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by cameldrv 2y ago
It may not be a flex, but having an electric car is still a statement (less than it used to be, but still) that you're a high tech, forward thinking, environmentally conscious person. The problem is that now it's also a statement
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by cameldrv 2y ago
It's incredible what's happened in the past year. I know a lot of people that own Teslas. Almost all of them have said they won't buy another one, entirely due to garbage Elon posts on Twitter. A number of them have said t
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by cameldrv 2y ago
The other problem from what I can see was a lot of frog-boiling. MCAS was actually originally designed for a slightly different aerodynamic situation, but in flight testing, they discovered a different and more serious instability. The eng
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by cameldrv 2y ago
I don’t think it rules out free will, but perhaps free will is more limited. There is a self reflective part of your mind, probably physically located in your frontal lobe, but there are also many other parts of your mind and brain that do
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by cameldrv 2y ago
I don’t know what’s usual in France, but it’s usual in Germany for apartments to not have numbers. You have to put your name on your mailbox, and there’s no way to address something to someone who doesn’t live in the apartment. If you’re
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by cameldrv 2y ago
That's the basic philosophy of what people are now calling "fixed wing suicide drones." It's just a cruise missile with a propeller and a piston engine instead of a jet. Here are the tradeoffs as I see them: 1. The pist
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by cameldrv 2y ago
It’s an anti-ship missile. Firing at a warship has the least chance of collateral damage of any target I can think of.
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by cameldrv 2y ago
There is a Czech engine called the PBS TJ-100 that I’ve seen used on some jet powered gliders. It’s about 290 lbs of thrust and retails for $75k. There is also an uprated version, the PBS TJ-150 that’s about 340 lbs. I think that would b
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by cameldrv 2y ago
Maybe someone can chime in with a good explanation: I've never really understood why the DCT is better than the discrete Fourier transform for compression. I once read it had something to do with it not needing a window function and
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It depends on your skin though. If you're of European ancestry and living in a sunny place, your genes haven't had enough time to adapt.
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by cameldrv 2y ago
Yes I’ve heard from multiple sources that the Navy’s training is not what it once was. For officers, much of their training is done on the ship via self study in their spare time instead of in a classroom. I think that in this case probabl
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by cameldrv 2y ago
Yeah I think this is the biggest issue. Even if you know precisely the configuration of the target computer, you can’t know if there’s going to be a cache miss. A conventional CPU can reorder instructions at runtime to keep the pipeline f
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by cameldrv 2y ago
There are a few other airports that have this, and my understanding is that only one aircraft can do the approach at a time. If another plane tunes in the ILS they will see the localizer and glideslope indications for the other plane. I’m
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by cameldrv 2y ago
Also true for Zinc. I think half the reason the supplement companies do this is that the oxides are also physically small, so they can get a given dosage in fewer/smaller pills. This is especially true for multivitamins.
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by cameldrv 2y ago
When a person is put in jail, they are not protected from their creditors. Very often their houses get foreclosed, assets sold, etc. This is considered to be a just part of the punishment. The concept of corporate personhood is laughable
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by cameldrv 2y ago
Yeah. Have you seen Waymo? Even with 12.5, you have to keep your eyes on the road, and at least once or twice a week, it’s going to do something that would likely cause an accident. If it does, Tesla will blame you for not paying attenti
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by cameldrv 2y ago
Why can’t you put a company in jail?
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by cameldrv 2y ago
I think it’s very unlikely that Starliner will ever fly again, regardless of the ultimate outcome of this mission. In its three flights, Starliner has had so many serious problems, it’s obvious that it hasn’t been sufficiently engineered.
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by cameldrv 2y ago
The other problem beyond range is dispatch reliability. Most light planes can’t go very high or fast to get around thunderstorms, and they can’t fly in icing conditions, and flying in low visibility with a single amateur pilot is still dan
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by cameldrv 2y ago
Personally I pay for seat assignments but I’m sympathetic. He didn’t create this problem. The airline knows the birthdate of every passenger before they show you the option to pay for seats. They are deliberately seating young kids alone
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by cameldrv 2y ago
Yeah I'm not sure about the law, but if the concept of consumer protection is caveat emptor, I need to know who I'm dealing with. The problem with Amazon is that even if you order from one seller, you're getting the goods fr
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by cameldrv 2y ago
On a related note, I had to stop using the Apple weather app because it doesn’t even get the current temperature right at my house. Right now, Apple weather is saying it’s 61 degrees and Weather Underground is saying 72.
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“Appears to be completely random.” The claim is that perhaps for most objects it is completely random, but maybe for some objects like our brain, perhaps the coin is biased in a way that allows information to flow from the qualia world to
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by cameldrv 2y ago
The issue is that the fact that we can talk about qualia means that they must affect the physical brain, so people search for a loophole in physics where information could move from the world of qualia to the physical world.
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by cameldrv 2y ago
Just for background, the relevance is this: We have conscious/immediate experience. Things like the feeling of seeing the color red or feeling an itch. There seems to be no way to account for this in physics. It could be that there
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by cameldrv 2y ago
"with the largest increase of 18.9 to 31.8 occurring from 2019 to 2021." That's gotta be COVID. Could be the virus, could be substandard care due to COVID, but obesity didn't go up that much in two years.
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by cameldrv 2y ago
Because national polling is more frequent, and you can pretty closely approximate a state result with a national poll plus a fixed “lean” for each state.
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by cameldrv 2y ago
These cameras are extremely suspicious -- just follow the money. I bought some cheap Chinese cameras in 2020 that by default send the video stream to a Chinese server, which you can watch with an app on your phone. The cameras were about
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by cameldrv 2y ago
It's too bad that DME/DME RNAV isn't more widely available. The only real reason it's so expensive is that there isn't much demand for it since GPS (usually) works fine. Electronics-wise, it's not much more c
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by cameldrv 2y ago
I don’t know, you tell me. How much would it cost to bury all of the power lines in the Houston area?

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