Drunk_Engineer

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by Drunk_Engineer 2y ago
Ok, but which earns more profit? Ford's EV division overall loses $5+ billion per year. https://www.automotivedive.com/news/fords-ev-losses-q2-earni...
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by Drunk_Engineer 2y ago
Mobile broadband uses public airwaves, which is entirely FCC jurisdiction.
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by Drunk_Engineer 2y ago
Previous discussion (2016): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12240000
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Second Post Office IT system faulty and caused wrongful convictions(inews.co.uk)
2 points by Drunk_Engineer 2y ago|0 comments
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by Drunk_Engineer 2y ago
From what I saw in the rebuttal papers, the Google cost-function is wirelength based. You can still get good TNS from that if your timing is very simplistic -- or if you choose your benchmark carefully.
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by Drunk_Engineer 2y ago
Yes in combination. Customers generally buy these tools as a package deal. If the placer/floorplanner blows everything else out of the water, then a CAD vendor can upsell a lot of related tools.
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by Drunk_Engineer 2y ago
Oh man, if only it were that simple. A floorplanner has to guestimate what the P&R tools are going to do with the initial layout. That can be very hard to predict -- even if the floorplanner and P&R tool are from the same vendor.
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by Drunk_Engineer 2y ago
I have not read the latest paper, but their previous work was really unclear about metrics being used. Researchers trying to replicate results had a hard time getting reliable details/benchmarks out of Google. Also, my recollection is
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by Drunk_Engineer 2y ago
Or...just go through their customer list and revoke the registration of any vehicles that were modified. Customers can then pay for having vehicle inspected at the DMV.
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Indiana police are seizing FedEx packages containing cash(indystar.com)
297 points by Drunk_Engineer 2y ago|243 comments
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by Drunk_Engineer 2y ago
Automakers spend anywhere from $20-$30 BILLION annually on advertising, largely on TV and internet. Good luck to Edinburgh trying to shut off that firehose.
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by Drunk_Engineer 2y ago
IANAA, but this says we don't have to rely on with the notion of dark matter at all. The paper proposes a special type of singularity that apparently has all the properties of galactic rotation and bending light normally associated wit
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A vintage 1903 espresso machine at a Village cafe (2012)(ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com)
51 points by Drunk_Engineer 2y ago|29 comments
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by Drunk_Engineer 2y ago
In 1927, the first espresso machine was brought to America. The huge machine is still on display at the Caffe Reggio in NYC.
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by Drunk_Engineer 2y ago
Kubrick did Spartacus (I think you meant to say). Kingdom of Heaven might be a better example from Ridley Scott.
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by Drunk_Engineer 2y ago
They wanted Kubrick to direct, so it could have been a serious effort (Kubrick declined).
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by Drunk_Engineer 2y ago
That was 4 years ago, and the case has not gone to trial.
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by Drunk_Engineer 2y ago
While these guys were taking a few grand for a kitchenette, Caltrain top management gave away $150 MILLION to some well-connected friends for the failed CBOSS signal system project. CBOSS was an complete sham, but of course nobody will go t
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by Drunk_Engineer 2y ago
In California, money from traffic fines does not get paid back to law enforcement agencies. In fact, local city government has to pay for traffic enforcement, but gets no revenue from the fines because it all goes to the state.
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by Drunk_Engineer 3y ago
This "safety" legislation is mainly about requiring 2-man crews on trains. The unions are of course very much in favor, but it would do nothing to prevent derailments like what happened at E. Palestine.
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by Drunk_Engineer 3y ago
All it takes is one fallen power line or tree to turn that stroad into a giant parking lot of death. Cutting back brush and undergrounding power lines is much more cost-effective than building stroads up into the hillsides.
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by Drunk_Engineer 3y ago
It was rather bizarre to say the search warrant was "withdrawn". That is not something which can be undone once police have taken possession of some items.
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by Drunk_Engineer 3y ago
This factor of 5 difference in 3rd world countries might actually be explained by Smeed's Curve: "In 1947 Ruben Smeed, the founding father of transport studies in Britain, discovered an intriguing statistical relationship [for 20
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by Drunk_Engineer 3y ago
As a chip designer, I'm dubious of this claim: "The advantage of performing matrix multiplication using only addition for arithmetic is that it then becomes feasible to build special- purpose chips with no multiplier circuits. Suc
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by Drunk_Engineer 3y ago
So if MOHELA were actually harmed -- shouldn't they be the plaintiff in the lawsuit?
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by Drunk_Engineer 3y ago
"In Supreme Court oral arguments, it was revealed that MOHELA hasn’t made a contribution to that fund in 15 years...Furthermore, an analysis from the Roosevelt Institute and the Debt Collective shows that MOHELA stands to gain revenue
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by Drunk_Engineer 3y ago
Actually, MOHELA specifically said it was not harmed by the loan forgiveness and wanted nothing to do with the case. This is why many are baffled by the Court's decision to ignore Standing.
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by Drunk_Engineer 3y ago
This was a rather bizarre decision for the way Justices sidestepped the crucial issue of "Standing". There were 6 states that brought the case, and none of them would have suffered any harm from the loan forgiveness.
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by Drunk_Engineer 3y ago
Craigslist
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by Drunk_Engineer 3y ago
Side underride guards weigh as little as 150 lbs, and have been successfully tested at 40mph speeds.

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