FrojoS

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Ask HN: How to make international phone call from PC without skype?
1 points by FrojoS 2y ago|2 comments
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by FrojoS 2y ago
Wrong. The first Tesla, the Roadster, was an existing design by Lotus [1]. All Tesla designs since, including the Cybertruck, have been led by Franz von Holzhausen. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Roadster_(firs
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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Is the New Leader of Relativity Space(arstechnica.com)
9 points by FrojoS 2y ago|1 comments
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Can Windows 95 Browse the Modern Internet in 2025? [video](youtube.com)
1 points by FrojoS 2y ago|0 comments
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Gaussian Splatting in UnrealEngine [video](youtube.com)
1 points by FrojoS 2y ago|0 comments
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by FrojoS 2y ago
Well, I would have thought that once a temperature sensor reads 100 deg Celsius the clock would start. I'm sure there are good reasons why this wouldn't work well or is overly complex, but I would expect the article to discuss the
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by FrojoS 2y ago
> But how would an automatic rice cooker know when the 20 minutes was up? How about a clock? Now, I understand that in 1955 the required components might have been deemed too expensive, or actually the problem is more complex than that.
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by FrojoS 2y ago
Starliner is a reusable spacecraft. Since it lands in the desert, it should be easier to refurbish than Dragon, which lands in the sea. But all that is mostly theoretical unless Starliner becomes a reliable spacecraft.
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by FrojoS 2y ago
It sure makes sense. The endorsement is extremely unlikely to decide the election. On the contrary, the chance that the endorsement will lead to retribution after a lost election is arguably much higher. They think it happened last time ar
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by FrojoS 2y ago
It was driven by sunk cost fallacy.
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by FrojoS 2y ago
To do what?
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by FrojoS 2y ago
Many interesting articles. It felt really modern to me, not what I would have expected from reading something from almost 100 years ago. I found the overly optimistic article on page 28 about longevity research especially amusing.
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Nov 1929 Popular Mechanics incl. solar power plant by Goddard(books.google.com)
4 points by FrojoS 2y ago|1 comments
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by FrojoS 2y ago
Weird. It works for me. Chrome on OS X. M1 Mac Air.
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Free Starship Booster catching arcade game(mechazilla.io)
78 points by FrojoS 2y ago|22 comments
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Why flying insects gather at artificial light [pdf](nature.com)
2 points by FrojoS 2y ago|0 comments
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Undercover as a Farm Worker in Germany(theguardian.com)
4 points by FrojoS 2y ago|0 comments
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by FrojoS 2y ago
I assume you meant 0.14 kWh (kilo watt hours) of energy. (I can't access the article.)
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by FrojoS 2y ago
An air conditioner (air-air heat pump) has an efficiency of ~450%, resistive heating has ~100%
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by FrojoS 2y ago
AFAIK Vehicles use flexible rubber pipes because the rigid copper pipes of fixed split ACs would not withstand the vibrations of a car. The downside of these more flexible pipes is that they leak more.
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by FrojoS 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annapurna Just in case anyone is unaware, it's a mountain in Nepal. The 10th highest in the world.
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by FrojoS 2y ago
I'm not sure I follow. What symbols should be used for variables? Once you run out of all characters in the Latin alphabet, you either use another one or you have to resort to subscripts, hyperscript etc.
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by FrojoS 2y ago
What makes you say, that the bombing of Coventry was "probably an accident"? There was repeated, and clearly well planned out bombing of the city between 1940-1942 [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covent
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by FrojoS 2y ago
They can be to the side of the data center, too.
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by FrojoS 2y ago
Those examples are unlikely to kill you. A humanoid robot can. Let's say it quickly moves its arm on a collision course with your head. The arm can weigh around 10 kg. The impact can easily kill an adult. I'm a bit less pessimisti
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by FrojoS 2y ago
To the contrary, there is usually _several_ engineers who see the ethical/safety problems and talk about them with colleagues. They just don't report it to the right authorities.
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by FrojoS 2y ago
Go to a country with just that and witness how stupidly wasteful it is to have an energy grid with regular outages. Everyone who can afford it has an expensive backup generator, batteries, etc. For industry, it's a disaster. I live off
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by FrojoS 2y ago
And Tesla is selling FSD for thousands of dollars per activation. Waymo technology is awesome, but I'm pretty sure, right now it's a money-losing business for its owner, Google.
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by FrojoS 2y ago
There is a simple test. Look at the result. Imagine someone else produced it. Would you think "This is very well done."? If not, it's "mediocre" at best. Reminds me of Ira Glass: “All of us who do creative work, we
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by FrojoS 2y ago
This could be straight out of the Command and Conquer: Red Alert series. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_%26_Conquer:_Red_Alert

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