chemeril

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by chemeril 2mo ago
As an individual this is mostly true unless you're touching broadcasting proper. As a business this is absolutely not true and noncompliance is a ticking time bomb that will bankrupt you.
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by chemeril 1y ago
SBF comes to mind.
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by chemeril 2y ago
Thirded, it fundamentally changed the way I understand government. Would also recommended The Road to Unfreedom for some context around current geopolitics.
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by chemeril 2y ago
20 grams of C4 or similar plastic explosive would be more than adequate to produce the effects seen. CL-20 wouldn't be a good choice for this deployment: it's not particularly stable for rough handling even with a good phlegmatizi
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by chemeril 2y ago
Absolutely a contributing factor. A decade ago folks in the automotive community were speculating that vehicle bloat and a shift of the landscape to heavy truck/SUV representation would be an outcome and sure enough.
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by chemeril 2y ago
If I pull up behind a modern pickup at a stoplight my car is completely occluded. If I pull up to the passenger's side of a modern pickup the driver has no idea: they cannot see down far enough from the driver's seat to know that
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by chemeril 2y ago
Last I checked my desktop doesn't slam into pedestrians/bicyclists trying to use what public infrastructure we have in the US. If unbounded vehicle bloat is systematically contributing to the deaths of citizens then yes, we have a
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by chemeril 2y ago
Finally some action from the NHTSA on this. As a driver of tiny Japanese shitboxes my entire life the last ten years of new vehicle development has been terrifying to watch from the driver's seat. Not only are these new (last 10 years)
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by chemeril 2y ago
What you've described is part of the experiment, which asks the question "can/will you focus for ten minutes on something that you did not choose and may not immediately tickle your neurons?". For most the answer is &#x2
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by chemeril 2y ago
Notably absent from your comment is what you honestly think caused the disintegration of real-world community. I'd posit that it's an expected systemic outcome of unbounded and undirected capitalism.
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by chemeril 2y ago
I'd keep a house for the skiing at Pajarito too! For those reading along it's certainly worth the trip if you're in the area. I have a vague recollection of coming across a physical 6x6 chessboard somewhere on lab property an
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by chemeril 2y ago
I promise people still make piles of money being really good at radio and really good at machining steel. The complexity of the deliverables has increased, yes, but the expertise and technical skill to do modern radio and machining is very
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by chemeril 3y ago
I've worked with these exact parts on a few designs for a large government institution. Exactly as you suspect: couldn't run power/conductive lines to the device on the receiving end for physics reasons. But, did work surpris
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by chemeril 4y ago
I agree! Slack as a utilitarian tool is perfectly fine, in my experience. Not great, but fine enough to be a value-add as a communication platform for business purposes. However, I have found the working culture supported and implicitly enf
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by chemeril 4y ago
Did some time at LANL as an R&D engineer in the non-global security skunky areas, though wound up leaving for reasons not pertaining to the work. Participated in several projects involving Sandia and LLNL. Pros: - Pay was excellent, es
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by chemeril 4y ago
I moved from the greatest of the plains to the mountains, having now lived in the southern and northern Rockies. Counterintuitively, my world became much much larger after discovering topography. With no large geographic reference point you
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by chemeril 4y ago
I was raised on the plains of the Eastern Dakotas. The summers were always noisy: crickets, cicadas, coyotes, prairie dogs, wind, plenty to fill the air. The winters were incredibly austere, sometimes incomprehensibly so to those who haven&
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by chemeril 4y ago
GP's comment was referencing nitrocellulose, which is what I was attempting to address but fatfingered to 'nitroglycerin'. Forgive the typo.
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by chemeril 4y ago
It is not. Nitroglycerin doesn't have the capacity to detonate (necessary for triggering the main charge). Detonators (the acceleration charge you mention) are usually an explosive train starting with a sensitive primary like lead azid
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by chemeril 4y ago
Certainly not a plasma. It's a coherent spear of hydrodynamic copper, not a bunch of charged ions floating around.
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by chemeril 4y ago
Yes, that's reasonable. By the time the jet hits the target the explosive provides no motive force whatsoever: it's purely a momentum game.
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by chemeril 4y ago
Nitrocellulose is not a high-order explosive and used nowhere in this experiment. Deflagration != detonation.
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by chemeril 4y ago
Several US national labs have been developing 3D-printed explosives technology for a bit now. Pretty crazy business that is (surprisingly) safer than doing large machining operations on bulk HE.
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by chemeril 4y ago
Yes and no. It's simple enough to construct a shaped charge from things you buy at Home Depot, assuming you have the right explosive. The explosive needs to be conformal (either plastic or castable) and capable of achieving true detona