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by hengheng 4y ago
(The slightly longer answer is it's a cottage industry. Small shops, small quantities. Car buyers are spoiled, general aviation is more like buying a built motor from a tuning shop.)
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by hengheng 4y ago
I'm not comfortable relying on these being crewless, I've seen too many mobility projects die. When freight trains and trucks can operate crewed, a cargo airship will have no different rules to profitability.
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by hengheng 4y ago
Or not funded at all, which is both its curse and its blessing.
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by hengheng 4y ago
Expected Value as in poker lingo, but I first read it as electric vehicle myself.
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by hengheng 4y ago
Plenty of 12GByte laptops around, usually with 4 GByte soldered and 8 GByte added. Usually one would do that with two or three modules, it's just the split bus nature od ddr5 that makes for slightly weird packaging. Actually my phone h
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by hengheng 4y ago
I assume that the monitor stand has much lower initial costs and needs to sell in lower quantities to break even.
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by hengheng 4y ago
"Prepared surface" is a whole thing in drag racing. I remember reading how Dodge got their Hellcat under 10 seconds, and it involved not only special tires, but also a specific gunk that is apparently common to spread on the tarma
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by hengheng 4y ago
I thought we were past that kind of hand-waving overpromising in the mobility space by now
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by hengheng 4y ago
At the very least drove it into a niche, same as with GPS devices (Garmin still makes devices for triathletes, boats and packs of dogs), and cameras. Flashlights just have to be tacticool now, market's flourishing.
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by hengheng 4y ago
I don't even hate this as much as I should. I showed the proper amount of outrage when BMW decided that heated seats should become a subscription, but this time I don't. Any time that a specific feature brings a lot of value for a
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by hengheng 4y ago
They also refuse to ever show a reference so that you can learn what you can say, or teach you any other way. Refusing to show and teach your users feels arrogant to me. They had to promise that you can "just speak naturally" and
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by hengheng 4y ago
I've been looking to buy "portrait focal length" cameras. You can get the AliExpress equivalent of a standard phone camera, dressed up as compatible to Raspberry Pi, and somebody even brought wide-angles to that market once,
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by hengheng 4y ago
I've outgrown it, personally. For that "natural" perspective, 35mm is still wide enough to shoot a scene "the way you see it", but it can still be surprisingly intimate. And for the "portrait" thing, anyth
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by hengheng 4y ago
Err, how was Arecibo able to spy on the Russians? Were there satellites going right over the dish?
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by hengheng 4y ago
That's it. Same as in road cycling, the biggest air resistance is not due to the bike frame but due to the rider that will have to sit on it. The larger cross section is hard to ignore. To improve speed, make the bike more comfortable
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by hengheng 4y ago
Does anybody know at what point the FCC can revoke the radio license of these devices? Reaching emergency services seems a prerequisite for transmitting on the telephony part of the spectrum, so it might be surprisingly clear.
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by hengheng 4y ago
Parts of that mosaic are awfully soft, did they not pre-select images based on sharpness?
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by hengheng 4y ago
I think we both see the fundamental misalignment of incentives. The company's job is not to maintain the mountain or the trails, and once it begins flourishing, it'll always be tempting to cut those branches because they're s
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by hengheng 4y ago
Well if you weren't keeping the public trails clean and maintained, you couldn't offer those tours.
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by hengheng 4y ago
They described the origin of all these phrases, which as most corporate behavior is about shedding responsibility and shifting blame. In practice though, these phrases are all used mindlessly, by people who don't talk much outside the
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by hengheng 4y ago
I've been waiting for the 3d printer conversion that deals with all the drilling, positioning, etching, gluing together multilayers, and eventual pick and place with optical inspection. Someone has to do this, eventually electronics ha
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by hengheng 4y ago
Asking as someone who last saw Delphi in computer class at school, what would be the modern equivalent? Something that lets me draw a window with two number fields and a button that says "return sum", but it's two minutes of
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by hengheng 4y ago
How do you know what you can say? Do you keep a separate vocabulary, like you would when you talk to a pet?
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by hengheng 4y ago
Would be nice to see this on their xperia smartphones. They've been copying the Alpha look and feel for a while, and I've been wanting to see signed photos on phones for a while.
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by hengheng 4y ago
I'd like to see some numbers on this, but from my gut feeling it's not a then vs now thing. Much rather, the old farts that practically live on that website are the ones providing the rest with free content. Basically the 90% &#x2
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by hengheng 4y ago
Can I cool my house into the well during the summer? With surface heat abundant during the summer, I'd expect storing heat downstairs should make sense even if the efficiency of the underground reservoir is not exactly stellar.
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by hengheng 4y ago
At the very least, it's SEO drivel written up by somebody who does nothing else than that regardless of topic, and is paid by output (or ad conversions, ideally). I've come across this type of text whenever I was diving into a wel
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by hengheng 4y ago
I feel it teaches much more about the hard problems of IT administration, and the state of tooling in that particular space.
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by hengheng 4y ago
It's a fraction, yes, but it's also delayed a lot. For a while the challenge has not been to remove heat from the general area, but to keep small spots from overheating within milliseconds. Cooling on the other side of the buildin
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by hengheng 4y ago
You're saying that as if gaming consoles had never been a thing.

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