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There’s nothing quite like a poor analogy to trigger HN.

WJW. This entire article is assuming there’s a single measure of “success” in this endeavor and the simulation isn’t remotely anything like mowing an actual lawn. I’m usually a hug…

A recent video that addresses some of my concerns: https://youtu.be/zA9dGNEIOEY

I have not. I've also noticed that despite changes in regulation in the U.S., a whole variety of P.E. strategies are completely ignored by LLMs.

Good point especially wrt side airbags. I forgot about that.

AI, atm, is a perfect distillation of financial platitudes from ~10 years ago. FWIW, bonds are no longer a hedge against equity unless they’re based against private equity and priv…

Yup. I'd say ICE cars peaked in UX, performance, and safety in the early 2000s.

Only the older ones without screens. A naturally aspirated inline 6 with a manual gearbox and 50/50 weight distribution is it's own special kind of bliss. I only take it out maybe …

As if GitHub wasn’t already unreliable enough. Fix. Your. Culture.

No. I am being critical of a company’s sales efforts as they have not addressed those salient challenges to bringing forth a completed commercial aircraft to market.

All of my prior points still stand. Show me where this company has addressed these issues.

It was more fuel efficient only over a very narrow band of the entire flight envelope. Also, it suffered from snap-stalls and very poor stall recovery due to its delta wing. This i…

No. I'm, in essence, saying the opposite. To use your analogy "as someone with 5 hours into driver's ed in my mom's civic I now realize how hard driving actually is and why ALL car…

I don't see how having a marginal amount of single-engine aviation flight experience is relevant to Dunning-Kruger. If anything, it's taught me how little I know about "real flying…

Aside from regulation, the edge-envelope characteristics of a flying wing mandate fly-by-wire and, essentially, full-time autopilot. Even then, good luck recovering when you, even …

Please lookup the flight envelope, cruise fuel utilization, and stall characteristics of the Dyke Delta along with its cargo capacity. Then you'll understand why so many Cessna 172…

Yes, but this "innovation" (as sold) must exist as a viable commercial airplane. So far, I see zero evidence that this company has addressed any of the aforementioned challenges be…

Not this again. They’ve clearly hired a new PR firm Suffice it to say, from stable aeronautics at-edge, jet way footprint efficiency, ground support efficiency, airframe pressuriza…

You are correct. I do not follow that moral praxis.

Truth regarding his earnesty. I never felt he mislead, but also at some point (much like ESPN’s Stephen Smith) he decided “winning” in punditry was more about by being loud than ab…

I don't know the man personally, but I was never impressed by his punditry even in the early PC MAG days and it got even worse when he started writing for MarketWatch. He was alway…

Um, if you're going to market a vehicle, you really, really, really, need to have pictures or at least detailed renderings. Atm, this is a DoA product.

That’s…quite the epic surname.

Some engines are also substantially cooled by oil, but those are either older designs (think “air-cooled” Porche) or industrial prime-movers.

Do not do this. There are many, many excellent long-standing security and "web control plane isolation" reasons browsers are not permitted generic socket permissions. The closest m…