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Hydroelectric, solar, wind, tidal, ICE generator…

Surely not nuclear, coal, or natural gas power pants with steam generation cycles.

I’m perfectly fine identifying cars that have proper names, but the mid-luxury brands (BMW, Mercedes, Lexus, Infiniti, etc.) eschew names for alphanumeric gibberish. I can’t be arsed to remember all their numbering schemes. And Teslas largely look the same to me unless they look distinctly like a dumpster. I can’t tell an S from a 3, or a Y from an X.

Fair

I tried to sanity-test the math here running the same calculations on a 700 kg horse, of which around 50% mass is muscle.

700 kg x 50% = 350 kg

Low:

350 kg x 100 W/kg = 35,000 W

35,000 W / 746 ≈ 47 hp

High:

350 kg x 200 W/kg = 70,000 W

70,000 W / 746 ≈ 94 hp

Despite what the term “horsepower” would seem to suggest, a horse can actually output more than one horsepower. Estimates put peak output of a horse around 12-15 hp. By those numbers, even the low end estimate above is around 3-4x too high. We’re gonna need more dogs.

As a Floridian, I have to use a VPN for that.

The one that comes to mind is Good Riddance

An incomplete list. Hope this helps!

Gordon Lightfoot

Yoko Ono

Twenty One Pilots

Pat Benatar

Cyndi Lauper

Jewel

Tones and I

Don’t know if I can pick a singular least favorite. I have entire artists I despise for their particular vocal styles.

Over-the-top wailers: Adele, Gotye

Pouty mumblers: Lana Del Ray, Billie Eilish

Billy goat bleeting: Stevie Nicks

Take your pick of their respective overplayed hits and mash them together. That’s my most hated song.

Edit: forgot Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day, sounds like he swallowed his tongue

Recent reports indicate a bolt action rifle was found wrapped in a towel in the woods, one empty casing in the chamber, three more live rounds in the mag.

Windows Media Center! Oh wait…

The other Tesla Coil app I used was Widget Locker. Back in the days before Android had flashlight controls on the system tray, I had a lock screen shortcut for the flashlight.

Look into microphone jammers

We have a one-car garage and two cars. I have a table saw, therefore we have a no-car garage.

If Germany bans ad blockers and a German citizen or company becomes victim to a malicious advertisement, do they have a case against the German government or by extension Axel Springer?

As the article states, the distance between Italy and Sicily is around 2 miles (3 km), which makes this bridge unimpressive in terms of overall length, as there are hundreds of bridges longer than that. The article claims this would be the world’s longest bridge, comparing it to Çanakkale 1915 Bridge, which isn’t the world’s longest bridge, but rather the bridge with the longest unsupported span at 2 km. There’s no artist rendering of the proposed bridge, and no mention of whether Italy was planning to build this bridge in such a way that the main span would be over 2 km. This distinction means the difference between unremarkable, or modern engineering marvel.

The whole discourse in US is all around illegal immigration specifically.

That’s a bold claim.

I don’t want to alarm you, but we’re now 22 years past your graduation. “Almost ten years” and then some.

I was interrupted before I submitted this comment, and I see you’ve gotten some replies since I wrote the draft, but my comment goes a little deeper, so I figured I’d still add on.

FALD and mini LED are similar in function, but mini LED has a couple advantages. Since the actual LEDs are smaller, you can place a larger quantity of them behind the LCD panel than traditional LEDs. This allows for more dimming zones to reduce the halo effect, and also enables higher peak brightness which means better contrast.

IPS and VA refer not to the backlight system, but to the actual liquid crystal display panel that sits in front of the backlight. The LCD itself is like an array of microscopic window shutters that can turn clear or black. By placing this LCD behind a color filter layer, the LCD can control light passing through each subpixel (red, green, blue) of the filter layer to produce the appropriate color for each pixel. Each panel type (IPS, VA, TN, etc ) has its own set of advantages and disadvantages when it comes to cost, response time, image ghosting, viewing angle, color accuracy, contrast, etc. Each of those panel types could be paired with an edge-lit backlight, FALD backlight, or mini LED backlight.

OLED is a completely separate technology altogether. Instead of putting an LCD filter layer in front of a backlight, OLED puts individual white LEDs behind each red, green, and blue subpixel of the color filter layer. That means instead of a liquid crystal layer blocking out backlight (which is imperfect and still bleeds light, hence the FALD halo effect), an OLED simply does not emit light for that pixel/subpixel, allowing perfect blacks and better color accuracy.

QLED and QD-OLED trade the white LED backlights and white OLED panels for blue light and discard the traditional color filter layer, replacing it with a sheet of quantum dots that use some kind of black magic optical fuckery to change blue light into red and green as well.