NaibofTabr

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[–] NaibofTabr 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I mean... this thing just ate energy. The prototype car was pulling 6.5kV off the conducting rails to keep the air jets running hard enough for the hovering, and it wasn't even carrying a passenger load. If you add more weight you have to add more air thrust to keep hovering, which means bigger engines and more power, and the production model will need extras for redundancy because if the air cushion weakens while you're doing 200+kph and the car just grazes the track you're in big trouble. I seriously doubt this concept can scale up to a working transit system and be at all safe. The electricity input alone would be a hazard.

I'll bet it sounded like a Harrier from the outside too.

Also what do you think the vortex is like above the air intakes? I'm imagining this thing cruising along sucking in birds and just flushing them straight down onto the track as it travels the countryside.

[–] NaibofTabr 56 points 1 month ago (4 children)

What to do if you find yourself stuck with no hope of rescue: Consider yourself lucky that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far - which, given your present circumstances, seems more likely - consider yourself lucky that it won't be troubling you much longer.

[–] NaibofTabr 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Selective Service, actually.

[–] NaibofTabr 5 points 1 month ago

I've been using JShelter which provides a few different options for handling page load failures. It also works on Firefox mobile.

A couple notes:

  • You can be fingerprinted by the extensions you have installed in your browser. This is really difficult to circumvent, because if certain pieces of a website's code never load on your system and never send expected responses to the server then the server definitely knows that. The more uncommon extensions you have installed, the more identifiable you are - and you're already in a minority as a Firefox user.
  • More and more websites are behind Cloudflare (mostly because of DDoS attacks) and JShelter will typically break Cloudflare's filter which attempts to block bots. I've found that disabling just the fingerprint detector usually allows access to sites that have this protection.
[–] NaibofTabr -3 points 1 month ago

A healthy society

Name five

[–] NaibofTabr -2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

“Dark” personality thrives in societies ~~with corruption and inequality~~

irrelevant qualifiers

[–] NaibofTabr 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

*trips on dress*
*falls down long flight of stone stairs*

[–] NaibofTabr 5 points 1 month ago
[–] NaibofTabr 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Welcome back to the Dark Ages.

[–] NaibofTabr 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

who was camera???

[–] NaibofTabr 3 points 1 month ago

This week: find a small new way to apply AI in your current (or desired) job.

Or, y'know, don't do that, and instead do something useful with your time.

ChatGPT use linked to cognitive decline: MIT research

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