Musk is the Bazaar.
Readit Newsentropicgravity commented on The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1997) catb.org/~esr/writings/ca... · Posted by u/kesor
I presume the monkey got fried.
entropicgravity commented on Exploring the Cost and Feasibility of Battery-Electric Ships newscenter.lbl.gov/2024/1... · Posted by u/gnabgib
now imagine a leak of it.
fuel oil.. you just fence it off and scoop up.
ammonia.. evacuate the port and city
Studies have been done comparing gasoline vs. ammonia and while there are differences overall the dangers and mitigations are about the same.
entropicgravity commented on Exploring the Cost and Feasibility of Battery-Electric Ships newscenter.lbl.gov/2024/1... · Posted by u/gnabgib
The future of shipping is ammonia. It has, pretty much, all the attributes of fossil fuels but being NH4 it doesn't produce an earth warming byproduct.
entropicgravity commented on Why everyone missed solar's exponential growth exponentialview.co/p/the-... · Posted by u/xbmcuser
log log has been a thing for several decades.
Can you put Linux on a mac Mini?
You don't know until you try. Going to Jupiter is not like going to the corner store for milk. Let's call it the "Musk Approach".
Electric motors have moving parts and at least where I am nobody would call one an electric engine.
Automobiles generally have engines, but motor isn't uncommon for (internal combustion) engines there either. Motor car is something I remember my grandfather saying although I guess that's not really used anymore, but motorbike certainly is. So is motorsports. "Blown motor" is a pretty common phrase for an IC engine that has stopped working due to damage.
Engine has some exclusive cases where motor does not substitute. Jet engine and steam engine come to mind.
Yes, but in the marine realm they are consistently called outboard motors and not outboard engines.
I recently had the experience of wiping windows of an Asus laptop I bought and the process was trickier than usual. It turns out that the 'USB Image Writer' that comes with linux and that you use to create a USB drive with the linux of your choice is no longer up to the task. The bios of the laptop would not allow the USB to boot up unless I created the USB with an entirely different software, in my case I used the balenaEtcher software (I believe other software will work too) to create the USB and only then would the USB boot up and allow me to wipe and reconfigure the partitions on the 'hard drive' (which in this case was an SSD).
It took me an extra couple of hours to get this to finally work. At this point I'm not sure if it's only the new Asus bios that are doing this unfriendly thing or if it's an industry trend.
A real pain in the ass in any case.
And casinos apparently.