sjm-yc-acct

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by sjm-yc-acct 8y ago
I first read the book nearly 40 years ago when I was 12. I recently found this radio adaptation narrated by the author himself.
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Brave New World Narrated by Aldous Huxley (1956)(archive.org)
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by sjm-yc-acct 8y ago
Battery failures can also be caused by manufacturing/design defects in the cells (as in the Boeing batteries) or malfunctioning components of the active cooling system in the Model 3 like fans/pumps/coolant (like the Tesla
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by sjm-yc-acct 8y ago
Wait, the car doesn't tell you if the battery is overheating? That doesn't happen with Li-ion batteries? I heard it does in cars and airplanes and laptops... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_787_Dreamlin
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by sjm-yc-acct 8y ago
I have spent a little time flying in the left seat and right seat of real single engine aircraft (although I have never been in any Tesla.) I would say it's comparable, but a matter of degree. It is true that there is a much higher w
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by sjm-yc-acct 8y ago
Thanks, this is an interesting insight. Still, looking at aircraft with flat screen "glass cockpits" without HUD, they tend to follow the Model S pattern: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_Citation_Mustang
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by sjm-yc-acct 8y ago
I would work on it for money. My company's website is listed on my HN profile--there is contact info on the website.
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by sjm-yc-acct 8y ago
I tried Portable Hemlock from Quicklisp, and IIRC it would not install from the repos. On Clozure, the IDE with Hemlock only runs on OS X--I use Linux. The one in CMUCL might work, but I haven't tried it because they only have 32 bit s
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by sjm-yc-acct 8y ago
There have been some efforts like this (etc.) for Emacs on CL: https://common-lisp.net/project/phemlock/ I have never been able to get one to work, though. MIT Scheme also has an Emacs 18 compatible editor called
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by sjm-yc-acct 8y ago
In all seriousness, and hopefully more constructively--there really is a lot to like about the Tesla Model 3. We have been looking for a new car for a while, and we did consider the Model 3. I just wish they had retained some more of the
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by sjm-yc-acct 8y ago
Here's a related business idea: OEM and aftermarket activated charcoal cabin filters (not the paper kind) to remove diesel and other exhaust fumes. I think some luxury cars have them (Porsche?) but I think the rest of us should as well
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by sjm-yc-acct 8y ago
That's their modern one, Mazda 3 (oddly enough). I was kind of joking with my original comment, because this was an economy car--but it actually is a nice design: http://gtcarlot.com/data/Mazda/Protege/19
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by sjm-yc-acct 8y ago
I would probably like this one better: https://www.stoddard.com/media/catalog/category/IMG_1365.jpg Early 911 interior.
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by sjm-yc-acct 8y ago
Have they driven a Protege? :)
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by sjm-yc-acct 8y ago
I wish they would hire the interior controls engineer that worked on the 8th gen. Mazda Protege. Simple, elegant, and ergonomic. That giant iPhone in the middle of the Tesla 3 puts a crick in my neck just from looking at the pictures.
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by sjm-yc-acct 8y ago
SGI's 3D APIs, OpenGL and Open Inventor, were sublimely innovative. Some of us are even trying to keep Open Inventor alive: https://bitbucket.org/Coin3D/coin/wiki/Home https://common-lisp.net
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by sjm-yc-acct 8y ago
You're right--communicating about the intent of a patch is a good idea, especially if that intent is outside of normal expectations. In a similar vein, I recently learned about prefixing a pull request on Github/Gitlab with "
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by sjm-yc-acct 8y ago
FreeCAD uses Open CASCADE, which is is a free software (LGPL) CAD kernel. Open CASCADE has a comprehensive modeling API which uses B-rep. For scripting, FreeCAD has a Python interface. CadQuery is another Python tool (DSL) which is a plu
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by sjm-yc-acct 8y ago
Matt Keeter's Libfive is a very promising project. Our company has written a Common Lisp binding: https://common-lisp.net/project/tovero/ and it would be useful to have a constraint solver. We are looking a