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Could probably make a small stand with nubbins from touch screen pens as the feet.

That whole region the dirt is orange from the iron content rusting and the lake has been a dumping ground for iron mining tailings for the past couple centuries. It's not surprising in the slightest that something evolved which could consume iron.

Lest this mislead anyone, that's a touch panel not a thermostat. Pretty much all of Crestrons panels and Processors (the brains of the system) ran some form of windows embedded. They've switched the current generation over to linux I believe.

I wouldn't consider a Lutron light switch to be a direct comparison to Crestron. Crestron targets the ultra wealthy by being very reliable (assuming setup by a competent programmer) with unified control of pretty much everything household - shades, lights, audio, video, etc. They're aiming for the kind of people who will pay a premium to make sure their house just works, every time, without having to deal with tech issues.

You could certainly bodge together a similar system for less money, but the controls won't be as nice and it'll be nowhere near as hassle free long term. HomeAssistant and competitors have really been catching up in the past few years though, i'm excited to see competition in the market. I wish they could all play nice together with reasonable APIs :/

>>immersed in a thermally conductive resin

sounds heavy

>>Just feels like 'skimming' a real book instead of actually reading it.

That's the goal for me lately. I primarily use Youtube for technical assistance (where are the screws to adjust this carburetor?, how do I remove this brake hub?, etc). There used to be short 1 to 2m videos on this kind of stuff but nowadays I have to suffer through a 10-15 minute video with multiple ad breaks.

So now I always watch youtube at 2x speed while rapidly jumping the slider forward to find relevant portions.

Iirc hdmi has 19 wires. USB c is around 10 (but mirrored so ~20 on the connector). Making hdmi symetrical would require a 38 wire connector which would be large and prohibitively expensive.

>> The only conditions are vehicle weight, no outside radio contact and no damaging the road

Desiccate the human and compact him into an aerodynamic shape. Carry the (now much lighter and more aerodynamic) human inside a small rocket.

Probably epoxy potted, an order of magnitude more difficult to repair. Either way a coating is probably called for in the places a generator will be used so you probably wouldn't want to skip it just for repairability.

ads are amateur hour - gotta make it a subscription and really milk those users.

When it's those conditions though I just use a light touch on the throttle to make wheel speed match ground speed, a lot of easier than trying to shift in and out of neutral.

I spend about 5 months every year driving in snow and ice - this is the first I'm hearing about dropping it into neutral. Can you elaborate on when that would be appropriate? Obviously you shouldn't be slamming on the brakes, but they do work fine in snow and ice. I don't see how rolling into things while not in gear is an improvement?

If you stay on top of fluid filming or wool waxing you can largely avoid this. I've got 7 winters of WI slush and salt on my truck and just a few nickel sized spots of surface rust on the frame so far.

> You wouldn't complain you can't take a Miata camping, why would you complain you can't take a 2-seat pickup? camping?

Because 2-seat pickups used to function this way. It's okay to pine for functionality that has been lost, particularly when a new product like this comes along and gets your hopes up.

There are two classes of highways in WI. Large, divided, 4+ lane highyways which always have game fences, and two lane 'county highways' which do not have fences. Parent is referring to the latter.

The game fences that do exist aren't really tall enough for deer, maybe 2m tall at best so deer are constantly jumping them. I've always wondered why they aren't taller - I suspect they are more for escaped cows and horses than for deer.

That's just circling back on "city boy tries to grow a plant". Your garden provided you with both fruit and meat. You were just unwilling/unable to harvest the meat.

You could knock at least a third off that total cost as well if you buy this stuff around holidays when its on sale at aliexpress.

I fly iNav on a couple planes. I havent updated to the latest version in a couple years but i find it works great. The electronics like gps modules and sensors are insanely cheap now if you go straight from china (aliexpress) - you can get an hglrc m100 gps for about $12 shipped now.

Bipolar electrolytic capacitors are a thing, I recently had to solder up a handful of them in some audio circuits.

Drones emit all sorts of beeps and tones using the brushless motors but I'm not entirely certain by what mechanism the motor controllers accomplish it. The motors aren't spinning when they emit a tone but they do twitch/move so I assume its some sort of back and forth vibration.

