klaff

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by klaff 9d ago
not this one
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by klaff 11d ago
Does anyone know what "disabling advertising identifiers" actually means?
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by klaff 11d ago
There's no maintenance to shocks, springs, tie rods, motor mounts, or wheel bearings. Every one of those announces their failure with clicks or clunks or bouncy ride. I'm not sure when chassis lubrication went away as a maintenanc
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by klaff 12d ago
Metric isn't magic but as an engineer who's had to use both systems for my whole career[^1] I despise the imperial system. Factors of 3, 8, 12, 640, 5280! Fractions used in carpentry. Just centering a picture on a wall is annoying
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by klaff 12d ago
What ticking time bombs? Please be specific. I'm an EV owner who has done no maintenance in 26k miles. I want to know which system, if I don't do maintenance, will create some hidden wear which will progress silently until too lat
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by klaff 15d ago
China is also reducing gasoline and diesel use by adoption of EVs.
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by klaff 17d ago
Answered in the article. He used the excuse of helping her navigate the technology to get in a position of control.
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by klaff 18d ago
Um, the organization is real. The "grass roots" part of it is clearly fake.
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by klaff 22d ago
Is your ex named Julia?
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by klaff 22d ago
Can you give an example of general purpose use? It's not great if you want to make a standalone program and distribute it to other users. It's awesome if you are doing exploratory stuff, quickly exploring different ideas or algori
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by klaff 22d ago
You can get your own copy here https://equal-earth.com/
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by klaff 22d ago
What's with all the throwaway snide comment accounts?
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by klaff 22d ago
I'm an electrical engineer and I use Julia for all kinds of analyses that I might have earlier in my career done in a spreadsheet (Lotus 1-2-3 at first!), or later in python (when I had to choose between Numeric or NumArray). I started
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by klaff 1mo ago
> those tires are literally 4X the price of my other car a Honda
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by klaff 1mo ago
EVs are already using tires which are optimized for low rolling resistance because when you make the car that much more efficient, smaller losses become more visible.
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by klaff 1mo ago
Jet A prices near me range from $6.75 to $8.52 (I used https://www.airnav.com/fuel/local.html ) so more like $2k/hour!
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by klaff 1mo ago
Yeah, fully charging my EV (0-100%) at home on night-time discounted electricity of $0.07/kWh would cost me $6, so even allowing for really cheap electricity this doesn't feel right. A Dornier 328 (roughly similar in size) has two
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by klaff 2mo ago
Max power consumption of the compressor in my car is 5.5 kW (see pg. 28 of https://www.scribd.com/document/783343319/MEB-220169869 ). The blowers would draw additional power. These values would only be hit in extre
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by klaff 2mo ago
We (tall people) die sooner.
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by klaff 2mo ago
Having worked at a company that became saddled with huge debt, I am leaning to look at this the other way. The bank(s), in cooperation with the buyers, found a target to extract money from. The goal for them may not be long term health of t
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by klaff 2mo ago
Depending on conditions, heat or AC can consume up to 5 or 6 kW in extreme weather and a small fraction of that in milder conditions. The most efficient speed of an EV is hard to pin down. If all fixed loads could be turned off, it would be
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by klaff 2mo ago
Regarding the dashboard pic - that's a trip computer display (see the "A:" and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAdzIuAB3-g ) which can display a large range of values depending on the history since the trip wa
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by klaff 2mo ago
There are classes of motorcycle accidents that are not a function of rider speeding or otherwise being careless. The one that took the life of a coworker is described as follows: the motorcycle is travelling on a country two-lane road, tree
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by klaff 2mo ago
I have one of the most inefficient EVs and it's only 2.4x hungrier than the cybercab. It can comfortably carry 6 adults. I've been in Tesla 3s as Ubers before. They only need 31% more energy than the cybercab. If the cybercab was
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by klaff 2mo ago
Superbs?
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by klaff 2mo ago
>the other car in the household hasn't burned through a full tank in the months My gas car was filled in November and has half a tank. EV's are such a better experience and so much cheaper to operate[^1] that most owners don&#x
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by klaff 2mo ago
>Timbre itself is meaningless without a note to carry it I suppose that is literally true but I think of timbre (especially after reading Sethares who I mentioned earlier) as telling me about the notes that are brought along for the ride
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by klaff 2mo ago
I can only think of examples which as you describe have accompaniment moving underneath. Neil Young's solo in Cinnamon Girl is one example. Another is Bob Dylan's Like a Rolling Stone in which he sings one note as the chords run u
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by klaff 2mo ago
Have you read Sethares' Tuning Timbre Spectrum Scale book or the shorter paper? It gets right in on the topic of the interrelationship between timbre and dissonance. As you say, the timbres of the instruments are very important to how
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by klaff 2mo ago
So much racism.

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