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>>22258
Oh I love Cecropia moths, they're huge too! They're native to where I live but I've never seen one, the largest moth I've seen in nature is a Luna moth a couple of times

>>22259
Ahhh these are so pretty. I saw so many cool ones when I was looking them up before but I only picked a few. I should look more into my local wildlife to see what is native nearby.

bug friends explain, what does america have against the spotten lantern fly?

>>22271
I find it hard to believe anyone knows what a spotted lanternfly is without knowing that they're horribly invasive

wax tail plant hopper

Someone taught me how to crossfade and loop and stuff in audacity and it's incredibly easy, so I'll try to take you up on this mixtape idea.

Also if you're really cool you'll make your own album cover.

Säkkijärven Polkka
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Znxy03j9gT8
Sweden Symphony Orchestra & N3 Symphony Orchestra
Soloist Linda Lampenius
Conductor Ulf Wadenbrandt
Video and Sound Jonas Wadenbrandt

Bôa - Duvet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uoox9fpmDP0

Caritas Abundat - Hildegard Von Bingen

Viva la Vida – Long Live Life!

Travelling where you do not drive is comfy.

>>9039
Photography, unironically. Ever since I bought a digital camera I've been going outside more and it's a refreshing experience.

>>9039
A game that is immersive enough to lose yourself in for a couple days would be nice..

Sunny weekends to make it all worth it.

>>19070
Crepe Suzette? <3

God gave me two legs. They take me everywhere.

>>22329
z daleka jebie polskością ta fota, pozdrawiam

>>22329
I'd like to request a picture of two cases of beer in the trunk.
I have a hard time imagining a trunk that small. Or you have HUGE beers. Either case a pic would be cool to see.

nah, i never even got my license. also i prefer being driven around makes me feel kingly.

>>22334
there you go

>>19339
The punch line here is… remember what my husband said about the golf cart we saw? GEM makes carts that seat five in addition to the driver, with a higher seating position and open sides or optionally large doors for faster board/deboard. Even with the 25mph stock speed limiter for NEV/LSV regulatory compliance (and believe me, with some adjustments to the motor controller they can go faster), I suspect that switching the Loop entirely to GEMs would increase its total capacity. And the GEMs honestly suck, in the world of light electric vehicles. They just kind of pulled off a regulatory capture move and got the NEV rules written to pretty much require something that sucks as much as they do for street legality.

Subjective Experience
So as I said, this is not a review, just trying to focus on some things of interest to transit, communications, and policy dweebs. Which I assume pretty much describes my core readers. But I do want to point out a couple of oddities that add to the "wow, this is cheap" sensation:

The ride is surprisingly rough, even in a Model Y with highway-grade suspension. I am concerned that they may not be able to do much better when paving in the confined tunnels, given that I don't think standard paving equipment would fit in the loading gauge. The ride experience was not "oooo electric car luxury," it was more on par with the Orlando Airport APM100s with sketchy steering gear.

For the segment that requires tickets (to Resorts World), the ticketing system is based on a QR code. The customer-side implementation is fine enough, but the ticket checking is laughable. It's an iPad where you have to show a QR code to the front-facing camera, meaning you have to present the QR code with your phone facing away from you, looking at the image on the iPad for alignment. It is very awkward and there is no reason for it besides cheapness. Plus there's not really any way for the attendant to see if the ticket is valid without standing awkwardly close to you to look at the same iPad screen you are, and indeed, I accidentally scored a free ride by merit of the attendant's inability to see the actual result of the ticket check.

The stations are not especially well thought out. People walking in and out of the stations have to cross the path of the Loop vehicles in some places. The attendants are supposed to dPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

California’s new electric train makes for a shockingly better trip—we tried it
Caltrain’s electric trains started rolling out last week. The advantages go far beyond just cutting CO2 emissions.
California’s new electric train makes for a shockingly better trip—we tried it
[Photo: Caltrain]
BY ADELE PETERS

If you ride on the newest commuter trains from San Francisco to San Jose, the first thing that you might notice is how quiet they are: Instead of the rumble of a diesel engine, the trains now run on 100% electricity.

