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It's certainly a possible solution to the last mile problem, and one I've considered using myself, but the issue is what do you do with your transport once you arrive at your desti…

This is exactly what several electric "bicycles" do now. They have a road mode which conforms to the federal 750W/20MPH limit, and an offroad mode that allows something like severa…

I doubt they're taking a loss, and I'd be surprised if they're not making a decent profit. What are the components? A 1080p cell phone screen, some cabling, custom plastic enclosur…

Duopoly? A large number of major cities and their suburbs only have 1 true highspeed option (cable) and slow wireless or DSL. FIOS deployment is sadly limited.

Aside from cost, what do you think makes a Tesla impractical for the "vast majority of drivers"?

I also backed the Hexbright. You're remembering that you'd have it by last Christmas because that was the original shipping date. I think the FAQ was changed once the delays were a…

This same gist is on the Fandango website as of now. Some kind of library issue maybe? https://www.fandango.com/

This, a million times this. My understanding also is that the ODB port on many/most vehicles goes straight into the CAN bus controlling everything in the car. It's entirely possibl…

I'm not sure what you're seeing, but Linode is right under Heroku on the right side "your web server" list.

My thoughts exactly. This is just complexity for complexity's sake. Useful as an exercise, but the -h flag already does this is an even more readable manner.

First of all, this is something that's always bugged me when using twitter, and I like seeing someone address it, but I have a comment. I agree with the 13" laptop screen examples,…

Ah, thanks for the information. I'm familiar with signal processing, so the only way I'm used to seeing convolutions is through the multiplication of FFTs. I wasn't even considerin…

As far as I'm aware OpenCL performance, while portable, is still somewhat inferior to that of straight CUDA on NVIDIA GPUs, hence my CUDA suggestion. I didn't actually look at the …

But you missed the most important part of that quote. >"(in Ready, Stephan's software at the sourceforge link above runs much faster)" So using Ready it took a long time, but the a…

Two thoughts here. 1) You're working from an awfully small sample, especially for a component that is supposed to be of such a high reliability. Then again, look at the probabilist…

>"Panels designed to relieve pressure within the engine bay were ejected to protect the stage and other engines." Can anyone that knows something about the Falcon 9 design or rocke…

The studies referenced in the article you linked refer to the construction industry, not knowledge workers. I would expect anyone producing widgets or physically fabricating things…

This is so true. My car is the last generation of 3 series that has the classic BMW amber gauges (doesn't kill night vision) and no iDrive (terrible series of spins, pushes, and cl…

I agree. When I go to my car, I walk up to it and touch the door handle, which unlocks it. I sit down and press the start button to start the engine. The key never leaves my pocket…

A pulse jet is an incredibly simple kind of jet engine, usually with no moving parts. They were used on the V1 flying bomb in WWII. Wikipedia probably explains it better than I can…

Have you considered a patch antenna or something similarly directional right on the PCB? Still only one radio and reasonably robust direction detection as far as "is the signal com…

How loud is it there? The stone walls and tile floors make me think it's very live, acoustically speaking. Are people quiet enough that it's not a problem?

The zero–space kerning badly bothers me. With traditional stylized logos I think there's more artistic license, but when your logo is just a font, I feel it should be more readable…

I think you're attributing to throttle lag something that is primarily attributable to torque (which isn't to say there isn't throttle response lag, just it's a minor component imo…

Facebook login only? This is a disturbing trend I'm noticing with a number of new websites/services. I don't think I'm alone in saying I don't like allowing apps access to all of m…