Viewing profile — manchego

My partner is doing a distance learning bachelors from the Open University in the UK. They have both part time and full time tracks. The part time takes 6 years to complete. It's i…

I'm just waiting for flywheel powered buses to make a return: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrobus

Yeah, I guess then you don't need a screen for display. And to be honest the proximity sensor may have had the greater effect in the situation I referenced. I could hear it beeping…

I agree that buyers should have the option to purchase simpler cars. But I think backup cameras are too valuable of a safety improvement to leave out. About a year ago I saw a todd…

My reading of the comment was that the German language is used enough that it would make sense to invest the time to learn. But that languages from smaller countries are less relev…

For anyone wanting to do this calculation yourself, this site is really good: https://www.aa.quae.nl/en/reken/zonpositie.html I've previously used the formulas on this site to calc…

Ah yeah, I can see that would be a problem. The part I dislike is trying tell which side is correct and frequently getting it wrong. Which I can see would happen with a king bed. W…

My method for applying fitted sheets is to put the first corner of the sheet that I find onto any corner of the bed. Then try to add one of the adjacent corners to the bed. If I pi…

I should have said zenith, not poles. The issues occur when the device is pointed up at the sky or down at the ground. Edit: Though I would imagine it won't work too well at the po…

Agreed, the deviceorientation does work fine for relative orientation. I've been able to hack it for absolute orientation. What I am doing is: 1) taking the relative orientation eu…

For my use case, I want to know the exact way the phone is pointed in all three axis. Which requires more information than determining the screen orientation (and which I believe c…

I wish I had come to that conclusion a week ago, but I'm in too deep now. It's for a little side project, and it seems like the majority of people I want to show it to have iPhones…

Pretty much. The iPhone browser api only exposes compass data in one dimension, around the z-axis. So there is indeed gimbal lock-like behavior near the axis. Which is crazy since …

My wife has had to listen to me complain for the last week about what a pain it is to get the absolute orientation of an iPhone from the browser. On Android you can use AbsoluteOri…

I read this and thought surely the center of gravity still has to pass over the bar. But right you are, the center of gravity can pass below the bar since it's just the average poi…

I seemed to remember reading something similar about Austin's buses when they went fare-free in the 80s. I found this linked in the Austin CapMetro wiki page: http://www.nctr.usf.e…

They mentioned in the press conference that it was very unlikely that the implosion would have happened after more listening equipment was in use on the scene. I believe there were…

I'm currently studying at the Technical University of Munich, and I quite like the grading system. Most or all of the grade is the final exam. If you fail an exam it doesn't go on …

Also worth mentioning regarding Deutsche bahn ICEs, my understanding is that prices only increase over time. They never decrease like plane tickets do. And there's only a predeterm…

I had this experience with a language learning app recently. The premium content (which I was interested in) was $30. But for the first half hour after app install the price was $2…

Good point that another fast telescope may not be what I'm looking for. Though I definitely still need to play with the ST80 more before looking for something else. I think it may …

I'm a beginner myself, but here's my experience. First of all, as the saying goes, the best telescope is the one you have with you. That is to say, if you need to move the telescop…