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Electric long distance passenger planes. Possibly requiring the help of EMALs. Electric long distance container ships. Useful portable laser, coil- and rail- guns. Even longer rang…

The downside of hydratation, with its kidney saving, headache preventing benefits is that the more hydrated you are, the sooner and more frequently you need to leave the workstatio…

Is there anything special in making a $21k gas truck in 2026? I’m guessing you could get a second hand gas truck for this price?

They are nice but please also look into the atreus, it uses a column stagger and has least some angling for your wrists. It’s both a finished product and also a set of instruction …

The current AI tech (LLM and other Gen image stuff) is impressive as heck, but it has flawed origins (facebook torrenting the books, everyone scraping the web and anything they can…

The rich already have control over the government, as exemplified by the fact that it’s impossible to tax them. Amd also over large part of the media (as they own it and are concen…

The very plot of rainbow 6, a 1998 Tom Clancy novel, except the preppers are actually helping the catastrophes along. And, if I’m not misremembering, of Silo as well.

I don’t know how relevant the samples are, but while the details are lost, the essence seems well preserved. It seems it would be really useful for performing OCR on.

Oh you sweet summer child. Under capitalism money is a function of how low you can pay your fungible organic units before they look for other opportunities or worse, unionize (but …

What about coops? Or partnerships?

Maybe the high sea will become less policed by the Canadian IP police

It’s a cool name but there is already another project called ferrite, related to audio recording. https://www.wooji-juice.com/products/ferrite/

I’ve been a passenger in the front and the back of a C15 and they are pure utility vehicule. You get heating in winter and ventilation in summer. The windows are manual, front seat…

If it’s sourced from abroad it has to be shipped (blockades anyone ?) If your usual trading partner is inaccessible for reason X , what are the odds your alternate trading partner …

Same! I want a small and not too expensive phone for typing and using on the go, fits in my hand and in my pocket. And a (small) tablet for drawing and videos, it has less constrai…

iPhone 4 was a beautiful piece of hardware, but it felt indulgent. Just too heavy (it’s still my second favorite iPhone design). The iPhone 5 and 5S were a better compromise in ter…

Probably not enough margin in microwaves ovens to justify putting GaN stuff in it yet. Maybe for premium products. Bigger volume! Silent operation! More efficient!

Following Apple basically giving up on fixing the Bluetooth audio mode switching ([1]), and AWS Workspace being a very frustrating piece of software on Mac OS, I am forced to consi…

I mean if we were talking about Cheetos or Coca, I’d agree with you, but we live in a Duopoly on both Mobile, Desktop and the web. If you’re an adult, you’ve been living in their e…

While that sounds like a solution it’s of the “simple but wrong” kind. Just like you, they are product of propaganda, though theirs is less based in reality than yours. If you don’…

There’s a movement called “barefoot shoes” / “barefoot running”. Very different gait from usual running and all the cushioning is in the muscles/ tendons. You can find some brands …

Zoom way out, the usual area is a bit “south”.

Yes. The side effects of solar panels is indeed a cooler ground underneath. Plants have difficulty growing in the shade. Panels have a darker shade than most ground they are coveri…

At this point i think removing any heat from ground is a net win. Solar is just transforming light into electricity, i don’t think it’s removing any heat from the system unfortunat…

I think except for rock music and comic books and 3d printing the naysayers are proven to be right? The luddites went at it wrong , but the externalities are definitely terrible fo…