jackmott42

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by jackmott42 4y ago
Got my wife one of these after a dell became dropped and cracked the screen. No way to repair affordably. Had it about a year, and it has been flawless. Super easy to upgrade ram/ssd/etc, if we crack this screen its like $150 p
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by jackmott42 4y ago
Active cooling tends to have the challenge of controlling condensation, and then of course now you are drawing even MORE power from the wall.
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by jackmott42 4y ago
There can be value in "things will be fast by default" vs "things can be fast if you use a careful subset of the language". As well it is nice not to have to depend on v8 being the runtime to get good performance. One t
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by jackmott42 4y ago
FSD may be a huge fraud but the whole company is not. The cars are real!
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by jackmott42 4y ago
That is the common thinking but perhaps you are all just wrong about that.
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by jackmott42 4y ago
Plain language like that would be fantastically refreshing yes.
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by jackmott42 4y ago
When we built the Space Shuttle, russia saw that we were building it, did some napkin math and decided it made absolutely no sense what we were doing, and that it then must have had some secret military purpose rather than any stated purpos
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by jackmott42 4y ago
Do we need to store energy seasonally to make big strides in increasing the share of solar and wind on the grid? Or only daily/weekly?
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by jackmott42 4y ago
I am someone who feels a lot like him, and what you describe would be depressing beyond belief. I'm also not all that depressed. Some of us are able to be relatively content while always holding rational beliefs about how horrible man
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by jackmott42 4y ago
the T.50 has a fan, and it is used for aerodynamic benefit, but it does so by helping speed up air through the under car diffuser, which allows them to use a more aggressive diffuser than would otherwise work. It all adds up to a modest dow
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by jackmott42 4y ago
What if a wing fails on an f1 car? Or a suspension component? Or a tire? Cars that get their downforce from traditional aero elements are also susceptible to catastrophic failures if they hit bumps too big for the design to handle. Mercede
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by jackmott42 4y ago
Yes, but the physics is that the amount time saved over a fixed distance is actually more for the 15mph cyclist than the 20mph cyclist. However the percent of time saved for the slower cyclist is less, but only a little. Basically at
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by jackmott42 4y ago
The McMurty as normally configured is good for 30 minute track sessions, and I haven't heard anything about it having a small battery for the day, nor did the weights being quoted indicated it was a small battery. A smaller pack could
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by jackmott42 4y ago
Pikes peak doesn't present any challenge to it in terms of length at all. Its designed to do ~30 minute track sessions and Pikes Peak is only 8 minutes.
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by jackmott42 4y ago
This is an old school thing with tradition and stuff. Can't bother with safety! Sorta like pikes peak where you go off a cliff instead of into a wall.
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by jackmott42 4y ago
The wing starts to work immediately. Just not much. This is a pedantic but important point. Even low speed motoring events aero can be very very important if sufficiently large wings are allowed. Aerodynamic gear for cyclists is advantage
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by jackmott42 4y ago
Why is Pikes Peak much more interesting? The altitude there would seem to give its electric and fan properties even more of an edge.
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by jackmott42 4y ago
Some EVs have lower top speeds because they don't bother with a transmission. If you wanted a high top speed, just add 1 or 2 gears and you are good to go. Imho the infrastructure required for them will be much simpler than the existi
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by jackmott42 4y ago
Prepare for even more shortages then.
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by jackmott42 4y ago
A fair point, though the few security issues in recent years I've looked at were not the kind of thing you would turn to unsafe rust for. But I've certainly not done a broad enough sampling to say what % of cases are like that.
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by jackmott42 4y ago
That is a fair thing to wonder about, but at the moment most of the design decisions Rust pushes you toward tend to be better for performance on modern hardware. For instance using an array based arena to store a graph, instead of the trad
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by jackmott42 4y ago
I miss the crazed jesus Republicans. There is no Jesus anymore.
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by jackmott42 4y ago
I'm sure there is a ton of variance. I have done some Rust projects where I run into absolutely no safety complaints from Rust because it just isn't the kind of code that does anything the borrow checker cares about. For those d
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by jackmott42 4y ago
I see many C++ programmers say stuff like this, and maybe it is the case that studios exist which can do C++ without mistakes related to memory management or sigils and so on, but I also observe that: 1. High quality teams like the Linux ke
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by jackmott42 4y ago
In America: "Don't swim for 30 minutes after eating or you will cramp" "You should be drinking 8 glasses of water a day" In Korea: "Sleeping with a fan on is dangerous as it will steal your breath"
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by jackmott42 4y ago
https://astronomy.com/news/2018/10/apollo-7-nasas-first-mini...
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by jackmott42 4y ago
Yeah a lot of people have a very authoritarian bent without realizing it. For many people it is hard to find any example of protest or dissent from the less powerful about the more powerful, ever being acceptable unless it is the type of pr
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by jackmott42 4y ago
Elon's behavior has gotten so erratic and gross in the last year that I'm done defending him, I am now embarrassed to own a Tesla, and now no longer want to work at SpaceX one day.
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by jackmott42 4y ago
People who spend too much time on twitter think they have seen the left go off the deep end. But what insane policy has actually occurred? Biden isn't off the deep end. Meanwhile the right has actually passed laws to tear apart