Iron Lynx

For most of the rest of the world, that’s about 219 mm × 137 mm × 41,3 mm

Imagine how OP their colour perception would be if they did have that mental processing power

Most articles from the 2020s, just about, but one from 1959, and it seems to talk about the same stuff as OP’s screenshot.

My dear posters, I think this may be the source.

Understandable, have a nice day ✌️

And you know this how exactly?

Tbf, Merge Sort has a Big O of n log (n) in all cases, so it’s a pretty mid sorting algorithm in general, but it’s conceptually straightforward and easy to explain to newbies.

If you want to zipper two sorted lists, you compare the first element of each list, pick that first, take the next element of that list, rinse & repeat until one list runs out and then just chuck the entire rest of the other list in the remaining space, even if that’s just one element. Since your two initial lists are already sorted, you can trust the combined list to also be sorted.

This. Comparing them to my national parties (NL), my rough estimate is that the Dems are more right wing than D66, and they’re pretty much centre-right.

Come back to me when your left is on par with GL-PvdA

You may not like it, but this is what peak software engineering job security looks like.

~ a friend of mine, 2024

You’re in a community dedicated to science memes. That is a total compliment.

With the previous ELI12 under control, let’s ELI>12 overhead line catenary a little more. For instance, why do you need tension in the first place?

Fact of the matter is that using a rigid conductor is problematic with high voltage AC (skin effect and such), plus it’s more visually intrusive than wires. Meanwhile, a wire will sag, regardless of how much tension you can practically apply. So you need a few devices to help keep the wire at height.

For one, the wire is supported every few dozen metres. Secondly, there’s a second wire strung above the first one. And while both wires are pulled taut, there are dropper wires between the upper and lower wires, which vary in length. Longer near the poles, while at the shortest near the middle between two poles, which creates a structure similar to a suspension bridge to keep the contact wire within a tight margin of vertical space.

In case people don’t want to click a link, let me explain it here:

If you want to use overhead line electrification, you need to suspend a wire over the rails. In theory, you could simply hang up a wire, but whichever amount of tension you choose, if it’s warmer outside, the wire will droop, potentially causing damage, while if it’s colder outside, the wire will pull taut and may snap. So you want a system to account for external temperature.

Instead of picking a tension at a standard installation temperature, you pick an amount of desired tension and use weights to pull it taut. Now, if the wire heats up and extends, the weights drop, and if the wire cools down and contracts, the weights are pulled up.

And to keep the amount of weight you need to add under control, you use a series of pulleys to control the tension in the wire.

In NL, the mainline system looks a lot simpler: They have only one wheel, but that’s two pulleys: a larger one and a smaller one. The larger one holds the weight, while the smaller one holds the wires.

After reading this, for some reason, the phrase “cryogenic hellfire” lives rent-free in my brain.

I’m thinking There Is No Planet B by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard

Sorry mate, Tom couldn’t make it, so here we have Bill.

Weather update: it’s raining rocks from outer space

Orange? Wait until Dutch football fans hear that. Would make NL during a Euro Cup or World Cup an absolutely ✨ fabulous ✨place xD

Use chapstick

How I get around that: Wait until my girl uses hers, then kiss her.

It’s a bit of a running meme between us.

Relevant xkcd about these xkcd’s:

If we’re going to assume the copyright of the body would rest with the first Homo Sapiens, that was tens of thousands of years ago, so even under Jamaican copyright (life of the author + 95 years), that’d be public domain.

Plagiarise away!

You watch the coffee pot.