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by ghostfish 11y ago
It's certainly a possible solution to the last mile problem, and one I've considered using myself, but the issue is what do you do with your transport once you arrive at your destination? If your destination is a home or office, y
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by ghostfish 11y ago
This is exactly what several electric "bicycles" do now. They have a road mode which conforms to the federal 750W/20MPH limit, and an offroad mode that allows something like several kilowatts and perhaps 40MPH.
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by ghostfish 12y ago
I doubt they're taking a loss, and I'd be surprised if they're not making a decent profit. What are the components? A 1080p cell phone screen, some cabling, custom plastic enclosure and straps, an IR webcam, and the PCB+com
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by ghostfish 13y ago
Duopoly? A large number of major cities and their suburbs only have 1 true highspeed option (cable) and slow wireless or DSL. FIOS deployment is sadly limited.
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by ghostfish 13y ago
Aside from cost, what do you think makes a Tesla impractical for the "vast majority of drivers"?
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by ghostfish 14y ago
I also backed the Hexbright. You're remembering that you'd have it by last Christmas because that was the original shipping date. I think the FAQ was changed once the delays were announced. I agree, it looks like we'll be getting a great
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by ghostfish 14y ago
This same gist is on the Fandango website as of now. Some kind of library issue maybe? https://www.fandango.com/
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by ghostfish 14y ago
This, a million times this. My understanding also is that the ODB port on many/most vehicles goes straight into the CAN bus controlling everything in the car. It's entirely possible you could gain control over any microcontroller in the c
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by ghostfish 14y ago
I'm not sure what you're seeing, but Linode is right under Heroku on the right side "your web server" list.
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by ghostfish 14y ago
My thoughts exactly. This is just complexity for complexity's sake. Useful as an exercise, but the -h flag already does this is an even more readable manner.
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by ghostfish 14y ago
First of all, this is something that's always bugged me when using twitter, and I like seeing someone address it, but I have a comment. I agree with the 13" laptop screen examples, but how many people browse the web full screen on monitors
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by ghostfish 14y ago
Ah, thanks for the information. I'm familiar with signal processing, so the only way I'm used to seeing convolutions is through the multiplication of FFTs. I wasn't even considering the "regular" way.
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by ghostfish 14y ago
As far as I'm aware OpenCL performance, while portable, is still somewhat inferior to that of straight CUDA on NVIDIA GPUs, hence my CUDA suggestion. I didn't actually look at the algorithms used in either so I can't comment, perhaps I'll
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by ghostfish 14y ago
But you missed the most important part of that quote. >"(in Ready, Stephan's software at the sourceforge link above runs much faster)" So using Ready it took a long time, but the actual code is much faster. I'd imagine you could write
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by ghostfish 14y ago
Two thoughts here. 1) You're working from an awfully small sample, especially for a component that is supposed to be of such a high reliability. Then again, look at the probabilistic assessment of Shuttle success vs. actual. 2) The Merlin
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by ghostfish 14y ago
>"Panels designed to relieve pressure within the engine bay were ejected to protect the stage and other engines." Can anyone that knows something about the Falcon 9 design or rockets in general shed some light on this? That sentence ma
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by ghostfish 14y ago
The studies referenced in the article you linked refer to the construction industry, not knowledge workers. I would expect anyone producing widgets or physically fabricating things would continue to produce more simply by spending more hou
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by ghostfish 14y ago
This is so true. My car is the last generation of 3 series that has the classic BMW amber gauges (doesn't kill night vision) and no iDrive (terrible series of spins, pushes, and clicks to do something simple like change the radio station t
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by ghostfish 14y ago
I agree. When I go to my car, I walk up to it and touch the door handle, which unlocks it. I sit down and press the start button to start the engine. The key never leaves my pocket, and I don't really care what it's doing as a user. (I p
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by ghostfish 14y ago
A pulse jet is an incredibly simple kind of jet engine, usually with no moving parts. They were used on the V1 flying bomb in WWII. Wikipedia probably explains it better than I can http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse_jet_engine . The ve
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by ghostfish 14y ago
Have you considered a patch antenna or something similarly directional right on the PCB? Still only one radio and reasonably robust direction detection as far as "is the signal coming from in front of me or behind me" is concerned.
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by ghostfish 14y ago
How loud is it there? The stone walls and tile floors make me think it's very live, acoustically speaking. Are people quiet enough that it's not a problem?
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by ghostfish 14y ago
The zero–space kerning badly bothers me. With traditional stylized logos I think there's more artistic license, but when your logo is just a font, I feel it should be more readable.
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by ghostfish 14y ago
I think you're attributing to throttle lag something that is primarily attributable to torque (which isn't to say there isn't throttle response lag, just it's a minor component imo). Diesels are similar to EVs in the sense that you don't n
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by ghostfish 14y ago
Facebook login only? This is a disturbing trend I'm noticing with a number of new websites/services. I don't think I'm alone in saying I don't like allowing apps access to all of my Facebook data and timeline. I won't use anything that o
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by ghostfish 14y ago
Thanks for the info. So it's about the same resolution as the current generation of existing video headsets, but with a much wider field of view.
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by ghostfish 14y ago
This sounds really interesting, but there's a distinct lack of specifications, especially when this is targeted at the developer/early adopter community. How high is "high resolution"? Some display glasses companies (Vuzix) consider 852x4
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by ghostfish 14y ago
There is an 8 year warranty on the battery in a Model S, with mileage depending on which capacity version you own.
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by ghostfish 14y ago
Interesting, what makes you say that DDG's results suck? I've been using it as my primary search engine for a few weeks now and aside from it not including a map in results unless you give it a very explicit address, I've found it no worse
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by ghostfish 14y ago
How does this type of aircraft shift the balance of power? It doesn't appear to do anything "better" than a manned aircraft aside from not having a pilot to lose onboard.

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