fubarx 14h ago • 100%
If serious about the goals, they would have followed a straight, shortest route from LA to SF, running frequently, with feeder lines to/from Central Valley and larger coastal cities (Santa Barbara, SLO, Monterey, Salinas, Santa Cruz, etc)
Given where it ended up, mainly because of Congressional shenanigans, it will end up as a little-used, publicly subsidized boondoggle. I'm all for efficient public transit, but this is such a missed opportunity, and a huge waste of taxpayer money. We'll have mid-range electric airplanes before this thing gets going.
fubarx 22h ago • 100%
Was reading an article about creation of a large public beach. It only sat 2ft above sea level and often washed over in high tide. The developers bulldozed sand from the sea side to bring it up to 12ft. But they had big troubles with wind blowing the sand inland. It almost scuttled the whole project.
So they planted hardy native grass that grew roots toward the water. It mitigated the dust problem.
Wonder if a similar thing can be done with native desert vegetation to solve this problem.
fubarx 23h ago • 100%
Not sure who to believe now: https://www.axios.com/2024/10/19/israel-iran-attack-telegram-leaked-intelligence
fubarx 24h ago • 97%
fubarx 1d ago • 100%
Still can't get the fingers right.
fubarx 2d ago • 100%
What would be an alliterative version of the "Clean Coal" BS?
- Green Gas
- Gold Gas
- Natural Gas (ok, but it's just there)
fubarx 2d ago • 100%
Adobe announced a 'distraction removal' Photoshop feature this week at their annual MAX conference. Makes removing people from pictures a one-click operation for anyone: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/remove-tool.html
fubarx 2d ago • 100%
fubarx 2d ago • 100%
The car I had the most trouble with wasn't because it was a bad car, but because it kept getting trashed. VW Cabriolet convertible. Bought it when I got my first real job out of school.
One week after driving it off the lot, parked on a busy city street, someone slashed the roof and tore out the stereo. Fixed it all up. Insurance rate went up. Six months later, knife through the roof AND a smashed window. Stereo gone. Switched to a removable, pull-out stereo. Still got broken into.
Had dozens of slashes/smashes. At one point, just left the door locks open. Nothing to take. Someone slept in the back seat (left food wrappers) and pilfered through the ashtray where I kept loose change.
Loved driving it with the top down, but what a pain it was to fix.
fubarx 2d ago • 100%
It's the Gellert Thermal baths: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gellért_Baths
Still around, if anyone visits Budapest.
fubarx 2d ago • 100%
She badly needs to be introduced to a plate of samosas with a side of tamarind chutney.
Preferably brought over by a kindhearted, wise Nani who has lived through this sort of behavior.
fubarx 3d ago • 100%
Hey, best of luck figuring that out:
fubarx 3d ago • 100%
fubarx 3d ago • 100%
Drop it off in one of the official ballot drop-off boxes instead of USPS.
In California, you can also sign up for text messages informing you of every stage of ballot handling: https://california.ballottrax.net/voter/
fubarx 3d ago • 100%
Thrice, all a long time ago:
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Driving back alone from a group camping trip. Got stuck in a freak snowstorm in the mountains, without chains. Stalled and started sliding back towards a really deep ravine. Hit the brakes, but it kept skidding through the sleet. Had the car door open, ready to bail. The car came to a stop, barely inches from the edge.
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Walked out of the shower in a towel. Faced a tweaker with a gun standing in my apartment. Demanded my wallet. Took out the cash. Wasn't much. He paused, trying to decide what to do next. I really wasn't sure which way it would go. He left.
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Flight instructor had checked off on doing a solo, then left town. Was nervous, but he had told me to put in the flight hours in his absence. Practicing short take-off/landings and go-arounds. Little single-engine trainer. On the first touch-and-go, I forgot to take off full flaps, which meant maximum drag on the wings. Got barely 1000 ft above ground, then the engine began to sputter. The plane stalled, and started a slow-mo, nose-down spin toward the ground. I remember stopping breathing. Then the brain kicked in. Figured it out. Recovered from the spin way too close to the ground. The most sphincter-clenching, stupidest moment of my life.
fubarx 3d ago • 100%
fubarx 3d ago • 100%
Plastic, nitrogen (or some inert gas, if packaged), and formaldehyde.
Yum!
fubarx 3d ago • 100%
"Thank you for your vote. Now leave this country."
fubarx 3d ago • 81%
In Marin County, a wealthy liberal enclave in California, a lot of anti-vaxxers used to be wealthy white suburbans. When COVID hit, those groups found themselves aligned with the right-wing MAGA crowds.
