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by calmbonsai 4d ago
WJW, what a blatant John Deere PR piece. Even by modern WIRED's low standards of journalism, Boone Ashworth has managed to be subterranean.
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by calmbonsai 7d ago
Wait until the general public learns about the tech behind most of the currently fielded smoke detectors. Also, this has long-since been obviated with active acoustic/vibration detection in modern rotor drive-trains. All that said, eve
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by calmbonsai 25d ago
Being poor has zero correlation with being “lazy”. Being poor is highly correlated with having little to no access to financial “leverage” so it’s very difficult to earn any sort of non-linear return on capital. Additionally, the vast major
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by calmbonsai 27d ago
FWIW, women are equally competitive in ultra-running, so I suspect the claimed advantages only apply at faster paces & longer gaits.
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by calmbonsai 1mo ago
Given that I got my first computer at 12, given all the screen time with video games and programming in my youth + my day-job in software I absolutely guarantee I've clocked more hours on a computer than "with my family". I&
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by calmbonsai 1mo ago
Yeah. I don’t see weather or theft addressed in this design. I recall a wheel-mounted rotor system from a few years back that did address theft, tire-wear, and weather, but it suffered from far too little torque and very limited battery li
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by calmbonsai 1mo ago
Oh this guy again. This guy is a total douche. Not related, he previously tweeting being "inspired by" Martin Shkreli and writing letters to him in prison. Something, something the company you keep.
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by calmbonsai 1mo ago
There’s nothing quite like a poor analogy to trigger HN.
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by calmbonsai 1mo ago
WJW. This entire article is assuming there’s a single measure of “success” in this endeavor and the simulation isn’t remotely anything like mowing an actual lawn. I’m usually a huge fan of Pudding, but this completely misses the mark.
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by calmbonsai 1mo ago
A recent video that addresses some of my concerns: https://youtu.be/zA9dGNEIOEY
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by calmbonsai 1mo ago
I have not. I've also noticed that despite changes in regulation in the U.S., a whole variety of P.E. strategies are completely ignored by LLMs.
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by calmbonsai 2mo ago
Good point especially wrt side airbags. I forgot about that.
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by calmbonsai 2mo ago
AI, atm, is a perfect distillation of financial platitudes from ~10 years ago. FWIW, bonds are no longer a hedge against equity unless they’re based against private equity and private equity is both more expensive and more performant than e
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by calmbonsai 2mo ago
Yup. I'd say ICE cars peaked in UX, performance, and safety in the early 2000s.
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by calmbonsai 2mo ago
Only the older ones without screens. A naturally aspirated inline 6 with a manual gearbox and 50/50 weight distribution is it's own special kind of bliss. I only take it out maybe 20 times per year, but after merely 30s behind th
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by calmbonsai 2mo ago
As if GitHub wasn’t already unreliable enough. Fix. Your. Culture.
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by calmbonsai 2mo ago
No. I am being critical of a company’s sales efforts as they have not addressed those salient challenges to bringing forth a completed commercial aircraft to market.
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by calmbonsai 2mo ago
All of my prior points still stand. Show me where this company has addressed these issues.
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by calmbonsai 2mo ago
It was more fuel efficient only over a very narrow band of the entire flight envelope. Also, it suffered from snap-stalls and very poor stall recovery due to its delta wing. This is, primarily, why you only see delta wings used in super-so
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by calmbonsai 2mo ago
No. I'm, in essence, saying the opposite. To use your analogy "as someone with 5 hours into driver's ed in my mom's civic I now realize how hard driving actually is and why ALL cars still have 4 wheels, still use a ste
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by calmbonsai 2mo ago
I don't see how having a marginal amount of single-engine aviation flight experience is relevant to Dunning-Kruger. If anything, it's taught me how little I know about "real flying" compared to CFD and systems engineerin
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by calmbonsai 2mo ago
Aside from regulation, the edge-envelope characteristics of a flying wing mandate fly-by-wire and, essentially, full-time autopilot. Even then, good luck recovering when you, even marginally, exceed the energy*altitude parameters during tak
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by calmbonsai 2mo ago
Please lookup the flight envelope, cruise fuel utilization, and stall characteristics of the Dyke Delta along with its cargo capacity. Then you'll understand why so many Cessna 172s were built.
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by calmbonsai 2mo ago
Yes, but this "innovation" (as sold) must exist as a viable commercial airplane. So far, I see zero evidence that this company has addressed any of the aforementioned challenges beyond theoretical fuel consumption and theoreti
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by calmbonsai 2mo ago
Not this again. They’ve clearly hired a new PR firm Suffice it to say, from stable aeronautics at-edge, jet way footprint efficiency, ground support efficiency, airframe pressurization, cargo & passenger logistics, lifespan, and certif
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by calmbonsai 2mo ago
You are correct. I do not follow that moral praxis.
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by calmbonsai 2mo ago
Truth regarding his earnesty. I never felt he mislead, but also at some point (much like ESPN’s Stephen Smith) he decided “winning” in punditry was more about by being loud than about by being right.
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by calmbonsai 2mo ago
I don't know the man personally, but I was never impressed by his punditry even in the early PC MAG days and it got even worse when he started writing for MarketWatch. He was always lots of loud platitudes or damnations with more noise
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by calmbonsai 2mo ago
Um, if you're going to market a vehicle, you really, really, really, need to have pictures or at least detailed renderings. Atm, this is a DoA product.
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by calmbonsai 3mo ago
That’s…quite the epic surname.

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