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Tesla Model X Launch event, livestream(teslamotors.com)
160 points by RomP 11y ago|144 comments
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by RomP 12y ago
It was speeding. Bill is well-known for his love to fast cars. Later, in Seattle, he held the record of fastest Microsoft -> SEA airport drive, for a very long time. The legend says it was only beaten by someone illegally using HOV la
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by RomP 13y ago
Crashes Safari on iPad 2. Latest iOS.
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by RomP 13y ago
Once more we marvel the prophecy of this designer: http://stocklogos.com/topic/past-and-future-famous-logos First he predicted next Microsoft logo, now Nokia. Bravo!
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by RomP 13y ago
This is simply unkind to the competition (and to the poles alike): "Tesla achieved this outcome by nesting multiple deep aluminum extrusions in the side rail of the car that absorb the impact energy (a similar approach was used by the
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by RomP 13y ago
That's not necessarily a bad thing. A little factoid: out of ~4000 space launches that have happened so far, about 1500 (~40%) were done using delivery vehicles derived from an ICBM. This includes about 40% of the human spaceflights as we
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by RomP 14y ago
one word: synchronization
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by RomP 14y ago
How about the following schema for adding a new key to the list of Authorized Keys when NO AUTHORIZED KEY IS PRESENT: * the procedure requires a module produced and sold by the manufacturer( ) to any garage that can verify its identity and
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by RomP 14y ago
Can we just stop beating this dead horse for once please?
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by RomP 15y ago
Obscured, mostly by our own galaxy.
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by RomP 15y ago
Hmmm, I think I've seen it somewhere. Indeed: http://stocklogos.com/topic/past-and-future-famous-logos
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by RomP 15y ago
I'm one of them. I asked this same question in my team a few weeks ago: I got very similar sampling. The team is composed of 7 hackers (native code, embedded speech-related software). In other words, I tend to believe the results we're g
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by RomP 15y ago
I'm not an Airbus engineer and I'm not privy to their research (undoubtedly many thousands hours involving scenarios we can't even imagine) and the reasoning behind this design. This catastrophe is rooted in human-machine interface and we
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by RomP 15y ago
Great narrative, but factually wrong on at least two accounts: >If the pilots has switched a button to re-enable autopilot, everyone on board would have lived. But they didn’t. One co-pilot made a single, absurd mistake–for twenty full
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by RomP 15y ago
Can't find any English sources, but here's the link to what appears to be the source for most of the charts: http://peregrins.com/elect/results.csv.gz And here is the official (government-provided) results: http://www.izbirkom.ru/region/
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Microsoft is considering a bid for Yahoo, again(reuters.com)
7 points by RomP 15y ago|0 comments
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by RomP 15y ago
Tax payers have been paying for manufacturing of tangible currency for many centuries. Creating and supporting financial environments is one of the features of governments.
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by RomP 15y ago
not really an API, but related: touchless/cardless ATM: an App on my phone which I can use to find the nearest ATM and make a withdrawal. It knows my account credentials. I tell it how much cash I need. The app generates the transaction,
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HP-15c has been re-issued, available now(shopping.hp.com)
6 points by RomP 15y ago|2 comments
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by RomP 15y ago
This has been answered million times: besides the historical reasons (which are extremely powerful), it's performance. Performance not as in how fast would it take to calculate this, but performance as in what is the worst case scenario fo
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by RomP 15y ago
those are space ship failures, not rockets. the current failure is one of a rocket (delivery vehicle).
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by RomP 15y ago
If one watches a few more episodes of the show, it would become obvious that the Prius fuel consumption test was a joke, like everything else in the show. Come on, we can do better than expecting a fair review of a hybrid car from a guy wh
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by RomP 15y ago
It's similar to saying that having expendable bullets and grenades is OK until you use the last one while still on patrol. Solution: preparing for it by taking more. Knowing that they're designed to fail/be repaired easily changes the app
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by RomP 15y ago
Some of the things you're listing are must-haves (secure channel), but most are not. If increasing reliability and versatility makes the drone last 10 times longer and costs 10 times more -- it's not worth it in the long run: it's goal to
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Upssucks.com domain belongs to UPS(whois.net)
4 points by RomP 15y ago|2 comments
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by RomP 15y ago
Actually, it's M3 _Coupe_: the roof has been cut off by the emergency crew. You can see the bottom parts of the C-pillars in the video on king5.com
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by RomP 15y ago
It's not the OS. It's the hardware. While USB devices are somewhat more difficult to use for exploits like this, any FireWire or PCMCIA device has full access to the RAM through DMA channel (1) Worth repeating: they can read ANY page in R
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by RomP 15y ago
I sometimes wonder how long would it take for the civilization to re-create the current level of technology, if all the material artifacts disappear one day: books, computers, robots, factories, even hammers. If all that remains is the cur
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by RomP 15y ago
Also, this reaction by Seth Godin some time ago to this guy's project: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/10/what-youre-u...
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by RomP 15y ago
A little over 100 years ago the humanity just learned how to overfly one football field. In space, today, we're in pre-aviation days: we're still using hot air balloons for transportation. We make them lighter than air (i.e. shoot them up

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