Ralph Hyre

I posted about Robotics, IT Security, Sustainability, Futures, Education, and LOGO. Moved to Mastodon Nov 2022. New posts there.

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[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

For $128,000 you can buy a Jetson ONE, take off from your backyard, and never need a pilot's license. Every spec on it is reverse-engineered from a single FAA regulation.

Part 103 caps ultralight empty weight at 254 pounds. Jetson built theirs at 189. Part 103 caps level flight at 55 knots. Jetson tops out at 63 mph, exactly that. Part 103 allows one occupant. Jetson built one seat.

Stay inside those lines and the FAA does not classify what you are flying as an aircraft. No pilot's license. No medical certificate. No registration. No regulatory oversight of the design. No regulatory oversight of operator competency.

That is the entire business model. The $128K buys you exemption from being a pilot.

You can see it in the rest of the spec sheet. 13.5 kWh battery for 17 minutes of flight. Open cockpit, helmet required. Daylight only, uncongested areas, away from airports. Every line is a Part 103 rule rendered as hardware. Build it any other way and it stops being an ultralight, which means type certification, which means five years and nine figures before you ship a single unit.

Joby has been at it since 2009. Archer since 2018. Combined they have raised over $4 billion building certified eVTOLs. Neither has carried a paying passenger.

Jetson started shipping in 2024. Sold out through 2026. Deliveries pushed to 2027. Palmer Luckey took the first production unit. MrBeast flew one down the California coast.

The whole point of buying a Jetson is the permission slip that comes with it.

Everything else is just hardware.

[Ralph Hyre @ralphwhyre]

@RichardAngwin X

[Ralph Hyre @ralphwhyre]

Don't mince words, tell me how you really feel!

[rolandsmartin @rolandsmartin]

"I'm a single issue voter. My single issue is Donald Trump. He is the most despicable ass human being walking the face of the earth ... this man wants to destroy your personhood" - Dr. Howard Fuller, Civil Rights Activist, education reform advocate, and academic. #BlackStarNetwork #RolandMartinUnfiltered #KamalaHarris #2024Election

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

Overheard: So does GOP stand for “Genital Obsessed Party” now? What with the anti-trans ads, bathroom police, and now Arnold Palmer’s wing-wang?

[Ralph Hyre @ralphwhyre]

Please let's not have a short memory about a bill that improved border security, that was torpedoed by the 2024 (R) candidate for POTUS.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: Kamala Harris’ campaign just released this devastating montage of all the times Republicans blamed Donald Trump for preventing the strongest border security legislation in decades from passing. Retweet so all Americans see this.

[Ralph Hyre @ralphwhyre]

@OldeSkuul https://t.co/OXuSMM8EHV

Or, there are Okidata 321 models still available.

[Ralph Hyre @ralphwhyre]

#futurists and #gamedevs - please let @Vervoort_Joost know of efforts in this area.

The #seriousgames community has been doing a lot of great work in this area, recently.

[Joost Vervoort 🌌 @Vervoort_Joost]

Calling all @UniUtrecht BSc students! Every year, we run a course where you get to develop your own video game about creating a more sustainable future, together with game development students from @HKUtrecht (1/)

[Ralph Hyre @ralphwhyre]

@Brad08414464 @pmarca @LTF_01 "completely overhauled"? That's a bold claim.

Education, like healthcare, has been very resistant to change. Imagine thousands of little fiefdoms, down to the level of each individual professor.

Even today, there are profs who disallow use of laptops for note-taking in class.

[Ralph Hyre @ralphwhyre]

Don’t infect Mel Brooks!

[Ralph Hyre @ralphwhyre]

@united CVG pronounced "Cincinnatuh"

[Thrill Science ✡️ עם ישראל חי @ThrillScience]

Look at all the tire pressure monitors I can pick up! Did you know they have a unique ID and you can track cars by monitoring them? #HackRF #PortaPack #defcon

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

Enraging to see a Maserati driving, yacht owning, $500K/year coal salaried career politician who defends his daughter's $18M/year salary from unethically spiking Epipen prices while people die, lecture working parents about saving money while & accusing us of being drug addicts.

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

In a way Manchin was right. Some of them will spend their Child Tax Credit on drugs. It’s called insulin and it should cost $35 not $1,000.

[Ralph Hyre @ralphwhyre]

@SilasSchwarz @verge Yeah, I'm not into sticking my hand in things:

https://t.co/Sy0WI44wdD

[Ralph Hyre @ralphwhyre]

Nope, not sticking my hand in that.

https://t.co/Sy0WI4m75b

[The Verge @verge]

Gamers! Protect your precious tendons with this tabletop hand massager https://t.co/lR5bkitwoD

[Ralph Hyre @ralphwhyre]

Remember how few flu cases we had in 2020/early 2021?

Mask up, folks.

[Mary St George @MaryStGeorge]

Keep the masks on, people! Even if there are no bugs about, experiencing fewer allergies has persuaded me that it's really helpful to wear masks more often.

[Neil Desai @0x617075]

Have you operationalized your event pipeline? How do you validate and test your event pipeline? Do you know what the audit policy looks like on each device/product? Would you know if it changed? Do you have a SLA to get the logs operational again?

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

I read that nearly one third of Republicans say that 'violence may be necessary' to 'save the US'

'Saved' from what ?

The other 83% ?

[Ralph Hyre @ralphwhyre]

@hacks4pancakes I can suggest the Church of the Dude. The offer online ordination, which is helpful in certain interactions with facebook.