I may regret saying this: I drive a BMW. Shockingly a) I indicate before turning or changing lanes and b) I can park. I have zero patience for those who don't indicate or don't park reasonably (regardless of car manufacturer).
That’s the large white suspension bridge? We did drive over it! But if not, no other bridges stand out to me. We turned around in Lenlithgow (sp?) after the Marches to head to Pitlochery.
We have three bridges next to each other from three different centuries! The Queensferry Crossing was the one you were on, built about 5 years ago. The one next to it is the old Road Bridge and the furthest away that is red diamonds is the rail bridge, it was built in the 1800’s and is one of a kind, unofficial wonder of the modern world.
I see! Well we’re going back to Scotland. Not to shit on the English, but Scottish people were much more fun, less stuffy, and more welcoming. I’ll definitely make it a point to see the bridges. Plus I need an excuse to wear my new kilt.
I think like anything it depends where you go. I’ve been great places up here and rubbish places and the same for down south of the border. Worth checking out the bridges for sure! And Roman and Celtic sites, a bunch of them!!
Three designs too - 19th century cantilever, 20th suspension, 21st cable-stayed. Also, the Forth Bridge is a UNESCO world heritage site. We love our bridges!
Do you mean 1.5kW of power or 1.5kWh of energy? The first is the continues stream of electrical energy, the latter is the sum (integral) of all electrical power (electricity bill).
It’s 1.5KWh of work. Energy introduced to the system as calculated by the work energy theorem.
I am speaking colloquially here though and the average reader knows what I mean. If you’d like to attend one of my physics lectures, we can speak about how much is lost or used in all the different forms of energy though.
Does one say power instead of energy in colloquial English? I am not a native speaker, but in German many people do it, but because they confuse both. (I know that it is technically work, but that’s definitely out of scope for public communication)
Yes, absolutely. People will frequently use either term interchangeably when talking about electricity. It's less likely in a scientific or engineering context of course, but it occasionally does happen.
Yes, people frequently get it wrong and when they are dismissive about it, they are demonstrating their lack of willingness to educate themselves.
It may seem like semantics to quibble over technical language but if I ask someone to pass me a saucepan, when I want to use a frying pan, then it’s pretty stupid of me, isn’t it?
Most people don’t know scientific units or the difference between the two words. Especially with electricity. When we lose power, it means the electricity is turned off.
I rode this train. Top tip, when booking your seats, book the table with 2 seats, not the table with 4. Then you’ll be on the side of the train on the inside of the curve, and get the best view of the train over the viaduct (looking backwards or forwards out the window)
we tried to book the 2 chair VIP experience, but couldnt belive how quickly it filled up. Ended up sharing a seat with another couple who were there from germany, and it was a great time!.
I’m gonna miss Joey, spent a lot of time scrolling. I’m still using it for now until the API changes kick in, then I’m probably gone from Reddit for good after I sort through the saved content that I actually care about.
Ugh, when I have to open CAD for a project at work I have to setup a new coordinate system with Z going up, every time. The engineers just work with Y up for some reason. Too lazy to change it perhaps? Solid works and Inventor default Y up? I’ll never understand it. I definitely understand this meme. There’s also models with an origin 10 feet off in X and 20 feet out in Y. I just do not friggin get it man.
What I can’t get is imperial measurement system. Apparently, nobody but americans can
I’m not American but I’ve been living in the USA for ten years and I still have trouble with imperial measurements. It’s painful dealing with fractions of an inch instead of millimeters.
That’s not true though. While there isn’t a standard, convention is to have z up in mathematics, as z is extending the xy plane we normally work with into a third space.
On paper, when I was learning Descartes’ coordibate system, we used Y as up and X as left-right. And when it was time to plot in 3D, we used Z to “extend” the plane into yourself and away from yourself.
You just hold your sheet of paper perpendicular to the ground (or just use a whiteboard) and it all makes sense.
CAD used to be digital abstraction of the physical media that is 2D drawings on paper, so XY is the plane of the paper going horizontal/vertical, and most detailing are in vertical cross sections so Y ended up being up most of the time.
The Z axis is then Frankensteined into the existing system to get a proper 3D representation, so it became the depth axis for the existing XY plane.
In Minecraft it’s even more evident as Notch Frankensteined the Z axis into a game engine that’s originally developed for side scrolling.
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