angry_moose

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by angry_moose 3y ago
Fun plot style, but the "noise" is too regular to really look right. Seems like like it basically just superimposes a sine wave onto all the straight lines. Compare the axes of the plots, or the vertical lines on the bar chart whi
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by angry_moose 3y ago
A friend of mine has one that he mostly uses for music. I've noticed that every time I visit his commands have had to get slightly longer. 2016 - "Hey Google, play Gorillaz" 2018 - "Hey Google, play music by Gorillaz&quo
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by angry_moose 3y ago
The North American forests existed for at least 100,000 years, many times longer than recorded history. Is that not long enough for you? If we were to reforest those areas that were cut down ("new" forests), that's an extreme
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by angry_moose 3y ago
New forests are long-term storage. A single tree will eventually die, decay, and re-emit carbon. However, it will quickly be replaced by new trees that re-absorb a similar amount of carbon. Despite some amount of carbon exchange every year
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by angry_moose 3y ago
That only partially works. There's a huge difference in steel quality among chisels/cutting tools. Anyone can sharpen a $2 chisel so it cuts nicely once, but a $50 chisel will hold its edge longer and cut nicely hundreds of times.
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by angry_moose 3y ago
FYI: It's an advertisement for the book Shift Happens, a 3 part full-color book about the evolution of typewriters that was originally funded on Kickstarter and should be shipping soon (with limited overflow stock available). I'm
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by angry_moose 3y ago
That is some of it and it varies a lot based on the species, though I'm a lot less knowledgeable there. In the hardwoods I usually work with (walnut/maple/padauk) its fairly minimal. A nominally 4/4 board usually comes i
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by angry_moose 3y ago
To elaborate a little more: Board thicknesses are measured in the "quarter system" - 4/4 (pronounced "4 quarter", that is 4 quarters of an inch) is a 1" thick rough-rough sawn board; 8/4 (8 quarter) is a 2
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by angry_moose 3y ago
Not really because its so regionally dependent - prices can vary dramatically within even 100 miles. I just picked up a bunch of of black walnut for $12.80/bdft, but I could get it for around $8 if I drove a couple hours south.
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by angry_moose 3y ago
Cost/use really only works well for things where the results of use are broadly equivalent across price tiers. In the example given, expensive socks and cheap socks are basically the same when new (they'll keep your feet warm, pad
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by angry_moose 3y ago
I could see that for a few reasons. Someone new to Amazon adding their entire library at once, an updated edition of a long running series, different language versions of the same book, etc. Probably not many (any?) legitimate authors writi
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by angry_moose 3y ago
Probably due to a jurisdictional mess. The article says the mountain was renamed by the US Board of Geographic Names (and possibly the Department of the Interior). Wilderness Areas seem to be managed by some combination of the National Park
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by angry_moose 3y ago
It probably wouldn't work nearly as well. It looks like the rails are already a complete circuit - I think they're a single piece of wire that is bent at the end to make a loop, and there are a couple lateral braces soldered on to
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by angry_moose 3y ago
And those properties make it well suited for things like cabinet panels that don't take load. MDF has poor structural strength, next to zero holding strength for fasteners (the first thing to go on ikea furniture is always the screw ho
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by angry_moose 3y ago
For the real bottom-of-the-barrel, there are brands that are literally just cardboard held together by double-sided tape now. My wife accidentally ordered one of their vinyl record stands. To be fair, it actually did sortof ok until we made
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by angry_moose 3y ago
We actually expected our West Elm sofa to be well built - it wasn't cheap and their reputation wasn't complete garbage yet when we purchased it. After about 18 months the whole thing collapsed, just out of warranty believe it or n
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by angry_moose 3y ago
Pretty much the same story as the Red Delicious Apple, Imperator Carrot, and Pascal Celery - the variety that was easiest to grow and was most shelf stable won out, at the expense of taste or nutrition.
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by angry_moose 3y ago
Only if you don't factor in taxes and multiple winners. This article added in sales numbers to estimate the actual expected value and it peaks around a $500 million jackpot with an expected value of $.85 from a $2.00 ticket. (very clos
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by angry_moose 3y ago
There's a few Powerball Simulators (largest US lottery) out there - simulate buying 1 ticket a week indefinitely. It usually works out to about a -90% ROI, though I did just somewhat undermine my point by hitting $2,000,000 (5 white ba
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by angry_moose 3y ago
It's more so you've missed the window. The hotness is whichever athletes were popular when current 24-26 years olds were children. The group that is just getting their first taste of disposable income and starts chasing the things
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by angry_moose 3y ago
My company recently did a forced 3-day return-to-office to "gain the immeasurable benefits of face-to-face collaboration" bullshit. Except they used the pandemic to close down a site and merge two offices, so there aren't eno
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by angry_moose 3y ago
I'm getting well outside of my depth here, but some starting points: Rain drops have been calculated to charge up to about 1/50 of an esu (electrostatic charge unit): https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi&#x2
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by angry_moose 3y ago
I tracked it down in another comment, the 200 w/m^2 is the maximum output of the harvester, e.g. if you started spraying the panel with a firehose. In this case, the input energy available is ~4 orders of magnitude lower than that.
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by angry_moose 3y ago
Then their math is off by nearly 4 orders of magnitude somewhere (see other comments in the the thread). "Technology improvements" can't get around the fundamental limit in the amount of energy available to harvest. Edit: Oh,
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by angry_moose 3y ago
So 25mm/hour (1") is a fairly heavy sustained rain. Terminal velocity of rain drops is on the order of 10 m/s. Volume of a rain drop is on the order of .5ml. Total rainfall volume per m^2 is .025 m^3/hour. This is approx
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by angry_moose 3y ago
I can't see a possible reason to have a PIP quota if there isn't an associated headcount reduction quota. I doubt there's anything OP can do to save their job. Do the bare minimum to last out the 6 months or whatever and spen
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by angry_moose 3y ago
> ....former Twitter employees....continue to have access to Twitter’s trade secrets. I don't think I've ever seen anyone admit to major organizational failings like that. I haven't worked for a company in at least 15 year
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by angry_moose 3y ago
"We shouldn't give starving people food, instead we should embark on a multi-decade effort to reform farming so that food prices will begin to decline in the late 2030s". There are multiple ways to attack and ease the problem
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by angry_moose 3y ago
Yeah, those fall in the "I've tried everything I can think of" category. They don't help, the devices die too quickly to make it into any alternate boot modes.
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by angry_moose 3y ago
I've got a couple old Androids (MotoX and something else ~2015ish) that won't boot due to dead batteries. There's an endless loop of: - Charge to ~.25% - Phone automatically powers on - The boot process takes more power than

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