On laptops, that's great. On desktops, 21:9 is awesome because you get a similar area to dual monitors but without the bezel. But on a desktop, that would be overly long.
On TVs, I don't see them getting away from 16:9 screens anytime soon.
There is a legitimate market for screens of several ratios. I'm glad we have a options now. It didn't use to be that way.
"but if everyone takes the shortcut it ends up taking everyone 30 minutes more. "
Said by someone who's obviously unclear about the concept. Waze dynamically routes using the fastest path. Diverting some traffic away from a path does not make that path flow slower.
It absolutely does make some routes slower. Consider a route that departs from a highway and then re-enters the highway later. The additional mergings on the onramp can cause more congestion than if everyone had simply stayed on the highway. I have seen this firsthand in Houston with some of our feeder road ramps, where it is obvious. I am sure it happens elsewhere in less obvious ways.
Not to mention that Waze does not seem to do per-lane or even per-route data collection. This means if I am taking X highway onto Y highway, if that ramp is backed up for 2 miles in the right lane, Waze takes the average speed of X highway for those 2 miles, not the speed that people going from X to Y will experience. This is a simplified example, but bad input = bad output.
Because most people want to have more than just the basic necessities of life
What evidence do you have to suggest this? Why are there more people accepting of mediocrity than those pursuing higher life goals to get more than basic necessities?
Peer pressure and a desire to be more comfortable. Money doesn't buy happiness, but it does buy comfort.
All 50 screws are tightened the same way. Use a torque driver, you luddite!
I guess you've never assembled Ikea furniture before. I've driven in 30 screws on the lowest torque setting only to have the 31st strip out spectacularly. I usually do the final tightening by hand for this reason.
The only reason of the "X per week" argument is to appease Wall Street analysts, so called "experts" who have never built anything in their lives.
What Musk needs to do is maintain the vision but turn over operations to those more qualified to eek out every optimization in logistics and the assembly line.
There's plenty of those folks available in Detroit but I guess he wants to DIY...
The problem with this is that the valuation of Tesla is based almost entirely on the dream that they will be very profitable in the future. Tesla can't be sold for anywhere near this amount, and their technology isn't so special that licensing it would result in a huge check either.
PREPA's has deferred maintenance on their power plants for so long that it would be very expensive to rehabilitate many of them into anything resembling a reliable condition. They have turbine rotors that have been sitting outside rusting for years. Even if they gave me a power plant for free, I wouldn't want to attempt to turn it into a profitable enterprise. Plus, since they have burned many power plant repair companies so badly, most will not work for PREPA until past bills are paid AND new work is paid in advance.
Source- PREPA owes my company a large sum of money for power plant work done before the hurricanes.
There's a secondary problem in America though: short uncomfortable seat belts and large sized passengers.
The US is #1 for number of obese persons, but 19th as a % of population, behind several developed countries in the middle east.
Seat belt extenders are common, I have seen some passengers need two of them. The flight attendants automatically and discretely hand them out, if you watch closely.
These engines are manufactured a way not to propel debris towards the body. Explosion are also unlikely. Having all that plus some debris break a window is really bad luck for that passenger.
This, CFM, Rolls Royce, Pratt and Whitney all design do a lot of testing to ensure their engines fail gracefully. I believe that a fan blade separation is one of the most tested scenarios. Debris is meant to be contained within the engine housing.
Meant to be. The test is failure of a single blade in a specific portion of the engine. There are other failure modes which may be more severe. Due to weight constraints, you can bet that the casing thickness is designed to be sufficient for this test but not significantly stronger.
I would say that five fan blade failures on an engine is very unusual.
As a turbine engineer, I disagree. That is an excellent track record considering that the air ingested by the engine is unfiltered and damage may occur between major inspection intervals that are not picked up by the engine instrumentation or visual inspection.
Land-based engines are generally built more robustly (since weight is not a concern), have extensive air filtration systems, similar inspection periods, less abuse (# of start/stop cycles per day), and yet they fail at a higher rate than this. 5 failures is a very low rate considering the fleet operating hours.
Uhm no. That's exactly the opposite of how the engines are designed.
Modern jet engines are specifically designed to contain all the debris in an engine failure - in particular all the blades which are both the most energetic and most durable. They destructively test by pyrotechnicaly detaching a blade at max RPM...go google, it's fun to watch.
Something fucked up here and parts impacted the rather fragile plane...which happens, but it not the design intent. Had the engine not contained MOST of the debris they likely would not have been able to land at all.
That is certainly the design intent, but that is not how things work in the real world. There are plenty of incidents where a blade liberation has exited the casing. The destructive test regimen is likely dictated by someone (probably the US and/or other governments), and you can bet that the engine is designed to pass the test but be no stronger (to save weight). Pyrotechnically detaching a single blade also does not 100% match some actual failure modes. For example, there are several reasons why multiple blades may liberate simultaneously or nearly simultaneously, causing a severe rotor unbalance which can lead to *more* blade failures.
