Ambivalent Engineer

Saturday, September 21, 2024

8K display on laptop

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 I've upgraded the display I use at my desk to a 65" Samsung QN800C, which is an 8K display.  I bought it open-box at a Best Buy Ou...
Saturday, June 22, 2024

What Airbus should build next

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Boeing should obviously build a 737 replacement next.  As I understand it, this project has been underway for years. Airbus, however, could ...
Monday, December 30, 2019

My own Pacifica Hybrid review

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Car and Driver’s 40,000 mile 12-month long-term review ofthe Pacifica Hybrid is not rosy.   We’ve put 44,000 miles on ours in 2.6 years. ...
Thursday, September 21, 2017

Elon Musk should worry about Kim Jong Un

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The conventional wisdom is that, if North Korea detonates a nuclear missile near any US or allied territory, be it Guam or Seattle or Tokyo ...
Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Vegetarians use... similar water

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The Los Angeles Times has the best tool that I've yet seen for understanding the amount of water used in agriculture.  It lets you put t...
Friday, October 31, 2014

STS-93: Yikes! We don't need any more of these.

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I just found Wayne Hale's blog .  Be careful reading this thing, I just lost nearly an entire night of sleep.  The latest update, which ...
Sunday, September 14, 2014

Quick trip to the Sierras

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On Friday I took a quick trip to the Sierras to grab some Ponderosa pine forest images with a drone.  Initially, the logging road was just ...
Sunday, June 29, 2014

Early Days on Street View

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Down until I'm done talking to Google about this post.
Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Happy Birthday to me

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It's 5:13pm, and I'm sitting in the shade in my back yard, tweaking some really neat flexure mounts, while keeping an eye on two ...
Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Window 8.1 is unusable on a desktop

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For the last two years I've been doing a lot of SolidWorks Simulation on my Lenovo W520 laptop.  This thing has been great.  But I'v...
Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Sensors, Survey and Surveillance from Space

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The SkyBox satellites are the first to use area array rather than pushbroom sensors for survey work, but they certainly aren't the first...
Thursday, December 12, 2013

The SkyBox camera

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Christmas (and Christmas shopping) is upon us, and I have a big review coming up, but I just can't help myself... SkySat-1, from a l...
Thursday, October 31, 2013

Hyperloop Traffic

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This is a huge post, about a subject that may not be terribly interesting. I suspect most of you will want to skim all but the first sectio...
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