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by csteubs 4y ago
Good call out. I respect the effort put into the aesthetics of the prototype, but the display cut out could definitely have been flush-mounted in a way to disguise the cut out with something as simple as household white quarter inch trim. S
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by csteubs 4y ago
I'd venture a guess they could mean using Starlink as the backbone for off-planet comms? I've heard that referenced a few times. The true end game is probably all of the above and more. If the need fits the bill and the pockets ar
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by csteubs 4y ago
Underpinning much of this is the costs associated with image capture and the lack of fine-grain temporal resolution. You can write software to analyze and pinpoint certain "things" the customer is looking for, but in all cases tha
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by csteubs 5y ago
A colleague of mine created TypeSense ( https://typesense.org/ ) a few years ago. I think it may make sense for your use case.
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by csteubs 5y ago
Ditto on the toolkit recommendation. There are some good sets out there but you could also go the DIY route and assemble one if the recipient has a niche they typically work on. Walmart's HyperTough brand tools are cheap and works well
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by csteubs 5y ago
I remember a DevOps engineer at my last job telling me about a "cheat code" where we could type 'push' into the VPN 2FA prompt to have it pushed as a notification to the enrolled device. I've been typing the same co
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by csteubs 5y ago
Those suspension bolts are no joke. The control arm bolts on my sedan took 25 minutes of the 'blow torch --> upside down canned air' cycle get them to budge with a breaker bar. And the first drive to the alignment shop is enoug
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by csteubs 5y ago
By a large margin, definitely. I was hesitant to attempt repairs on my daily before I picked up car #2 because it was my only mode of transportation. Being able to switch between the two now gives me a much wider time margin for potential e
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by csteubs 5y ago
You're absolutely right, I hadn't thought of that. Very interesting (and affirming) way of looking at those savings.
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by csteubs 5y ago
No better feeling though! Especially when running the numbers post-fix (insert CS joke here) and comparing to shop quotes. I keep spreadsheets for two cars and an older jet ski and I've saved ~$12k this year alone by wrenching solo ass
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by csteubs 5y ago
Might be anecdotal but on top of that, I've noticed that many car owners who previously only had services performed by a shop began doing their own maintenance. A friend who works as a service manager at CarMax had similar observations
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by csteubs 5y ago
Maybe--time will tell. We run revisit estimates with FlightRadar so I can say that there's a good amount of deviation in routes generally, but I also think narrow corridors are the mechanisms that makes rapid revisit even more powerful
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by csteubs 5y ago
Exactly--one such example is Toyota's export lots sitting in the western approach path at PDX, and Liberty International sitting right next to the Port of Newark. We have a ton of examples on social media if you care to see more. I&#x2
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by csteubs 5y ago
Thank you! You're correct about (most) existing planes--from what I understand, there was a "gentleman's agreement" between cold war powers that kept manufacturers from pursuing those designs. Since 2000, many models hav
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by csteubs 5y ago
There's still money on the table for airline operators where routes are concerned. It sounds a bit fringe, but most of these flights take off and land at airports in large cities. International airports are often zoned around industria
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by csteubs 5y ago
Space-adjacent seems like a subcategory that will eventually fall under the "space" umbrella as well. There's a massive amount of terrestrial infrastructure (digital and physical) that will be needed to facilitate all the upc
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by csteubs 5y ago
Always great seeing new companies in the space... space. Eager to see if these startups will end up standing on their own or become no-brainer acquisition targets for the incumbents. I think the outlook is good in general.
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by csteubs 5y ago
"Never Lost Again" is an excellent read for anyone curious about the origins of Keyhole-become-Google Earth.
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by csteubs 5y ago
Congrats! Its amazing how much fruit HN can potentially bear in exchange for a few minutes writing a post or comment. The Who's Hiring threads in particular have been incredibly valuable and I too received my first angel check from som
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by csteubs 5y ago
Appreciate the kind words! We think so too :)
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by csteubs 5y ago
Not A Satellite Labs | Co-Founder (Mobile Sensing - iOS and/or Android) | Remote (U.S.) | https://notasatellite.com We're building the world's first real-time map using a network of cameras aboard 120,000 daily co
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by csteubs 5y ago
FWIW, this is also great advice from an insurance point of view. I went on a 3 month trip and took pictures of all the appliances before leaving--mostly for peace of mind, but also because the building was fairly old and had a history of le
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by csteubs 5y ago
I think the overlap may be surprising. The CTO of the last startup I worked for (well-known e-commerce shaving co.) had a massive lifted F-250 and I've seen a fair share of tech-truck-bro types. I get what you mean, though.
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by csteubs 5y ago
Ditto on the large vehicle purchase. I've been spending more time out in the wilderness and my 2WD Volvo sedan wasn't cutting it on dirt roads and with little-to-no suspension, so I bought a 2005 Yukon from a good friend. He bough
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by csteubs 5y ago
UX on the flight contributor side is currently a low-touch app that accepts the user's flight number and prompts for their seat selection (assuming a commercial flight). We load an image correction profile based on whether the seat is
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by csteubs 5y ago
I think it does for a few very specific reasons. I'll answer your questions in order: 1. Resolution is a function of altitude, atmospheric conditions, and camera capabilities. At 30,000ft with zoom, we can get results around 10cm/
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by csteubs 5y ago
We do, search ’Not A Satellite’ and our social accounts will pop up. Instagram has the most descriptive content/examples.
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by csteubs 5y ago
Check our Instagram for examples: @notasatellite
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by csteubs 5y ago
Correct. It sounds a bit far-out (and it is) but we've proven the feasibility with a testing group of around 300 passengers using a multitude of different phones/altitudes/conditions/routes. GPS works in airplane mode, s
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by csteubs 5y ago
I'm the founder of a company working to solve this exact problem. Revisit rate of Planet's 200+ Dove satellites are quite good (multiple/day) but are comparatively low-res compared to their Rapideye satellites, of which there

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