Category: Technology (Page 1 of 7)

Gayle King is a diversity hire.

Gayle’s career and notoriety are based on her being Black and being a woman.  Both of those attributes led her to befriend Oprah Winfrey, and that probably did more for her career than anything else.  She is dumb, and doesn’t know it.

Gayle’s show, CBS Mornings, averages a million viewers.  There are 41,000 Youtube channels with over a million subscribers, with videos getting two or three times that many views.  Gayle isn’t special.

The Blue Origin all-women flight was a trivial exercise that I addressed in a post about a month ago.  Now that the flight is over, the behavior of some of the participants is shockingly offensive.

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Clever new system to backup GPS.

Australia unveils jam-proof quantum tech that’s 50 times more accurate than GPS

Instead of relying on satellites, Q-CTRL’s system can read the Earth’s magnetic field, which varies slightly depending on location (like a magnetic fingerprint or map). The system can determine where you are by measuring these variations using magnetometers.

GPS is one of those “living in the future” technologies that we rely on, but don’t think about much because it works seamlessly.  An extensive array of satellites are required to keep it working.  It would be great to have an accurate backup system.

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Vehicle #2: Olds Cutlass 8/10

 

After the Pinto, I bought a 1976 Cutlass from a private owner in 1982 for $2400.  That’s $7900 in today’s money.

What a great car.  It had the 350 cu. in. Rocket V8 engine with a four barrel carburetor.  In modern terms, that was a 5.7 liter engine.  When I stomped on the gas, the car would kind of kneel down, then take off. 

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NHTSA rule will make cars worse.

How Proposed Pedestrian-Impact Safety Standards Will Soften Automotive Design

This is the type of over-regulation I talked about in the Modern life should be better  post.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) wants new regulations so that pedestrians don’t get hurt when they get hit by a car.

Imagine how difficult it will be to implement this rule without limiting the driver’s field-of-view or reducing the car’s efficiency.

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