timgebrally | 3 years ago | on: Boeing looked for flaws in its Dreamliner and couldn’t stop finding them
There are Falcon 9 launches carrying humans on crewed Dragon launches. SpaceX carries people to orbit and to the ISS.
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timgebrally | 4 years ago | on: Renting a car will be a pain until at least 2022
Yeah for me when we were buying our next minivan Honda it was more important that we didn't end up buying the first cars in a generation refresh. The first year of a generation tends to have more bugs than others. New vs like-new doesn't matter for the big reliable mass produced cars.
https://www.autolist.com/honda-odyssey/honda-odyssey-generat...
timgebrally | 5 years ago | on: On power markets, snow storms, and $16k power bills
I have solar on my house and in IL we get paid via "net metering": https://www.citizensutilityboard.org/illinois-net-metering/ . The idea is you size a system for your annual energy consumption, and then you don't pay for electricity for the year.
If you sold the power back for real-time pricing you'd need a much larger system than your annual consumption. Net metering basically lets you sell the power back at a retail price, not a wholesale price.
timgebrally | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you update multiple disparate databases?
I researched a pretty long article about this and documented my findings here: https://www.rallyhealth.com/devops/database-updates-across-t...
timgebrally | 8 years ago | on: Why You Can Focus in a Coffee Shop but Not in Your Open Office
"God is an Astronaut" radio on Google Play music makes for great concentration music.
timgebrally | 8 years ago | on: Uncle Bob and Silver Bullets
Perhaps if the methods are sound (even if expensive) then someone can step up and make tooling or refine them so the methods are more accessible to smaller firms. Uncle Bob's opinion's might be discouraging people from exploring them and finding ways to drive down the cost of adopting these better methods.
timgebrally | 8 years ago | on: Tesla flips a switch to increase the range of some cars in Florida
Perhaps it's like what Sony did with the PS3 a long time ago: they manufactured it with an eight-core processor but only allowed access to seven of them. The manufacturing yields were really low at launch so they manufactured an eight-core and played the odds that they'd be able to fix the yields later.
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