neltnerb

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871.
by neltnerb 6y ago
Even figuratively it's obviously going to read as mean to someone who wants but cannot conceive children. Or at least that's how I read it, a polite reminder to be a little sensitive when it comes to such things...
872.
by neltnerb 6y ago
I agree until I disagree because it becomes a refresh trigger... but you sound like you have discipline.
873.
by neltnerb 6y ago
I don't have em, but having adult children when you're older and the experience of being a parent both seem like they're intrinsically valuable. I have a hard time believing any 18 year long cohabitation wouldn't form so
874.
by neltnerb 6y ago
Ah, thanks for the clarification. I am coming from the hardware world, through raw assembly, to C so my path is very much the assumption that if the microcontroller is going to control a feedback loop that stabilizes at 10MHz it will be gua
875.
by neltnerb 6y ago
You can absolutely put your entire budget into exploration and speed and none into drones for harvesting or manufacturing. It's kind of hard to get the timing right but I definitely had a large fraction of the universe "available&
876.
by neltnerb 6y ago
I'm confused, aren't "don't fall below your spec" and "hit your metric" synonyms? In what field are they not?
877.
by neltnerb 6y ago
I did it once on my phone and no joke it took multiple days of actual playtime because the phone wasn't fast enough. I assume it's mining bitcoin in the background, which is beautifully appropriate. Then did it again on the comput
878.
by neltnerb 6y ago
I see, thanks. I can see an advantage to being able to say that your average performance isn't as good but your variation is small, you can prove you'll hit your metric. I guess I usually over-engineer by 10x but maybe a better co
879.
by neltnerb 6y ago
Maybe you can clear this up for me. To me, realtime means "responds faster than the fastest it needs to in order to control a feedback loop" which is super subjective since different system dynamics are so different. When I tried
880.
by neltnerb 6y ago
If you don't do a sequel run you get to just convert the whole universe to paperclips. It's great.
881.
by neltnerb 6y ago
It's pretty satisfying to just convert the entire universe to paperclips and call it a day (having beat it twice). I really like having to make the last twenty or something by hand after disassembling the paperclip making machine back
882.
by neltnerb 6y ago
I never have worked a job like that but I definitely think I came out of MIT with that attitude. Maybe mostly by luck and falling at so many things I tried, but I was convinced that basically the world is made up of people about as stupid a
883.
by neltnerb 6y ago
Really? I literally read dozens of papers about it a decade ago, at least... I guess I don't work adjacent to there so maybe no one else does either. Odd, I never have heard a reason why they were all that much worse than alternatives
884.
by neltnerb 6y ago
How much local competition is there for cop employers? I can't say I know a ton of cops but it would have to be a pretty extreme difference to actually factor into decisions on where you live. Just solve the actual problem. Fire the co
885.
by neltnerb 6y ago
And in the case where crooked cops have infiltrated the department to the point where it's effectively impossible to fire just the crooked ones, shut it down and start over. Or do something better and call it "police" so that
886.
by neltnerb 6y ago
First off, who would offer insurance to individual police other than the police union? And the police union has a bunch of influence over the other cops who might cause everyone's premiums to go up if they tell the truth? I dunno, I th
887.
by neltnerb 6y ago
Honestly the only reason I would consider this a big deal is the warrantless addition of my biometric data to a federal database in order to exercise freedom of movement. I don't care if they want to compare my passport photo with my f
888.
by neltnerb 6y ago
I've heard that, but where do these viral particles come from? The mask wearer? If so, that's the goal isn't it? And if it's from outside and gets trapped in the fabric... isn't that also a win? The arguments agains
889.
by neltnerb 6y ago
Sure, maybe I'd agree that they are people with masks are more likely to have good health habits , but I'd probably also assume that people with masks have worse health (even if they may have better habits). I think their healt
890.
by neltnerb 6y ago
Sure, but being able to say that the mask protects you too will appeal to some people. If people's reasons are selfish but the outcome is the same it's fine with me... I do suspect that it protects the wearer as well though. I don
891.
by neltnerb 6y ago
It may still be useful to the endless parade of hackers that get access to the confidential documents "procured" by CBP in this way and stored in what I sincerely doubt will be some impenetrable database. Not to mention that given
892.
by neltnerb 6y ago
You could try to push your luck, if you're an American citizen. More realistic is to just wipe your phone and reset it to factory settings using a throwaway google account. They probably won't ask for it but that way it looks unre
893.
by neltnerb 6y ago
With a Facebook share link embedded in the page? Glad the rest didn't load without JavaScript enabled...
894.
by neltnerb 6y ago
Doesn't seem to, but they pointed out that they were being conservative in saying that an employee that makes 10 rides in a day charging $9.60 per ride covers their salary. If they made 15 that would probably cover fuel, maintenance, d
895.
by neltnerb 6y ago
I agree, I won't name and shame but the grant I was working on was clearly funded by some coal lobby or something because the premise was desperate on the face of it. I practically said "this won't work efficiently, you shoul
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by neltnerb 6y ago
With 80%-90% losses -- Haber-Bosch is inefficient and so is combustion. I just have a hard time picturing that beating batteries. If it made a high value chemical maybe economically, but not on a purely energy basis, the efficiencies just c
897.
by neltnerb 6y ago
Yeah, I am also on board with diverting excess electricity into transportation fuels if it literally can't fit on the grid. But every joule of electricity generated from renewables that makes it to the grid is a joule of electricity th
898.
by neltnerb 6y ago
Indeed. I would put "making transportation fuels" at about the bottom of the list in terms of the best use of electricity until such time as all electricity is renewable. It just doesn't make sense until the entire grid or cl
899.
by neltnerb 6y ago
So for context -- I was working on this ten years ago. I don't have much to say about this particular example other than to note that almost all ammonia today is made using natural gas as the hydrogen source. Using ammonia is a neat id
900.
by neltnerb 6y ago
Oh, no one would probably bother to cite it because it's right there in the request for proposals in black and white and they explicitly talk about it repeatedly at the SBIR conferences. You finish your phase 1 in 9 months to a year de

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