Gibbon1

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by Gibbon1 1y ago
My dad worked on the Unitary Plan wind tunnel. I've been inside it and in the control room one time when it was running. Indeed is loud. I think it pulls up to 100 megawatts when running.
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
I for a long time thought we need labeling laws that require the name of the holding corporation be 100% larger than the sub brand. If Arrowhead is in 3/4 inch high text Nestle has to be 1.5 inches high and located above it.
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
My school all the labs were group projects. So it's not one project it's all of them. Guy in our group didn't do any work at all. Just up and refused. He thought he thought he could get away with that because it was his last
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
Close to my thought. Our simulation of the universe looks suspiciously like a simulation.
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
When someone buys a car that uses gasoline or diesel they just commuted to dumping 50 to 100 tons of CO2 into the air. Putting an excise tax on those cars tilts the decision to buy gas vs electric strongly away from gas. Which is what you w
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
Why should we punish someone that bought a car before EV's were commonly available? That's punishing people after the fact. Which is morally wrong. The fundamental idea is the state doesn't actually want the money. It wants m
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
California should just place an excise carbon tax on gas and diesel cars. How about $100/ton of CO2. At 30 mpg that's 60 tons of CO2 so $6k.
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
A while ago saw someone who was working in the tracking space said the following. For stolen items you don't want to track them. You want to be able to ask them where they are. The advantage is you can make a locator that doesn't
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
At 10^78 years we could use 512 bit time stamps and be safe from overflow and measure all the way down to Planck time.
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
My theory is when women and lower class men started working as bookkeepers and accountants in post war America a way was need to keep the plumb jobs reserved for the fail sons of the privilege classes. I could be wrong but while 'busin
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
I saw some guy in Britain that replaced his old fence with one made of solar panels because the cost difference between that and traditional was nil.
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
Yeah you get it. What triggered it for me is there is a PoE standard for automotive that can deliver 50W over a single twisted pair. If you bumped that to 125 to 150W then it would yes be great for residential for all the reasons you can th
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
What the world needs is a 150 watt low voltage power over ethernet standard for lighting an low power appliances.
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
That's a lead into one of my testing strategies. It's easy to set the timeouts too short randomly, the buffer size too small. Use that to make errors happen and see what the system does. Does it hiccup and keep going or does it fa
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
If you use google maps to find the distance between Los Banos and Tehachapi. Via I5 is 210 miles. Via HWY99 is 223 miles. So a 13 mile difference. That's 5-7 minutes at high speed rail speeds. And you are right the extra cost is minima
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
I use embedded processors. I don't know of any that don't use 2s complement. There are only a handful of increasingly irreverent processors that are big endian. And x86 real mode processors are long in the tooth. There other thing
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
You can always write a printf replacement that takes a minimal control block that provides put, get, control, and a context. That way you can print to a serial port, an LCD Display, or a log. Meaning seriously the standard printf is late 19
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
Standard should be changed to require all uninitialized memory be set to zero. Which includes padding bytes.
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
You'll note to two things that ties the hyper loop and the Las Vegas Loop together is private cars. Don't discount that these guys find ordinary people to be scary and disgusting.
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
I have a suspicion the reason why super wealthy people like say Musk but he isn't the only one hate subways and high speed rail is because they fly everywhere. You might like if you could get on the subway in Glen Park and be at lands
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Remember read a bit of a study 30 years ago that tested college students for sociopathy. They tested various majors as freshmen and again as seniors. And across the board seniors had lower sociopathy than as freshmen. Except Economics and B
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
For #3 on that list C has that too. And I often use it. printf( "thing1=%u\n" "thing2=%u\n" "thing3=%u\n" "thing4=%u\n" "thing5=%u\n",
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
What's interesting is the US has always been opposed to Europe being dependent on Russian natural gas. And historically the US is an importer of natural gas. so it's not like the US wants to sell it's natural gas to Europe in
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
There was Halted and this other one I liked better Alltronics? run by an old amateur radio guy. Originally it was in Los Gatos. But then moved north new Zanker Rd. Just being able to look at all the various components was a good education.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Power transistors can be had that can switch up to maybe 3000V at the most. But maybe 1200-1500V is more common. You can stack power transistors to switch higher voltages on the primary side. On the secondary side you just need an H-bridge.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Informed is a word that doesn't describe you. https://hsr.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2025-Project-U...
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Musk hates the High Speed Rail because he's never going to be able to use it.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
The best rail being built right now is the totally hated and despised California High Speed Rail.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Some guy that writes about politics wrote something that stuck with me 'a lot of people think they are in on the grift'
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I think Scotland is already a net exporter of electricity due to wind.

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