yogurt

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Large Boeing Satellite Suddenly Explodes Into Pieces⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s only because they’re designed with passivation to vent tanks and disconnect batteries to remove sources of explosion when they start to die. If that fails the tanks eventually pop from thermal cycling or the solar panels overcharge the battery until it blows up like a Russian satellite did earlier this year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BMW Adaptive Suspension Can Be Added via Subscription. Suspension As A Service (SAAS)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’re thinking of Xiaomi, Louis Rossman did a video assuming they were doing Apple-style serialization but all it was doing was blocking installation of self-driving if the headlights weren’t standard. It wasn’t DRMing brake pads or preventing buying headlights from a junkyard, there was a functional reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1000+ Firefox for Android extensions now available – Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  DRM plugin and all the built-in cloud stuff is proprietary on the server side

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They aren’t exporting them below cost, that’s why they want to export. Inside China every company tried to start an EV division because they heard Apple was doing it and assumed it must be a good idea. Now the market is topped out and the biggest companies are trying to price the smaller ones out of business (which still isn’t below manufacturing cost because China regulates that and is nervous about having tons of cars from bankrupt companies on the road). They export with a huge profit margin to make up for the domestic price war.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The opposite of woke is random shit boomers happened to grow up with. If your politics are based on some principle you can justify, then if you lose you try again later. If your politics are based on a random collection of historical accidents you can’t justify, and you don’t even like most of them except for a couple, but you think the only way to keep the couple you do like is to defend all of them, then losing is the end. You have to fight to the death, and once you do lose you can’t cope by doing better next time, all you have is revenge.

  Sometimes liberals also want to defend historical accidents that they think fit their idea of liberalism, and then they adopt the same kind of aggressive deterrence strategy, like pro-Israel liberals with college protests or the English with trans people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boston Dynamics introduces a fully electric humanoid robot that “exceeds human performance”⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Internet is full of text and video about humanoid bipedal things performing tasks. There’s a lot of investment money gambling that LLMs + human-shaped robots can make an electric slave that an unskilled overseer can vaguely yell at and the robot can figure out what they meant and how to do it like a human can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime newbie looking for suggestions⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ancient Magus’ Bride has a similar kind of mood with a super old wizard and girl apprentice doing emotional side quests.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement - Anil Dash⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Compared to Reddit or Twitter anyway, they haven’t killed their API yet so apps like pocket casts are mainly using iTunes for search

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement - Anil Dash⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  iTunes api, and if apple turns evil there are other list-o-cast apis like fyyd.de.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The stainless steel body of Tesla's Cybertruck is reportedly leading to issues with gaps in between the panels⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The missing point is it’s a property of stainless steel that it remembers being a coil and can unflatten itself weeks later if the manufacturer doesn’t know how to work around that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China gives Ehang the first industry approval for fully autonomous passenger-carrying air taxis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Helicopters can autorotate, if quadcopters lose power they tumble with no control at all

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why doesn't Egypt open its borders to Gaza?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Israel’s peace treaty with Egypt after the Yom Kippur War gives Israel control of a 100-meter wide buffer between Gaza and Egypt. So it doesn’t open its borders because it doesn’t have one, just a border with Israel. A later agreement gave Egypt some limited control over the buffer zone, so there are Egyptian guards in charge of the border crossing now, but they can’t do whatever they want.