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[–] qupada@fedia.io 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

A different perspective: https://i.imgur.com/KUK7Qb9.jpeg

From the 20th or so level of an office building a couple of streets over. Every photo of this seems to be the one from ground level looking up where it looms over you, I feel it is important we have one turning the tables and looking down on it.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

While I have a personal general rule against backing electronics on Kickstarter and would likely wait for it to be available at retail, I wouldn't necessarily immediately discount this one.

It's probably worth noting - mentioned in Jeff Geerling's video - they had a MOQ of 1500 on the metal case, which likely forced them to be significantly further through the process than a lot of Kickstarters are at launch.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 49 points 6 days ago

Indeed, you will note that they carefully chose the moniker "Daily Active Uniques" and not "Daily Active Users".

I think that speaks volumes, as humans are definitely harder to retain.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 6 points 1 week ago

My cauldron uses an induction stove powered by renewable energy.

Braised in wine, the way they're accustomed to. Attempting to roast the rich doesn't achieve a great result.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 11 points 1 week ago

My first time hearing that word too, but apparently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truckle

late Middle English (denoting a wheel or pulley): from Anglo-Norman French trocle, from Latin trochlea ‘sheaf of a pulley’. The current sense dates from the early 19th century and was originally dialect.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Surprisingly, no.

I've got both the first-gen Palma, and a Kindle Oasis (2017).

Ignoring anything that's purely a function of the Palma being significantly newer - has a cool-warm light while that model of Kindle is one colour temperature only, and that it has a faster-refreshing e-ink display, etc - it's still often a more pleasant experience.

The Palma is a little heavier (especially vs the Kindle without its case, which is typically how I use it), but because it's narrower much easier to hold. The Oasis does have the physical page turn buttons, but I never found them to be particularly well placed, always required holding it a bit awkwardly.

It's mildly painful for content that doesn't reflow (like PDFs) due to the phone-like 16:9 aspect, but imho for e-books is the superior experience.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Putting a solar roofs over any open-air carpark you happen to own is just a hilariously easier option. Hell, you could erect these OVER the train tracks.

https://greenox-group.de/photovoltaik-carport/ (Article is in German, but it's really more around the picture)

According to a completely un-sourced picture I found online, one carpark (in the USA) is typically around 5.5 x 2.6m, so if you had even 50 carparks on your site you could have ~715 square metres of panels. More, if you figure a way to cover the aisles between the rows of carparks too.

At the top end of all applicable figures (panel efficiency, solar irradiance, inverter efficiency), that could net you ~160kW at solar midday.

Now on the other side, standard-gauge railway is around 1.4m wide, and maybe you could cram a 1m width of panels between the rails.

That sounds like a lot - 1000 square metres per kilometre, and there are thousands of kilometres of railway lines out there - but it's harder to install, harder to service, gets dirty faster, is liable to get damaged, and now you have to figure out how to extract power from somehing a kilometre long, instead of an area that could be a square only around 35m (~115') on a side (for the above 50 carparks).

I know which one of those I'd want to run the cables for.

As has been pointed out many times when this dumb-ass idea comes up, only once you've exhausted every other possibility (carparks, rooftops, putting panels ABOVE roads/rivers/canals/cycleways/railways) and have literally no other viable installation locations, then we can talk.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 4 points 2 weeks ago

Funnily enough, I just watched it for the first time a couple of weeks ago.

I think it might have been a different viewing experience when it was new, but it's hard to not view it through the modern lens where 30 Rock made it - and therefore defined the "genre" of show-about-a-SNL-type-show - and Studio 60 didn't.

Wikipedia indeed includes an entire section about this in the pages for both shows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_60_on_the_Sunset_Strip#Similarities_to_30_Rock / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_Rock#Similarities_to_other_media

But it does answer the question of "what if in a parallel universe, 30 Rock was a slightly weirdly paced character drama?".

[–] qupada@fedia.io 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Only if it's at least a six minute video, in which lighting the candle doesn't begin until at least minute four.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 25 points 3 weeks ago

Per the article... yes

We’ve put taco meat in places that I can never repeat

[–] qupada@fedia.io 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean, that depends...

[–] qupada@fedia.io 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Can also recomment "Sqwincher" (stupid name aside) products.

https://www.sqwincher.com/products/single-serve-qwik-stik-zero/

As they market primarily to people working in construction / other trades - and are therefore sold at the likes of electrical and safety supply stores - we buy them in bulk for when we're spending weeks installing racks of servers in our datacentre at work.

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