Maybe you can really get this stuff moving fast toward the midpoint, but how do you stop at the destination?
With onboard propulsion you would just flip the craft at the halfway mark, and fire the rocket (or whatever) in the other direction, but if this is using the momentum from Earth photons to go, I'm drawing a blank on how to decelerate. Do I have to
You are very welcome. ^_^
I have used the Microsoft Natural Keyboard for many years. The most recent time I needed a keyboard, I had to find a new one.
I found the Perixx PERIBOARD-535 and I recommend it. Same layout as the classic Microsoft Natural Keyboard. Offered with your choice of three different keyswitch mechanisms... I got the "brown". Perfectly supports Mac but can be switched to Windows compatibility mode, and has "macro" buttons to give you extra options.
https://perixx.com/products/px...
I'm probably not going back to the Microsoft keyboard when the new version comes out.
My rips from 20ish years ago are all in Vorbis and so I still play Vorbis files occasionally, but it's slowly becoming less frequent. For the last few years I've been re-ripping all my old CDs to FLAC, but I'm super-lazy. Every few months I have a burst of giving-a-fuck and I'll rip another boxfull, but then I put it aside for another few months. I suspect it'll be years until I get rid of the last Vorbis file, if ever.
Everything new is FLAC.
I do still use Vorbis for Navidrome's on-the-fly transcoding for my remote players (i.e. phone), but probably ought to upgrade to Opus.
Stop making jokes about us, or else a customer service agent will be with your shortly.
If I not-hypothetically bought a $100,000 Cybertruck with debt tomorrow, I'd receive an asset arguably worth $100k
You're the best kind of correct on definitions, but Cybertruck is arguably the worst example.
It was recommended to me in the mid-00s by a guy in a Christian metal band! Despite this, I actually did read it. In fact, I drove to the Christian book store where he worked (because of course he worked at a place like that), and bought the book there. I met a lot of musicians back then and wasn't going to let a Christian scare me off.
It was a pretty good read and seemed reasonable while also "not the thing for me" because dammit, Jim, I'm a computer programmer, not a landlord. When this Christian metalhead told me that the money he spent on dog food (and lots of other things, but it was the dog food that really stood out) was accounted for as an expense by his LLC, I backed away slowly (because the Christian stuff wasn't bad enough?!).
In my defense, I gotta say he was a really good guitar player and his band had top-notch headbangable riffs (to go with their mostly stupid lyrics). IMHO at the time they were tied for first place as the best metal band in Albuquerque. I loved them and it probably mystified them that I kept showing up to their gigs.
Life is funny.
banks get bailed out by the taxpayer.
They're supposed to get "bailed out" by the interest they charge their other customers. I wish the taxpayers would, just once, insist on sticking to the former arrangement.
I'd be concerned about seeing VPNs as a "solution." If a 17-year-old in Montana uses a VPN whose endpoint is in New York and they access porn, they and the pornserver have still violated the law, haven't they? The VPN doesn't cause the violation to cease to exist. The VPN merely makes it hard for the pornserver to know.
If I were the kind of person who advocated for these new laws, I would set up a "sting" and show that pornserver violated the law, just like how you might send an underage person to try to buy booze from a convenience store.
Using a VPN is like using a fake ID for the booze. It might provide a "it's too hard" defense, but it also might not. You don't know until a judge or jury says "not guilty."
Jokes aside, some kind of pack-swapping machine is probably the way to go.
Forklifts have counterweights so they can lift heavy things without tipping. I think the battery pack could double as a counterweight, getting a benefit from the weight. And then there's the energy efficiency and less danger of fiery death.
Given all the disadvantages of hydrogen, I have to wonder whether a battery swapping solution might not be better.
Battery swapping has problems as a general solution for transportation, but for forklifts in a warehouse it should work pretty well.
I read the article and what jumps out at me is that Amazon is buying hydrogen forklifts from a company. So at least they are going with an off-the-shelf solution that they have already tried and is known to work. The only real news is that they are getting their own hydrogen production to avoid buying the hydrogen.
But if I ran Amazon, I would have someone looking into LFP battery forklifts with a fast battery swap station.
It's a lot more than a mere "marketing stunt" if he establishes a legal precedent that inventors can't use some kinds of optimization algorithms to sift through possible solutions.
I hate to say this, but that sounds like an argument in favor of the plaintiffs against Internet Archive.
If a "typical library" uses DRMed books, then the only way to avoid violating DMCA (both when people read the books, and when the library trafficks in software which lets people read the books) is to get authorization from the copyright owners. So those libraries must be using licensing, rather than relying on the exemptions codified in copyright law or things like Fair Use in common law.
So you're really just calling attention to the fact that Internet Archive must be doing things very differently from typical libraries, blowing off licensing "deals" and instead relying on copyright. But if the works are DRMed, then they can't do that legally, thanks to DMCA. The whole point of DMCA is to nullify anything in copyright law which is in favor of the user rather than the copyright owner. If it didn't do that, then the pieces of shit who voted to enact DMCA would not have been paid. Bitrot and other disadvantages are the point.
The People need to repeal 1201. (Or even better, outlaw DRM, so that situations no longer exist where 1201 can be applied.) Barring that, then IA needs to get authorization from the copyright owners, before they can legally lend the books (and worse: trafficking in the software is going to require some authorization too, but that gets into some complexicated issues). They didn't do that, so they're going to lose.
I wonder if we could possibly manipulate Republicans to repeal 1201, on the basis that people who write books are four-eyed liberal academic LGBTQ-friendly elitist intellectuals -- exactly the kind of monsters that the government is supposed to be hurting. If we have to live through this ridiculous era, then we should at least try to get something from our American Khmer Rouge. DMCA IS A WOKE PLOT!!!!1
No car company founded after Ford survived. Until Tesla.
Yes, Tesla relied on some government money to survive until they got the Model 3 into successful mass production and became profitable. You love government, so you should be trumpeting Tesla as a success story. "Look! Government works!"
Instead you are posting angry rants. You need to go touch grass or something.
Elon Musk is definitely guilty of repeatedly being over-optimistic about ship dates. But he has an excellent record of delivering what he promised... eventually. As he joked: "At Tesla, we make the impossible late."
This is different from Trevor Milton, who just made stuff up. He told people that Nikola had a working gadget making hydrogen on their roof, when they didn't have any such thing. He said they had a working truck, but it only worked to roll downhill. He straight-up lied to investors.
As for range: even a 2012 Tesla Model S had an energy use graph that showed exactly how much power the car actually used and how far it would go based on that. And Tesla cars have better range than their competition, except for the breathtakingly expensive Lucid Air. The EPA estimated range of a Tesla might be unrealistic but all the EV makers use the same formulas to calculate their EPA ranges. If you want to claim Tesla is dishonest, cough up some evidence to support your position or shut up.
As for SpaceX: if Musk is such an idiot, why is there no other company in the world, even now, that can come close to reusing rockets? Did Musk just get lucky somehow?
Tesla has the best EVs in the world. SpaceX has the best rocket technology in the world. Surprising that an idiot loser just got lucky twice like that.
As for GM, compute the Altman Z score of GM and Tesla and see which one looks more likely to go bankrupt soon.
Real Users are afraid they'll break the machine -- but they're never afraid to break your face.
