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A survey is sent to car buyers with a huge number of questions related to their satisfaction. Automakers, Tier-1 suppliers, and probably others get to buy this data to mine for mar…

My caving experience is less than yours, but I want to echo what you say. The average person envisions spacious tourist caves, not belly-crawling 800 yards through muddy gravel whi…

It has always felt to me that Wirecutter focuses on only one end of the Pareto curve ("what is the very best XXXX that money can buy, within reason") and ignores the middle of the …

I only see power requirements (1300 W) but no mention of voltage or frequency requirements---not even in the user guide. The pricing in € hints that the creators are in 240/1/50-la…

As someone who has used 3D CAD professionally for decades, I must confess I had low expectations for this tool. My expectations have been greatly exceeded, and there is real value …

Skimming the paper: it looks like they are performing sentiment analysis on books, effectively taking the Fourier transform of the sentiment-versus-time data, and reporting which F…

The stereotype is small, under-powered sportscars are sold to to men having a "mid-life crisis."

I read this as "person, 35-ish, stuck in a rut" which is a situation so common that automakers engineer cars like the Mazda Miata specifically for people in it.

Climbing to altitude is the straightforward part. The transition from zero knots to the stall speed of the aircraft (minimum speed at which it can remain airborne) is the tricky bi…

Just over 20 years ago, a small model aircraft ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_of_Butts%27_Farm ) crossed the Atlantic in 39 hours using about a gallon of Naptha as fuel…

I'm similarly curious. Designing for a higher stall speed permits smaller wing area, lower drag, and lower weight. The cost is that takeoffs and landings become troublesome.

I'm very curious what's going on here... Does the EU just have better negotiators? Did someone in the CDC get their pockets lined to accept a higher bid? Is there some law or contr…

Why not cut back on general aviation flights first? My naive solution (granted I know little about ATC) would be to give commercial flights priority over GA flights if ATC is overl…

Obligatory https://xkcd.com/882/

Is it just me or does anyone else feel that Wirecutter only considers the upper end of the performance vs. price Pareto curve? Recently I read their review on dehumidifiers, and al…

I have a sneaky suspicion that as interest rates increase, subscription models will become much less popular. Sellers would rather have the money today, since the present value of …

I guess I don't know what roads you are driving on, but as a counter example, class 8 trucks (tractor trailers, etc.) have abysmal acceleration but most of their drivers have gone …

Most people able to drive a car like this are of the "only lease a depreciating asset" mindset, so it's all monthly payments regardless.

Don't ignore the commercial market. Daimler Truck has a massive global footprint---here in North America their brands include Freightliner, Western Star, Thomas (school busses), an…

People buy cars with that much power as a "flex," not because they are regularly hooning around in them. A $100k+ vehicle with a Mercedes badge is enough of a flex already, and fle…

This puts it mildly. Paul Volcker has been (perhaps unfairly) called the Father of the Rustbelt, due to how rising interest rates broke the back of manufacturing in the American Mi…

At a naive level, this sounds like the sort of supply chain attack we've all been taught to fear. Asking seriously: has this build been replicated? is the source different from mai…

Indeed, but you can expect the architects and developers to still call themselves progressive urbanists, conveniently leaving the parking crater out of frame in all of their render…

This is already being done in a lot of places in the American Midwest, such as my city and the neighboring city where my partner lives. The form it takes is a lot less glamorous th…