coryrc

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by coryrc 5d ago
Shit, who cares how much it costs when it doesn't go useful places?
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by coryrc 5d ago
Being a plumber pays acceptably, not well. Being a plumbing business owner can pay well, but would have less catchet than a doctor making the same amount, sure, but it's also far less common.
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by coryrc 5d ago
There'd be pride if it paid similarly to a doctor.
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by coryrc 6d ago
No, I exaggerated slightly; but we're past the wettest season now AFAIK.
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by coryrc 6d ago
If I did the math right, Seattle-area Federal Way Link Extension costs $185k per yard, getting 81 yards for $15M. God we're terrible at building things.
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by coryrc 15d ago
It's 98% humidity for months, you need to worry about the whole house!
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by coryrc 18d ago
More, if it causes the organization to change course and avoid being sued into oblivion.
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by coryrc 21d ago
It certainly can't be leading to more government services. We get less every year. There might be more spending, but there's fewer results. We can't build trains, our police don't stop crime, healthcare covers less and c
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by coryrc 25d ago
Instead of getting a local locksmith, it's a "lead gen" service which charges the locksmith $100 or something to get your info. They're placed on the map, but aren't actually there. The only thing that should come u
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by coryrc 26d ago
All I can say is, I'm sorry Cassandra. Here in Washington State, a decade ago we had an initiative (I-732) to do a carbon tax and lower regressive taxes (we have one of the most-regressive tax structure in the USA). The environmental g
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by coryrc 28d ago
That's fine, but you need to include the cost of having barely-used gas peaker plants when calculating the cost of "renewables+storage". Laymen keep using arbitrary "marginal cost of solar with sun shining" to say &
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by coryrc 28d ago
Hanford was nuclear weapons, not nuclear power.
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by coryrc 28d ago
Each of those existing plants were competitive against coal at the time without having the negative externalities of widespread radiation exposure (uranium in coal just released to the atmosphere); mercury contamination in all our freshwate
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by coryrc 1mo ago
Botfly. Don't cut, they dig deeper. The proper solution is a thick layer of petroleum jelly over your skin. The larva has to come up to breathe eventually (~hours). Use tweezers and grab it. Gross, but perfectly safe.
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by coryrc 1mo ago
You could design in an electric autonomous-returning JATO-like system to allow for extended distance flights. Oh, even better, you're always going to have enough propeller power to take off. Extremely high power-density batteries on a
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by coryrc 1mo ago
That's not that much higher energy density and, IIRC, low power density, so not powerful enough to be useful in an emergency.
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by coryrc 1mo ago
The jet planes are flying much higher and are loaded; I'm assuming this one was empty. That would account for the power discrepancy. Finally, I think you might be still high on the power cost. $.10/kwh is retail cost in the PNW, t
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by coryrc 1mo ago
Why do you believe that?
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by coryrc 1mo ago
No. The closest I can think is to have a solid rocket booster and that has obvious risks as well.
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by coryrc 2mo ago
Standby generation -- "spinning reserve" -- doesn't count as generated energy, because it's not. Until you're at that point you still can reduce natural gas consumption with more renewable.
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by coryrc 2mo ago
Relatedly, I made an embedded product. I built a live CD (yes this was a while ago) for my employer with the entire development environment. As long as you can find an x86 machine with CD-ROM you could build, compile, test, and program usin
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by coryrc 2mo ago
Another way to look at the social model is kids playing in neighborhoods. It's not unsafe to walk from one place to another because of lousy sidewalks or excessive leaves: it's the roads we put between any place they want to go. T
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by coryrc 2mo ago
No, because the phosphors glow for much longer than human persistence of vision.
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by coryrc 2mo ago
Long distance trucking gets heavily subsidized by all other road users. Damage is caused by the fourth power of weight, but trucking only paid 35% of maintenance while being responsible for 99% of the cost. https://truecostblog.c
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by coryrc 2mo ago
I hate having to come up with different variable names than `list` so I don't shadow the function `list`. Repeat that for a lot of common words: count, first, length, map, max, min, search, string; that you would then actually consider
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by coryrc 2mo ago
That's a stupid point to be trying to make and irrelevant.
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by coryrc 2mo ago
Building interconnects costs money. What's the ROI on building more? Positive ROI becomes present if Texas has large amounts of nondispatchable power and the neighboring areas do not have the same. So if Texas builds more wind and sola
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by coryrc 2mo ago
GGP didn't say ERCOT, they said "Texas". Which further demonstrates how ignorant it is to say there are "no major connections".
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by coryrc 2mo ago
Every place I'm familiar with has demand charges on large-scale users that is supposed to pay for that equipment. The real problem is boomers have stopped allowing things to be built efficiently, so supply is limited, had been limited
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by coryrc 2mo ago
Texas is the second-biggest state. Where are they going to make major connections to -- the Great Prairie? There's a whole New Mexico-worth of sparse population between Dallas/Austin/San Antonio before you get to New Mexico i

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