Figure out which places and events have sound engineers that give a shit, and go there.
14.
by asteli 7y ago
I do the same kind of resource management with books when I travel. It's no fun to go on a trip with a mostly depleted fiction paperback and end up lugging around dead weight for 5 days out of 7.
15.
by asteli 7y ago
For the purpose of this exercise, assume a rectilinear ant.
16.
by asteli 7y ago
One cm^3 of water is 1g. Ant's a lot smaller.
17.
by asteli 7y ago
I agree re: power. I do not agree about traction. Assume you're stuck in mud somehow, a perfect case for diff lockers. If you lock the rotational rate of all your wheels together you are either: a.) limiting the torque you're appl
18.
by asteli 7y ago
The people who make money in industries that pollute would love for you to keep buying into the myth of personal responsibility. We saw this with cigarette and drink companies with the "Keep America Beautiful" campaign, a wildly s
19.
by asteli 7y ago
Plus, no propshaft or exhaust to get hung up on things, and you can get the CoG lower, improving handling. Plus, a level of traction control that simply isn't possible with ICE. I'm excited.
20.
by asteli 7y ago
I'm getting a kick out of the image of getting spotted by a housemate while walking to the bathroom, fully nude with a DSLR. "Hey asteli, whatcha doin?" "Aaaah, cleaning the sensor. Yep. Definitely that."
21.
by asteli 7y ago
it is good practice to keep emissions equipment in place. this way you can avoid paying to replace your cats if you have to move to a state that tests/inspects. it also reduces the amount of air and noise pollution that people in your
22.
by asteli 7y ago
i have a lifted truck but i'm cheap so i just wrapped a length of chain around the cat, secured with shitty padlocks i had laying around. doesn't actually have to be secure, just look like enough of a PITA to remove that the thief
23.
by asteli 7y ago
This is about transit safety. Cyclists are in a lot more danger than pedestrians, because unlike peds, they don't have special infrastructure set aside from them for the most part.
24.
by asteli 7y ago
Depends on how they're set up. My Sony over-ear noise-cancelling set has ambient noise mics that assume a non-windy environment, and thus can pick up wind noise themselves. I turn the noise-cancelling off if I'm going to be somewh
25.
by asteli 7y ago
Based on the fact that the site is monochrome and about 8KB, I'm going to guess early 90s. It's funny, the favico (modern asset loaded from the root of the domain automatically) outweighs the entire page by a factor of 4.
26.
by asteli 7y ago
I think there's an argument that the consolidated internet caused 4chan to morph from a benign imageboard to the relative monster it is today. 4chan didn't start as a cancer, it became that way when all the 'normies' lef
27.
by asteli 7y ago
Not knowing the real reason, I suspect it's so that parents can drive their children to school before starting their commutes to work. What proportion of kids do you reckon walk/bike/transit to school in your country?
28.
by asteli 7y ago
Not just trains. Zoomed out a bit and was surprised to see a UAL flight departing from Haneda.
29.
by asteli 7y ago
Haha! Was thinking exactly of this place. Either lucky coincidence or it's better known than I thought.
30.
by asteli 7y ago
What? The US has the ability to repossess land under Eminent Domain, and it can raise taxes to pay for construction labor (a roundabout way of compelling people to labor for the government). That's not the issue here.

More ›