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by elihu 4y ago
The article is about a fake transmission, but that's separate and mostly unrelated topic from whether other manufacturers might want to use a real transmission.
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by elihu 4y ago
It's not terribly clear from the article, but the headline is false: Lexus isn't developing a manual transmission for electric cars, they're developing software and controls that mimic the presence of manual transmission. I d
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by elihu 4y ago
I think it's more often just counter signaling that one is better informed or more realistic than whoever wrote the press release or media article, which may very be the case.
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by elihu 4y ago
I suppose this is a relatively minor thing, but being able to have conditionals like "if (0 < x < 20)" has been on my "things I wish just worked" list for awhile.
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by elihu 4y ago
y can't be both 7 and 8 at the same time. It's either one or the other.
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by elihu 4y ago
Actually, the game art uses tilted panels (crammed closer together than they'd be in real life, so the shadow of one falls on the one behind it), though I admit I did think of Factorio solar panels in the sense that in the game you can
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by elihu 4y ago
They have a robot that cleans the panels. It's a big, flat surface so they don't really need anything much more advanced than a Roomba. Apparently they also have special shoes that maintenance people can wear that distribute the
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by elihu 4y ago
Covering the ground with impermeable surfaces isn't great either. (Maybe they have drain holes at regular intervals so that's not as much of a problem?) I'm guessing they will probably need a tall fence around the outside to
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by elihu 4y ago
With tilted modules, you'd normally space them out quite a bit so the shadows of one aren't falling on the module next to it. If they're all flat, that's not a problem so you can space them closer. So, it makes sense t
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by elihu 4y ago
Interesting. I wonder if it's audible when running? Maybe the piezos operate in a range higher than human hearing, or it's just not very loud in the first place?
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by elihu 4y ago
I would expect L1-to-earth communication to be problematic because you'd have to distinguish the signal from the background radiation of the sun. It'd be interesting to know what the technical limits are in terms of output power a
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by elihu 4y ago
I'm not an expert in this area, but if I remember correctly a lot of satellites use radio links in the neighborhood of 10 Ghz for ground communication because they've found that band isn't affected much by atmospheric conditi
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by elihu 4y ago
Also worth a mention is Arcimoto's "Mean Lean Machine" (though that's less of highway vehicle than their roadster is). I think they've deprioritized development on the MLM recently though, as they're trying to
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by elihu 4y ago
I wonder if there's a log being kept? I'm at least mildly curious what percentage of visitors immediately pan over to Moscow and let one rip. It'd also be interesting to break it down by geolocation of the visitor's IP
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by elihu 4y ago
One solution would be to exercise eminent domain. The state or federal government claims a couple square feet of land wherever one of these corner crossings exist so that there's enough space for a footpath. For each of these, the la
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by elihu 4y ago
As I went walking I saw a sign there, And on the sign it said "No Trespassing." But on the other side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me. https://www.woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics/This_Lan
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by elihu 4y ago
I think this is true, but I wonder if there's also a problem with supply versus demand: we can't just replace all the professional managers (PMs) with great individual contributors (GICs) because there are a lot of the former and
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by elihu 4y ago
Don't you mean allow the river to be smaller (i.e. flow faster and have less width and therefore less exposed surface area)? I wonder what sort of options there are for shading a river? Floating solar panels are used in some places, a
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by elihu 4y ago
Hoover dam kind of gets hit twice; not only is there less water moving through the system, but they've let the water levels drop to the point where the energy they could get by running, say, three gallons of water through the system no
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by elihu 4y ago
Because there's no intentionality involved, and it's unlikely to escalate into a military conflict. "Ukraine fires an S-300 at a Russian missile but it misses and kills a couple people in Poland" is a tragic accident, p
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by elihu 4y ago
> "In fact, the exact information he passed along was factually correct by one interpretation. The S-300 rockets were "Russian" in the sense that they were Russian manufacturing. They were not "Russian" in the se
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by elihu 4y ago
I suspect you're right, but maybe it's seasonal? The bar graph is from August, which one would expect to be low.
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by elihu 4y ago
Batteries are effectively instantaneous. Hydro is slower than that, but compared to most other things it's very fast.
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by elihu 4y ago
Here's a random cool bit of Cliff Stoll trivia I didn't know that I just stumbled across on wikipedia: > He earned a B.S. in Astronomy in 1973 from the University at Buffalo (SUNY). While studying for his undergraduate degree a
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by elihu 4y ago
Wow, watching that made me realize that recreating that era might actually be pretty hard -- all those rooms of computer hardware that just don't exist anymore. Electro-mechanical phone switches? Who has that kind of stuff just lying
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by elihu 4y ago
There was a recent story about one person who would presumably approve of this design: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33412702
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by elihu 4y ago
I'm working on converting a Mazda RX-8.
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by elihu 4y ago
I didn't know that, actually. Thanks.
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by elihu 4y ago
Since someone already mentioned The Soul of a New Machine, I'll add that The Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll might make a pretty good movie.
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by elihu 4y ago
Modular synthesizers. Electric vehicle conversions. The intersection of musical instrument construction with just intonation and other alternative tuning systems.

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