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[–] randy@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You know, you have a point. But I'll note both instances had the UN request NATO intervention. Russia could have blocked either with their veto in the UN Security Council, but they didn't.

[–] randy@lemmy.ca -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's how Putin claims to perceive it, but that's also what he would claim if his actual goal was to control his neighbours by force. And don't forget Finland and Sweden responded to the invasion of Ukraine by joining NATO. If Russia perceived NATO as a threat, then Finland joining would make them more likely to be attacked. Clearly Finland feels NATO is making them safer or they wouldn't have joined. And since then, Russia has moved tons of their military away from NATO borders and into Ukraine.

In other words, I trust the actions of Finland and Russia more than I trust the words of Russia.

[–] randy@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Basically they don’t want NATO right on their doorstep.

NATO is not the anti-Russia club. They're a defensive pact. Why would you be concerned about your neighbours agreeing to defend each other? Like a neighbourhood watch, perhaps. Maybe you'd be upset if you're planning to do the thing they're defending against. Which is all the more reason for those neighbours to band together.

[–] randy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I feel like you're taking a very specific interpretation of the word "expect". I don't believe most people would interpret "expect" as being the outcome of crunching the numbers, so I still disagree that the headline is misleading. Still, I appreciate your explanation of your thinking.

[–] randy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The headline is extremely misleading clickbait. This piece is reporting on what people think they need, not what they actually need

The title says "Canadians expect they need $1.7M to retire". The title says exactly what the article says, and incorrectly claiming it to be misleading diminishes the conversation here.

[–] randy@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago
[–] randy@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Forcing people to give up their language and culture can be considered cultural genocide. Cultural genocide is not included in the UN Genocide Convention, so the definition of cultural genocide is not universally agreed upon. But the UN Genocide Convention does include "Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group" in its definition of genocide, and Russia is not shy about their relocation and adoption programs, so we can pretty definitively say that Russia is committing genocide in Ukraine.

[–] randy@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] randy@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Also worth noting this article is nearly five years old. Rust's first stable release was nearly nine years ago, so its (stable) age has more than doubled since then. I expect Rust would look a lot more mature if the article was written today.

[–] randy@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Aaron Wherry, the author of the article, does that a lot. In my opinion, he regularly does a good job of covering all the facets of difficult issues.

[–] randy@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the update and graphs. That is an amazing improvement. In the "after" plot, it looks like any acceleration from the train is well below the noise level of your accelerometer. So, within the limits of your measuring equipment, you've effectively eliminated all train vibration. If I were in your place, I would declare success and move on with life! Don't even bother with foam and rubber feet, because this configuration is working great.

But you could analyze further if you really want; there could be some train signal hiding in all that noise. Since there's periodic noise in the Z axis, you could take a reading during a still time (computer off, no trains) and see where your spikes are in the frequency domain. Then you could apply a filter (or filters) to cut out that periodic noise.

But unless you're really into learning about signal analysis, I'd say you could skip it.

[–] randy@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

None of the included experiments look to be exactly what you need. For characterizing your isolator, the included Acceleration Spectrum is close, though it records continuously, making it difficult to use to record impact response. For evaluating actual train vibrations, the user-defined Integrated Acceleration might be a start, but it doesn't include the filtering needed to get good information. You could define your own experiments, but that's probably even harder than analyzing the CSV data on your computer. At least on your computer you can change your analysis freely and immediately see results, rather than re-running the experiment every time.

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