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Mach-E was the bestseller last month, second place this month after the Model Y. The 80% last month were for plugin vehichles including plugin hybrid (64% battery electric, BEV), t…

Sounds to me very much like "I want to learn truths and relationships about natural language that are independent of any specific culture and history", i.e. independent of any part…

240 kW according to Microsoft: https://natick.research.microsoft.com/ > [They] adapted a heat-exchange process commonly used for cooling submarines to the underwater datacenter. Th…

For me, the photos in the linked article look great no matter what the process was to create them. I don't see why they would lose their charm if they were CGI, simply because we t…

Quoting the article: "While a few other substances (like solid neon) could potentially explain the coma-free acceleration, hydrogen was the best match for the data." It doesn't hav…

Not all that massive: 6% increase if all cars and vans (excluding e.g. big rigs and tractors) go electric, according to the Norwegian national grid institute[1] (in Norwegian). Som…

Because for a given amount of funding and engineering effort, a telescope on the ground can be a lot larger. Hubble has a 2.4 meter mirror, TMT is 30 meters. Resolution scales with…

Have a look at dry plate and wet plate photography. Dry plate is silver and gelatin on a glass plate. https://unblinkingeye.com/AAPG/DPlate/dplate.html The primary difference to fi…

With higher resolution sensors, small imperfections are more visible. To extract the most from a high-megapixel camera, you need spot-on focusing, a higher quality (more expensive)…

Probably an RTG [1], it's what NASA normally uses. It's thermoelectric [2]: Heat (in this case from radioactive decay) is converted directly into electricity without moving parts. …

> How many I/O devices/drivers does a pacemaker talk to? A pacemaker would presumably be similar to Arduino: A simple processor, no OS. 100k lines (your numbers) isn't all that muc…

As a web/game developer, you forgot to include the OS and the drivers in the lines of code involved in executing the stuff you are writing. The Linux kernel was 15M lines in 2013 […

> iirc there were some studies showing that productivity is not significantly different across languages If it's the same studies I'm thinking of, the result was that productivity …

Here's an architecture student who build his own small trailer home to have a place to live while studying: https://www.tu.no/artikler/na-har-sigurd-19-fatt-smart-strom... (In Norw…

Massive in extent, it covers large parts of the planet, and in duration, could last for weeks or months. The threat to Opportunity isn't that the storm could rip it apart. It's tha…

Arcimoto: https://www.arcimoto.com 100 mile range rather than 300, but interesting concept nonetheless.

Presumably the launch date, Intel lists launch dates for all of their processors on ark.intel.com [1] 5 years is Haswell, so Haswell and newer should get the microcode fix. A 3 yea…

Hypothetical example pseudocode: if is_pointer(pt): // do pointer-based stuff else: raise error If you train the branch predictor to expect a pointer, it will speculatively treat a…

No, it doesn't. If it did it would probably exclude Mercury and Mars, at least.

Because when Pluto was discovered, they thought it was alone out there. Then they found that Pluto was a lot smaller than first thought (mass 1/5th of our Moon, roughly the size of…