dream_weasel

The first flight of the largest battery-electric aircraft to take to the skies lasted nearly half an hour while costing just $5 of electricity.

The X1 aircraft is comparable in size to a small regional airliner and can achieve a maximum takeoff weight exceeding 25,000 pounds with the help of four wing-mounted electric motors. The battery-electric propulsion system delivered more than one megawatt of power during the maiden flight.

It doesn’t tell us what the load was for the test flight at this price point.

You’re probably right that it is good and slow and much less weight.

Likely a short flight.

Yeah the problem is they also don’t tell us the load during the flight. From the lift equation (let’s be hand wavey) if they’re a similar size to a regional jet (same planform area) your heavy lift is better driven by speed than lifting coefficient. Of course, it’s hard to go fast with electric props, so I wonder if a safe ceiling is probably 400Kt 300Kt?

Gives a nice range of you know… 40 to 200 150 miles.

Edit:

No way. The speed record for a prop aircraft currently stands at about 300Kt. If we use that generously our new ceiling is lower.

I like a blue point every now and again. I find I like them better plain (or a with little lemon) than with all the accoutrements. I do actually enjoy them now once in awhile, but I don’t ever REALLY want half a dozen to myself.

Following on: Dumb people exist.

Not like “Of course, in theory dumb people exist”. Actually, practically, there will be people in this thread who can’t conjugate verbs or spell and it’s not because they speak a different language, not because auto correct isnt working, and not anything else. It’s from being lower on the bell curve.

“Oh but dream_weasel! Some people are just differently-abled!”. Yeah… And some aren’t.

I was lucky that the easiest things on that list historically were like Brie, escargot, goat cheese, and oysters. They are usually just an appetizer so it’s not like you have to eat like a pound of lamb.

Lamb was also on the list, but it turns out I just don’t like the way most people prepare it, you can make it tasty, but it’s too expensive to just eat on the regular.

Yeah soft cheeses took awhile.

1. No dirt or excitement
2. No long John silvers
3. No oysters
4. Nothing that’s alive
5. Nothing with a face

I now eat oysters, and I cans mind over matter eating shrimp that have not been deveined as long as I don’t see it, and I’ve beaten a few of the “face” foods (e.g., if there’s like a whole pig at a luau I could eat a piece now, but probably not like FROM the face).

Really it’s just oysters I solved, the others are pretty permanent lol.

This is an interesting thread to me. I have a strong negative feeling about not liking foods, so if there’s something on the menu I don’t like, I usually order it on principle.

I used to have 5 things on my “will not eat” list now it’s 3.

For kids who are seemingly neurotypical, we do a one bite rule on which dessert is contingent.

It’s fine not to like something, but you still get to try it. If the reaction is viscerally negative (rare) as long as it went in the mouth and got a chew then it counts even if it comes back out. My son had a texture issue with chicken breast early on.

We don’t force much variety on the littles, but every now and again there new vegetables or dishes that are worth introducing.

Choose? No.

Adjust over time? Maybe.

Restraint

😂

Maybe you also should HAVE* ;)

“It’s weird to get two dead bodies off this guy, but I’m not complaining.”

Emacs: “Sure, fuck it, why not.”

Idk he never gave off the kind of vibes that made me want to listen to his advice. I watched a few of the videos especially when he was playing with vim and Doom emacs and they are fine for what they are and pretty relaxed, but there’s just always been a sort of bumpkin feel where I’m more likely to watch what he does and draw my own conclusions instead of taking his recs.

Also good for plain old text manipulation. Bylaws for one of my orgs were like 15+ years out of date. Ask for a detailed read flagging any inconsistencies, check that all references point to real sections, and read the state code and related statutes on these 3 web pages, and provide a working draft and redline document with explanations for changes.

That was a 4 hour job that took about 15 minutes, and there is no risk because you have to read the output anyway at the end. It takes maybe three iterations on target sections once you do a full read-through, but as a human it was going to take two or three iterations no matter what.

Besides crafting homeassistant automations that was probably my best use so far.

Edit: But you’re right, if you’re using it to find out how many rocks to eat in a day or how many letters are in the items on your grocery list, or the best recipe for horse paste that’s a waste of everyone’s time.

I increasingly hate Lemmy for the way this seems to constantly happen on this topic and others. It’s like users are caricatures of opinions instead of people. Which, hey, maybe that’s prescient.

This is Lemmy and it says AI. Expect nobody to read and for panties to twist so hard their legs come off.

Painting is expensive. Not everyone has good taste / the same taste. It stands to reason that safer colorschemes prevail. Painting your house some garish pink blue and red combo feature that punches you in the retinas is bold, and if you like it do it, but know that the money you spend on that is “labor of love” money you don’t get back.

He also has a book that is greatly anticipated that he will never finish despite saying he will.