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6 days agoOf course it is. If you had the technology to create a revolutionary battery, you wouldn’t waste time with the motorcycle business.
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You forgot to put it in a PDF and charge $2 million.
does the UI just render blank squares in that case?
AWS wasn’t profitable because they were reiinvesting all their revenue back into growing the service. If they chose to stop growing, they could have been profitable at any point.
AI as an industry is actively, violently unprofitable. They can’t even afford to keep the lights on without torching investor money. The more they grow, the faster they lose money.
Nah, he’s into weirder shit
I was waiting for this story after I saw that on my inbox.
Waiting until “plex pro” and they slowly sunset features on the original plex lifetime pass.
Hey look! We rediscovered netbooks!
Might have to dust off my EeePC.
4·1 month agoOh I’m sorry. I thought you said that the wheels were falling off. So they’re not falling off then?
The Cybertruck doesn’t have a steering column. They’re steer-by-wire. That may explain why the wheels were able to move so quickly. The steering ratio changes dynamically depending on vehicle speed.
You pilot the Cybertruck with a yoke that sweeps through its full range of motion in just 340 degrees—less than one complete turn. That’s possible because the relationship between the driver’s input and the resulting angle at the front wheels is written in code, with all the infinite possibilities that implies. Tesla uses that flexibility to give the Cybertruck the quickest steering of any production vehicle at parking lot speeds and more relaxed responses at highway speeds for smooth, steady control.
The driver is just wiggling the steering wheel to try to free the front tires.
8·1 month agoSwitch Lite. Great console, but limited in stupid ways. Why no video out?
there were only 14 titles released in the US
Well after whatever period of time, the option to even request a chargeback on your account portal goes away. Not sure how you’d even proceed at that point, but I imagine it involves an incredible amount of being on hold.
If tens of thousands of people started requesting chargebacks for the same product at the same time from a new vendor, I don’t think Visa would be quick to side with the vendor.
As I pointed out a year ago, this phone never existed.
They just waited until it was too late to do credit card chargebacks before pulling the rug. I’ve seen it on Kickstarter dozens of times.
He was surprised it was $8 in an amusement park.
This was also like 14 years ago. Might need to update the dollar amount when I tell this story.
A friend of mine moved to SF right out of college. A year or so later, he told me that he visited Busch Gardens Williamsburg which is a theme park near where we grew up. It was originally owned by Anheuser-Busch, so you can get beer basically anywhere in the park.
He had this to say:
“You know, this is the first time I’ve been since turning 21. I was surprised to see how cheap the beer was. They were only charging $8 a pint.”
26·2 months agoOn the flip side, I couldn’t get Linux native Jackbox to run because the devs failed to update it to support something (Wayland maybe, IDK was troubleshooting mid Xmas party).
Ended up installing the Windows version in Proton.
Roger Moore was 57 in his last film. She’s only 4 years older than that.
But plenty of people in the late 90s did when the EV-1 came out with its lead-acid and later NiMH batteries. Modern EV battery tech wasn’t built for EVs, it was built for general applications, worked its way into consumer electronics and then from there into EVs. In fact, many modern EV batteries are made up of 18650 cells which were first used in laptops.
The Donut labs thing would make sense if they were also spinning off an energy company and just using the motorcycle business to get attention. Tesla and Ford have already successfully spun off energy branches though in their case it’s more to take advantage of their production capacity over any major leap in battery tech.
Random link says global motorcycle sales are $174 billion.
https://www.freedoniagroup.com/industry-study/global-motorcycles
Ford motor company sold $183 billion in 2025 alone.
https://s205.q4cdn.com/882619693/files/doc_financials/2025/q4/Ford-Q4-2025-Earnings-Press-Release.pdf
Motorcycles are just such a small market compared to the application space for a high performance EV battery. It makes no sense to limit a new battery to that.