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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Normal bikes that you just push aren't that stable without a rider, but you can get it some distance. They still fall over rather quickly. That's mostly the form of the handlebars like gnu commented. And yes, without a rider, the gyroscopic effect is relevant. A bike weighs let's say 15 kg, and a rider is commonly like 75kg. Of course removing like 80% of the weight changes if the gyroscopic has a meaningful influence. Add the rider back, and it becomes negligible again.

This is of course even more pronounced if you push only a wheel with nothing else, then there's nothing left but momentum and the gyroscopic effect.

The reason you lean into a turn is exclusively the centrifugal force (not sure that's the right twin), if you don't you fall over because you have nothing to turn against. Changing direction needs something to push against.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The gyroscopic effect of slowly spinning, light bicycle wheels is negligible compared to the weight of the bike and it's rider. If it was what keeps you upright, riding a tiny scooter-thing with skateboard/inliner wheels would be impossible. I mean those without motor, pedals, where you push yourself forward with one foot on the ground), often for kids.

What actually keeps you upright isn't a physical effect, but just training your brain to instinctually keep you upright. While you're moving, turning the handlebar effectively moves the bike below you left and right. So if you start tilting to the right, you turn right (slightly) so the bike/scooter is moving below you to compensate. That's why learning to ride anything that is balancing on 2 wheels takes a relatively long time, but only once. Then your brain knows what to do, and it just works without thinking about it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

The red light on a camera also means it's "recording". Which is the reason the record-action in audio/video software is still a red circle to this day. This being about audio and video recording capability makes this another way to look at it, in a not complicated way.

What in trying to say is that what's intuitive depends on your perspective. Most of all what you've encountered before that's similar. It had nothing to do with overcomplicating anything.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

There's also mods in satisfactory. For example "satisfactory plus" is essentially a full rework, increasing complexity by 2-3x. Obviously needs to be updated for 1.0 first though... Just in case you need something until factorio dlc at the end of October.

Edit: if you're familiar with factorio mods, it's similar to and inspired by bobs+angels.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Satisfactory with it's 1.0 release yesterday. Just pure serenity.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Any password manager should be able to "type in" the password. Or be a browser plugin that doesn't rely on copy pasting, but use other mechanisms to inject it directly into the field.

But yes, if that's their online portal, I am not kidding I would change banks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Getting them there wasn't exactly smooth either...

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago

That story is genuinely hilarious. And from the judges summary judgement it really does sound like the license holder of the disputed songs did some legal juggling just to be able to play the victim and sue Spotify. What an odd business plan...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Funny how you seem to imply that nobody likes to use self checkout.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

That's not actually a solution when talking single-use either. Remaking the bottles from recycled glass is incredibly energy intensive and not an environmentally friendly process either. Multi-use bottles are much better, but the cleaning required also isn't that simple and also relatively energy intensive (far from remaking the bottles of course).

There's also practical downsides to glass (heavy, breakable), but those are subjective and their relevance highly depends on the use case.

Ideally, we wouldn't buy stuff to drink in any kind of bottle, but just use tap water. possibly just buy some concentrated stuff to then make your actual drink at home. Nothing beats the effectiveness of transporting water through a simple pipe, but that isn't even possible everywhere in the world due to drinking water quality issues...

 

The linked post essentially performed a benchmark of lemmy apps and if they properly display the formating options available. Sync got 3rd last place, position 18 out of 20 apps, with a score of 6.9 out of 10. There's a comment that essentially contains the test set. I hope we get some fixes, cause some of the problems have been around for a while.

In my personal experience the issues with spoiler tags, and some of the embedded images and their sizes is rather annoying. For example this comment shows perfectly fine on desktop, but becomes a garbled mess on sync (as you can tell by my comment, blaming the bot). Also note that while sync technically gets 3/3 for the images, the last image should be text-sized between the "arrows". It isn't, it's just huge (and consequently a pixelated mess).

Edit: fixed link to example comment for spoiler.

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