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0·5 hours agoLinks:
- Stuff Made Here - Engineering projects
- SmarterEveryDay - Engineering deep-dives
- Practical Engineering - Civil engineering stuff explained
- Steve Mould - Engineering concepts
- Kyle Hill - Science communicator
- PBS Spacetime - Space stuff explained
- Answer in Progress - Channel looking for answers to questions
- Disrupt - Dark software explanations
- Driving 4 Answers - Automobile/engine theory/explanations
- Integza - Amateur rocket enthusiast/projects
- Major Hardware - PC fan concept testing and misc
- SuperfastMatt - Car and other projects
- Vice Grip Garage - Man rescues garbage classic cars
- 2Stroke Stuffing - Man tries to build two stroke land speed bike
- RCTestFlight - RC projects (mostly boats/planes)
- Beau Miles - Aussie who runs and stuff and random stuff
- VC Adventures - Vegan Cyclist bro
- Rapha Films - Pro cycling team adventures
- This Old Tony - Hobby machinist
- Drawfee Show - Artists doing themed art challenges
- Adam Neely - Jazz bassist theory/explanations
- Exurb1a - Story creator/philosophy enthusiast
- Gbay99 - LoL documentaries
- Any Austin - Video game investigations, kinda
- Let’s Game It Out - Gaming entertainment
- TomatoAnus - Speedruns explained
- Joov - Skyrim challenges
- EdgeOmega - Skyrim challenges
- Rekrap1 - Minecraft content
- Rekrap2 - Minecraft content
- Evbo - Minecraft films
- Ogmoe - Minecraft manhunt god
- BayAreaBuggs - GTAV RP
- JANTSUU - GTAV vehicle testing
Preface: I know NOTHING about combustion engines and generally have never had the desire to.
But the “Driving 4 Answers” channel breaks down how all kinds of different engine designs work, explaining the pros and cons of each. Some have tons of apparent advantages that make you wonder why they aren’t used in production cars and trucks. He digs deep to answer that question.
Here’s a great video about the rotary vane engine.
The twin rod Avadi engine is a very different approach.
This one explains the crossplane inline 4. I had never even heard of such a thing before, but the way it’s explained is absolutely fascinating. He even demonstrates the different sounds so I feel like I could just listen to a car and know what kind of crankshaft it has.
Highly recommended.
0·1 day agoKeychain fingernail clippers (Amazon)
I’ve had the same pair (different brand than linked) for many years and they have held up great. It’s crazy how often they come in handy, and my SO asks to borrow them all the time too. They are extremely small and nearly weightless. Highly recommended.
Edit: Found the exact brand I have. True Utility. Not sure if it’s worth the slightly higher price since it’s the only ones I’ve ever had – can’t compare. But again, they’ve held up great for many years.
As a non-gamer, I’ll take the pixels every time.
0·3 days agoI always appreciate stats, so point taken. That said, Utah isn’t a major swing state where we expect these efforts to take place.
Republicans have been trying to minimize the blue shift in swing states by rejecting as many mail-in ballots as possible for a variety of reasons.
In the 2020 presidential contest, Pennsylvania election officials rejected more than 34,000 mail ballots. In a tight 2024 election in the most coveted swing state, even a fraction of that many rejections could spell the difference between victory and defeat — not just in the presidential race, but also in any number of others.
What’s true in Pennsylvania is true, to varying degrees, in other battleground states. Michigan rejected more than 20,000 mail ballots in 2020 and even more in 2022; Arizona turned down 7,700; Nevada 5,600; and Wisconsin about 3,000.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/us/election-mail-in-ballot-rejection.html
And they want to reject provisional ballots…
And military ballots …
If the advantage shifts because of women voting in private, I believe we will see Republicans take effort to make in-person voting more difficult.
You want hypocrisy? Wait until you see the 180° flip on mail-in voting after this election. They’ve been telling us for five years that mail-in ballots are all fraudulent. Now that Democrats are telling women they can use in-person voting to undermine their husbands, I guarantee they will push to make mail-in voting far easier and shut down more polling places.
3D chess my ass.
Vivaldi (chromium) fully supports gestures and happens to have the best tab management on the market. Highly recommended.
“Drop a grumpy”
– Johnny Depp testifying against Amber Heard
In all fairness, my usage is still minimal at this point. I’ve only searched a couple of times, but the thing I needed popped right up. Maybe my experience will change over time.
I’ve been an Airmail (Mac) user for many years now. But it’s been really buggy lately and there’s no motivation to fix the issues apparently. So I switched to Thunderbird about a month ago after a lot of research. It’s … ok.
- Search is great.
- Seeing stats/charts on my last 20 years of emails is super interesting.
- Composing emails is not great, but I use a markdown plugin that makes it better … but it’s still pretty bad UX.
- I hate the way it quotes previous emails with “>” for each line instead of an indented block quote. Maybe I’m missing the setting to turn that off.
- I miss having an avatar/icon for each sender. It let me quickly visually scan my inbox for the person I want to talk to instead of parsing through all the text.
- The spacing of elements in certain places is weird and inconsistent. In places where it’s too tight it feels cramped and bothers me.
- You can’t compose a reply inline. You just have to use a floating window on top of the rest of the app.
- I miss the one-key shortcuts to label and archive emails. This was originally a GMail feature and Airmail also implemented it.
- Sending an email doesn’t happen in the background. You have to stare at a progress bar modal while it sends, and it seems to take forever. I just want to move on to my next email but I’m stuck waiting.
- The tabbed interface is really nice. It’s definitely an underrated feature.
- I wish it had super advanced rules like you get with MailMate. But what it offers is fine for 99% of users.
Again, I might be missing some settings to correct some of these issues, so take it all with a grain of salt. But these are my takeaways after about a month of usage.
This. Women are already literally dying. The first woman (that we know of) to die from the abortion ban happened within just 20 days – before SCOTUS even heard the case that overturned Roe. And her story is a painful, heartbreaking read.
Plus, does nobody remember immigrant families being ripped apart? Kids put in cages? Their “family ID” being – whoops – deleted from the database so they couldn’t be reunited with their parents?
But sure. Life will go on like normal.