coryrc

23 ms·

451.
by coryrc 1y ago
Contaminants can migrate from soil through plastic, which is a problem in the rust belt, but can be dealt with an aluminum barrier layer. What is harder to avoid is endocrine-disrupting plasticizers, because of regulatory capture. https:&#
452.
by coryrc 1y ago
I would consider a country with universal suffrage, direct democracy, and legalized slavery to be a Democracy. It's unlikely and pretty shitty, but it's certainly a Democracy. This twisting of definitions is the same thing happeni
453.
by coryrc 1y ago
I would expect you could only do it with the onboard charger and only if it has one charger per module or the ability to connect the singular charger to each module.
454.
by coryrc 1y ago
Except that won't heat your house at night during a week-long blizzard. The "heat pumps and solar" plan requires natural gas peakers be built for maximum load of the grid, which we're doing even without heat pumps so far
455.
by coryrc 1y ago
It's a spectrum. If we're being pedantic, the US is already not a Democracy, but a Democratic Republic.
456.
by coryrc 1y ago
What's your alternative? I'm serious. (Mine is multi-member ranked voting (NOT IRV)).
457.
by coryrc 1y ago
If you had more centralized heating systems (like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Steam_Company or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_Landing_Solar_Community ) then put the extra heat in th
458.
by coryrc 1y ago
That's of "sharp sand". Sand batteries don't need sharp sand.
459.
by coryrc 1y ago
It's already done and proven to work further North than anywhere in the USA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_Landing_Solar_Community We (USA) could have 80% of our Northern homes off fossil fuel and electric h
460.
by coryrc 1y ago
BOSL2 devs use more recent snapshots, so it definitely does.
461.
by coryrc 1y ago
> I've also tried to spend some time performance optimizing for render/output. It is not cooperative at all. Have you started using a recent nightly build with the Manifold backend and not the "stable" (aka obsolete
462.
by coryrc 1y ago
... you can change your judgement/thoughts and be on the correct side.
463.
by coryrc 1y ago
Ah, that is not comfortable for me with a laptop! Thanks for sharing the link though.
464.
by coryrc 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden https://www.cracked.com/article_23358_the-6-ballsiest-moment... Err, don&#x2
465.
by coryrc 1y ago
I don't think any movement like that has worked yet.
466.
by coryrc 1y ago
What chair is that?
467.
by coryrc 1y ago
> People love to cry foul when the US flexes it's might... then cry foul when the US takes a back seat... literally cry foul no matter what the US does. There's a difference between the US invading Iraq and US aiding a country
468.
by coryrc 1y ago
> that made impossible to access them Couldn't they just be checked out by cron on any number of local machines hosting Apache?
469.
by coryrc 1y ago
An F-450 can tow 12 tons, brand new diesel chassis cab crewcab (full size 2nd row seating) is $75k. But it's better to soak the taxpayer for more.
470.
by coryrc 1y ago
Most fire engines in the US don't carry significant water, they're "pumper trucks" for boosting pressure from fire hydrants. 80% of US citizens live in urban areas with access to hydrants. They also carry lots of other g
471.
by coryrc 1y ago
The way you say that more supports the idea these people should have been laid off a while ago. I bet plenty have that useful "unwritten institutional knowledge" that could help newer programs. (F.ex. instructions for a nuclear wa
472.
by coryrc 1y ago
It's funny you say that, yet the first guy in the video is driving a small SUV https://youtu.be/7IFEiwNMrZ8?t=129 Put a pump on a trailer. The problem with this country is we're not allowed to have "decent&qu
473.
by coryrc 1y ago
We're definitely not undertaxed. A big problem is wholesale public corruption. We now pay inflated salaries for current public workers and for extremely-high retirement plans for past workers which was promised decades ago but not fund
474.
by coryrc 1y ago
> It became extremely difficult to provide the level of service the community expects, and come up with money for a new engine. It's too bad the only possible way to pump water is with a $2M specialty truck. Let's just raise ta
475.
by coryrc 1y ago
My $350 Soniclean is way more than 3x better a shitty $100 vacuum from Target. (Also seems better than everything they sell, including for a lot more...)
476.
by coryrc 1y ago
> Seems like that would help hold down costs. That's not a goal.
477.
by coryrc 1y ago
It's the most enterprise-y and legacy thing Google sells.
478.
by coryrc 1y ago
> ICEs have highest momentum and efficiency sweet spot somewhere in the middle of available revs Close: they have the highest efficiency at about 90% of maximum torque for most of the RPM range. So if you want double the power, you want
479.
by coryrc 1y ago
They're programmed to rev in situations like that, because people are used to it. Under normal operation, RPM is decided by power needs. If you start accelerating on the freeway, for example, the engine might jump from 1100 RPM to 3000
480.
by coryrc 1y ago
Random OT question: I was raised by, erm, relatively uneducated folks. Is there anything especially great about having a software programmer for a father? (As my kids have one)

More ›