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esterly··on Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor
Great overview on overcoming traditional motor flux saturation & density issues https://youtu.be/m507ryWhc6c?t=397
esterly··on HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'
`curl https://api.github.com/users/YOUR_USER_HERE` then look for the id in the payload. "id": 2851

Or look at the html source of your avatar, https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2851?v=4

esterly··on USC Student Rocket Group Shatters International Amateur Space Record
Most electric ovens and dryers are 240V in the US https://us-electric.com/how-to-install-an-electric-stove-out...
esterly··on 0xCAFEBABE & 0xFEEDFACE (2003)
OxDEADBEEF
esterly··on First look at the upcoming Starlink Mini
Rome has a 'Pause service' option https://www.starlink.com/service-plans

""Pause and un-pause service at any time. Billing is in one-month increments, allowing you to customize your service to your individual travel needs."

esterly··on Tell HN: I'm nervous and don't know where else to go
Myself, and I'm sure many others, would love to hear which advice you took from the HN community and how things are going.
esterly··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021)
Help non profits with giving and more! https://www.anedot.com/careers#positions

Join our kind, driven, no-drama 100% remote growing team.

esterly··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2020)
Anedot | Senior Developer | Remote in CA, FL, LA, MD, OH, TX, or WA | Full stack Ruby on Rails w/React

https://anedot.breezy.hr/p/6d3a80bada6a-senior-software-prog...

Ruby (Rails) Javascript (React) Postgres GitHub AWS Cloud platform Kubernetes Sidekiq Enterprise for workers/jobs/queues Testing tools/frameworks TravisCI Jest Cypress GitHub Actions

esterly··on Battery Pack Prices Fall As Market Ramps Up
Jehu Garcia is a good reference for batter deals ( note discount code "JEHU" )https://kit.co/jehu/black-friday-deals-2019 found via his channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD7tYQd4XE4
esterly··on Boeing 777X’s fuselage split dramatically during September stress test
Also a positive note, the carbon fiber wings bent 3x expected max

>bent the jet’s giant carbon composite wings upward more than 28 feet from their resting position. That’s far beyond the expected maximum deflection in normal flight of about 9 feet >All this simulated the loads in a flight maneuver where a pilot would experience a force of 3.75 G, compared to the maximum of 1.3 G in normal flight

>All this simulated the loads in a flight maneuver where a pilot would experience a force of 3.75 G, compared to the maximum of 1.3 G in normal flight

esterly··on Airbnb hosts are offering free rooms to people fleeing Hurricane Florence
Direct link to listings if you are on the run: https://www.airbnb.com/s/homes?collection_id=364253377&disas...
esterly··on Commons Clause
The license commit is very clear redis core is unchanged BSD 3 https://github.com/antirez/redis/blob/unstable/COPYING
esterly··on Redis will remain BSD licensed
Best to check the source, license unchanged: https://github.com/antirez/redis/blob/unstable/COPYING

Thank you Salvatore for Redis, it has benefited so many projects.

esterly··on Sounding the Alarm: Now Is the Time to Be a Cockroach
If you have the discipline this makes sense. Tho the time it takes you to acquire and manage 3 cards isn't free. I've found it isn't work the mental energy and just stick with one rewards card.
esterly··on The Trouble with D3
try Billboard.js a nice wrapper on top of D3v4 https://naver.github.io/billboard.js/demo/#Chart.Combination...
esterly··on Shell Magic: Set Operations with uniq
Thanks! Will be using these for debugging. I commonly compare `cat data.csv | wc -l` vs `cat data.csv | sort -u | wc -l` to check unique inputs
esterly··on Redis 5.0 RC1 is out
We've found Redis installs with no issues see: https://redis.io/topics/quickstart or if you are on windows https://github.com/rgl/redis/downloads

On Ubuntu this guide works well https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-inst...

Only issue I've had is remembering to add the port to iptables

esterly··on Dynimize: Speed Up MySQL with CPU Performance Virtualization
If you have a DB bigger than RAM yes SSD makes a huge difference. I haven't considered non SSD in servers for 3 years when factoring in engineering cost https://dba.stackexchange.com/a/59903 see DHH circa 2009 https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1509-mr-moore-gets-to-punt-on...
esterly··on France seizes france.com from man who's had it since 1994
A stroll through archive.org shows there was a small business sending people to and blogging about France: http://web.archive.org/web/20160805122924/http://www.france.... as .com is short for commercial it appears the owner was using the domain correctly before transfer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.com
esterly··on Big Sugar Versus Your Body
'Redo your pantry' is an important section in the linked article. My wife is really good about finding pointing out sugar in sauces that seem healthy [1], tomato sauce, catsup, etc., and finding sure free alternatives

[1] https://www.prevention.com/food/healthy-eating-tips/10-hidde...

esterly··on [dead]
Situation went from partial outage to major outage in the last 5 min

we've been down since:02/23/2018 06:38:48 PM UTC 35 minutes according to a pingdom 5 min monitor

esterly··on [dead]
Same here, <3 pingdom. There goes our 99.99 uptime.
esterly··on Lance Armstrong: The Road Goes on Forever
FACT. before you get down voted for no references: http://www.espn.com/sports/endurance/story/_/id/8860572/form...

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/01/th...

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/08/20/sport/lance-armstrong-reha...

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/lemond-armstrong-has-been-tr...

esterly··on Lance Armstrong: The Road Goes on Forever
Agreed. As a former fan I can say I was duped. DDG/Google Lance Armstrong D... and it will autocomplete to Destroys lives.

http://www.espn.com/sports/endurance/story/_/id/8860572/form...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/cycling/lancear...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gil-laroya/understanding-how-b...

esterly··on Opioid makers made payments to one in 12 U.S. doctors
Agreed. When a C level is profiting it is hard to change course. The onion nails it http://www.theonion.com/article/sweating-shaking-pharmaceuti...
esterly··on How big oil will die
Agreed. The sensors which fail commonly fail [1] on high milage ICE cars are in the hot places, exhaust and coolant. Battery cooling and electric motors run at a much lower temperature around 40C [2].

1. https://www.gsfcarparts.com/blog/when-car-sensors-go-bad-sym... 2. https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/questions-about-batt...

esterly··on How Microsoft brought SQL Server to Linux
SQL Server source code originated on UNIX, ported to OS/2 then Windows. See the Sybase history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybase
esterly··on Second version of HoloLens HPU will incorporate AI coprocessor
HoloLen hardware can be purchased here https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/hololens/buy
esterly··on Solar Roof
Tesla posted this hail test video https://twitter.com/TeslaMotors/status/862394764460605440
esterly··on Iceland drills 4.7 km down into volcano to tap clean energy
DuckDuckGo for Cascades Fumaroles. You can hike to vents emitting steam, many through glaciers. http://www.ivm-fund.org/mount-baker-volcano-fumaroles/

Also many hot springs could be potential GeoThermal candidate areas http://www.hotspringsenthusiast.com/USsprings.asp

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