Formula 1 races average about 200kph, with a top speed of 375. These are the best of the best professionally trained drivers in multimillion dollar equipment tailored to them and designed to keep them (and others) safe at those speeds.

300km/h on the highway is essentially suicide by stupidity, not to mention manslaughter for whoever you hit. You are travelling fast enough that you literally don’t have time to react to something several hundred metres in front of you.

150 is really fast, 200 is stupid fast, and 300 is really fucking stupid fast.

That’s very clear, thanks.

I’m guessing you’d have to search the database to make the index, right? To search for ‘gazter’ you’d have had to go over the whole dataset and assigned each entry with a starting letter value, and so on?

Largely ignorant, but data-curious person here.

…what?

I’ve got the fourth Sharma, I used points to get a large Austrian man to walk over the left side of my body.

Galene is webRTC based, but very lightweight.

Are humans based on apes or great apes?

I’m interested in why you chose the i5 for the automation, rather than the video server?

I’m no expert, but things like transcoding (or even just re-encoding) take a lot of grunt, which it seems the i5 would be good for.

The i3 would be good for more constant, lower power tasks like automation.

At least, that’s my thoughts, happy to be shown your reasoning…

I use an old Stream Deck- not the Steam deck- from Elgato. It’s essentially a small touchscreen with a transparent button pad laid over the top, making for a fully programmable macropad with fully customisable screen-per-key.

Not only can I have esoteric shortcuts, but I can also dynamically label them, depending on layer. I have a ‘home’ layer with icons representing each other layer. So, for example I can load up a video game, and press the corresponding icon on my macropad. It will then change the icons to match whatever command it does- various whistle commands in Ark, for example. I can then change programs into my CAD, and have the icons now be various shortcuts for modelling tools.

Oh jeez, I hadn’t even thought about capitalisation in the file extension. That would be especially confusing if extensions are hidden- the user would be presented with two files that look exactly the same.

But do I type ‘ImportantFile’, or ‘importantfile’?

As I understand it, if I searched for either of these strings in a case sensitive file system, I would not find a file called ‘IMPORTANTFILE’.

At best, a case sensitive file system makes naming conventions more complex. At worst , it obfuscates files. I just can’t imagine a scenario where it would be helpful. Do you really see a need to have a file called ‘aaaAaa’ and a totally separate one called ‘aaAaaa’?

So if someone tells me to look for a file amongst a long list, I need to look in two different areas- the uppercase and lowercase areas.

I get why it’s more technically correct to differentiate, but from the perspective of a human user, it’s a pain in the ass.

Ascending order implies going from low to high

If I have four files, a.txt, A.txt, b.txt, and B.txt, in what order do they appear when I sort alphabetically?

edit: I don’t understand why this was downvoted?

Yeah, I like the idea of being able to switch floor lamps and what not from the doorway. No-one likes the big light, right?

Not sure if I like it enough to implement it in my dream home though. Possibly with some kind of different shaped plug, or a colour code that matches the switch?

We’re getting into the weeds a little bit here, but there’s a lot of things that have power buttons that will put the thing into standby, not off. I’ve often done a ‘hard reset’ on my ‘smart’ tv when it starts acting up, just gotta cut the power.

It’s a small convenience, but it’s nice. I’ll happily pay the extra three cents in manufacturing costs for something that lasts decades and may be occasionally mildly helpful.

Huh, it’s interesting- Here the power switches are a similar size to the UK, so when I searched up a picture of the Indian switches I thought they were ridiculously giant, not like regular sized UK/Australian ones

I guess it’s just whatever you’re used to is the ‘regular’.

Are light switches the same? What happens when you have a lot of switches together, like six or eight? Do you just have really wide banks of switches?

Fridge, washing machine, dishwasher, television, phone charger, robovac dock, lamps, computer monitor, aquarium pump… I could go on.

It’s not strictly necessary, but it’s a convenience.

I like the Australian 90 degree plugs, too. Much slimmer than the UK ones.

Only half of one outlet? That sounds super frustrating. I think it would take me a while to discover that the random light switch that doesn’t do anything is related to the power point where only one side charges my phone.

To be honest, I’m surprised they care as much as they seem to- the US is such a small percentage of their potential user base. If my app lost 5% of my potential new users I’d be curious why, but I probably wouldn’t put any effort into getting them back.