joshocar

9 ms·

31.
by joshocar 6y ago
It's a novel coronavirus, not just any old coronavirus. It jumped from an animal species. What you are saying is equivalent to "The Spanish flu is just the flu. Thousands of people get the flu every year and we probably have som
32.
by joshocar 6y ago
I would not recommend someone who can't change a tire drive on sand. Most of the time you are going to be driving a truck if you want to go on sand, which will have truck highway tires and can handle lower pressures just fine. We regul
33.
by joshocar 6y ago
It's similar to winter driving in some ways, but different in others. For example, you don't have to worry about burrying your wheels in winter driving and tread can make a big difference; summer tires are awful in snow. I drove a
34.
by joshocar 6y ago
Specifically, I was talking about large tree on sand there, but I wasn't very clear about that with how I wrote it.
35.
by joshocar 6y ago
Highway tires are fine to lower the pressure on.
36.
by joshocar 6y ago
Some of this might have been covered in the article. One thing I don't think they mention is that big off-road tires are usually a bad idea on sand. You are better off with summer tires that have very little tread. Tread doesn't d
37.
by joshocar 6y ago
This is true, but your statement makes it sound like it's unusual. In the USA there are a lot of beaches you can drive on. When there are endangered species they usually block it for certain location or certain times of year. For examp
38.
by joshocar 6y ago
When we watch ads it's pretty clear that the advertiser is trying to manipulate us. With social media it's different. They are manipulating us to keep us engaged so thay we see more ads. With TV, the network is trying to create a
39.
by joshocar 6y ago
As someone who uses Solidworks regularly for mechanical designs this problem basically makes FreeCAD unusable in any real sense. There isn't a single model I've made that I didn't need to do something like in your example. Wh
40.
by joshocar 6y ago
There is a LOT of evidence for the existence of dark matter. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter#Observational_ev...
41.
by joshocar 6y ago
Racoons are also very clever and persistent. I have had several run in with them over the years, don't let their "cuteness" fool you, they are ruthless and very devious.
42.
by joshocar 6y ago
The bike room at my friend's apartment building has two entrances. One is to the lobby, the other is out the back... No one keeps expensive bikes in there, they are all junkers. Risk/reward is relative though. For a lot of people
43.
by joshocar 6y ago
r/AskHistorians is amazing. It is probably the most well run and informative subreddit on the whole site.
44.
by joshocar 6y ago
There is a difference between anecdotal evidence and scientific evidence. There is also the issue of what is true for an individual might not actually be true for most people.
45.
by joshocar 6y ago
I started saying this last March, the next big crash or rather the biggest fallout from the pandemic will in commercial real estate. Just because of how the industry works, these commercial real estate companies are leveraged like crazy and
46.
by joshocar 6y ago
The problem is that professors have absolutely no incentive to create good courses. All of their incentives are in their research so time spent on class prep is time lost working on the things that are actually incentivized; doing research,
47.
by joshocar 6y ago
Passive lecturing is awful in general, but I'm not sure what the alternative is. At least with an online course you can pause, rewind, rewatch. With an in person lecture you are at the mercy of your note taking ability and the book. MO
48.
by joshocar 6y ago
I'm also an ME, but I have a masters degree in Marine Science. The professors in my graduate program usually only taught one class a semester, some only one a year. From my experience it very much depends on the university. Some school
49.
by joshocar 6y ago
This is probably going to change when the R5 comes out in July. If the rumors and specs are accurate it's going to be a beast of a camera.
50.
by joshocar 6y ago
I'm still annoyed that they screwed up the release of Google Wave. The mistake was to make it a separate service instead of building it into Gmail and making it another "type of email" you can send.
51.
by joshocar 6y ago
I work on a ship part of the year. Satellite internet shared between 50 people. These Apple updates would saturate the network and grind it to a halt before we started blocking them on the firewall. iMessage got caught in the crossfire and
52.
by joshocar 6y ago
This reminds me of a homework problem I did in numerical methods where I made a small mistake in the program but still got an answer that was super close the the actual answer out of pure luck. The professor spent a while looking at it know
53.
by joshocar 6y ago
This. What the student said was 'wrong' and they need to look at the whole. This "1/3 + 1/3 = 2/6" problem would be a great example to use for a lesson on units though.
54.
by joshocar 7y ago
Also, the result, cheaper and more abundant energy, would stimulate the economy.
55.
by joshocar 7y ago
I have kept a cheap pocket knife in my backpack for the last three years of traveling and TSA has yet to find it. I don't do anything special, it's just sitting my my bag, and I fly maybe 10-20 times a year, domestic and internati
56.
by joshocar 8y ago
That is a good idea, but after thinking about it for a bit I think it would be a very hard thing to create.