I'm not saying that the design and testing of these engines is inadequate, certainly it is good enough to limit real-world failures to a reasonable number. But it does not cover all cases or result in engine failure containment 100% of the time.
These engines are manufactured a way not to propel debris towards the body. Explosion are also unlikely. Having all that plus some debris break a window is really bad luck for that passenger.
Turbine engineer here. While engines are definitely designed so that parts do not liberate through the casing, there are plenty of incidents where that has occurred.
And explosions (as in an undesired rapid combustion of fuel and air) are indeed very unlikely. But explosions are not the most common failure mode. Blade liberation due to defects in the blade, or due to ingested material are the most common reason for a catastrophic failure.
I agree with whoever anonymous person it was quoted in TFA: too many places on this planet, in 2018, have too many people who don't even have the basics to sustain their lives: clean water to drink, enough food to eat, and a safe place to live -- and actual schools for their children, not high-tech toys. How about we solve those problems for everyone on the planet first, instead of putting the cart before the horse?
The grand idea at the time was to get those people the information needed to lift themselves up. The OLPCs were intended to have an offline copy of Wikipedia as an example. The real-world problems tend to get solved quickly and cheaply when people can get information on how to purify water, farm more effectively, etc.
satellite broadband: when you're too distant for cables to reach
We have a couple employees in the middle of Louisiana whose only option is satellite. Due to the latency and dropped packets, they have problems accessing company files and email. As a result, they are under-utilized within the company and much less productive.
The major lines in Tokyo have been in place since the 1910s and 1920s. They have built lines since the war, obviously, but the fact that the city was nearly leveled has nothing to do with the size and effectiveness of the train system.
SOx emissions have dropped markedly as the industry has had several rounds of "new low-sulphuric fuel required by 20xx". CO2 emissions are the lowest of all transportation methods by ton-mile.
Depends on what QA needs to be done. Surface finish, dimensional inspections, color, electrical checks, etc are all relatively easy to have automated QA. The problem is that you may not know what parts of your process will have issues, and many of these checks must be custom-setup for each model. Setting up these processes and ironing out all the issues takes a lot of time. Much more time than Tesla had budgeted apparently.
Not only that, but what do you do with all the products that come off the line with a defect while you are in the tuning process? In most cases, these can't be fixed by running them through the line again, so you need time and people to fix them.
God damn it, this fucking insanity has to stop. Not only has it impacted my ability to upgrade to a bitch'n graphics card but now they want to poison the air I breath for this shit?
Brother, you aren't kidding. I did not understand all the griping lately about video cards until last week when I looked at what a new one would cost. My R7850 from 2013 may actually have appreciated in value, and anything that would get me a meaningful performance increase over what was a $150 card 5 years ago costs $400+ today.
Siri still bites, no workstation level computer (mac pro), iOS is getting bloated and the Home Pod is a flop. But sure, curved screens, work on that...
None of the things you listed will have a huge impact on profitability if they are improved. Curved screens are more likely to break and should increase sales.
Sounds like you did not have a pool in Houston. Or a decent backyard. I'm on less than 1/3 of an acre and I can't see my neighbors, OR my fence, due to all the shrubbery. It's a botanical pool garden back there. If you aren't taking advantage what your local climate has to offer, you're doing it wrong. Houston has a lot to offer as long as you actually adapt to living there. This is from a guy who left Houston once because I hated it, and came back after living in several other places
Big corporations control the government, which is currently dysfunctional. It only makes sense that the people are now lobbying the organizations with the actual power and some semblance of effectiveness.
Last year I met someone for the first time and didn't get her contact info. About 10 minutes later I get a glide connection request from her. Hmmmm... ok. She must've asked one of my friends there, so I accept. Later in person I ask just curious how she got my number, she insists I got hers and made the request without asking her. What?? We go back and forth a little on this til we sort of tentatively agree the app must've spied on us when we met. She had her doubts for a while but no longer thinks I'm a creep.
Incomes is pricey but not insanely pricey. $20 a pound for raw material is not a big factor in space programs. Machining it is a pain in the butt, but on par with most other aerospace materials.
So is a bachelors degree -- and at this stage, i'm not sure which is more likely to pay off.
It will pay off as a bachelor's degree at least. That's an entry requirement for a lot of jobs. Customs and Border Patrol agents being one of them. Starting salaries in the 60-70k range, not bad if you have an otherwise nonmarketable degree.