By switching to electric trains, Caltrain, the rail service, can eliminate 250,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions a year, roughly as much as the pollution from 55,000 cars. But it’s also just a better experience for riders. That might convince more commuters to stop driving to work, cutting emissions even further.


[Photo: Caltrain]
ELECTRIC TRAINS ARE FASTER
First, the electric trains run faster than the diesel trains that they’re replacing. Instead of a single locomotive in the front pulling the entire train behind it, each individual car is now an “electrical multiple unit,” or EMU, with its own engine, connected to overhead electric wires. “It’s generating power throughout the system,” says Dan Lieberman, a public information officer for Caltrain. “It just allows it to get up to speed much faster.”

Because the train can start and stop faster, Caltrain can add more stops to its express trains, and still shave minutes off the route. The new express route between San Jose and San Francisco will stop at 11 stations instead of seven, and take 59 minutes instead of an hour and five minutes. (The local train will take 75 minutes rather than 100 minutes.) During peak commute hours, more stations will now have trains every 15 to 20 minutes, even though Caltrain won’t use any additional trains. At off-peak hours, trains will run every 30 minutes, rather than every hour. (Caltrain started rolling out the new trains last week; they’ll be fully in service by the end of September.)

>>19367
If you ride on the newest commuter trains from San Francisco to San Jose, the first thing that you might notice is how quiet they are: Instead of the rumble of a diesel engine, the trains now run on 100% electricity.

By switching to electric trains, Caltrain, the rail service, can eliminate 250,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions a year, roughly as much as the pollution from 55,000 cars. But it’s also just a better experience for riders. That might convince more commuters to stop driving to work, cutting emissions even further.


[Photo: Caltrain]
ELECTRIC TRAINS ARE FASTER
First, the electric trains run faster than the diesel trains that they’re replacing. Instead of a single locomotive in the front pulling the entire train behind it, each individual car is now an “electrical multiple unit,” or EMU, with its own engine, connected to overhead electric wires. “It’s generating power throughout the system,” says Dan Lieberman, a public information officer for Caltrain. “It just allows it to get up to speed much faster.”

Because the train can start and stop faster, Caltrain can add more stops to its express trains, and still shave minutes off the route. The new express route between San Jose and San Francisco will stop at 11 stations instead of seven, and take 59 minutes instead of an hour and five minutes. (The local train will take 75 minutes rather than 100 minutes.) During peak commute hours, more stations will now have trains every 15 to 20 minutes, even though Caltrain won’t use any additional trains. At off-peak hours, trains will run every 30 minutes, rather than every hour. (Caltrain started rolling out the new trains last week; they’ll be fully in service by the end of September.)

Among the decades-old Windows apps to get renewed attention from Microsoft during the Windows 11 era is Notepad, the basic built-in text editor that was much the same in early 2021 as it had been in the '90 and 2000s. Since then, it has gotten a raft of updates, including a visual redesign, spellcheck and autocorrect, and window tabs.

Given Microsoft's continuing obsession with all things AI, it's perhaps not surprising that the app's latest update (currently in preview for Canary and Dev Windows Insiders) is a generative AI feature called Rewrite that promises to adjust the length, tone, and phrasing of highlighted sentences or paragraphs using generative AI. Users will be offered three rewritten options based on what they've highlighted, and they can select the one they like best or tell the app to try again.

Rewrite appears to be based on the same technology as the Copilot assistant, since it uses cloud-side processing (rather than your local CPU, GPU, or NPU) and requires Microsoft account sign-in to work. The initial preview is available to users in the US, France, the UK, Canada, Italy, and Germany.

If you don't care about AI or you don't sign in with a Microsoft account, note that Microsoft is also promising substantial improvements in launch time with this version of Notepad. "Most users will see app launch times improve by more than 35 percent, with some users seeing improvements of 55 percent or more," reads the blog post by Microsoft's Windows apps manager Dave Grochocki.

Microsoft is also adding generative fill and erase features to Paint in this update; the Paint app has already picked up several AI-powered image-generation and editing features. The generative fill addition allows users to select part of an existing image and type a prompt to fill in that area of the image with something AI-generated. Generative erase does the opposite, removing objects from a selected area of the image and attempting to recreate the background. The difference between the two is that generative fill is only available on Copilot+ PCs with Snapdragon X Elite chips in them, while generative erase will work on any Windows 11 PC.

