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by AYBABTME 3y ago
If something is already bumping around randomly, all you need to do is constrain the bumping along some dimensions and it will move less randomly and more frequently toward the remaining free dimensions. That's easier than having to pr
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by AYBABTME 3y ago
If you do the math for power to maintain a given speed, you'll see an exponential curve. Air drag starts to dominate the energy budget very quickly. Anything you can do to minimize drag (don't carry aftermarket accessories, follow
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by AYBABTME 3y ago
For EV cars(1), air drag is the highest range killer. There's a huge difference in range depending if you go 65, 70 or 80. And if you follow cars or push the air by yourself. Stop and go doesn't really impact range that much, and
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by AYBABTME 3y ago
Can't they technically be supplemented to report their confidence level along with their output? Afaict there's ways to do it.
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by AYBABTME 3y ago
I meant I'm not ready to say that it is, I have not solidified this as a fact in my own mind. I'm contemplating.
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by AYBABTME 3y ago
There's a point where the phone becomes similar to infrastructure, and allowing a single market actor to charge 30% tax on anyone using the roads, for any business conducted where someone took a road to get there, is ridiculous. I&#x27
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by AYBABTME 3y ago
I think being alive is awesome in aggregate even though there are people whose existence is miserable and for whom it's absurd to suggest that life might be awesome. You might think Descartes was an awesome human, but what about the br
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by AYBABTME 3y ago
Don't understand what you're saying. I don't do football games and don't stand for flags, but I served abroad in an ultimately pointless multi-decade war. I'm not American. I still think the world is incredibly luck
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by AYBABTME 3y ago
I'm going to ignore your attempt at ad-hominem because you're far off mark. Anyways: (1) there will be violence and people will suffer from someone else's power (2) you're better off wishing for that power to be as nice
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by AYBABTME 3y ago
The best brains don't go work for the CIA or the DoD, or at least they don't stay. It's not an environment in which you can strive and do your best work. Nothing against what they do, I'm ex-military, but the culture in
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by AYBABTME 3y ago
The US is the most benign empire one could wish for. History makes that plain, and just peeking over the fence at contender's tendencies and track record further reinforces that. Easy moral justification backed by actual moral justific
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by AYBABTME 3y ago
Ignoring financial incentives, you're claiming that a specific method of dissemination (word of mouth) is all that anyone could ever need, or some such. This doesn't make much sense. How can only one very specific communication me
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by AYBABTME 3y ago
Bringing attention to the existence of a thing isn't juicing, it's a necessary part of making something useful. If you build something that's potentially useful but no one ever hears of it, it isn't actually useful until
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by AYBABTME 3y ago
Here's a one time donation. The project looks interesting, I'll give it a spin next time I need something like that. If it's embeddable as a library that's even better!
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by AYBABTME 3y ago
The existing chargers for these cars are much slower than the slower Tesla chargers, so it's not like these cars will face an overall worse experience.
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by AYBABTME 3y ago
I think the Max 9 are made in WA though, so it would be a much wider scale cultural problem than just SC's non-union vs. WA union factories.
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by AYBABTME 3y ago
Afaict in the US it uses camera to read posted signs, and it doesn't understand it so well. Again and again I had my car interpret a speed sign wrongly and change it's behaviour in consequence. Whereas my Ioniq 5 in Korea has perf
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by AYBABTME 3y ago
Despite their exaggerated figures, my real world experience with a Model Y Performance, a Kona EV and an Ioniq 5, the Tesla still has better range, and much better performance. Although the suspension is indeed very stiff, the Ioniq 5 is so
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by AYBABTME 3y ago
This is true on (eg) my Ioniq 5 that actually knows the real speed limit and shows it on the HUD but my Model Y is hopelessly bad at reading posted speed limits and would net me a bunch of tickets AND also drive 90kmh in a 120kmh zone.
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by AYBABTME 3y ago
The most efficient way is to travel until ~10% and fast charge to 60-70%, it takes way less time to charge in those range and it's plenty enough to cover large distances and pass multiple chargers. I don't bother slowing down, I d
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by AYBABTME 3y ago
I'm in good shape and healthy and if I sit and drive for more than 3h straight, my body is quite unhappy with it. It's possible but not a good idea.
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by AYBABTME 3y ago
I drove from Reno to LA recently in a Model Y and my charging stops all lined up with bathroom breaks and food. I never actually waited for the charging process itself. It doesn't take 45min and it's not like I have any interest i
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by AYBABTME 3y ago
I think the market is shrinking because the prices are going up because innovation is impossible (compared to alternative transportation tech) because of insane certification costs which creates a reinforced monopoly on existing players and
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by AYBABTME 3y ago
Diesel engines in boats and gensets run at 80% load continuously, and are most happy there. Diamond makes nice planes, I wish there were more like it.
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by AYBABTME 3y ago
My litmus test is this: in 1960/70/80, it wasn't uncommon for a car to break down in the middle of a road trip, and to hear horror stories of people stuck in the middle of nowhere. Cars were more hackable but they also weren&
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by AYBABTME 3y ago
The regulator is to blame if certification is so expensive that old tech is left around to kill people.
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by AYBABTME 3y ago
But it's crazy that people die left and right like flies. The fricking SVP of the AOPA who was narrating videos on GA accident reviews... died in a GA accident 2 months ago. In other high risks sports, people tend to blame lack of skil
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by AYBABTME 3y ago
Sort of yes/it depends. Cold air is more dense, so performance is better.
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by AYBABTME 3y ago
I find it crazy that GA piston planes aren't using more modern engines with FADEC and turbo-charged as a matter of fact. The 1960s engine situation with GA planes is crazy to me. Having to care about carb ice, fuel mixture, and low pe
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by AYBABTME 3y ago
This doesn't seem to say if the mating system allows more complex methods than absolute 3D grid location/orientation? E.g can it mate to parts relatively and specify constraints on degrees of freedom?

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