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A bit of a trip down memory lane for me. I performed an analysis of the thermo-mechanical cyclic fatigue in later packages using detailed CAD, FEA and empirical tests. A lot of work went into finding …

Which direction am I looking? Deeper blue to the north.

Yes, and the same is true for the EV. Many, many things to go wrong; electronics are prone to abuse and wear and tear, too. I’d love to see Tesla’s data on “out of warranty” treatment of their cars.

The first page of search results on autotrader.com?

Mechanics have been doing that for about 100 years now. It’s not complicated to judge the “health” of an engine. Compression ratio, exhaust composition, even just the sound of it to a trained ear. Whi…

Agreed, with the modest addition of “How do I avoid unexpected hassles?” It shares a corner with not getting fired but is more about comfort than risk.

One of the fun facts about airplanes is that they are made almost entirely aluminum. And, if you go, look it up or talk to a mechanical engineer, you will understand that aluminum has no “fatigue limi…

DNS over HTTPS, which is something that browsers (optionally) use to keep DNS traffic in an encrypted channel.

Maybe. Or maybe it does signal intent. Either way it’s a valid reaction to a stupid edit.

I built a DNS resolver on Proxylity[1] as a demo but it didn’t occur to me that block by default was a use case. I might have to add that. My suggestion: Allow by ASN would be a clean (simple) way to …

No DoH support? The browser seems like the source of distractions.

And AoT.

They did a good job maximizing wheelbase given the small size, which is very important for safe and comfortable towing. I look forward to their launch and some real-world reviews and drive tests.

This. I learned as much when I was clobbered by a distracted teen and my SUV ended up in the shop. I use it a lot for moving people, things and towing (like daily). Nobody would rent me a SUV and allo…

> … profit margins as a share of overall home-sale prices actually declined slightly So the profit in real terms more than doubled? At a constant percentage home building and gas pumping both becom…

Did SoundGarden have it right in 1994 (author misheard a news report, apparently)? /s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hole_Sun …

Is S3 slow or fast? It’s both, as far as I can tell and represents a class of systems (mine included) that go slow to go fast. S3 is “slow” at the level of a single request. It’s fast at the level of …

What’s large? I’m not sure the creeks and swimming holes I frequented in my youth would qualify. Also, the post isn’t about swimmable water—it’s a cautionary tale about how little it takes to drown. I…

That’s an answer straight from an LLM methinks and not reflective of actual experience. Read up on real world tests for the practical differences. They are very similar but far from “the same”.

From a coding point of view it’s also nice if all the drives are exactly the same, so each isn’t compensated for separately. But yeah, just a nicety.

> Modeling the deformations and the elasticity is a computational no no. Instead what you see is the motors right on the joints. That sounds like “It’s not wrong, we just don’t do it”. There are so…

What are the loads on a drive in this use case? 35lbs robot bouncing on one foot would be 350lbs-ish of dynamic load? That can be handled with 2mm Dyneema.

Dynema makes a huge difference, a true game changer in many ways. I came across it rigging sailboats where is started out replacing ropes and now replaces steel cables as well. Spectra is another bran…

If you’d like a preview of what access to weather data will be like (soon) just have a look at access to nautical navigation charts.

On reading the title, my mind went to crafting image (or video) uploads that effectively “undo“ the water marking. That is, is there a way to alter content before uploading it so that when the waterma…

I tend to agree. It’s always been my understanding that record types were strictly data holders and shouldn’t be embellished with behavior.

Isn’t that a bit of an aside? Folks not being able to afford to own a home is different than folks not being able to afford a home where they want. I’ve been in both situations and one is considerably…

The universal agreement that “we need to build more housing” baffles me. I see persistent vacancy rates, so the raw capacity is there. High commercial vacancy means more will come without new builds.…

It's painful to setup a property. The chosen street view image was poorly selected (a picture of a bush) and there was no way to pan to a location that shows the driveway. The click, click, wait…