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  • That’s just weird. The question is about the eye. And the primary “answer” they give is about the geometry of our planet.

    Edit: At least the real answer is somewhere further down in the text:

    Theoretically, in a vacuum there’s no limit to how far away your eyes could see since light rays can travel an infinite distance, McCulley says.




  • no one wants anything better

    More like there is nothing better people can agree on. You might like SCION with it’s RAINS architecture, where the trust anchors are local to the isolation domains. This way you could build up name resolution where you only depend on the local ISPs that form the core of your isolation domain. In my team we are supporting SCION, in fact we are in the core of one ISD, but the uptake on the customer side is relatively low so far. There are two or three niches that are using SCION more, but not RAINS yet, as far as I know.

    even just different

    Just different is not really attractive, unless people feel like IANA is really messing things up, or the US is exerting undue influence over it. So far they seem to have avoided making that impression widely.











  • They are saying in their FAQ that there are some brushes they can mount on the tails of trains running overhead. Can’t see any published picture of them though.

    Comment garantir la propreté des panneaux ?

    Il est vrai que des panneaux sales produisent moins et ce problème se vérifie également sur les toits des maisons ou dans le désert. Cependant, pour ce qui des panneaux placés entre les rails, il existe des systèmes de nettoyage, sous forme de brosse cylindrique, qui se place en queue de train et qui procède au nettoyage automatique des panneaux lorsque le train passe au-dessus. Ce dispositif garantit un rendement maximal des panneaux à un coût minime.



  • Iirc the car is named after the daughter of the inventor.

    Not the inventor and it’s a bit more complicated. Emil Jellinek was selling Daimler cars, and had them participate in races for publicity. His daughter was called Mercédès Adrienne Ramona Jellinek. The historical record is a bit unclear, either he used her name as a pseudonym for a racer, or he christened one of the cars after her. In any case they won that race, gaining the name some notority which he and the Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft used for further marketing later on.