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On laptops, that's great. On desktops, 21:9 is awesome because you get a similar area to dual monitors but without the bezel. But on a desktop, that would be overly long. On TVs, I don't see them getting away from 16:9 screens anytime soon. There is a legitimate market for screens of several ratios. I'm glad we have a options now. It didn't use to be that way.
"but if everyone takes the shortcut it ends up taking everyone 30 minutes more. " Said by someone who's obviously unclear about the concept. Waze dynamically routes using the fastest path. Diverting some traffic away from a path does not make that path flow slower.
It absolutely does make some routes slower. Consider a route that departs from a highway and then re-enters the highway later. The additional mergings on the onramp can cause more congestion than if everyone had simply stayed on the highway. I have seen this firsthand in Houston with some of our feeder road ramps, where it is obvious. I am sure it happens elsewhere in less obvious ways.
Not to mention that Waze does not seem to do per-lane or even per-route data collection. This means if I am taking X highway onto Y highway, if that ramp is backed up for 2 miles in the right lane, Waze takes the average speed of X highway for those 2 miles, not the speed that people going from X to Y will experience. This is a simplified example, but bad input = bad output.
Because most people want to have more than just the basic necessities of life
What evidence do you have to suggest this? Why are there more people accepting of mediocrity than those pursuing higher life goals to get more than basic necessities?
Peer pressure and a desire to be more comfortable. Money doesn't buy happiness, but it does buy comfort.
All 50 screws are tightened the same way. Use a torque driver, you luddite!
I guess you've never assembled Ikea furniture before. I've driven in 30 screws on the lowest torque setting only to have the 31st strip out spectacularly. I usually do the final tightening by hand for this reason.
...no reforms or political changes whatsoever really because Swedish politics has only been about which one thing.
And that thing is? Don't leave us hanging!
The only reason of the "X per week" argument is to appease Wall Street analysts, so called "experts" who have never built anything in their lives. What Musk needs to do is maintain the vision but turn over operations to those more qualified to eek out every optimization in logistics and the assembly line. There's plenty of those folks available in Detroit but I guess he wants to DIY...
The problem with this is that the valuation of Tesla is based almost entirely on the dream that they will be very profitable in the future. Tesla can't be sold for anywhere near this amount, and their technology isn't so special that licensing it would result in a huge check either.
PREPA's has deferred maintenance on their power plants for so long that it would be very expensive to rehabilitate many of them into anything resembling a reliable condition. They have turbine rotors that have been sitting outside rusting for years. Even if they gave me a power plant for free, I wouldn't want to attempt to turn it into a profitable enterprise. Plus, since they have burned many power plant repair companies so badly, most will not work for PREPA until past bills are paid AND new work is paid in advance.
Source- PREPA owes my company a large sum of money for power plant work done before the hurricanes.
There's a secondary problem in America though: short uncomfortable seat belts and large sized passengers.
The US is #1 for number of obese persons, but 19th as a % of population, behind several developed countries in the middle east.
Seat belt extenders are common, I have seen some passengers need two of them. The flight attendants automatically and discretely hand them out, if you watch closely.
These engines are manufactured a way not to propel debris towards the body. Explosion are also unlikely. Having all that plus some debris break a window is really bad luck for that passenger.
This, CFM, Rolls Royce, Pratt and Whitney all design do a lot of testing to ensure their engines fail gracefully. I believe that a fan blade separation is one of the most tested scenarios. Debris is meant to be contained within the engine housing.
Meant to be. The test is failure of a single blade in a specific portion of the engine. There are other failure modes which may be more severe. Due to weight constraints, you can bet that the casing thickness is designed to be sufficient for this test but not significantly stronger.
I would say that five fan blade failures on an engine is very unusual.
As a turbine engineer, I disagree. That is an excellent track record considering that the air ingested by the engine is unfiltered and damage may occur between major inspection intervals that are not picked up by the engine instrumentation or visual inspection.
Land-based engines are generally built more robustly (since weight is not a concern), have extensive air filtration systems, similar inspection periods, less abuse (# of start/stop cycles per day), and yet they fail at a higher rate than this. 5 failures is a very low rate considering the fleet operating hours.
Uhm no. That's exactly the opposite of how the engines are designed.
Modern jet engines are specifically designed to contain all the debris in an engine failure - in particular all the blades which are both the most energetic and most durable. They destructively test by pyrotechnicaly detaching a blade at max RPM...go google, it's fun to watch.
Something fucked up here and parts impacted the rather fragile plane...which happens, but it not the design intent. Had the engine not contained MOST of the debris they likely would not have been able to land at all.
That is certainly the design intent, but that is not how things work in the real world. There are plenty of incidents where a blade liberation has exited the casing. The destructive test regimen is likely dictated by someone (probably the US and/or other governments), and you can bet that the engine is designed to pass the test but be no stronger (to save weight). Pyrotechnically detaching a single blade also does not 100% match some actual failure modes. For example, there are several reasons why multiple blades may liberate simultaneously or nearly simultaneously, causing a severe rotor unbalance which can lead to *more* blade failures.
