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by mwint 3y ago
1. The Tesla charger is _better_ in essentially every measurable and subjective way. 2. They want to sell cars, and cars with the Tesla connector have access to Tesla superchargers without a dongle.
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by mwint 3y ago
Still ongoing.
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by mwint 3y ago
Friction as in mechanical friction? It’s certainly less total energy expended per mile to cover the same distance on a bike vs. legs, right?
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by mwint 3y ago
Many low income people already prioritize having a phone over health(y/ier) food. And honestly, in today’s world that may not be as horrible a tradeoff as it first sounds.
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by mwint 3y ago
This is pretty much my take too. I think the FAA knows that if GA becomes accessible, people will start using it, and they aren’t ready for an influx. Which is… understandable, kind of.
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by mwint 3y ago
Found the sad story: https://airfactsjournal.com/2022/10/the-20-hour-cessna-172-e...
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by mwint 3y ago
I’m a current student pilot in FAA-land, soon to be a private pilot. I actually really don’t think the training requirements are very draconian. 40 hours, a few maneuvers, some knowledge about some stuff. Less than driving in some states. T
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by mwint 3y ago
It’s user-content and user-moderated. Why does the international bit matter? (Honest question)
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by mwint 3y ago
Can you rephrase this? I'm having a hard time parsing it. Maybe I just need more coffee :)
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by mwint 3y ago
Also, due to ethics rules, you aren’t allowed to open a computer to probe it with your broken multimeter unless it has already died. With a lot of paperwork, you may be allowed to probe an abacus and extrapolate the results to a computer.
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by mwint 3y ago
Are they not consumed?
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by mwint 3y ago
As a common example, you see someone who asks a question in the format: “helo plz can help w cod, is broke has error” And then the next day posts four answers in perfect English to four different topics, with that GPT “vibe”. You can’t reli
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Moderation strike(meta.stackexchange.com)
412 points by mwint 3y ago|273 comments
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by mwint 3y ago
What does your planning process look like? I’d like to get more structure in my workday, maybe not that much… but how do you deal with the Stuff that inevitably Comes Up?
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by mwint 3y ago
Think of it this way: to provide a monthly subscription, they can either send a new cartridge once per month with 100 pages in it (with all the shipping, plastic, production, etc costs associated with that), or they can ship one six times b
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by mwint 3y ago
To extend the strained analogy, they do let you finish the month (of printing pages). The complaint here is more “my keycard barcode is still legible, but it stopped working at the end of the month”.
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by mwint 3y ago
… imagine if Apple did improve the camera software. Someone would find a corner case it behaves worse in, make a YouTube video about Apple degrading cameras for planned obsolescence, and nine months later the EU has a committee to approve c
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by mwint 3y ago
Isn’t this practically true already? If this guy had been rear ended by an uninsured motorist in a ‘92 Beetle with $500 to their name, it’d be the Rivian owner and their insurance on the hook (if they have UM coverage!) Sure, you can sue th
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by mwint 3y ago
Hmm… is it about vehicle size or the fact you’re operating commercially? Naively I’d assume that I can’t start a bus company with a fleet of Honda Civics and hire people without CDLs?
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by mwint 3y ago
I’m by no means an expert on this, but I’ve always assumed the US would put up some token resistance to Chinese invasion and then obliterate TSMC on the way out. Maybe not even the token resistance part. Regardless of what’s right, I know v
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by mwint 3y ago
As someone in a similarly weird position (young, but doing this since I was very young and fortunate to have been place in some senior-if-you-squint positions), I’m curious what “mid level” means to you. What kind of things on a resume do y
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by mwint 3y ago
… very few people were harmed in a worst-case scenario for nuclear? I don’t see your point.
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by mwint 3y ago
Unfortunately, I have to take this with a grain of salt, because this study wouldn’t have been published if it had found the opposite. Could there be opposite-conclusion studies that were quashed? If a topic allows only affirmative results
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by mwint 3y ago
Much more expensive (in delta-v terms) to hit escape velocity, I’m guessing?
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by mwint 3y ago
I'm surprised I'm not finding a weight vs. stopping distance graph anywhere. I know that the physics theory says weight doesn't matter for stopping distance (spherical cow in a vacuum), but there's some nonlinearity in t
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by mwint 3y ago
This feels... wrong, somehow - we wouldn't say that a 100,000lb shuttle transporter hitting you at 1mph will do the same damage as your 3,000lb car at 35mph. There's way more dynamics at play here.
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by mwint 3y ago
What’s the argument for mass being a driving factor in pedestrian safety? You’re outweighed substantially by anything bigger than a moped. Certainly anything bigger than a Civic. Seems like it’d be more about body angles, visibility, and dr
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by mwint 3y ago
Roads are stupid cheap compared to a certain Californian light rail project.
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by mwint 3y ago
Stunning that there are (were) any 4-char bucket names left.
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by mwint 3y ago
These philosophical explorations have a really nasty pattern of being picked up as the policy platform of political strongmen riding a wave of discontentment to power. Then the philosophical exploration becomes poorly-implemented policy.

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