mercano
@mercano@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why doesn't the US build a bridge here to connect Alaska to the mainland? Are they stupid? 6 days ago:
Because there’s a country between the Mainland and Alaska. Any bridge would need to be negotiated with Mexico.
- Comment on Name Your Favorite Marvel Movie: Wrong Answers Only 2 weeks ago:
Spider-Man: Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 3 weeks ago:
Yeah. Line 3 used different rolling stock than the other three lines, unusual linear induction motor powered equipment, which was reaching the end of its service life. The plan was to shut it down in November 2023 and temporarily replace it with bus service while they built a Line 2 extension to serve the neighborhoods Line 3 used to. Unfortunately, a train derailed in July 2023, which resulted in the system shutting down four months sooner than expected.
The Line 2 extension is going to take a different route to eventually arrive at Line 3’s old terminus. I think there’s plans to covert the old line 3 viaduct into a Bus Rapid Transit guideway.
- Comment on Security vulnerability on U.S. trains that let anyone activate the brakes on the rear car, was known for 13 years — operators refused to fix the issue until now 4 weeks ago:
The big railroads are laser focused on short term profits these days, to the detriment of long-term investment and public safety. A fix would probably require updating or replacing the Head of Train transceiver on every locomotive, and that’s not good for quarterly dividends.
- Comment on The Mayor of Calgary, Canada, just received this letter 5 weeks ago:
As if increasing bicycle throughput isn’t increasing vehicle throughput. They’re vehicles, and can probably achieve a higher passenger density than individual cars can on a city street.
- Comment on Project Hail Mary - Trailer 5 weeks ago:
There’s also Artemis, a thriller set on a lunar colony. A little less science than The Martian or Hail Mary, but still fun.
- Comment on Are there any Android controllers with split D-pads? 1 month ago:
I think the Switch would be the better example, where up, down, left, and right are four distinct buttons, to be used like ABXY when playing in single Joycon multiplayer mode.
- Comment on What is the canonical version of STVI? 1 month ago:
Of the TOS movies, the even ones are great, the odd ones are much weaker.
- Comment on The 11foot8 bridge opens another big can 1 month ago:
It’s better, but 12’ 4” is still lower than usual, so it still snags some trucks that blow through the warning lights.
- Comment on "I Took Every American Airlines “Flight” That’s Actually a Bus" 2 months ago:
It’s a requirement, as you board / unload on the airside. The one upside is you can do security at a smaller airport like Allentown, bus to a bigger airport like Philly, and unload airside to transfer to a jet.
- Comment on I got a feeling.. 2 months ago:
I’m sorry, I don’t speak Welsh.
- Comment on Happy PrIDE Month 2 months ago:
Could also be thinking of Integrated Development Environment, the program software developers spend most of their days using. (Combining a text editor, file manager, compiler, and debugger.)
- Comment on Happy PrIDE Month 2 months ago:
The IDE standard was used to connect hard drives and optical drives in from the late 80’s to the mid 00’s. Also known as ATA, it was renamed Parallel ATA when its successor, Serial ATA (SATA) came onto the scene.
- Comment on Challenges accepted. 2 months ago:
I was just thinking more could go spectacular wrong with a pressurized cylinder of propane vs a bag of charcoal.
- Comment on Challenges accepted. 2 months ago:
I’m assuming this is a gas grill, and the lawyers made them include this after some drunks blew themselves up or burned the deck down.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Boring Company Is in Talks With Government Over Amtrak Project 2 months ago:
Specifically, this is on the Fredric Douglas Tunnel project in Baltimore, an attempt to replace an 150 year old tunnel that’s become a major bottleneck on the Northeast Corridor.
- Comment on ‘Bridgerton’ Nicola Coughlan Slams HBO ‘Harry Potter’ Project: “Wouldn’t Touch It With A Pole” 3 months ago:
Bridgerton? She’ll always be a Derry Girl to me.
Rowling’s tweet makes me if she’s authorizing a remake to try to spite movie trio’s actors, who have gone against her on trans rights issues.
- Comment on Important information about compatibility of Nintendo Switch games with Nintendo Switch 2 4 months ago:
It also makes upgrading cheaper, though your little brother playing as Player 2 will have to suffer through having an inferior controller. (As is tradition.)
- Comment on The first 1 star review 4 months ago:
This page has a good translation; I’d paste directly, but it wasn’t pasting in cleanly on mobile.
- Comment on CherryTree Introduces Star Trek: Deep Space Nine-Inspired "IYKYK" Raktajino Mug 4 months ago:
DS9 had at least two different kinds of flared mugs: the HotJo, which is still sold for $30, and the Feltman Langer, which is no longer sold, but this CherryTree is recreating.
- Comment on Im watching an episode of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, filmed in black and white. In this scene a guest is showing glass making. What is going on with the film to make these black areas by the flame? 5 months ago:
I don’t know if Mr Rodger’s was shot on film or video, but either way, the flame was glowing in a wavelength the camera couldn’t pick up. Either it was a color that the chemicals in the film don’t react too or it’s not something the electronic sensors were sensitive too. Probably a high frequency violet bordering on ultraviolet. TV cameras are optimized to record the frequencies of light the human eye can see, making allowances for cost & technological capabilities. They may not work the way you’d expect as red fades to infrared or violet goes towards ultraviolet, especially when using 70’s or 80’s TV cameras in the price range of PBS.
- Comment on I'll show them 5 months ago:
Wow, a DEC AlphaStation computer. That couldn’t have been cheap.
- Comment on Caption this. 7 months ago:
The Presidential Medal of Freedom OF SCIENCE!
- Comment on Canon Connections: LDS 5x09 - Fissure Quest 7 months ago:
Lt. Kim says, “Everybody gets promoted before OPS.” In addition to Harry never getting promoted on Voyager, Enterprise D / E operations officer Data was a Lieutenant Commander from his first appearance in “Encounter at Farpoint” all the way through his final appearance in “Star Trek Nemesis,” a period of 15 years both in-universe and real world.
- Comment on Cooking advice 8 months ago:
Well, how’s his wife holding up?
- Comment on What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head? 8 months ago:
Yeah, but it reminded me of the other quote.
- Comment on What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head? 8 months ago:
“Join the army, they said.”
“See the world, they said.”
“I’d rather be sailing!”
- Comment on What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head? 8 months ago:
- Comment on Apple Explains Why 256GB Storage Is Better 8 months ago:
And that’s the small keyboard, too. An extended keyboard, with a number pad and the extra cursor movement keys, is $129.
- Comment on Yakuza creator Nagoshi says the era of game size being most important is coming to an end 8 months ago:
Yakuza maps have never been particularly huge. Even in the most recent game, the new map is maybe on the scale of GTA III or Vice City. Still, they manage to pack 15-20 minigames into each game’s word map, some of which involve driving or riding around the map, plus the inevitable scavenger hunts and hidden collectibles.