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Yes, in elevators usually one cable could hold far more than the full weight, then they add 5 more for the safety.

For rail speed limits this is the exact way they calculate it. For road speed limits they consider braking distance, which grows by the square of your speed, so if you go 120 on 60 road, you will need 4 times the distance to stop. I wrote 1.5 as a safety factor, not 4, With a 1.5 safety factor you can go by 75 though, but I would use a 1.1 safety there, as in my country the speed cameras are set up that way, you can go +10% of the official speed limit, they only send a cheque if you went even quicker than that.

It’s not wrong, it’s close enough. And the point it works with more numbers and more type of calculation. Let’s calculate 4% of 1243. That’s the same as 1243% of 4, right, much easier to calculate by simply changing the 2 numbers… While my method is the same, by simply rounding everything.

And in engineering you always multiply/divide your results by a 1.5 or 1.25 safety factor, depending on situation. So you don’t have to calculate exact results, just close enough. E.g. G is always 10m/s2. π is only 3.14, the other digits doesn’t matter.

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My engineering brain says it’s 3.25.

4% is ~ 5%. 10% of 75 is 7.5. To get the 5% I have to divide it by 2, so 4% of 75 is close to 3.25. I will have to multiply it with some safety coefficient at the end, so the exact value doesn’t matter.

She may be eating an ortolan, that’s why she covers her head:

The traditional way French gourmands eat ortolans is to cover their heads and face with a large napkin or towel while consuming the bird. The purpose of the towel is debated. Some claim it is to retain the maximum aroma with the flavour as they consume the entire bird at once, while according to The Daily Telegraph, “Tradition dictates that [the towel] is to shield – from God’s eyes – the shame of such a decadent and disgraceful act”, and others have suggested the towel simply hides the consumers spitting out bones. This use of the towel was begun by a priest, a friend of Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ortolan_bunting#Culinary_use

But wiki of the painting says:

The one on the left of the man wears a headscarf in the typical garb of married Roman women at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_a_Roman_Osteria

I think it doesn’t look like that, it seems like it’s just placed there, without any fixture.

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Ok, I thought this is fake as everything nowadays on the internet, but no it’s a legit screenshot without any shenanigans: https://www.blackpoolfc.co.uk/news/2025/october/04/club-statement--steve-bruce/

Jim Davis never spoke about this earlier Jon comic, it was found accidentally in the archives of the local newspaper… so it’s not really unexpected his memories are not perfectly aligned with what actually happened in the the early days.

Typo in the transcript: Enzio Bodoni

Garfield fandom wiki says he will show up again in an animated Garfield, he may reference real life driver Lorenzo Bandini

But he died 13 years prior, so I think it may be a reference to Enzo Ferrari instead, Ferrari team was on the top of F1 in the late 70s with Lauda

It’s strange that a French site misses the accent, as the same character is also present in their language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/É#French

The stone is 143.5 kg, so he should have bigger arms.

Screenshot is from the Thomas the Tank Engine Skyrim mod

Stop the count!

Is it some kind of zip bomb or some self referencing link or what?

deepfried MLG videos are back… but in a new form.

It’s a desktop client for soulseek: https://github.com/Nicotine-Plus/nicotine-plus

Install, login/register, share your data then search. Filter the results by file format, sort by download speed etc. Soulseek is a very old file sharing platform, work the same way since 2001. A lot of peers don’t allow downloading from them if you don’t share anything.

For Android I found SeekerAndroid, never used it.

Is this AI slop?