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It's the negative free cash flow combined with the intention to pivot away from the car industry to humanoid robotics is what I'm tracking.

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A single shopping to trip to Walmart or Home Depot can buy items that can be repurposed into bombs and physical and chemical weapons with only a little bit of know-how. Are we goin…

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NOPE, RAD hardened space parts basically froze on mid 2000s tech: https://www.baesystems.com/en-us/product/radiation-hardened-...

For now. FCC could change this in a couple of months. There is talk of canceling FCC certifications for Autel/DJI.

Could MS Just fix explorer.exe crashes when dragging directory windows between a 1080p display and a 4k display in a multi-monitor setup? Please?

Yep. 0ft-1000ft AGL Takeoff, Climb, Approach, and Landing are the tough bits. The rest (Cruise) is very low demand and much easier than driving.

Next flight should be a mass simulator of at least 100 tons to orbit. This flight was around ~10 tons to almost orbit. The economics of Starlink basically require high cadence Star…

Not quite, but it's a major milestone. Still quite a bit of work to go on the rapid reusability part (burnt flaps, oxidized body, missing tiles, tile waterproofing). Starship might…

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Or Europe. Or the UK. 10+ prison plus civil damages in all three jurisdictions should it be prosecuted for various "Unauthorized computer access" laws. Even just browsing protected…

At least wikipedia has an out in the legislation by disabling content recommendation engines for UK users, this includes: 1. “You may be interested in…” search suggestions on the W…

Look at UC Davis Gifford Center’s April 2024 “Farm Labor Issues in the 2020s” summary report: https://gifford.ucdavis.edu/events/past/april-4-2024-farm-la... Very few U.S.-born wor…

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There is also a plan afoot to replace income taxes with tariffs following the McKinley Economic model, involving high tariffs, gold standard, focus on industrialism, and economic i…

The connector could reasonably be shrunk. It just now has essentially no design margin so any minor issue immediately becomes major! 50A DC is serious current to be treated with re…

12vhpwr has almost no safety margin. Any minor problem with it rapidly becomes major. 600W is scary, with reports of 800W spikes. 12V2x6 is particularly problematic because any imb…

Correct, the stage 2 bootloader and system firmware must be on the SSD. The OS can then boot from an external volume. https://support.apple.com/guide/security/boot-process-secac7..…

Volumetric live action performance capture. Basically a video you can walk around in. Currently requires a large synchronized camera array. Plays back on most mobile devices. Sever…

Wet mud and sand is far easier to clean than the thick black tar that accumulates on road bike chains. Tire and tarmac dust is nasty.

It's fine to be a monopoly because you have the best product. It's not OK to use that monopoly position to stifle competitors. So has enough anticompetitive behavior occurred to di…

And ironically decreasing coal and fuel pollution decreases albedo causing faster warming which will persist for a few decades until things balance out. Less pollution is good, par…

Local LLMs are also a fantastic too for creative endeavors. Without prompt injection and having the ability to modify the amount of noise and "creativity" in the output, absolutely…