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Victorinox tried to address this with this tool, not sure how successful https://www.victorinox.com/en-DE/Products/Swiss-Army-Knife%E...


There is a video of this tool being used to cut windshield (laminated) glass. It is not remotely practical:

https://youtu.be/LEHl6_ye9as?si=68rwouxAHWcurZ5O&t=73


Seems like they did it the by-the-book way for the commercial, rather than the panicked-escape real-world way... i.e. I'd do one vertical cut in the middle, then I'd be frantically pulling the glass shards out by hand (or claw hammer if available).

It's a shame AAA's testing wasn't more extensive. They should have determined the best tool for a quick exit... Crowbar, wood saw, large serrated knife, or can opener for example.

Multitools with glass breakers seem likely to be more durable and not fall apart like the cheap plastic hammers. e.g. Leatherman SIGNAL and $35 clones like B0BRRXVW9T. They also have knife blades, saw blades, pliers, and can openers for a good selection of alternative options to test out.


Because it's slow to use? The video does show it working fine. For the "someone locked me in the car" use case it seems OK?


I think it's fine for the "sinking in a lake" case too? The water pressure prevents the door from opening, and my understanding was you want the car to fill with water fast enough you can take a breath, let the pressure equalize, then open the door. You're likely not going to get out through a broken window while the water is pouring in through it (I guess if you're fast enough to still be above the water line), so by the time that stops it doesn't seem like there'd be much difference between opening the door and maneuvering through the much smaller window.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC68mflUEwc




Here's that YouTube link without the tracking parameter:

https://youtu.be/LEHl6_ye9as?t=73


I think this is strongly undervaluing the influence of networks. Compare with: https://barabasi.com/book/the-formula


Adding to my list. Super strong point. I totally agree. Especially since networks can grow exponentially in size and power with the web.


Huh. I missed this one. Got a link?



Ah yes it was Skype and not Teams, my bad.


We[1] use Python to help with optimizing, forecasting and trading renewables. And we are not the only ones.

[1] https://www.e2m.energy/en/


In Finland for the 3 good months to catch the 3 good weeks of summer. But I have yet to figure out a CO2 acceptable way of how to travel so often.


It would be so nice to not only give measures in freedom units...


Was having the same problem, then wondered: aren't their browser extensions which parse the text and convert units? Did a quick search but didn't find any - shouldn't be that hard though?


There's AutoConvert and EverythingMetric for Chrome. The automatic conversion is sometimes a bit annoying as there are edge cases.


Absolutely, and, living in the US, I can tell you a lot of mineral water bottles are packaged in metric units (1 or 1.5L bottles).


What would be the use? These are just rough guidelines.


If only there was a large corpus of searchable knowledge only a click away where the conversions could be determined.


Turning a 5 minute read into a 10 minute one.


It takes you as long to read the article as it does to google a simple conversion?


You have to do it multiple times since there is more than one value. Also include time for switching tabs etc, and then returning and working out where you were.


FWIW if you're on a Mac, Spotlight will do simple unit conversions, so you can just cmd-space and do it in the popup without having to leave the page.

That said yeah US units are absolutely brain-dead and confusing, how hard is it to put real units in parenthesis?


Multiply this by every single person who has to do this whole process.


Kind regards,

NASA



I think it too!


I think this is exactly the case.


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