In a 9 to 3 jury trial. Tesla prevails in first Autopilot wrongful-death suit
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2023-10-22 Do-it-yourself Power Strips – True Story
We used similar “homemade” outlets on extension cords – we must’ve had more than a hundred around campus. But the fire inspectors wrote us up for using them in permanent locations under desks. We had to change them to commercial power strips. But I set up a temporary registration and add/drop classes area every semester,
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2023-10-11 Tesla’s Virtual Machine Mode, Autobidder, Powerhub, Opticaster, &c.
Links to several of Tesla’s energy storage products. VMM explained. There are many critics who say that Renewable energy will always need ‘baseload’ generation – thermal power plants. But they are being proven wrong by these new inventions that emulate baseload generation with software. Tesla says (quote) “”As more wind and solar power replace fossil
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2023-10-03 Perseverance Mars Rover Hi Res Image
Mars 2020 Rover AKA Perseverance in High Resolution and detailed. Full Resolution link ( No Facebook Compress ) below https://d2pn8kiwq2w21t.cloudfront.net/original_images/jpegPIA23312.jpg Excellent closeup image. It looks like 10 or mor kg of Kapton tape wrapped around the cables. But the worker is putting in red and blue cables that are not covered in Kapton. So it
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2023-09-29 Calculate Resistance From Color Code
Something that beginners can put on their desktop. http://nonlinear.eecs.berkeley.edu/chaos/ResistanceCalculator/resistor.htm
2023-09-27 Hard Disk Drives – A Hundred Plus Disassembled
Pozi-drive – Is that what they call them? Maybe this will bring back memories. I was waiting in the checkout line at the computer store and saw a kit of, I don’t know, maybe a hundred different screwdriver bits and a cheap handle. None of them come with documentation, but the tips are there for
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2023-09-23 Tesla Dojo Explained, BMW Partners With AWS
This article starts out briefly explaining Tesla’s Project Dojo. Lots of skepticism, I see here. I think some of these skeptics should just hold their tongues and wait and see what happens. It may take longer than what they think it’s going to take, but eventually they will get to level four, maybe level five
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2023-09-23 Mainframe Tape Drives
During my mainframe computer days, someone made a foot or so long rod with a metal base. We would grab a handful of write rings and have a write ring tossing contest. During the daytime the day shift would run dozens of batch jobs on the computer, and they would queue up in the printer
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2023-09-15 Weed Zapping Autonomous Robot Vehicles
No more herbicides – weed killing chemicals! https://www.facebook.com/reel/304491815480199?mibextid=9drbnH
2023-09-11 Tesla’s Dojo Supercomputer Causes4
Good information Tesla (TSLA) stock surges from optimistic look at Dojo supercomputer Quote: “”Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas wrote in the note: The autonomous car has been described as the mother of all AI projects. In its quest to solve for autonomy, Tesla has developed an advanced supercomputing architecture that pushes new boundaries in custom
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