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travisporter··on ZF makes magnet-free electric motor uniquely compact and competitive
Motor per wheel sounds interesting. As I understand it’s not ideal for handling because of unsprung weight. Maybe that will change? Would be very excited about the prospect of converting cars to purv (somehow)
travisporter··on [dead]
Ok so “explosive” here is just clickbait right, not a type of wildfire ? The article does not mention it anywhere but first line
travisporter··on Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed by Mozilla
Would you sign a paper saying I can come into your house unannounced if I suspect you stole something? If you do not steal you have nothing to worry about
travisporter··on PSA: Don't base your business around Discord.7yr account banned for posting ASNs
Discord won't let you use a VOIP number so I can't even get on it
travisporter··on France is going to destroy wine for 200M €, topping up a 160M € EU fund
I’m just a pleb but is there no way to store wine? Refrigeration or something?
travisporter··on $500M Solar Farm Near Glenrock Will Have Raised Panels So Sheep Can Graze
“Sen. Brian Boner, R-Douglas, told Cowboy State Daily his county is familiar with all sorts of energy projects.

“We’re pretty well acquainted with developing them [energy projects] in a way that is consistent with our own all-of-the-above approach, and preserving the land to the extent possible,” Boner said.”

So in other words don’t get too comfortable oil and gas is here to stay as long as he has a say

travisporter··on T-Mobile to cut about 7% of workforce, mostly corporate roles
Any Google fi success stories? I’m on Verizon not out of my own choice. It’s working okay but despite the price I still get no data sometimes and I live in a midsized city.
travisporter··on Climate change: Thousands of penguins die in Antarctic ice breakup
But objectively now the burden is to prove two anecdotal points are enough to disprove the entire dataset which has not been done yet to my knowledge

As with anything if there’s enough evidence it’s a working theory that has to be disproved

Moreover statements “like a lot of stuff…, totally corrupted” makes me suspect you have a bias.

I used to follow watts blog and esp curry at georgia tech when I was briefly a student there (not in climate). It’s a lot of cherry picking. Overall I’m glad they exist of course, but they didn’t convince me.

My favorite was aa doctor in his 50s who had an engineering degree from rice claim that it’s all bogus because Ice cores in the arctic are managed by Russians and he didn’t trust Russians

travisporter··on Climate change: Thousands of penguins die in Antarctic ice breakup
I have to assume good faith intention to these questions. Here’s literally the raw data showing high resolution temp data of temperature since 1850s. The heat island effect pushed by watt has been debunked since 2011.

https://climatedataguide.ucar.edu/climate-data/global-surfac...

travisporter··on Discussing CNET’s content-pruning to improve SEO ranking
How the hell did we get here? Were Microsoft and oracle and all these super rich tech giants asleep when Google was eating their lunch? Facebook too. It’s nuts
travisporter··on Big Tobacco knew radioactive Po210 in cigarettes posed cancer risk, kept quiet
There’s meaning in everything you do.
travisporter··on Uh, guys, we should think about spending more on defense in the US
Ugh substack - no one wants a quick way to “quote” something.

People please don’t mess with right click and text selection!!

travisporter··on The Economic Cost of Houston’s Heat
I miss Houston food a lot but do not miss the weather! I used to bike/walk a half mile to work and would sweat through my shirt June-aug
travisporter··on Stack Overflow's CEO Doesn't Understand Stack Overflow
Maybe he’s right. Maybe LLMs will also learn to waste 10 hours for me before I realize I typed torch.Tensor instead of torch.tensor and post on SO for my benefit. /s
travisporter··on Boeing has now lost $1.1B on Starliner, with no crew flight in sight
How was crew dragon so successful? From my reading, NASA worked closely with SpaceX, why did this not help Boeing?
travisporter··on A third of North America’s birds have vanished
Excellent point I don’t. But on the flip side I know I cannot use as little soap as a dishwasher since it’s down the drain
travisporter··on Nobody cares about your blog
Sometimes I feel the entire field of mathematics is like this lol. But who cares. It’s refreshing to see something original.
travisporter··on A third of North America’s birds have vanished
The average faucet puts out about 2 gallons per min. Even if i turn off the faucet between scrubbing it would take more than two mins of the faucet on for me. I do agree that it me use more dishes so there’s that.
travisporter··on Calls to investigate tax sites for sharing financial information with Meta
If you used the free TurboTax they will charge you to pull prior years.
travisporter··on Oceans are turning greener due to climate change
Why do you think that? Physical phenomenon are not necessarily intuitive
travisporter··on How I changed my D-Link camera to a locally managed IP camera
Would love to know more - are these still on the market? Amazon results are really sketcy
travisporter··on Embattled physicist files patent for unprecedented ambient superconductor
O notation for resistive loss is breaking my brain
travisporter··on Flying taxi at the Paris air show is quiet – too quiet
Debut of Volocopter’s electric-powered air cab is drowned out by roaring jets and helicopters at air-industry bazaar
travisporter··on Rivian embraces Tesla's charging standard for EVs
I agree. I think Hyundai/Kia got close until Tesla dropped their prices.
travisporter··on SpaceX hires boy, 14, who became youngest graduate at California university
I’m sorry you have such a tough time at school but the solution is to make school better not avoid it. Charter schools in the southeast are taking a dangerous hyper religious turn and aren’t going away anytime soon.
travisporter··on The Reddit blackout has left Google barren and full of holes
No it’s not in my opinion because it’s a default setting
travisporter··on The Wait Until 8th pledge
I feel that all the analogies to our generations (x or z presumably) watching tv and video games growing up is actually not a good parallel. I hated that I watched so much TV and video games. I wish I had read more as a kid.
travisporter··on Thousands of early-career NIH researchers forming union for first time
What’s the solution though? If not collective bargaining it’s status quo
travisporter··on DARPA hacked a science writer’s brain and turned her into a sharpshooter
Sadly I can trust Reddit no more. I feel like there’s a weird tendency on subreddits to just filter down to one or two brands and just trash everything else.
travisporter··on Meta announces its Quest 3 VR headset
According to this website it’s really only a $7-8 difference.

https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=300&year1=2022...

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