Those sound like comments on a different topic, specifically the story about Paris’ improvements in air quality lately (because they built bike infrastructure and partially banned cars). I had to remove nearly identical comments in the !fuckcars@lemmy.world thread on it, for the same reason.

Some of those systems are still around. For example, Roosevelt Island in NYC has a pneumatic trash collection system. Apparently it’s the only part of NYC that doesn’t have trash piling up on the streets/sidewalks all the time.

Mine, at 75 downvotes, was:

You know, if you use Linux you don’t have to jump through hoops like this (trivial though they may be). Wouldn’t it be nice to not have an adversarial, abusive relationship with your OS?

This was on a thread about some workaround to remove ads in Windows.

It was still very net positive in terms of upvote/downvote ratio, so Microsoft simps can suck it, LOL.

Profilie -> comments tab -> sort by controversial

It would also be interesting to see which comment is most disliked (which one has the most net negative score), but I don’t think there’s a sort that does that.

It was aimed at the article writer, not you, although I see now that the actual headline was only in imperial and you added the metric conversion, so I understand why it may have seemed otherwise. You actually converted it back with an appropriate amount of precision, so that’s good.

621-mile [1000 km] range

Quit inventing nonexistent precision when doing unit conversions. If the original source quotes 1000 km, which is obviously already an estimate (being a round number) and has only 1 sig fig, “600-ish” miles is all the imperial unit precision you get.

Hmm…

Well, that makes me feel better! I have the parts to make a charcoal-only filter but was too lazy to assemble it before doing a big soldering project recently, choosing to just open the window next to me instead. It’s nice to know that it would’ve been useless anyway, so my laziness didn’t actually cost me anything.

Paired with the top hat, the bow tie is better.

But I’d like to see other options, such as a cowboy hat and bolo tie, a scarf, a “dixie cup” sailor hat and neckerchief, a casual ascot, etc.

Again, it all depends on intent. You can try to just “happen” to “inadvertently” create a benchy lookalike, but your success depends on whether you can bullshit the judge into believing that, not the actual degree of similarity.

1st thing i would do would be call the radio station–they might have a digital copy already

It hasn’t existed since 2003 (there’s still a station on that frequency, but it’s changed ownership and programming a couple of times). Maybe they still have the old master copies anyway? Or I suppose I could try to track down the DJs who produced it…

The library and state archives ideas are good suggestions; I’ll look into them.

last resort would be a recording studio, which might cost lots of money per hour, and it’ll have to be converted in real time–play the tape from start to finish, while the computer ‘records’ it. if the studio don’t have a top of the line gourmet tape deck, then they can take just take the output of your own player and plug it into protools

I mean, if using my own player might be considered “good enough,” couldn’t I just hook my Walkman’s headphone output to the line in or mic input on my computer and do it myself? In addition to the audio built into the motherboard, I also have a relatively-cheap USB audio interface, which I guess isn’t as good as it could be (it’s 48KHz, not 192KHz) but would still be better than nothing.

The main thing is I’m not sure how I need to set the volume on the Walkman (it also apparently has a feature called “AVLS” that might or might not be relevant) or if I need an amplifier or something. I also don’t know if I need to do anything special with ALSA/JACK/PulseAudio and know basically nothing about how to use Ardour or XMMS (I’m aware they exist and are the right type of software, but that’s about it).

i was a recording engineer during the time analog recording was just starting to get surpassed by digital

I’ve got a cassette of some parody songs made by a local radio station that’s basically going to become lost media if I don’t digitize it myself. The only cassette players I currently own are a Walkman and one of those retro-style-but-not-old CD/cassette/record combo players. Do you have any advice on what I should do to get the best quality transfer that I can?

That’s not how copyright works. Copyright is a legal concept, not a technological or physical one. If the intent was to be inspired by a 3DBenchy and it’s not “transformative” (as in, into a different medium from a 3D model entirely), it’s infringing. It doesn’t matter how many vertices in the mesh are different if the person making it started with a 3DBenchy in mind.

At best, if your intent is to mock the original, you try to argue that it’s parody and thus fair use, but it would still very definitely be a derivative work regardless. Any further downstream modifications would thus also be assumed to be infringing the copyright of the original unless they were (successfully) claimed to be parody too.

Today I got the ftp server up so I can move stuff into plex without messing with flash drives. Still haven’t figured out desktop through ssh but that’s a later problem.