Proving once again, that if you go far enough left, you may come full circle to the far right.
fubarx 3d ago • 96%
Out in the cloud world, several companies changed their FOSS license to prevent large cloud providers from making money off their work (eg, Terraform, Redis, Mongo, and ElasticSearch).
Their reasoning was sound, on paper. They were spending a ton of time and money supporting a popular product and the only way to make money on it was by selling hosted services to enterprise. Then these other cloud providers would take their work for free, compete with them for the same customers, and often win.
In almost all these cases, the FOSS developers were pilloried for changing the terms of their original license, leading to immediate forks and fragmentation of the community.
The only outfit that I know of that survived the transition was Thingsboard. They still offer an open-source service, but they take a lot of their enterprise-only adapters and do not offer it as FOSS. Only way to get these is to sign up with their service.
Wordpress could have taken a survey of their highest paying customers, then created features they needed behind a private hosting service. Yes, people would have been unhappy, but the core service would remain FOSS and the company would still make a lot of money.
This whole thing has been done in the worse possible, public, mud-slinging manner. I don't understand who benefits from the scorched-earth approach.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21333621 > Q: "Melania Trump recalled her experience of her husband's first assassination attempt. Do we know what she did?" > > Paul: "Reloaded."
Q: "Melania Trump recalled her experience of her husband's first assassination attempt. Do we know what she did?" Paul: "Reloaded."
Posting YT link for those outside UK. If not appropriate, please remove.
Finally, a good use for drone and AI/ML technology! From the maker of the [poop-shooting laser turret](https://hackaday.com/2022/05/24/point-out-pups-packages-with-this-poop-shooting-laser/) and the [AI/ML poop image detector](https://hackaday.com/2022/01/17/ai-camera-knows-its-st/).
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20603742 > U.S. version of the venerable British news/comedy show, #HIGNFY.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20603742 > U.S. version of the venerable British news/comedy show, #HIGNFY.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20603742 > U.S. version of the venerable British news/comedy show, #HIGNFY.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20603742 > U.S. version of the venerable British news/comedy show, #HIGNFY.
U.S. version of the venerable British news/comedy show, #HIGNFY.
From the makers of demand-priced car rides, concert tickets, and rents comes _VariPay_, a new Demand Based Salary calculator. Instead of a fixed salary, employee income will be based on how much work there is to do, and when there is enough work, how efficient they were and how much effort they put into it. The system is purely driven by AI, so nobody can accuse the vendor of favoritism. It runs continuously 24x7, making instant salary calculation updates no matter where in the world you live. The service can automatically integrate with the previously announced _AutoHR_ system, so firing and re-hiring replacement workers are handled with minimum friction. Efficiency levels can be charted in units of currency, aggregated worker heart-rate levels, or kilo-teardrops. It comes with a management dashboard showing the amount of salary saved vs a traditional 'time-based' pay system. It also allows alarms to be set and parameters adjusted to accelerate cost-saving measures. Optional modules dynamically calculate management bonuses and maximize shareholder buybacks.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19787296 > Archive link: https://archive.ph/H0jBD > > > "As the ninth inning drew to a close at San Francisco’s Oracle Park on a recent afternoon, the mood in the stands was dour — the Giants were losing to the White Sox. But in the skies above the stadium, the real game was just getting started. > > California and Western gulls glided overhead, scouting the bleachers for garlic fries and ketchup-smeared hot dog buns. The gulls soared steadily by the dozens as the bleachers emptied. Soon, the birds were left alone to engulf any leftover food they could find."
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19787296 > Archive link: https://archive.ph/H0jBD > > > "As the ninth inning drew to a close at San Francisco’s Oracle Park on a recent afternoon, the mood in the stands was dour — the Giants were losing to the White Sox. But in the skies above the stadium, the real game was just getting started. > > California and Western gulls glided overhead, scouting the bleachers for garlic fries and ketchup-smeared hot dog buns. The gulls soared steadily by the dozens as the bleachers emptied. Soon, the birds were left alone to engulf any leftover food they could find."
Archive link: https://archive.ph/H0jBD "As the ninth inning drew to a close at San Francisco’s Oracle Park on a recent afternoon, the mood in the stands was dour — the Giants were losing to the White Sox. But in the skies above the stadium, the real game was just getting started. California and Western gulls glided overhead, scouting the bleachers for garlic fries and ketchup-smeared hot dog buns. The gulls soared steadily by the dozens as the bleachers emptied. Soon, the birds were left alone to engulf any leftover food they could find."
Archive: https://archive.ph/uvnwC
Earlier today, at Oakland, CA charging station.
Not sure if true, but someone raised an issue when this was first announced. That you can no longer refuse to unlock your phone when stopped, since you'll have to unlock it to show your digital driver's license.