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Cost of the Europa Clipper program is around $4-5 billion. Can anyone in the industry shed some light on why these programs are so expensive?

Nice product and website. Your homepage uses a lot of passive voice. Personally I think changing it to active voice makes the product sound more appealing.

"your notes will always be" -> "your notes are always" "content will be synced" -> "content is synced"

"note will be periodically synced" -> "notes are periodically synced" "You can use it for managing personal tasks..." -> "Manage your personal tasks..."

"You can choose between light and dark" -> "Choose between light and dark"

Where did you buy from? Also, what is your end application?

That is brilliant. Looks like the profile is the same!

Great find. It's a shame their blades are not double-sided though so you could get 2x more life out of them.

Would it be possible to stack multiple double-edge blades into a shaver head, slightly offset to each other, to perform like a traditional multi-blade disposable razor?

Or is the thinness of a disposable blade what makes it work well, assuming the blades can flex more to follow the skin profile?

I could see a product where you install 3-4 double edge blades into a the shaver head, and then "flip" the head or blades once the first side runs dull.

There are some nasty parasites that can get onto your vegetarian produce. For example, Rat-Lung Worm disease parasite, can get onto produce from slugs and slug mucus. If you eat this parasite it can go into your brain and mess you up bad (permanently).

I would rather eat a piece of meat (cooked) than a piece of lettuce that is grown in an area that is affected by this parasite.

Coming on 8/6.

https://twitter.com/Figure_robot/status/1819388819638309286

Interesting idea. I wonder if anyone has created a 3D type spreadsheet, where you make calculations across different x,y,z planes. I suppose you could do this now with a standard 2d speadsheet, but it would require a lot of finagling.

The fact any modern computer chip works reliability is a pure miracle. The process variations are extreme, and you often end up with a lot of B-level engineers/technicians keeping things going. Having some experience in the semiconductor industry, it oftentimes felt like a lot of bubble gum and bailing wire was used to get the product out the door. Hats off to all the people keeping these systems alive and functioning.

Perhaps I'm in the minority here, but I've wasted a ton of time in math classes working through way too many academic exercises that have little real world applications. For example, learning a bunch of tricks to solve a differential equation by hand feels like a circus act. Sure it can be done, but only with a limited set of "textbook" equations. When you get into the real world, you'll need to put those equations into a solver like matlab, etc.

It would be nice IMHO to see a more hybrid approach at Universities to teach math and application at the same time. It's strange to send students through YEARS of math classes without strong application. It's like learning music theory without playing an instrument.

Our academic system in general is still modeled after old-school institutions, based on textbook-style learning that all pretty much follow the same recipe. Is it not crazy that we have classrooms in this day and age with 300 students sitting in desks listening to a single professor? It's insane.

We are ripe for an educational system that is truly disruptive - especially with the rise of AI systems.

Reminds me of the 3d TVs that were being forced on consumers. Nobody wanted them because you had to wear a set of goofy glasses.

The problem with VR and AR is that you can't sit around the living room and enjoy the same entertainment. You isolate yourself away from others in the room in a strange way.

Wearing headphones is somewhat like this in that others can't easily talk to you, but at least they can waive their hands to get your attention if needed.

I have a love of electro-mechanical seven-segment displays. For scoreboards and timers, I feel like these are less intrusive than modern electronic display scoreboards.

There is something magical about seeing the score "flip" when a point is scored.

What would be a comparable early computer with the same computational power? Amazing to think how a machine the size of a room is now only a penny!

That is insane. Did his insurance cover this? What happens if you refuse to pay such outlandish fees? I'm sorry he had to deal with this.

Agree. Remember those amazing fish screen savers back in the 90's. Those blew my mind. I have not seen any modern versions of that. Someone please take my money.

Does anyone know of any similar ideas for an interactive animals/pets for your desktop?

This is the best thing I could find so far to put on an extra monitor. Note you can click to interact with the penguins and also feed them.

https://www.petpenguins.com/

Breakfast studio offers some amazing art pieces using Flipdisc modules.

https://breakfaststudio.com/flip-discs

What is the reality something like this could happen to all google accounts, apple accounts, etc?

This is how modern roofing stackups work. They have a radiant heat barrier (layer) usually made from a thin foil shield attached to the roofing plywood. The only catch is you need a vented barrier below the foil to remove the heat. This is usually in the form of battons that are vented out to a ridge vent.

For this fabric to work, the third layer is acting like a thermal insulator - making sure the silver layer does not transfer the heat to your body.

This is a nice idea from that discussion, using machined header pins.

https://makezine.com/article/technology/if-breadboards-break...

I’m surprised electronic breadboards have not changed for over 50 years.

Nothing worse than spending an hour debugging a circuit only to find the breadboard connection is bad. Lots of students in digital logic class can attest to this.

Rolling this technology out in practice is quite challenging.

How do you trigger "The Alarm" for a given area? How much of a guard band do you put around the event and what happens when you have false positives? Do you call everyone back to the region and say sorry it was a false alarm, only for it to trigger a week later! Would not want to be the one calling the shots on this.

It also seems like a good technology to throw into a movie plot - Super Mega Quake... starring Dwyane Johnson.

Consider https://legendapp.com/ or https://noteplan.co/ for nice note integration with your calendar. You could easily create a list of contacts in these systems and trigger various events (singular and recurring).

More competition is always good in a free economy, but what is causing a "Desperate" situation? Is the trajectory of SpaceX on a course where they will certainly become a monopoly, with all other space providers being locked out due to economies of scale?

Yes, I didn't hear anything until I read this post, and now it won't go away!

I took an EM 300 level class and our professor made a speech at the beginning of the course that he would build on the fundamentals of electromagnetics and introduce us to Maxwells equations in the end, with the goal being to provide us with a foundation to truly understand them. However, our class failed rather miserably in that we bombed the tests and clearly did not master the fundamentals. Three quarters of the way through the course I had the gall to ask if we were going to get to maxwells equations. He glared at me with disgust and said “No”.

Are there any browsers that are text only with nice formatting? Would be great to style the page just based of h1, h2 etc and make it beautiful to read from a typography formatting perspective.

Do stupid people know that they are stupid? I would say the majority of them think they are smart.

How many organizations of similar size bamboozle regulators?

When a fast food restaurant is responsible for an ecoli outbreak, regulars are quick to point out broken processes in the organization that need fixed.

It's a bit of reactionary theater, where both sides are playing a game to show that they are not the source of the problem. If you are the regulator, there is plenty of motivation to show the world you are doing your job by pointing to missteps in a process. If you are the offender, there is plenty of motivation to concede to "some" failures in process, cut your losses, and show that you are improving.

Everyone, if you could just submit your TPS reports on time that would be great.