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I first read the book nearly 40 years ago when I was 12. I recently found this radio adaptation narrated by the author himself.

Battery failures can also be caused by manufacturing/design defects in the cells (as in the Boeing batteries) or malfunctioning components of the active cooling system in the Model…

Wait, the car doesn't tell you if the battery is overheating? That doesn't happen with Li-ion batteries? I heard it does in cars and airplanes and laptops... https://en.wikipedia.o…

I have spent a little time flying in the left seat and right seat of real single engine aircraft (although I have never been in any Tesla.) I would say it's comparable, but a matte…

Thanks, this is an interesting insight. Still, looking at aircraft with flat screen "glass cockpits" without HUD, they tend to follow the Model S pattern: https://en.wikipedia.org/…

I would work on it for money. My company's website is listed on my HN profile--there is contact info on the website.

I tried Portable Hemlock from Quicklisp, and IIRC it would not install from the repos. On Clozure, the IDE with Hemlock only runs on OS X--I use Linux. The one in CMUCL might work,…

There have been some efforts like this (etc.) for Emacs on CL: https://common-lisp.net/project/phemlock/ I have never been able to get one to work, though. MIT Scheme also has an E…

In all seriousness, and hopefully more constructively--there really is a lot to like about the Tesla Model 3. We have been looking for a new car for a while, and we did consider th…

Here's a related business idea: OEM and aftermarket activated charcoal cabin filters (not the paper kind) to remove diesel and other exhaust fumes. I think some luxury cars have th…

That's their modern one, Mazda 3 (oddly enough). I was kind of joking with my original comment, because this was an economy car--but it actually is a nice design: http://gtcarlot.c…

I would probably like this one better: https://www.stoddard.com/media/catalog/category/IMG_1365.jpg Early 911 interior.

Have they driven a Protege? :)

I wish they would hire the interior controls engineer that worked on the 8th gen. Mazda Protege. Simple, elegant, and ergonomic. That giant iPhone in the middle of the Tesla 3 puts…

SGI's 3D APIs, OpenGL and Open Inventor, were sublimely innovative. Some of us are even trying to keep Open Inventor alive: https://bitbucket.org/Coin3D/coin/wiki/Home https://comm…

You're right--communicating about the intent of a patch is a good idea, especially if that intent is outside of normal expectations. In a similar vein, I recently learned about pre…

FreeCAD uses Open CASCADE, which is is a free software (LGPL) CAD kernel. Open CASCADE has a comprehensive modeling API which uses B-rep. For scripting, FreeCAD has a Python interf…

Matt Keeter's Libfive is a very promising project. Our company has written a Common Lisp binding: https://common-lisp.net/project/tovero/ and it would be useful to have a constrain…