Just FYI for next time: when you turn SSH on (which should be really simple, BTW… usually you’re asked if you want it during the OS install, and after the fact it should be something like a one-line systemctl command) you get SFTP access with it for free.

I mean, it’s true that solid (not powdered) magnesium is safe to use because it’s not going to spontaneously burst into flames on its own from high temperatures alone, but that’s not what we’re talking about. We’re talking about what happens to it after the car is already fully engulfed in flames from another source. I’ve been doing some reading about it in the last 10 minutes, and the sources I’ve found have pretty much been in agreement that when exposed to flame, the temperature at which the magnesium would combust is lower than the one at which it would melt.

For example, from https://firefighterinsider.com/magnesium-flammable/ :

Magnesium… will ignite at temperatures of around 630 degrees Celsius or 1166 degrees Fahrenheit.

…

Magnesium melts at about 1,202 degrees Fahrenheit or 650 degrees Celsius.

In most cases, it will ignite before it melts and molten magnesium is something that would need to be made under strict conditions in a lab.

My guess is that the re-solidified pool of metal is probably close to 100% aluminum or maybe a mix of aluminum and steel, but wouldn’t contain much magnesium. (Or rather, the magnesium it would contain would be particles of MgO (magnesium ash) suspended in it, not metallic Mg.)

I suppose if we’re talking about aluminum-magnesium alloy car parts instead of pure magnesium ones, the eutectic nature of the alloy might cause the pieces to melt before they caught on fire. But once it is melted, I’m not sure being mixed with aluminum would continue to stop the magnesium from igniting.

See also:

• https://www.hooniverse.com/magnesium-in-automobiles-smart-car-sparkles/

• https://profoundqa.com/does-magnesium-melt-or-burn/

• https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/74367/how-do-you-melt-magnesium-without-causing-its-combustion

Wouldn’t the magnesium burn instead of melt, though?

Shutting Off X’s Algorithm

Hey EU, that’s not how any of this works. First of all, you do not have any control over that – even if you demand it be done, there’s no way to verify compliance. Second, there’s always an “algorithm.” There can’t not be an “algorithm;” that would mean it would display nothing at all. Even the choice to just display tweets chronologically is still a choice, and implemented in the form of an “algorithm.”

What you do have the power to do – and what you should do – is simply just straight-up block X entirely.

That would never happen; the yellow filter would clash with the neon.

I’m having a hard time understanding your question, but I’ll try my best:

if the new gen of gpus has accellerators

• GPUs are pretty much nothing but [graphics] accelerators, although they are increasingly general-purpose for parallel computation and have a few other bits and pieces tacked on, like hardware video compression/decompression.

• If you typo’d “CPU,” then the answer appears to be that Intel desktop CPUs with integrated graphics are much more common than AMD CPUs with integrated graphics (a.k.a. “APUs”) because Intel sprinkles them in throughout their product range, whereas AMD mostly leaves the mid- to top-end of their range sans graphics because they assume you’ll buy a discrete graphics card. The integrated graphics on the AMD chips that do have them tend to be way faster than Intel integrated graphics, however.

• If you mean “AI accelerators,” then the answer is that that functionality is inherently part of what GPUs do these days (give or take driver support for Nvidia’s proprietary CUDA API) and also CPUs (from both Intel and AMD) are starting to come out with dedicated AI cores.

does any of the new intel stuff have any of that? I am still at the old i5 chips

“Old i5 chips” doesn’t mean much – that just means you have a midrange chip from any time between 2008 and now. What matters is the model number that comes after the “Core i5” part, e.g. “Core i5 750” (1st-gen from 2008) vs. “Core i5 14600” (most recent gen before rebranding to “Core Ultra 5”, from just last year).

As far as “it makes sense” goes, to be honest, an Intel CPU would still probably be a hard sell for me. The only reason I might consider one is if I had some niche circumstance (e.g. I was trying to build a Jellyfin server and having the best integrated hardware video encode/decode was the only thing I cared about).

What I really had in mind when I say it makes me want to buy Intel (aside from joking about rejecting “AI” buzzword hype) is the new Intel discrete GPU (“Battlemage”), oddly enough. It’s getting to be about time for me to finally upgrade from the AMD Vega 56 I’ve been using for over seven(!) years now, so I’ll be interested to see how the Intel Arc B770 might compare to the AMD Radeon RX 9070 (or whichever model it’s competing against).