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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

Indeed. I just remembered I was using their DNS service and disabled it because clearly they can't be trusted.

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 important to note that plans to phase things out do not indicate success. See California right now.

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. The LCOEs are not directly compatible.

Dependability has value to society and LCOE does not account for it whatsoever.

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).

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 faster.

That's not necessarily true. Fuel taxes and registration pay for road construction and most railway construction is heavily subsidized by governments.

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).

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 economical for me to take a train a single time. It was several times more expensive than the alternatives in every other case. This left me either flying or bussing.

In Stockholm it's actually cheaper to take a bus to the airport than the train, and that's just local travel.

For some reason I thought this was about https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond-square_algorithm

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 worth it to further insulate or replace functional though inefficient equipment. For example my apartment has an electric bill of about $50 a month, half of that is a fixed infrastructure cost. Even if I could bring my electric use to zero, it could at best save $25 a month. Replacing my AC with a more modern one could probably at best save $5 a month of that, taking many years to pay off even if you pay nothing for labor.

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.

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.

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 subsidy to you if your neighbor gets mugged.

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.

If only it was dead. It's still alive and kicking in military development environments pushed down from above by management.

If they knew most people would pick them, then why are they paying?

Rolling your wrist to scroll and just accepting the poor visibility on part on the screen could still be pretty good.

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 recorded your votes correctly.

Phone manufacturers didn't offer services before. In this case Apple is the carrier (much like a MVNO) for the service.

Gotta save that 1 character yet require hitting shift to cancel it out.

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.

They seem pretty common to me: https://www.electricgeneratorsdirect.com/power/kohler-30-39-...

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.

Sounds like what's happening in the US with our natural gas.

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 plans for about a quarter of that. As a healthy individual that was definitely the right choice for me, but if you have high utilization already it might not be for you.

Hence it being the cost to hire/pay your replacement not just cost to hire anyone.

But not to be relied on.

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 is to avoid having to remove them from the bolt to spin it making it easier to use in tighter locations. No such benefit exists for screwdrivers due to their geometry.

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 are very expensive and can be hard to get access to.

Many cities actually already have these for use by their police so all that they would have to do is open them up to the public.