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iPhone survives 16,000 foot drop from Alaska Airlines flight where panel ripped off
  • Totally respect you for saying you don't get it. Way better to admit what you don't know.

    In a vacuum, you would be correct that things falling to earth would just keep accelerating until they hit the ground. But we have air which slows things down. Everything that falls in earths atmosphere reaches it's terminal velocity if it falls from a high enough height.

    One way to think of it is to think about how anything falling in air has to push the air below it out of the way to fall. If I just jump out of a plane, I'm going to accelerate to a velocity that will likely kill me. Now if I bring a parachute, I'm bringing more weight, but I'm also able to push against a lot more air and the amount of air I push against will slow me enough that even though I'm still falling, my terminal velocity is low enough that I can survive.

    The more air something can push against in comparison to it's mass, the lower it's terminal velocity. That being said everything falling in our atmosphere will reach a point where gravity can't pull it through the air resistance any faster. The force of gravity and air resistance are balanced. That is it's terminal velocity.

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    GM’s hydrogen ‘power cubes’ will be used in cement mixers and terminal tractors
  • I've heard prayer warrior since I was a kid in the 80s. The idea is that the prayer warrior is fighting a spiritual battle instead of a physical one. How is it a battle? Well when they start praying, Satan will start to attack with doubts and fears. So it's a fight to preserve and continue praying.

    All garbage as far as I'm concerned, but to them is has nothing to do with changing the meaning of words. It's the best way they have to describe how hard it is to pray for hours on end for multiple days when you have a brain telling you that this is silly.

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    PlayStation To Delete A Ton Of TV Shows Users Already Paid For
  • The problem as I see it is a violation of expectations. If I "buy" something, there is no expectation that I will be deprived of that thing in the future unless, (A) it's a consumable and I e used it up, (B) it's capable of wearing out and I've done that myself, (C) it's a subscription service where you pay for the time You've used it.

    In the case of digital assets that I've been sold, it can't be used up and it can't wear out. I did not subscribe to the digital asset, I bought it.

    Violating the expectation of a purchase and then not fully making the buyer whole is trying to change the transaction type to a subscription after the fact.

    If the digital content providers want to pull these kinds of tricks, then they can't tell us we are buying the content. They must be up front and tell us it's a rental whose length is undetermined. The rental may be for our whole lives, or not.

    Anything else is a bait and switch and makes people angry.

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    Love Anduril
  • Fair enough. Seems like it could be programmed in but I don't know if it requires more memory or processing than is standard for flashlight controllers. But if it's a custom light, then you can design your control board to have more umpf and use a customized firmware.

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    Love Anduril
  • I don't know about fan control but Anduril does support RGB aux lights. Here is the Anduril manual showing how to change RGB colors of the aux led.

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    What's your most used light?
  • I edc the i1R2 from Olight and the Sofirn SP10 Pro. I'd say the SP10 Pro gets the most use both in times on and hours used.

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  • So my Sofirn SP10 Pro was freaking out today. I don't think it was some weird mode I got into but whatever it was, I couldn't get out of that messed up state. As I was going to bed I realized and Anduril is awesome and there must be some reset procedure. Looked it up and had my flashlight working again and back in advanced UI in under a minute.

    I really appreciate ToyKeeper and the awesome programming she has done.

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