matt_attack

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by matt_attack 4y ago
Gunpowder based nail guns for putting nails into concrete are definitely a thing. Additionally you can use certain attachments or rounds with guns for breaching doors. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaching_round
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by matt_attack 4y ago
Indeed. I just remembered I was using their DNS service and disabled it because clearly they can't be trusted.
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by matt_attack 4y ago
Australia does have some geographic and climate advantages when it comes to solar installations. Most of the interior is basically desert. It also helps that it has one of the lowest population densities of any continent. It's also imp
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by matt_attack 4y ago
Reminder that you'd need either equivalent backing storage and overprovisioning (not yet feasible except in the rare cases where pumped hydro can be built) or backing fossil fuel plants for each unit of wind, even more so than solar. T
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by matt_attack 4y ago
Only dual frequency? Triple frequency for L-band corrections is all the rage these days. If you have that you can get close to RTK accuracy anywhere (with good sky view).
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by matt_attack 4y ago
Well most offline devices don't take minutes now except for the first fix in a long time. It's generally around 30 seconds to a minute. Usually the almanac is stored in non-volatile memory so additional startup fixes are much fast
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by matt_attack 4y ago
That's not necessarily true. Fuel taxes and registration pay for road construction and most railway construction is heavily subsidized by governments.
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by matt_attack 4y ago
Rather they should only do what you let them. It's nonsensical that mobile OSes don't let you fake certain permissions being enabled (for example having a location spoofing option).
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by matt_attack 4y ago
Except busses and airplane flights tend to be much cheaper than train tickets there (excluding subways/local trains). If trains were so efficient that would likely be shown in the pricing. While in Spain for several months it was only
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by matt_attack 4y ago
For some reason I thought this was about https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond-square_algorithm
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by matt_attack 4y ago
One fix would be to have the owner pay for heating/cooling costs of the structure. My apartment pays for the heating so as a result the place is very well insulated even though it is older. I'll note that it's not always wort
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by matt_attack 4y ago
I'm not sure fusion is the breakthrough most think it will be. https://www.science.org/content/article/fusion-power-may-run... It seems like for it to even have a chance we need to go big on fission fow now.
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by matt_attack 4y ago
Irrigation water is only cheap from a demand perspective. There is no subsidy in that case, simply the lack of a free market and poor resource allocation.
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by matt_attack 4y ago
Unless they get a tax refund from it, it absolutely is not a sum of money granted to them. In reality the government is simply just punishing all other businesses that can't take the same deductions. You might as well consider it a sub
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by matt_attack 4y ago
Plenty of people use rail in the US just for carrying goods instead of people. It turns out trains are most efficient at hauling large loads with high tolerances for latency, which humans are not and do not have.
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by matt_attack 4y ago
If only it was dead. It's still alive and kicking in military development environments pushed down from above by management.
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by matt_attack 4y ago
If they knew most people would pick them, then why are they paying?
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by matt_attack 4y ago
Rolling your wrist to scroll and just accepting the poor visibility on part on the screen could still be pretty good.
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by matt_attack 4y ago
It's just as easy for a machine to throw away and not count your vote. Most machines actually print out encoded paper ballots that have all the same vulnerabilities but are usually harder to verify on the voter's side that they re
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by matt_attack 4y ago
Phone manufacturers didn't offer services before. In this case Apple is the carrier (much like a MVNO) for the service.
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by matt_attack 4y ago
Gotta save that 1 character yet require hitting shift to cancel it out.
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by matt_attack 4y ago
I got practically no sleep on mine since they just had me in a standard cabin (like in Harry Potter). Bench seats are just not for sleeping on. It would be much better off with airline or Amtrak style seats.
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by matt_attack 4y ago
They seem pretty common to me: https://www.electricgeneratorsdirect.com/power/kohler-30-39-...
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by matt_attack 4y ago
I'll note that 40kW is only about 53HP, not a very large engine for a car. It's approximately the power of two commercial lawn mowers.
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by matt_attack 4y ago
Sounds like what's happening in the US with our natural gas.
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by matt_attack 4y ago
I've found the opposite, though it likely depends on how "good" your insurance was. My COBRA was around $800/mo for a single person but that was essentially for a zero deductible plan. I could get reasonable short term p
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by matt_attack 4y ago
Hence it being the cost to hire/pay your replacement not just cost to hire anyone.
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by matt_attack 4y ago
But not to be relied on.
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by matt_attack 4y ago
Hard agree. Every ratcheting screwdriver I have has broken and now spins freely therefore is useless. It's just more complexity to break. People tend to draw analogues to ratcheting wrenches but the entire point of ratcheting wrenches
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by matt_attack 4y ago
I do have to say I like the approach of them opening up a drag strip for people to try racing like things safely on. I think more cities should do things like this and essentially have public race courses. The courses that currently exist a

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