DanTheManPR

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by DanTheManPR 19d ago
This is an important point: in a lot of ways, SMRs are a strictly worse than 1000MW plant. The potential financial benefits come from all the other factors you mentioned. I would rather have a "worse" nuclear power plant that actu
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by DanTheManPR 19d ago
We're looking specifically at new power plant builds. The majority of that is in Asia, with China and India being the bulk of it. But there is a lot of Asia outside of those two, and in particular Southeast Asia has a lot of potential.
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by DanTheManPR 19d ago
Nuclear regulation could genuinely do with a lot of reforms that would streamline the process without appreciably impacting safety. Everyone would benefit. And that's the huge problem with the administration's breaking of trust an
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by DanTheManPR 19d ago
A lot of people are betting serious money that they will cheaper, more flexible, faster to build, and safer. Including me - I'm working in the industry, and I think they might very well be future backbone of energy production. But ther
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by DanTheManPR 20d ago
They were in a sense correct, because the aerosol cooling they were worried about did in fact (and continues to) have a fairly significant cooling effect... one that is offsetting the rapid warming that CO2 is causing presently.
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by DanTheManPR 1mo ago
I would rather be market-corrected out of a job for a few weeks or months than have this inflate into an economy-wrecking bubble that derails my career and life for years. I'm worried that we're at that state already...
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by DanTheManPR 3mo ago
It's just a good knot. The only downside is that it is very slightly more complex than a regular shoelace knot (you pass-through both loops instead of just one). But otherwise, it's only upsides: completely secure, unties exactly
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by DanTheManPR 6mo ago
This is basically correct in the sense that we cannot simply just force everyone in, say, Minnesota to install electric baseboard heating, rooftop solar, and a battery pack, and then expect them to stay warm. There are periods of extended e
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by DanTheManPR 6mo ago
The West is getting very cavalier about murdering the government officials of other countries.
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by DanTheManPR 8mo ago
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by DanTheManPR 10mo ago
It's probably not a necessity - I'm sure I could adapt to just using my smartphone if I put the time into learning some of the math apps. I still use my ti-89 for everyday calculations. It's a handy device; more portable than
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by DanTheManPR 1y ago
I'm much younger than you, but I had the experience of having a difficult-to-find-info-on-the-internet subject for a high school paper, and the opporunity to researching the subject at a well stocked library. There was a lot of frictio
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by DanTheManPR 2y ago
Is Chinese high speed rail infrastructure really substandard or lacking maintenance as you claim?
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by DanTheManPR 2y ago
I've had multiples of my students get into legal trouble over the years from using these. Just understand that almost all of these professional level software packages phone home even after being cracked, so you basically have to airga
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by DanTheManPR 2y ago
The current collector also takes up relatively more volume, on top of the packaging (the wall thickness would be the same, and it's not a trivial part of the volume of small cell batteries).
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by DanTheManPR 2y ago
I've been a Mechanical Engineer for a similar length of time, using Solidworks and Creo, and I concur. I've released many thousands of parts over the course of my career, and I don't think of the modeling itself as a major ti
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by DanTheManPR 2y ago
I've always wondered that too. In very quiet rooms I hear quite intense ringing. I have distinct memories as a young child of wanting a fan turned on in my bedroom at night because of the sound of silence was ringing. It seems like wha
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by DanTheManPR 3y ago
Here's an anecdote: I haven't been the victim of any type of crime for the last 15 years, whereas I had multiple break-ins and near violent encounters in the 00s and 90s. My neighborhood and city (I live in Northeast Minneapolis)
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by DanTheManPR 3y ago
...what is this? The page has no About section or any explanation of what WinUAE is.
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by DanTheManPR 3y ago
It's a class 1, so it will assist up to 20mph. I typically cruise at around 15mph on my own (I'm in a similar weight class as a rider). For getting around my town, trips are not much longer than my car.
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by DanTheManPR 3y ago
What keeps me trapped using Windows on my main home workstation is simply that a lot of the professional software I use is Windows-only, and always will be. Fortunately, the advancements in Proton and better cross-platform support for a lot
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by DanTheManPR 3y ago
Humans have been putting a lot conscious effort into modifying our world for our own benefit. We've converted a huge amount of our land area into farmland and cities for our own use, which has had a lot of upsides for our current lifes
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by DanTheManPR 3y ago
I'm guessing that what's happening here is that Boeing could be making more money doing something other than building trash cans, and so is sending an absurdly exorbitant quote to their customer to communicate "stop buying th
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by DanTheManPR 3y ago
I just tried the rom out on my flashcart, and it boots and plays on a real gameboy.
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by DanTheManPR 3y ago
This is the killer aspect of the RPi, that there are tons of well supported drop-in software solutions for it. Other boards can be made to work, but the RPi will just work .
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by DanTheManPR 3y ago
I was surprised to see so much equipment right next to the launch vehicle in the video. Would all that have gotten damaged during the launch?
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by DanTheManPR 3y ago
This is going to be incredibly damaging to forums, in the same way that Photobucket's deletions were. Old forum posts are becoming a ghost town of broken image links.
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by DanTheManPR 3y ago
One way to do it is through hobby groups which meet IRL. You can make friends in the hobby-space there, and then gradually start inviting them to things that are not related to the hobby (becoming more of a true friend).
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by DanTheManPR 3y ago
I am begging you people to read Karl Marx's Capital Vol 1, Ch 15: Machinery and Modern Industry Do you fear washing machines because they eliminated the requirement for doing the laundry by hand? If not, then why is automation in the
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by DanTheManPR 3y ago
>Dude. We're not talking about losing secret ancient knowledge. We're talking about losing pictures of cats. But we're literally talking about book lending, and preserving the old knowledge of the early internet. However l

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