He probably just mixed up the line from when he saw it in theaters.

The solar sail reflects light instead of absorbing it so you get to double dip on photon momentum.

And sure, you can steer with the laser I suppose, but with that kind of super weak deltaV, you’re not going to be exactly doing donuts in the solar system.

Even the massive solar sail only imparts a super small amount of force. It’s only useful because it does so for free over a long period of time with no air resistance.

You’d be better off using a conventional thruster to do whatever steering you needed to do before letting the sail take over. It’s not like you need to steer around any obstacles.

Sure, but it would be less efficient than a sail, and since the incoming radiation would impart inertia on the solar panels, you would still be limited on where you could steer.

Ironically, it didn’t break, but when I was on the road and needed a power drill to fix something, I didn’t feel bad about dropping $500 on a new Milwaukee from Ace hardware.

Power tools. If you are not a professional and need to buy a tool (if you can’t borrow one), buy the cheap one.

I used a $30 Ryobi drill for over a decade and it was fine.

(For the US market. They still make sedans for Europe)

Like half of the water in the US goes to grow plants to feed animals that we eat. Fuck those animals, I want that water.

Nuts in brownies. Fucking don’t.

I mean to paraphrase Brenan Lee Mulligan: “if you have magic that can teleport things instantly, giving the task of delivering letters to Earth’s slowest bird is animal cruelty.”

With very few exceptions, that popular TV show you like with either end bad or get cancelled before it gets a chance to end bad.

Bilbo says he feels like butter spread over too much bread.

Just don’t eat all the bread! If I have too much bread, I freeze it. I don’t butter it with a tragically small amount of butter.

The line should be like “too little butter spread over bread” or something.

I’ve been thinking of doing this for my server. How do you organize the extra features?

Haven’t watched this particular video, but we watched the iPhone 14 one when my wife was shopping for a new phone a year ago.

He only does landscapes, so he won’t answer the question for indoor lighting.

And I guess I can walk my claim back a bit. I’m just a bit frustrated since I had a hard time finding a purpose built camera that could match an iPhone while being remotely pocketable.

Ricoh does alright for my purposes.

I mean you had to wait 20 seconds for it to buffer, so you were at least going to give it a fair shot.

I mean computational photography is exactly how you beat physics. And it’s shockingly good.

https://youtu.be/3EFW_dAX9lQ?si=LvaoeAG6h9HQoKc4

Highly recommend this guy’s videos on the matter. Can’t find a good comparison at very low light, but even dusk conditions are fine for a new iPhone.

Yeah way too big for my purposes. I needed a camera that’s with me literally all the time (as much as a phone would be).

He GRIII doesn’t have interchangeable lenses, but it’s still a 24MP APS-C with an f/2.8 prime. I’d argue it’s as “real” a camera as any other.

I bought a Canon T2i in 2010. 19MP, APS-C sensor. Had it fitted with a $1200 17-55 F/2.8 IS lens. Used to bring it to family Christmas every year for the group photo until around 2016. My cousin handed me her phone to get the family on it as well.

Between improvements in sensor technology, whatever post processing was happening at the time, and the lenses on the iPhone, it blew my camera away.

It’s actually pretty hard to find a midrange camera now because phones are so good. I switched to a dumb phone last year. Best pocketable camera I could find to complement it that wasn’t a toy was the Ricoh GRIII which came out in 2019. Got a 4K camcorder. Best I could do was a Sony AX700 from 2018.

My uncle who asks which peloton instructors I like informing me that he only picks the hot ones.

Like, you’ve been married to a woman for 30 years. I get it, you’re straight.

There are solutions for this, but they’re a little more abstract. Like some people sit on yoga balls instead of chairs. They force you to keep your muscles engaged all the time lest you fall over.

They even have some designed to be desk chairs. https://www.sithealthier.com/products/classic-balance-ball-chair

There are also sit/stand desks.

I do a lot of my browsing from an iPhone 11. At least twice a day, a page will crash and reload halfway through whatever article I was trying to read. I get it’s a few generations old, but since when do you need state of the art tech to view what should be a static page.