Kethal

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[–] Kethal@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm throwing out a guess, but the force required to stop an object is related to the square of velocity. You'd need to integrate force over the stopping distance to know for sure, but with that squared term going downhill it's almost certainly better to apply even force over a longer time. You're going to speed up otherwise, requiring more total force.

For a flat surface, the force is proportional to stopping distance, so the total force is the same regardless of distance, but you need to apply that total force in a smaller time, which for extremely short stoppimg distances surely results in different wear. In that case, it's probably much more complicated and there's some optimal braking distance or optimal braking curve, rather than some simple way to figure it out. I'd say simple advice is that if it's not comfortable for you, that's a good indicator that its causing more wear.

The best thing to do is to anticipate when you'll need to stop, and stop accelarating. Then you'll need far less force to brake. Every day I see people speed up to a light that just turned red, so there's no chance it will be green when they get there. Then they brake and wait 3 minutes. Just let off the gas as soon as you can tell you'll be waiting at the light. Of course be aware of people turning or whatever, but mostly there's no reason to quickly arrive at a light you're sure you'll be sitting at.

[–] Kethal@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I have no evidence of her motives. Campaign donations are public record, and she receives funding from oil companies. The idea that politicians are not swayed by finance is absurdly naive. They don't need to accept that money. And, regardless whether convincing swing voters is a part of the campaign's consideration, it should be clear that influence from corporations is not an influence. Then we could sit here an take them at their word. As it is, it's impossible to think that millions of dollars from oil companies is not affecting the decision to make a complete u turn on supporting fracking.

[–] Kethal@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Also people who touch monitors.

And people who push the glass part of a door.

[–] Kethal@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

They do according to the US supreme court. The court ruled in Citizens United that restricting donations from corporations was a violation of corporations' first amendment rights.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC

[–] Kethal@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

It corporations weren't given the same rights as people, then we'd need to wonder less about what politicians' real motives were.

[–] Kethal@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (4 children)

That does sound better doesn't it? If I were a presidential candidate, I would definitely say "We support fracking because we need Pennsylvania" instead of "We support fracking because our campaign has accepted millions of dollars from the oil industry".

[–] Kethal@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

There are a lot of things that try to replace FancyZones but I don't know that any do well. There are gTiles and Linux PowerToys if you haven't seem those already. I've never searched for alternatives to VS or Teams.

[–] Kethal@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

I don't know about games. Steam stuff is supposed to work but it's something I do much anymore. I was referring more to casual use, Web browsing, streaming, emails. Ironically Linux now seems more suited than Windows to people who use computers for simple stuff.

[–] Kethal@lemmy.world 197 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (13 children)

It seemed odd to me that a Web site could write to or read from the clipboard without the user approving it. That would be a pretty obvious security and privacy issue. From what I gather, on Chrome sites can write to the clipboard without approval, but they need approval to read. ~~On Firefox and others any access requires permission. Thus this exploit seems limited to Chrome users.~~

@SkaveRat pointed out that it doesn't require permission, only interaction. So likely there's a button that's clicked that writes to the clipboard, and most browsers are susceptible to this.

[–] Kethal@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I had an old computer and Linux is all that I installed. Not everyone is going to have an extra computer to do that with. However, this computer is more than 10 years old. It was quite good at the time, but it's junk compared to modern ones. Yet, it is more responsive than my very nice modern laptop that's running Windows 10. It's not going to beat a new computer in a race to solve a computational model, but for streaming, browsing, and day-to-day stuff, the lack of bloat means things open quickly and UI elements respond immediately. There is probably a fair number of people with computers they think are useless that would actually work very well with Linux.

[–] Kethal@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

I can't imagine wasting my time and energy caring about things that don't affect me. Good luck with that buddy.

[–] Kethal@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

How can an agent post an ad without pictures of the interior?

 

I'm not sure what this is, but my guess was a Dobson fly.

 

It's a bit hard to make out in the photo, but there the center is a larger black insect being swarmed by dozens of small light brown ones. The larger one looks like some sort of beetle. What are the smaller ones?

 

I've never built a PC before and I don't know that I know all of the considerations.

I'd like something as a server for automated backup from other devices, like phones. I may also do video reencoding on it. I'd like it to be fairly small, but it doesn't need to be that small. This is what I've picked out: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/L3pxGP.

The case, motherboard and power supply I plan to use is the AsRock Deskmini, but it wasn't an option on Part Picker: https://www.newegg.com/asrock-deskmini-x300w/p/N82E16856158068. This was attractive because it says it has a built-in RAID setup. This is for backups, so I'd like RAID, but I don't know anything RAID, so a built-in option sounded convenient. The Deskmeet would have been fine too, but it's out of stock.

Is the cooler OK for that processor? I don't care about a video card, and the 5700G has integrated graphics, but I don't know if I need something else to get the graphics working. Is there anything else I should consider?

Thanks for any help.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Kethal@lemmy.world to c/ahk@programming.dev
 

Using Window Spy, Acrobat Pro doesn't appear to have button IDs to use with ControlClick. I can't find shortcut keys for almost any of the actions, and trying to navigate through the buttons with F6 and tab seems like a no-go too. The only ways I see to do this are to hardcode button positions or use or ImageSearch, both of which I find don't work well because coordinates change with window resizing or different resolution displays.

Does anyone have a different approach or know of a way to handle different displays and window sizes? In particular, I want to activate "Visually digitally sign".

 

The connections under my sink have a flexible tube that I'd like to replace with rigid tube. The stub out from the wall doesn't have the nut and threaded connection I've seen before, and they've used what I think is called a no-hub connector.

Would I use the no-hub connector on the rigid tube or do I sweat something like this on? https://www.brasscraft.com/product/1-12-in-o-d-tube-x-1-12-in-fip-3/ Or is there some other way?

I've soldered the narrower water supply lines, but nothing this large. Is there anything to consider other than heating it longer?

The stub out has corroded on the bottom and there's a thin crack that the no-hub fitting covers, so there isn't a leak now, but I don't know if that will be covered if I sweat on a connector. Is there a way to deal with that crack?

As some extra info, I think that some stubs are threaded into the vertical pipe. This isn't threaded in and doesn't look like it can be removed without opening the wall and replacing it.

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Is this a termite? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Kethal@lemmy.world to c/whatsthisbug@lemmy.ml
 

This is from Illinois. I think maybe it's a spider wasp, but I don't have any idea what I'm talking about, so I worry that it's a termite.

 

Is there a way to block all pinterest results from search engines? This doesn't seem to work: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/unpinterested/.

This one doesn't block results in image search: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hohser/

Simply using "-site:pinterest.com" isn't great, because there are a bunch of pinterest domains: pinterest.com.mx, pinterest.es, etc. Typing them all in every time is a hassle.

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