In other news today...
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@acrow I could be wrong, but I vaguely remember NFC and wireless charging being introduced in smartphones around the same time. My Nexus 4 had both, and none of the phones I used before had either.
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Wasn't sure where to put this (TIL thread?), so here works - even tho it was originally posted in 2017, it just came up on my FB feed today:
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
Wasn't sure where to put this (TIL thread?), so here works - even tho it was originally posted in 2017, it just came up on my FB feed today:
Looks like Road Warrior finale.
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@TwelveBaud said in In other news today...:
That would have been good too. My brain never made it to that - I was still stuck on the TIL part. Even though I grew up in snow country, I never realized the blade could catch like that.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@TwelveBaud said in In other news today...:
That would have been good too. My brain never made it to that - I was still stuck on the TIL part. Even though I grew up in snow country, I never realized the blade could catch like that.
Now I'm kind of wondering why it doesn't happen all the time.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Now I'm kind of wondering why it doesn't happen all the time.
I'd guess most of the time the road is the weaker link and gets gouged instead.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Now I'm kind of wondering why it doesn't happen all the time.
Ususally, the plow has a plastic blade under it to not damage the pavement, so it doesn't dig into the road.
But what happen from time to time is that it hit something that sticks out of the pavement, like a manhole cover that moved.
And when it happen, it is pretty scary.I've seen one hit a manhole cover at about 50km/h and stop right there
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
@TwelveBaud said in In other news today...:
That would have been good too. My brain never made it to that - I was still stuck on the TIL part. Even though I grew up in snow country, I never realized the blade could catch like that.
Now I'm kind of wondering why it doesn't happen all the time.
A number of factors:
The blades are not mounted at a digging angle, so they are naturally going to glance off of an obstacle.
You can run the blade on gliding feet (if you see a plow throwing sparks, that is probably what they are doing). In this case the blade is not actually riding on the ground, so it requires a pretty big obstacle to catch the blade.
The plow is often stronger than what they are hitting, so the obstruction fails before damage is done to the plow.
You just run the plow blade a set level above the surface so there is little chance of hitting anything.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
I've seen one hit a manhole cover at about 50km/h and stop right there
Yup:
alternatively
Snowplow Tears Manhole Cover Off – 02:38
— CBS New York
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@hungrier
Samsung S5 Mini did not have wireless charging. Samsung XCover 4 still does not have wireless charging. Not that I'd want it anyway. Both have NFC.
Reading Wikipedia, both technologies indeed got standardized at around the same time. Adoption by phone manufacturers... wasn't quite uniform.
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The machine in this photo is a "tiekarhu", which translates to road bear.
It's a purpose-built snow plowing machine that's specifically designed to mitigate the change of the blade catching on the road. Also for good visibility all around, so it's safer to plow crowded streets.
Unfortunately, as it does not have any dual purpose, unlike trucks, it is being replaced by plow-trucks.
Edit: Another photo:
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
Wasn't sure where to put this (TIL thread?), so here works - even tho it was originally posted in 2017, it just came up on my FB feed today:
If they have a blade instead of a plow, they may also very suddenly fuck of ditchwise.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
The machine in this photo is a "tiekarhu", which translates to road bear.
It's a purpose-built snow plowing machine that's specifically designed to mitigate the change of the blade catching on the road. Also for good visibility all around, so it's safer to plow crowded streets.
Unfortunately, as it does not have any dual purpose, unlike trucks, it is being replaced by plow-trucks.
Edit: Another photo:
Those things are awesome at clearing snow though. I think we used to use them for gravel roads in summer as well. But they have gotten a lot more rare these days.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
Now I'm kind of wondering why it doesn't happen all the time.
Ususally, the plow has a plastic blade under it to not damage the pavement, so it doesn't dig into the road.
But what happen from time to time is that it hit something that sticks out of the pavement, like a manhole cover that moved.
