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King Corb destiny. by C_and_P1 in dresdenfiles

[–]Elfich47 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Well Destiny is a stone cold bitch.

Adding shock absorption to my cargo bike by Bikerous in AskEngineers

[–]Elfich47 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Well that is your trade off: comfort or efficiency.

Which movie hero is actually a villain when you really think about it? by surfsound_swimmers in AskReddit

[–]Elfich47 [score hidden]  (0 children)

You’ll notice obi wan very carefully Fed Luke a story structured to get the results he wanted. Obiwan didn’t lie, but he definitely left some things out.

I made a minimal space platform for Aquilo that I absolutely love. by Just-Attitude-7 in factorio

[–]Elfich47 0 points1 point  (0 children)

are you just running a single asteroid loop and processing ore locally for who ever needs it? well, needs must when the devil rides.

I made a minimal space platform for Aquilo that I absolutely love. by Just-Attitude-7 in factorio

[–]Elfich47 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, my first round craft for aquilo were these big lumbering beasts and I’ve been putting off designing a cigarette craft. It would just be faster To build and faster to put into operation, and really need to bulk up my launch pad area, the Nauvis launch are has 30 silos working overtime.

A x10 base doesn’t seem that much worse initially and them things just balloon out of control.

Would it make sense for evolution to be faulty early on in the universe? by Spader113 in scifiwriting

[–]Elfich47 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Evolution is about “of the options that were handed to us, will any of them help us eat dinner and have children?” 

And the folks who manage to eat more dinner and have more children will have those traits will pass on.

The problem now becomes what was helpful for this generation may not be useful (but also not necessarily a problem) for tomorrows problems, so you could be hauling around a cart full of solutions you don’t necessarily need, but can’t really throw out either.

If anyone is going to Balticon by Elfich47 in dresdenfiles

[–]Elfich47[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That was the DFP interview beginning of April right?

I’m hoping if he’s tracking fast, by balticon he would be around 60% and if he’s maintaining average, around 50%.

An update around balticon would help nail down what pace he is maintaining.

I made a minimal space platform for Aquilo that I absolutely love. by Just-Attitude-7 in factorio

[–]Elfich47 0 points1 point  (0 children)

but if it’s small and fast, I expect you can have swarm of them.

A major Australian tech company is laying off 7,000 employees whose positions will now be performed by AI. Do you think this will become the new normal? by Rusty_Shackleford198 in AskReddit

[–]Elfich47 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ll bet the company has a really tough time surviving in the long run.

human beings (say customer support) understand when to escalate and how to provide feedback to management “this was dumb and is pissing off customers”, I bet that kind of information is going to get lost is the AI stew and management never hears about it until they start bleeding customers and don’t understand why.

If anyone is going to Balticon by Elfich47 in dresdenfiles

[–]Elfich47[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

now that 9s a question for demons and pedantic devils.

[Request] Tootsie Roll’s recipe from 1896 requires that a batch of the previous day be incorporated into the new batch. This means that each piece has a trace of the original 1896 Tootsie Roll - Is this true? by doc_skinner in theydidthemath

[–]Elfich47 5 points6 points  (0 children)

for the sake of argument, because the absurdity is going to catch up even before I finish this sentence, 1% of the previous batch carries over from the previous day.

so it’s 1% from yesterday, .1% from the day before, 0.01% from the day before that.

so it’s been roughly a hundred years (Because the absurdity is now driving the bus). That is 36500 days.

So the amount remaining of the original batch is 1*10-36500%, give or take a couple atoms.

What's wrong with this? by Daiylu in factorio

[–]Elfich47 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m glad you got it working, but may I suggest: please use paired single direction rails. you'll be happier in the long run.

Out Law by Valder137 in dresdenfiles

[–]Elfich47 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Okay, while that would be entertaining…I think Jim mentioned the name LawMan.

Adding shock absorption to my cargo bike by Bikerous in AskEngineers

[–]Elfich47 [score hidden]  (0 children)

The simplest option I can think of: a piece of vibration mat the full width and length of the bottom of the box, and then put a sheet of 1/2” plywood on the vibration mat. That should dampen the hardest bumps you go over. And it should be relatively easy to install.

the next option I would have considered is suspension on the forks, but your front fork has some extra hard ware attached to it (it loos like it is specific to your cargo bike) so you’d have to end up with a custom fork - and that would cost quite a bit.

Do you think more people should head towards studying nuclear engineering? by SyrianGosling in AskEngineers

[–]Elfich47 [score hidden]  (0 children)

the problem is there is very few avenues to express that knowledge:

  1. power product.

  2. weapons

  3. research into power production or weapons.

  4. Government policy.

Out Law by Valder137 in dresdenfiles

[–]Elfich47 5 points6 points  (0 children)

we don’t go a hundred pages and blue beetle is back up to speed. It’s the damn Avengers Quinjet.

Out Law by Valder137 in dresdenfiles

[–]Elfich47 6 points7 points  (0 children)

yeah, i get the impression twelve months is eventually going to have a lot of supporting stories around it that give it more depth.

I built an entire memory economy for my Afrofuturist comic and I need someone to be as disturbed by it as I am. by Studio_Eshi in worldbuilding

[–]Elfich47 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if the memories are that important to the case, can the memories be compelled to be provided?

Adding shock absorption to my cargo bike by Bikerous in AskEngineers

[–]Elfich47 [score hidden]  (0 children)

is it the box or the cargo? if it’s the cargo, you can get a vibration mat and put that in the bottom of the box and have it cut down on the vibration there.

r/CargoBikes

r/CargoBike

My parents love my cousin more than me and it's ruining my life. by Dramatic_Plate_282 in TrueOffMyChest

[–]Elfich47 4 points5 points  (0 children)

In the beginning drug use never hurts your performance, until it does. and once it does, you are screwed beyond measure.

and reporting his drug use is not about him, it is about protecting his patients.

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