Gibbon1

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by Gibbon1 2y ago
The 0th reason to put people in jail is to show them an others who's boss.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Really you want five things if you're doing hard off road. 1. Locking differentials so all 4 tires spin in sync. 2. Extra low gears so you can crawl at a walking pace or less. 3. Clearance so you don't high side. 4. Strong suspens
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I'm a broken record, but I think the common calculations used to value financial assets look ugly when the extraction rate declines and blow up as it approaches zero. That's why policy makers don't want to build more housing.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Yeah. I'm not sure how transpiling to rust is that much different than using the various standard analysis tools. And back porting things like the counted by attribute. Also the lowest hanging fruit in C would be adding the ability to
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
There is an essay someone wrote about Boeing that I think nails it. The problem is MBA's aren't competent to run companies that require deep knowledge. They have neither the knowledge, the skills, or the interest. So when they gra
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Housing shortages are widespread all over because the US is short 5 million units of housing. My preferred solution is to weaponize HUD. Use it to offer low interest loans to developers. Build a couple hundred thousand per year of mixed use
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
My belief is the people you are talking about think of programs as batch operations where you take data transform it and then pass it to someone else's API calls. In that case state is sort of evil. In embedded and gaming state changes
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
A good one I saw was a neighborhood separated from a shopping center by a wall. If there was a gate you could walk 100 yards to stores. But because the wall you had to walk 7/10ths of a mile.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
What I notice is they build suburbs as a maze to discourage through traffic. And at the same time make walking and biking even worse.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Be right back, going to melt down some scrap in the old arc furnace. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sJYzAd0YHA
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I think to an extent the violence the Europeans inflicted weren't that much different that the violence neighboring groups did. For much of history you had local empires that exploited and oppressed tribal and ethnic groups. But it&#x2
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
> Why did the US drop 2 nuclear bombs on Japan? Japan declared war on the US. Didn't surrender when it became obvious they were going to lose and instead decided to inflict as many casualties on the as they could on the way down. So
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Somewhere I found an essay that references some claims that humans dislike traveling for more than something around an hour a day. And it doesn't depend on mode of transport.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I've made that argument. Someone that agrees with it is Jimmy Carter. My opinion is if the voters are happy to send a geriatric congressman to Washington to sleep through meetings that's fine. But he shouldn't be chairing com
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I think a lot of Kabuki theater was needed to make it acceptable for Manchin to cast some critical votes is what I think. Remember 90% of politics in public is a mix of Kabuki theater and WWF Wrestling.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
The legacy of colonialism still casts a dark shadow. You can replace who rules much easier than changing how they rule. Batista a dictator replaced by Castro another dictator.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
A medium voltage feeder lines could be 14.4kv or more depending. But at 14.4kv 400kw is 16 amps. I used to have space in a warehouse that at one time had 500 amp three phase service. Which is 207kw. I think the answer is it depends on the l
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
While looking for something else on San Francisco's heath departments website I found the following two things. In San Francisco Deaths from AIDs dropped 70% from 1996 to 1997. That's in one year it went from a relentless death se
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I read an interview with a prison warden. When asked what he wished the public knew better he said he wished people understood that almost all of his prisoners were going to be released at some point. Ex-gf of mine was a clinical psychologi
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
If you look at light vehicle sales in the US they've been running at 17 million or so a year for 25 years. So yes the only way automakers can increase revenue in the US is by making cars and trucks more expensive. Because they can&#x27
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I remember being a kid in the 1960's dog poop, cig butts, pop tops, and broken glass everywhere. Every vacant lot accumulated junk. More on topic diesel trucks and buses had the tail pipe coming out of the back. I remember carping at m
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
There is the asymmetry between up and down when you're talking exponential's. Up gets steeper and steeper until something happens. We probably don't want to find out what. The way down has a very long tail. Japan's popul
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
As much as I dislike nudges and trying to fix things via tax policy. We should let the IRS beat the snot out of companies where married men don't take enough parental leave.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
FFS I had some code for a microcontroller break because locale.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
The problem is the function signatures of all the improved string functions are broken. You can never write a safe string function that takes two char pointers. You really want int str_try_copy(str_buffer *dest, str_slice *src)
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
The whole basis of modern economics are theories that assumes exponential growth. Which is then used to justify rent seeking capitalists diverting an ever larger percentage of that growth. When raw growth stops then the economic system buil
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I think the answer for some area's is sheep. They can graze under the panels and don't chew on stuff like goats. There is a whole interest in agrivoltaics as it's become apparent that the land under the solar panels remains p
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
When I read people talking about replacing lithium batteries I think of the decades of reading about material X replacing silicon in IC's and solar cells.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Thing I harp on is the logistics of battery installations are fantastic in about every way. If you have a couple of brown field acres of land next to an existing substation you can just buy and install containerized batteries. And you don&#
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Well in Oakland a federal officer was murdered by right-wing extremists. https://www.courthousenews.com/two-charged-in-murder-of-oakl... Not the Floyd protests but there is your fellow traveler who attacked Polosi's hu

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