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by Reason077 8mo ago
> “My hope was that Apple would be forced to course correct in subsequent releases but that doesn't seem to be happening.” I’m optimistic that they will eventually course correct on Liquid Glass, but we’ll have to wait until iOS
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by Reason077 8mo ago
In 20 years there will be no shortage of cheap, old EVs on the used car market. Petrol cars will be just for the enthusiasts and collectors.
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by Reason077 8mo ago
Weight doesn’t make all that much difference to EV range: aerodynamics are a much more important factor. Handling and “sports car feel” are affected by weight, though, and this is the real reason that Ferrari would want to cut weight to a m
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by Reason077 8mo ago
HS2 will be fantastic, transformative infrastructure… decades from now when (or if) it is actually completed. The issue is that the project has been so badly mismanaged and costs have spiralled so far out of control that even the first smal
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by Reason077 8mo ago
Entry to the main/permanent collections is free, but there are usually one or more special exhibitions at each museum that are paid entry.
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by Reason077 9mo ago
> ”It's only consignments worth over £135 where it ends up being stopped for payment at import.” But why only under £135? This seems like an arbitrary number, and a very low limit.
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by Reason077 9mo ago
> "Paid the fee online, 20% VAT + a few pounds of handling fees ... It’s the normal procedure to buy things from Europe since Brexit 2020." Why don't Amazon and other online retailers just charge you the UK VAT when you or
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by Reason077 9mo ago
> "The biggest suprise about the lightning is that Ford didn't put in a gas engine in it as a range extender." From a manufacturing perspective, adding a range extender does add a lot of cost and complexity. And from an
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by Reason077 9mo ago
Is this ban actually effective and going to be enforced, anyway? My 15-year old niece just returned from Australia where she reports she was definitely still able to access Tik Tok and Instagram while in the country. Her similarly-aged Aust
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by Reason077 9mo ago
The issue here is that the app developers design & test for the latest Apple TV 4K models, which have about 10X the performance (and 2-4X the RAM) compared to the old HD models. Apple left a large generational gap because they kept sell
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by Reason077 9mo ago
GTO (“game theory optimal”) poker solvers are based around a decision tree with pre-set bet sizes (eg: check, bet small, bet large, all in), which are adjusted/optimized for stack depth and position. This simplifies the problem space:
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by Reason077 9mo ago
The Redmond facility apparently works on Starlink satellites, which (unlike Dragon spacecraft) do not use toxic propellants like Hydrazine. Hydrazine is very nasty stuff and even trace exposure can cause eye irritation and conjunctivitis. I
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by Reason077 9mo ago
Fair enough. But delaying engine start-up until the aircraft has nearly finished taxiing wouldn’t have any effect on the way the engine operates during start-up. It just means it would spend less time at idle or near-idle speeds during taxi
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by Reason077 9mo ago
> ”I have no idea who has decided that "invade" means "establish sustained military control".” Oxford Languages, for one, who provide the definition used by Google: invade /ɪnˈveɪd/ verb (of an armed force
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by Reason077 9mo ago
> ”engine hours are weighted by operating power” Interesting - I didn’t know this!
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by Reason077 9mo ago
“Invasion” implies the intent of sustained military occupation/control over some portion a country’s territory. There’s no suggestion that was ever the objective here.
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by Reason077 9mo ago
Intent is important here. It’s an invasion if the objective is to establish sustained military control over some portion of the country’s territory. But if the intention is some other military objective: blow up a military base, kidnap a pr
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by Reason077 9mo ago
The software in modern engines wouldn’t let you do that anyway. The engine startup process can be quite long - several minutes in a 737 MAX - while the engine’s ECU brings things to proper temperatures etc. But with e-taxi, the startup cycl
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by Reason077 9mo ago
Not an expert, but intuition suggests this probably isn’t true. If an engine is going to fail spontaneously it’s almost certainly going to happen at high thrust, not while at idle or very low thrust values during taxi.
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by Reason077 9mo ago
Fuel saving would be only one of the benefits. Airlines would also significantly reduce engine operating hours, reducing engine wear and thus maintenance costs. I’ve been on flights out of Heathrow that seem to spend almost as much time tax
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by Reason077 9mo ago
Not ridiculous if you’re flying above the atmosphere. SpaceX has proposed point-to-point rocket-powered hypersonic flights that connect New York to Paris in around 30 minutes. Obviously the real problem with this idea is environmental: emis
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by Reason077 9mo ago
> ”the 767 burns about a tonne taxiing” This seems incredibly inefficient. Is there a future for hybrid aircraft, which would feature both traditional turbofans and large batteries for energy storage? Batteries would eliminate the need
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Interesting. UK ISPs have had a similar block/filter list for many years (mostly covering copyright-infringing torrent websites and the like). But it’s more robust than a simple DNS block. A VPN can bypass the block, but changing DNS p
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by Reason077 9mo ago
Is the “404: not found” error code actually a humorous reference to China’s secret nuclear city? After all, HTTP was invented at CERN, a nuclear research institute. Staff there would presumably have been aware of “404” and probably made jok
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by Reason077 10mo ago
Not if your application requires 2X the energy. Aircraft, drones, etc. There's always trade-offs in battery design. As an old saying goes: you can have high specific energy, low degradation, or low cost... pick two!
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by Reason077 10mo ago
> "That's really terrible." Not really. At 1270 Wh/L, even with 20% degradation, these cells still retain far more energy than a LFP cell (which are more like 350 Wh/L). The question is, what happens at 200, 50
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by Reason077 10mo ago
Is that a tandem bicycle? Cute.
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I’m also suspicious that it’s human-written, or at least human selected/moderated. It doesn’t seem to be updating very frequently for one thing. If it’s AI, it’s very clever and nuanced: comedians should be worried for their jobs. If i
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TLDR: Yes.
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A dozen or so well-resourced tech titans in China are no doubt asking themselves this same question right now. Of course, it takes quite some time for a fab to go from an idea to mass production. Even in China. Expect prices to drop 2-3 yea

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