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@Beni1250793 @ShamashAran CA can’t actually manage to build theirs. The cost right now is enough to subsidize flights from SF to LA for the next century.

@orihara @ShamashAran Yes, blue states build them in their states. But we're talking across the nation

Because Liberals aren't actually serious about deploying trains, they are just using these programs for graft and fraud. This was supposed to cost 33 billion dollars, and now is up to 120 billion, and this is all that exists. the Tokaido Shinkansen was built for about 40 billion in today's dollars. If someone can build a dallas/austin/san antonio/houston high speed rail in Texas for 33 billion dollars? I'm all for it. You can't or won't though.

@Beni1250793 @ShamashAran CAHSR is entirely within CA.

@ShamashAran This isn't true, people are 100% serious. The only reason high speed rail systems don't exist is because red states generally wouldn't benefit from it and it would cost them more in the long run. High speed rail benefits from transporting people between urban centers.

@nikutaberuru My saxophone has three tuning forks on it.

親愛なるアメリカ兄貴たち 日本ではアメリカ製の楽器が 熱狂的に愛されています。 アメリカには日本製の楽器を 愛している人達はいるでしょうか？

@MehdiHacks Wheeler makes a torque driver, but it’s marked in in-lbs, and looks like the minimum is 5, which still doesn’t go down as far as you’d like (about .55Nm)

I need a torque screwdriver that covers 0.4-2Nm, costs < €250, and works with 1/4" bits. Any suggestions? Wiha doesn't accept 1/4" bits. Hazet is expensive (€500+). Wera doesn't have a single tool that covers this range. So far my best option is this Stahlwille model (~€290)

@RafeBingham @R_P_one Dual tramline style design with a forward bridge island.

@R_P_one can you please explain wtaf is going on there??

As we are now seeing so much fantastic content from Japan, a throwback to the last time we had a Japanese student on our MSc course, in the team designing the "Unicorn" class CVN.

@Anon_Noticer @tuatuarek @R_P_one Take a close look at where the props and rudder actually are, before you continue to make people less unsure of your intelligence.

@ZombieHedgehog_ I saw one printing yesterday.

Have you seen this relic before?

@Jojosdojo @BrknMan @pwsimerimiaw He’s got an incentive to mishear: dealers don’t do as much maintenance on electric cars, so they get less recurring revenue from them.

@BrknMan @pwsimerimiaw I asked specifically about battery life, maybe he misheard.

Horrific conversation in a Skoda dealership just now about electric cars: Me: so how long does the battery last? Rep: about 100k / 8yrs Me: then you swap the battery? Rep: nope. Swap the car. The battery is built into the floor.

@patio11 @TheStalwart @heyitsnoah I’ve had Claude write a test file that called the tested code exactly 0 times.

@TheStalwart @heyitsnoah For example, sometimes after developing a new feature it does the obvious things and extends the test suite, sometimes it runs a smoke test only in an ad hoc fashion forgetting it has a test suite, and sometimes it just says "Well this is done and has no bugs whatsoever."

Do engineers who use Claude Code (et. al.) worry about the obsequiousness problem? When we talked with @heyitsnoah he pointed out that "pair programming" has long been a thing in software development. But presumably in a pair, one human isn't just there to validate the other.

@SandyofCthulhu Property taxes can generally be compared to other properties for value, and we can find a fair market value for them based on fair sale prices.

@SandyofCthulhu We need to have taxes to pay for stuff. We can tax real property, other property (through sales tax, or wealth tax), personal income, and corporate income. You can turn different knobs to have allocations, but in the end, you need to get a certain amount of cash.

But why is it on your house? Why not tax your washing machine. Or your carpet? Or the black velvet paintings handing on your walls? It's completely arbitrary, and seems unfair, particularly because we are ALREADY HEAVILY TAXED for those damn public services.

@planefag My rice cooker makes better rice than I do. Just like my dishwasher washes dishes better than me, and my washing machine washes clothes better than me.

Japan gets a pass because they live in a nation prone to earthquakes, where they only have two burner stoves and have to feed them off small gas bottles they lug up the stairs themselves. The rest of you bastards have NO GODDAMNED EXCUSE

@Rank1Apples High end: visionminer.com/products/22idex But this is probably not a printer for beginners. I mean, are you really going to print in PEEK?

Ok 3d printer bros, I'm ready to break down and buy a printer. The cost of the gun wall(s) are just too high, so just gonna 3d print it. Literally more expensive to buy a gun wall than to buy a safe. 🙄 What brand printer? I want high end performance, not cheap. Please repost!

@patgagnon_75 I had a US flight line driving license: I did not have to maintain communications with ATC. We did not have a radio. That said, I was never permitted to cross the runway, because no radio. So I had to go there long way around the end instead when going to the other side.

