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Comment Re:Maybe stick to the speed limit? (Score 1) 189

by drn8 (#66077472) Attached to: Colorado's New Speed Camera System Makes Waze Nearly Useless
Was there a measurable effect on traffic fatalities? What about the rate of injuries?

In the rural area where I live the highway is a single carriageway. If you cross the center line you risk a head-on collision. If both vehicles are going 10mph over the limit the resulting collision is 20mph faster. Even traveling at the maximum speed limit(50mph) any head-on collision is the same as hitting a wall at 100mph.

Speed absolutely DOES affect traffic safety . To say otherwise is to deny basic physics.

Comment Re:We had rain fall in California, to warm for sno (Score 1) 108

by drn8 (#66075788) Attached to: Rapid Snow Melt-Off In American West Stuns Scientists
Some states, such as Colorado, have strict regulations on rainwater catchment. https://extension.colostate.edu/resource/rainwater-collection-in-colorado/ The state considers the rainwater and watershed to be their property. I guess if you collect more than 110 gallons, you would be stealing that water from the Gov't/California/Arizona. It looks like the law just changed this year(2026). I remember it being more restrictive in the past.

Comment Thunderbolt/USB C (Score 1) 159

by drn8 (#66028192) Attached to: United Airlines Can Now Boot Passengers Who Refuse To Use Headphones
"If they're available, you can request free earbuds." You'd better hope your device still has a headphone jack...

Since most smartphones don't have 1/8" headphone jacks anymore most wired earbuds for smartphones have either Thunderbolt(iPhone) or USB C (iPad, Android) jacks instead. I would be surprised if the author of the article/summary was unaware of this, but the allure of a snarky and misleading quip bemoaning the loss of 1/8" headphone jacks on smartphones was too great to pass up, or was so great it interfered with the data retrieval function of their brain.

Comment Re:We need a different paradigm (Score 1) 171

by drn8 (#65930266) Attached to: The United States Needs Fewer Bus Stops

And again, take into consideration the Tokyo metro is multiple times larger and more population than NYC or SF, so again, how do they do it?

San Francisco has a lot of wealthy NIMBY laws that prevent building higher and denser housing in most of the city. The NIMBY's want to protect their property values and the 'character' of the city.

Comment Re:No one should be surprised (Score 1) 159

by drn8 (#65893979) Attached to: US Measles Cases Surpass 2,000, Highest in 30 Years: CDC
There's nothing religious about anti-vax. There is nothing in the Bible that suggests there's anything wrong with vaccinations. MAGA anti-vax is 100% political theater and nothing more. There are plenty of equally ignorant non religious anti-vaxers among the airy-fairy crunchy hippie crystals chakras and patchouli oil crowds as well.

Every tribe has it's fair share of idiots, the real problem is people who are tribal in the first place. It prevents them from seeing and thinking about the world clearly.

Being a part of a tribe that is correct in this specific instance does not make one not a part of the problem.

Comment Re:Is the problem not obvious? (Score 1) 154

Roughly a dozen of the world's largest corporations now have a combined profit of over a trillion dollars each year

Well, there's your problem.

If we look at dollars as tokens of labor, we as a society are allowing an extremely limited number of entities to possess an extremely ridiculous amount of tokens that should instead be possessed by the labor-producers, the people. [...]

And before anybody cries out, "But that's stealing!", you fail to understand that the money has already been stolen in the first place.

I wish I had more mod points to give you. I don't understand how you could have been moderated 'troll' when you're just stating the obvious truth.

Comment Antarctic Research, Arctic Oil (Score 1) 117

I believe these are already solved problems. There is a lot of heavy machinery operating in the arctic and antarctic for research and oil exploitation purposes. They work. I don't understand how their could be any surprises about how to solve for heavy machinery in extremely low temperatures.

Comment Re:iRobot couldn't afford to operate. (Score 1) 74

by drn8 (#65870305) Attached to: 'How Lina Khan Killed iRobot'

The point is if your metric for a successful tech company is having functional products and stable growth (meaning they can mostly fund themselves through profits), could you please point one out to me that isn't Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Oracle, Tencent, or some other huge conglomerate?

Valve

Comment You're wrong about Electric Towing (Score 1) 131

by drn8 (#65862343) Attached to: Ford Ends F-150 Lightning Production, Starts Battery Storage Business
The YouTube channel Aging Wheels did some EV pickup truck towing tests.

Some interesting things. He made this flat-front trailer with terrible aero. That trailer with and without a Polestar on it was almost the exact same efficiency on the freeway. Weight almost doesn’t matter when it comes to freeway towing - it’s about aerodynamics

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