i think its a sign of a decaying society that we need to plaster warnings and obvious truths on every visible surface
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early and right
We're doubling down on hardware and are looking for someone to manage our hardware shop ycombinator.com/companies/y-co…
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everyone talks about new machine day but freeing up a whole section of your factory feels pretty good too
FREE! First come first serve, just get it out of our building.
Was a production workhorse that was under power when we got it but it’s just been sitting in storage and we’ve moved onto better things.
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we had a brief period there of pure industrialization and globalism without beauty but that’s about to change
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Deep Tech Week Austin kicks off at 4pm at The American Housing Corporation’s factory 2.
See ya there!
See ya there!
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died 1968
born 2026
welcome back lockheed d21
born 2026
welcome back lockheed d21
America didn’t lose ground in high-speed flight because of a lack of ideas. We slowed down because flight tests became too expensive, too rare, and too cautious.
Meet Ramjet-X. Air-launched from the Quarterhorse program, it’s a low-cost, repeatable test vehicle built to fly and cally low costs and high cadence.
This is how America wins: test faster, fail cheaper, and put hardware in the air every single week.
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We aren't an enemy to country cottages.
Cities will always need a mix and the rowhome has been apart of American tradition since the beginning. We're working to bring them back.
Cities will always need a mix and the rowhome has been apart of American tradition since the beginning. We're working to bring them back.
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a beautiful quirk of our government that the department that makes nuclear weapons is also responsible for making better washer and dryers
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fun fact, AHC’s first panel was produced in Aalo’s factory.
Today marks the two-year anniversary of moving out of our WeWork and into our empty warehouse space, where we built our Aalo-X pilot line.
When we first moved in, we thought we'd never fill it. We even considered sub-leasing. But now we barely have space to move and our ideas it.
While there, we built all the modules for our first commercial-scale reactor that we recently took to criticality, proving out the supply chain for our nuclear fuel, graphite, stainless steel, and more. We learned a ton about what it takes to make the optimal nuclear product for mass manufacturing.
But now we're ready to graduate. Soon we'll have an exciting announcement about the next chapter of manufacturing at Aalo... but will save the details for a future post.
For now though, if you live in Texas (or want to) and are interested in helping us build the future of energy, please reach out!
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austin proves this wrong, we’ve got food trucks turning into restaurants and earning michelin stars
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is this the first time we have a photo of an ion thruster operating in space? incredible
The first Starlink V3 satellites in space successfully deployed their solar arrays, fired their thrusters, established connections with the Starlink constellation using radio frequencies and laser links, and captured imagery of Starship
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We're now required to install dimmers or motion sensors on light switches because a large funded NGO called the Natural Resource Defense Council submitted a proposal to the International Energy Code Council back in 2019.
This proposal got shot down from the technical council and from public hearing comment votes: 19 YES vs 49 NO
for reasons you'd expect, increased cost, marginal utility, vagueness etc, but that's not how codes were determined.
At the time, the International Code Council had an online vote (remember covid era) by 1000 government representatives on the proposals after the technical council and public comment period.
Another NGO called the Energy Efficient Codes Coalition put out a voter guide. This voter guide reduced the proposal to "Requires dimmers on some lighting fixtures." and to vote YES for the proposal as is
That vote passed the required 2/3rds majority by 26 votes.
And so the provision was added to the 2021 International Energy Code.
In 2024, it was then clarified and made more specific.. but this time was voted on by a committee of 48 representatives from industry, policy boards, government, etc.
Cities will usually adopt codes as provided with some amendments here and there but Austin in our case (and many others) kept it as is.
This proposal got shot down from the technical council and from public hearing comment votes: 19 YES vs 49 NO
for reasons you'd expect, increased cost, marginal utility, vagueness etc, but that's not how codes were determined.
At the time, the International Code Council had an online vote (remember covid era) by 1000 government representatives on the proposals after the technical council and public comment period.
Another NGO called the Energy Efficient Codes Coalition put out a voter guide. This voter guide reduced the proposal to "Requires dimmers on some lighting fixtures." and to vote YES for the proposal as is
That vote passed the required 2/3rds majority by 26 votes.
And so the provision was added to the 2021 International Energy Code.
In 2024, it was then clarified and made more specific.. but this time was voted on by a committee of 48 representatives from industry, policy boards, government, etc.
Cities will usually adopt codes as provided with some amendments here and there but Austin in our case (and many others) kept it as is.
so what the theory/conclusion on how we got here? surely some of it is actual horrible construction practices, but how do you end up with such convoluted, overly specific regulations on the smallest of details? who make starts the snowball of "we should ruin light switches"?
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