On the technical end of things, a new Windows Insider Canary channel build released yesterday adds some new features to Prism, Microsoft's rebranded x86-to-Arm app translation layer for Arm-powered Windows PCs like the Snapdragon X Elite-powered Surface Pro and Surface Laptop.

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"The Microsoft Store" app is such a strong example of what happens when nobody cares about performance. It misses UI events most of the time, regardless of what hardware it's running on. Although, in this case, I don't think a Pentium 166MHz would help. The UI event processing is just fundamentally flawed.
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Usually, but not always, it ignores scroll events while an animation is playing…and hovering over a tile in the list cause a pointless zoom-in animation (the result of which occludes parts of adjacent tiles). Sometimes, the animation won't start immediately, but will still play. To prevent the cannot-scroll-while-animating problem, the only safe place for the mouse pointer is over the scrollbar.

Clicking the (completely invisible) track of the scrollbar has random multi-second delays.

Most of the search filters are hidden by default…and can't be shown without waiting for a slow animation. You can click the show-filters widget over 30 times if you're in a hurry, and still the animation hasn't even drawn the first frame. That delay before it starts means that even if you try to wait, you might click one extra time, and then see both the show-filters animation and then the hide-filters animation…all while none of the rest of UI responds. …And then you might realise you want to refine your search terms…which will reset all filters and re-hide the filter options.

Once you find a tile you want to click, be prepared for another two animation delay: one, if the tile isn't already zoomed in, and another while the app mysteriously animates a slew of placeholders instead of just dumping the items information directly into view. It's slow like a 33.6 moder on a noisy phoneline, but now you finely have details about the item you clicked on maybe 7 to 40 seconds ago.
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pipe putdowns till failure

Do girls like hair bows? Why don’t more girls wear hair bows?

>>22192
you mean those little bows that are just glued to a hair clip? i put them on my hats.

>>22147
I dunno, to me it seems like maintaining a human contact (friendship or similar) without pursuing any romantic goal is a normal thing to do. I would be confused if they tried to actually bring a relationship to a different point but then stopped mid-way or something - it could be weird at best and malicious at worst but unless there is a consistency/pattern with that, it could be just their social inexperience/ineptitude at play. Anyway I wouldn't sweat it at all if it was just an online thing.

I just wanna someone to play games with…

>>18654
Woah, car in style of AI-generated anime girls…

>>18659
www

>>18663
Hehehe

>>18654
Also get a bicycle

New income, new job & assets (NINJA). Hehe.

>I've been obsessing over the origins of diseases right now
What did you find? To my knowledge, some viruses just randomly mutate to be passable to humans, and some of them have been with us for ages. As for bacterial/parasitic infections then I just don't know but it's more like those kind of lifeforms have always existed, more or less. Also not sure if I'm responding to the question you raise, so, what exactly are you thinking about?

>>22134
Yeah, these were carved out of volcanic tuff rock with a basalt carving tool called a toki. There are a bunch of theories on how they moved and erected them, probably a combination of ropes and log rollers. Some of these maoi have cute hats carved out of another type of volcanic rock that were added on top later.

>>22167
Its not so much the viruses themselves. They are pretty interesting. Its the way you can find traces of the pathogens in mummified corpses and bones and how things like architecture and living habits change because of disease.

>>22174
ancient lego brick

>>22174
Ah, I see. I would say it is about the spreading of the disease and not the "origins" though. Or IDK what you had in mind.
Definitely kinda exciting to learn how some diseases could spread though. Like, some patient zero got infected from a corpse or from a parasite-infested pet/livestock and it just destroyed societies or something.

>>22179
Lol

no but i do love big stone heads so loving this thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb9jBXS-V7Q

make my wish ome true
all i want for xmas is youuuuuu

I think I might be ab;e to do this, but I also have reallly shaky hands, so they go off of homerow pretty often. Not to mention that I have to stretch really far because of tiny hands…

this is way too easy sushi, i can type like that whole day
but i am gonna restrain my powerlevel, you never know who's lurking

I don't know how good I will be at this. I don't have mmuch to say but I hope all sishos have a good day!

What? typing without looking at the keyboard? trivial!