Re: Small quibble...
It’s the same only if the CoM is vertically above the bottom of the shell, which depending on orientation is not necessarily the case.
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I’ve no idea what you’re talking about. The impact velocity is only dependent on the distance that the egg can drop, ie from the lowest point of the shell to the impact surface (h). Acceleration due to gravity is independent of mass and mass distribution.
From basic physics, and as per the paper, the impact velocity can be calculated as sqrt(2gh).
Assumptions: air resistance is disregarded and the egg is non-rotating when released.
The matter of ID cards wrt UK and other countries has been discussed to death here, but as a quick summary: unlike other places I know about, the UK envisioned ID cards coupled with a monster database storing nearly everything known about a person. With very nebulous criteria about who should have access to which parts of the database and under which circumstances. Think e.g medical records and insurance companies.
No!! I very deliberately said “UK time”. Everyone in the UK inherently knows what this is, most everyone in Europe too. I specifically, lazily, don’t want to have to think about whether it is summer time or not.
Anecdote: it was a good while back and I’m not sure but I think it was the Radio Times listings. Viewing the website from Germany, it converted the schedule times to my local time (without telling me, of course). So eg the 6pm news showed as starting at 7pm. But so far, so good, I could work with that.
But they had the vertical red line too, indicating the present time. But that was not corrected for my local time! So at 7pm my time, when the 6pm news was about to start, the red line was lined up with the 5pm schedule.
Maybe it was a deliberate mind fuck… hence the helicopters
I can readily believe that robots can provide meaningful companionship to the elderly. Not to mention useful physical tasks like lifting. And it will become cheaper than employing human carers.
But isn’t it inevitable that these technological developments will be used to fatten profit margins rather than actually improve care for the elderly?
“Linux does require a willingness to deal with out-of-the-ordinary situations (like the gentleman above who got a blank screen after upgrading Mint) but Googling (always good to have another machine available) usually turns up someone who has had the *exact same* problem and has managed to solve it.”
My experience of delving into Linux troubleshooting is different. Plenty of users have had the exact same problem but there are 10x the number of solutions to be found, each seemingly entirely unrelated to the next. Command line, of course. Five minutes to look up the meaning of the command parameters of a particular solution. Fifty minutes to *begin* rabbit-holing trying to understand the parameters.
Blindly running lengthy commands from the Internet, not my favoured option, will typically fail more often than it works. So, for whatever reason, understanding both the problem and the solution eludes me far more with Linux than with Windows.
I’d much rather run Linux but so far there has always been some unsolvable problem, a dealbreaker. Talking to a specific piece of external hardware for example, or running a specific game. And once again I end up back with Windows.
I’m on Win11 now, I will try Linux again when support ends. But there is a limited amount of time that I am willing to spend trying to break free from MS. Choosing my battles…
But does it work off-the-shelf for calls? For data? Shirley at some point a proper non-anonymous contract has to be formed.
I was in SE Asia recently and at the airports SIMs were cheap as … well, chips. Cash only for a number of days of access but they took a photograph there and then of me holding up my open passport. So easy but not anonymous.
That’s the point, this is a single infrastructure with multiple, freely interchangeable ‘platforms’ (app views). Everyone’s content / friends / groups etc is stored independently of the app chosen to access it. Which if it works and gains traction, is a game-changer.
One thing it doesn’t have afaict is privacy, so this is a truly public forum. It is even public that user A is blocking user B. By design. But ok, an open, decentralised, public forum, not beholden to any particular company or person? I’d sign up to that.
Isn’t more about being able to choose if or which extramist views are pushed to you? If I understood it right, if my preferred viewer app is e.g. bought out by someone who then starts pushing certain views (à la Musk/Twitter), then I can simply up sticks and swap to a different viewer app. All without losing my old content, friends, groups etc etc.
I’ll disagree. The “specially moulded’ parts of modern Lego cars are basically the bodywork, and the 8860 simply has none. I continue to be impressed by the ingenuity of modern technic sets.
But… thanks to you I am now going to have to delve into my collection and rebuild the 8860, my first ever “big” Lego set that I received way back when. So an upvote for that, curse you
In this context a bit is a unit of information content and not literally a digital bit as used in computing. For example, the words “heads” and “tails” contain only one bit of information each when referring to a tossed coin, irrespective of how many computing bits might be used to store those words as strings.
A whistleblower whistleblowing is a high risk undertaking, so the idea that less than 10% are well-founded doesn’t meet my uninformed plausibility test. Sure, some may be malicious but still.
And I simply don’t trust any finding of “employment not threatened”, especially in America. Either the criteria are far too strict or they are badly assessed.
Bah humbug and a happy new year :)