Any time I hear vague corporate statements like that I like to play a game of "what words did they leave unsaid"?

>>Today this includes publishing most of our AI research, but we expect that safety [of our profits] and [job] security concerns will reduce our traditional publishing in the future

You might not be able to control the behavior of the driver behind you, but you can certainly influence it. When there's someone close behind me and I know I'm approaching a situation that might require me to make a sudden stop, I often hold the brakes just enough to trigger the brake lights. This lets the person behind know to back off, or at least be ready.

I'm curious if Waymo does any sort of warning brake lights like that if chance of panic braking > 15% or something.

This is largely addressed by the article. Improved biodiversity (more fish, more native vegetation and the bugs/wildlife that go with it) as well as improvement of the water itself like the elimination of dangerous algae blooms.

From the article: The dams also had a severe impact on water temperature and quality – growth of toxic algae behind two of the dams resulted in health warnings against water contact.

Also from the article: "where we've seeded is green, we're seeing flowering plants teeming with life. I counted eight different butterflies in the areas we hand-seeded. There's moths, hoverflies, bees, birds. It's been a really exciting first year."

If you read the complaint they are seeking a "sum in excess of 50k". This is likely to get proper jurisdiction as 50k in damages bumps it from county level court up to state circuit.

It's a sad statement about online reporting that so many sites ran with the 50k number and don't list the case number or its publicly available complaint/filings:

Case: 2024-CA-001616-O : PICCOLO, JEFFREY Jvs.GREAT IRISH PUBS FLORIDA INC et al.

https://myeclerk.myorangeclerk.com/CaseDetails?cItem=KLLpI1z...

This always comes up as a suggestion. I would love to see the numbers where that works out. The costs of renting even a couple times a month (far less than 10% of trips) will very quickly make it cheaper to just own an ICE vehicle.

It gets really bad if you dare to drive out of state because you get hit with extra mileage fees. For example every year I go camping for a week - driving from the midwest to Utah in a full size suv or truck (need 4wd and space for climbing/camping gear). Last time I ran the numbers (2022) it was around $1500 for a rental for that trip. (1k base rental for a week, 350 for mileage fees, and 180 for towing fee because I like to bring a small teardrop camper)

I've kept a close eye on this since I would love an EV, but it remains much cheaper to keep paying for my ICE vehicle than buying an EV and occasionally renting. There's a huge list of other drawbacks to account for as well:

- the non-financial costs of time spent reserving, picking up, dropping off, fighting surprise fees, etc.

- worrying about damage (most rentals don't allow off pavement driving, or will void insurance if you do)

- the fact that you can't have anything custom (no roof rack for a kayak, no snow tires or chains for driving through the mountains, no winch or recovery points, no interior improvements like stereo or dash cam, the list goes on)

If it needs any amount of strength you'll want to find someone with a lathe. BSP tells me it may be tapered(?) so find someone with a taper attachment. Even as a hobbyist I could probably make one of those on my lathe faster than drawing it and printing it on my 3d printer.

They're expensive but I'm a big fan of the Magnetron series by Black Diamond. Self locking yet quick to open, but most importantly for me they don't jam up with sand like the screw lock/twist lock ones when I'm canyoneering.

>>even when it’s clear that large parts of the public will not be best served by Washington’s “China bad!!!” policies.

The majority of the public do not own or fly drones. The government has bigger concerns than a few people getting burnt on their DJI purchase.

Disposable drones are the future of warfare. Would you really want to subsidize China's ability to develop and manufacture them? While also letting China collect data from drones flying over your country? Better to rip that bandaid off sooner rather than later imo.

Google street view isn't going to be driving around sensitive government facilites or electrical infrastructure though - and you really can't guarantee no curious citizens will try to fly their dji drone over said facilities. So all DJI needs to do is put in an if(location == government_facility) and sit back and wait for the camera feed from some idiot american.

Has there been any evidence this was pushed by lobbyists? If you look at what's happening in Ukraine It's pretty much a given that the US defense sector is looking at ways to improve the US small drone manufacturing capabilites, and have less potentially hostile drones flying over their own territory.