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by bshipp 4y ago
That was similar to my experience. I had gone in for some counseling with a therapist and she forwarded me to a psychologist. After a few weeks he diagnosed it. I'd love to say it was magically fixed by pills but it will always remain
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by bshipp 4y ago
Thats a good question, and no, I haven't written them up yet. I probably would title it "Adventures in ADHD". I grew up in a rural region and so ended up in university for agricultural science, but midway through my second ye
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by bshipp 4y ago
I have a number of family members who teach (or have taught) all ages and I feel it's one of the most important, difficult, and undervalued occupations out there.
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I think there are many teachers who would love to have an experienced individual come in and guest-speak about one topic or another, if that's something of interest to people.
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by bshipp 4y ago
I like this response very much. I'm in my mid-40s now and worked in many different sectors and positions before ending up in my current career. Even negative experiences, such as washing out as an air traffic controller after 2 years,
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by bshipp 4y ago
Cars yes, but with diesel over $5.00+/gallon there are very few trucking companies that will allow their drivers to go over 65 mph. It's simply too expensive. The ones you see driving around at 70+mph are usually owner-operators w
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by bshipp 4y ago
It's all of this but mostly the flexibility. Rail is a centralized service with unpredictable schedules. Once a truck is full it can be shipped, but rail poses an additional bottleneck. Plus then you also need a driver on the other en
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by bshipp 4y ago
Where I live, trucks are governed to 105km/h (approx 65 mph) and frequently companies cap them lower than that, so it's not like they are driving around at 75mph. No company could afford the fuel bill. I'm not saying aerodyna
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by bshipp 4y ago
The lowest hanging fruit is likely going to be adding a second trailer behind the first and increasing the horsepower while simultaneously reducing speed. Ontario, Canada made this tradeoff a couple years back on very specific motorways. Th
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by bshipp 4y ago
Aerodynamics are important but unless all the roads are flat like a railway (which, of course, is infeasible) they really only impact trucks driven at high speeds with light loads. Of course any 5 or 10% savings on fuel is very helpful, and
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by bshipp 4y ago
The one (potential) benefit could be utilizing hydrogen as a sort of battery, where off-peak electrical generation capacity is used for processing hydrogen instead of being wasted or sold at a loss. My municipality was actually paying other
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by bshipp 4y ago
That is fair. I recently watched "We Were Apollo" and was struck by how incredibly audacious a manned moon landing really was in 1960. That sort of positive thinking is what we really need for fixing the climate crisis and elevati
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by bshipp 4y ago
Perfectly valid reaction, and one I personally share. It's a delicate balance to support innovative minds and ideas while simultaneously insulating oneself from baseless corporate marketing hype.
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I'm also curious how they would deal with rock deformation as it reaches the point of becoming less solid and more squishy. There would need to be a mechanism to maintain hole integrity post-drilling. To your question, I'm wonderi
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by bshipp 4y ago
While your sarcasm is noted, it's important to also note that engineering problems would never be solved until someone is allocating the necessary resources to solve them. I'm not a huge fan of gross theoretical speculation as bei
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by bshipp 4y ago
We experimented with a similar process in agriculture for customer VR tours of facilities that are too remote or would result in excessive biosecurity risk for the plants/animals inside. However, we now just use 360 degree video to pro
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by bshipp 4y ago
I think the brutal slaughter of Khashoggi is why people pay more attention to Saudi Arabia now than before. Until then the crown was viewed as a unique country prone to excessive wealth displays, but since has become something a bit more om
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by bshipp 4y ago
I read it. If you disagree with the assertion that "finite resources do not support infinite future growth" then the entire argument falls apart. Finite resources do not support infinite resource exploitation, that much is obvious
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Agreed. The primary high-speed cascading event that could cause society to rapidly desolidify would likely be a massive solar storm that interrupted power on a global scale for a long period of time. Everything else could be mitigated by th
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by bshipp 4y ago
That is definitely Putin's hope. However, since he has already invaded Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014 Europe recognizes that if he isn't stopped in Ukraine, Russia will never stop their expansionist dreams. Prices will be hig
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by bshipp 4y ago
Russia is occupying a sizable portion of the country, but to do so has expended vast quantities of stockpiled munitions and manpower. Ukraine as well, but they have undertaken mass mobilization and have the West supporting them re-arm. Russ
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by bshipp 4y ago
I recently watched "We Were Apollo" and was struck by the contrast between the herculean effort to get a man on the moon--where everyone worked together regardless of origin, race, or creed--against the backdrop of desegregation i
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by bshipp 4y ago
This is generally not my experience in Ontario. I've been to my family doctor and the ER multiple times during COVID and after and although the ER can be a multiple hour wait for minor things like a fever it's still pretty speedy
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by bshipp 4y ago
I read this line and wondered what really has changed in the past 20 years? "In 2000, the Nasdaq superheated due to the large number of companies that skyrocketed into the public markets fueled by fanciful metrics disengaged from reven
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by bshipp 4y ago
I'm not 100% positive, but I recall a conversation we had on TheEye a while back with some IA reps and they simply can't archive YouTube. I recall a private project to archive just the video Metadata ended up in the hundreds of Te
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by bshipp 4y ago
Usually you can tell a plant by their lack of opposable thumbs and green pallor.
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I'm pretty sure it's done quite frequently. It's a pretty simple battery system with--apparently--an 80+% round-trip efficiency to it. The biggest problem is getting permission to move that much water around. I live next to
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by bshipp 4y ago
Yes, apparently they tore down 4 turbines, which is a waste of money. But if you've ever been to Chatham-Kent you'd notice that there are places where you can do a 360 degree turn and never see fewer than 10 windmills in your fiel
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by bshipp 4y ago
this will be the case when we transition from natural gas for heating. as it currently stands, electrical demand--with the exception of Quebec--generally is dramatically lower in the winter than the summer.
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by bshipp 4y ago
Isn't it the opposite? A 10x variation would be an incentive to invest in storage systems that capture energy at night and release it during the day. Think a high-altitude reservoir where water is pumped up all night and then released

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