msandford

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by msandford 4mo ago
Closest I can think of is flywheel "battery" storage tech many of which do have magnetic bearings and also some way to get power in and out of the flywheel so basically a motor. It's not exactly what you're looking for b
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by msandford 4mo ago
Aren't deed restrictions usually done at the state level? If so, the city can't just magic them away. State law is going to trump city law unless the city's restrictions are tighter.
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by msandford 4mo ago
Please tell me how I can just strip deed restrictions simply because I don't like them and/or they're inconvenient for me. Deed restrictions are the mechanism that basically all HOAs are built upon so if you can just skirt ar
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by msandford 4mo ago
Looks pretty normal to me for ships of that era. Wooden masts and natural cordage means you need a lot of rigging to keep things standing. Comparing these rigs to modern ones with aluminum masts and stainless wire or dyneema rope is very ap
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by msandford 4mo ago
There was a time in the early steamship days where they carried both engines and sails. If that's what you object to it's very easy to verify this with historical records. If something else, sure maybe.
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by msandford 5mo ago
Okay, well that's a start. Could you help me understand where I went wrong? I'm not trying to be stupid here but just saying "wrong" is extremely unhelpful.
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by msandford 5mo ago
If the data is going through the air or a wire it can be sniffed, right? Is every message signed or encrypted like ssl/tls, or is this just some kind of extra header(s)?
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by msandford 5mo ago
I think this kind of corruption has been going on for a long time. Look at this case and how a Supreme Court decision didn't really get respected despite it being pretty clear. However bad you think any one thing Trump has done is, th
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by msandford 5mo ago
Are you new to the club? I saw these problems you're talking about with Biden, Trump1, Obama and Bush Jr. Of course I'm not old enough to really know about what Clinton or Bush Sr or Reagan or anyone before that did. I know it&#x
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by msandford 5mo ago
Yeah but there's a difference there. I can buy alcohol out of state and if I bring it back in, that's on me. Does anyone think that Minnesotans who are out of MN at the time of their bet will be allowed to bet? I don't think
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by msandford 5mo ago
Be careful, the market makers always win. If you go against them, you make yourself a target.
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by msandford 5mo ago
The tunnel will very likely be less disruptive to marine animals than ferry boats. During the construction yes it will be worse but 10 years after? The ecosystem will have forgotten the disruption and will have gained additional peace from
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by msandford 5mo ago
It has always amazed me how much trouble the SPA folks are willing to go to in order to slowly rebuild just normal boring URLs with querystrings because users demand deep linking and back buttons and the like. Or you could accept that you&#
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by msandford 6mo ago
It's a closed loop on the geo side sure. How do you cool the steam off enough to condense so it can go and be boiler feed water again? Lots of power plants use cooling towers for this which are typically evaporative. Some are dry, sure
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by msandford 7mo ago
Not to be rude, but that's definitionally NOT net metering. Net metering is where you only get changed for your net consumption. If they're looking at your gross consumption and gross production separately, it just can't be n
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by msandford 7mo ago
Net metering is really, really smart when the installed base is small relative to the fossil fuel power plant capacity. But it doesn't scale forever. Once it gets up towards 20-40% of the fossil fuel capacity, it goes from an asset to
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by msandford 7mo ago
Oooof that's rough. One strategy to convince is to get someone less technical than you to sit by you while you try and trace everything from one error'd HTTP request from start to finish to diagnose the problem. If they see it tak
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by msandford 7mo ago
I once worked at a place with more micro services than engineers. We joked about "we have as many 8s of uptime as you need!"
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by msandford 7mo ago
Years ago I made harissa out of peppers for sauce for baked chicken wings. To my surprise it tasted tomato-ey. After doing some Google searches I realized the plants were related and eventually it sort of made sense. Peppers are almost like
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by msandford 9mo ago
My dad once explained to me that there's right and there's dead and sometimes they overlap. I didn't really understand it at 8yo but he was definitely right. Being "dead right" is an undesirable situation.
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by msandford 10mo ago
They're pretty amazing for the amount of capital cost. $50 in seed and an acre of land can sequester several to over a dozen tons of carbon per year. It might not be space efficient but it requires basically zero infrastructure.
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by msandford 10mo ago
I suspect that the parent does in fact pay for any healthcare that they need or that their kids need. They just aren't buying insurance because the price of the insurance far outweighs their normal spending. This is the real problem wi
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by msandford 10mo ago
Today I learned a thing! It makes sense that subsonic engines and supersonic engines would be different in retrospect but upon reading the headline I thought for sure it was going to be some kind of weird "jump on the AI hype train&qu
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by msandford 10mo ago
"Don't read what I'm saying as an endorsement of what the right is going [doing] to the left right now. " That's me in the post you're critizing me for. I'm explicitly saying it's not good. What els
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by msandford 10mo ago
I realize I didn't make the point clearly enough. This is nothing new. It's politics, always has been. The left labels people on the right they don't like with bad names. The right is absolutely going to do it back to the lef
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by msandford 10mo ago
Back during Obama's tenure lots of right sympathetic groups got labeled domestic terror organizations. It's always political. Don't like the state calling you bad names? The solution is to reduce its power not to just get t
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by msandford 11mo ago
There was a time when one of the virtues was not to brag about how virtuous you were. I think that's why a lot of folks have a problem with virtue signalling. In their minds if you're signalling by doing something publicly it karm
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by msandford 11mo ago
Thanks for the response! I agree that it's not obvious the reservoir possibilities. I don't agree that we're selecting against birds that get infected in the first place, or at least I don't think that's how it wor
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by msandford 11mo ago
Why we keep killing the birds that survive the infection is beyond me. It's an evolutionary pressure that we refuse to allow to work. It's almost as if we want to give the flu as many opportunities as possible to spill over, inste
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by msandford 11mo ago
I think that's one very reasonable interpretation. The other is "I really want these people w to come work here and they don't want to do the polygraph because it's a huge pain so I as the manager I'm going to waive

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