placatedmayhem

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[–] placatedmayhem@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The video addresses this. The biological term "fruit" is not accurate for culinary use. Lots of things we eat are biologically fruit, but you'd get weird looks for calling it a "fruit" while eating it. The video gives a lot of examples of botanical-fruit-but-not-culinary-fruit, including cucumbers, peppers, corn, eggplant, peas, pumpkins, and broccoli (specifically the buds).

[–] placatedmayhem@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Fruits vs vegetables is an arbitrary, near-meaningless distinction. See here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=E8mcTIEVKUU

[–] placatedmayhem@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

The Archer clip is wrong. Webster literally lists biennial as a definition for biannual, along with twice a year.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/biannual

Cambridge says the same:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/biannual

Oxford put their stuff behind a paywall.

[–] placatedmayhem@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Ok, cool. That's more my speed.

If you want to build a camera platform, a build with Ardupilot software or maybe iNav are your best options. They have very specific hardware requirements, though. Ardupilot has pretty exhaustive documentation, though.

If you want to get into racing or acrobatics, you can get either build an FPV quad from parts, or buy a "bind-n-fly" (BNF) -- Joshua Bardwell on Youtube is probably the place to start learning. You can get a tiny quad, called a tiny whoop, to fly around inside the house. If you want to do non-FPV, you basically just build an FPV quad but ignore the video system.

Be warned, DIY drones is a huge hobby.

[–] placatedmayhem@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If you're looking for "camera" drones (not DIY acrobatic or racing drones), DJI is unfortunately the only real option these days. The Neo is around $300 without the controller. Don't expect stellar performance in wind, though.

Autel, Parrot, and Skydio have all moved out of consumer segments into professional, industrial, and governmental.

[–] placatedmayhem@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Lithium batteries must have some charge, otherwise they break down chemically. Typically, it's around 40-50% charge, but varies with the exact chemistry of the battery.

And, yes, higher charge means more violent reaction to fire and being punctured for most lithium battery chemistries.

I'm not sure about other chemistries, like NiMH and sodium, that have been used in EVs. But lithium is the most popular.

[–] placatedmayhem@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Well, I guess I'll be disabling my Telegram account finally. The only thing left that I was doing on it was automatic notifications from the services on my home NAS. Not sure what I'll do instead. Maybe Matrix?

[–] placatedmayhem@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Not sure about your situation specifically, but restaurants requiring a credit card during reservation is on the rise to combat reservation scalping and the no-shows that res scalping causes.

[–] placatedmayhem@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago

Here's the list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli#Unrestricted_jus_soli

If I'm counting correctly, 34 countries with unrestricted birthright citizenship, and 40 with restricted.

[–] placatedmayhem@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

Friends don't let friends recognize the bodies in the water. ;)

[–] placatedmayhem@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)
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