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by jpm_sd 4y ago
This has happened to every modern Olympics venue. "This time it'll be different" is always wishful thinking. The amount of money that goes into building these single-use venues continues to be completely bonkers.
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The Peecyclers. Their Idea to Help Farmers Is No. 1(nytimes.com)
6 points by jpm_sd 4y ago|2 comments
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by jpm_sd 4y ago
I really enjoyed Jacques Pepin's autobiography and was surprised to discover that working at Howard Johnson's was a major, formative experience in his life. https://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/apprent
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by jpm_sd 4y ago
My employer, Saildrone is growing fast, currently hiring for 30+ open roles (a handful of which are remote-friendly). https://www.saildrone.com/careers Our many and varied missions include measuring CO2 in the ocean for glo
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by jpm_sd 4y ago
There's already a startup developing an electric passenger ground-effect seaplane, perhaps the design will scale? https://www.regentcraft.com/
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by jpm_sd 4y ago
Let's do a mini Ask HN here in the comments. Is it a good idea for me to buy Yubikeys or Titan keys for my personal Google account? My wife's? My childrens'? Will that make it less likely, or more likely, that I eventually ge
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by jpm_sd 4y ago
https://archive.ph/w2Eke
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How Rivian’s CEO became the anti-Elon(ft.com)
9 points by jpm_sd 4y ago|24 comments
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by jpm_sd 4y ago
Haha that reminds me of Neal Stephenson's "nitrates, nitrites, nitrotes and nitrutes". Right now they're focused on the robotics/automation side of things. "Seedlings" come from several different partner o
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by jpm_sd 4y ago
Friends of mine are working on automating this process! https://www.reefgen.io/
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by jpm_sd 4y ago
Apparently it's an... indoor self-driving car? For software testing?? > The comma body runs our open source software, openpilot. From openpilot’s perspective, the comma body is a car. It runs the same camera and logging software, so
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by jpm_sd 4y ago
No, it's still very niche. Suitable, Double, Ohmni, Anybots, GoBe, etc. have failed to take the world by storm.
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by jpm_sd 4y ago
Or incentivize them with a form of profit-sharing that isn't tied to "promotion" per se?
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by jpm_sd 4y ago
https://archive.ph/KKYt0
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Amazon Alphabet and Others Are Quietly Rolling Out Drone Delivery Across America(wsj.com)
1 points by jpm_sd 4y ago|1 comments
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by jpm_sd 4y ago
Not great. I'd recommend "Practical Electronics for Inventors" by Paul Scherz, it strikes a good balance between theory and practice.
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by jpm_sd 4y ago
I worked on Loon, not Wing, and I left before the Loon spin-out.
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by jpm_sd 4y ago
hey, thanks for the plug. We're big fans of your work too.
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by jpm_sd 4y ago
Former Google Xer here. Yes, "they just... have too much money and are over engineering something because they can". But also they are trying to fly precisely through extremely busy and regulated airspace to make a pin-point deliv
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by jpm_sd 4y ago
Usually by the time I've finished making a meal, the sink is full of technical debt
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by jpm_sd 5y ago
Seems like Form Energy has come up with a better method, also iron-based but no combustion. https://formenergy.com/technology/
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by jpm_sd 5y ago
Agility Robotics has been building similar robots for about 5 years now. They have recently commercialized a full humanoid for warehouse applications. https://www.agilityrobotics.com/news
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by jpm_sd 5y ago
I'm an electro-mechanical engineer unfamiliar with small farms. How would you change this type of design to be more modular or adaptable? https://www.overlandcarts.com/
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by jpm_sd 5y ago
Or they're just hoping to be acquired by SpaceX, like Swarm Technologies?
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by jpm_sd 5y ago
I guess Apollo Fusion is lucky they got acquired by Astra before this went through? https://hakaimagazine.com/news/what-goes-up-must-come-down/
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by jpm_sd 5y ago
I always wanted to design a shaft drive SWB recumbent, with the shaft through the main tube. Seems like a natural fit. But complicated!
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by jpm_sd 5y ago
I rode a recumbent for years. It actually ended up giving me back problems and I switched back to a diamond frame. Also recumbents are bigger, heavier, and way more expensive. Critical to my enjoyment of longer rides on a "normal"
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by jpm_sd 5y ago
Don't. Source: class of '01. Was miserable there. Took years to mentally recover. It's a very high stress undergrad environment. Grad students mostly seem to do OK.
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by jpm_sd 5y ago
We already have an MMORPG for learning programming, it's called Stack Overflow
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by jpm_sd 5y ago
why did the future turn out to be so dumb

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