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by allenrb 3y ago
What sort of meter is this? I’m aware of a few 8 1/2 digit units but thought that was it.
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by allenrb 3y ago
Holy crap, this is maybe the scariest thing I’ve read in a week. You must have known the book really, really well. Glad you had an escape!
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by allenrb 3y ago
Dude… as a landlord in a major American city, I’m lucky to be able to choose my tenants. And while I’m talking about the regulations we face, let me further enlighten you. By making evictions extremely difficult and time-consuming to obta
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by allenrb 3y ago
And employment opportunities galore!
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by allenrb 3y ago
That’s what I’m wondering. Are slow sales happening across the board? Or is it focused on segments where “traditional EV buyers” tend not to shop?
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by allenrb 3y ago
This is spectacular. Aside from, you know, actually making it work and having a software stack on top of it, it’s also beautiful. The wire wrapping and the chassis/backplane complete with retaining clips, everything. As a kid, I would
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by allenrb 3y ago
I’m not a teenager anymore but have kids in 4th & kindergarten. The amount of technology exposure the 4th grader gets is appalling. That goes right up to addictive little clicky games that remind me of the WoW I spent a year playing. I
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by allenrb 3y ago
Stop, just stop. I’m not going to reply to the points I’m unfamiliar with but this crap about SpaceX has to be answered (“someone is wrong on the Internet!”) SpaceX operates what, by reasonable measures, is probably the most reliable launch
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by allenrb 3y ago
I honestly cannot tell if this comment is a joke or not.
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by allenrb 3y ago
Worth noting, the first stage flight probably constitutes the most powerful machine ever successfully operated by humankind, no? (A fusion bomb generates more power for a minuscule period of time, but that sort of competes in a different cl
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by allenrb 3y ago
Yes, in exchange for an investment that constituted a non-trivial portion of the GDP of a superpower near the peak of its trajectory. There’s a reason words like “unsustainable” are so often associated with the Apollo program. It was amazin
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by allenrb 3y ago
I was thinking “glass 1/5th empty” but yeah. Imho this sort of reporting and belief among the general populace is a big part of why rocket-builders have been afraid of the iterative approach since what, the mid-1960s?
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by allenrb 3y ago
Can we please separate Elon-behaves-like-a-fool from SpaceX achieving great things? It’s possible to be a huge fan of the latter while simultaneously being disgusted by the former.
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by allenrb 3y ago
Cue the inevitable litany of reasons why it is wrong to move out of “the cloud” in 3… 2… 1…
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by allenrb 3y ago
I can’t see how this deserves to be downvoted. As far as I’m concerned, anything other than “just the facts, ma’am” advertising is about preying on human weakness. It’s legal, but is it right?
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by allenrb 3y ago
Even on my iPhone (who’d test against that rare platform?) I got repeated strange delays and redraws. Granted, it’s an XR which is hardly the latest model, but… your page is unusable.
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by allenrb 3y ago
I’m pretty confident that payouts from title insurance don’t even reach 10% of the premiums collected. That’s my definition of a scam.
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by allenrb 3y ago
That’s exactly the case with renter protections. I’m a landlord in a large American city. I’m also a “nice guy” who makes sure that things work. We don’t evict except when other options have been exhausted. Now for the problem: it takes man
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by allenrb 3y ago
Good lord, this is the whinge that never ends, isn’t it? If you want an Android phone, dozens if not hundreds of companies will sell you one. You can quite literally choose the level of openness you desire. Personally I prefer the Apple eco
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by allenrb 3y ago
Was assuming this was about metastability in digital electronics. Hadn’t realized that it encompasses much more than that.
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by allenrb 3y ago
That will suck for sure. Hopefully they’ll be handing out some form of compensatory goodies to make up for it a bit.
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by allenrb 3y ago
Was just coming here to say it: And nothing of value was lost.
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by allenrb 3y ago
You’ve hit the nail on the head here, imho. The people running these clouds aren’t fools. Prices will absolutely continue to rise.
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by allenrb 3y ago
I remember times at a few of my jobs, just absolutely cheering for someone’s PR that was filled with red. Good times.
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by allenrb 3y ago
I’ve got a Prusa Mk4 and it supports some sort of cloud feature. Can’t tell you more than that because it’s turned off and there it shall stay. I’m able to print perfectly well over the LAN, thank-you-very-much.
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by allenrb 3y ago
Not quite the same thing, but there was a time when 30 pin SIMM sockets had terrible plastic clips on either end. Being something of a gorilla in my youth, I’d break them off from to time. Fortunately the one in my daily driver had another
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by allenrb 3y ago
Indeed, thanks for the explanation. Not being super familiar with the Scheme community, “R7RS” sounds like a high-performance Audi.
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by allenrb 3y ago
Four engines shutting down isn’t great, but not the end of the world either. I’d give a tasty beverage to know the details behind each one, though. It would be even more useful to know if the entire test was cut short by the four engine shu
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SpaceX conducts a mostly successful test of its Super Heavy booster(arstechnica.com)
3 points by allenrb 3y ago|2 comments
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by allenrb 3y ago
Much faster the second time. Like you said, all of the problems came pre-solved. :-)

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