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by dtparr 7y ago
Yeah, honestly, I posted it hoping it would catch on enough to get some eyes on it. Always seems to be someone here who knows about any topic.
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Teenager loses memory every two hours after being kicked in the head(newsweek.com)
3 points by dtparr 7y ago|2 comments
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by dtparr 7y ago
Do nuclear scramjets count as air breathing? They don't use atmospheric oxygen for combustion, iirc, which is what I think of when I hear air breathing.
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by dtparr 7y ago
It seems like what you're arguing is that delivery drivers should not be a tipped class, but instead just guaranteed a higher rate.
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by dtparr 7y ago
Yep. Got my hands on a couple afterwards. Silver streamer style that looks like aluminum foil, but feels more like a plastic.
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by dtparr 7y ago
Unless those countries comprise the entire market for new cars, I'm not sure that really refutes his point.
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by dtparr 8y ago
What's the fail safe for aircraft with this kind of thrust? Planes can glide after a loss of power, helos autorotate, do these just fall out of the sky on a nice ballistic arc? Maybe one of those whole plane parachutes?
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by dtparr 8y ago
So I did experience this. I eventually just moved my wife's phone over to a static IP/external dns so she didn't have to deal with it. But at least the rest of the network (IoT in particular) had less tracking. I've unex
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by dtparr 8y ago
It's less common, but some people use a VPN while on mobile data to get back to their local network. https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/vpn/overview/ I guess you could also setup your pihole to be externall
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by dtparr 8y ago
Discussion from when his leave was initially announced (as temporary): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17051574
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Tesla’s Engineering Chief Is Out After Taking Leave of Absence(wsj.com)
6 points by dtparr 8y ago|3 comments
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by dtparr 8y ago
One nit, in addition to the +$9k long range 'option' the cheapest current 3 also requires the +$5k Premium Upgrade Package. So the cheapest current Model 3 is $49k (+ the 1k Destination + Doc Fee). I'm curious how many of th
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Self-taught rocket scientist finally blasts off into California sky(nbcnews.com)
2 points by dtparr 9y ago|1 comments
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by dtparr 9y ago
It depends where you are. Microcenters generally have them for $5 ($10 for the 'W'), although for Pi Day they're both on sale for $3.14. Sadly, there aren't any near me, but I had a relative who is near them pick up a
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by dtparr 9y ago
So, to be fair, they both refer to it as 'faster ethernet' to try to distinguish it from 'full Gigabit' and say explicitly in the post: > While the USB 2.0 connection to the application processor limits the available
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by dtparr 9y ago
Article title is "At This Crypto Event, The Attendees Really Were High", but that's not terribly useful, so I went with a modified version of the Wired tweet that's more descriptive. Updates welcome.
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Crypto Sanctum attendees unknowingly ate cannabis infused catering(wired.com)
4 points by dtparr 9y ago|2 comments
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by dtparr 9y ago
It's saying that whether it affects latency or just throughput depends on how those pauses are distributed in absolute terms, not just the ratio. There's a big difference in 99th percentile latency between a 1ms pause every 400ms
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by dtparr 9y ago
Well, right, they could contract with them to mutually agree to stop by incentivizing them as you suggest, but I was talking more from a unilateral standpoint.
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by dtparr 9y ago
The article specifically says: >All that momentum is then harnessed to catapult a payload into space at speeds one source said could be around 3,000 miles per hour. So that's what I was working off of. Admittedly, it's unclear
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by dtparr 9y ago
I mean, sort of. That's less than 6% of the dv you need to get to LEO. If this thing can only add another 3k mph we're still at less than a quarter of the dv needed to get to space today. It might make a reasonable 'first
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by dtparr 9y ago
That is what they're doing already, buying discs at retail. So no, Disney can't stop them unless they stop selling physical discs (or stop including digital copies with their physical discs).
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by dtparr 9y ago
Yes, the answer is yes. In fact, Disney movies, like many others in the US, often come in a multi-pack with a Blu-ray, DVD, and a digital code. They can sell the digital code while renting out both the Blu-ray and DVD. Then after a while
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by dtparr 9y ago
I can certainly understand the challenges that a new entrant in a field like car manufacturing faces, and I agree that Tesla has generally done a good job. However, for a general consumer who isn't buying a product to support the miss
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by dtparr 9y ago
I don't think they were actually cropped, I think the way they setup the roadster on an "incline" and then placed camera mounts to capture the driver means that none of them are pointed 'down' at the 2nd stage. See
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by dtparr 9y ago
Yeah I'm unclear if they were exaggerating, or just wrong. It seems unlikely you'd generate a plot showing an intentionally wrong trajectory/aphelion that could be shot down by later observation. I'm actually wondering
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by dtparr 9y ago
Yeah, I'm not saying no one would, but of the cross section I mentioned, how many would make the nominal connection and find it negative enough to dissuade them from applying knowing there's no actual functional connection. Not 0
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by dtparr 9y ago
Not just Vandy, the Eastern Range is run by the AF's 45th Space Wing, and SLC-40 is on Cape Canveral Air Force Station, an AFB.
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by dtparr 9y ago
That's correct, it's covered by ITAR.
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by dtparr 9y ago
I wonder how many people interested in and competent at 18F's mission would be familiar enough with enlisted job codes in the Army to make that connection.

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