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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I apparently have sarcoidosis. The last flareup was bad enough to get a diagnosis. But docs think based on my history that I've had it for 20 years. What I think is viral infections can cause low grade immune system dysregulation. Nomi
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I remember talking to an engineer at the old GE nuclear research facility in San Jose. He said you can design reactors to be cooled by natural convection.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I have nothing to back this up other than I'd like to see a comparison between EV's and other luxo models for tire wear. Because the tire design matters a lot when it comes to wear. I'm a bit suspicious about the weight being
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Electric furnaces are batch operations. Melt 10-100 tons of steel in 30 minutes, pour and reload with scrap. I believe they already chase the cheap power. But yeah oh noes efficiency isn't 100% stop everything, I wish I had such proble
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
It's actually not hard to eat a diet that doesn't have a lot of fructose. More difficult to avoid heavily processed carbohydrates that are absorbed too quickly.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
There is a lot of stuff I can't eat because the amount of added sugar is disgusting.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Will just say a mini-mill would be happy to use otherwise unused solar to power their electric furnaces.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I tried estimating how much power was curtailed from their big scary number(tm). 3 million megawatt hours per year. Assuming 2200 hours of sun per years that's 1.4GW average. Total solar is 15-18GW maybe. So what 10% gets curtailed. Ma
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I'm not an expert but I've designed stuff with batteries for a long time. A large battery with proper charge and thermal management will last much longer under light service. Which is exactly what you have with longer range EV&#x2
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Friends 85 year old mother didn't get the covid vax because as she said I never go anywhere. The loony ex sister in law visited her when she had a 'cold'. A week later my friends mom is found unconscious on the floor with cov
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
The frustration should be that in the US management is functionally incompetent. Proposal: If we do it this way we won't have to spend as much money. Counter: That's really hinky and it probably will blow up in our face. Proposal:
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Bounds checking feels to me like low hanging fruit for a processor designer. A low cost operation that can run in parallel or tossed away as the steam from the instruction decoder gets optimized and scheduled. Meanwhile the guys on the stan
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Reminds me one thing they could do that would improve BART ridership is to run buses between BART stations after hours. Take BART in the early evening, miss the last train out, take the bus back.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Suburbia is this thing like commuting in a car that's great as long as everyone isn't also trying to do it.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I was thinking that same thing recently with the embedded code I work on. I was thinking if BASIC could handle strings on Z80 with 4k of ROM and 16K (woo hoo!) of static RAM why do I have to put up with C strings on an ARM running at 48MHz?
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Suburban paranoia and it it bleeds it leads.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I think of my two rules. Rule 1: If you see someone do something shitty to someone else, stick around and they'll do it to you to. Rule 2: When people tell you they are a bastard believe them.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Best I can tell catenary lines are something like $200 a foot. Where a vehicle grade battery pack is $150 a kwh. The cost of a 250 kwh battery is then about the same as 200 feet of overhead lines.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
People over estimate the contribution of gas taxes to total cost of ownership and under estimate all the others. That was my take away for the decade I was sick and broke and had to deal hard with my finances.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Two issues I think with that are. High capital cost with a long delay before it starts paying back. Worse the capital cost of overhead lines is higher than batteries. What's happened to a lot of alternative ideas is they no longer penc
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Also the weight penalty is slowly decreasing as batteries get incrementally better.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Balance sheet accounting vs total cost to society when extenalities are included is a huge source of problems. A good to know is California has some programs where they will buy back your older vehicle and pay you a grant of you replace it
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Two things I remember. Once went to visit a Raytheon technical support guy in his office. He made a point that it was 'hard to find' and there 'were no signs'. And he was right. Drive to a building. Park. List of busines
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Small brained primate comment. I've wondered if you could add annotation keywords to languages to convert them into something that could be parsed reliably with a tree sitter grammar. I say this as someone that feels like you really wa
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I feel annoyed that it seems the system conflates guidelines due to economic reasons with medically indicated ones. And with the HPV vax they keep upping the age limit. Bonus was the British study that showed a clear decline in dementia in
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I feel people don't consider enough 'not my monkeys not my circus' when it comes to the Palestinians.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
My WAT. Refused sale of Sudafed because my license was expired. Apparently I accidentally tossed my new license and kept the old one. Doh! However they happily refilled my schedule III meds with the expired license. As I said WAT.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I've wondered about just being able to pass an error closure to a function. And if you don't it'll execute a default error closure. void oops(error_t error) { exit(1)}; int sum = addints(a, b, .error = oops);
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Everyone is or will be a minority at some point.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
The 'the only reason a company exists is to make money for the stockholders' is why we're in this mess right now. Because that's the regime management is operating under. And they are delivering what's demanded. Yea

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