servo_sausage

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by servo_sausage 18d ago
Have a look at the solar endurance cars; they are pretty interesting on their own, and have had some "functional" designs over the years. It's possible to make a sedan sized car that can be power positive at highway speeds in
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by servo_sausage 1mo ago
OLEDs are an odd example... Their warranties are generally just as good, and the lifespan due to burn in is still improving.
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by servo_sausage 1mo ago
This is exactly what I mean by cheap digital production tools; but it's been possible to do it right since well before cds.
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by servo_sausage 1mo ago
It's well above the rate you need to reproduce everything a human can physically hear; this is one of the big points that shows the author as a moron... The change from cd to vinyl "sound" was largely about mastering, and che
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by servo_sausage 1mo ago
Chicken and egg problem. If you start with the assumption that you have a car, they are pretty great. Quiet, no through traffic and can become neighbourly, potentially large blocks. Somewhere to park your car... Basically trying to retrofit
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by servo_sausage 1mo ago
So what? It's a genuinely irrelevant detail... We don't need to optimise for space, we need to optimise for cost of transport, and door to door duration.
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by servo_sausage 1mo ago
What happens, is your underserved bus has to increase stops per loop for viability. You have areas where leaving the cul-de-sac zone takes 15-20 minutes on foot; so you need a stop or two in the zone. Now you have a short walk to the stop;
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by servo_sausage 1mo ago
Because people are not nearly as rigid about a 9-5 as you are imagining in aggregate; enough people commute off hours to increase the number of round trips per car significantly. Even in an office, there are plenty of people doing a 10-6, o
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by servo_sausage 1mo ago
What? Autonomous cars can park wherever...
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by servo_sausage 1mo ago
Because a transit method that follows a fixed route, on a schedule, is inherently worse than an on demand one; unless you can separate the traffic.
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by servo_sausage 1mo ago
As infrastructure, busses don't make sense if you assume self driving EVs are going to be widespread. Trying to keep using something that is comprised by fixed routes, schedules, and stops makes n little sense.
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by servo_sausage 1mo ago
See, I would call getting a breed of dog that has been identified as dangerous, as incredibly selfish. Genuinely an insane degree of self centred reasoning. My special dog is fine, because it's my dog, and I know better than everyone e
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by servo_sausage 2mo ago
It's interesting, as an Aussie, the decline in rule following is honestly a bit upsetting. Part COVID, part mass migration, but the general decline in social trust is something that I really feel. I guess I see breaking rules as fundam
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by servo_sausage 2mo ago
If you compare 100/40 plans to starlink, starlink is about 10aud more over the best reseller promotion I can see, but has the occasional promotion; and getting cheaper. If you are churning plans anyway, and that's the speed you wa
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by servo_sausage 2mo ago
Its also a pricing thing; in Australia our nationalised provider keeps getting more expensive, starlink is now getting cost-competitive.
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by servo_sausage 2mo ago
All the major models censor and filter, most just take mainstream silicon valley corporate as "neutral". Uncensored models tend to follow Tay's law.
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by servo_sausage 2mo ago
Generally the cars with better lane warning/centering use camera or radar to see other vehicles. We have been moving from pretty crude centering, to adaptive based on other vehicles, to intelligent enough to avoid potholes and cross la
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by servo_sausage 3mo ago
The LHC is such a crazy thing; kilometres of strange infrastructure, thousands of people, all for what seems like pure scientific curiosity. I think only surpassed by the SETI program in terms of doing it because many nerds think it's
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by servo_sausage 3mo ago
I've never heard it in terms of courtesy, more that a human employee is an entirely different category to some mechanical component of a business. So the setup goes, if a doormans function is defined as opening the door, then he can be
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by servo_sausage 3mo ago
All very achievable, I have a setup with a wireless keyboard to the htpc, and a script that wakes up my desktop with wake on lan, ssh's in and starts sunshine if I start moonlight. Booting the htpc can be a pain; personally my best sol
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by servo_sausage 3mo ago
Depends on which jobs; at a big enough scale you have people who are so deep in the hierarchy that their real connection to the domain is low. Seems possible to flatten out a company, in a way the domain knowledge is kept. That being said,
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by servo_sausage 3mo ago
You probably won't see new commencement of building projects, but it probably doesn't mean ongoing projects would be scrapped... And these things have a lead time of years
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by servo_sausage 3mo ago
Every statistic regarding refugee attainment shows that it is; unless you are proposing to limit intake to only the skilled.
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by servo_sausage 3mo ago
I've always been a bit sceptical about these types of statistics, seems like it's a classification problem as well; the big established companies that traditionally take on lots of grads have many recruiting pathways, and don&#x27
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by servo_sausage 3mo ago
It's a scale problem; fuses can be set up protect components or machines in a car or factory context; and often this is what is taught (or what people have first hand familiarity with). It just doesn't scale down to semiconductor
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by servo_sausage 3mo ago
Art class as part of public education is not completely uncontrovertial. It grew out of a time where basic artistic skills were expensive to learn, and could be a real class differentiator (and had some employment benefits). That's now
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by servo_sausage 4mo ago
Except that they are a competitor trying to catch up; it's not enough to follow what spacex did. They need to target where spacex will be when their own product is mature.
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by servo_sausage 4mo ago
Are there enough open source aero engineering projects to give the current ai approaches a remotely plausible amount of training data?
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by servo_sausage 4mo ago
If one pad is the bottleneck, and the goal is to ramp up to be a spacex competitor, then build more than one... Falcon has shown the playbook, and the demand for launch... The goal should be 2-4 launch sites in the medium term; with a secon
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by servo_sausage 4mo ago
The problem is that the eFerrari looks like a slightly improved bog-standard $40k Chinese EV crossover suppository. It's not all that ugly, it just doesn't really hit any Ferrari design language, or even do something interesting e

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