G can be mapped after boot (usually to removable drives)

Jesus Christ…

Who’s that?

I know, this one is shorter and has mechanical brakes. Not as great but I imagine the Czech one, one of the largest in Europe, has very few English-language sources that could have pointed it out to him. I don’t know whether the Claughton one cannot be ridden or Tom is just squeamish about safety (see description) but the Černý Důl one definitely can, that’s how they do routine inspections.

An early version of the Petřín ropeway in Prague used to contain tanks in both cars. The upper one would be filled with sewage collected rainwater from the city’s hilltop quarter and the energy of the descent was used to pull the other car up. Additionally, the way up cost twice as much so there was an incentive to ascend on foot, which was about as fast despite the incline.

He literally has

Filmed safely: https://www.tomscott.com/safe/

in the description. Meanwhile, that fat dude from Vrchlabí jumped into a moving bucket of one that is faster, 2.5x longer, at deadly height, and his only plan of getting down safely was a mattress. He acknowledged how illegal and dangerous it is and yet publishes the video with his full name.

Just accept it, Tom Scott was being way more cautious.

I hope OpenTTD devs consider adding gravity-based electric transportation of heavy loads as an option

Not very smart that they waste all that energy in mechanical brakes. See my comment (the one with the picture) for a way bigger and electricity-generating ropeway, including a video of a guy less squeamish than Tom Scott riding most of the 45-minute way up.

Amateurs.

The 1963 Černý Důl – Kunčice nad Labem aerial ropeway is over 8 km (5 mi) long, over 30 m high in places and carries 135 tons of limestone every hour from a quarry to the nearest train station. Its 120kW 3-phase synchronous motor requires power for a few minutes at the start and end of each day when most of the 800kg-capacity trolleys are empty, and spends most of the shift generating mains electricity and acting as a speed governor. Unlike the EV, it is fully autonomous most of the way, only 5 people are required to operate it. (Loading, unloading and timed dispatching is automatic, arriving/leaving carts just need to be checked; a safety latch has to be manually dis/engaged on trolleys passing the check.) The quarry will continue operation as long as it pays off, then the ropeway will be scrapped (projected 2033). A dude illegally rode the way up on it somewhat recently. He could have fallen to his death if he pulled the latch.

No need to wait! How to play the “archive”

There are actually only 369 games, and they will loop around on 2025-08-06 to #1 unless the list expands (which will also increase the number of suggested cities in the search box). The list of all games including names, coordinates and landmark descriptions is transferred every time someone loads the page (if you don’t close the tab and change to another game, it will be cached).

I’m amazed that the direction and distance calculation actually uses spatial trigonometry to account for globe curvature, and does not use special libraries!

I added an “archive” function where you can play previous and following games: https://chaoticneutralczech.github.io/SatleArchiveHack/

The source code is very readable, and contains all answers in lz-in-base64-encoded JSON. It should be easy to add support for playing previous/future rounds using URL parameters and/or buttons with a userscript.

Edit: it’s been compiled with Angular.js, and I don’t want to install the IDE to change 8 lines… So I identified the function in the minified version and altered it. When I tell my browser to replace the file with a local copy, the hack works until I load another URL. I’ll try to figure out how to keep it pointed to the hacked version (which reads the ?num= URL parameter instead of calculating number of days since the first one) but making a Redirector rule fails because of unexpected content type reported by GitHub (text/plain). I don’t want to run my own server, let’s see if I can do it another way…

Edit: Done

There are specialized machines for this that resemble industrial vacuum cleaners but even bigger. Cleaned balls are bagged and get poured back once the floor and walls are sanitized. Do the operators keep track of when this was last done? Yes, and they aren’t proud of it so you won’t see cleaning logs hanging nearby like at most mall toilets.

Dearborn, Michigan, after its population drops by 30%: “Thanks for removing the bad hombres”

Thank you for keeping the community booming!

Common marketing strategy.

“Trust me, you just need to buy more compute for your car. We’ll figure out reliable driving by sight someday.”

!theyknew@lemmy.world

I don’t mind seeing vids with small numbers (many are genuinely cool) but I avoid 500k and above (except music) because the mainstream is mostly clickbait.