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721.
by hadlock 4y ago
I'm not seeing much of a wind shadow for that bridge, particularly at 4pm Friday. Maybe they updated the model already. Most of the onshore windflow begins after 11am goes from the cold (high pressure) pacific through the gg bridge, wr
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by hadlock 4y ago
Tall bridges do weird things to the wind. I can confirm the bay bridge at surface level, there is functionally no wind for about half a mile downwind from it. Just glassy smooth.
723.
by hadlock 4y ago
Few thoughts as a sailor in the SF Bay area. - Accuracy seems at least somewhat correct.That wedge shape you see in the late afternoon sailors call "the wind engine". Local sailing magazine Lattitude 38 has a special PDF that talk
724.
by hadlock 4y ago
Risk isn't a very large part of the equation as cars are highly liquid assets and with a tow truck, easily repossessed. Homes historically take months to sell and laws about repossession while occupied are complex.
725.
by hadlock 4y ago
With 96 month auto loan terms they can now cast a very wide net and access a lot of otherwise very under-qualified buyers. I think 84 months is now the average auto loan duration.
726.
by hadlock 4y ago
I can read all the science about how nuclear material in the soil is safe, but also I can't in good conscience let my toddler roll around in it and put it in her mouth. You need 100% buy in from parents who will be raising their childr
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by hadlock 4y ago
I'm curious, with such giant swathes of forest being burnt off annually, and large contiguous chunks being burnt up, leaving only smaller contiguous areas; 1) given the average size of a megafire, how many more megafires can happen (as
728.
by hadlock 4y ago
Would be great to get a tool that could diff(erence) two JSON files, with the output being a grid of gray boxes, each gray box represents where a top level element is the same between both, and yellow box represents some sub-level item insi
729.
by hadlock 4y ago
They're not well known outside of the valley, certainly not outside of tech.
730.
by hadlock 4y ago
I think you're vastly overestimating the resources the average person (read: income under 40k) has to do things like drive 300 miles in one direction, multiple times a year
731.
by hadlock 4y ago
Have you traveled outside of Europe? Things have... changed dramatically since even like, 2015 in B/C tier cities even in South America. I suggest you travel some more and reevaluate. Somewhere like Medellin or Islamabad in 2022 is alm
732.
by hadlock 4y ago
Most of the world only needs a car that will do 45mph with a range of about 50 miles. Both the model T and model A would have struggled to do 50mph. Those cars effectively built the suburbs. About 50% of them are still on the road today, ev
733.
by hadlock 4y ago
This guy has clearly never worked on the operations side of a business
734.
by hadlock 4y ago
Just like the moon, we did not attempt to land there on the first go-around. Neil Armstrong was on Apollo 11. Apollo 4-6 were unmanned launches, 7-9 were testing the hardware with humans, mostly with "free return" orbits where eve
735.
by hadlock 4y ago
Russians supported the war when it was a largely professional army doing the invading. Support for war is typically thought to decline when your own family members get dragged into it and injured. Drafts have never been popular politically.
736.
by hadlock 4y ago
Microsoft announced their voice transcription technology a couple years ago and were also touting ~97-98% accuracy which was actually better than human transcription error rates. The errors are usually in part people garbling their own sp
737.
by hadlock 4y ago
This is an impressive level of transparency. Usually when you get government "transparency" it is in the form of a PDF of poorly photocopied documents as images which are effectively useless from a analysis standpoint, unless you
738.
by hadlock 4y ago
Also, Art AI can't click on ads, which is probably, ultimately their main concern. If you replace all the monetized users with AI that can't buy things, the economic incentive to keep the website running disappears.
739.
by hadlock 4y ago
I'm not sure how that is relevant to the weather of Dallas and Austin
740.
by hadlock 4y ago
Austin might get freezes periodically, but they do not get the same ice storms that Dallas gets, certainly not as frequently. The blizzards that Oklahoma and Kansas deal with, Dallas gets a taste of that for 2-3 days a year, but that 200 mi
741.
by hadlock 4y ago
Oh of course you can buy generators that will run the utility circuit of a nuclear power plant, they need to come from somewhere. Somebody will sell you one. I have not personally seen a residential generator larger than 22.5kw when searchi
742.
by hadlock 4y ago
Energy costs are high because there's not enough energy (oil, gas) to go around. Prices go up as people compete for the hot commodity. People have an upper limit that they are willing to pay, so usage is curbed. I am not sure how lower
743.
by hadlock 4y ago
Yes but you can't really buy generators with more than 22kw and even that is plenty to run the AC for a 5500 sq ft home with plenty of breathing room to run the electric washer/dryer
744.
by hadlock 4y ago
I have been hearing about "magnetic cooling fridges" for almost 30 years now. Generally when it takes something that long to reach the market, there are inherent problems with the technology that prevent it from going mainstream.
745.
by hadlock 4y ago
Most of downtown is a dozen+ feet above sea level, new waterfront construction (the new ferry docks in particular) are all built to the new standard, by ~2077 or whatever the waterfront will be ready for new sea level standards. There'
746.
by hadlock 4y ago
A lot of people who own residential property in SF can afford to take a loss indefinitely on the assumption that prices/buyers will eventually return. Especially if those same people's wages keep up roughly with inflation.
747.
by hadlock 4y ago
Libson is a global city, easy air access to pretty much everywhere in europe/us/asia, good international schools, low cost of living, and very importantly, very mild, california-like weather. Once you have kids, you need access to
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by hadlock 4y ago
I've been buying REI backpacks, they tend to grossly oversize the zippers, particularly on their travel backpacks. I have not had a zipper failure in, well since 2008 which was the last time I bought a backpack, because they (50 liter
749.
by hadlock 4y ago
rip harambe
750.
by hadlock 4y ago
OpenAI isn't open at all, it's just named that way to attract attention, like the bright green "FREE BIKES and rentals" place near fisherman's warf in SF

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