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by nabilhat 5y ago
> trained as a mechanical engineer in my career and spent the last 20 years in business (finance, strategy and operations) If you haven't developed an allergy to this background, and you're interested in the business process
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It's much cheaper than it should be if we're considering hard limits on available supply and lack of interchangability of other resources. Honestly it shouldn't be cheap or expensive, in a perfect world it would be regulated,
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A better question is, what % of web developers test their JS rendering on the array of browsers it's guaranteed to encounter, or consider what happens when very basic privacy tools are in use? Those aren't relevant questions for t
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Northrop Grumman to launch new satellite-servicing robot(spacenews.com)
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Or just live in the area. If you know what you're looking for, you don't have to pay money for mushrooms west of the Cascades. You might not have to look past your yard. It's ridiculous to be at risk of criminal charges for p
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by nabilhat 5y ago
If 28 kWh is enough for an entire Formula E race, I think 33.2 kWh in a Lotus would work out okay.
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The Consumer Router Trap(cheapskatesguide.org)
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At least it's not "How Lotus is going to build electric sports cars lightweight"? Seriously though, it's a little disappointing to see 66.4 kWh for a minimal two-seater that's supposed to represent the Lotus philoso
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Epik CEO’s live video response to hacking incident descends into complete chaos(dailydot.com)
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Depends on the state. In Oregon, for example, the DMV arbitrarily refuses to register them for any use whatsoever. It's not a law or regulation, it's more like an internal opinion or rumor that turned into a standard practice of r
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by nabilhat 5y ago
Another way to think of how this works is to look at crowned pulleys: https://woodgears.ca/bandsaw/crowned_pulleys.html In the train's case (if we ignore the gap between the wheels), the pair of wheels work like a
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A bike parts company ditched Amazon to support indie shops instead(theverge.com)
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Unexpected Perseid Meteor Outburst on 14 August 2021(spaceweatherarchive.com)
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> The PineNote is one of, if not the, most powerful e-ink device available on the market. It shares in much of the Quartz64’s pedigree, sporting the same RK3566 quad-core A55 SoC paired with 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM and 128GB eMMC flash storag
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by nabilhat 5y ago
Sport kites can also be great as a sort of demonstration of what a sail's crosswind potential could look like if it didn't have to lug around a vehicle, technically both downwind and upwind since they're essentially tracking
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by nabilhat 5y ago
It's a legitimately hard choice to base on real world statistics, more due to availability than anything else. IIHS does present some basic detail for occupants [0] [1], although only as recent as 4 years so statistics can have some ti
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by nabilhat 5y ago
There was an effort around 15 years ago to join all-parties death and major injury numbers on vehicle make and model (USA data only). I really wish I could find it now - it's a great example of how traffic safety data applicability can
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Techdirt Is Now Without Any Google Ads or Tracking Code(techdirt.com)
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Yoke steering wheels have been done to death. Almost always, they're a gimmick intended to highlight the edgy design of a kit car or exotic outlier. Less often, they're a workaround for bad cockpit design that fails to account for
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by nabilhat 5y ago
> One magazine put a professional racing driver and car reviewer in a Tesla with a yoke steering wheel Tesla. Even on the race track, he hated it and wanted a standard steering wheel back in. That makes sense. Steering technique is tak
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We are all propagandists now(theconversation.com)
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Velomobiles are a fascinating example of a domain which keeps getting reinvented over and over! The 'glass ceiling' cab has been a feature that keeps showing up on independently developed velomobiles, despite the prior experiences
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Garmin's Varia product line does this. https://www.garmin.com/en-US/c/sports-fitness/cycling-bike-c... I do prefer a decent mirror though. Radar can't tell me what a car is doing, what it is, if a b
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by nabilhat 5y ago
If you don't have an easy option close at hand it ends up being a choice between continuing, taking a massive hit to your income, or choosing unemployment. The pay is exactly high enough to maintain minimal staffing. That's normal
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An Episode in the Outrageous Captivity of Britney Spears(nycsouthpaw.com)
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Firefox also defaults to HTTPS by default nowadays. Lots of content blockers block third party content too. Regardless, if literally anything goes wrong with the third party dependency that the article's contrast depends on, the best
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I got curious and looked back in archive.org to this page's initial release in 2014. The text background started out as good old reliable background-color: #EEEEEE, which was later replaced with background: url(" http://
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Autonomous programming will be explored. Potentially, Copilot is a proof of concept, an early step in that direction. If it is, the corrections made by Copilot users will be applied to the development of the future of unattended programming
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Alzheimer’s enigma: Why is incidence falling 16% a decade in richest countries?(english.elpais.com)
126 points by nabilhat 5y ago|107 comments
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"Starter home" is the niche this fits. It wasn't all that long ago that sub-1000 square foot houses were a normal thing people bought and lived in until they could afford (and had a reason to) to move to a house better suited

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