I started using Chrome in 2011. Went back to Firefox in 2014 once Chrome became a massive RAM glutton. I keep telling others to move to Firefox, but they won't because "Everyone develops for Chrome so I just test in Chrome," or "But I don't feel like moving all my passwords and bookmarks." This, despite me proving time and again how much better Firefox has been for a decade now.
Just hit F12. Even faster, and it'll remember if you were in the console or the inspector the last time you closed it on that page. I use it quite a bit to just delete elements for pages I'm only going to visit once or twice, but don't want to spend time messing with my adblocker on.
It makes me wonder how difficult it would be to create a shader in order to replace everything with LED or even eInk displays. The cost is certainly a large factor as print news suffers more and more capital depletion.
Dunno, but it's definitely something to consider. Birds are suspected to be able to "see" magnetic fields, and a lot of the electronic warfare both sides are waging require distorting these fields to a massive degree. If a bird can sense a huge cluster of warping magnetic anomalies it will avoid it, as we've seen them do in the past with radio telescope arrays and over-the-air TV antenna towers.
When you combine that with Germany and Prussia's lack of access to steel it meant nobody could make anything whatsoever. The impact of not being able to import steel and French occupation of the one major remaining steelworks plant in Krupp is one of the handful of reasons why Prussia was dissolved and absorbed into the greater Weimar Republic nine years later. Prussia couldn't handle the debt caused from the two years of no steel and coal at a time where the republic was so poor they were asking the English and Americans for loans they knew they couldn't repay.
When the bridge was originally constructed the concept of such protective impact barriers was quite new. The ship is also very different from the comparatively snub-nosed envisioned C7 types, trans-Atlantic cruisers, and barges that would've gone through when the bridge was designed in 1972. Cargo ships entering the harbour used to have wider bows with a shallower draft of thirty to thirty eight feet with a very shallow prow overhang because they were built for Atlantic voyages only.
There's few barges going through the harbour these days, and cargo ships now are global and mostly built to the variety of post-Panamax standards making them extremely long with a very deep draft of forty five feet or more. That means the spacing and height originally thought to be needed to deflect barges and C7s was far too broad and short for the Neo Panamax II class MV Dali or any other modern cargo ship, and the deep draft that required a narrow bow and long prow allowed the bow to slide right in between the barriers and then ride up until it hit the bridge support. Essentially the nose had an overhang long enough that it hit the bridge support long before the rest of the ship hit the protective barrier.
I’m no expert but looking at the pictures it is clear that most of the collision took place in the air well above the water, where the prow of the ship hit the top part of pier 17 causing it to collapse onto the bow of the ship.
To me, the protective barrier around the pier at the water level should have stood off much farther laterally from the pier to prevent that kind of prow contact - but then it would have blocked much of the navigation channel. Therefore the bridge should have been torn down and redesigned to modern ship dimensions long ago.
That may be the case, but such assumptions have not been justified for some time (the report says the tugs were let go on entering the channel, which it calls standard procedure.) As I noted elsewhere, more recent structures in the vicinity have been given what looks like much more substantial protection.
That is a fair question, and I would guess that there are at least two different issues in play.
The first is that the ship probably has little or no ability to steer until it is moving at a few knots (depending on whether it has thrusters; I suspect not.) Once it was moving down the channel, it could steer (assuming the steering gear worked, of course.)
The second is probably that no-one with the relevant authority realized how vulnerable the bridge was to the much larger ships that have come into service since it was built (yet someone apparently realized that the adjacent power transmission towers needed better protection; sometimes people are not good at connecting the dots.)
Oh I am sure someone connected the dots, just that no politician wants to spend $bil on infrastructure if they won’t take the blame personally for an immense failure like this
That sounds analogous to what happens in software when X is designed for one thing, then a bunch of interfacing components Y & Z are changed but X isn't updated to accommodate the new edge cases.
This is something I noticed as a kid. We had a creek in our backyard, which,depending on the temperature the water would be louder or quieter. This annoyed our dog, which after a number of times caused me to notice. Running water is louder and much more sharp when it's cold out, and quieter and muffled when it's hot out. In the same way sounds are louder in a colder environment because there's already a low level of ambient energy contained in the air and so the energy disperses much more readily but dissipates much more quickly. Essentially a difference between a quick "crack" and a lingering "whump" in terms of auditory impact. This effect also propagates to solid materials, as cold metals and ceramics transmit sound better than warm ceramics or metals. A church bell quite literally is louder on a cold winter's day.
There is nothing like a small waterfall in a deep snow on a snowy day. All other sound is muffled by the snow cover and further dampened by the falling snow.
But the creek will ring like a bell. You can't hear it until you're almost on top of it. It's higher pitched, and will almost always have a tempo based on the shape of the bed of the falls.
There's a waterfall on our farm. It plays music in January. It's amazing, and no one believes me.
I would presume this is like capturing rainbows or beautiful skies by photo. Harder than it seems. You can’t capture the dampening effect of the environment by (regular?) microphone.
When I used to bake bread commercially early in the morning, the sound of the HVAC, proofing and baking systems would sound like music to me in concert. I can't tell if I was just hallucinating or what, but something about your experience reminded me of it.
My thought on the general "loudness" of cold months was due to reduced noise blocking or absorbing greenery like tree leaves, grass, etc. Which is then altered by a significant snowfall leading to sounds being softened again.
No one here has mentioned temperature inversion [0] which is responsible for a lot of the cold-induced amplification perceived in urban areas. It's quite a fascinating effect.
