I find it curious that the EU, despite it having such a complex parliamentary structure, is able to consistently enact such laws that are good for ordinary people. Are the two connected, I wonder...
That's the outcome of cherry picking the good things and ignoring the bad, not their decision making structure. Try asking critics of the EU what they don't like (a quick search on here will provide plenty of examples) and you'll see laws that are not good for ordinary people. Repeat with any jurisdiction, making sure to choose the opposite of your preconception (e.g. ask proponents of the USA's system what they like about it) and you'll get a better, less biased and more challenging view.
Years ago I was interested to discover that my local road authority uses Bluetooth tracking of drivers to monitor traffic speed on certain major roads. Detect a particular Bluetooth ID at one point, pick it up again 2km down the road, you know how fast the traffic is going. Pretty useful for getting an immediate alert if traffic speed suddenly plummets.
OP doesn't seem to explain what the lines are radiating out from the hole? I assume they're some sort of artefact from the simulations. There's no obvious reason for me why it's harder to chip in from these specific, evenly spaced directions.
Hey, yea, these are an artifact from the fact that I used a modified golden spiral as a way to regularly distribute the shot pattern within the probability density function. But yes, there are quite a few artifacts and shortcomings from the model. I do appreciate the attention to detail here.
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This is very cool, but I don't really see the direct connection between a paper structure which is very strong in compression and emergency accommodation (which the article really focuses on).
Tents don't need to be strong in compression - there's no weight on the roof. And obviously paper is not a material that scales up or would be practical for outdoor use.
Just a bit confused by the obvious mismatch here - maybe it's the journalist putting more weight on the disaster application than the kid did.
This is a problem with our science funding system. We really discourage pure research, so everything needs to be justified in terms of saving lives or helping to cure cancer. He'll make a good academic someday.
100% this. There's nothing wrong with focusing on first principles and this is a rediscovery in that matter.
It's just an acknowledgement that the Miura pattern works and this kid kept his focus. To be perfectly honest, he just took something that was already done before (the fold) and applied it. Scientists do this all the time and win prizes--like cellophane tape to create graphene.
We never know when the result of pure research will have applications. Maybe his findings would have material impact 20 years from now in a field we are unable to foresee today.
> tents don't need to be strong in compression - there's no weight on the roof
But there is on the floor, unless you expect the inhabitants to sleep more or less directly on the ground, including themselves, whatever is used as a mattress, belongings, small appliances, etc. Emergency habitation is not the same as a camping tent, it needs to be able to service populations that have difficulty with camping's limitations, like the elderly.
> Paper is not a material that scales up
Citation needed? It's made from a renewable resource (wood) and there's some 400+ million metric tons of paper production yearly (source: Gemini, so feel free to take with a grain of salt).
> Or would be practical for outdoor use
If exposed directly to the elements, sure. But what if the paper is laminated or otherwise enclosed within plastic, rubber, or other synthetic material well-recognized as hydrophobic?
The ground can already support the weight. Anything whatsoever in between the ground and the occupants is sufficient if your goal is to separate their feet from it.
> It's made from a renewable resource (wood) and there's some 400+ million metric tons of paper production yearly
They don’t mean production volume, they mean physically. You can’t increase the thickness of paper by 1000x to just make thicker, stronger, paper. It’s a different material entirely.
>Citation needed? It's made from a renewable resource (wood) and there's some 400+ million metric tons of paper production yearly (source: Gemini, so feel free to take with a grain of salt).
Sorry, I meant in the sense of physical scale - I wouldn't imagine the properties of paper at 50cm scale translate directly to say 5 or 10 metre scale.
Most tents are in fact not very strong in compression unless designed for snow. If you do get a big snow you need to wake up in the night and remove the snow so it doesn't crush the tent.
This question is straightforward for humans. I have run into a weird edge case like this in my actual life which confused me.
I'm in a band. After a concert, I have to drive back to the band room to drop off my instrument, then go to the pub for the post-concert drinks.
The wrinkle is I live about 5 minutes walk from the band room, and about 5 minutes walk from the pub (and it's about 5 minutes walk between the two). I can't carry my instrument on foot.
So...I have to drive to the band room. But if I then drive to the pub, I'd then have to drive home...two ridiculously short drives that make me sad. So I end up instead driving home, and then walking to the pub from there. Which seems weird...but less wrong somehow.
Not all humans, I can easily see myself being confused the question and assuming that the person is already at the car wash and this being some idealized physics scenario and then answering wrongly. But I did get a PhD in math, so may be that explains it?
Yes. An excerpt from my initial email to Mysa's security contact…
> I stumbled upon these vulnerabilities on one of the coldest days of this winter in Vancouver. An attacker using them could have disabled all Mysa-connected heaters in the America/Vancouver timezone in the middle of the night. That would include the heat in the room where my 7-month-old son sleeps.
I have tried a few things. Honestly this feels like some sort of very lazy vibe-coded app that superficially looks cool but does not actually produce anything of any value.
Yep, it’s just a vibecoded project, and the model used for the preset isn’t great since I’m using gpt-5-mini. I’ll change the model. It’s just a fun weekend project only
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