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1. Regent – Electric coastal travel Total comment counts : 33 Summary A company manufactures all-electric, wing-in-ground-effect vehicles for coastal transportation, using real-world-proven technology. They have already sold over 467 seagliders with a $7.9B order backlog. The electric propulsion system drastically decreases fuel costs, maintenance, and taxes, while allowing for faster door-to-door transportation and zero-emission travel. The company’s experienced engineers aim to pioneer high-speed, safe, and regional zero-emission transportation. Top 1 Comment Summary The author suggests that using a light electric ferry service between Ala Wai and Lahaina harbors in Hawaii could be a successful and more efficient alternative to inter-island travel using jet aircraft, which involves time-consuming processes such as airport security....

1. RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era Total comment counts : 21 Summary: ArXivLabs is a collaborative framework that allows individuals and organizations to develop and share new features on the arXiv website. These collaborators have accepted and embraced the values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy that arXiv is committed to. ArXiv only partners with those who adhere to these values and are willing to add value to the arXiv community....

1. Memory Allocation Total comment counts : 51 Summary: The article discusses the basics of memory allocation for computer programs. Programs load from the hard drive into memory and then perform computations on values stored in memory. malloc and free functions are used by almost all programs to manage memory. The article provides visual representations of simple memory allocators and discusses problems such as memory leaks and fragmentation. To combat fragmentation, the article recommends overallocation....

1. The end of the accounting search Total comment counts : 30 Summary: LWN.net has announced that it will no longer be using the proprietary accounting system QuickBooks, which has been in use since the organization was founded in 1997. Despite the system being familiar, it was unreliable and demonstrated the sort of behaviors endemic to proprietary systems, such as frequent crashes, arbitrary upgrade limits forcing users towards more expensive versions, and an enforced need for regular updates....