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Re:Why-everything-in-the-universe-turns-more-complex on Monday April 14, 2025 @04:36PM (#43686032)
Reproduction is not really a purpose. What makes copies of itself, happens to persist.
I guess the cooling alone cannot reach the density (and oxygen amount) necessary for the designed power output.

Yes, they put in the energy to compress the air 'offline' and then have that free to propel the vehicle. The cooling of the charge also improves the efficiency, the useful energy output is proportional to the temperature difference before and after the combustion.

A high capacity intercooler would be an interesting experiment also in utility vehicles.

An aluminium part with 105/72 cross section of the titanium will have the same modulus and incidentally the same weight.

Aluminium is also significantly cheaper, and easier to machine.

Titanium (or high strength steel, which is the strongest both per area and per weight and also the most expensive and difficult to machine) would be used where the volume of the part would be a concern.

> Also how they use aluminum for the connecting rods instead of stronger and stiffer metals like titanium

The 7000 aluminium alloys are similar to titanium in strenght/weight

The 10psi is still essential, saying 'it's not boost like a turbo or supercharger' is not entirely correct.
Re:Gungus-like organism may be an unknown branch of life on Friday March 28, 2025 @03:10AM (#43502417)
> Who can understand and remember that?

Anybody who is interested in it

Re:OpenAI Asks White House for Relief from State AI Rules on Friday March 14, 2025 @01:22AM (#43359813)
Competitive advantage is anti competitive from the logic of the matter.
Re:Cognitive Behaviors That Enable Self-Improving Reasoners on Thursday March 06, 2025 @04:47AM (#43278261)
In the setting you describe I think it will _reduce_ the errors to 20%
Re:We're Charging Our Cars Wrong on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @01:56AM (#43263681)
It is actually practical position for an automated swap. You drive to the position, the door on the ground open, the robot pulls the old battery and installs the new one, no hassle.
Send them an invoice for the rental of your screen space to display ads.
All steppe nomads are culturally descendent from Yamna.
Re:US blocking Swiss access to AI chips on Monday January 27, 2025 @03:46AM (#42838823)
I guess the comparison to drinking a poison and having to not work, which sounds like you think that taxes are damaging. Taxes are the whip part of the monetary system, that compels everybody to work significantly more than they would otherwise, and which is behind the good things that you attribute to corporations.
Re:Astronomers seek global ban on space advertising on Sunday January 26, 2025 @07:09PM (#42835760)
"Universal"
Re:Satellite powered estimation of global solar potential on Thursday December 19, 2024 @05:54PM (#42466586)
Joules is the solution to both the problems (the second is that Wh for energy is as silly as speed hours for distance)
Re:What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Know on Sunday December 15, 2024 @01:55AM (#42421984)
Entropy is the opposite of potential.
Such a pinnacle would be Agda. Haskell has mathematical holes.
The title sounds like an AMD cpu issue.
Re:Rats Learned to Drive–and They Love It on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @01:11AM (#42180480)
Humans are apes.
Re:Memories are not only in the brain, human cell study finds on Sunday November 10, 2024 @02:45AM (#42098980)
Rabies virus induces the same behavior across different species (the victims in terminal state are terrified by swallowing liquids).
Re:Mitochondria Are Alive on Saturday November 09, 2024 @01:53AM (#42092924)
The benefit of mitochondria is in the isolation of the high power reactions, that involve chemically aggressive elements, from the rest of the cell. That allows for high energy throughput without self damage. Cells that do not have mitochondria run the same or analogous power producing reactions, but at a much lower volume, to keep the damage sustainable. An alternative option to mitochondria would be to evolve some means for isolation of the power production.
Re:Pretty.c on Thursday October 24, 2024 @09:43AM (#41935413)
Are variadic macros turning complete?
> Laws are generally clearer if you write them as general definitions and general rules and if those cover too much carve out exceptions in the rules rather than the definitions.

Similar motivation as exceptions for error handling

Re:Buy, Borrow, Die – Explained on Sunday September 01, 2024 @04:21AM (#41415198)
At the start of the circuit the government prints and spends money, at the end it collects the money as taxes. This creates a current of economic activity. The duty to pay tax is the primary incentive that stimulates the citizens to put in effort and gets this into motion. The proper action is not to try to pay less taxes, but to put in more effort and make the money to pay the taxes.
Re:Crows Are Even Smarter Than We Thought on Saturday August 31, 2024 @02:05PM (#41410613)
All eukaryotes except plants eat other life.
Re:Deals with the Devil Aren't What They Used to Be on Friday August 16, 2024 @05:55AM (#41264863)
As long as you are open about it and the other side is fine with that, it's not a fraud from your side.
It does not interact electromagnetically and does not have friction because of that.
> and I'm wondering how many of you that's true for as well

the phrasing sounds like a list comprehension

A seed is a small plant plus nutrients, it knows how to grow the same way as a mature plant does.
> But this is basically stealing or claiming from a person’s fruits of labor.

It is actually the opposite. It all belongs to the rulers, and they generously gift you a portion of it.

Re:Ludum Mortuus Est on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @02:15AM (#39100461)
The benefit of having X now rather than later can still be more valuable than the price drop.

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