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by ridaj 7y ago
How much does motor weight matter in a modern long-range EV, vs battery weight?
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by ridaj 7y ago
It reads like an ad to me. It's hard to figure out what the catch is, if any (and in this world of tradeoffs, there usually is a catch).
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by ridaj 7y ago
Talking about X/Y problem — the actual incident described here doesn't seem to have anything to do with it, but rather to the ham-fisted handling of a disagreement between the company and a moderator. Or is there some relation bet
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by ridaj 7y ago
I don't know about these videos but when I called my neighborhood locksmith to deal with a lock I'd misplaced the key to, it took about 20s to pick... It would seem to make sense to me if you were trying not to call attention
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by ridaj 7y ago
When someone is trying to break into a house, they might have to do it fast, so that they don't get noticed. If they need to pick two locks instead of one, it's costing them twice the time, so by locking the handle in addition to
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by ridaj 7y ago
Sure but that entry is then really a lot more obvious. The kind of small hole they propose to drill here might not get noticed by a security guard doing the rounds, and would offer the ability for repeated near-covert entry.
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by ridaj 7y ago
Substitutes are not so easy to find. After using an app on my phone, and then my desktop computer, to try and do homework that included lots of numerical calculations, I quickly reverted to the hard-keys of my calculator with which I was wo
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by ridaj 7y ago
What are they blocking exactly? Does Libra even exist yet or is it vaporware still? Are they also blocking other crypto currencies?
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by ridaj 7y ago
> At the absolute minimum, the B4UFLY app should not tell users that they’re “good to go” unless they are flying from an area where drone use is explicitly permitted, like national forests. Even then... I thought I saw a sign asking peop
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by ridaj 7y ago
Maybe the second-ranked answer is trying to second-guess the question, but at least the highest-ranked answer is precise...
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by ridaj 7y ago
Yes, or filled out any form on his behalf that required entering an address
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by ridaj 7y ago
The part about the hardness of the transition from school to real life is great. The part where, somehow, we're supposed to buy that a path out of the situation comes from Asian American men getting better at "picking up" whi
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by ridaj 7y ago
> I only had one CS project in my senior year that involved building something with another person and even in that case it was only one other person. I had many group projects in school, but they didn't set it up so that we'd
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by ridaj 7y ago
It's very interesting that so much of it is about the social aspects of engineering - a lot of it kind of reads like " don't be a jerk ". In CS engineering classes, where presumably we would learn to become great enginee
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by ridaj 7y ago
Sure, the dependency on resources exists in the case of Singapore as well, but the ratio of military capability between Singapore and Malaysia is much more balanced than that between HK and the PRC (since it's 0).
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by ridaj 7y ago
Are these attacks the result of mail programs auto-adding spammy email invites, or of some hacking around with the kinds of features of calendar apps that let you create events with attendees directly?
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by ridaj 7y ago
Bodies
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by ridaj 7y ago
Blaming it all on Amazon feels a bit quick. Silicon valley has grown insanely in economic strength and purchasing power; with Arduino, Raspberry Pi, drones, VR, 3D printing etc, plenty of folks in that area still like to toy around with new
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by ridaj 7y ago
To all the folks answering basically "yes it's hard" I think the headline is a bit clickbaity but there are some interesting takeaways... To summarize, (a) yes it's harder than setting up Big Corp Mail, but (b) a lot of
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by ridaj 7y ago
These look very cool!!
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by ridaj 7y ago
I don't think the boards of Facebook, Twitter, or Reddit have somehow missed the message that content trustworthiness is as existential a threat to their business as their growth numbers. Just in case they hadn't gotten the point
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by ridaj 7y ago
I personally feel like the "spaghetti bundle" representation of the data (where a random sample of potential paths are drawn) was the most straightforward image of the uncertainty embedded in the forecast. Has it been considered a
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by ridaj 7y ago
Not just China manufactured. Chinese ROM. Anything goes.
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by ridaj 7y ago
What momentum towards independence? Everything since the handover has been going against independence. Maybe the difference with Singapore is this cold reality: https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/08/21/hong-kongs-
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by ridaj 7y ago
There's a pretty long track record of CCP using violence, coercion and manipulation of public opinion in order to quell unrest, successfully, at the expense of great trauma on its people. I don't think Hong Kong stands a chance lo
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by ridaj 7y ago
When you start a draft comment on this story and your China-made device chooses this time to reboot without warning O_O;
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by ridaj 7y ago
It may simply not be legal for them to decide to drop customers just because they are, taken individually, unprofitable. Think about an all-you-can-eat buffet. Some poor soul is gonna starve themselves so they can splurge and have a "g
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by ridaj 7y ago
There is a lot of decent industrially-produced baguette. Here's an example showing an automated line for forming baguettes from dough: https://youtu.be/qVB5EOAJT1w Btw I don't know if the comparison with chess is
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by ridaj 7y ago
> It’s interesting that the modern baguette is such a symbol, as it’s a product of the Industrial Age As many things that people consider iconically French (Eiffel tower, "Haussmann-style" architecture...)
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by ridaj 7y ago
You make it sound like he told us it was ok to be unreadable and make spelling mistakes... No, we needed to be readable, always. And attentive to presentation, on occasion, but only when it mattered. I'm very grateful now for the abili

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