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by lstodd 3y ago
Eww, people of warm climates... You try making a few calls in -15C 5 m/s wind (typical 55 latitude continental climate weather in winter), then see the charge bar plummeting to zero when you attempt to call up a taxi so that you don&#x
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by lstodd 3y ago
Everyone says "unsprung mass" but you also have to provide cooling without ingesting all the dirt and water off the road. It's not that simple.
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by lstodd 3y ago
I think it's not possible to fit enough batteries by weight to scale this. Consider the Voskhod boat which at 28 tons and 60 km/h has to have ~800kW engine. To have any useful range the battery mass and charge time would be prohib
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by lstodd 3y ago
Wow, someone actually tried that? Thank you, never seen that. There is also the Polaris Sector.
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by lstodd 3y ago
Try 1oom+rbo or/and ROTP https://gitlab.com/ignatius_rbo/1oom.git https://rayfowler.itch.io/remnants-of-the-precursors
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by lstodd 3y ago
Which is why you need gas turbines for minor fluctuations. Buuut if you don't have any nuclear it's gas all the way. EDIT: and yes, if the hydro is far away, it doesn't help much. Besides hydro also depends on weather, althou
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by lstodd 3y ago
Oh, OS/2 Warp was fine. I even had it as my default OS for a while back then.
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by lstodd 3y ago
Not inherently, but not practical either. The paper talks about refractive index , and while that may be useful for liquids, it does nothing for low-pressure low-density gas like the air. Eh, it water I think phased array sonar could depict
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by lstodd 3y ago
Wishful thinking. To admit that the stuff is inadmissible is to admit that the whole narrative pushed by very important persons was bullshit and that the resulting budgets were misallocated, and we can't have that, can we? Edit: It&#x2
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by lstodd 3y ago
> Sounds more like very simple cruise control, at least for the main leg of the flight. And it is. Although it had been already abused to hell and back, see "children of the magenta", ca 1997. Turbulence is undetectable, TCAS i
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by lstodd 3y ago
I'd start with The Invincible. Then Pilot Pirx. Solaris is too steep for a start imo.
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by lstodd 3y ago
Looks like you're not familiar with how these sorts of government databases are usually run. It is as follows: 1. nothing ever gets deleted for any reasonable reason. 2. bribes and connections will suffice to delete or include anything
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by lstodd 3y ago
In order to sell another 8G for $200 obviously. Like theregister puts it: > There's a reason why we used to refer to Apple as the Cupertino idiot-tax operation.
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by lstodd 3y ago
I guess it's because there isn't much demand. If this takes off, prices will too.
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by lstodd 3y ago
OMG. An application server reinvented. Another couple of years and they will reinvent microservices on top of that monolith thingy.
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by lstodd 3y ago
It's hydrogen that explodes, not sodium. Sodium just forms NaOH on contact with water. Did _you_ skip them classes?
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by lstodd 3y ago
So this. On the ocelot question - he will cynically tickle them to death instead. This is about as reasonable discussion as can be had on the topic of Musk. Which is sad.
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by lstodd 3y ago
IIRC it was Boeing and about a half of ex-USSR space industry. So not exactly or even mostly USA. I had a girlfriend back then whose father worked on the program. Great times those 1990s.
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by lstodd 3y ago
Like I said, in a macabre way. Sure you might notice it if you know how that feels. But by then it will be too late.
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by lstodd 3y ago
1300 miles.. whoa if it ever ruptured that would be funny in a macabre way. natgas only burns you know.. this thing will spread and choke you and you won't even notice it.
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by lstodd 3y ago
Yep. Lose selection === unable to copy. And it's at all times up to source app to decide what it will allow to be copied.
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by lstodd 3y ago
Well it took some years for it to become obvious that D&I (funny how my Turkish keyboard turns it into D^I :) ) just does not work.
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by lstodd 3y ago
Which is as insightful as "80% of progressive outrage is caused by not understanding how things work at all". The is some truth to this too.
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by lstodd 3y ago
There were clones of 8080, Z80 and 8086. The KR580VM80A - an 8080 clone was the most popular/accessible in the USSR I think. The U880 was a Z80 clone, Soviet designation KR1858VM1, but most of the early-mid 1980s 8-bit home-built machi
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by lstodd 3y ago
The page cache mechanism is very much alive. That's what we were discussing, is it not? I only lamented the fact that over 50 years the basics of how it works should have become common knowledge but did not. As for the link you provid
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by lstodd 3y ago
Most of whatever is now dry and unpopulated, including in the US is so because moisture is being pumped out of there by the atmosphere and sun. Not because someone forgot to drive some water there. It is being moved out of there in such amo
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by lstodd 3y ago
Depends on how hard you are prepared to cut the cost. If you're designing for cheap LEDs, then it might be up to 80% of the cost. But it's worth it because even cheap trash LEDs will last tens of years. If you go for good nice LED
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by lstodd 3y ago
I can't agree with this. If we're redesigning the power supply it's actually much cheaper to make it not cause burnout on the LEDs than to make it replaceable.
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by lstodd 3y ago
A river is mostly its watershed and not the waterway which while very visible doesn't matter that much. No amount of machines would help create the watershed, so no, there's no point.
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by lstodd 3y ago
Wouldn't it be better for the LEDs to not burn out in the first place? Because this was and is achievable.

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