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AdrianTheFrog

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  • We live in a public transit hell

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  • The estimated cost of construction of the maglev line in Japan is a bit less than 10% of the yearly U.S. military budget. The Northeast Corridor is about 10% longer, so let's round that to 11%. And I would be surprised if that infrastructure would not be used at least partially 100 years after construction.

    Keep in mind that the proposal is to buy the technology from the SCMaglev people, which is something IIRC they indicated they were supportive of doing.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Maglev

    It's currently stuck in an indefinitely paused environmental review as far as I can tell, due to no one caring about it I guess

  • We live in a public transit hell

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  • And yet we don't have true hsr in the northeast, where the big cities are...

  • France and Germany, in joint collaboration, have developed a Google Docs alternative - and its awesome! (Netherlands are currently onboarded)

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  • It looks closer to the markdown style of formatting though, and I doubt it has page formatting, or other more advanced formatting, or extensions, or a large selection of fonts. Honestly, even though docs has pageless formatting now, most people don't use it when they should, making everything unnecessary harder to read, so this will be better in that regard at least. This is probably good enough for 95% of what people use Docs for, but I wouldn't call it a replacement.

    I haven't used it because I don't have a French government account, so correct me if I'm wrong about any of that.

    Edit: it looks like it only has 1 font and no page formatting

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  • My mom is a biologist and complains how physicists always come into biology, try to reinvent everything without looking at any prior work, and then fail to execute their (sometimes interesting, sometimes not) method

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  • I would honestly be very surprised if any Republican politicians actually care about sex or gender. I think they're just evil and those are convenient issues to divide the working class. When you don't have popular policy in real issues, you need to make up some fake ones to get people to still support you.

  • Freedom software

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  • Blender was also used a bit in Everything Everywhere All At Once

  • Cloudflare blocking Pale Moon and other browsers with smaller user bases

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  • Servo is another wip web browser, managed by the Linux foundation's European branch. It's a little less far along but is making relatively quick progress now. Apparently discord already mostly works, with sending messages currently being a problem.

  • [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company

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  • Idk if the tech for 3d printers is really more complex. All of the parts are readily available, basically nothing needs to be specially made except the hot end (one single metal part)

    The consumer experience for 2d printers worse IMO but that's probably because I'm stuck on Windows with its terrible printing system

  • Tim Walz says he may run for president in 2028 despite failure of Harris campaign

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  • Bernie's going to be almost 90 years old by then

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  • Oh probably

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  • Yeah, but it does have 10^67 years to catch it.

    Assuming the light isn't bending at all, I think it should get about 890 watts of light, or 2.8x1010 joules per year (or 3.1x10-7 kg per year?) from the sun, which should be enough to cause it to grow, at least while the sun is still around. I expect it would get a lot more mass from gasses, meteors, and dust in that time frame. Based on your numbers above I think it should only be losing like 2x10^-40 kg per year if it was losing mass at a constant rate.

    There's only about 50 watts per square meter out that far from the sun! We get about 1300 here on Earth. Jupiter's orbit is a lot larger compared to Earth's than people normally think.

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  • Does the energy of light entering the black hole make it last longer?

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  • The black hole with the mass of the earth would have a diameter of around 4 cm

  • VLC Literally Reaches for the Moon to Mark its 20-Year Anniversary

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  • There's also other things that people probably use more often, even if they don't know it, like apache, nginx, or ffmpeg

  • Every Country That Has Their Own Lemmy Instance

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  • It's also US propaganda to discredit communism

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  • Or, the Italian way: simmer garlic in a pan with olive oil, throw in the vegetables and a bit of water, throw in some salt, cover, cook until soft, check occasionally that it isn't burning

  • Do you know anyone in real life that uses Lemmy?

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  • A lot of people block political keywords and related communities, and most niche subs aren't there

  • Hope you weren’t planning to play PhysX games on Nvidia’s new 50-series GPUs

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  • Hmm, I was not aware of that. I've seen (not Nvidia related) simulations with probably tens of thousands of rigidbodies running on relatively old midrange CPUs in real time, so it's pretty crazy that it's that slow.

  • Hope you weren’t planning to play PhysX games on Nvidia’s new 50-series GPUs

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  • Are there really any 32-bit era games that your CPU can't handle, especially if you have a $1k+ gpu? This post is honestly pretty misleading as it implies modern versions of PhysX don't work, when they actually do.

    That being said, it doesn't make all that much sense as a decision, doubles are rare in most GPU code anyways (as they are very slow), NVIDIA is just being lazy and doesn't want to write the drivers for that

    Well, at least you aren't on mac where 32 bit things just don't launch at all... (I think they might be playable through wine, but even in the x86 era MacOS didn't natively run any 32 bit games or software, so games like Portal 2 or TF2 for example just didn't work even though they had a MacOS version)

  • theFutureOfCommunication

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  • People do that with google translate as well