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by klaff 2mo ago
raw milk, unpasteurized, right?
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by klaff 2mo ago
We have an EV and I figure we will save about $5k or more per 100,000 miles on the fuel costs, but that savings is flipped to a loss if I had to use fast charging all the time. But I'm using $3.50/gallon gas in that math. In Laos
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by klaff 2mo ago
> I wish by 2026 society would have shaken itself out of the idea that all people are the same. If you called me woke, I would say, sure, if by woke you mean that I believe racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia and other bi
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by klaff 2mo ago
They did become cheap for a very short time at the front of the pandemic. Specifically sales in the US hit a historic low in April of 2020, almost down to half the monthly volume a few months earlier and four or five months later. I remembe
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by klaff 2mo ago
It is stupid to put a solar panel on top of a car. 1. The car's surface is small relative to charging needs. Both have fundamental limits (insolation and aerodynamics) that aren't likely to change much. 2. The car's top is no
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by klaff 2mo ago
I don't think Musk understands Musk.
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by klaff 2mo ago
I don't remember this much pain, but I was about 10 years old when I learned. On the other hand I've been learning guitar late in life and am wondering how much easier that would be if my brain had seen a few less orbits.
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by klaff 2mo ago
I learned Morse code almost 50 years ago. I distinctly remember how learning progressed through stages - hear di-dah (sound), think dot-dash (printed symbols), in the table that's an A - hear di-dah, think "A" - hear dah, di-
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by klaff 3mo ago
barbaric is society which has 1% of its adult population living behind bars
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by klaff 3mo ago
> warranty assumes constant unchanging weather conditions What on earth are you talking about?
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by klaff 3mo ago
LOL, 25 years ago my neighbors and I were setting off fireworks over a yet-undeveloped part of our neighborhood. We saw police pull into the neighborhood. My family were the cowards who went inside. Our neighbors had to pay a fine. If we&#x
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by klaff 3mo ago
I don't agree. I think it's a choice that each area has made between law enforcement and local governance. Regarding the St. Louis area, it really depends on which jurisdiction you are in. St. Louis County has over 90 municipaliti
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by klaff 3mo ago
When I was a kid we had a visible V8 model that let you see quite a bit!
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by klaff 3mo ago
The battery is warranted for 8 years or 100,000 miles and you are a simple internet search away from many articles on how long EV batteries are lasting (which is generally quite long).
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by klaff 3mo ago
Amen
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by klaff 3mo ago
I have the opposite idea after reading physiology books. The number I remember was 22%, for efficiency of a human being as a motor, driving pedals to create mechanical power. That's quite poor compared to an electric motor. And unless
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by klaff 4mo ago
Do they claim enough reliability and peak power capability to delete the mechanical brakes? I know Brembo is working on electric brakes that would eliminate the hydraulic circuits and pistons. I don't know what they plan to do to make
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by klaff 4mo ago
> you can integrate all into one hub (breaks, bearings, gears etc) and it weights pretty much the same. You would get to delete about half the mass of the half-shaft but otherwise you are cramming a lot of stuff into the wheel volume and
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by klaff 4mo ago
You've got that a bit backwards.
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by klaff 4mo ago
You just described https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole-tone_scale . Nothing stopping anyone from writing and playing music in such a scale, but it won't help you with nearly all the music you are likely to be famil
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by klaff 4mo ago
>We could be teaching notes to children objectively like how we teach colors, but we're not. Do you mean trying to teach all children perfect pitch even though society has no expectation of that? Unlike knowing at least your primary
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by klaff 4mo ago
There are fluid dynamic bearings which were used in VCRs and probably hard drives and definitely laser printer mirror motors - two sets of precise herringbone patterns cut into the ID of a bearing column and a tiny bit of oil that gets entr
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by klaff 4mo ago
It doesn't make that a good idea. Armature losses are proportional to torque squared - doesn't matter if it is radial or axial design. That's why all the EVs today have gear boxes with ratios like 13:1. Get rid of that gearbo
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by klaff 4mo ago
Yes. If you have a laser printer, that windup sound you hear at the start of a job is the polygon mirror motor spinning up thousands of RPMs - those are PCB stator motors. As were VCR head motors.
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by klaff 4mo ago
They are.
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by klaff 4mo ago
I am also curious! A few things I would like to play with but haven't made the time for yet - real time FFT/spectrogram visualization (I want to play with some spiral things for chord / harmony visualization) - synth / l
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by klaff 4mo ago
I absolutely agree. They shouldn't be able to vote and they shouldn't have free speech rights. Corporations are a legal structure - a way to allow risk sharing to encourage investment that would otherwise maybe not happen if one h
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by klaff 4mo ago
Is this rich person also voting in the place where they actually live? I'm not against a rich person voting, I just don't want them to get more than one vote. I haven't read the opinion to see if that's addressed.
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by klaff 4mo ago
In current events: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5892633-lutnick-... (Lutnick donated $5M to House GOP super PAC ahead of Epstein deposition)
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by klaff 4mo ago
we started using the term obama for that just because we hate saying that other word

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