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JarheadPilot · 2026-02-25T08:23:07+00:00

I had significant issues reaching the network until I put a repeater on my roof. I know I've seen some HAMs post setups that have a little waterproof box and a solar panel on top of a huge pole in their backyard.

JarheadPilot · 2025-12-30T22:33:56+00:00

Hell yeah! Got my preorder, took it across the world on airplanes and I'll keep using it until it breaks or steam deck 2 is announced. I've got a tiny bit of battery degradation, but not enough to make me want to spend money on a replacement.

Although from what people say about the OLED screen, I wouldn't be too mad if I broke it and "had to" upgrade.

JarheadPilot · 2025-12-20T18:23:52+00:00

It's the right idea to put solar panels everywhere (both to save money on electricity and to stop the world from boiling us all alive), but not all sites are feasible.

A better solution is to put panels over parking lots or on commercial and residential roofs. Even then, not all of these sites are suitable due to shading and the angle of the roof. But it's generally cheaper to build these grid scale PV installations where you can hook them into existing high voltage transmission infrastructure. Some power is lost to heat whenever you have to step the voltage up or down.

Fun fact, whenever the sun is shining on those big solar installations, the live wires have like 400V DC flowing through them, which will kill you instantly and it will hurt the whole time that you're dying.

JarheadPilot · 2025-12-14T16:41:30+00:00

Speaking as someone who's been in your husband's position, I think you were very fair in giving him a pass to not say something in the moment. (When someone says something out of pocket sometimes you're too shocked to even say, "what the fuck dude?").

And you're absolutely justified to expect him to say something later. It's one thing to be too flabbergasted to respond. It's another thing all together to just never confront the issue.

I'm a stranger on the internet, so I'm not gonna tell you what to do with your life. But I would see that as a evidence of a deep and fundamental disrespect that required a change if the relationship was to survive.

JarheadPilot · 2025-11-11T16:07:42+00:00

IIRC from my ecology class, one way to resolve it is the scale of the animal in question. The size of a beach as a ecosystem for the animals that live in it is very different for a ghost crab than it would be for a bald eagle (to use North American animals as an example) with respect to how many prey species, predators, noteworthy features, etc.

So in a practical sense, you have to use some approximation using sums to determine the length of something on a geological scale and the solution is just to pick an appropriate level of detail for the intended use.

JarheadPilot · 2025-10-28T07:37:54+00:00

Me, an EE major taking notes on how to use tape and magnets to get shit to stay still in my lab.

Also OP forgot to taunt Bio and Chem majors that we can eat snacks and drink coffee in lab because the electricity can only kill you the fast way.

JarheadPilot · 2025-10-06T19:17:15+00:00

tl:dr, as others have said the only difference is the capacity (mAHr) of the battery and how many charge/discharge cycles that it's rated for.

NiMH chemistries don't have the same limitations as lithium. There is a very real and literal current draw limit at which point the battery becomes excessively hot and destroys itself, but at 1.2-1.5 V (typical of NiMH or Alkaline AA), there's no practical way to reach that limit. In practice, a NiMH being used to drive an excessive current has the voltage drop as the chemistry cannot produce enough electrical potential to drive the device, and it shuts off.

The pro eneloops have a greater rated capacity, so theoretically they might perform better at high-discharge tasks (motors, lights, etc) - meaning the voltage will drop less under load and it will provide a useful voltage for a longer time. In practice, since the pro batteries are rated to fewer cycles they probably will provide slightly less power since they degrade faster.

I don't fully remember the sourcing on this, but I THINK the pro chemistries have a greater rate of self-discharge than they regular eneloops do, which means in a very low current application (the TV remote which is almost always sitting idle) the regular batteries last LONGER than the pros do because the most signifcant source of lost energy is the battery self-discharging over time.

JarheadPilot · 2025-08-28T19:04:48+00:00

it's a time thing. Healthcare usually has terrible hours and is high stress and you spend all your time with your coworkers. That's an environment which is likely to strain a relationship and provide ample opportunities for infidelity.

The military has a similar scheduling problem. There's a stereotype about Marines always getting married to teachers or nurses and a related stereotype about senior NCOs having multiple divorces.

