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by Gibbon1 1y ago
I'm sort of an electrical engineer. Increasingly things don't run directly off 120/240V directly. Anything with a power supply could be designed to run of 48V DC nominal. My slight obsession is that really the world needs a l
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
I read a decent essay about the difference between solar and wind reliability and fossil fuel reliability. Solar and wind tend to be regularly and predictably intermittent but not unreliable. That's something you can design around. Esp
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
Friend of mine has a story from 50 years ago. Guy he knew was dealing coke. Got spooked and stopped selling. Three years later he thought it'd all blown over. Set up a another deal and got popped. Another friend that worked IT at a sla
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
I discussed that with a friend who does real estate project management. She previously worked for organizations doing low income housing projects. I asked her why developers don't build 3-5 bedroom flats anymore. And got a bunch of ans
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
A fun one is ask and Australian How much it costs to sell a house. Then tell him in that in the US it's 6% of the sales price. How much it costs to install solar and heat pumps.
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
I made a comment that got downvoted and flagged and then dang sent me a nasty gram. "Chinese bat flu. Deadly enough to be a problem. Not deadly enough to be a solution" Which is to say it's a real problem. The flu is a real p
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
The existence of wire wrap tells you a lot how painfully tedious it was to layout PCB's at the time. I did a couple of wire wrap boards. But eventually just started soldering wire wrap wire to the sockets. By the early 90's it was
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
Utilities are used using MW when discussing supply and demand. Because balancing that is critical. So power is what they care about when discussing grid connections. The billing side and customers are concerned with total energy. So kwh. Jo
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
That was my first thought as well. A worry is police officers make mistakes which leads to anywhere from hapless people getting terrorized, harmed or killed. The bad thing about AI is it'll allow police to escape responsibility. Perhap
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
I have a mild obsession with the idea that there should be a PoE lighting standard. There is a two wire automotive ethernet standard that can deliver 50-100W. Which is enough to run a couple of LED or fluorescent lights.
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
Case I read in the JAMA which I get because I signed up during covid. Late 20's Hispanic lady shows up in the ER with what they think is probably food poisoning. But they do a CT. Which shows changes in her liver which probably is a fa
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
Read a guy talking about Iraq's nuclear weapons program. The one they didn't have. He said when a source is known to lie the proper weight to apply to anything they say is 0.0.
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
People whose metabolic reserve is low often die when you stress them. I saw a study claiming 440 excess deaths from the Los Angeles fires. I'll make an assumption that permanently moving old and health impaired people from the Fukushim
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
There was the Kramatorsk radiological accident in the Soviet Union (Ukraine) where a cesium 137 source used at a gravel quarry was lost. Ended up in the wall of an apartment. Four people died of leukemia over 9 years.
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
For the same thrust it's more efficient to accelerate a large mass of air a small amount than t accelerate a small mass of air a large amount. The fan is what gives you that. I rough guessed the cost of fuel over a 737's life as $
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
What I can't unsee is your argument depends on Palestinians having no agency. And thus blameless. As soon as one assumes they do then ones sympathy is very limited indeed. Bookends for me are Munich and finally 10/7. And I'm
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
Up until 40 years ago the US was run by lawyers. Now the US is run by MBA's and financial capitalists.
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
I've been tending to use ssize_t for indexes instead of int. Part of the reason was reading someones decent argument that for(int i=0; blah blah; i++) Is actually broken and dangerous on 64 bit machines.
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
We need to create a type of business type for ad businesses. We have S-Corps, C-Corps, etc. We need an Ad-Corp. And the rule should be if your business sells any ads at all your business gets automatically converted to an ad-corp and you ge
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
When I bought me house what I eventually decided is you can't use ordinary financial metrics for owner occupied housing. The reason is buying a house on credit is essentially the only investment you can make with the money you have ava
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
My opinion is caring about the Palestinians is incredibly performative. People that claim to care about Palestinians care about 'the cause' but not the individuals themselves.
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
The problem with the US is it's been taken over by finance capitalists, and lets be honest, VC's are finance capitalists. And finance capitalists are essentially slumlords. Their first reflex when it comes to paying for infrastruc
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
I've really wanted that in C for a long time. It seems like a very trivial thing as well.
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
If I wanted to discredit the left pushing left leaning morons to ban words like master/slave, black/white, housekeeping is exactly what I would do. Ditto getting them rag on white people.
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
My opinion of those is what I think of as the seal out of water effect. You wouldn't think a seal as a powerful and graceful animal if you only saw them out of the water. Most people on dating apps are like seals out of water.
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
I remember reading a treatise on the Junkers in Prussia. Farmland was taxed per acre. Respective of how productive it was. So Junkers who owned the most productive farmland got taxed at the same rate as a poor hardscrabble farmer. And that
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
The implicit this sounds to me like magic. Magic! Ask how do I do this, well see it's magic. It just happens. Something went wrong? That's also magic. After 40 years I hate magic.
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
Friend of mine complain about twitter and then turn around and send me twitter links. Headdesk.
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
In the middle east you have many of the same issues you had with African states after colonialism. They are made up of a bunch of different tribal groups who often aren't on good terms. Long history of exploitation and conflict over re
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
A solar farm produces 30 to 100 times more energy per acre than corn.

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