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by ratsbane 7y ago
I remember a few times in school when we took turns grading each other's work. That scenario raises all sorts of other potential for problems, but it's an interesting thought experiment: what if Boeing were responsible for certif
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by ratsbane 7y ago
Only a few days ago I was playing with the little pump I took out of a broken automatic blood pressure cuff. This is very neat, but really I think you could buy a few such devices and scrap them for the parts for less money.
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by ratsbane 7y ago
Macbook Pro is still my primary laptop, but for the last year or so I've also been carrying and using a Pixelbook. Except for the smaller screen, it's almost evolved to the point that I'd be comfortable with it as a primary
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by ratsbane 7y ago
I've been paying attention lately to https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/ and https://www.red.com/ They make video cameras which take interchangeable lenses, produce video and stills good enough to be use
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by ratsbane 7y ago
fjfaase, your statement "An electrical car produces almost as much fine dust particles as an internal combustion engine" is very surprising and not at all what I would expect. Can you cite any sources for that or explain it a bit
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by ratsbane 7y ago
Hmm, now I'm thinking about how I would plan a trip like that... Google Maps shows 139 miles from Portland to Mt. Rainier. My Model 3 (long-range, RWD) has about 306 miles range at the moment (after 42,000 miles) so I could almost go
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by ratsbane 7y ago
Check out RV connections at campgrounds, if you haven't already. They're not as fast as Superchargers, but overnight you can easily go from empty to full. Looking at Plugshare.com, I see a bunch of level 2 chargers to the north-
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by ratsbane 7y ago
I've driven my Model 3 on a 2400-mile road trip from Fremont to Memphis, as well as many 200-800 mile road trips and it has really exceeded my initial expectations. I would not want to take a long trip in a conventional car again. The
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by ratsbane 7y ago
This is exactly one of the things that makes ML, AI, or whatever so interesting. Sometimes it does find correlations which a human might miss because the human thinks there is no way those two things are linked - but in fact they are. &q
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by ratsbane 7y ago
A bit late to this thread, but here's a response by the owner of a Model 3 Performance edition to the Taycan video: https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-model-3-performance-31-hard-...
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by ratsbane 7y ago
Model 3 handling has been almost universally praised as superb. I haven't read any negative reviews of it. I have almost 40,000 miles on a Model 3 and from my personal experience with it and with other cars I've owned, including
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by ratsbane 7y ago
Disputing your statement... The 911 was first produced in 1963 with an air-cooled flat 6 engine mounted aft of the rear axle. The 3 series, first produced in 1975, is a front-engine car with a water-cooled straight-4 and -6 (most commonly)
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by ratsbane 7y ago
I agree. I see the Model 3 as a Honda Civic that just happens to drive better than a $250,000 car from ten years ago. The Model 3 is an extraordinary car, but the most extraordinary thing about it is that it's available to anyone for
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by ratsbane 7y ago
https://www.topgear.com/car-news/electric/teslas-model-s-jus... Formula E, Goodwood, etc. are open to non-street legal cars - the designs are purpose-built for racing and Tesla doesn't have a factory race tea
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by ratsbane 7y ago
For a fair comparison, perhaps it would be better to look at more recent reporting. Those first two articles are from 2016 and 2014 and the third one (written a few weeks ago) describes a contest between a 2014 Model S and a "New, modi
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by ratsbane 7y ago
It all looks very nice, but is it just a copy of the Model 3 with a few upgraded bits (air suspension) and twice the price? Also, the interior seemed very dark - maybe just the pre-production version hiding some details or I'm just use
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by ratsbane 7y ago
That's exactly how the Tesla system works. You press the right thumbwheel on the steering wheel, (or the button above it on the S) and say "play rolling stones" or "play BBC World Service News" or whatever, and it
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by ratsbane 8y ago
Why would a boss want to pay you more because you live somewhere expensive Exactly. So why should a boss want to pay you less because you live somewhere cheap .
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by ratsbane 8y ago
That's a good point, but looking at the other way, if a remote worker employed by a company in San Francisco moves from, say, Pecos, Texas to Manhattan, should he or she expect a significant salary increase? (edit: moving for reasons u
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by ratsbane 8y ago
Should you expect a pay cut if you transition from on-site to remote? Someone proposed something like that to me recently, arguing that if the cost of living in my home city is less than in the office city then I shouldn't be paid as m
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by ratsbane 8y ago
I hadn't heard of Safecast before. Very interesting! Nice data sets there, too.
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by ratsbane 8y ago
Yep! I carry a Gamma Scout in my car: https://www.gamma-scout.com/EN/GammaFAQ.php
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by ratsbane 8y ago
Which takes me back to a shower thought I had a long time ago: How do you know you don't need a geiger counter unless you have one?
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by ratsbane 8y ago
That's really nice that they've finally decided to add something that a lot of people needed in 2005.
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by ratsbane 8y ago
That just reminds me of the time I tried (and finally succeeded) in using curl at a BigCorp around 2004. I had to convince layers of non-technical management that this tiny, elegant, free, simple solution was better than an expensive and u
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by ratsbane 8y ago
It's very unlikely that a drone would hit an aircraft wing at combined speed that high - but certainly possible. I'd be more concerned about one going through a windshield at a slower speed and damaging the pilot. In US airspace,
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by ratsbane 8y ago
For me, with Nationwide, same comprehensive coverage on both cars (every 6 months): 2005 Mercedes E320 CDI: $572.40 2018 Tesla Model 3 Long Range: $641.76 The collision part of that is $230.70 for the Tesla and $185.72 for the Merc
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by ratsbane 9y ago
"I'd love to do it... but I think my mind would explode."
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by ratsbane 9y ago
A significant part of the noise comes from the antitorque (tail) rotor, which is much smaller and typically turning ~3x as fast as the main rotor. There are several solutions to minimizing this noise, including ducted tail rotors and NOTAR
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by ratsbane 9y ago
I wonder if there will be aftermarket driver displays. If all the data you need is on the CAN bus, should be just a question of mounting points and power wiring. I joined the Model 3 wait list the day it opened and I'm really looking

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