LorenPechtel

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by LorenPechtel 3mo ago
Which is total overkill for the job. It very well might cost more to fire a Phalanx at the drone than the value of the drone. And the Phalanx has IIRC 20 seconds of fire before it needs extensive downtime for reloading. They need somethin
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by LorenPechtel 3mo ago
Apples don't breed true. You plant a seed, you have very little idea of whether the apples will be good. This isn't a modern evil, this is simply how apples are.
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by LorenPechtel 3mo ago
Just because you can't change the definitions doesn't mean society can't. As a company that wants some power you are right, natural gas is the cheapest.
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by LorenPechtel 3mo ago
This is an intelligent enough group that I'll throw out something that's been bugging me for quite a while and this makes me question it even more: Did the radium girls actually die of radiation? Radium is a row 7 element, AFIAK e
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by LorenPechtel 3mo ago
What are you smoking?? Storage is more expensive than generation. Always. We see some storage on the grid because storage is fast. Batteries can respond to load changes a lot faster than anything else. Demand goes up, the batteries are d
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by LorenPechtel 3mo ago
Nuclear is expensive because nuclear is defined as expensive. The problem lies with the standard of As Low As Reasonably Achievable. If you had reasonably priced nuclear power you could add more safety. Thus you have to add more safety.
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by LorenPechtel 3mo ago
I think the ship has sailed on #4. It's simply too easy to do it overseas now.
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by LorenPechtel 3mo ago
The crushers could be vastly improved by treating recipes as a filter.
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by LorenPechtel 3mo ago
A train can easily move more than 960/s, but the train isn't always moving. To actually exceed 960/s over time with trains gets some massive stations. And a track is two spaces, thus two belts can fit. Even just blue belts
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by LorenPechtel 3mo ago
That would work for most UPS applications, but it looks like the price is still too high.
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by LorenPechtel 3mo ago
I wondered what she was calling "duress". Meta made executing this Severance Agreement a condition to Ms. Wynn-Williams’s ability to submit for reimbursement over $300,000 in pre-approved business expenses she had paid using her
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by LorenPechtel 4mo ago
And no mention of the self discharge rate.
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by LorenPechtel 4mo ago
The problem is not the center per se. The problem is the power. And, all too often they make up for the lack of utility capacity by putting in their own noisy generators.
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by LorenPechtel 4mo ago
You're making exactly the mistake I'm pointing out! You do not print a lower receiver compatible with standard parts. The threat is a CNC milling machine cutting one from metal. Ghost gun = key part made by sources other than a l
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by LorenPechtel 4mo ago
This. Guns contain many wear items. So what the ATF does is take an essential part not substantially influenced by wear and declare it to be the gun. Trade in anything that sufficiently resembles this part is treated as trade in guns. Ot
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by LorenPechtel 4mo ago
The problem is there is a lot of garbage about it. Ghost guns are a real issue, but ghost guns are not 3D printed guns. 3D printed is a very niche case. They're only good for one shot ever, they are not reliable even for that. And t
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by LorenPechtel 4mo ago
I've got it. For me, I can't hope to beat the AI using low tech spam to grab wide open resources. But when resources aren't to scattered I almost always win against the AI.
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by LorenPechtel 4mo ago
It isn't really that onerous, they aren't expecting you to do anything. Rather, they want the right to film commercially on their own property without getting consent of everyone walking by. Many years ago a local casino was bein
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by LorenPechtel 4mo ago
I've hit phone trees with no path to a human. Haven't gotten stuck on an AI yet, but I'm sure it will happen. The AIs never have the ability to resolve the odd cases.
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by LorenPechtel 4mo ago
Fundamentally, you can convert reputation into current earnings. The former is hard to measure, the latter is much easier to measure. Thus there is a huge incentive for managers to do such. Better run companies tend to understand this pr
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by LorenPechtel 4mo ago
Read the reviews on that first one. They seem to have gone over to the dark side.
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by LorenPechtel 4mo ago
Gets me both ways--can't read in a car, can't play most FP games (shooter or not.) With FPS I can clearly tell which ones are going to be a problem. Anything where the whole viewport moves at all rapidly is an issue, especially i
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by LorenPechtel 4mo ago
Self modifying has some sneaky failure modes with modern CPUs. The modification can't be too close to it's execution or it's possible to execute the old version. And it's a nightmare to debug. I have no problem with a
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by LorenPechtel 4mo ago
Easiest way to score a retention--simply don't process the cancellation when you say you are doing so.
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by LorenPechtel 4mo ago
There's a limit to how much angry people can be. Dilute it on irrelevancies, the anger directed at the real problems goes down.
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by LorenPechtel 4mo ago
Build a system that gives you a billion piece of data, expect it to spit out one in a billion results. And then you get idiots proclaiming the odds are one in a billion, it can't be a mistake.
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by LorenPechtel 4mo ago
The Xerox problem was with image compression. The compressor would look at an incoming block, decide it was similar enough to one already noted and reuse the existing token. With small fonts and similar characters one difference was withi
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by LorenPechtel 4mo ago
Actually, the other way around. Cheap drugs would mean the addicts didn't have to steal as much. Compare the harm from the hard drugs vs the harm from the winos.
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by LorenPechtel 4mo ago
Or the local game of putting stuff on the ballot that on the surface is for some reasonable purposes--but when you dig into it they're actually attempting to finance stuff that should be paid out of the current budget. To date I'
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by LorenPechtel 4mo ago
Object on "blame"--it is actually only saying that this scenario is possible, it is not establishing that it actually is the cause.

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