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by powerbroker 20d ago
What is it called when you can vividly see the silhouette of your hands with your eyes closed -- and particularly if your fingers are brushing against your skull. I didn't discover this 'transparent skull' skill until I was
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by powerbroker 23d ago
90% of my EV sessions are at home, at a personal time commitment of 5 seconds to open the charging hatch and plug-in. Maybe 5% of my EV charges take 30 minutes while I'm enjoying a meal or ... wasting time waiting in the car for it to
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by powerbroker 27d ago
Wall Street Journal electronic edition
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by powerbroker 3mo ago
Something is terribly broken in the software release process that constantly allows a worse user experience (including autonomous) as Tesla 'matures' its operations. I'm driving a Tesla, that recently added a 'warning&#x
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by powerbroker 4mo ago
I recall Ping being late to board his sailing vessel, and took a countermeasure to his backside. To Wit: *Excellent, heart-warming tale of exploration and discovery. Using deft allegory, the authors have provided an insightful and intuitive
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by powerbroker 5mo ago
How long before Wall Street moves to Dallas? The traders. The advisors. The lawyers. The TV finance shows. This seems the beginnings of a 'New Detroit'.
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by powerbroker 5mo ago
clankstar
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by powerbroker 5mo ago
The people on the bottom half of the 'K-shaped recovery' outnumber the people on the top half. This bias likely skews the Michigan Consumer Sentiment survey [1], and accordingly leads to record low optimism about the future, despi
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by powerbroker 5mo ago
Hang gliding. It's good if you are in an area with some hills and consistent winds. There are maybe a dozen well-established launch sites around the U.S. Sadly, I broke down my glider around 2001 -- and did a post-mortem on it to disc
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by powerbroker 1y ago
Oh wait, I meant also "... over considerably longer timescales". (Minor technicality).
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by powerbroker 1y ago
That movie with "I know Kung Fu" -- we do that too.
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by powerbroker 1y ago
I Robot?
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by powerbroker 1y ago
The vehicle, so evil, that it cannot be named. Life imitates art, and not in a good way.
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by powerbroker 1y ago
As both a lawyer and a programmer, I tend to agree with the above. However, I've noticed among other lawyer/programmers, some further traits: easily bored, and extraordinarily focussed. A quirky features of lawyers: can be unusual
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by powerbroker 1y ago
I was driving the Model X a few years ago and ended up T-boning a minivan at ~45 MPH. Minivan rolled over. Our airbags deployed. Post accident, I discovered my glasses remained on my face and it seemed that the airbag did not even reach m
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by powerbroker 1y ago
ditto.
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by powerbroker 1y ago
1. I've paid electric bills in four different cities. Rates haven't been increased at more than 1x annually in any of them. 2. California is getting what seems to be two overhauls: a) replacing/upgrading lines and vegetation
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by powerbroker 2y ago
This would improve efficiency if the number of electric vehicles on the U.S. roads was on a downward trajectory as they were in the early 1900s. But now the technology is quite different than the lead-acid used back then, and broadly accep
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by powerbroker 2y ago
A signal that an AI is better than a 5 year old is being able to respond to the following query: "What are your terms and conditions?". For now, it is failing.
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by powerbroker 2y ago
I have broken a collarbone; gotten a bruise 18 inches long; destroyed (one at a time) almost every part on my bicycle; hit an armadillo and ridden to 90 miles with a 20 mile head-wind in the final 10 miles. I've been happy pretty much
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by powerbroker 2y ago
These hyperventilating videos are so cherry-picked that I've long given up hope that a not-fatal FSD will appear in my lifetime.
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by powerbroker 2y ago
The constant explosions in four different compartments might have something to do with it feeling wrong. I wonder if anyone can tell us how many mounts support the engine and give it some opportunity to dampen the explosions -- and through
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by powerbroker 2y ago
I bounce back and forth between hang gliding and kiteboarding.
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by powerbroker 2y ago
Typically, the battery cells that are formed into packs are rigidly arranged. So far as I know, they are arranged to have a common positive cathode by being connected as a single node with a conductor. In other words, they are wired in para
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by powerbroker 2y ago
Unfortunately it these batteries are unable to multiple gigawatts over many hours of excess wind energy. It will be at least a decade before the battery energy storage systems are close to big enough to absorb the oversupply of wind energy
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by powerbroker 2y ago
Electric grids typically lose up to 5% of electricity to heat during the transmission stage. Putting the data centers at the nuclear power plant, accordingly, adds 5% more electricity than placing it at the end of the public grid. Seems lik
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by powerbroker 2y ago
So given the following: The ruling comes just days after President Biden created a new program essentially easing a path to permanent residency for spouses of U.S. citizens who are in the country illegally. ...it appears that the undocument
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by powerbroker 2y ago
Having spent a big part of my career writing technical papers, I found myself exhausted by lengthy prologues concerning the problem space, and then referencing a bunch of 'objects' that were largely tangential to the 'punch l
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by powerbroker 2y ago
Its even cooler if the pet has fleas that are organized as a cellular automata that plays the game of 'life' on the body of the pet.
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by powerbroker 2y ago
This seems the most straightforward of explanations. I know that a planet tends to loose its heat (and visibility in infrared) quickly after formation -- and might be hard to spot as a rogue planet. But, the Zwart explanation seems to sugge

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