neltnerb

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811.
by neltnerb 6y ago
Yeah, fusion is not fast to research though, ITER isn't even built yet. They're all extremely complicated, and while this one is harder to fabricate than a tokamak, fabricating arbitrary geometries is also something we've g
812.
by neltnerb 6y ago
I suppose I can't say for sure but I remember plenty of them in the school newspaper, at least a few a year usually. Sometimes the reason was easy to deduce, sometimes it was ambiguous as is often the case in possible suicides.
813.
by neltnerb 6y ago
Every little bit helps... these margins are tiny.
814.
by neltnerb 6y ago
Given the margins it might be that the only reason they're cheaper is they any discount from selling it under a store brand isn't reversed by having to pay profits to a pointless middleman. I don't see a problem with them sel
815.
by neltnerb 6y ago
I wouldn't call anyone who doesn't feel it's worth the investment to customize something an "assembly line worker", it implies that they aren't doing creative work with the tool because they happen to be more
816.
by neltnerb 6y ago
I know a fair number of craftspeople. The only one who made their own tools was my brother, who wound his own heater coils for his glass annealing furnace because it was too expensive to buy. Similarly, the only time I design a custom LED
817.
by neltnerb 6y ago
Oh, I thought the statistics were that half as many men as women have it. I don't know if I'd call that vast, though admittedly most people who have mentioned that they have it have been women. I probably just saw bad stats. Like,
818.
by neltnerb 6y ago
My doctor may have been blunt with me because I grew up with family that has it. I've known what it was since I was 5. But my doctor says the same lately, not even dimethyl fumerate was out there yet in 2012 and the best drugs merely r
819.
by neltnerb 6y ago
I am not even sure if major things are improved by my medication because I have no idea whether it would be even worse without. I can't do statistics on that... I definitely can't guess whether it becoming progressive is because I
820.
by neltnerb 6y ago
Yeah, I'm with you on that one. I would definitely not have created my own from scratch, and I even knew scheme at the time.
821.
by neltnerb 6y ago
I think I still have the .emacs file I inherited from an upperclassman. It had better syntax highlighting than what was built in at the time =)
822.
by neltnerb 6y ago
Yeah... and once you're no longer paying by the page there's really little upside to using a small font you have to squint at or use margins that are too narrow to easily scan the page. I have no idea how long the books I read are
823.
by neltnerb 6y ago
I am male, which accelerates the progression. But that was what my doctor told me in 2012 for men, even if taking interferon (which I did). And the two big new ones since. I stayed basically great until 2017. But now both hands are mostly n
824.
by neltnerb 6y ago
The scientists don't get derailed, but I get too many forwarded articles with silver bullets. One of my friends suggested intentionally getting stung by bees. This is magical thinking for a complex illness. On the other hand, tecfidera
825.
by neltnerb 6y ago
MS is a catch all. Multiple causes can result in demyelination even if the mechanism is the immune system. You have MS if you have demyelination products detectable in your spinal fluid and have lesions on the spinal cord. Whether it's
826.
by neltnerb 6y ago
Oh. I was about to say, my doctor said median was wheelchair in ten years, not dead. The severity varies tremendously, I (as sometime with MS) can totally see people with recent major episodes trading. They might not get another MS attack f
827.
by neltnerb 6y ago
Could also be that the MS treatment effects are a different delivery mechanism.
828.
by neltnerb 6y ago
Ah, I would have thought it was more like "feedback loop" going to "feedback loop with DSP" going to "feedback loop with DSP with wireless" or similar. I think I am thinking more specifically about the flight f
829.
by neltnerb 6y ago
Oh yeah, I suppose a lot more moving parts in a mechanical generator, I can see it ending up more reliable than a generator. Seems unlikely to be more reliable than a battery backup system but I bet those battery sizes aren't nearly bi
830.
by neltnerb 6y ago
Really... I wonder what the spare cycles are doing, whether it's truly waste and bad coding or if it's doing some kind of sophisticated predictive algorithms that we're unaware of. I do try to assume engineers did something s
831.
by neltnerb 6y ago
Ah, I had the good fortune to at least run through Atmels with C compilers first ;-) I definitely never expect to use a PIC or Atmel chip though, wow those were terrible. I guess small quantities really hurt.
832.
by neltnerb 6y ago
That is very cool. I am surprised the cost came in under diesel generators, was it for noise/space/pollution more than cost? If they're legitimately cheaper for the same kW's as a diesel generator that's a different
833.
by neltnerb 6y ago
Yeah, I've been keeping an eye on Bloom since they were still in stealth. It's neat and I believe their technology. It seems to me like their fuel cell is designed to be a replacement for natural gas power plants and that it would
834.
by neltnerb 6y ago
This should really just be the top post... I've been in this field for a while and totally agree. You're going to get vastly more practical applications out of liquid fuels or electricity stored in batteries. The energy density of
835.
by neltnerb 6y ago
Thank you :-D
836.
by neltnerb 6y ago
I'm not saying there's no reasons to use Rust over C, but I am saying that I'm not surprised C is still highly valued. I was still being forced to use assembly for firmware a decade after I learned C. I will not be at all sur
837.
by neltnerb 6y ago
Why are you surprised? I have to write firmware all the time and everyone still uses C unless they're dedicated to another language for some reason. I can see being into Rust. I haven't had any reason to use it yet.
838.
by neltnerb 6y ago
My experience with aging is that you accumulate more and more injuries and illnesses and heal more and more slowly. The advice I'd give is to assume that any activity you might ever want to do will be harder next year.
839.
by neltnerb 6y ago
Yeah, right, most people don't have that kind of commitment so their job. It's not a good match for most people. Probably not something everyone should emulate.
840.
by neltnerb 6y ago
What is it called after there is a patch against it? Does it just stay at like a 27-day if it takes 27 days to patch? I feel like in common parlance calling something a 0-day would imply that it is something the manufacturer didn't exp

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