mildchalupa

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by mildchalupa 3y ago
Life's dangerous.
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by mildchalupa 3y ago
Roughly 30k cycles is typical. You can certainly design a spring to have infinite life. But it requires reducing average deflection, aka more spring with less deflection per turn.
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by mildchalupa 3y ago
People think garage door springs are like diffusing a bomb. It's not that bad if you are competent and have the correct equipment.
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by mildchalupa 3y ago
This is a wild proposition. Were taxis running directly after 9/11? This is sort of a problem if a society depends on them as a piece of critical infrastructure. If a city owns a bus route and needs to evacuate a population, they can
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by mildchalupa 3y ago
Large CNC machines that are not exportable under ITAR use GPS and other sensors to detect movement.
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by mildchalupa 3y ago
Sustainable forrest management requires frequent controlled burns to manage underbrush. Around Michigan this can be a yearly occurrence.
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by mildchalupa 3y ago
I have a new one. PM had determined that their work load is diminished if a project is killed. So they deliberately recommend that projects be terminated and or do things that would cause the likelihood of termination to increase.
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by mildchalupa 3y ago
I thought it was determined to be a glove finger knitting apparatus.
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by mildchalupa 3y ago
1000 pieces is a soft tool Millions are expected out of hard tooling.
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by mildchalupa 3y ago
Probably a bimodal distribution here in terms of homeschool education. Though the entire set is probably more useful and practical.
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by mildchalupa 3y ago
The four wheeling and automotive communities in general have been in disarray lately based on the instant gratification of Facebook groups, and chats such as slack and discord. Partially because these systems are far simpler for adding audi
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by mildchalupa 3y ago
That's like living in Ohio
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by mildchalupa 3y ago
Lessened visibility is due completely to rollover protection regulations. Vehicles around the 2010's+ require stronger A,B,C...pillars etc. Automakers complied with the regulations by making pillers both larger and shorter. Shorter mem
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by mildchalupa 3y ago
Here's an example, before WWII brake lines were made out of Monel, a corrosion proof material aside from galvanic. Nickel and copper being expensive and needed elsewhere the lines were made then made from painted steel. After the war s
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by mildchalupa 3y ago
I would argue that median energy consumed per capita is a useful metric to measure standard of living.
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by mildchalupa 3y ago
There is a short window of human fertility. Let's assume you are "smart" and wait until you are out of college. You might start at 22 and have a little over 13 years until it's its considered a geriatric pregnancy. If th
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by mildchalupa 3y ago
Collective alignment of citizens with Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
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by mildchalupa 3y ago
Deflation also increases the value of debt, so loans become harder to pay back. For those lucky enough to get a low interest rate loan a high inflation rate eats away at the value of the debt. If we look at maxima and minima, Infinite defla
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by mildchalupa 3y ago
Link for article without paywall?
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by mildchalupa 3y ago
Somewhere you need an lox and methane inlet to the currently lit raptors that does not experience transient no fuel events. Such events would create situations of incorrect fuel ratios, and fluid hammer within turbo pumps. Ideally hot stagi
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by mildchalupa 3y ago
Thank you
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by mildchalupa 3y ago
What is there to remember about tearing down an LS motor it's like Lego. It's also completely poka-yoked so it's idiot proof.
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by mildchalupa 3y ago
VW
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by mildchalupa 3y ago
You need an angel investor. AngelList aka wellfound might be a resource.
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by mildchalupa 3y ago
So pizza hut should have gone upmarket? Pizza de la hutt
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by mildchalupa 3y ago
1.5-2 Tesla you hit the knee of the BH curve and you saturate the steel.
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by mildchalupa 3y ago
Electromagnetic solenoid designer here... Copper and a magnet can certainly interact. Drop a magnet through a copper pipe and the eddy currents will induce a field that's opposed to the magnet causing a damping effect. Maybe something
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by mildchalupa 3y ago
TSMC is Taiwan's single largest strategic national interest. It was started with government investment and it likely remains under a degree of national control. If you replicate the fabs of TSMC in the US, Taiwan will lose its strategi
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by mildchalupa 3y ago
In hardware all products are constantly changing. Examples: A part gets obsoleted by vendor, sustaining engineering has to find a replacement. They conduct a small study to see how the new part works. The budget for conducting lengthy tests
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by mildchalupa 3y ago
We live in a time of historically unparalleled peace due to unthinkably dangerous weapons. An unlikely Nash equilibrium.

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