I’m a reddit refugee trying to figure this out. It seems to me like it’s a decent idea to break up countrol like this, but unfortunately there are some inherent problems that mean it might not work in the real world....
I take it you know how federation works and your phrasing is just odd
Yes there is some splitting and fragmentation, but that is not always a bad thing. Take “World News” as an example, an instances like beehaw and lemmy.ml will have very takes and comments on an article if it was posted to both of them - and this is good.
Railway engineer here! A few points: Not all rail is made of the same alloys, particularly high load areas such as points and crossings. These use harder metals to reduce wear, such as manganese. Adding this into the equation means welding plain line to p&c is a particularly complex job. I am also glad you mentioned track circuit will be covered later on as that is a big downside to CWR with older signalling systems. Aluminothermic welding is spectacular when it goes wrong, search it up!
If anyone wonders why the odd figure of 39 feet was the standard length of single sticks of traditional jointed rail, it was so that they’d fit into 40-foot gondola cars. Welded rail is now typically manufactured in long lengths (1,320 feet in the USA, which is ¼ mile) and can be welded in the field to be continuous. Such long rails are transported on special rail trains, like the one Grady shows half-loaded at 0:25. The yellow racks hold them in place, and the rails bend as the train goes through horizontal and vertical curves 😮.
As a engineer who works in railway track design, one thing I’d like to point out - especially since you mentioned a video on signaling will be coming soon - is that neutral temperature is typically high not because a broken rail is less dangerous than a sun kink. Yes, its more likely that a train could operate over a pull-apart rather than theough a sun kink, but largely because the signal system will detect a pull-apart as a discontinuity in the rails and thus the signal circuit - automatically turning the signal ahead of that track to red!
Fun fact: The problem with ‘rock n’ roll’ (more formally, harmonic rocking) is bad enough that rulebooks disallow travelling at certain speeds on jointed rail. The rulebook I have says this danger zone is 13 to 21 mph, so if your train only has enough power to reach 20 mph (entirely possible, if normal, these days) safety says you’d have to slow to 13 mph on jointed rail. So CWR not only makes maintenance-of-way’s job easier, it also makes operating the trains a bit easier and safer too.
JK Rowling’s pen name is a reference to Robert Galbraith Heath, a psychiatrist who experimented with gay conversion therapy in the 60s and 70s using surgically implanted electrodes on gay men’s brains.
Unless thats some conservative dog whistle I don’t know about, (and I’m no JKR apologist) your statement directly contradicts her own official answer as to the origin of the name:
Why the name Robert Galbraith?
<span style="color:#323232;">I chose Robert because it’s one of my favourite men’s names, because Robert F Kennedy
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> is my hero and because, mercifully, I hadn’t used it for any of the characters in the
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Potter series or The Casual Vacancy.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Galbraith came about for a slightly odd reason. When I was a child,
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> I really wanted to be called ‘Ella Galbraith’, and I’ve no idea why.
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> I don’t even know how I knew that the surname existed, because
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> I can’t remember ever meeting anyone with it. Be that as it may,
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> the name had a fascination for me. I actually considered calling
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> myself L A Galbraith for the Strike series, but for fairly obvious
</span><span style="color:#323232;">reasons decided that initials were a bad idea.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Odder still, there was a well-known economist called
</span><span style="color:#323232;">J K Galbraith, something I only remembered by the time it was
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> far too late. I was completely paranoid that people might take
</span><span style="color:#323232;">this as a clue and land at my real identity, but thankfully nobody
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> was looking that deeply at the author’s name.
</span>
We had some interesting times on the one expedition I did. It was fascinating and I would recommend trying it at least once... doesn't have to be dangerous. Even going to Carlsbad Caverns, which is a National Park and while not the real spelunking experience, pretty cool. I went to Wolf River Cave in Tennessee. Most of it was just like mountain hiking, but with a ceiling. Questionable parts included crawling in light mud on our hands and knees for 600 feet through an area where the ceiling was about 3 feet high. Also one part, you go through a 'door' and have to drop down ~5 feet onto some rocks... people told me "be sure to go left when you land!!" and wtf was to the right? This giant dark pit of rocks at least 20 feet deep. Okay... then at the very bottom, there was this area with a bunch of trickling water and awesome stalagmites where you could sit on rocks by this weird little stream and ponds. We split up and sat in different rooms... the guy from Kentucky I sat with, who I'd never met before, told me "sometimes when I'm down here... i listen to the water... and it sounds like people talking..." Uh, okay.
But anyway it was an amazing experience and profoundly strange... the 'rooms' and 'hallways' are oddly reminiscent of human construction. And if you get stuck or hurt, if you've done things properly and signed in and people know you're there, experienced cavers will come and rescue you.
