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by bombcar 5mo ago
EVs generally have more "freedom" to design the car the way they want, as it's usually motors (in the wheels, which you probably need to have anyway) and then the battery (which can be a giant slab, but that's for cost a
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by bombcar 5mo ago
Kia has some competitive vehicles in niches that not many seem to want to service, and I suspect many of their buyers do not live in areas where immobilizers are going to be a major issue. Our dealer was fine, and it's been fine. It&#x
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by bombcar 5mo ago
Exactly - it's a "fine sedan" for Kia, Honda, even Apple to release (I'm sure someone has put an Apple logo on it already). But it doesn't scream "Ferrari" nor does it scream "look at me I'm driv
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by bombcar 5mo ago
The Pontiac Aztek was at least bold, and like the Nissan Cube, people didn't like the looks, but those who bought it really seemed to love it inordinately. This thing isn't even bold, it's just ... a generic car? If they ha
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by bombcar 5mo ago
For many companies, even those breathlessly professing DEI, it boils down to “you can be any color you want as long as you operate exactly as our computers and processes expect you to. Any deviation will be harshly dealt with.”
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by bombcar 5mo ago
At least one total loss was caused by a waste fire in the lavatory from a cigarette-the ashtrays are mandatory safety equipment and the FAA won’t let you fly without them operable.
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by bombcar 5mo ago
Unstable fighters gives them much more maneuverability at the cost of “not returning to straight and level flight” that normal planes have. It’s not directly related to how the wind goes over the wings.
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by bombcar 5mo ago
“Those who used the Nine Rings became mighty in their day, kings, sorcerers, and warriors of old. They obtained glory and great wealth, yet it turned to their downfall. They had, as it seemed, unending life, yet life became unendurable to t
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by bombcar 5mo ago
I’m reminded (and apropos as the Pope quoted him) of Tolkien’s description of the “eternal life” the Ring gives to mortals, and how it’s … not so desirable in the end.
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by bombcar 5mo ago
The “mystery of the person” is a common theme in Catholicism - it can be seen in other (especially the “social”) encyclicals. Rerum Novarum by the current pope’s namesake is worth a study.
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by bombcar 5mo ago
We lost the “liberal education” (not the political one, but the “freeing” classical one) and it’s starting to show. When you compare the robber barons to Google and Meta it’s kind of embarrassing- they build massive empires of iron horses s
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by bombcar 5mo ago
In my experience “engineers” and builders are often quite “conservative” and really don’t like pushing the envelope, and they often only do it under protest. The most famous example may be the perpetual war between architects and engineers&
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by bombcar 5mo ago
And if every iPhone was also a Mac when attached to a monitor and keyboard, monitors and keyboards would become entirely common - as with the hotel example. My iPhone 15 Pro Max is more capable than a MacBook Neo; it’d be nice if it could
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by bombcar 5mo ago
Ten minutes a day is a daily driver? Short commute!
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by bombcar 5mo ago
If the brand had taken off and recovered the advertisers would claim "daring and powerful commercials that saved the brand" - the one thing they can't admit is that advertising isn't terribly effective.
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by bombcar 5mo ago
It seems this particular failure mode wasn't even considered - most large "chemical" tanks are required to have spill walls (basically a berm around the tank that could contain the contents of the tank) - sample model: https
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by bombcar 5mo ago
To be fair we discovered you can strap a bomb to a bomb-disposal robot and make a remote controlled bomb. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/robot-delivered-lethal-...
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by bombcar 5mo ago
A robot useful for these kinds of things would look much more like Simone Giertz's contraptions than a futuristic humanoid thing.
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by bombcar 5mo ago
Airbus kind of embodies the "trust the computer" mentality; and if you're going to do that the computer damn hell better be right all the time - it must not have "backwards" failure modes. Boeing, in similar situa
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by bombcar 5mo ago
The "standard" answer is to do basically what he did - cluster the monitors on a corner (either angled or straight). The "classic" answer is an L-shaped desk, or a desk with credenza. E.g., https://www.borofka
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by bombcar 5mo ago
When I had five monitors, they each had a job. Front of me were two ultrawides on top of each other, the one directly in front of me was for 'the action' as it could handle "two screens" worth of info next to each other.
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by bombcar 5mo ago
A lot of what you pay for with these systems is them staying the same for decades at a time - a factory outfitted with shelving doesn't want to have to replace it all just because they're reconfiguring a part or adding on.
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by bombcar 5mo ago
This is $895 and is maple-topped: https://www.uline.com/Product/Detail/H-1222-MAP/Industrial-P... Much above that and you might as well get custom-made stuff.
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by bombcar 5mo ago
Oh my goodness! Who could ever pay that much for something they use every day! Anyway, back to my folding chair, Vision Pro, and Mac Studio 512GB. ;)
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by bombcar 5mo ago
Ontario, CA is a thing. Two things, actually, I guess. https://www.ontarioca.gov
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by bombcar 5mo ago
California isn't notoriously hard to build in - that's a result of it being incredibly conservative - not politically, but "anything that's built can remain forever, nothing new can be built" conservative.
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by bombcar 5mo ago
It’s been nearly a day - experts on disaster management for this kind of thing should be onsite now. If they’re not, something’s failed and it ain’t the tank.
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by bombcar 5mo ago
Making Money is more instructive on the realities of finance than many entry-level college courses.
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by bombcar 5mo ago
The defining aspect of Pratchett for me is that he loved his characters, and let them be free. He wouldn’t force a character to do something “against his will” and you can see characters introduced as a joke and a parody become fleshed ou
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by bombcar 5mo ago
Pratchett appeared to enjoy writing cross-genre, and “tricking” people into reading things they’d not normally read.

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