JanSolo

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by JanSolo 3mo ago
Derp; I meant SpaceX.
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by JanSolo 3mo ago
I think they saw how SpaceX was using Starlink as launch lever to provide SpaceX a baseline of regular launches at bare-minimum cost. As RocketLab starts to scale up, being able guarantee a minimum number of launches is a significant hedge
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by JanSolo 3mo ago
It's becoming self-aware! Quick, lock down the nuclear codes!
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by JanSolo 8mo ago
Agreed. All humans need to learn to fact-check their sources. Especially those in decision-making roles.
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by JanSolo 8mo ago
I'm surprised that Apple is not considering opening up its own fabs. Tim Cook is all about vertical-integration and they have a mountain of cash that they could use to fund the initial startup capex.
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by JanSolo 11mo ago
Great! Another bunch of micromobility products that nobody asked for. And the price! I can buy 6 very decent Chinese ebikes of various formats for the $4500 this thing will cost. I'm sure it will be more advanced and nicely designed,
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by JanSolo 1y ago
This feels like a labor-of-love to me. I doubt very much that the original author is still participating in music to the same degree as he was when he made this. I don't think that current musical trends would inspire the same fastidio
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by JanSolo 1y ago
The article highlights how to get into the modding industry. While that is part of the games industry, it is a small fraction of the larger game production business. I've hired many game programmers and the key to getting into the indu
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by JanSolo 1y ago
Beautifully written. Especially when you consider that the author suffered a brain injury to her language centers. Fascinating insights to how the mind works and how we process our world. I was supposed to be working, but I read the whole t
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by JanSolo 2y ago
Some high-impact reporting there from the BBC! Also contains my favourite quote of the day: "Westcombe Dairy's maturing cave is equipped with cheddar-turning robot, nicknamed Tina the Turner"
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by JanSolo 2y ago
> I still struggle to see how this ends up favorable for Tesla in the long run. They're expanding their customer-base by maybe 2x or more. Those new customers will be be giving recurring payments to Tesla. For vehicles that Tesla di
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by JanSolo 2y ago
Experienced software people are difficult to hire. Doubly so if your company has a bad reputation for not valuing software and the benefits it can provide; which GM certainly qualifies as. This seems, on the surface, to be a pretty major ow
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by JanSolo 2y ago
Woah woah woah; we use the hackernews rules here; you'll need to apply the prologue variation before you can land there.
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by JanSolo 2y ago
This smells of vaporware to me. Certifying a new electric aircraft is hard. There are several other startups who are trying to do this and they're all struggling. Certifying a pilotless aircraft is really hard. There are no pilotless c
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by JanSolo 2y ago
Oh dear, USA; you have a real problem with your Supreme Court enacting precedents for things that are clearly not in the interest of a succesful USA. The Supreme Court is supposed to be the last-resort, the fail-safe, the watcher of the US
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by JanSolo 2y ago
Star Liner has all the same problems that the Space Shuttle had. In an emergency, how do you get the crew out safely?
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by JanSolo 2y ago
The home-computer wars of the 1990s have always confused me. There's seems to be a kind of tribal-allegiance that computer-buyers participated in when they became computer-owners. I've never understood why it had to be PC vs Amiga
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by JanSolo 2y ago
The critical part of this article is this: "But in June 2023, Musk said at an energy conference that "there just weren't enough batteries" for Tesla to reach "volume production" of the truck." It looks lik
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by JanSolo 2y ago
200 bucks for an e-scooter is really really cheap. Don't expect to get anything worthwhile for that price unless it's some kind of sale. The realistic price for a basic, entry level one is more like $500. A decent one is $1000 and
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by JanSolo 2y ago
I have an electric scooter with 3000kms on it. I use it for commuting to work several times a week. I much prefer it to driving; you get to experience the open air; it's exciting, there's no traffic and it's often faster than
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by JanSolo 2y ago
Outsourcing production sounds great conceptually; "It's great! Production issues are someone elses problem now!" Until you realize that producing EVs is hard and when there are problems you now have many layers of management
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by JanSolo 3y ago
Didn't they just legalize unleaded avgas very recently? After a multi-decade regulatory review process? Seems odd that they were so hesitant to legalize it and now that they did, it becomes the only option!
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by JanSolo 3y ago
Don Pettit is my favorite astronaut. I loved watching all his ISS videos where he did wacky experiments and nerded-out about capillary flows, static attraction and similar stuff. He's also a renowned photographer and has taken some o
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by JanSolo 3y ago
The article mentions that due to consolidation there are only 4 major airlines in the US and they are very aligned in their prices and policies thus giving little choice to US consumers. Doesn't that mean there's an opportunity
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by JanSolo 3y ago
The tweet seems to imply that the entire Ubiquiti Networks line of network hardware could be compromised. That's a shame; I was thinking of installing some in my house. I'm sure that Ubiquiti's customers will not be happy i
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by JanSolo 4y ago
I live in Montreal; many of the concrete structures in my city are crumbling and decaying due to the constant freeze/thaw temperature cycling that they're exposed to. I wonder if the self-healing property of this new advanced conc
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by JanSolo 4y ago
Agreed; I was expecting to see some kind of incubator for producers of animated content. Perhaps there's a lesson here about naming your organization when there's already something with a similar name in the zeitgeist. The Santa C
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by JanSolo 4y ago
In astronaut Mike Mullanes book, he mentions that they often used to fly shuttle re-entries outside of their seats. I'm sure a shuttle has a much softer entry profile than a capsule, but if it's possible, I'm sure they'd
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by JanSolo 4y ago
Soyuz is used as a return capsule for 3 of the crew. One of them becoming unavailable is a big problem if there's an emergency on the station and they need to get the crew out fast. Mission Controllers have only a few options here: 1.
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by JanSolo 4y ago
I think you're being facetious here. NATO expansion was Russias stated cause of the Ukrainian Conflict. However, Putin's statements since then have made it clear that the real objective is more of an ideological one. He wants to e

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