FunnyBadger

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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
Just turned 60. One thing I've found (I started programming when I was 11) is that you can get better at judging situations/application/specifications and choosing NOT to write code in certain obvious ways or at all. Sometim
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
It would be nice. The problem is the same as self-driving cars: they work but ONLY in certain very constrained and limited application scenarios that limit their adoption. Self-driving cars will never do well in snow country during a blizz
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
I look forward to finding ways of sabotaging this technology!
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
Maybe they shouldn't use a technology that is fundamentally ambiguous about identity - you know go back to paper and US mail.
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
There's a reason why it didn't work before during the 1960s. And why dirigibles died in the 1930s. Nothing in technology or the laws of physics have changed enough to alter its viability! MOST people, in my experience, who push
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
Yet another reason why I drive 20 yo cars and have zero interest in buying anything new.
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
I live in a place that barely have 3G and mostly not even that. The best strategy is to simply adjust to not having or using cellular. When I need to make a cellular call, I simply have to get in my car and drive the 8 miles into the nearb
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
Who decides what is uninteresting?
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
No.
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
Only up to a point. Not everyone can be "supremely good leaders" but most can become better than average. The difference is personality and especially empathy and charisma. Without those, it's hard to reach the heights.
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
Peltiers simply can not scale. But compressor refrigeration easy can.
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
With the recently court decision against social media company censorship, this may become a major legal problem for Facebook. https://www.dailywire.com/news/fifth-circuit-deals-huge-lega... We can only hope!!
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
Leave California. Pretty much ANYWHERE ELSE has a lower cost of living and if it's a Red State, far more jobs. I left despite being born and raised in California. Never coming back.
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
Ethereum's PoS is so dangerously weak and risky that strict PoW in Bitcoin is very much a better hedge.
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
The cost to "collect" space junk is astronomical. The issue is relative velocities of their orbits combined with the fact that even LEO has a lot of separation between objects. It's very similar to the issue of extracting C
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
Absolutely NOT. Or you need to stop calling biology, geology and other majors forms of science or STEM if you eliminate calculus.
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
The US DOE designed the most efficient wood stoves during Jimmy Carter's presidency (he was an engineer by training). Those are the same ones we use today. This isn't a recent thing. This includes cat converter wood stoves. Str
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
Of course it is absurd. The most logical, green and efficient solution is to burn Russian natural gas. But when you have politicians irrationally ignoring the needs of the people they are supposed to represent, this is what will necessaril
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
You are absolutely correct. Supply Chains are primarily fossil based and can NOT be substituted with low density sources like Green Energy or even electricity at all. For example, you can't efficiently make steel or most other metals w
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
Complete BS. Green Energy has radically lower thermodynamic efficiency and energy density than ANY other currently used energy source (especially fossil and nuclear). These two qualities of an energy source have a direct relationship to ec
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
Clock rate limits are directly due to physical heating limits on-chip with silicon. That's what it stopped being an automate gimmme of scaling and it likely never will come back again as a systematic thing because the laws of physics
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
There's a mathematical model for this. It doesn't require 50% leaving to destroy a company. First you have Price's Law - half the people actually doing work rises with the square root of the total employee count. It's a
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
Seriously look at other payment processors. You are overthinking this - if you have to use game theory and uncertainty to plan your relationship with a vendor (instead of picking up a phone or sending an e-mail to ask or solve your issues),
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
Cold Turkey is one of the most effective ways. Close the old account and open an entirely new one if that's still on the table. Honestly all the problems that accrue with social media are net negative and are best avoided 100%. No p
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
I call BS on this. It would require negating entropy.
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
This is the central flaw of social media itself. As engineer by training this is positive feedback with a wide bandwidth loop gain which is ALWAYS a recipe of unstable system behavior. Things that could "fix" social media: 1. Slo
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
Yes. It's 100% BOTH. Twitter is going to have some major, major legal problems with the current Missouri lawsuit - acting as a direct agent of the US Government puts Twitter 100% under the jurisdiction and requirements of the 1st Amen
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
Very cool. If you do machining, carpentry, construction, etc. you find this kind of stuff is surprisingly central to everyday work - you'll use either geometry constructions or the concepts behind them CONSTANTLY. Very useful to peak
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
Definitely agree. The one I co-own is an old-school .com domain. Probably still the best. If costs are your critical issue, maybe you should re-think your plans for having any of it online. We are not talking about a lot of money in any
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
The two elements I see: 1. CO2 is ONLY useful if the CO2's next use is profitably useful - the fossil fuel industry is the only economically viable user of CO2 that can "make it disappear because they inject it into wells. Any ot

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