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by tuatoru 3y ago
The other point that is completely missing is that a factory does not exist in splendid isolation. If there's a problem with the FR-4 circuit boards, or the pick and place machines are misbehaving, or some of the chip-scale components
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by tuatoru 3y ago
It took me a long time--three decades; more--to get over my parents' expectations for me. You are not them. You are not them. They are not you. They have no right to try to live their fantasies through you. No right at all. Block the
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by tuatoru 3y ago
THe Michelson-Morley experiment had not yet been performed in interstellar space, where solar strawberries are fewer.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Does anyone know if there's been an update to Ayres and Warr's 2002 paper on energy and the economy? That paper seems to be solid evidence for a strong correlation between energy consumption and economic growth. See also WTF Happ
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Any atttept to apply skeptical (in the proper sense of the word) thought to AI is valuable.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
From someone who's been there: please don't do anything hasty--except maybe leave your job. The "majors" are uniformly toxic. Talk to your boss, or their boss. Even taking a totally cynical view of life, they don't
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by tuatoru 3y ago
> Weight distribution - The motor weight is located at the wheel, improving handling. That's surprising. I understood that increasing unsprung weight was held to be a bad idea.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
A story that could have been written by Lydia Davis.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
The word "novel" seems deserved. I've heard of organic polymer electrode batteries, but not ones using air. 1. https://www.polyjoule.com/
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Environmental damage is mostly not included in the price of goods. Economics has a word, externality, to describe this.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
I don't know about the physics, but it's an engineering "in mice". They got more energy out of the plasma than they put in with the lasers, yes. But lasers are only a few percent efficient, and there are huge losses geti
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by tuatoru 3y ago
I'd still be using my 2600 if an add-in sound card hadn't died, in the process frying the PCI and PCIe hardware on the mobo.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
> there's a balance where you need to think how much of the environment and money would I be saving by keeping using very old hardware instead of throwing it away, ... maybe? Think global. Making CPUs uses an amazing amount of power
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by tuatoru 3y ago
This made me laugh out loud, at the sheer political naivete. Office workers earn more because they do jobs more similar to the jobs of those who allocate money.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Agreed, except for the use of "diffuse" where "de-fuse" (or defuse) was meant. Tiny subediting error.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
> Construction companies do not have the profit margin Then there's a lot of construction happening that does not need to happen. Steins Law: if something cannot go on, it will stop. Looks like we're opting for the unplanned su
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Yeah - employers in these industries seem to be acting like there's a plentiful supply of young adult males from which to pick and choose. They need to look at a few demographic tables and charts. 1. https://population.un.or
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by tuatoru 3y ago
> It will be grueling 'unskilled' general labor. Then you can get the training to get on the site, and possibly make a connection for future work. (Does not happen successfully often, except for the most exceptional and lucky t
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by tuatoru 3y ago
> most efficient available mechanism Efficiency is exactly what you don't want. There is a tradeoff between efficiency, minimising some parameter such as effort or water input, and resilience in the face of uncertainty. If you are &
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by tuatoru 3y ago
For a price ... at least in NZ. Way over the 2019 price.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Statista records a MySE turbine with 118m blades at 16MW nameplate.[1] At 123m blade length, this should be maybe 1 MW more. Looks like the original article, which claims power for 36,000 "homes", is using roughly 1 home = 0.5kW.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
That is not specific to wind technology. The risk is much worse with legacy coal, gas and nuclear power stations.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Truncated-pyramid floating wind turbines shouldn't have as much of a problem with this, as the loads are closer to traditional transverse and axial. (Picture two flat-topped letter 'A's, one behind the other, with a crossbar
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Need to. There are typhoons in the area, and they're getting stronger. 200 mph would be better.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Solar radiation management is naloxone for fossil addicts. "Grinding up mountain[s] and chucking them in the ocean", accelerated weathering of olivine minerals, as it's usually called, would be the equivalent of a blood trans
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by tuatoru 3y ago
The whole thing comes from a paternalistic mindset of doing things to people, rather than enabling them to see their situation, perhaps differently than before. In wicked problems, if you, the outsider, are doing anything other than facil
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Dude wants a wicked problem, he should figure out how to change the name of the institution he works at. "Imperial" College? In this day and age?
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Getting to work rapidly is guaranteed to be the wrong thing to do with any difficult problem. The book "How Big Things Get Done" elaborates on this and gives examples of how to do it right. 1. https://www.amazon.com&#x2
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by tuatoru 3y ago
OTOH, with that title I thought it was about the very long-running group blog[1]. 1. https://crookedtimber.org/
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by tuatoru 3y ago
No, it's not. It's complaining about medicine that the National Institute of Health and other authority figures told you to take, that turned out to a waste of your time and mildly harmful.

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