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by stetrain 3y ago
My understanding is that this is also the economic play for Brightline, which has an operating passenger line in Florida and is planning to start on a new high speed line from LA to Las Vegas. They are owned by Fortress Investment Group and
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by stetrain 3y ago
Well a 12.9” iPad Pro with the keyboard case gives you basically all the same computing hardware as a 13” MacBook Pro, plus: Better quality mini-LED display Better/additional cameras Touchscreen with pen support Magnetic charging for t
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by stetrain 3y ago
A 12.9” iPad Pro with the keyboard case is more expensive than the equivalent 13” MacBook Pro.
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by stetrain 3y ago
I think it's more that there are multiple spectrums here and a lot more than two buckets to put people in. Sure there are very passionate people who enjoy programming so much that they wish to do so far outside the standard workday. So
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by stetrain 3y ago
I’ll credit both sides with the stubbornness. Apple had many years of poor integrated GPUs (arguably Intel’s fault) and even mediocre dedicated GPU options (due to a rift with NVidia). Apple also fully dropped 32-bit support, breaking a lot
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by stetrain 3y ago
At the moment I have been trying out FigJam, mostly because in an org that already uses Figma it's convenient and doesn't require another signup, account, or subscription. It's not particularly targeted at software diagrams,
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by stetrain 3y ago
Definitely agreed. I have found diagrams, and tools that let me edit them quickly, to be great "state trackers" in design and planning meetings. You can get consensus, keep track of the decisions that were made, and then have a sh
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by stetrain 3y ago
There's some discussion here about linking diagrams to code or vice-versa. And while that's useful for documenting code already written, where I personally have found diagrams to be the most useful is in the planning discussions b
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by stetrain 3y ago
Yep, if Apple could get over their stubbornness and work with Valve on this it would be fantastic for customers of both companies. Apple has done some work with their game porting toolkit to support certain flavors of DirectX games with a c
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by stetrain 3y ago
If the primary goal is sustainable payloads to the moon. I think Congress considers this a secondary goal over funding and jobs being directed at their states.
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by stetrain 3y ago
> In the video, the same edge of the sample seemed to stick to the magnet, and it seemed delicately balanced. By contrast, superconductors that levitate over magnets can be spun and even held upside-down. “None of those behaviors look li
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by stetrain 3y ago
If the solar panels and windmills and their technicians are cheaper to build and operate (safely) than the nuclear reactors, externalities included, then it seems like the market is making the right decision.
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by stetrain 3y ago
> Tangentially, the correct way to present nifty tips like this is NOT in a "tour of new features" wizard spammed at the user when they're opening your app to try and get something important done. My favorite is when this
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by stetrain 3y ago
Is it increasing per capita? I think we are definitely under investing in infrastructure. Amazon builds an empire on cheap-to-use interstate highways and we can’t take a train across the country in less than 3 days. Bridges falling down, po
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by stetrain 3y ago
Red states also tend to just have fewer people in general, total and in density. Most people in the US live in “blue” islands even within “red” states. People live in cities (well, metro areas).
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by stetrain 3y ago
I think perhaps the effects of a pandemic which killed upwards of 1m Americans may have had a base level of economic impact regardless of the mitigation measures. Perhaps people forget that things like air travel, restaurants, and going int
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by stetrain 3y ago
Personally I think absurd wealth inequality indicates at least two issues: 1) A lack of re-investment of positive economic activity into the “common good” (infrastructure, education, social services, etc) that were almost certainly instrume
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by stetrain 3y ago
> In my view, there’s a social contract around OSS and its sustainability. My wording of this social contract is essentially: > You get to expect things of an OSS project to the extent that you contribute to that OSS project or are wi
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by stetrain 3y ago
Was your school library forced to not carry car repair manuals by a law passed by local or state government?
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by stetrain 3y ago
It’s not perpetual motion, it’s just moving things downhill with extra steps. The extra steps are useful for sure. Storing the generated energy in batteries works on a route where the net cargo movement is downhill even if there are some up
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by stetrain 3y ago
One of my favorite recent games - Timberborn - is based on the concept of beaver civilization altering and improving the landscape. Recommended if you like sim/builder games.
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by stetrain 3y ago
> “Prior to beaver trapping, beaver dams were just about everywhere in the West. So what we’re attempting to do is to bring beaver dam densities back to historic levels where possible”
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by stetrain 3y ago
They aren’t equivalent. Most EVs have a free roll mode, where you can push the car or take it through a car wash. You are still spinning the electric motors though. This is fine for low speeds and short distances but is not advised for towi
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by stetrain 3y ago
More so that ICE has really bad efficiency at city driving due to lack of regen braking and engine idling. EVs (and hybrids) with regen braking remove this lost efficiency in city driving, leaving you with an energy usage curve that scales
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by stetrain 3y ago
It can’t know you are planning to drive over a mountain unless you put that in the nav system.
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by stetrain 3y ago
“The calculation that predicts how much energy you will use is an estimate based on driving style (predicted speed, etc.) and environmental factors (elevation changes, wind speed and direction, ambient and forecasted temperatures, air densi
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by stetrain 3y ago
That might be a useful metric but it won’t always be the most accurate. If you mostly drive around town, that estimate will be way off when you get on a highway to go to Grandma’s house. There’s probably a better way to do it, but Tesla see
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by stetrain 3y ago
2000ft of elevation change in 35 miles is likely to require braking.
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by stetrain 3y ago
A car will tend to gain speed on a steep descent. It is undesirable and illegal to drive down the mountain at 200mph, so you must reduce your speed. Mechanical brakes do this by converting that energy to heat and brake dust. Regen brakes do
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by stetrain 3y ago
Most accurate by what standard? Range depends on a bunch of factors. The range you got going to the store yesterday is not the range you will get driving to your friend’s house tomorrow. The car doesn’t know where you are going, whether it

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