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steph
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Just heard on the news that there's been an increase in car crashes this year so far in Vendee, France, this year. So much that we've actually surpassed Loire Atlantique, with Nantes and St Nazaire, our northern neighbouring region. I wonder if it has to do with the new 80 km/h limit in place since July :hmm:
Thing is, a good portion of people doesn't follow the speed limits, so there are way more overtakings now than before. I kinda like the 80 kph limit, since i can plod along in 4th or 5th (6th if the road is good and level :lol: ) and watch the fuel consumption stay at around 4.5/100 km (52 mpg) or even lower.
But yeah, the blanket change to 80kph doesn't fix the fact that you have roads on which you can do 100 kph or more safely ( simple roads, not the two lane expressways) and roads which are at 80 because that's the standard, but if you take those bends at 80, at best you'll do some awesome drifting and at worse you'll take the ditch. And in any case you won't have time to react if there's anything behind the curve.
Thing is, a good portion of people doesn't follow the speed limits, so there are way more overtakings now than before. I kinda like the 80 kph limit, since i can plod along in 4th or 5th (6th if the road is good and level :lol: ) and watch the fuel consumption stay at around 4.5/100 km (52 mpg) or even lower.
But yeah, the blanket change to 80kph doesn't fix the fact that you have roads on which you can do 100 kph or more safely ( simple roads, not the two lane expressways) and roads which are at 80 because that's the standard, but if you take those bends at 80, at best you'll do some awesome drifting and at worse you'll take the ditch. And in any case you won't have time to react if there's anything behind the curve.
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PhantomCruiser
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Just finished watching Salyut-7. Nicely done!
A dramatization instead of a documentary. Great visuals, good musical score.
Wife watched part of it, and she didn't even mind the subtitles.
Kinda cheesy there near the very end, if you watch it you'll see what I mean.
A dramatization instead of a documentary. Great visuals, good musical score.
Wife watched part of it, and she didn't even mind the subtitles.
Kinda cheesy there near the very end, if you watch it you'll see what I mean.
Linguofreak
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American drivers will think "80 means 80", and cruise along at 130 because that is the *true* 80.
jedidia
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Swiss drivers will think: "80 is 80, then we got a tolerance of 5, and my tachometer is constantly showing somewhere between 5% and 10% too much, so somewhere between 90 and 95 should be fine!" :lol:
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Russian drivers will think "80 means 100, but since they don't fine below 120 i might as well go 140 between the speed cameras".
Quick_Nick
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Just noticed that I joined the old "M6" Orbiter forum 12 years and 9 months ago.
That's just over half my life in this place!
(And a major reason I've been doing aerospace engineering for real for the past two years)
That's just over half my life in this place!
(And a major reason I've been doing aerospace engineering for real for the past two years)
jedidia
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My boss after we got a few pretty large solar panels delivered to the office:
"... They felt smaller on the internet..."
"... They felt smaller on the internet..."
steph
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Never trust those blank background photos :lol:
Just saw an article about lightning, and it said that it can hardly be heard at more than 16 km/ 10 miles out. Sort of a low estimate...I've heard it from storms 30-40 km away, perhaps more. It's not that classical rumble, but you still hear a faint muffled boom. And on a quiet night, that's the only thing it can be.
Come to think of it, ever since I became interested in weather, I started to fear lightning more than any other phenomenon. Especially the situations where you have Cb clouds in development which haven't had lightning yet, and people go about their business outside.
A few weeks ago, we had a positive lightning strike take out around half the village's power network. Literally the only strike of that cumulonimbus. There were other electrified storm cells in proximity, but this one had been calm so far. When I saw the flash, I jumped on to lightningmaps.com to see if it was lightning or something else, and the deafening boom was so intense it had me wondering if it was only lightning or it had struck something that went off
Just saw an article about lightning, and it said that it can hardly be heard at more than 16 km/ 10 miles out. Sort of a low estimate...I've heard it from storms 30-40 km away, perhaps more. It's not that classical rumble, but you still hear a faint muffled boom. And on a quiet night, that's the only thing it can be.
Come to think of it, ever since I became interested in weather, I started to fear lightning more than any other phenomenon. Especially the situations where you have Cb clouds in development which haven't had lightning yet, and people go about their business outside.
A few weeks ago, we had a positive lightning strike take out around half the village's power network. Literally the only strike of that cumulonimbus. There were other electrified storm cells in proximity, but this one had been calm so far. When I saw the flash, I jumped on to lightningmaps.com to see if it was lightning or something else, and the deafening boom was so intense it had me wondering if it was only lightning or it had struck something that went off
jedidia
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It depends a lot on whether you're upwind or downwind, and downhill or uphill. If you're standing downwind and uphill, thunder can be heard ridiculously far. Though I guess uphill doesn't matter too much since a lot of the sound also gets carried by higher air layers...
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-46302730
As always, the most interesting subject for a cameraperson is another camerabear.
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As always, the most interesting subject for a cameraperson is another camerabear.
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steph
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He's just using the zoom to look for seals
jedidia
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Today I've learned that browsers do not respect the download attribute of cross-origin links. I really try to think of a good reason for this, but the only thing that comes to mind is that whoever made the decision hates good software design...
jedidia
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No, but what about all the single-page frontends that are cross-origin by nature? Not to forget about CDNs? Also, it only counts for files the browser can display (PDFs, images, videos, stuff like that). Anything else will still trigger a download. So where's the gained safety in that, compared to the cost?
On a more positive note, here are two entries from todays edition of "hilarious quotes of a six year old":
"Clear the way, there's math in the air!!"
"Two plus five is seven. I can count that on my hands. But I don't have fourteen-seventy fingers. That would be an entire forrest!"
The second one is probably mostly a product of him being very tired at that point... :lol:
jedidia
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That's exactly what I'm talking about. the download attribute is not respected by browsers for cross-origin links. Which means it's not possible to put a direct download link for something like an image or a PDF if it doesn't come from the same server as the frontend, even if said server explicitly allows cross-origin sharing.
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Thats odd - it should treat them as one origin, if properly authentificated.
But when I read the argument "Google was opposed to using CORS for this.", I suspect its a true PEBCAK.
