chains are worse for the road and can also come loose at high speed. they’re for getting unstuck, not for general driving.

70% of cars here use studded tires. they’re very useful in wet ice or black ice conditions, which happen a lot here.

here the main takeaway from studies is that the fewer cars have studded tires, the smoother the road surface becomes, which increases the amount of accidents in bad weather. if less than 50% of cars use studded tires the roads become too smooth in winter.

https://www.tidningendacksnack.se/teknik/e/1272/dubbdackens-roll-och-paverkan-en-balansgang-mellan-sakerhet-och-miljo/

probably because they do it wrong

studded tires are a legal requirement here in some parts of the country and the roads are no worse for it

get studded tires

the unruh effect is apparently a hypothetical situation where an accelerating body in a complete vacuum still encounters particles.

In layman’s terms, an accelerating thermometer in empty space (like one being waved around), without any other contribution to its temperature, will record a non-zero temperature, just from its acceleration.

i had no idea about this, sounds weird as hell.

well that wasn’t xerox but absolutely yes.

there was already a proposed thing called ipv4+, and it’s completely insane. if you know anything about network infrastructure the entire chain is hilarious.

definition of “inflammatory food” please? all i can see online is “everything that’s not good for you”

oh boy here we go

weeeeell, ish. the big thing with the alto and the star was that the entire system was a live image that could be edited as it ran, and where every object was homogeneous enough to be put into any part of the system.

no, see the important part is to get xerox to be a major player in the graphical minicomputer industry while it was still important, so that the world of guis would all be based on their paradigm with instant editability and deep interconnection.

oops, yeah.

it definitely would not.

yeah the frames are different but that doesn’t matter to 99.9% of people.

oh god, the nightmare that “adding a fifth number” would be

ipv4 is a 32-bit number, which means the total number of possible addresses are 2³² = 4 294 967 296, which is waaaaay less than the amount of computers we have today. ipv6 is a 128-bit number, so the total is 2¹²⁸ = 340 282 366 920 938 463 463 374 607 431 768 211 456, which is more than all the grains of sand on earth.

the only thing i’ve heard people don’t like about ipv6 is that the addresses are longer and have letters in them.

i’d have blocked steve jobs from visiting xerox PARC.

the nordic systems are based on popular sovereignty by proportional representation, which lies in opposition to separation of power.

no, not every democracy. every government performs those roles but they are not all split the same way. the nordic countries are single-branch and he chinese government has many more than three.