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New comment by interloxia in "I 3D Printed Origami [video]"

interloxia — Sat, 16 May 2026 18:35:18 +0000

The mini linear motion volumetric display is pretty neat too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgT20tHpk1g

Reminds me of Henry Segerman's expanding racks. Geared crazyness! https://www.youtube.com/@henryseg/videos

New comment by interloxia in "The locals don't know"

interloxia — Mon, 11 May 2026 12:51:38 +0000

Lots of touristy and proper hiking in the Blue Mountains. I like the cliffs and waterfalls loops at Wentworth Falls.

Random blog with photos https://www.walkmyworld.com/posts/wentworth-pass

Rent bikes and cruise the Olympic site. Or cut through briefly to the Cooks River and ride to the beach.

Walk through the glow worm tunnel in the mountains or find someone to take you canyoning. Eeevblog has a video. (Not public transport friendly)

Walk through the the coal terminal at Balls Head.

Walk the start of the Great North walk. Or the length of the Royal national Park (Bundeena to Otford).

Bike/walk the Seven Bridges loop.

Go snorkelling / swim the various rock pools.

Swim at the North Sydney Olympic Pool (if they finish it).

Visit Cockatoo Island / picnic on some of the small islands in the harbour.

Go up the pylon on the bridge.

New comment by interloxia in "Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS"

interloxia — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:44:51 +0000

Examples.

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/24/apple-maps-ads-what-to-...

How to advertise in Google Maps

https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/16388390?hl=en

New comment by interloxia in "OpenTrafficMap"

interloxia — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 06:10:37 +0000

Even our tires blast out IDs.

https://www.rtl-sdr.com/exploring-the-privacy-risks-of-tire-...

New comment by interloxia in "The Joy of Folding Bikes"

interloxia — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 06:44:36 +0000

https://global.brompton.com/s/article/What-Is-The-Recommende...

What Is The Recommended Maximum Rider Weight And The Recommended Maximum Load?

Rider + load 110kg-130kg(G line)

New comment by interloxia in "North American English Dialects"

interloxia — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:27:49 +0000

The video call sequence in 2001 from 1968 comes to mind too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWwo6JpMceg

New comment by interloxia in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

interloxia — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:05:53 +0000

Vodafone cable's cgnat struggles. I went v6 for home so that at least the v6 sites and my own connections avoid the congestion.

New comment by interloxia in "The Raft consensus algorithm explained through "Mean Girls" (2019)"

interloxia — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:27:05 +0000

"Chat generate a blog post on paxos but explain it through Mad Max: Fury Road"

New comment by interloxia in "Show HN: 41 years sea surface temperature anomalies"

interloxia — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:45:58 +0000

I don't know but it cooencideds with the start of satellite monitoring.

Half a century of satellite remote sensing of sea-surface temperature (2019) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003442571...

I haven't looked but there will probably be references somewhere explaining the dat sources.

New comment by interloxia in "Car Seats as Contraception"

interloxia — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:17:47 +0000

3rd percentile for boys at 12 years old. https://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/cdc-charts.htm

In NSW the guide is the person should be > 145cm which is somewhere between age 9 and 14 for girls.

https://www.transport.nsw.gov.au/roadsafety/parents/child-ca...

New comment by interloxia in "‘Energy independence feels practical’: Europeans building mini solar farms"

interloxia — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:52:46 +0000

Not quite as I understand it. At the low end, a couple of panels, yes. Beyond 960W of panels you will still need an an electrician rather than just the Schuko plug.

It's not clear to me why, for example, 2kW of panels which are also limited to 800W need need the special plug.

Hopefully I'm wrong!

"With a standard Schuko plug, a maximum of 960 watts peak is allowed on the DC side, regulated by DIN VDE V 0126-95. With the Wieland connector, a special feed-in socket, the limit increases to 2,000 watts peak. Anyone wanting to operate a system with up to 7,000 watts of module power will need a permanently installed feed-in socket, thus entering a range that is technically possible but also more complex to implement."

https://xpert.digital/en/balcony-solar-up-to-7-000-watts/

New comment by interloxia in "Chicago artist creates tourism posters for city's neighborhoods"

interloxia — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 06:53:46 +0000

Tourism oxymoron "This content is not available in your region"

New comment by interloxia in "Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features"

interloxia — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:01:29 +0000

TV/streaming devices. Amazon's launched in 2014 and GoogleTV in 2010 according to wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_TV_(2010%E2%80%932014)

New comment by interloxia in "Why Some Men Struggle to Keep Up with Friendships"

interloxia — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 08:50:16 +0000

Further enlightenment that never isn't the only answer even if it feels that way. People change and new friends can be made.

It helps to know who you are, what you want, and what you can do about it.

New comment by interloxia in "Battle of U.S. rail barons: Merger is setting the industry on a collision course"

interloxia — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 06:58:35 +0000

Wikipedia had a map of their networks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_merger_between_Union_...

Another copy of the linked article.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/article/battle-of-the-rail-b...

New comment by interloxia in "Why Some Men Struggle to Keep Up with Friendships"

interloxia — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:18:54 +0000

Selfless effort. Be willing to ask for help with something, anything, even if you don't need it.

I can cut down a tree. But it's fun with friends.

I can do bad home renno but it's an in to keeping up with friends with a quick photo of the latest win/fail on signal /whatever floats your boat.

Because they're friends they might just say yes.

It's OK to ask them how they're going. Sometimes they will reply sometimes not and that's OK too.

New comment by interloxia in "Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence"

interloxia — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:15:11 +0000

It's a bit off topic but that didn't sound right to me.

According to the following it was a reduction but yes near zero in the context of total emissions. A few hundred million tonnes reduction ain't nothin none the less.

"plummeted from more than 1 000 Mt CO2 in 2019 to less than 600 Mt CO2 in 2020, in the context of the pandemic.

In 2023, aviation accounted for 2.5% of global energy-related CO2 emissions, "

https://www.iea.org/energy-system/transport/aviation

New comment by interloxia in "How the Strait of Hormuz closure affects global oil supply"

interloxia — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 07:57:14 +0000

I like a good Sankey diagram for origin/destination flow Visualisation. It would be even better if the diagram was interactive.

New comment by interloxia in "Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep"

interloxia — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 19:53:23 +0000

For me it's stress -> bruxism (day and or night) -> tinnitus.

New comment by interloxia in "Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep"

interloxia — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 19:47:35 +0000

As I fall asleep the blackness of what I see suddenly disappears. I would describe it exactly as the absence of sensation.

Unfortunately my mild tinnitus doesn't stop at the same time.