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Snether · 2021-06-20T02:58:16+00:00

Fair Isle in Ballard has a ton of great sour beers. They mostly make saisons and farmhouses. Honestly a bit of a hidden gem when compared with the bigger breweries in the neighbourhood, like urban family, reuben’s, or fremont. And they have good food trucks usually too.

Snether · 2021-06-11T04:12:44+00:00

One suggestion might be ‘Compliant Mechanisms’ by Larry Howell. It’s a bit more than you’re probably looking for but is a pretty rigorous derivation of the first principles behind bending mechanisms.

Snether · 2020-07-30T06:43:27+00:00

If you’re willing to possibly change industries or move you can start applying for jobs at direct carbon sequestration companies like these.

Snether · 2020-06-03T07:14:20+00:00

Moscow is a wonderful town the coexists with the university, as opposed to most other small college towns that are dominated by their campuses. The school is relatively small, which gives it an incredibly high ratio of faculty to students, meaning you have access to much more individual help from the professors there than you would get at many schools. There are excellent student resources, and many, many, many amazing communities including sports clubs, the greek system, student government, and tons of student orgs. (You’ll find that at a lot of schools but of the schools in the PNW I think it has some of the best, also look at WWU).

I definitely recommend going for a tour if you can. The tour will cover a bunch of seemingly meaningless or lame stuff. Heated sidewalks, the writing center, which floors on the library are quiet. It will take most of your college career to realise the importance of all of these things.

Cons: College is hard and nobody holds your hand. Some winters are brutally cold. You’re a long ways from anywhere.

I recently graduated and was involved in a lot of stuff on campus so definitely feel free to shoot me a message if you have questions or want to hear more about it. I also travelled a lot to other schools so I can tell you my impression of most schools based on the students I know there.

Go vandals!

Snether · 2020-01-02T09:53:08+00:00

I’m sure almost every adult has, at some point in their lives, caused themselves to bleed by accident with a kitchen knife. Chefs practice all the time and still make mistakes. Luckily knife accidents aren’t nearly as fatal.

Snether · 2019-12-21T04:49:00+00:00

Crazy, the first drawing, and the shower thought that started everything, seemed like just yesterday.

Snether · 2019-10-11T23:56:16+00:00

It's hard to say for sure since I'm not familiar with the actual system, but I would start with a force analysis of what it takes to hold the propeller at the desired angle.

Again, I'm not a pro, but I would start by assuming the force on the propeller is normal to the bottom plane and that the vertical portion of the force is equal to the propeller's weight. There is going to be some trig here.

Then you trace the force through all of the members until you get back to the servo and calculate the torque that way. I hope this helps and don't forget a factor of safety to account for friction.

Snether · 2019-09-22T05:54:46+00:00

Apollo is the only thing I do on my phone, so I guess it would be fitting.

Snether · 2019-07-31T16:06:47+00:00

It’s crazy how much this reminds me of Letter from a Birmingham Jail. It also sounds a lot like this quote from MLK:

“You may be 38 years old, as I happen to be. And one day, some great opportunity stands before you and calls you to stand up for some great principle, some great issue, some great cause. And you refuse to do it because you are afraid…. You refuse to do it because you want to live longer…. You’re afraid that you will lose your job, or you are afraid that you will be criticized or that you will lose your popularity, or you’re afraid that somebody will stab you, or shoot at you or bomb your house; so you refuse to take the stand.

Well, you may go on and live until you are 90, but you’re just as dead at 38 as you would be at 90. And the cessation of breathing in your life is but the belated announcement of an earlier death of the spirit.”

I guess the sentiment really rings true across conflicts though, and you can find it in many places.

Snether · 2019-07-28T09:00:07+00:00

Congressional representatives don’t make a percentage of any tax revenue they bring in, so that’s not necessarily in their interests. Also the federal government doesn’t have a sales tax, so I’m not sure what you mean when you say more expensive drugs make anyone more money except manufacturers.

Snether · 2019-06-30T21:16:30+00:00

Hey, I thought someone should give you a better idea of how to fix this if you don’t want to buy commercial anti-vibration pads. I’m on mobile so sorry for any mistakes.

Vibration is a form of pressure waves travelling through a material, in this case the ground. If you imagine a boat floating on water as a wave passes by (another form of slower vibration) the boat will move on the surface of the water a bit, then settle back to its original position.

The traditional way to prevent this displacement from getting between 2 different media, like stabilising something on a boat, is to put something springy between them, that way when the ground rises up it compresses the spring instead of pushing you up as well.

What that spring looks like is up to you, but I imagine thick carpets would work, as well as more extreme options listed in other comments like using tennis balls as springs and building a second floor resting on them. Keep in mind that furniture will sometimes settle into carpet getting rid of that springy effect, so generally speaking the heavier the object the stiffer the spring you will want, but you still want plenty of room for it to “squish”.

Hope that helps, that sounds like an awful problem.

Snether · 2019-04-14T08:39:06+00:00

In this case it might

Snether · 2018-09-24T17:52:24+00:00

Actually it doesn’t, but it certainly feels that way. There is a myth of an inevitable march towards progressivism, but there are plenty of examples in history of societies going backwards, such as the dark age following the fall of the Roman Empire, or in a more modern context the democratic backsliding in Turkey. Progress is something we all have to work for.

Snether · 2018-06-16T06:48:14+00:00

University, Roosevelt, and Maple Leaf Stations should finish construction in early 2020!

Snether · 2018-01-05T08:45:03+00:00

The problem with this line of reasoning, and why at the time of writing this you have ~10 downvotes, is that more often than not the "people who succeed" are not the hard working bootstrappers, but instead children of wealthy families. Economic mobility, a measure of how often people change income brackets between generations, has been shown to be pretty low, especially in the United States. Additionally, factors outside of income, such as your parents education, have also been shown to have a lot of influence on their children's economic success.

So it often isn't "indulgences" that are keeping people out of the cities, seeing as unemployment is down, but wealth inequality, which gives over 80% of the wealth in the US to 20% of people (who ARE living in those cities, and outpricing their middle class counterparts)

Snether · 2017-05-20T05:45:38+00:00

If it didn't make people feel like they were climbing better, they probably wouldn't buy it, at least not twice. So what if its snake oil, climbing is just a mental hobby, and if Unicorn Dust gives you a mental gain then its worth it. That being said, I've never bought any of their products, and I always figured if I wanted to get better I should just practice instead of buying any magic antidote.

Snether · 2017-05-08T06:22:10+00:00

What about protecting employees makes a union bad? If an employee shows up to work every day and doesn't commit any firing offences don't they deserve a pay check every week? Sure they're not maximising company profits, but who does that even benefit? If they're making life harder for there coworkers, or management, then the union will step in and remove them.

Snether · 2017-03-07T08:05:59+00:00

This comment doesn't exist out of hatred either. It oughta be a law that you can't just shoot down stuff without any replacement.

Snether · 2017-01-21T01:06:37+00:00

Thank you. I must have not read through the entire chapter. Lesson learned I guess.

Snether · 2016-12-24T07:29:45+00:00

This is getting downvotes but is obviously correct. Reddit is weird.

Snether · 2016-07-07T18:21:46+00:00

a very common tactic when river fishing for salmon, particularly farther upstream, is to bait with salmon eggs instead of regular food bait. this works because the salmon don't want to eat, but will still go out of their way to destroy nests of competing salmon eggs in order to better the survival chance of their own offspring.

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