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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Listen to the safety briefing. They wouldn't bother telling you if it wasn't important.

Keep your seatbelt on for the entire flight. The pilots can't always predict turbulence, and hitting the ceiling hurts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

https://piped.video/watch?v=YyzQsVzKylE

Lithium batteries scale power and capacity at the same time. Flow batteries can scale power and capacity independently.

The advantage of flow batteries is that they can have enormous capacities without the added cost of upgrading the power, making it ideal for grid scale storage.

Even if this new flow battery reaches the energy density of a lithium battery, and can output sufficient power, it would still need to reach price parity to be competitive.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

Adequate for cargo flights, not happening any time soon for passenger flights. Aviation safety is very strict and slow to change.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Flow batteries are great for long duration storage, but not good for high power delivery.

This means they will work far better as grid storage than as EV batteries.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Xed

It opens quickly

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I have a prototype self driving system in my car. It drives logically and consistently, but it doesn't behave like a human.

This would be a really helpful feature as self driving becomes more common.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) and Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment (LXDE) are entirely separate products.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Mint is based on Ubuntu, which is based on Debian. LMDE is being built alongside Linux Mint and is based only on Debian.

Linux Mint and LMDE are functionally the same, but LMDE is protection/insurance against Ubuntu doing something stupid.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (10 children)

I highly recommend Linux Mint (cinnamon) as an entry level Linux distro. It looks and feels similar to Windows, and it's based on Ubuntu, so it has a lot of support and compatibility.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 11 months ago (2 children)

And people wonder why whales beach themselves.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

That would be a great idea, and could even help combat climate change.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I find making a simple text based calculator is a good way to test your skills while learning.

Start by adding 2 numbers together and outputting the result.
Then upgrade the calculator by getting the numbers from user input.
Now you get to decide the next upgrade. Does the user want to add 3 numbers? Perhaps they want to subtract instead. Maybe the user wants to start a new calculation immediately after finishing. What about error handling? What should the program do if the user enters something that isn't a number?

Each step provides new challenges and new learning opportunities.

Make sure to test frequently. The more code you write between tests, the harder it becomes to track down bugs.

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