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New comment by thecompilr in "Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production"

thecompilr — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 21:55:23 +0000

You can’t recoup the braking energy when the trailers have their own brakes.

New comment by thecompilr in "Study: ultra-black coating could reduce satellite light pollution"

thecompilr — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:37:39 +0000

I know many cruise missiles use star navigation, I wonder if satellites have any effect on that, and if they do that might be the catalyst to reduce that pollution.

New comment by thecompilr in "FDA advisors unanimously vote to approve Moderna's mRNA after agency drama"

thecompilr — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 23:36:37 +0000

That might be true for some of them, but unfortunately I know a few anti vaxxers who also happen to be atheists. They just believe all the various conspiracy theories about vaccines.

New comment by thecompilr in "40% of Kids Can't Read and Teachers Are Quitting [video]"

thecompilr — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 12:17:16 +0000

Don’t they still need to read what AI writes? Or did they skip to the TTS stage?

New comment by thecompilr in "Solar leads EU electricity generation as renewables hit 54%"

thecompilr — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 22:21:47 +0000

Look at the Hoover dam

New comment by thecompilr in "How to Build a Medieval Castle"

thecompilr — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 12:44:39 +0000

There is a really good winery in Napa Valley, called Castello di Amorosa. Really good wine, and it is also built as a medieval castle. I bet there are more places like that around the world.

New comment by thecompilr in "Rapidus Starts 2nm Gate All Around Prototype Production at IIM-1"

thecompilr — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 20:25:50 +0000

Are they significant?

New comment by thecompilr in "The Ukrainians Just Pulled Off the Most Successful Operation of the War"

thecompilr — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 02:18:05 +0000

That rail happens to be as the main military supply route hence it is a completely legitimate military target, civilian deaths are unfortunate. Russia simply blocks entire residential neighborhoods. Yeah let’s pretend it’s the same.

New comment by thecompilr in "Ukraine drones 'emerged from trucks' before strikes on bombers"

thecompilr — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 19:17:52 +0000

The used regular drones and the streaming was done over regular cellular networks

New comment by thecompilr in "ASML Twinscan EXE:5000 Lego Set"

thecompilr — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 19:31:12 +0000

It is crazy that it had to be explained and you feel the need to apologize for it.

New comment by thecompilr in "Waymo closes $5.6B investment round"

thecompilr — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 13:53:36 +0000

I recently took a Waymo ride in Scottsdale, AZ and it was amazing, I will definitely be taking Waymo over Uber wherever available.

New comment by thecompilr in "Lead drinking-water pipes must be replaced nationwide, EPA says"

thecompilr — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 20:59:02 +0000

PEX isn’t new, it has been in use for at least 50 years by now

New comment by thecompilr in "Why Are We Still Making Unshaded Playgrounds?"

thecompilr — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 23:44:37 +0000

Shade is not expensive, at the simplest form it is three poles with a stretched canopy, all new playgrounds in Florid have at least that

New comment by thecompilr in "AMD's Strix Point: Zen 5 Hits Mobile"

thecompilr — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 12:06:40 +0000

The M1 was made on 5nm which have long been available to AMD and other competitors in volume.

New comment by thecompilr in "People spend more when prices end in .99 (2018)"

thecompilr — Sun, 26 May 2024 13:16:17 +0000

In the US gas prices at gas stations usually also show a tiny 9/10 of a cent in addition to the x.xx price, i.e. actual price is x.xx9 and I have never seen any other value for that 3rd decimal place

New comment by thecompilr in "Freedom to Roam"

thecompilr — Wed, 01 May 2024 11:33:42 +0000

Freedom collides with a lot of other rights. For example you are not free to murder people.

New comment by thecompilr in "Nio ET7 with 150 kWh semi-solid state battery achieves a 1,044 km range"

thecompilr — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 12:57:50 +0000

There was an Israeli company that used electric Renaults and provided the battery swapping service. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Place_(company)

New comment by thecompilr in "Google/IAC/Expedia (2019)"

thecompilr — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 12:22:46 +0000

That is different though, they weren’t pushing their own hotels. Google actually built a competing product and integrated it with all its services including search and maps.

New comment by thecompilr in "The product manager role is a mistake"

thecompilr — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 20:58:58 +0000

This is what happened at the last startup I worked at, before we had a product, even MVP level, the CEO hired an engineering manager, who however was really a process person, except for the title the progression of things is about the same. Things quickly went south. A career ladder was introduced, this is in an org with 6 engineers. Everything even the smallest changed required an RFC and a spec. Open sourcing unrelated stuff got me into trouble. Instead of working on product we got into endless discussions on how to tweak the career ladder or some other part of the org, when there was no org to speak off.

New comment by thecompilr in "Why is Israel attacking south Gaza after telling people to go there"

thecompilr — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 22:23:30 +0000

Then they are really inept at genocide, if over 20 days they managed to kill only four time as many as Hamas managed in a day. It will take centuries and trillions of dollars in this tempo. But sure let’s pretend there is genocide and killings civilians is the goal.