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You get something similar in my testing. Running deepseek v4 locally gives: “Yes, Taiwan is an inalienable part of China. According to the One-China Principle, which is widely reco…

They keep the power pack in a shed away from anything too flammable. They could lose the shed, but it would be unlikely to take the house with it.

In some industries companies regularly test their biggest competitors for compliance, then complain to the government if they don’t meet requirements.

The lathe ways (the guides/support for each axis) do wear out, but you can re-grind them to be flat again. Usually you sell the machine at this point to someone who doesn’t need th…

Hue bulbs by default emulate a dumb led bulb. This is configurable so you can have them be “dumb” in a way that you prefer, eg: customize color, brightness or do whatever you told …

Toner cartridges generally last a few thousand pages and are much more tolerant of infrequent use than ink cartridges. Unlike Ink cartridges, laser cartridges don’t dry out or need…

It primarily has to do with the physical construction of the magnets, in a toroid the inside of the toroid effectively has more windings per meter of circumference than the outside…

If the discharge circuit is not present/functional, it can be months[1], even if the capacitor was discharged at one point. When working with high voltage/power equipment, its best…

If Baumol was solely the reason for increased prices, I expect the increase to be more in line with the increase in prices for hiring tradespeople or other professional services.

They don’t need to even do that, just occasionally send the train past a thermal camera and look for wheels that are warmer than average.

It’s more than twice as losses are lower boosting 220v to the 400v or 800v the pack actually needs. As an example, a charger in some EVs is 87% efficient when charging from 120v an…

Nope. If your car lost power for whatever reason, the system would scavenge power from the inertia of the car and the brakes would still operate as they do when the car is operatin…

To lose local regen braking derived power requires a failure of the cars systems similar in nature to one that would cause loss of hydraulic fluid or air in a traditional braking s…

Having no power would be hard as the brake system can easily generate power to operate itself if the vehicle is moving (and if its not moving that is what the parking brake is for)…

That would be the default of this system if the brakes are still able to communicate with and provide power for the brake pedal. Basically if the brake system lost external power, …

Most EVs have permanent magnet motors of some flavor right now (some have both a PM motor and a pure induction). I would assume that if you were having the motor be the primary bra…

That is easy to accommodate as you can design the electronics such that when there is no power they cause maximum braking force and dump energy into the braking resistors. This can…

I could not find anything that would prevent this in my brief skim of FVMSS 105 (US car brake regulations). The regulations are mainly about the performance of the braking system (…

Downloading the orbital parameters can be done via the internet rather than at the 50 bps that the satellites broadcast them at.

They have also been the cause of fire[0] on the Mir space station. They make for a reasonable emergency oxygen supply (no working infrastructure required), but you don't want to us…

The Valve Index does 1440×1600 per eye and it probably needs to be at least double that before artifacts become hard to notice.

It’s easier to use weight instead of volume if you want measurements more precise than a 1/4 cup. Most home ovens struggle to hit the set point to within 25F for most of their inte…

I think the idea is to reduce (its reduce, reuse, recycle in order of preference) as a bag of toner needs less resources than a cartridge. The internet indicates a 5k page cartridg…

On a desktop in Chrome, with a fairly powerful processor, its taking ~4 seconds to show the calculator after it makes the call to Uno_UI_Windows_UI_Xaml_Application_Start_Windows_U…

It’s currently illegal to fly past Mach 1 over land barring a few exceptions (eg: military training areas). https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/supersonic-flight