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Synchronous motors: running on software since the 1880s. Nikola really was ahead of his time!

One of me is cute, but two, though?

Dystopian Future 3: Elderly people getting scammed out of their life savings by scammers on the phone who sound indistinguishable from their grandchildren. (The ones who's grandchildren had their voices scraped from tiktoks.)

I wonder how many surveillance cameras are currently in operation.

You should really think about changing out the engine and cabin air filters. And spark plugs. And unless you are driving 50,000 miles per year, I can't imagine the battery is going to last too much longer.

Something classy like a Beretta 92 series?

https://www.beretta.com/en-us/product/92x-performance-defens...

...or something more retro-futuristic like an FN-90 to match the vibe of a self-driving EV?

https://fnamerica.com/products/rifles/fn-ps90-standard/

...plus you get the advantages of a carbine.

Anyone have semi-reliable data on the volume price for lithium ion cells in mid-2026? (or packs if that data is easier to come by).

A grammar corrected title might be better as:

"Why SpaceX's 2040 Revenue Forecast of $4.3T is highly unlikely"

Is there a suspected "real reason" they don't want to give out these records?

If someone wanted an AI generated Zig tutorial, why wouldn't they go to their favorite LLM supplier and simply prompt the AI for one? Why do we need someone to create this spam ahead of time? LLMs are improving all the time and Zig is a moving target. Seems like a win-win-win. The end-user gets a better (and potentially customized) tutorial for the latest Zig, and there is less overall spam pollution.

You can just read a paragraph or two of each email, and then decide whether or not to delete them. We don't additional tools to combat spam.

>I mean we had flame wars on USENET but somehow it feels to me that most discourse even on controversial topics was civil.

I think this is probably a combination of nostalgia and/or USENET prior to 1990 or so?

I thought the HN-way was to be more charitable than just directly calling out obvious bullshit.

>Persian Gulf has 20% more salt in water because of the humans

I would like to read more about this from an authoritative source.

- Risk mitigation. Even if you are 90% sure that things will go up and to the right, it still might make sense to cash out a bit as insurance. Especially if you aren't giving up any control

- Buying allies. If you make a lot of other people rich, they will probably become your biggest boosters. Might not be a bad idea to have some rich allies rooting for you. And you might need some political favors in the future.

Relativity is not about approximating the speed of light. So yes, probably a distracting stretch. YMMV.

Off-topic. But what is

>the same useful way we approximate the speed of light in relativity.

in reference to?

Is this supposed to be one of those exceptions-prove-the-rule things?

Is there a way to quantify how much more of a fire risk California is compared to say Utah (which looks to have about the 4th lowest electric rates (and an abundance of conifers)).

Should something like that be a dis-barring offense?

Wow, what a pronounced difference between wholesale and residential rates.

https://www.chooseenergy.com/electricity-rates-by-state/

What are some proposals for rectifying this? I've heard that some of this is essentially fire-insurance. If so, should that be broken out as a separate fee? And why is California uniquely fire prone?

I guess we're now fully into the Embrace part of the strategy.

I guess that seems legit. Thanks

I don't follow this scene. Have they effectively reverse engineered most of Apple hardware? So everything just works? Or is it more like, "hey it boots! and we hope to get networking operational next". I'm kind of surprised that Apple wouldn't lock things down so that it only boots signed-by-Apple executables/bootloaders.

Is there any purpose for a backlit keyboard for someone who can type?

What do you use the USB-A for? I mean, I get it, I still have flash drives with the A-style connector. Is there some other critical item that you use on the regular (and is awkward with the little adapters)?

Is there any part of the theory or design or implementation of the atomic bomb that depends on E = m*c^2? Or is it: "if you could theoretically weigh the end-products, you would get a slightly smaller answer than the before-products". Seems like it would have been known that there was a lot of electrical potential energy stored in the nucleus (after the discovery of the proton).

Which WW2 technologies had even a cursory dependency on Special or General Relativity?

Are they just connecting the SPI bus directly to the antenna? Did I miss the part where they describe their bandpass filtering?