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by blendo 3y ago
“A pint’s a pound the world around”
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by blendo 3y ago
Just to note, the USB 3.1 specification allows up to 240 Watts of 48 Volt, 5 Amp power. Easily enough power for a monitor/TV, or for a small desktop computer. https://audioxpress.com/news/usb-specification-revision
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by blendo 3y ago
“US copyright law says the rights to characters can be held for 95 years.” 95 years ago was also about when the cinema and recording industries began. Since then, I’ll argue, all recorded entertainment and theatrical performances have becom
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by blendo 3y ago
When I was 62 I went to a 4 day week with a 20% pay cut. What made it easier was backfilling the pay cut by beginning my 401k withdrawls, which you can do starting age 59 1/2. Every Thursday evening I felt like I was on vacation!
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by blendo 3y ago
Yes. I’ve also driven a rented Renault Twizy in San Francisco 15 years ago. I found 25 mph to be dangerously slow when other vehicles are moving 30-40mph, like on Oak, Fell, upper Market, etc. Not to mention its punishingly harsh ride.
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by blendo 3y ago
We seem to define “cars” as vehicles that can: 1: Carry a 1,000 lb payload (4 people plus luggage) 2: At a highway speed of 75-80 mph 3: For a non-stop duration of at least 2 hours 4: With enough armor and safety features to probably keep y
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by blendo 3y ago
I’ve always thought Microsoft should embed it into Excel as a coequal language to VBA. Finance programmers would go nuts!
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by blendo 3y ago
I worked with a programmer who decided, one day, that all his joins were from now on going to be “natural joins”, and code like this started appearing: select job_name, comp_name from jobs natural join companies; This is a foot gun just
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by blendo 3y ago
But I’ve heard that birds, when flying, are mostly looking at the ground. Perhaps sound is a better way to alert them?
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by blendo 3y ago
And the electric ones make short work of our many hills.
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by blendo 3y ago
Yes, our 2021 Mazda lets you opt out in two ways. 1. Every time you start the car, you can navigate into the system menus to deactivate data collection and transmission. 2. Call customer support, give them your VIN, and follow up in a week
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by blendo 3y ago
I didn’t think Tesla used binocular (stereoscope) cameras. These comments seem to confirm: https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/does-tesla-have-bino...
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by blendo 3y ago
By default, our Mazda CX-30’s “Telematics Control Unit” transmits vehicle history up to MazdaUSA every time you turn the engine off. However, you can disable this by following a procedure explained in the owner’s manual (basically, you call
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by blendo 4y ago
Add heart rate, blood pressure, and blood oxygen level. Have the Apple Watch call 911 if things go pear-shaped. Profit.
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by blendo 5y ago
At my last job I took a 20% cut in pay to get a 4 day workweek. Every Thursday evening became “Yay! Three day weekend!”
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NXP, Volkswagen, and Several European Projects Bet on WiFi DSRC for V2X(iot.eetimes.com)
2 points by blendo 5y ago|0 comments
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by blendo 5y ago
Not unless they’re using magical 1000-3000 Wh/kg batteries. I expect practical transports will use electric motors with hybrid power. And as far as I know, the ONLY electric airplane currently for sale is the two-passenger Pipistrel
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FCC challenged over decision to shift auto spectrum to wireless devices(autoblog.com)
2 points by blendo 5y ago|0 comments
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by blendo 5y ago
Can I suggest that smaller homes (700-1200 SF) are the “low hanging fruit” to reduce single family home construction costs? Perhaps incentivize by basing property taxes on home size?
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by blendo 5y ago
The worst developer I knew never wrote things down: requirements, comments, test plans, and bug reports were only communicated verbally. Even worse, their boss had the same mental block about putting anything in writing. Oh, and to echo an
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by blendo 5y ago
I try and imagine the state before the Sacramento, Feather, American, and San Joaquin rivers were dammed, and before 95% of the salmon runs were destroyed. With judicious planning, we could probably restore much of the original (aboriginal)
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by blendo 5y ago
As a wild guess: 2 hrs (500 nm at 250 kts) 500 kW (2x250 kW motors) So 500 kW for 2 hours, or 1 MWh. Perhaps battery density is 250 Wh/kg, so around 4000 kg for batteries alone. Perhaps serial hybrid would makes more sense?
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Auto Industry Faces Beta vs VHS Battle over V2X Technology(forbes.com)
1 points by blendo 6y ago|0 comments
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by blendo 6y ago
“It undermines one of the sport’s most valuable qualities, namely that the outcome, the title, the victory, ...” This seems less about the integrity of running, and more about the integrity of winning.
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by blendo 6y ago
A study with newer data discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26686969
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by blendo 6y ago
Fig. 8 shows the 2019 energy density is around 725-750 Wh/liter, which is similar to 2013. At the risk of conflating Wh/l and Wh/kg, the 85 kWh Tesla Model S from 2013 weighed about 4600 lbs, while the 100 kWh 2021 model weig
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Re-examining rates of lithium-ion battery tech improvement and cost decline(pubs.rsc.org)
3 points by blendo 6y ago|1 comments
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by blendo 6y ago
Two additional reasons I’ll submit: 1 The American Medical Association has long opposed it, and that org still maintains a halo of virtue 2 Democrats want it, so many Republicans reflexively oppose it
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by blendo 6y ago
With the new US stimulus bill, COBRA is free through September, _IF_ you leave involuntarily: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/11/the-government-will-fully-co... Also, under the same bill, ACA Silver plans are ca
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by blendo 6y ago
Personally, we’ve been happy with Kaiser, so I’ll ask for more details. Was it that Kaiser wouldn’t refer you? Or did you want a second opinion?

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