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by davidgould 5y ago
I particularly liked the way the series covered the way science and engineering progresses, through the almost blundering interaction of geniuses, cranks, fast buck artists, and bureaucrats over time.
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by davidgould 5y ago
Perhaps, but you have to feed older ones more.
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by davidgould 5y ago
In 1994 I got a new 486 computer to run a unix as I was using a mix of unixes at work. It was hard to choose technically between the various BSD and Linux disks from Walnut Creek CDrom. So I took a look into the mailing lists. On the BSD li
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by davidgould 5y ago
This sounds like my dad. He was a skillful pilot but enjoyed risk too much to be a “good” pilot. Died of lymphoma 30 years ago, so it never caught up with him. He flew a lot for a private pilot, over ten thousand hours,so had a few of those
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by davidgould 5y ago
So by this theory people must really love janitorial and fast food work.
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by davidgould 5y ago
According to the article, the main storage aka black box was destroyed in the fire. They are trying to pull data from a secondary controller that was less damaged.
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by davidgould 5y ago
I get this about half the time using Firefox with uBlock Origin on Linux, sometimes I have to refresh multiple times.
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by davidgould 5y ago
Or even assaulting and/or arresting the bystander filming.
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by davidgould 5y ago
No love for Apple Desktop Bus?
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by davidgould 5y ago
I'd be glad of that too, but we are not there yet.
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by davidgould 5y ago
Likely the reason you’ve never heard of car fires before is that they are so common that they are not news.
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by davidgould 5y ago
I’ve never seen a hot water fire truck. Are they common in your area? eta: Even hot water still has a high latent heat of vaporization.
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by davidgould 5y ago
I personally have had the car I was driving catch fire spontaneously. Once I was inside, once nearby. Funny thing, same car, different causes.
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by davidgould 5y ago
Tesla does not limit the speed over the speed to 5 mph over the speed limit.
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by davidgould 6y ago
I wonder quite why something like a PT6 costs so much. The development costs are surely paid off by now, and it’s produced in fairly high volume, but it remains expensive. Maybe SpaceX should get into aircraft engines?
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by davidgould 6y ago
The objective is to lighten the ship. Moving the light containers isn’t optimal.
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by davidgould 6y ago
If you want a more modern microcontroller, but in the spirit of the 6502, take a look at the STM8.
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by davidgould 6y ago
Anecdotal data point: I sold my Honda Fit to buy a Model 3 Performance, both are outstanding value for the money.
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by davidgould 6y ago
But they don’t have split frames so there is no way to install the belt in the first place.
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by davidgould 6y ago
> batteries somehow escaped from their steel cage From the photos I have seen the car was ripped in half leaving the drivers area and front corner intact and the rest of the car spread out in what the air crash investigators call a &quot
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by davidgould 6y ago
Yes. It is a model of clear concise technical writing and of programming. It is inspiring.
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by davidgould 6y ago
Back in the 1980s I used spend a fair amount of work time in rooms with a VAX and can attest to their powerful and noisy fans. If you are a pro with a VAX, you had better be a fan liker.
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by davidgould 6y ago
> developers on average are probably going to understand that design changes and architecture changes basically orthogonal If the reaction here to the touchbar is representative, perhaps they didn't want the M1 announcement to be ov
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by davidgould 6y ago
Late 70s DEC equipment visual designs were great.
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by davidgould 6y ago
When you sell, all the options transfer to the new owner. When you trade it in to Tesla they may remove them.
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by davidgould 6y ago
They would be in the wrong if that is what they were doing, but it isn’t. If you sell your car to a private party it keeps all its options. If you sell it back to Tesla, ie trade in, they may add or subtract options before reselling it. Th
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by davidgould 6y ago
The roof is glass,not metal.
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by davidgould 6y ago
It is odd. It thought the presentation was compelling and audacious, they really do mean to change the world, and presented a detailed and plausible plan to do that. And yet, no serious discussion on HN except for some halfhearted dismisals
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by davidgould 6y ago
V* engines share a common crankshaft with both banks, that's the V part. Please cite any specific V12 aircraft engine that can have one bank of cylinders shut down. I don't believe one exists.
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by davidgould 6y ago
The Model 3 rear subframe is not the same as the Model Y which you link too.

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