I'm not saying that the design and testing of these engines is inadequate, certainly it is good enough to limit real-world failures to a reasonable number. But it does not cover all cases or result in engine failure containment 100% of the time.
These engines are manufactured a way not to propel debris towards the body. Explosion are also unlikely. Having all that plus some debris break a window is really bad luck for that passenger.
Turbine engineer here. While engines are definitely designed so that parts do not liberate through the casing, there are plenty of incidents where that has occurred.
And explosions (as in an undesired rapid combustion of fuel and air) are indeed very unlikely. But explosions are not the most common failure mode. Blade liberation due to defects in the blade, or due to ingested material are the most common reason for a catastrophic failure.
I agree with whoever anonymous person it was quoted in TFA: too many places on this planet, in 2018, have too many people who don't even have the basics to sustain their lives: clean water to drink, enough food to eat, and a safe place to live -- and actual schools for their children, not high-tech toys. How about we solve those problems for everyone on the planet first, instead of putting the cart before the horse?
The grand idea at the time was to get those people the information needed to lift themselves up. The OLPCs were intended to have an offline copy of Wikipedia as an example. The real-world problems tend to get solved quickly and cheaply when people can get information on how to purify water, farm more effectively, etc.
satellite broadband: when you're too distant for cables to reach
We have a couple employees in the middle of Louisiana whose only option is satellite. Due to the latency and dropped packets, they have problems accessing company files and email. As a result, they are under-utilized within the company and much less productive.
The major lines in Tokyo have been in place since the 1910s and 1920s. They have built lines since the war, obviously, but the fact that the city was nearly leveled has nothing to do with the size and effectiveness of the train system.
SOx emissions have dropped markedly as the industry has had several rounds of "new low-sulphuric fuel required by 20xx". CO2 emissions are the lowest of all transportation methods by ton-mile.
Depends on what QA needs to be done. Surface finish, dimensional inspections, color, electrical checks, etc are all relatively easy to have automated QA. The problem is that you may not know what parts of your process will have issues, and many of these checks must be custom-setup for each model. Setting up these processes and ironing out all the issues takes a lot of time. Much more time than Tesla had budgeted apparently.
Not only that, but what do you do with all the products that come off the line with a defect while you are in the tuning process? In most cases, these can't be fixed by running them through the line again, so you need time and people to fix them.
God damn it, this fucking insanity has to stop. Not only has it impacted my ability to upgrade to a bitch'n graphics card but now they want to poison the air I breath for this shit?
Brother, you aren't kidding. I did not understand all the griping lately about video cards until last week when I looked at what a new one would cost. My R7850 from 2013 may actually have appreciated in value, and anything that would get me a meaningful performance increase over what was a $150 card 5 years ago costs $400+ today.
Siri still bites, no workstation level computer (mac pro), iOS is getting bloated and the Home Pod is a flop. But sure, curved screens, work on that...
None of the things you listed will have a huge impact on profitability if they are improved. Curved screens are more likely to break and should increase sales.
I just got one 2 days ago in a bundle with Human Fall Down for $1 plus (~$8?) shipping.
Sounds like you did not have a pool in Houston. Or a decent backyard. I'm on less than 1/3 of an acre and I can't see my neighbors, OR my fence, due to all the shrubbery. It's a botanical pool garden back there. If you aren't taking advantage what your local climate has to offer, you're doing it wrong. Houston has a lot to offer as long as you actually adapt to living there. This is from a guy who left Houston once because I hated it, and came back after living in several other places
Big corporations control the government, which is currently dysfunctional. It only makes sense that the people are now lobbying the organizations with the actual power and some semblance of effectiveness.
Last year I met someone for the first time and didn't get her contact info. About 10 minutes later I get a glide connection request from her. Hmmmm... ok. She must've asked one of my friends there, so I accept. Later in person I ask just curious how she got my number, she insists I got hers and made the request without asking her. What?? We go back and forth a little on this til we sort of tentatively agree the app must've spied on us when we met. She had her doubts for a while but no longer thinks I'm a creep.
Great job keeping cool, creep.
Incomes is pricey but not insanely pricey. $20 a pound for raw material is not a big factor in space programs. Machining it is a pain in the butt, but on par with most other aerospace materials.
So is a bachelors degree -- and at this stage, i'm not sure which is more likely to pay off.
It will pay off as a bachelor's degree at least. That's an entry requirement for a lot of jobs. Customs and Border Patrol agents being one of them. Starting salaries in the 60-70k range, not bad if you have an otherwise nonmarketable degree.