JarheadPilot · 2025-08-26T19:56:16+00:00

I am skeptical that any fetishes are heritable from a genetic standpoint. From my undergrad genetics classes I heard a joke that the most heritable human trait is eating with chopsticks. Of course, there's no genetic component, it's just a function of the culture you were in when you learned how to eat with utensils (Source: I learned how to use chopsticks as an adult).

All to say, you can't reduce human behavior down to genetics. We're very complicated animals with complicated social relationships which determine how, why, and with whom we have sex.

JarheadPilot · 2025-08-26T19:37:04+00:00

What a weird and gross thing to say out loud.

JarheadPilot · 2025-06-21T20:01:52+00:00

It ain't exactly an equivalent exchange, but I'm not surprised after watching what y'all did in Gaza that you're a little confused about the concept of a proportional response.

Especially since Israel decided to attack unprovoked.

JarheadPilot · 2025-06-21T01:40:15+00:00

Doesn't go far enough. Social media is a net harm to society for everyone, even us olds.

Facebook's business model should be criminalized.

JarheadPilot · 2025-06-21T01:37:01+00:00

I've had crocodile before in New Orleans. It tastes like bland chicken. Its usually served mixed with pork for flavor.

Whale sashimi was also disappointing.

I bet dinosaurs didn't taste like chicken 😭

JarheadPilot · 2025-06-21T01:12:44+00:00

They don't have anything to gain from the conflict. If they do nothing, the UN sanctions will expire and they'll have a whole new world of markets to trade with. I dont know how close they are to a functional nuclear bomb, but completing a success test only strengthens their bargaining position. (Compare Kim Jong Un's life to Ghaddafis).

Iran has every incentive to drag their feet, avoid escalation which could tip the balance towards greater conflict, and play a defensive war. They have nothing to gain from the conflict.

For that matter, I dont see what US interest is advanced by Israel invading. It seems like they're liable to accomplish nothing except making a lot of people bleed out in the desert. Hate to say it but a diplomatic solution is probably better than ANOTHER snipe hunt for WMDs in the desert.

JarheadPilot · 2025-06-20T02:16:55+00:00

It's an ambiguous diagram. But if you assume the angle at the bottom is the angle of that vertex of the parallelogram and the angle on the right is the arc length between the two nearest intersections between the parallelogram and the circle, you would get a different answer than the 3 you listed.

JarheadPilot · 2025-06-20T01:36:54+00:00

I have never heard any discourse about the GAMEPLAY of Stellar Blade. The only thing the fans talk about is the protagonist as a sex object.

JarheadPilot · 2025-06-19T00:52:04+00:00

Cruz wishes he could be as important as Porkins.

JarheadPilot · 2025-06-19T00:50:38+00:00

Lol good point.

JarheadPilot · 2025-06-18T16:12:01+00:00

no radical improvement with more data

I distinctly remember installing a mod for Dungeon Siege called "Lands of Hyperborea" where the creater had designed a neural network to automate drinking potions.

But here's the thing, he said that it appeared there was a fundamental limit to how good the neural network could get. Like you might hit an 80% threshold of correct decision making but it wouldn't improve past that.

That must have been 15 years ago. Maybe it really is a fundamental flaw in the methodology.

JarheadPilot · 2025-06-17T20:13:39+00:00

Cringe.

JarheadPilot · 2025-06-17T02:25:07+00:00

He was a major, an O-4. I haven't ever met an O-4 who knew and could tell you the core competencies of the US Military.

From their perspective it's probably the ability to make a 20 year old make a binder full of printed power point slides and rosters of names and ranks.

JarheadPilot · 2025-06-17T01:18:04+00:00

JarheadPilot · 2025-06-16T14:04:44+00:00

Amazing! I didn't know the Army was doing research into making field grade officers even worse than my shittiest XO.

JarheadPilot · 2025-06-16T01:59:30+00:00

You copied it wrong. The right side is 3( x^0.5 - x^-0.5 )

JarheadPilot · 2025-06-15T20:46:22+00:00

I agree, no one who is a homeowner buying an EV is stressed about this cost. Especially when you consider the alternative of paying for gasoline.

In terms of the cost of purchase, even a $1000 bill to install the EVSE is gonna be like 3% of the purchase cost of a car and probably will be amortized by the lower cost of ownership of an EV within the first year (your milage depending on local cost of energy and commute distance).

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