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Fast acting relief from treatment resistant depression. Personally I find ~0.8 mg/kg subcutaneously injected is about the magic dose.
After 20 odd years of living in a fog the first time I used that treatment was like night and day. I had forgotten how trivial most things are without depression. Exercise for example is just “I don’t wanna but I know I’ll feel better. Ugh fine” instead of something that takes about 3 days to psych up to on a good week.
I find it’s very effective for about a week, dropping off over the next month or so. Unsure if lifetime sustainable at a frequency of ~2-3 weeks per dose but definitely useful to put in changes to life that make it easier to handle.
Crazy expensive medically though, if you can get it tested infusions can be prepared diy (most is diverted from medical supply so it’s often not adultrated BUT NOT ALWAYS!) with bacteriostatic water and 0.22 um wheel filters. Obvs if you don’t know what you’re doing you could seriously harm yourself, and you absolutely must be able to secure safety measures like naloxone, but if the rope is looking mighty appealing it’s an option if you can’t get it medically.
“Systematic reviews of controlled clinical studies of treatments used by chiropractors have found no evidence that chiropractic manipulation is effective, with the possible exception of treatment for back pain.[8] A 2011 critical evaluation of 45 systematic reviews concluded that the data included in the study “fail[ed] to...
If you go into your match history or any counterstrike community you will see lots and lots of banned CS2 players. It seems the latest ban wave has some sort of mistake and lots of innocent players are involved. I am personally not banned but a few of my friends who were definitely not cheating were banned....
There’s a massive cultural thing in the US about the iPhone being the preferred phone and if you don’t have one it must be because you’re too poor to afford one. Obviously this is a result of marketing and isn’t universal but it is a surprisingly widely held view.
Given that, showing up in a group chat as a lone blue bubble marks you out as the inferior group member (in some people’s eyes). It doesn’t matter so much 1:1 but if there are 10 people the odd one out stands out.
It’s only 5th December, seems unusually early for -58º. From Wikipedia - Yakutsk, maybe daily min should be about -37º now. I recall crossing Siberia by train in early December, rain in west, fresh snow in east, lakes still water, yet coming back in April you could still walk on Baikal. Seems odd, but they get extra problem of fires in winter, as fire hoses freeze, can’t extinguish them. Anyway polar vortex went wobbly recently, so we get alternating cold and warm waves - always look for both sides of regional anomalies.
[Ford said] “… On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people.” “Odd,” said Arthur. “I thought you said it was a democracy.” “I did,” said Ford. “It is.” “So,” said Arthur, hoping he wasn’t sounding ridiculously obtuse, “why don’t the people get rid of the lizards?” “It honestly doesn’t occur to them,” said Ford. “They’ve all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they voted in more or less approximates to the government they want.” “You mean they actually vote for the lizards?” “Oh yes,” said Ford with a shrug, “of course.” “But,” said Arthur, going in for the big one again, “why?” “Because if they didn’t vote for a lizard,” said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in.
Time and time again: They’ll gladly act when they can use overwhelming force. But when they are up against a similarly armed individual (ar-15 firing similar rounds to the military, body armor, etc), they cower in fear.
You mean twice? Uvalde and Cloward? I can think of other times where regular street cops did in fact charge in right away even in the face of killers armed with AR-15s.
Because if we didn’t have ready access to assault rifles that were literally designed for military purposes and that fire one of the nastier rounds in existence
The .223 / 5.56mm isn’t even CLOSE to one of the nastier rounds in existence. It’s an intermediate cartridge with low power relative to real rifle calibers like the 7.62, .308, or 30-06. At 100 yards or less, the distance most mass shootings take place, even a 12 Gauge shotgun is vastly more destructive.
…then maybe “a good guy with a gun” would have any effect at all.
Plenty of “Good Guys with a Gun” have ended shooters armed with shotguns and rifles. The issue isn’t one of weaponary but of numbers, there just AREN’T that many overall and the odds of there being one in the right place at the right time are nearly zero. They can be amazingly effective when it happens though.
And just in case anyone thinks bump stocks or illegal modifications will let them stand up to the army: the army has “real” tanks, air support, drones, and a lot more explosives per soldier.
Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam, Syria…the list of conflicts that show this to be false as very long. Full Auto fire, whether through illegal modification or Bump Stock is stupid anyway and even the US Military has put controls on its use.
…a concealable pistol chambered for one of the small caliber/high velocity rounds is more effective for a resistance force.
It’s so great that it’s commonly used by literally no resistance force anywhere in the world. It is commonly used by Concealed Carry Weapons Permit holders though…like the one in the link up above.