Ftr, i'm not a flight safety investigator, but I do have experience as a former R.C.A.F technician on flightlines. Here's what we know. 1. The aircraft was cleared to land well before the approach. 2. Landing aircraft have priority above all else. 3. All vehicles on the flight..

@cdrsalamander I’ve been using SouthWest Asia for more than two decades. It’s descriptive as to where on the Asian continent you’re talking about. West Asia is kinda nonsense. That’s just Russia.

“Decolonization”

@VLO225 @heretos58455629 @MarioLeb79 Reporting as a US Army F-35 makes me doubt.

@heretos58455629 @MarioLeb79 Stealth planes aren't invisible , we don't know the exact details If it was operating on low enough altitude it could fired upon by manpads . We also don't know if the plane was carrying eternal munitions which raises RCS

CNN report: A US Army F-35 fighter jet made an emergency landing at a US Army base in the Middle East after being hit by anti-aircraft fire during a mission in Iran. A CENTCOM spokesperson said the plane landed safely and the pilot is in stable condition; this is the first time Iran has hit a US Army plane.

@i2cjak I want this for my robotics team.

idea: open voltage across two pieces of metal (say 120VDC) and move the pieces of metal close to one another in a liquid solution with a consistent dielectric breakdown (say for sake of argument, oh ~80εr) and allow the breakdown of said medium (idk let's use water haha) into a mini lightning bolt. Once that lightning bolt forms, drop the voltage (let's just wing it and go 24VDC :3) and dump 100+ amps through the gap in a few microseconds to vaporize the metal in an extremely precise and controllable manner. For fun let's put this on the desktop of every child in the country

@Guzzak @Jordan_W_Taylor The soviets definitely did not send dozens of nuclear reactors into space. The US didn’t leave 5 RTGs on the moon. Etc. Satellites use PV because most of them are commercial, and buying space nuclear power is expensive and mostly restricted to .gov use.

@orihara @Jordan_W_Taylor Still plenty. A pound of solar panels is worth a pound of nuclear power plant here on Earth where you don't need to take an 18 month trip for a bit of lithium shielding or a replacement cesiated hydrogen duct. There's a really good reason satellites use PV, not lil nukes.

Kilopower, the little Martian reactor that could: A miracle of simplicity & sodium. NASA was given the brief to design a super-simple micro-reactor for future Martian settlement, and it did so brilliantly by doing it unconventionally. A normal Earthbound nuclear reactor is complex, with banks of pumps, water & steam injection pressurizers, control rod actuation, frequent movement of fuel during refuelling cycles, complex systems of valves, back-up emergency coolant and deluge systems, boron injection… it goes on & on & on. A terrestrial nuclear plant is a triumph of safety-conscious system engineering, but it’s a busy one, and Kilopower dispensed with all of this. The intention for the system is that you could set it up, get it started and just… forget about it, pretty much. It has a small, solid core with no moving pieces except for the control rod which is designed to be moved on startup and then kept in place, unmonitored, for a decade at a time. The small size & low power means that reactivity effects are dominated by thermal expansion and are extremely stable. Low power designs (less than 100 kiloWatts thermal energy) make thermal management and irradiation damage a non-issue that does not complicate system design. Very low power level designs (less than 10kW thermal) feature such low burnup reactivity that movement of the control rod becomes a ten-year interval. A literal ‘tin’ wedding anniversary, marked out by tweaks to the control rod. There’s a quirky Martian anniversary gift for you! Even at much higher power levels, the stability is such, and burnup so low, that control rod movement would be something you’d only have to do occasionally, every few months or annually. In essence this is a nuclear battery. In all cases, the reactor is designed to handle worst-case transients such as coolant loss passively without any need for control inputs, further simplifying the system. Truly, this is a zen ideal: Feng Shui engineering, where less is more and the system simplicity brings reliability and safety, all in one. Perfect for missions to space.

@Guzzak @Jordan_W_Taylor Mars is 1.5 times further from the sun, so it get 1/(1.5^2) as much sunlight. About 44% as much. Nevermind the dust storms that can last for days.

@Jordan_W_Taylor lol nope, plenty of solar on Mars.

@batteryscott @sdamico You can use a battery to buffer this, but commercially available battery stations are like $2500 for 240V: homedepot.com/p/Anker-SOLIX-…

@batteryscott @sdamico People who want to run 220v devices in the US want it so they can run high power devices (or foreign stuff). This will do foreign stuff, but not high power. You cannot run more than 1800W off a US 120V outlet. You will burn down your house. Even if you use a 3kVA transformer.

yeah actually there is ... we call it "impulse core" should be in home depot this year too