I’m a technical kinda guy, doing technical kinda stuff.
Also fuck that private section of the track, that’s horrible.
The rest of the train and bus network for a hundred kilometre radius is 50 cents.
Previous state government in the late 90s “did a deal” with a private corporation to construct the line out the to airport and allow control for 35 years.
10 more years of this shit and then it gets handed over to state government.
It’s mainly because there are 15 stops along the way a couple of kilometres apart through the CBD, plus a 7 minute wait in the middle to change trains to another line.
The trains are capable of 100 km/hr but basically through that area they get up to 40-60km/hr before having to slow for bends/switching tracks/the next stop.
It’s super hard to resist public transit at higher prices
It was 65 dollarydoos for a projected 25 minute uber home from Brisbane airport on Friday night.
I took the train for 55 minutes instead. $22.30 of my train fare was for the 10 kilometre section that is privately owned by “Airtrain CityLink Limited”, the public owned section that took me the remaining 10km cost 50 cents.
Fuck the corporations that want to try to replace public transport.
Perhaps it’s time to start researching alternative materials.
Plenty of metals floating around in space. Just need to go and get them.
Only need to capture one decent sized metalliferous asteroid from a near earth orbit and we’d be set for a century or two.
This kind of reliability is huge for prosthetic limbs, fitness trackers, and robotic arms, where precision and durability are non-negotiable.
Thanks, AI slop! Sensors that have been durability tested for a few hundred cycles will be perfect for prosthetic devices that can do that in half a day of office work, or fitness trackers that can do that in five minutes, or in robotic arms that can perform that kind of movement in 60 seconds! I’m going to use them in my next safety critical robotics project for sure!
“Why do people do X, when in my opinion if you disregard the two top reasons for doing X, it’s pointless? Prove to me that it would be better!?”
Bastard user from hell
Every IT/software group needs to have one, otherwise you get complacent.
Conclusion: just replace the CMOS battery on a yearly basis during planned system downtime.
It’s BLE - Bluetooth Low Energy.
Basically devices with BLE can listen for a wake-up command and turn on, similar to the “magic packet” of wake on Ethernet.
Super convenient for “find my device” applications, also nice to be able to connect and activate the device without having to press a power button like a peasant.
It also means that most devices with BLE end up flat within a month. I had a speaker with BLE and had to deliberately download a much older version of the Android partner app to turn it off, as they dropped the option to do so in later versions for “convenience”. With BLE on it would be flat in about 6 weeks regardless of whether I’d used it or not , which really ruined ad-hoc usage for me.