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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
That is pretty cool, it has definitely been an interesting electric truck week. I especially like Volvo USA's Electric VNR series ( https://www.volvotrucks.us/trucks/vnr-electric/ ). As someone who tries to cur
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
That's great, I really wanted something like that when I worked at Google because nobody allowed their machine to make noise and I'd miss the 'meeting indicator' and be late for meetings. Started making one but with much
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
230 max miles though, and 90 minute recharge. With range margin that is 2 ninety minute stops for a 500 mile day. But I would certainly agree that 230 mile range, reliably day in and day out would be better than 500 mile range "sometim
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I wonder sometimes if folks think they are buying a Delorean lottery ticket.
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
This seems kind of par for the course. What I find strange is that there are busses[1] operating economically with similar time of use (but not top speed) requirements. The whole "car parts scaled up to truck size" is super on bra
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I don't disagree, but "too much" isn't really a thing. The trick there is understanding long duration storage preparation options. Zucchini for example can be incorporated into an excellent relish, tomatoes into a number
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
This is pretty neat, I'm not a huge COBOL fan but actually got paid once to write code that generated outreach mail for political correspondence using voter registration data. For that, it worked really well and I could certainly appre
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Ask HN: What question would AI answer to demonstrate it thinks?
1 points by ChuckMcM 3y ago|15 comments
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I always enjoyed the stories of 'clock work' people (robots).
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
And people ask why I still come to this site :-). That is a great link.
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
As I understand it, Stalin said, "Quantity is its own kind of quality." But I don't have the original Russian (someone here no doubt does) where he was referring to the USSR's ability to produce arms faster than their op
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
This is a bummer. Of all the Twitter replacement wannabes I think Spoutible has been the most successful at capturing the essence of what it was that made Twitter fun early on. The new 'news feed' was a much better take on getting
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Spoutible is down (noon PDT)(spoutible.com)
2 points by ChuckMcM 3y ago|1 comments
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
One of the more interesting things to me is that while every storage medium has failures (which is why RAID and backups are a thing :-) there are more failure modes with flash storage that present as abrupt storage failure.
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I could believe that, that also presumes that they stay reasonably close to the surface. If they sink in the Pacific retrieval would be very unlikely.
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Interesting article! This would certainly be amenable to signal processing algorithms if you could get reliable wave height/frequency data. I suspect flying a kite doing SAR above and behind the ship (looking forward) would likely be t
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Ouch! My thought was that the app based model with some sort of vetting of drivers was better than a jobs board with people's names on it. Perhaps not a lot better but possibly better.
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I am really struck by what it must be like to have dozens of 4.x level earthquakes in a week. That has got to be unnerving.
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Yeah, something like this. There are two kinds of "advertising" model on the web, in one you put some javascript on the page and outsource your ads to one or more advertising networks. In the other, you add an advertising group to
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I was struck by these two paragraphs in the article: Mr Black, who runs a freight brokering company called Freight Rate Central in Sarasota, Florida, is part of an invisible army of professionals who coordinate and marshal the fleets of tr
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
So your saying a container salvage company would be more profitable? :-)
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
This reads like there is an opportunity for a YC company to create an authenticated freight dispatching service. Sort of "uber for freight" where you sign up owner/operators and connect them with freight loads that need to mo
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Ah yes, the TVCs. Nothing said "We're evil" more than the subclass of contractors. It is almost a trope in Sci-Fi literature that our characters in this Utopia world discover there are people who are essential to the utopia a
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Sigh. Is a 'nickel metal hydride'[1] solid hydrogen? If someone can find a paper on the technology I would appreciate it. As it is, it reads like a university publicist making up things to sell mundane research as ground breaking
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I sometimes speculate on what some weapon designer has up on their whiteboard using an F9 booster as a weapons platform. What is the range of a Tomahawk launched at 80,000' and Mach 3? Or a cluster of 9? Kind of scary when you think ab
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Disclosure here, I know a lot about radio, less about the implementation in current mobile handsets. Mobile handset signals reach space. There are satellites in orbit that, amongst other things, look for them. It is just one of the ways an
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Yes, T-mobile was part of their announcement. The only similar situation I can relate it to from my personal experience were the co-operation with Google and Facebook by Newspapers to get engagement only to have the newspapers feel like the
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
It's a fair point. My impression is that people who are willfully circumventing communication infrastructure restrictions put in place by the government understand there are risks. Even things like circumventing the firewall in China f
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Agree with this. One of the more interesting things about following the NY AG trial against Trump is to get a peak into how banks "value" things and what they consider "good" or "not good". The overall value of
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
This is not a surprising next step, it gives me several thoughts; 1) Starlink usurps nation-state controls, period. Whether it is enabling service when the local government doesn't want it, or denying service to an ally the US is tryin

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