And when it happen, it is pretty scary.I've seen one hit a manhole cover at about 50km/h and stop right there
My father has been doing snow plowing as a winter gig for a decade or two, he never used plastic blades. They would be worn away very fast.
What he uses are metal blades that are bolted to the bottom of the plow, made out of high grade steel. He goes through a few sets of them every winter because of them wearing down.
He's got 3 or 4 machines driven by employees as well.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@hungrier
Samsung S5 Mini did not have wireless charging. Samsung XCover 4 still does not have wireless charging. Not that I'd want it anyway. Both have NFC.
Reading Wikipedia, both technologies indeed got standardized at around the same time. Adoption by phone manufacturers... wasn't quite uniform.
Not just between different manufacturers, but it's also a price differentiator. E.g. the Galaxy S4 and S5 have wireless charging, but like you mentioned the Mini versions don't.
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This thread needs far more science:
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
I see nice pictures. I don't see any high resolution pictures.
Are they behind any of the links?
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
I see nice pictures. I don't see any high resolution pictures.
Isn't it
turtlesfractals all the way down anyway?
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is that they're proud of it:
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answer: 2 hours of CPU time
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
Meh.
We had to contend with the great-grandparents of this summer's batch on the school bus to junior high back in 1970.
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@TimeBandit is that an USB port? Like, a
real USB portUSB A port?But people told me that nobody has USB A peripherals anymore!
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@TimeBandit It must be a cold day in hell:
Apple also appears to be backtracking in other areas with the return of physical function keys instead of the Touch Bar and MagSafe charging.
It would be hilarious if they now can't be charged through USB C anymore.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
nobody has USB A peripherals anymore!
I guess I'm nobody
Of course. You're Canadian.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
nobody has USB A peripherals anymore!
I guess I'm nobody
Of course. You're Canadian.
I would say that's a burn, but everyone knows you can't burn something that's as cold as a glacier.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
I would say that's a burn, but everyone knows you can't burn something that's as cold as a glacier.
You can get frostburn from dry ice.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
But people told me that nobody has USB A peripherals anymore!
Haven't looked recently but last time I did every mouse and keyboard did... (
to bluetooth peripherals) (IknowIknowbarriersetc)
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
But people told me that nobody has USB A peripherals anymore!
Haven't looked recently but last time I did every mouse and keyboard did... (
to bluetooth peripherals) (IknowIknowbarriersetc)
Keyboards are catching on. Not sure about nice.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
But people told me that nobody has USB A peripherals anymore!
Haven't looked recently but last time I did every mouse and keyboard did... (
to bluetooth peripherals) (IknowIknowbarriersetc)
Keyboards are catching on. Not sure about nice.
Very sure about not-nice.
If it's on your desk, the cord was never in the way anyway. If it's on your sofa, radio range is likely to be the distance bwteen TV table and sofa -1m.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
If it's on your desk, the cord was never in the way anyway. If it's on your sofa, radio range is likely to be the distance bwteen TV table and sofa -1m.
Well, that's why you have the USB-A port. Let's you use an USB extension cord to place an bluetooth transceiver within 5 cm of your bluetooth peripherals.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Keyboards are catching on. Not sure about nice.
IME bluetooth is way too unreliable for any serious mouse usage. Logitech's proprietary wireless adapters seem to do a great job, but then they're USB-A so you're back where you started.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Keyboards are catching on. Not sure about nice.
IME bluetooth is way too unreliable for any serious
mousehuman interface usage.I can stand a bluetooth mouse better than a bluetooth keyboard. And since I hate bluetooth mice...
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Keyboards are catching on. Not sure about nice.
IME bluetooth is way too unreliable for any serious mouse usage. Logitech's proprietary wireless adapters seem to do a great job, but then they're USB-A so you're back where you started.
Yeah, it one and only Bluetooth mouse is reserved for HoloLens usage, which does not have a USB host port at all.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Keyboards are catching on. Not sure about nice.
