avar

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by avar 8mo ago
CYR3S, if we're going to add Roadster and Semi, both of which are allegedly still in development.
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by avar 8mo ago
You already have it. Musk's earliest promise of a $30k price point appears to be an interview in September 2009: https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2009/09/25/teslas-elon-musk-on-... Adjusted for inflatio
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by avar 8mo ago
3YC is the new S3XY.
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by avar 8mo ago
> This may highlight to some folks abroad > the importance of the US's 2nd Amendment, > and an armed civilian population British India, the USSR, East Germany, Francoist Spain, Apartheid South Africa, Communi
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by avar 8mo ago
> The one thing I'll want is what we'll never > get which is just making it easier to delete > e-mails in bulk. This already "exists", go to a label, tick the top checkbox above all the rows, t
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by avar 9mo ago
> Steve Jobs himself envisioned a > web app future as the future of[...] I'm not putting cynical motivations past Apple, but you're reading too much (or too little?) into what Jobs said at the time. His remarks
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by avar 10mo ago
> the novel V2 rocket weapons > that killed an average of 2 > civilians per launch That's positively humanitarian in the context of WWII. Can you name any other weapon system developed during that war which h
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by avar 10mo ago
> he also addressed the packing problem, saying[...] If we're going to take this "packing problem" a tad more seriously, then the notion that someone might spend on the order of $2.5 billion on micro-SD cards for
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by avar 10mo ago
Fascinating, I wasn't aware of that. They still offer an "AWS Snowball", which is 200 TB instead of 100 PB, but around the size of half a full size suitcase instead of a semi truck. You then ship that back and forth. If you n
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by avar 10mo ago
I tried setting that up, but now the trucker's union is refusing to talk to me, citing concerns that the platters will all spin up due to road vibration, derailing the truck in a ditch due to the cumulative gyroscopic forces. They rema
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by avar 10mo ago
Actually a shipping container full of micro-SD cards hurtling down the highway has lower overall bandwidth than a 56k modem. That's because whoever's attempting to load an ideal 400 million micro-SD cards into one will take approx
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by avar 10mo ago
> This is rare enough that I'm pushing the recovery > of it up near the top of my project queue. The reader is left to wonder what the software librarian at the Computer History Museum could have possibly found rece
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by avar 1y ago
> how does Tesla know repairs > have been made after a minor > accident? Speculation: It was brought to Tesla after an accident, which inspected it, and quoted a repair price the owner didn't like, so his cou
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by avar 1y ago
Neywiny's comment upthread isn't that you should use these without a BMS, but that the review is relatively less useful because it's stopping testing at a relatively high voltage. E.g. if you search for "panasonic_ncr186
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by avar 1y ago
Some of us enjoy fixing things like these over and above the hypothetically fungible billable hour, and whether you can substitute some time in an evening with a billable hour or three is highly dependent on your employment situation. But i
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by avar 1y ago
This may not be what you're asking, but it's rather trivial if you're setting up an SMTP gateway that proxies traffic to another SMTP that handles the IP address reputation management etc. E.g. I do that with Exim on my Debia
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by avar 1y ago
> How do you even drain a 3.7V lithium > ion battery below 3.3V? Connect the + and - terminals with an appropriately sized resistor, it'll drain all the way to 0V. > My devices that use 18650s will >
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by avar 1y ago
You also have the option of building your own battery pack for these, or to disassemble an existing pack and replacing the cells. How difficult that is depends on the manufacturer, but from a quick look at the Neato packs I see it looks rel
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by avar 1y ago
> Technically it expensive because demand exceed supply. How prices are determined in general isn't relevant to your claim that something is "very expensive currently because of X". > with the war that s
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by avar 1y ago
I'm aware of your and the GP's claim, I'm saying it doesn't survive contact with reality. If you look at e.g. the per-dose price of insulin it's as low or lower in countries with single-payer universal systems, wher
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by avar 1y ago
> The second you detach the consumer from the > price of something, even through an > intermediary such as health insurance, that > is when they stop caring about how much > something costs, and so the
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by avar 1y ago
> Helium is very expensive currently because of Russia It's expensive (in Greece) because the EU added helium to its 14th package of sanctions in September 2024[1]. I'm aware of the ultimate reasons for those sanction
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by avar 1y ago
Your site (if this is your YouTube video) indicates Bosch compatibility with gen 2 motors[A]. I'm curious as to: 1. It says "Protocol implemented = no", but "Powers bike = yes", you can power a Bosch gen 2 motor wit
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by avar 1y ago
> I really would like to have been payed > to use Windows phones I meant paid in the indirect sense of being the beneficiary of a loss leader for Microsoft. I.e. I'm poking holes in your (somewhat unstated) premise
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by avar 1y ago
If "rapid reusability" was a proxy goal for maintaining a given launch pace we wouldn't need any of this. We could just construct 200 Space Shuttles and spend months refurbishing them after every flight, and still send one up
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by avar 1y ago
The "2 sentients 1 cup" thought experiment?
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by avar 1y ago
It's because before Bush invaded Iraq it would have been redundant to clarify that Bush said such and such in an official (written) capacity, as opposed to describing what the foreign policy goals of the US were at that moment. The two
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by avar 1y ago
It's a misspelling of "aliyah", which is a term for jews outside of Israel immigrating to Israel. They're saying Israel's currently spending advertising money in France hoping to convince French jews to move to Isra
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by avar 1y ago
I believe they meant that it's "unimportant" because (to use your example) sodium nitrate and sodium nitrite actually exist, whereas there's no element with the chemical symbol "Gr".
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by avar 1y ago
How much of that 10% was them basically paying OEM's and consumers to use Windows, which is what the Nokia deal amounted to? It wasn't sustainable. Whatever benefit we'd have from a Windows Phone today, it's laughable to

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