Cold air is also more dense, less momentous, and can transfer sound energy more efficiently between particles than hot air where the particles are spread out and have their own momentum to maintain rather than the sound's.
Shouldn't that be an inverse relationship though? Without leaves on the trees you should get less reflection, consequently more of the noise should radiate upwards. Unless you're standing at the other side of a bush/greenery. In that case it definitely absorbs a lot
Lots of small unaligned surfaces, like leaves, scatter the sound and make it interfere with itself. Reflection only makes the sound louder if you have large smooth flatish surfaces.
Assuming your comment is serious (rather than some quip), I think what we're seeing is differing visions for HN.
One group (me included) enjoys some levity, as long as it's high quality and doesn't get in the way of substantial discussions.
Another group would prefer that HN avoids that entirely.
It mostly seems like a matter of taste / preference, so I'm not sure how we can come to one kind on this, shy of seeing the pro-humour approach clearly hurting the site.
That was what I thought at first too. However if it were pressure change, the sound would change when you move the knob, not when the hot water reaches the shower.
I turn on the tap in the sink in the bathroom, when waiting for the hot water coming from the cistern. The water in the pipes have cooled down over night. I can hear the difference in the sound when it splashes in the sink, when it is hot. So yeah.
I'd imagine there may also be a component of sound bouncing off things? I think stuff contracts and expands when it hot or cold? So maybe something that is cold and contracted bounces the sound sharper too? Noooooo clue if that makes any sense, just a bunch of guessing from high school science class.
I think it's this. Sounds are very different based on the temperature and humidity of air. I have a piano at home and the difference is huge and very apparent over time.
Piano soundboards are almost always wood. There are a handful of companies that offer carbon fiber soundboards but they are very rare and expensive. As the soundboard gains moisture, it swells and buckles as it has nowhere to go, which makes it louder and also raises the pitch a bit as the strings are pushed a bit. When it gets drier, it goes flat (structurally and musically). If it has been too moist, the wood cells will be compacted and crushed. If it is then dried, it will form cracks as the wooden structure rips itself apart when shrinking again.
A piano soundboard that has been built and kept in a desert for instance will not crack. But if you take a piano from a ~55% humid country and put it in a desert (or overly air-conditioned room! or right in front of a heat radiator!) it will die.
The harp doesn't actually lie flush on the soundboard; there should be some space in between. The harp is just there to bear the tension of all the strings. The strings are connected to the soundboard via a wooden so called bridge, which is a raised wooden element glued onto the soundboard. It has pins in it which the strings are held against in tension. Bridges have a coating of graphite usually, and combined with the fact that most notes have 3 strings, it creates kind of a blocky pattern.
Here you can see a soundboard, bridge, and hitch pins on the harp. The hitch pins on the harp can be seen up top, then in the middle the bridge and bridge pins, and then below that the soundboard. The hitch pins are located on the opposite side of the keys in a grand, or on the bottom of the piano in an upright. You can see on the right of the image that the harp has a structural element which floats over the bridge, with plenty clearance.
It’s important, and can change the tuning in spring and fall cycles
most of the US is too dry in the home, and humidification is helpful for all wood in your home - to a point of course. Approx 55% is optimal
Of course in the south it’s the exact opposite - but A/C usually solves the problem.
Every homeowner should monitor their indoor humidity, it’s important for, wood floors, door trims, wood furniture, and our own health. Too much causes mold, too dry is hard on your respiratory system
Absolutely not. I first noticed this when visiting Iceland. The hot streams bubbling out of the ground sounded the same as boiling hot water being poured from a kettle, not the kind of cold-water stream sound you'd normally expect in the north in winter.
You can try it yourself. Take two identical kettles, boil the water in each of them and pour it somewhere. Obvious difference.
My piano has a Dammp-Chaser automatic humidifier and dehumidifier system that works well. My piano tech uses a moisture meter to check the soundboard at tuning time and the wood’s moisture has been fairly stable for more than two decades.
That is definitely a thing, but I can tell when the hot water arrives at the bathroom tap by the sound of the water hitting the bowl. So it’s the water too, I’m pretty certain.
You controlled for the volume / depth of water, which for the same mass would be greater when warmer, and the resulting changed interaction with objects ...?
There's a balance to the ecosystem, though. People in the creative fields have always had to rely on eachother to fill in gaps in skill because it's mutually beneficial. With things like this voice changer, one has to think what opportunities are being taken away from others compared to what opportunities the technology affords oneself. So far we've been screwing that balance up pretty egregiously with these AI tools where one implementation cuts the employment prospects and creative participation of a dozen people.
If you like the styling of an older car there are plenty of conversion kits for a variety of torque/kilowatt outputs, sans batteries. Ford already sells factory kits, wiring harness and all. The downside is you're taking care of the fragile minutia of an older car, such as combating shock tower mount rust or the plastic gearing of the window mechanism. I'd still happily put up with 3D printing or machining a small, broken, long out of stock part than put up with all the forced technological integration of modern market EVs, though.
There's a bit of vicarious schadenfreude that Spanfeller's tactics were so horrific that nearly all the staff of G/O media from before 2020 abandoned ship and went on to create sites that are more successful than what the staff escaped from. Some even went on to be major journalists for massive publications, like Tyler Rogoway and Jason Schreier. The Onion has been the last holdout because it's a storied name, unlike Jalopnik or The Root, and now it's finally free.
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