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by dmoy 3y ago
If you want a real "orientable brick in atmospheric reentry regime", check out how they steered the Apollo capsules back down. Kinda bonkers, but worked - they made it asymmetric and then rotated it depending on if they wanted
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by dmoy 3y ago
Yea sorry, this was it. I didn't mean it literally has the glide ratio of a brick I mean it looks like a brick and it flies
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by dmoy 3y ago
> Concorde Another good example is the space shuttle. It does actually glide back down. But it glides like a brick at first (1:1 during its initial braking into the atmosphere), and then like a less dense brick (2:1 while it's sti
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by dmoy 3y ago
> never run out of things to do. Unless the thing is "afford housing"
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by dmoy 3y ago
> I was reading a story about the decisions made by miners in UP Michigan in 1912. You know what they did when shit sucked? They walked and did something else for 2 years. They let the equipment rot with intent going Jesus, or what the m
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by dmoy 3y ago
plus the other 85% of medical expenses (since what only 15% is doctor & nurse & tech pay?) Even if doctors and nurses worked for $0, we'd still have the most expensive healthcare system due to admin, drug, etc costs.
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by dmoy 3y ago
Haha dang, well nevermind then
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by dmoy 3y ago
> Month/Quarter close. While this post talks about the account ledger, when you start dealing with a public company Anyone even accounting adjacent to a big public company probably just had a mental brain shudder by mentioning this
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by dmoy 3y ago
Is there a rule against perpetuities for gifts like there is for a lot of trusts? i.e. after N period of time, the restrictions no longer apply? Could be a major pain in the ass to keep track of though
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by dmoy 3y ago
Or both! Stuff the SQL into the spreadsheet, shit works great for personal budgeting stuff
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by dmoy 3y ago
Idk if I'd say most, but there's definitely a bunch.
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by dmoy 3y ago
For my own personal stuff I do just use spreadsheets. Copy paste and some super hacky SQL queries, done. Double entry bookkeeping is total overkill for most people's home budgeting. I do use ledger if it's for other people&#x27
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by dmoy 3y ago
I generally despise having to do double entry bookkeeping in the first place, but when I do (in some situations you have to), I use ledger (or hledger). Way less painful than QuickBooks if you're also a programmer or adjacent. > an
764.
by dmoy 3y ago
Ok yea that makes sense. I had a vague memory it was less efficient than paper but still net better energy. Still almost everything pales in comparison to 2000% on aluminum
765.
by dmoy 3y ago
I mean from like an energy perspective. Glass and paper are not significantly more efficient to recycle than to manufacturer new stuff. Paper is like 2x more efficient to recycle. Glass is... somewhere around there I forget. In both case
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by dmoy 3y ago
Yea it fundamentally changes the error bounding calculation. We explicitly learned about this in EE where they covered 754 and other similar things. So there's a lot of rigor on containing exactly how big your errors can be in floatin
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by dmoy 3y ago
Or aluminum recycling, crazy efficient compared to making new aluminum.
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by dmoy 3y ago
The sugar doesn't hurt either (it's like half as much sugar as soda, but it still helps some).
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by dmoy 3y ago
> allows people to drink a beer while driving home from work. hold up, what? I knew various European countries had much less draconian liquor laws than the US, but... while driving ?
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by dmoy 3y ago
I wouldn't recommend using stock ETFs for an emergency fund. SGOV is a reasonable option, it's basically just doing a 1-3 month Treasury ladder for a charge of 0.2%, and slightly less frustrating liquidity. (So right now you'
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by dmoy 3y ago
Guess that explains a lot of the recent changes (API, etc) over the last couple years.
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by dmoy 3y ago
I grew up in a place where it'd get above 100F and below 0F pretty much every year. But I will say, F is pretty decent still, even if the GP statement is a bit off: 100F is getting uncomfortably hot for a human. You gotta worry about
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by dmoy 3y ago
> alcohol regulations are way less strict than the US on average. For example my alcoholic beverage of choice isn't even legally considered alcohol in most of the EU (0.5%-1% is regulated like alcohol in the US)
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by dmoy 3y ago
Which places regulate alcohol and drugs more strictly than the US with an order of magnitude lower deaths? If we look at alcohol in isolation, for example per capita deaths are like 25 ish for both US and EU. US drug OD is higher, like 30
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by dmoy 3y ago
Sure, maybe? But if you were gonna stack rank death machines in order of death (in the US at least) and ban them, it'd go something like: Drugs and alcohol first (or drugs first and alcohol second if you split them apart), then pistol
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by dmoy 3y ago
I don't drink a lot of alcohol, but I make batches of kalja at home for daily consumption - probably 0.5% abv because I'm impatient and bad at it. (And I'm, uh, using bread yeast lol) It probably averages out to the equivale
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by dmoy 3y ago
Sure we can be technically more surgical in our terminology, but GP is addressing the usage of 'accuracy' in the news headline. In that context, 'accuracy' is kinda a catchall term for both accuracy and precision.
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by dmoy 3y ago
What's wild to me is that a lot of modern cars don't rust as much. Some weird black magic coatings on the undercarriages now, 'cus shit used to rust so fast decades ago. They still rust, just not as bad it seems. From the
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by dmoy 3y ago
Which is really a shame :/ I want a $10k small car for just intracity trips. Easier to park, small battery charges fast enough at home even on 120V 20A. Cheaper to insure.
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by dmoy 3y ago
Okay that makes sense, basically amdahl's law. I guess it'll be interesting when we are trying to support electric medium duty or heavier trucks, like WA is trying to do. Guess they'll be subject to Class 7 & 8 weight an

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