Seems like there is more to this story, maybe Flock is giving the mayor a 'small' kickback.

And once you share the data, even with other local towns, then you lose control of the data and have to assume it's going to places you shouldn't trust.

No way they are going to hire 1M meat sacks. They have ~250k currently and that includes sales, etc. So I wonder where they pulled this number from and why Japan?

If it can clone open source then it should be able to clone closed source applications. Unless it's just taking the existing code and re-formatting it.

Thanks, I ordered a device from AirGradient which looks to do what I want and is open source.

Do you have a source for the VOC sensor?

I'm still puzzled that Blue Origin is being selected for anything more than a carnival ride. They can't seem to much more than fly rich people 66 miles up and do a less than soft landing (looking at the videos).

I recognize that BE-4 had one flight with a payload but damn at this rate I can't see them doing much to impact actual space activities.

What am I missing here?

I wonder if Calculator is now doing some AI processing, that would be evil and unusual for Apple.

Perhaps a lsof on the process would be interesting. If nothing else core dump it and look at the stack.

Tivo came out in 1999 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TiVo )

I had the first gen and still use it today but recognize that when this one fails I'm hosed and will have to move to YouTube tv or something.

So don't 3d print it. They are fiberglass and you should be able to setup a portable factory where you build the blades onsite. It's probably cheaper then this airplane with all the certifications, etc as well as finding runways that will support it.

The easiest thing (IMHO) would be to make the blades in sections with the joints being attached on site. While the blades might be slightly heavier the process of joining 2 pieces of fiberglass is an already solved problem.

There was a live action Mr Magoo movie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Magoo_(film) ) that I thought was really funny but apparently some folks thought otherwise and it disappeared. Sad since the Mr Magoo character in both live and cartoon form is pretty funny stuff (at times).

I'm typing this on my 2012 11" Air, it just won't die and I am holding out for a hopeful 11" size system this fall, but I have no idea if that will come out.

I even run VMware Fusion on it (i7/8g ram) and it's ok for simple work tasks.

I have a few Intel Mini's running Esxi and that is a really impressive platform for a home lab.

I've listened to a couple of the Audible audio books and it's not terrible.

Issues -
  no inflection. It's not reading ahead to get the question mark so sentences are flat.

not able to handle some of the strange English pronunciations - example: live (not dead) vs live (like where you reside).

Other than that for a simple audio book it's not that bad.

I have a few mini's and run ESXi on 2 of them, one is a 2012 model and it runs amazingly well. I have both OSX, Linux and Windows10 guests running. Not gaming but serving up video, etc.

It's also legal to run OSX on ESXi since it's a Mac so you don't have to mod ESXi to allow it.

So all we're getting from Blue Origin is rich/famous peoples (and Jeff's creepy girl friend) arcade rides with crappy landings?

When are they going to start actually delivering stuff to real space and maybe stick a landing?

Fun read from Derek Lowe (not the baseball player)

https://www.science.org/conten...