Danitos

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[–] Danitos@reddthat.com 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The traffic data is not as good as it appears. It is completely closed, only given to police and goverment agencies. No API, no numerical values for speed (only 5 'color codes' that are relative to location, so are almost useles) and numerical data is not given even to academics. I spent almost a whole month trying to get actual useful data for academic purposes, but Google really went out in their path to make it impossible.

It has the potential to be an excellent tool: crowsourced real-time data, access to historical data and it is incredibly fine-grained, improving over goverment data (at least in my city) by a 10 or 100x factor. But no, it had to be yet another Google's tool for spying on people, not giving it away and sell it to police.

[–] Danitos@reddthat.com 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] Danitos@reddthat.com 1 points 8 months ago

It's a fusion reactor (same mechanism that powers the Sun) powered by basically water (the main isotope of "fusion fuel" is deuterium, which is found in ocean water). It'll produce extremely clean energy, and the science behind it is just mezmerizing. It isn't just buzz neither, as fussion-product plasma has been achivements in some labs around the world.

Like, seeing this image and feeling we created a mini-Sun (not an accurate representation, but bear with me) in that small space is... I don't know, just wow. The Sun, an absurdily giant object fuels itself with complex mechanism and a balance between gravity and fussion, and we will have same object there.

One part of my bias is also because things like ITER really animated me to become a physicist. I do concede that while LHC is the no doubts the winner for me, ITER vs SpaceX is a closer match.

As a bonus, from a broader humanity perspective, it also comes from an international cooperation of countries, including rivaling nations, that came together to fund a project that will symbolize a huge advance in the nuclear field, intead of a single person trying to get richer.

[–] Danitos@reddthat.com 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I'm a huge space fan/nerd, but LHC is far more impressive if you consider it to be of our generation. Even if not, ITER takes the spot, IMO (although I admit some personal bias when it comes to ITER).

[–] Danitos@reddthat.com 2 points 8 months ago

You reminded me that one time we almost got killer/severely injured in a protest by a stun grenade.

This happened almost same time I saw some news of Israel killing protestors with tear gas grenades, as it fell into their head and skull, inducing lethal damage.

Anyway, I was with a friend and a bunch of people. Everything was peaceful and then, bam, out of nowhere it went to shit. We were used to it, but that time the tear gas was so bad that the neutralizer we brought was doing nothing. We were covered with a wall (bad idea, but we were panicking badly), and I wasn't able to breath, so I wanted us to run away from there. I told him to let's just run certain way, and I was so full of adrenaline and ready to run, but he stopped me. 1 second later, a stun grenade fell from the sky just 1 m away of us, in the direction I wanted us to run; no doubt it would have hit me in the head.

After that I just took his hand and we ran away, not able to see nor breath. Me holding his hand was a huge saver for both of us, as we could, more or less, guide each other. We ran some 20-30 m and just fell to the ground, but in a somewhat safe place. We crawled some 10 m more and just rest there. It took us some solid 15 minutes to catch our breath. Never said a word to my family.

Fun times.

Rozo, if you ever read this: queso.

[–] Danitos@reddthat.com 3 points 9 months ago

One of my favorite albums ever. Thanks a lot, and RIP.

[–] Danitos@reddthat.com 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I got a Pixel and installed GrapheneOS onto it just 3 days ago and it's an absolute charm.

The peace of mind of running a phone whose OS is FOSS out of the box is amazing as well: no need to look for open source variants to apps, nor disable telemetry, nor uninstall trash and unnecesary apps, only to find out apps like Facebook cannot be uninstalled. Basically, a non-bullshit OS, with extra privacy toggles and app sandbox.

[–] Danitos@reddthat.com 4 points 9 months ago

I'm really glad to hear that! Happy Linuxing :)

[–] Danitos@reddthat.com 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Hey OP, how did the installation went?

[–] Danitos@reddthat.com 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

But there are places for the discussion to be made. Lemmy as a whole did not ban the elections discussion, just this one specific sub. In fact, you'll see basically every single sub of Lemmy discussing it.

This is a temporary rule for 1 single community.

[–] Danitos@reddthat.com 7 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Not every sub has to revolve around US elections all day/weeks/months long. That has nothing to do with corporate media.

[–] Danitos@reddthat.com 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Neat post, OP! I think I missed how is Shanon entropy relevant to the calculation. Is it relevant, or was it just a neat extra to add?

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