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by dver 8y ago
Never heard of this project. I would think it was influential on the development of the Falconer V-12 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falconer_V-12 for the Thunder Mustang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by dver 8y ago
I posted once in the looking and received a couple of calls from that post. Didn't latch on to anyone, but was good conversations.
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14,000 Leagues Under Electric Power: My Tesla Cost Me Almost Nothing(forbes.com)
2 points by dver 8y ago|0 comments
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by dver 8y ago
Better analogy is the MiLB minor leagues, lots of eager desperate players who make little to nothing and have no bargaining power.
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by dver 8y ago
Agree, I'll have a value point to balance as well. I don't expect it to have any net effect on my career at this point, hope there is some worthwhile learning though.
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by dver 8y ago
Mid 50's here. As my kids are hitting college age I'm starting to get the itch to go back and complete my degree. My company has a facility near Cal Poly, where I went, and I drive by on my way in and out of town when I go onsite.
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by dver 8y ago
No kidding I've been following https://deltahawk.com/about , since before my first child was born and now he's in college.
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by dver 8y ago
Added corollary, Always test restore your backup, it's the best example of schrodinger's cat.
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The Norwegian Rocket Incident of 1995(youtube.com)
1 points by dver 8y ago|0 comments
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by dver 8y ago
I've used this program several times in the last few years after seeing a comment here on HN. I started at 49, 55 now, no serious weight lifting experience prior, just basic exercises. Worked up from the empty bar. My max on squat has
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by dver 8y ago
Never heard of them, but reading the link, yes same idea.
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by dver 8y ago
My first quarter at Cal Poly was about $90 if I recall correctly. Books were $150. Commuted to school and lived with my parents, who charged me small amount of "rent". It was close to $400 a quarter near the end.
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by dver 8y ago
Paid my way through college working for Best. It was minimum wage. $3.05/hr at the time, unloading 60 ft trailers in 100 degree heat in the late summer. That notwithstanding we actually had medical/dental and paid vacation time. O
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by dver 8y ago
Same joke here, I tell people I'm trending to card table in the parking lot. Like my job and company alot, hate the open office. Literally have standing conversations start right behind my chair multiple times a day.
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by dver 8y ago
Involved in large scale, long term solar testing in the past: I was almost always better to let the rain clean the panels in the field, even in some pretty dusty and arid climates. The deciding factor was usually the labor cost of the clean
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by dver 8y ago
Yes, anything Miles Davis, and most of Vangelis have been for my coding.
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by dver 8y ago
I have a VM that I have to fire up every once in a awhile to deal with a Delphi 7 app if you feel really sentimental.
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by dver 8y ago
Check your bill, we found a charge on ours for rental on the also unused box. Took it back to the service center, and removed the charge.
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by dver 8y ago
I went to the test doc at: http://altoonabustest.psu.edu/buses/reports/480.pdf?15190591... The relevant quote there is: The interior of the bus is configured with seating for 39 passengers including the driver. Ei
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by dver 8y ago
Might be better on the bottom. See this rollover during testing. https://insideevs.com/four-injured-electric-bus-rollover-inc... Disclosure< I work for Proterra and our packs are on the bottom.
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by dver 8y ago
It's one of the difficulties in manufacturing for US entities is the huge amount of customization. Pretty much everything outside of the shell, battery pack and motor, can/is customized. We of course think our tech is better.
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by dver 8y ago
I like the red, they stand out.
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by dver 8y ago
I work out of Bay Area office in Burlingame. I'm back in the Greenville site a bunch. Really nice area, the downtown is super active, people really friendly. My wife and I have it on the think about list for bugging out of CA. Plus the
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by dver 8y ago
Working at Proterra, we're doing our part.
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by dver 9y ago
Randy wrote the Lisa Assembler for the Apple II. https://archive.org/details/LISAAssemblerVersion2.5ManualPho...
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by dver 9y ago
The more I read about this, the more I kept waiting for a Douglas Adams joke. Science is just silly sometimes.
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by dver 9y ago
I explained to one of my neighbors, who's not in the industry, job searching in software dev is like the nightmare where you forgot that you had a college final and you haven't studied.
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by dver 9y ago
Eric Conveys an Emotion, still there but not updated
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by dver 9y ago
With the North Bay fires toss in several billion dollars of insurance money as well. It's going to be a construction Gold Rush up there. As far as later in life activity we just utilized a local older guy who does minor home renovation
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by dver 9y ago
Your peers were here on weekends and you were not.

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