It’s so odd to see people putting words and ideas in my mouth. OTOH, I’m used to it.
No one thinks they can fight the military, no one has these bizarre fantasies. At least not among us “normal” gun nuts. I consume a fair deal of gun content on YouTube, and while I may be biased because I shy away from the right-wingers, I get not a single whiff of what you’re talking about.
Can’t find my old post in /r/liberalgunowners, but no one imagines a toe-to-toe fight. The US military, and even the cops, depend on civilian smarts, labor and supply chains. And those are easily disrupted. People point to Vietnam and Afghanistan as examples of poorly armed locals successfully fighting back. And those fights weren’t in our literal backyards among our neighbors!
But to bring it closer to home; What does this particular lib do when the local Brown Shirts come knocking to disarm me “for my own good”? That seems a very real thing to me. So do I lay down and get on the train later? Or… what?
Thought experiment; Let’s magically take every gun from every citizen excepting cops and military. How long you think until the GOP drops the hammer and goes full-on fascist? Deterrence is a thing. MAD got me through the 70s and 80s.
As to your link on the lethality of AR-15 rounds, paywalled, but I’m familiar. .223 or 5.56 rounds are tiny and hella fast. (My smart-assed take here: imgur.com/a/kolUESz.) The article’s take is for people unfamiliar with the horrific damage rounds of all sorts impart. tl;dr: Bullets don’t punch holes like an icepick. Shoot an empty vs. full can of beer with a .22, you’ll get it quick. A bullet is the response of last resort.
(And BTW, an AR-15 is illegal to hunt with in some states because the round is not lethal enough for a clean kill.)
And yes, the AR-15 is a military rifle. The title, and possibly the poster (don’t know his work), is revolting, but none the less, this is a solid history lesson. I had not thought all that through, but yes, the US civilian has always had better arms than the US military. The “military rifle/round” argument falls flat with me.
Look at it through a modern, more liberal lens and say, “I sure wish the cops could outgun us all! They’re perfectly trustworthy utilizing deadly force!”
Tapper was visibly disgusted after ex-Israeli ambassador Mark Regev victim-blamed nine members of a CNN producer's family who were killed in Israeli airstrikes.
What an odd comment. Have you not realised I’m not the same dude you were making lame attempts to burn? Yet your first reply implicitly seems to assume some earlier conversation and your prior knowledge of me.
Try to keep up champ.
Edit: In before the “nuh uh I totally knew you were a different guy” comment.
Running Manjaro here. I'm been using Linux exclusively for years, and while I'm not a power user I like to think I'm conversant with it. I've had the odd problem here or there, but honestly not any more than I would expect with any other distro. I picked it because I wanted a rolling release distro that used KDE, and SuSE Tumbleweed didn't want to install that day!
23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users::Genetic testing company 23andMe revealed that its data breach was much worse than previously reported, hitting about half of its total customers.
I told her that even if that was true, the government could still access it. She thinks I’m paranoid. And now her personal info is likely part of this leak.
You’re paranoid and she’s probably part of the leak.
The odds the government gives any kind of shit about your 23 and me data, much less could competently do anything with it, are vanishingly small. That’s just pure paranoia.
Vaccines can be delivered through the skin using ultrasound. This method doesn’t damage the skin and eliminates the need for painful needles. To create a needle-free vaccine, Darcy Dunn-Lawless at the University of Oxford and his colleagues mixed vaccine molecules with tiny, cup-shaped proteins. They then applied liquid...
I hope being able to plan ahead for the occasional jab makes it not much of a real issue in your life.
Basically that. I schedule a day off if I need a jab for any reason, and work from home anyway when I’m miserable the next several days.
Does it happen for accidental/“natural” pokes? You mentioned the splinter thing, but if you had a thorn, cactus needle, or even a piece of glass stuck in your skin and pulled it out, would you do alright?
All of those are fine. And unlike a lot of people with my issue, blood doesn’t bother me in the least. Once in a great while I’ve gotten a mild version of that from an insect bite, but the feeling is just completely different.
Oddly, I think if a needle hurt more and did some tearing, it wouldn’t bother me so much.
But you’re asking some really thought-provoking questions. I have a lot of food-related texture issues and while this is COMPLETELY different, I’m suddenly wondering if it’s a little more similar than I thought. I do believe there’s a psychological component to it; I haven’t been able to test, but if I were surprised with a needle jab outside of a medical setting, I have no idea if it would happen to me or not.
What I did discover is that my blood pressure doesn’t rise and my heartbeat doesn’t go up in “prep”. I don’t seem to have a stress-rise effect for it to be stress-plummet related. I’m not asking anyone to surprise me with a shot, but I really do wonder what would happen.
