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by kumarsw 2mo ago
PG&E screwed up pretty bad prioritizing shareholder dividends over maintenance/vegetation management. That said, their potential exposure for liability feels something like the situation which led the the demise of small aircraft m
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by kumarsw 5mo ago
No one has bit yet so I will: - Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter cost: $583M - Artemis II cost: $4.1B Manned spaceflight is the most expensive PR program ever to get money for unmanned spaceflight
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by kumarsw 9mo ago
Given that this is hacker news, the answers here are unsurprisingly biased towards building toys. Blocks/Duplo are great, but who is going to explore the newly built environment? Enter the die-cast toy cars/trucks/constructio
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by kumarsw 1y ago
I was hoping that the pendulum would swing the other way with the scandal over too many passengers bringing out their bags on a recent AA evacuation caused by a burning tire. The push to eliminate checked bags has created a chaotic cabin en
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by kumarsw 1y ago
Paying for a group to sit together is really just a roundabout way of charging extra for the middle seat that solo travelers don't want. There's something gross about it, creating a market price for a nonexistent good.
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by kumarsw 2y ago
I don't know about their other expenses, but SEO/advertising is probably one of their better uses of money even if we don't like it. It's hard to gain market share against a browser that is pitched each time you do a Goo
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by kumarsw 2y ago
It might, or it might just become the next CAFE. Disappointingly, the proposed regulation does not apply to vehicles over 10k lbs gross weight. This notably includes heavy duty pickups, a fast growing market segment thanks to the increasing
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How the Econic is protecting pedestrians and cyclists in city traffic (2018)(daimlertruck.com)
1 points by kumarsw 2y ago|1 comments
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by kumarsw 2y ago
Context: As of September 2024, the NHTSA is proposing that the US adopt pedestrian safety crash requirements for vehicles up to 10k lbs. North Americans may not be aware that engineering solutions already exist for medium-duty trucks such a
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by kumarsw 2y ago
The original sure looks bland, but a HTML4-esque webpage gives absolutely the wrong message about the maturity level of a browser regardless of how much more usable it may be. Branding matters even if it's a tough pill to swallow.
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by kumarsw 2y ago
The browser is good, but Mozilla has been consistently losing market share despite being well-funded. There is considerable debate as to what specific mistakes were made, but the foundation spent a lot of money on side projects that did not
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by kumarsw 2y ago
I dunno if it's practical, but the idea of an urban "garage" for woodworking/storing your kayak sounds kinda awesome.
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by kumarsw 2y ago
Back when I worked out of an office in an industrial park in the suburbs of Boston, a number of the younger/single folks would reverse-commute in from the city. Since it was against the prevailing flow of traffic it was a pretty easy d
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by kumarsw 3y ago
See my other comment - current Toyotas will let you disable the 4G modem with a series of button presses.
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by kumarsw 3y ago
Adding to the list of 2010s-era Japanese cars, the 2nd gen Mazda3s have good reliability without the "Toyota tax." If you don't want to go with a 10yo car, current Toyotas will let you disable the 4G modem by pressing a serie
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by kumarsw 3y ago
I was about to post a snarky reply, but after actually reading TFA, it's not clear that this plane does anything different from a modern-ish commercial aviation autopilot except for being able to set it remotely. Still waiting for &quo
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by kumarsw 3y ago
JabRef. No cloud component and as a bonus the database is just a BibTex file which you can keep in Git.
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One City Tried to Solve Gridlock for Us All(nytimes.com)
2 points by kumarsw 3y ago|0 comments
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by kumarsw 3y ago
I'm sad to hear that not only the man himself but Harris Cyclery passed sometime in the middle of COVID. For the younger folks, it's hard to appreciate how influential his kludgey-looking website was. Pre-YouTube it was the go-t
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by kumarsw 3y ago
This one does seem too expensive for what it is. The GBD-200 at $150 seems much more appropriate for a smartwatch-lite, besides scratching the itch for a modern take on the old Casio squares [1]. https://www.casio.com/us&#x2
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by kumarsw 3y ago
This is when I'm glad that pressing F9 to invoke reader mode in Firefox still exists. Try it!
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by kumarsw 4y ago
For a more modern language that scratches the same minimalist syntax itch as Forth, try Red [1]. It's list-based rather than stack-based and includes the "killer app" of a really nice DSL for GUI layout. Even including the ex
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by kumarsw 4y ago
I work with a lot of uncompressed structured binary files so I finally broke down and wrote my own system based on the Restic chunker: https://github.com/akbarnes/dupver It's pretty basic, but it works for me and
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by kumarsw 4y ago
I recall some figure that 90% of the Canadian population lives in a thin band extending a few hundred miles north of the US border. So average population density is very misleading.
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by kumarsw 4y ago
A lot of people are debating if this post is legit. I can't make any definite statements, but an 87% response rate for any job application is extremely high.
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by kumarsw 4y ago
Like most people here, I love the minimalist 90s UI and the lack of need to create an account. Unfortunately it's a ghost town of scammers now in my area. Craigslist really dropped the ball on policing their site and let competitors ta
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by kumarsw 4y ago
1) Turn the basement into a granny flat if it has a separate door. If you live in any metropolitan area you can charge pretty good rent for it. 2) Probably it's starting to get common now, but 240V to the garage in case you want to ad
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Ask HN: How do you name your documents?
2 points by kumarsw 4y ago|4 comments
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by kumarsw 4y ago
The other solution to this is something like Buy Nothing which limits the pool of recipients to people within your neighborhood.
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by kumarsw 4y ago
This is a pretty well-observed phenomenon that the relative sadness of humans and cute animals dying in movies and real life is (presumably) reversed. Someone had even coined a term for it - “dog-dying-in-movie sad.” I’m at a loss to explai

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