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Turtletoy 8 years ago

So many memories of using a physical robot version of this at school. Good times.

Seems to me it is initially a 'developer release' for people to start working out what they want to do with it. That being said it sounds like it might be quite a challenge to get the price point down to something even a VR enthusiast might be interested in purchasing.

Wonder if there will be any exemptions for high occupancy or EVs or whatever. Not necessarily saying there should be, but wouldn't be the first time a 'special' lane has exemptions.

Not only does Dev stop, but the people that built the app, agreed on the specs and really understood it, all left too. Auto update is unfortunately something that's just not worth the risk in a lot of cases.

I think the main point you're not taking yet Dan is that you SHOULD be able to accommodate every user in your sales pipeline demo. Even if you fake it with pre-baked results or something in the meantime, Pick a sample->click next->load static html.

If they want to try out their own markdown, then worry about spinning up a container.

Philae has landed 12 years ago

Seeing their faces on the live feed when it landed was amazing. It must be so exciting.

They're just minor bumps to specs and a reduction in price, they normally don't do big announcements for something like this. Now if/when the retina MacBook Airs come out you can be sure there'll be an announcement for that...

I saw something similar to this, using the power of a nearby stream, but in this case it was to generate heat. Apparently it used the difference in temperature between two parts of the river and magnifed this somehow to generate hot water. It was called a vortex valve or something like that (but I can only see this relating to gas in my google searches), I never have been able to find it again, anyone know what it was?