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by frontiersummit 3mo ago
A survey is sent to car buyers with a huge number of questions related to their satisfaction. Automakers, Tier-1 suppliers, and probably others get to buy this data to mine for market research. At a past role with a Tier-1, we bought part o
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by frontiersummit 2y ago
My caving experience is less than yours, but I want to echo what you say. The average person envisions spacious tourist caves, not belly-crawling 800 yards through muddy gravel which has been more my experience with wild caves in the Americ
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by frontiersummit 2y ago
It has always felt to me that Wirecutter focuses on only one end of the Pareto curve ("what is the very best XXXX that money can buy, within reason") and ignores the middle of the curve where most people are actually shopping (&qu
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by frontiersummit 2y ago
I only see power requirements (1300 W) but no mention of voltage or frequency requirements---not even in the user guide. The pricing in € hints that the creators are in 240/1/50-land, and that I'm out-of-luck in the 120/
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by frontiersummit 3y ago
As someone who has used 3D CAD professionally for decades, I must confess I had low expectations for this tool. My expectations have been greatly exceeded, and there is real value in something like this. The value is not in creating models
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by frontiersummit 3y ago
Skimming the paper: it looks like they are performing sentiment analysis on books, effectively taking the Fourier transform of the sentiment-versus-time data, and reporting which Fourier component (up to 3rd harmonic) is strongest.
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by frontiersummit 3y ago
The stereotype is small, under-powered sportscars are sold to to men having a "mid-life crisis."
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by frontiersummit 3y ago
I read this as "person, 35-ish, stuck in a rut" which is a situation so common that automakers engineer cars like the Mazda Miata specifically for people in it.
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by frontiersummit 3y ago
Climbing to altitude is the straightforward part. The transition from zero knots to the stall speed of the aircraft (minimum speed at which it can remain airborne) is the tricky bit. Designing for a lower stall speed necessitates wings whic
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by frontiersummit 3y ago
Just over 20 years ago, a small model aircraft ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_of_Butts%27_Farm ) crossed the Atlantic in 39 hours using about a gallon of Naptha as fuel. The same year, the Design-Build-Fly cl
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by frontiersummit 3y ago
I'm similarly curious. Designing for a higher stall speed permits smaller wing area, lower drag, and lower weight. The cost is that takeoffs and landings become troublesome.
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by frontiersummit 3y ago
I'm very curious what's going on here... Does the EU just have better negotiators? Did someone in the CDC get their pockets lined to accept a higher bid? Is there some law or contract which prevented the CDC from playing hardball?
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by frontiersummit 3y ago
Why not cut back on general aviation flights first? My naive solution (granted I know little about ATC) would be to give commercial flights priority over GA flights if ATC is overloaded. No 8-seat business jet is more economically important
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by frontiersummit 3y ago
Obligatory https://xkcd.com/882/
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by frontiersummit 3y ago
Is it just me or does anyone else feel that Wirecutter only considers the upper end of the performance vs. price Pareto curve? Recently I read their review on dehumidifiers, and all 5x recommendations were Frigidaire/Electrolux models
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by frontiersummit 4y ago
I have a sneaky suspicion that as interest rates increase, subscription models will become much less popular. Sellers would rather have the money today, since the present value of future subscription payments becomes less. The "everyth
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by frontiersummit 4y ago
I guess I don't know what roads you are driving on, but as a counter example, class 8 trucks (tractor trailers, etc.) have abysmal acceleration but most of their drivers have gone millions of miles without even a fender-bender.
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by frontiersummit 4y ago
Most people able to drive a car like this are of the "only lease a depreciating asset" mindset, so it's all monthly payments regardless.
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by frontiersummit 4y ago
Don't ignore the commercial market. Daimler Truck has a massive global footprint---here in North America their brands include Freightliner, Western Star, Thomas (school busses), and Detroit Diesel. These brands will not be unseated any
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by frontiersummit 4y ago
People buy cars with that much power as a "flex," not because they are regularly hooning around in them. A $100k+ vehicle with a Mercedes badge is enough of a flex already, and flexing towards a different crowd regardless, so the
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by frontiersummit 4y ago
This puts it mildly. Paul Volcker has been (perhaps unfairly) called the Father of the Rustbelt, due to how rising interest rates broke the back of manufacturing in the American Midwest during the late 1970s and early 1980s. "Cooling&q
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by frontiersummit 4y ago
At a naive level, this sounds like the sort of supply chain attack we've all been taught to fear. Asking seriously: has this build been replicated? is the source different from mainline? if so, what changed and who changed it?
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by frontiersummit 4y ago
Indeed, but you can expect the architects and developers to still call themselves progressive urbanists, conveniently leaving the parking crater out of frame in all of their renders.
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by frontiersummit 4y ago
This is already being done in a lot of places in the American Midwest, such as my city and the neighboring city where my partner lives. The form it takes is a lot less glamorous than Strong Towns disciples probably want: An entire block get
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by frontiersummit 4y ago
People choose their vehicles for both functional purposes and sociocultural purposes. In somewhere like Manilla, a motorcycle has net positive functional utility since it is cheap, can park easily, and cut through traffic. In somewhere like
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by frontiersummit 4y ago
Superblocks seem like they would be super-fun for a 24-year-old single or someone visiting on holiday, but would be a logistical nightmare for a young family. Is this so? or am I a frog stuck in a car-dependency well?
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by frontiersummit 4y ago
A toaster is probably a bad example, given the common error states (burnt toast, stuck toast) which are no doubt amplified by design flaws in some units. I've never seen a toaster with 2000+ components, so maybe such a machine is diffe
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by frontiersummit 5y ago
I think it cuts both ways, as anyone who has needed to mine an existing data set for a new purpose can attest. Having the data sanitized can may your parsing job infinitely easier, while it can simultaneously destroy data which would have b
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by frontiersummit 5y ago
The older my eyes get, the more I wince when hearing DPI numbers like that. Scaling of UI elements is never as perfect as we pretend it is. For example, getting both GTK and Qt to simultaneously scale properly on my workstation is something
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by frontiersummit 5y ago
I remember looking at the same data some time ago and reaching the same conclusion about accidents at night. Another factor was that the pedestrians themselves are very likely to be intoxicated.

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