I love this -- I'll have to do something like that for my site. I always liked the big initials on the start of a paragraph. Though it feels a bit more prose-applicable than for non-fiction writing.

With most modern ICE cars everything but the transmission and the engine will fail before those two go out. Also: I don't think that's the usual case. Plenty of sub 2k cars that will happily keep driving for years (I've had 3 such cars). ~700 mark is where you start seeing 300k mile "finish-them-off"-type cars.

Plenty of EVs will drive for years as well (so long as they have a good thermal system for the battery). So I'm not sure what point is being made.

Saying "It costs a lot of money to replace the battery" doesn't mean much as the battery, even if it has 70% of it's original capacity, is still perfectly functional. Very much the same as the engine which also costs a lot of money to replace.

I just thought the parent comment was unfair to ICE cars to make the EV proposition sound better. I'm a fan of EVs but they are still more expensive to buy. That said, very cheap ICE cars have a sweet spot where any damage to engine / transmission / clutch+flywheel often means replacing the entire car since the repair cost exceeds the market value of the car.

I heard plenty of horror stories involving modern cars and their transmissions and engines.

That, for one - also: people constantly are overconfident in their ability to judge the status of really anything in a ICE car.

Newsflash: you simply cannot "readout" the status of an engine, transmission, ...

But you can/could/should for a battery.

Now, someone hammer that into peoples brains...

Google Drive Desktop will only help if you're on macOS or Windows. I know it's technically possible to mount GDrive on Linux but it's neither pretty nor user-friendly.

You can also use Dropbox.

GitLab's UI around MRs (PRs) is IMO miles better than what GH's been offering. Try creating a PR from branch A to main, and then rebasing A. GitLab handles this fine and can show you changes between the two revisions; GitHub is completely lost.

Are there any resources you know of on modelling ground effect? I’m curious how this would change the dynamics from the post.

My understanding of it is that it's especially apparent when you are within 1 prop width of the ground. For a quadcopter, it's most apparent just off the ground, since the props are small compared to the entire craft. You don't usually operate the drone in ground effect for very long, but you need to really push the throttle to get in the air, and the drone floats if you are close to the ground.

The other effects are more apparent, especially settling with power, the tendency to pitch back as you go faster, and translational lift. Modeling all of these accurately turns into a fluid simulation, so probably you'd just want a heuristic.

How does braking work in an aircraft?

When it lands. Auto brakes apply to the wheels to target a specific deceleration target. You don’t want to brake too hard and cause undue wear and you don’t want to under brake and miss your taxiway or go off the runway.

Gosh I should have thought of auto-braking. For some reason I kept thinking this was some fancy drone-braking system and couldn't figure out how you'd brake in the air... I never even considered the on-the-ground case. Thanks.

Nothing comes close to Iosevka for me, after using it for a while it's hard to find the same mix of narrow+readable.

Sorry to hear that, here I was thinking that a blog like this could only be a good signal and a jumping-off point in an interview. Oh well

I used to feel apprehensive about emailing people until one day I just decided to power through and do it. I agree with the post, it's like you unlock an additional layer of communications. Everyone is suddenly contactable! I would also say that most poeple are really nice 1-1, I cannot remember a nasty reply (worst that happened to me was just my email being left ignored).

If you go out into the street at 11pm you'll see poor people running power washers everywhere you go

I've lived here since 2017. I have yet to see the poor people running power washers at night.

Which neighbourhood do you suggest I visit for this spectacle?

By the way I'm not GP, I just wanted to clarify what they said (or attempted to). Apologies.

No worries. I understood perfectly well what they said. I just couldn't believe they said something so stupid.