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by lutorm 3y ago
First flights are basically never more than a basic functionality check of take-off and landing configurations. (Note that there were no pictures of it with the gear retracted, because that's also typically something you don't try
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by lutorm 3y ago
In aerospace it definitely does happen. For example, NASA, as a customer, has the right to independently review flight software implemented by contractors.
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by lutorm 3y ago
Assuming you throw out dead batteries, what's the harm in shorting them? (If we're talking normal nonrechargable alkaline batteries. If throwing away a lithium battery I'll definitely verify that the cells are totally dead
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by lutorm 3y ago
In Sweden, you can't open a bank account without showing your face and ID. I just had to do this for my Wise account, too, and it seems par for the course for the quite intrusive money laundering rules in the EU these days.
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by lutorm 3y ago
My tinnitus, both the one that's always present and the one I can provoke with my jaw muscles, is not a single-pitched tone but more like band-limited noise. I did a hearing test and we tried to match it to various frequencies. None of
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by lutorm 3y ago
I've always assumed the tinnitus arises from some sort of AGC, automatic gain control, in the auditory system, such that when something is damaged and the signal disappears, the brain will just turn up the gain until the noise is about
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by lutorm 3y ago
Yes, there are reports of trigger points in the jaw muscles being at least partially responsible for tinnitus (see e.g. https://www.amazon.com/Trigger-Point-Therapy-Workbook-Self-T... which, if you have any muscle related p
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by lutorm 3y ago
If you were talking about the battery in your EV, the cost of replacement would be a bit higher. There are more things with batteries than iphones.
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by lutorm 3y ago
Yes! Every time my phone's had a problem charging, the issue has been cleared by doing exactly this.
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by lutorm 3y ago
Yes, good point, the velocity was too low. Yet it looked like all the engines just shut down nominally.
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by lutorm 3y ago
Oh yes, having a car in Sweden is very expensive. And yes, the current government did remove the EV incentives. My point is just that that's not a positive or negative against Tesla compared to other brands.
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by lutorm 3y ago
Yeah, this is a good question. It could be from the engines, but nothing should change at that point that I can think of, since it's well before shutdown. It might also start to vent something, intentionally or not. I hope they tell us
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by lutorm 3y ago
I dunno, it looks like a nominal shutdown to me. The speed readout shows rapidly decreasing acceleration just as the engine displays go out instead of the telemetry suddenly going stale as you'd expect if it just blew up during the bur
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by lutorm 3y ago
Well, the old staging method tried in the last launch was to rotate the entire vehicle stack and "fling" the ship off. That obviously has a performance penalty in that you're not going to be pointing in the correct direction
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by lutorm 3y ago
They actually went well into space, given the conventional boundary of 100km.
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by lutorm 3y ago
Do you mean this was a launch failure or a test failure? It was obviously a launch failure, but even the most optimistic wouldn't have expected anything else. As for whether the test was a failure: since it successfully did a bunch of
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by lutorm 3y ago
Well the technical term is "suborbital", which literally means "below orbital". (It's the energy that's below orbital, not the height...)
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by lutorm 3y ago
You could equally flip your questions: If you only do things that your employees like, then why would you care if they have a union or not? In that case, the only thing a union would do is ensure that this state persists, which definitely i
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by lutorm 3y ago
Does it tax Teslas more than other vehicles? I sure seem to be seeing a lot of Teslas around...
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by lutorm 3y ago
What I wish I was reading is book 9 of Joel Shepherd's "Spiral Wars" series. Unfortunately it's not out yet. But he's one of my new favorite authors, both the Scifi Spiral Wars and the more fantasy-like "Sash
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by lutorm 3y ago
They gave up on Kwaj mostly from the terrible logistics and corrosive environment though. If it was hard getting an F1 there, I can't imagine the pain of assembling Starship...
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by lutorm 3y ago
This system probably isn't very comparable to the Starlink space lasers. Because of scale, Starlink is very heavily optimized for cost, while a bespoke deep space terminal probably doesn't even have cost as a factor. It's one
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by lutorm 3y ago
Since the TMT protests, access to the Mauna Kea summit is much more restricted. I would not count on going up past the visitor center or getting any kind of tour. The Subaru telescope has ended their public tour program.
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by lutorm 3y ago
The thing that a sim never can simulate (not even a full-motion sim) are the various ways the vestibular system can get confused by e.g. the coriolis force when you move your head while in a turn that makes your feel like you're turn
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by lutorm 3y ago
There are two-place similar aircraft that you can train in. They're just not classified as ultralights.
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by lutorm 3y ago
Indeed. We flew from Stockholm to Hawaii and the SAS flight was late out of Stockholm, which cascaded to us being a full 24h late (same flight next day) to our destination in Hawaii. We got reimbursed without a problem and since we were tra
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by lutorm 3y ago
I'm in a funny situation that at my desktop I've been using a Kinesis dvorak keyboard for over 20 years, but on laptops or other random computers I use qwerty. My brain is totally bought in on the different layouts, I don't e
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by lutorm 3y ago
And here I was thinking someone was commuting in their own plane...
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by lutorm 3y ago
20 years ago I was mostly writing C++ for work. I still am.
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by lutorm 3y ago
Me neither and, because UPS/Fedex is stupid expensive to HI, I always send it USPS. Never had a problem.

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