Speaking for LLMs, given that they operate on a next-token basis, there will be some statistical likelihood of spitting out original training data that can’t be avoided. The normal counter-argument being that in theory, the odds of a particular piece of training data coming back out intact for more than a handful of words should be extremely low.
Of course, in this case, Google’s researchers took advantage of the repeat discouragement mechanism to make that unlikelihood occur reliably, showing that there are indeed flaws to make it happen.
Dr. John Wust does not come off as a labor agitator. A longtime obstetrician-gynecologist from Louisiana with a penchant for bow ties, Dr. Wust spent the first 15 years of his career as a partner in a small business — that is, running his own practice with colleagues....
Back in the day - it was certainly quite the deal! I remember that even Pump Speed division at WPF would DQ players for so much as touching the bar. In retrospect, it was such an odd thing for us all to be so particular about - maybe just the newness of the game and maturity of chart design?
You may be interested to know that while bar play has become the norm, some players are still recognized for choosing no bar play at very high levels.
Seems odd to claim that people don’t understand the concept of using Subscribed to filter their feed, when they’ve made a conscious choice to change from the default to All. It seems you don’t understand the concept of browsing “All” or why people would choose that.
Doesn't each community being local to each instance split the audience?
I’m a reddit refugee trying to figure this out. It seems to me like it’s a decent idea to break up countrol like this, but unfortunately there are some inherent problems that mean it might not work in the real world....
(Continous welded rail-CWR-restrained thermal expansion, Clickity-Clack when going over joints-Rock and Roll) Why Railroads Don't Need Expansion Joints [15:52 | Dec 05 2023 | Practical Engineering] (www.youtube.com)
What is the point of individually wrapping cheese slices in plastic, only to cover a bunch of them in more plastic?
Title....
The fact that there's a lady out there named Stephanie who insisted the whole world call her Lady Gaga and we're all just like, "okay."
Why do it (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
What are your hidden gem medications/drugs/substances and what makes them ideal for your usecase
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YSK that chiropractors are not medical doctors and "Systematic reviews... have found no evidence that chiropractic manipulation is effective" (en.wikipedia.org)
“Systematic reviews of controlled clinical studies of treatments used by chiropractors have found no evidence that chiropractic manipulation is effective, with the possible exception of treatment for back pain.[8] A 2011 critical evaluation of 45 systematic reviews concluded that the data included in the study “fail[ed] to...
Back in my day (lemmy.zip)
The current ban wave has issues
If you go into your match history or any counterstrike community you will see lots and lots of banned CS2 players. It seems the latest ban wave has some sort of mistake and lots of innocent players are involved. I am personally not banned but a few of my friends who were definitely not cheating were banned....
There’s a new iMessage for Android app — and it actually works (www.theverge.com)
Swathes of Siberia freeze in temperatures below -58 Celsius (www.reuters.com)
L.A. poultry firm hired kids as young as 14 to work with sharp knives, Labor Dept. says (www.cnbc.com)
In Uvalde, Students Followed Active Shooter Protocol. The Cops Did Not. (www.propublica.org)
Lies! Deception! (lemmy.world)
Jake Tapper Shocked When Israeli Official Blames CNN Producer’s Family Killed in Israeli Bombing: ‘You Can’t Blame Them’ (www.mediaite.com)
Tapper was visibly disgusted after ex-Israeli ambassador Mark Regev victim-blamed nine members of a CNN producer's family who were killed in Israeli airstrikes.
Manjaro OS
So I’ve been iso live testing Manjaro KDE Plasma lately and it looks very polished....
23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users (techcrunch.com)
23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users::Genetic testing company 23andMe revealed that its data breach was much worse than previously reported, hitting about half of its total customers.
Ultrasound can push vaccines into the body without needles (www.newscientist.com)
Vaccines can be delivered through the skin using ultrasound. This method doesn’t damage the skin and eliminates the need for painful needles. To create a needle-free vaccine, Darcy Dunn-Lawless at the University of Oxford and his colleagues mixed vaccine molecules with tiny, cup-shaped proteins. They then applied liquid...
Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words ‘Forever’ Is Now a Terms of Service Violation (www.404media.co)
Try it (lemmy.world)
Why Doctors and Pharmacists Are in Revolt (www.nytimes.com)
Dr. John Wust does not come off as a labor agitator. A longtime obstetrician-gynecologist from Louisiana with a penchant for bow ties, Dr. Wust spent the first 15 years of his career as a partner in a small business — that is, running his own practice with colleagues....
should i?? (media.kbin.social)
alien.top is a new level of Reddit crossposting spam
Whoever is in charge of that instance, STOP....