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by gangstead 28d ago
Definitely not common but I’ve seen a couple while traveling. I saw one in Gijón, Spain last week. I also remember seeing one at the Tower of London 10ish years ago.
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by gangstead 2mo ago
I don't get it either. All people wanted was the existing product with a front light. Instead they add a front light, touch screen, pogo pins instead of USB C.
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by gangstead 3mo ago
One question I've tried to answer is: has Iridium ever made enough money to even pay back the cost to put the satellites up. Using Google for all these rough numbers the first constellation cost $5 billion before Iridium (the first co
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by gangstead 4mo ago
That's how chapter 11 type bankruptcy works. The business continues to run but the debtors are now the owners. There's also chapter 7 where the business shuts down and stripped for parts to pay the debts.
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by gangstead 4mo ago
I didn't even realize there was a RWD model. The website shows 3 options for sale and they are all AWD.
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by gangstead 4mo ago
Front light would make it the perfect device. I use it on the go everywhere now, to limit the distractions inherent with trying to read from my phone. But in bed having to pull out a book light or a headlight is an annoying step that risks
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by gangstead 4mo ago
I ordered the Xteink X4 not knowing about CrossPoint and I was so disappointed with the included firmware: - Almost no formatting on the ebooks you upload (no bold text, missing glyphs, no images/cover art) - The book had to be rendere
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by gangstead 4mo ago
> 3) What do you think ASML had to pay Lego to design and create this model? Or maybe Lego has a small division that does custom models like this? Do we know the employee cost for the Lego set? I've done my own small scale version o
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by gangstead 5mo ago
Yes! Awesome Prof.
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by gangstead 5mo ago
Everyone is talking about the Playdate but I have a related Duke story about undergrad classes incorporating new hardware. My Digital Signal Processing course (ECE major) made a big deal about using these new things called iPods for class.
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by gangstead 5mo ago
They were about $3 billion in the hole when they went through bankruptcy in 2002 and the new owners bought it for $43 million (from Wikipedia). In 2025 they earned a return of $-8 million on that investment (plus any other money raised sinc
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by gangstead 5mo ago
How did you make the "missing" corner? I'm assuming it wasn't chiseled out. In the last picture is the to-be-removed section made of plaster and then concrete poured around it?
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by gangstead 10mo ago
Maybe average cost of next-size-up SSD price divided by a SWAG of a gaming PC lifetime? So if I had to buy a 2 TB NVMe stick instead of a 1 TB stick it's an extra $70 and I upgrade after 5 years that's only about $1 per TB-Month.
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by gangstead 10mo ago
The incremental improvements to the engine thrust is par for the course. The exciting thing in this announcement is the new 9x4 configuration (9 and 4 engines in the first and second stages vs the current 7x2). They don't mention whe
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by gangstead 1y ago
Is there a way in Obsidian to have a virtual file separator like `---` in yaml documents? For bases to work I need to split my stuff up into tiny documents but I'd prefer to have one big document with separate sections. For example I
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by gangstead 1y ago
I want to join in with a Garmin rant. I also made the switch to a Coros after owning 3 Garmin watches. Each Garmin seemed to last almost exactly 3 years before abruptly dying. Each time I wanted to buy essentially the same watch only to f
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by gangstead 1y ago
Looks like it's $5k/month, minimum 12 months for "secure" images. https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-pwqgz3mnvxvok... You can always follow the "contact sales" form and se
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by gangstead 1y ago
> What are users expected to do exactly? From the bottom of the post I know what they are hoping users will do: > Suppose your deployed Helm chart is failing to pull images from docker.io/bitnami. In that case, you can resolve th
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by gangstead 1y ago
My understanding is that under ACA their profit is capped and if they don't pay out they have to issue rebates: > In the simplest terms, the 80/20 rule requires that insurance companies spend at least 80 percent of the premi
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by gangstead 1y ago
The health insurance companies are paid as a percentage of the amount of care that flows through them. So healthier customers means their profit is 5% of SMALLER_NUMBER.
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by gangstead 1y ago
My first question is doesn't blocking a listing that wasn't listed on Zillow just give the selling agent more of the exclusivity that they were trying to get? My other question is why would a home seller agree to the exclusive inv
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by gangstead 1y ago
Then why reference the "Agentic Era" in the title?
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by gangstead 1y ago
Back when the tariff was first announced I remember seeing a whitehouse.gov announcement saying it was 30% with a $25 minimum per package. I can't find that but the [newest Fact sheet]( https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-s
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by gangstead 2y ago
I feel like I just read The Catcher In the Rye , but for middle aged developers. It was fantastic.
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by gangstead 2y ago
Seriously. I met a guy on Hwy 4 in front of the Starship launch pad that was selling found bits out of his truck. He was asking a couple thousand dollars for a whole TPS tile. I'd buy a tile to help pay for the cleanup.
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by gangstead 2y ago
I hadn't made that connection but it's really apt. People watching Falcon 1 flight 4 get to orbit probably said "It's 165 kg payload, so what? We've been sending satellites to orbit for 50 years. ULA just sent ( ht
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by gangstead 2y ago
They may be supply constrained as well. Only one of the 3 Falcon launch pads can support Falcon Heavy and it must be reconfigured to go between regular and Falcon launches so each Heavy launch restricts Falcon launches for a week or two on
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by gangstead 2y ago
The extended Falcon fairing was spotted recently on one of the Falcon launches at the Cape. They are designing that for DoD payloads I think but it's advertised as available for payloads. It's not any wider but it is 18.7 m tall
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by gangstead 2y ago
My kids won't eat the healthy cereal so for me the number one reason is taste. The organic ones also cost more so price conscious people have a second reason.
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Rocket Labs Mars Sample Return proposed commercial alternative(rocketlabusa.com)
2 points by gangstead 2y ago|0 comments

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