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Re:Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video] on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @10:14AM (#48208201)
At that scale I think ICE engines preferably run at the same RPM continuously, and a gearbox and a clutch would be massive and require a lot of maintenance. The electric motor gives you the huge amount of torque you need to get a train going from stand-still. Not sure what actually tips the scale though.
Re:Stargate Norway on Thursday July 31, 2025 @02:44AM (#44743031)
They probably did a direct translation of this:

«Stargate Norway is planned to deliver 230MW of capacity, with ambitions to expand by an additional 290MW. The facility will target to deliver 100,000 NVIDIA GPUs by the end of 2026, with the intention to expand significantly in the years ahead.»

Makes it sound both like a power plant and a semiconductor factory..

European sleeper trains are usually also powered by locomotives, and the individual cars don't have motors, so I think the jerk motion you've experienced is caused my poor couplings or something else.
Here's a quote from the article:

> In 2017, the California Air Resources Board issued a warning that may seem incredible but has not been seriously challenged: By 2020, gas-powered leaf blowers, lawn mowers, and similar equipment in the state could produce more ozone pollution than all the millions of cars in California combined. Two-stroke engines are that dirty. Cars have become that clean.

Re:Yerka bike uses frame as lock on Monday March 07, 2022 @03:43AM (#30585523)
The downtube is mostly subjected to stretching forces. But maybe it does lose some stiffness compared to a normal bike.
Could it be that it helps you long term in that it keeps you from needing even stronger correction?
Re:Searching for Susy Thunder on Thursday January 27, 2022 @06:58AM (#30099423)
I guess they're referring to the upgrade from manual to automatic switchboards.
Assuming Pidcock was in front on the actual finish line, his hub would have been about 5cm in front of the photo-finish line. That leaves about 3ms for him to finish the bike throw and return his hub behind Wouts hub. Seems like a stretch, but still a possibility :-)

Maybe you could also look at how deformed the wheel perimeter compared to a perfect ellipse to estimate the speed at different points?

EDIT: Or you could calculate whether it's humanly possible to move a bike a few centimeters forwards and back again in about 15ms, which I think the hypothetical bike throw must have been for Pidcock to be the actual winner?

Re:In Python, `[0xfor x in (1, 2, 3)]` returns `[15]` on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @05:22PM (#26799501)

  >>> [0xfor d or cambridge]
  [15]
Re:Zsh Tricks to Blow Your Mind on Thursday February 18, 2021 @05:56AM (#26178380)
oh-my-zsh tricks to blow your mind seems like a more appropriate title. I tried some of them in zsh, and they didn't work, because they assume you also installed oh-my-zsh.
Re:When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @04:43AM (#24490756)
Did the blog author actually un-blur the booking reference though? He states he tried to un-blur the barcode, was unsuccessful and then realized the booking reference was right there in the picture. Nothing about un-blurring it.
Hartree-Fock?
Re:Chess Move Compression on Thursday November 12, 2015 @03:27AM (#10551957)
Related: 100TB of all the possible 7-piece chess board states and their solutions http://tb7.chessok.com/about-site
Re:The sad state of Linux Wi-Fi on Wednesday July 23, 2014 @10:25PM (#8077955)
Wow. So many people in this thread are missing the point. «I use Linux at home with card X and it works great when I custom-configure wpa_supplicant» or «Just buy a MBP».
Re:RSA-210 factored on Monday October 07, 2013 @09:22AM (#6508023)
Checking if a number is a prime or not is much easier than actually factoring it (if it is not a prime).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primality_test