I’m surprised you mentioned the battery (which is a problem with any EV towing), and not the fact the hitch can just snap off if you hit a pothole hard enough.

Most over-ear noise cancelling headphones I’ve seen have a 3.5mm input that works with the noise cancelling.

they built a model specifically to work well on the benchmarks.

To be fair, I’m pretty sure that’s what everyone is doing. If you’re not measuring against something, there’s no way to tell if you’re doing anything at all.

Personally I’d be happy if I never had to touch a micro-USB device ever again. Mini-USB is somewhat acceptable, but USB-C blows the rest out of the water. It’s unquestionably the better USB standard

That would be USB 2.0 and is pretty safe to assume that all USB ports and cables support this (If you can find a USB 1.0 or 1.1 port I’ll be impressed). Why bother with a 480Mbps logo if it’s the default minimum?

A tomb? In this economy? 😂

Personally I just have an old micro USB cable I cut the end off of and soldered solid-core wire to. Just plug the USB-A end into a battery bank and the wires into the breadboard rails and you’ve got a stable 5V supply. I rarely needed 3.3V on a breadboard, but when I did I usually had a 5V to 3.3V voltage translator already on the board which was enough to get by.

Any sort of op-amp circuit would easily make use of a 15V input, or better yet using the full 20V with a 10V reference to get +/-10V voltage rails for an amplifier circuit.

I think it’s just a very unfortunate auto-cropped thumbnail

the comic itself is stupid

The comic isn’t so much a criticism as it is a comedic observation of what happens in the real world.

At least that’s how I interpret it.

At this point, to me, “AAA” features means it’s full of microtransactions, predatory marketing, and lootbox gambling.

Likewise, AirDrop should have been a drone-based delivery service. Maybe they could partner up!

It was also moving more volume of air, not just airspeed. Sure I would have loved to see a fully shrouded experiment, but their experiment did show a regular fan moved air faster over a wider area, which would mean it is also moving a higher volume of air.

The difference between a vacuum and this fanless cooling device is that a vacuum happens to generate a small amount of static, and usually has grounding wires in the hose to prevent it shocking things, while this fanless device is intentionally ionizing as much air as possible to get it to move.

As demonstraded by the ActionLab video someone else posted, “bladeless” fans in general are less efficient. The one he tested was not a Dyson and didn’t have a HEPA filter.

I don’t think you two are even contradicting each other. The airflow going through the base can be 15x smaller than the total result, but also require more energy than just using a regular fan that moves that amount of air.

Total airflow and efficiency are two independent things.

Disclaimer: I have no real data on how Dyson fans work.

the reason people recommend against vacuuming a PC

A regular vacuum isn’t doing anything with ions or high voltages. Moving air can generate potentially harmful static electricity, but usually the reason people recommend against vacuuming a PC is because if you spin the fans doing that, the motors inside turn into generators and drive current back into your PC parts that could damage them.

Some of the performance EVs like the Porsche Taycan have a second gear to help with top speed and acceleration above 60mph. Pretty much any regular use wouldn’t need a transmission. Tesla’s been doing just fine with a single gear ratio in their vehicles.

I thought the $20k EV segment was just impossible because just the battery alone costs $15k

It’s also one of the few places that have lossless audio files available for download. I’m a big fan of Bandcamp. I like having all my music local.