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dingaling··on EV startup Fisker's collapse: how the company crumbled
Ironically, Henrik Fisker's first Fisker company (2007-16) was a coachbuilder for luxury marques, doing bespoke manufacturing.
dingaling··on YouTube stops working for millions as war against ad blockers intensifies
As in paywall all access?
dingaling··on Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination
It also stings that I can't pay by PayPal, so not only would I have to pay the currency exchange margin to US Dollars but my bank also changes an out-of-currency fee.

I understand that they're probably focusing on US market growth first, but the UK and EU surely have potential too.

dingaling··on The President of Iran has died
Not 'by Russians'.

Iran has had indigenous repair and overhaul facilities for its Bell fleet since the 1970s. The huge facility at Isfahan was built by Bell as part of the massive contracts in the Shah's era and had been operating ever since.

dingaling··on Google is overhauling search results with AI overviews and Gemini organization
Then AI should be directed towards sifting real from unreal.
dingaling··on 40 years later, a game for the ZX Spectrum will be again broadcast over FM radio
Fascinating, here's the story from the programmer:

http://www.headen.com/XL1.htm

I'm not sure why he felt he had to write it all in machine code though, sadly he doesn't discuss that decision. Perhaps it was due to the time-dependency of the lyrics?

dingaling··on No one buys books
> Everyone can easily access the books they want.

Not particularly. New niche-interest non-fiction books are expensive ( $60+ ) and tend to have short print runs, after which their price on the second-hand market quickly escalates. And few are available as ebooks.

I've had to let a lot of books pass me by, even before they've been printed, simply because I couldn't afford them.

dingaling··on Xiaomi releases electric car $4K cheaper than Tesla's Model 3
> Ending up with another cars look seems inevitable.

EVs shouldn't really look like ICE cars, there's no need for a long bonnet / hood. Logically they should converge more on a cab-forward shape like an MPV / minivan, or even forward-control with the steering rack ahead of the front axle.

So when one EV sedan shares its shape with a different ICE-mimicking EV, it's not because of technical reasons.

dingaling··on Xiaomi releases electric car $4K cheaper than Tesla's Model 3
Closest to that is currently the Dacia Spring:

https://www.dacia.co.uk/hybrid-and-electric-range/spring-cit...

From £15k

dingaling··on Boom announces successful flight of XB-1 demonstrator aircraft
The Mirage F1 went to Mach 1.15 on its first flight in 1969. It wasn't unusual in that era.
dingaling··on Airbus electric air taxi makes its debut
Many gyrocopters can clutch the gearbox to the rotor for "jump" takeoff, they ae still classed as gyros because the rotor is unpowered in flight. On the ground the torque is resisted by the wheel brakes.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3RPYWmdv174

dingaling··on Minuteman Weapon System History and Description (2001) [pdf]
At what level is the book pitched? Detailed technical tome or pop-sci?

I was hugely disappointed by Blind Man's Bluff despite all the praise for it as it was written for a lay-audience.

dingaling··on Hip to be square – 70 years of the Citroën H Van (2017)
They were in the doldrums for 20 years but seen to be fighting back to their old design-driven ethos. The new Ami is a cute design that perhaps only Honda would have attempted:

https://www.citroen.co.uk/ami

dingaling··on YouTube Oddities
Every single movie on that link for me says "Preview Only" or "Not available". I've never found a movie in YouTube that I could actually watch.
dingaling··on Sleeping our way to being productive
The problem arises when the obligation to exercise impinges on sleep time, whether that be having to get up early for a run or having to stay up late after chores to get a session done.

Sleep gives immediate benefits, exercise gives longer term benefits. It's a conundrum.

dingaling··on It was almost impossible to make the blue LED [video]
> What is abominable is the use of the > "cooler" blueish white light being > used at night indoors.

We only associate warm orangey-white light with nocturnal lighting because of centuries of sitting around fires and candles.

dingaling··on How Lego Became the Apple of Toys (2015)
I've built a couple of recent Technics kits and noticed a decline in the clarity of Lego's instructions.

Instead of clearly showing the 'path' of each part in a step, that is how and where to connect it to an assembly, they now tend to show the assembly with the new parts attached. This leads to a game of 'spot the difference' with the previous step.

dingaling··on How much bigger could Earth be before rockets wouldn't work?
You might be surprised to learn that Enhanced LORAN recently became operational around the UK's coast, specifically because satellite-based PNT is so susceptible to interference and jamming.
dingaling··on What makes switching to GNU Linux almost impossible for many?
The Windows equivalent is "open regedit"
dingaling··on Is it insider trading if I bought Boeing puts while inside the wrecked airplane?
> I am curious if ATC radio communications are considered public

It varies by justification. In the UK it is illegal to monitor communications not intended for you ( Wireless Communications Act 1949 ).

dingaling··on Kayak's new flight filter allows you to exclude aircraft models
QANTAS have had 14 fatal accidents over their history.

The most common claim is that they have never suffered a jet hull loss, which is technically correct as they paid over $100 million to repair 747 VH-OJH instead of letting it be written-off:

https://imgur.com/a/LucEz

dingaling··on WiFi 7 is officially here, but routers are pricey. Do you need it yet
Still on 802.11n in an old solid-wall house with multiple APs connected over ethernet, because it works reliably and cost under £100 to implement with second-hand kit.
dingaling··on US developers can offer non-app store purchasing, Apple still collect commission
"...in 1988, the company added the first accessibility support program for Windows by incorporating work developed at the TRACE Center, a research and development center on accessible technology at the University of Wisconsin.

Known then as Access Utility for Windows 2.0, the program improved the accessibility of Windows for people who are deaf, hard of hearing, or who have limited dexterity"

https://www.afb.org/aw/1/4/16165

dingaling··on Airbus Shatters Record for Jet Orders as Demand Soars
Avolon buys what it calculates it can lease out to airlines, it doesn't have a 'preference' itself.
dingaling··on Browsers are the most likely disruptor of the mobile duopoly
> Add in OEM machines and you've got a base of computer users in maybe the 100-200 million range

Annual PC shipments are still around a quarter-billion units...

They've been over 200 million each year for the past 30 years. Peaked at 364 million in 2011.

dingaling··on Bitwarden Heist – How to break into password vaults without using passwords
Makes /bin/, /usr/bin/ and /opt/ seem simple
dingaling··on Breakdown of faults by car brand: Tesla has replaced Dacia at the bottom
> Model Y is the most sold car model in the world in 2023.

Not quite, the Toyota Corolla and RAV-4 both outsold it

dingaling··on Breakdown of faults by car brand: Tesla has replaced Dacia at the bottom
HUD symbology is focused at infinity, so there's no 'background'. The symbols and the real world are at the same hyperfocal point.

Fighter pilots have been using HUDs for 70 years and in the past 20 years they have become common in airliners as they hugely improve safety in low-visibility operations.

dingaling··on Breakdown of faults by car brand: Tesla has replaced Dacia at the bottom
> Drive by feel, isn’t this something everyone develops?

To a degree, but not to the finesse of 10% + 2mph which is the threshold of prosecution in the UK, for example.

Can you tell 20 from 24mph, or 30 from 35mph, without looking?

dingaling··on New nuclear deflection simulations advance planetary defense against asteroids
Most of the arsenal nowadays is fairly low-yield compared to the heyday of the 1960s.

The largest deployed US weapon was the B41 with a yield of at least 25MT. The closest contemporary is the B83 at 1.2MT.

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