Trains really need to undergo a renaissance. Particularly for light rail. The rubber tire rail cars can run without load bearing rail on concrete, and there’s a lot of money that can be saved on that. It’s possible testing times can be shortened as well, since rail alignment is not an issue.

My wife bought an Outback Premium optioned exactly as you recommended. Adaptive cruise control is really sweet on the LA freeways. The CVT makes the Outback seem like it has more power than it has if you have the sound system cranked up and ignore the tach.

The busways are a good cost to urban density tradeoff with the Orange Line. But if the vehicles could be restricted to the busway, they could get better load rates with rubber tired trains. They seem to work well in Paris.

The vehicles are more expensive than steel rail trains I think, but the railway is cheaper to…

They have one of those dedicated busways in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles. Just like you describe. If you don’t want them to be smelly diesel buses, make them electric with station recharge capability and diesel electric backup. With a well graded right of way and electric motor, articulated buses can be…

It’s entirely possible to get diversity and the best person for the job at the same time. It should happen more often.

So lab mice prefer action movies to porn, and mousy heroin to anything else. That explains a lot.

I can really understand why Darpa would want something like this if they could be used for anti-personnel purposes. Sure they’re easy to shoot down, but if you send 1000 of those things, a lot of them will reach their target.

Nice! That is some serious room.

Only if the assignment of hard and easy projects was either randomly distributed or isotropic. If there was gender bias in the acquisition of a project, that men get or take on harder projects, then it kind of throws off the curve.

I’ve worked with some really good women coders. I wouldn’t be surprised.

I’m a little unsure how you measure “statistically better”. There is some qualitative data missing. I mean, some code can be very convoluted and lengthy, some terse and brief. Terse and brief code is more likely to pass without problems. So you…

Objectively, this is a better “Golden Age” than the 1960s.

Goddamit! Now I’m going to see that every time I’m behind one of those.

In brown.

I just realized, I have never seen the “trunk” opened on a Model S. So they’re old school “fastback” hatchbacks?

And if they just took the money from the Model S and didn’t spend it on R&D to create the Model X, they would have been profitable. And if they just take the money from the Models S and X, and don’t invest in the R&D to make the Model 3, they become profitable.

Ah the Jalop front page promoting your oldies but goodies in celebration of your ascension to the new Top Gear.

That last storm topped off all three of our 55 gallon rain barrels. Guess we’ll use some of that to water the plants in this mini-drought.

So it’s Warehouse 13 that was the “Let’s do The Librarians, but with a different name.”.

They’re doing R&D and gearing up eventually for the Model 3. Of course they’re losing money as a result. But they will make so much money on the Model 3.

The Librarians basically seems like Warehouse 13 with a new title and new characters. Not that it’s in any way bad, but it just seems more like a continuance of W13, which I also liked.