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by aeronaut80 4mo ago
Depending on which part you consider it’s also halfway to the South Pole. Cape York to Tasmania is almost 33° of latitude.
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by aeronaut80 6mo ago
The globe doesn't pan to some routes - perhaps ones that cross the international date line? - for example https://stardrift.ai/starlink/search?origin=AKL&dest=LAX&dep...
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by aeronaut80 7mo ago
You can’t expect your grandma to go to those lengths. Heck, even most internet-native people probably wouldn’t.
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by aeronaut80 8mo ago
Their whole company has to be profitable, or at least not run out of money/investors. If you have no cash you can't just point to one part of your business as being profitable, given that it will quickly become hopelessly out-of-d
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by aeronaut80 9mo ago
One of the biggest bonuses for me is never needing to go to a gas station. So much more pleasant to charge at home overnight, or at charge stations if I’m on a road trip. I can’t imagine buying an ICE car ever again.
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by aeronaut80 11mo ago
The word Mayday is not required to declare an emergency. Pan pan still indicates an emergency. And neither phraseology is required as long as the intent is clear, see https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/at
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by aeronaut80 1y ago
To be fair I struggle to believe he’s doing it out of the goodness of his heart.
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by aeronaut80 1y ago
You probably can’t find a good source because sources say he has a negligible stake in OpenAI. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/12/10/billionaire-sam-altman-d...
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by aeronaut80 1y ago
Could you explain and provide more details?
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by aeronaut80 1y ago
Lifting your foot off the accelerator in a Nissan Leaf triggers brake lights when in e-Pedal mode (one foot driving, no need to use the brake pedal except in an emergency). It reminds me of a feature that car manufacturers declined to insta
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by aeronaut80 2y ago
Latin’s sentence structure is much more flexible than languages such as English. For example, Latin uses cases for nouns to indicate which is the subject and which is the object, whereas English uses word order. This allows Latin sentences
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by aeronaut80 2y ago
Solar water heaters reduce the fossil fuel that would be used to heat the water, reducing CO2 emissions very slightly, and therefore can be part of the climate change solution.
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by aeronaut80 2y ago
Maybe the aunt was in a care facility where a record of visitors is kept, and so they know for sure how many visitors there were. Anyway regardless of the specifics of this situation, there are many others where far more people turn up for
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by aeronaut80 2y ago
600m3 is 132,000 imperial gallons. Seems a more likely order of magnitude.
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by aeronaut80 2y ago
As a non-American, accident created expenses seem like one of those things where the state should cover the personal injury costs which helps to make healthcare cost at least half the price, leads to better outcomes, and avoids people being
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by aeronaut80 2y ago
> I am so sick of people hyperbolizing everything. Ironic
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by aeronaut80 2y ago
Thus incentivizing authors to add citations to established papers for no reason other than to increase their own trust score. Which already happens to a degree but this would magnify that tenfold.
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by aeronaut80 2y ago
HN is pretty addictive for me - no ads on here!