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by chipsa 13d ago
Space companies shouldn't try to help us out of this crab bucket. They should work to try to make this bucket full of crabs better. We should pull down any crabs that try to get out of this bucket.
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by chipsa 28d ago
> My theory is that as startups grow beyond a critical threshold, they start to attract a certain type of person who is more interested in mercenarily growing within the company / setting themselves up for future corporate rise than
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by chipsa 2mo ago
False. The existing months were just renamed after them. Rather, they added new months to the front of the year (January and February).
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by chipsa 3mo ago
If the desired location for this is a car, then a few years of life that requires half disassembly of a motor isn’t going to work.
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by chipsa 6mo ago
Range extender was definitely a requirement when I got mine in ‘19. But that’s because I did not have reliable charging available in the area. It also came in handy for a bad road trip (charging stations more than my range apart, so I could
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by chipsa 7mo ago
I got panels last year because I’m pretty confident that the majority of the cost of putting panels on my roof is the stuff besides the actual panels. So pricing won’t go down much for getting an actual installer to do it.
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by chipsa 7mo ago
Very much depends on the rating. A residential panel is something like 65”x40”. A commercial sized panel is something like 80”x40”. The cell size is relatively constant, but the bigger panels are 6x12 cells instead of 6x10. Newer panels hav
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by chipsa 7mo ago
It’s not claiming: you can’t have an automotive paint shop. It’s claiming you can’t start a new paint shop. Specifically, if you don’t have one for your car manufacturing line already, you can’t set one up. Wikipedia shows 13 pages for auto
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by chipsa 1y ago
I promise there is not an OBD2 port inside the headlights of cars. There is CANBUS to the headlights, but that is not a OBD2 port. And more securely designed cars can put that in a less secure zone, so it can only send and receive commands
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by chipsa 1y ago
More advanced EVSEs are capable of adjusting the power delivered based on the power available. It does require a sensor on the supply cables to determine how much power is being used, but it's technically capable without a service upgr
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by chipsa 1y ago
Quick sort usually uses something like insertion sort when the number of items is low, because the constants are better at low n, even if O(n) isn’t as good.
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by chipsa 1y ago
The third row is just planned. They do not have any publicly available views of it, and the currently non-removable back glass of the prototypes inhibit actually installing and using them.
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by chipsa 1y ago
The vast majority of tractor trailers in Europe are cab over designs. There’s definitely less room between the bumper and the driver’s legs in those than in any standard pickup truck.
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by chipsa 1y ago
I don’t think slate has a four door option. It’s still two door, but with a rear seat that you can clamber into after pushing the front seat forward.
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by chipsa 1y ago
Do you have power at the lake house? Then you have charging infrastructure. Also, why are you towing the boat to and from the lake house? And again, which new production pickup fits 6 people?
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by chipsa 1y ago
You think a crumple zone isn’t required by current FMVSS, which they are designing against? That is, in fact, what they referred to with “ structural technology”.
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by chipsa 1y ago
No pickup will do that. Even crew cab pickups normally max out at 5 people (4 passengers), because there is no bench seat up front anymore. Even a Ford Maverick is $30k or so, and that won’t tow a 5000lb boat. Max listed towing is 4klb.
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by chipsa 1y ago
Important note: if you’ve failed a medical, you’re no longer eligible for a light sport license. This is what’s killed Xyla Foxlin’s flying career: her medical was revoked.
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by chipsa 1y ago
That includes stuff like diamond grit. You don’t care about the color or clarity of grit. Tenth of a carat on up? You care about that for jewelry use. And that translates into better non-grit industrial diamonds as well.
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by chipsa 1y ago
What you need for running a site that people might not like: 1. Your own servers 2. Your own network 3. Your own CDN 4. Your own payment processor Step 4 gets you thrown in jail for violating AML.
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by chipsa 1y ago
What book?
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by chipsa 1y ago
Google says: no, the US did not stop sharing weather data. Communication isn’t automated weather data sharing. The data never stopped. Again, citation needed.
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by chipsa 1y ago
> for example, the US has stopped sharing weather data with canada. Citation needed. Most weather data from NWS is required by treaty to be disseminated through WMO compliant methods. The Metsat data is transmitted unencrypted from the G
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by chipsa 1y ago
10 gallons of water is like 80 pounds of snow. Even with the relative density, 80 pounds of snow isn’t going to do much for avalanche.
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by chipsa 1y ago
There’s also the shipping problem: it’s actually cheaper to ship from overseas than the US, due to the Jones Act. There’s more ships available to go from East Asia than from California.
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by chipsa 1y ago
Doubt: the APQ-181 radar on the B-2 is a Ku band radar, about 15 GHz. Tamara is about 1 GHz. This is entirely incompatible frequency ranges. Also, the APQ-181 is a LPI radar, which means it’s specifically designed to avoid correlation of si
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by chipsa 1y ago
Most of the aggressiveness of a toy rocket is the smaller length. Orbital class rockets are literally the size of skyscrapers.
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by chipsa 1y ago
Can you identify the rocket he used? Because from what I saw, I’m pretty sure it was a F9.
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by chipsa 1y ago
You think they’ll still be in for 20 years? And you need 20 “good years” to get a pension for non-active duty service.
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by chipsa 1y ago
The point of commissioning them isn’t for them to take command of a line infantry battalion. It’s to have them have authority to do stuff that requires a Lt col, but is not actually commanding. It’s like how we commissioned a whole bunch of

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