> Our core innovation is a radiative cooling material that we’ve combined with a panel system to improve the efficiency of any vapor-compression based cooling system

A heat pump is a “ vapor-compression based cooling system” so that tech is an addition-to not an instead-of.

Whether it’s better probably depends on how expensive the additional efficiency is in practice.

> SkyCool’s Panels save 2x – 3x as much energy as a solar panel generates given the same area.

So if you’re area constrained maybe.

That's very hard to believe. Radiative cooling is really bad compared to any kind of fan in front of aluminum fins.

Air itself is an isolator, there is a reason you need to shove in fresh air to take on more energy from the heat source.

Out of curiosity what are the other ways?

Just put normal test pads next to the tag connect, a bit more spaced out. A bed of nails in the production line connects to that, the tag connect can be used for bench development.

This is the way

0.1" header holes slightly staggered to grip inserted headers can work great and you don't need to have a special expensive cable on hand to use it.

Relatedly, here’s a slicer built around Fidget https://github.com/Wulfsta/WeekendSlicer/tree/main

Still very early work, mind you! This is mostly a proof of concept in its current state, but I will add more features if Fidget gets a 2D equivalent to Mesh, so I don’t have to worry about path extraction from meshes. Thanks for the mention! :)

Soon available as a service https://www.reflectorbital.com/

I refuse to believe this project isn't some sort of elaborate troll.

I'm sort of torn between that reaction and "hey, this seems similar logistics-wise to that space solar project I'm kicking off next week"...

Asimov described a similar thing in I Robot. I imagine it'd create very unpredictable climate issues.

Some people have convinced themselves they can disrupt anything.

Assuming this works (which might be a big if, even with recently greatly expanded launch capabilities), it raises the question of who gets to decide whether a given piece of land should be illuminated at night or not.

Hopefully not just the highest bidder, without any veto right of the (other) people that are there too?

Dave from the EEVBlog did a take on this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkjyeI0ykGM

Scrolljacking makes it impossible to get info from a website at a glance.

That seems outrageous. Do they make any claims about how many watts or lumens they can deliver, and to what area?

"As many as VC money is prepared to pay for" is the answer here.

Astronomers: Starlink constellation solar panels are ruining the astro photography. Reflect Orbital: That sounds like a startup idea! /s

Russians also seemed to think that math could work out, but fumbled on funding and engineering - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Znamya_(satellite)

I’m pretty sure it is the eternal fate of Russian physicists to have worked out the math, but to not have the funding or engineering to implement a thing, right? So, I guess that fact, at least, doesn’t tell us much of anything.

Eternal fate of Russian physicist is to work it out on home soil, move to USA and help get it built there.

Yeah, given that everything is now multi-core, it makes sense to use a natively parallel tool for anything compute-bound. And Spark will happily run locally and (unlike previous big data paradigms) doesn’t require excessive mental contortions.

Of course while you’re at it, you should probably just convert all your JSON into Parquet to speed up successive queries…

How about speech to text instead?

Whiteboard use in real life is a combination of speech and sketching.

Following the numbered citation, I think this is the table of contents from a different book, originally published in Finnish by Jaak Henno, which would have an English title something like “It is simple with Prolog!”. He also seems to have published some of the content separately under the title “Prolog and Olympic Gods”.

http://staff.ttu.ee/~jaak.henno/publicat.htm

Google’s first hire (Craig Silverstein) was an International Collegiate Programming Contest champion. Make of that what you will.

Yes, you should be able to tell your direct manager basically what you told us. Copy and paste into an email if that’s easier. (Your tone here is fine.)

It does sound like your manager’s manager has poor people skills / favors a more confrontational management style. If you have a good direct manager that can be tolerable, up to you to decide how much it bothers you.

Yeah Los Angeles already fines pedestrians pretty aggressively for jaywalking, even on urban pedestrian-heavy streets.

This maintains a different norm for the city about jaywalking than say Boston, so in principle the issue seems quite solvable.