IME bluetooth is way too unreliable for any serious mouse usage. Logitech's proprietary wireless adapters seem to do a great job, but then they're USB-A so you're back where you started.
Also a wireless keyboard or mouse that comes with a USB-A adapter is going to work with anything that has USB-A host, because the protocol is standard. Is the Bluetooth protocol also standard?
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
The machine in this photo is a "tiekarhu", which translates to road bear.
It's a purpose-built snow plowing machine that's specifically designed to mitigate the change of the blade catching on the road. Also for good visibility all around, so it's safer to plow crowded streets.
Unfortunately, as it does not have any dual purpose, unlike trucks, it is being replaced by plow-trucks.
Edit: Another photo:
Those look like graders. I see them on road expansion projects all the time, working to make sure the ground has the proper grade before the asphalt is laid.
Given clues about his work history, I bet that @Polygeekery would be able to confirm if I'm correct.
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@abarker said in In other news today...:
Those look like graders. I see them on road expansion projects all the time, working to make sure the ground has the proper grade before the asphalt is laid.
Yeah they're road graders with snow ploughs fitted.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Keyboards are catching on. Not sure about nice.
IME bluetooth is way too unreliable for any serious mouse usage. Logitech's proprietary wireless adapters seem to do a great job, but then they're USB-A so you're back where you started.
Also a wireless keyboard or mouse that comes with a USB-A adapter is going to work with anything that has USB-A host, because the protocol is standard. Is the Bluetooth protocol also standard?
I think Bluetooth HID is pretty well established and supported, although (maybe only old) desktop computers typically won't connect to a bluetooth keyboard early enough in the boot process to get into the bios menu
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@abarker said in In other news today...:
Those look like graders. I see them on road expansion projects all the time, working to make sure the ground has the proper grade before the asphalt is laid.
Given clues about his work history, I bet that @Polygeekery would be able to confirm if I'm correct.Looks like a motor grader to me. Maybe they changed the blade type to make it more suitable for plowing snow? Snow blades usually have a trip over mechanism that allows them to fall forward when they hit something hard, like a manhole that sticks up or whatever. It also looks like the moldboard is a bit taller than average allowing it to move more snow.
We've used motor graders to clear snow before. They work awesome if you can get and maintain speed. The blade articulates in every possible direction and you can really throw the snow, but they do have a good likelihood of grabbing and ripping stuff out of the ground if you don't have your blade set properly.
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@Polygeekery said in In other news today...:
they do have a good likelihood of grabbing and ripping stuff out of the ground if you don't have your blade set properly.
Seems like the sort of thing you'd have a good likelihood of having good stories about (although maybe not in this thread).
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@Bulb Not only is the Bluetooth HID protocol standard, it also works across multiple different devices and device manufacturers. Unlike your USB-A-based-wireless nubbin, which if lost or damaged renders the rodent a brick.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Seems like the sort of thing you'd have a good likelihood of having good stories about (although maybe not in this thread).
Hmmmmmm, amazingly, I don't think so.
Motor graders are typically only operated by the best of the best of operators. They generate the least number of good stories.
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@Polygeekery said in In other news today...:
@abarker said in In other news today...:
Those look like graders. I see them on road expansion projects all the time, working to make sure the ground has the proper grade before the asphalt is laid.
Given clues about his work history, I bet that @Polygeekery would be able to confirm if I'm correct.Looks like a motor grader to me.
A what?
Oh, OK. TIL that's what they're called in English.
Maybe they changed the blade type to make it more suitable for plowing snow? Snow blades usually have a trip over mechanism that allows them to fall forward when they hit something hard, like a manhole that sticks up or whatever.
Don't think so, no. In Finland, manhole covers are usually well sunk into the road. If they weren't, they'd be damaged by the plowing every winter.
The Wikipedia article had a nice picture of one machine in Jyväskylä, Finland, and I don't really see a mechanism for allowing the middle blade to tip.
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It was tit counting day!