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by lazide 3mo ago
Bayes is turning in his grave fast enough to power Manhattan.
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by lazide 3mo ago
It still has 3+ billion tons of coal reserves - no one wants to burn them though, apparently.
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by lazide 3mo ago
It did work for awhile though, eh?
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by lazide 3mo ago
Usually no one tolerates rationing until it’s already at $20 a loaf.
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by lazide 3mo ago
Also all non-flying forms of transport.
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by lazide 3mo ago
Sometimes a pimp slap is what is needed, but no one ever signs up for one voluntarily.
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by lazide 3mo ago
Notably, things like that is why they had their colonies.
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by lazide 3mo ago
Concrete is generally porous and definitely not micro-waterproof (aka lots of water vapor makes it’s way through). Including if using Portland cement. It is generally macro-waterproof, however, unless there are large cracks.
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by lazide 3mo ago
Hardly, just someone who actually knows what is going on. But then, you’d know that if you looked at my profile eh? And if you actually knew what you were talking about. Care to quantify your ‘99%’ wrong comment?
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by lazide 3mo ago
Ah engineers who do not understand the fundamentals of the values they are using. I expect this will piss you off, but I expect it is important you know. The easiest way to visualize Young’s modulus is typically using a stress/strain c
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by lazide 3mo ago
Counterpoint - the Quechua who did have issues with it likely died out long before any of us would be aware of it.
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by lazide 3mo ago
It depends on the geometric stability of the column shape, which is why I said what I said. The reality is that compressive stress limits are much lower in steel than tensile, as you’re noting. They are only the same in an abstract theoreti
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by lazide 3mo ago
If you're poor, you're crazy. If you're rich, well, you're just eccentric. Because you can pay your way, mainly.
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by lazide 3mo ago
Interestingly, the design of beams and the like (used for columns) still means tensile strength is the limiting factor, not compressive strength. For compressive strength alone to matter, you’d essentially need a solid steel column - which
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by lazide 3mo ago
Well, everyone knows white boys can’t jump.
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by lazide 3mo ago
I mean, they evaluated and left? What should they have done, creeped on them as they played?
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by lazide 3mo ago
fatalities going down can easily be unrelated to these ‘features’, or even a trend which is being HURT by these ‘features’. correlation != causation.
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by lazide 3mo ago
The US was publicly announcing Russia’s troop movements literally weeks in advance. it was pure delusion to think blitzkreig would actually have worked.
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by lazide 3mo ago
All I can say is, ‘fuck these people’. No one is actually this stupid.
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by lazide 3mo ago
From early in the war, sure.
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by lazide 3mo ago
Lol, even baseline DJI drone chipsets from a decade ago do frequency hopping. Many baby monitors probably do too.
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by lazide 3mo ago
Not in my experience. Most LLM answers are bullshit; and they almost never say they don’t know. Most people would just look at you and say ‘I don’t know’ instead of just making something up.
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by lazide 3mo ago
A qualified elevator technician can definitely make an elevator fail dangerously spectacularly. They wouldn’t be qualified if they couldn’t.
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by lazide 3mo ago
The ambulance operator also gets stuck with the costs of all the ambulance rides which are never paid for - which is, statistically most - because of things like homeless folks, people giving false names, etc. Which, notably, are so common,
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by lazide 3mo ago
Should == I wish.
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by lazide 3mo ago
Well over a decade ago, it was $6500 for a couple mile ride to the nearest hospital, no emergency medical care necessary (just supervision). This was in the Bay Area, in California. I can’t imagine it’s gotten cheaper.
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by lazide 3mo ago
Hey, many tears would be shed for the Traverse City Cherry Festival, i’ll have you know.
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by lazide 3mo ago
This whole thing was a war of ‘yes men’ telling the big bad what he wanted to hear, even though it was insane. Also Iran.
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by lazide 3mo ago
The US has been running on fantasy for a long time.
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by lazide 3mo ago
wow. just before the major financial crisis, and QE? the last 20 years of interest rates absolutely are remarkable, and reflect massive (and historically unprecedented) intervention from the central bank. because of the near collapse of the

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