airhead969

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by airhead969 5y ago
Lawnmowers have aren't shopping carts. They don't know the boundaries of a yard. You haven't seen "The Lawnmower Man?" Carry or swing a running lawnmower upside down through a dense crowd, and it will injure many pe
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by airhead969 5y ago
Let's say you're in America rather than Australia, because context matters. If it happens a few people cannot operate domestic lawnmowers correctly and chase crowds down with them out of acts of terrorism because they slip a gaske
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by airhead969 5y ago
You only need to register knives longer than 2". is still an absolutely absurd imposition.
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by airhead969 5y ago
That sounds terrible, but "more education" won't, and never will, change attitudes or behavior. Psychopaths will always do what they want. Going Big Mother on a particular sport for the actions of a few independent persons do
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by airhead969 5y ago
What does "think" mean? A belief? Did each one sit-down and estimate future earnings with, without, and the opportunity costs of time and money?
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by airhead969 5y ago
Effective immediately: You need a license before you can throw an American football in the US because it might break a window. How many decades were R/C planes and helicopters operating without a problem? Instead of police work, it&#x2
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by airhead969 5y ago
Wrong. Ducted fans can produce twice as much thrust. https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/27416/are-ducte... The main issue is controllability in cross wind gusts. Solve that problem, such as turbojet-styl
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by airhead969 5y ago
Nawh, it's not just people who have no passion. In consulting, I've seen plenty of offshore and second-stringer types do these things. Also, I've seen plenty of taking credit for others ideas and work.
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by airhead969 5y ago
But that's method shaming! /s I guess you have a point. It's clearly a "let's meet in the back alley" API.
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by airhead969 5y ago
Moms are often the ones who make you clean dishes before they can be cleaned. The thing is, you do have to clean the drain "lint screen" more if you don't prewash. Dishwashers require a lot of manual labor even without prewas
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by airhead969 5y ago
Don't unless it's to advance a particular career development or personal project goal. I left Go because it became a yuppie slum of trend-seekers riding a wave and leeching rather than contributing: blog hype and too many dumb sup
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by airhead969 5y ago
Can't you just use poop emoji in comments and search for them like TODOs?
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by airhead969 5y ago
Animated GIF meme identifier devs of the world unite! We will overthrow this repressive violence against our kind. Baby dance will be the next "Hello, world!"
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by airhead969 5y ago
Job security is enhanced by slow progress, knowledge hoarding, obsfucated code, no documentation, new fragile technologies, fragile code, fires, and high code churn. There's no reward to invest effort against one's own interests u
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by airhead969 5y ago
I think I saw this exact design years and years ago in Popular Mechanics. GE's UDF reminds me of it too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric_GE36 IIRC, ducted fans are almost always more efficient than
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by airhead969 5y ago
This is good advice for founders and people intent on, and capable of, advancement, but it's generally bad advice for everyone else because it makes them easily disposable.
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by airhead969 5y ago
I think you misread what I wrote.
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by airhead969 5y ago
My bet is reinforcement decay and strengthening exists to promote novelty rewards. Smell 1000 roses, it's a big "meh" but the identification of them becomes easier and better with strengthened pathways. This would be adaptive
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by airhead969 5y ago
Increasing forest fires would boost the value, but then watch-out for those damn illegal tree farms printing their own money.
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by airhead969 5y ago
For inelastic essential needs (i.e., food, fuel, electricity, water, transportation, toiletries) and high-MPC existence without a commensurate increase in pay, this is true. (Longterm decline in wages by inflation in the US). However, the p
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by airhead969 5y ago
Meat prices temporarily increased sharply, but will likely subside over time with increased supplies.
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by airhead969 5y ago
Rent-seeking corporate vampires. Make something so expensive or restricted that it compels people to pay much more for it "on-demand." My mom's modest new car came with adaptive cruise control that includes lane following, la
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by airhead969 5y ago
Germline hxfer? Maaaaaybe a faint possibility because of how most fish procreate but never gonna happen in critters that have direct sexual contact.
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by airhead969 5y ago
Department chairs > PIs >~ profs > visiting profs > assistant profs >~ visiting asst profs > postdocs > grad students > employees > undergrads > high-school interns Dedicated grant-writing staff are gold, liter
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by airhead969 5y ago
Small reactors aren't cost-effective at scale because of physics. They also need to be near large water sources to use evaporative cooling.
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by airhead969 5y ago
Yep. Most of the top talent retired, died, or changed jobs around the late 90's and early 00's. EPRI and the NRC aren't what they were either. UIUC has a great nuclear program (NPRE PSE), and so does the US Navy with hands-on
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by airhead969 5y ago
I worked in the nuclear industry in the US. No, it won't be back here for decades, if not a century, if ever. Insurance, financing, and NIMBYs. They're essentially intractable problems that make it cost-ineffective when NG and ren
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by airhead969 5y ago
How do you forge the mental toughness to become insanely excellent at tennis while also claiming that pressers in the contract hurt your feelings so badly as to risk mental illness if you happened to have lost that day? Are the players ente
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and ambassador for the sport. Not showing-up for media could well be viewed by swaths of the fans and big bank rollers as two birdie fingers in the air.
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by airhead969 5y ago
Project Obvious Idioms ended in utter failure when the haystacks were lost, creating a conundrum of Biblical proportions. Who thought it would be a great, timeless idea to dump a bunch of copper wire strands at 3.5 Mm? Oh, it was that pinhe

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