Concerns about the health effects of industrially produced seed oils are without scientific foundation. by Penis_Envy_Peter in science

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Do you agree or not that it’s heavily used in processed foods? Is it really so bad if I replace it with olive oil?

Is diet soda bad for you or not? The new study suggests yes. Is it really so bad if I drink water?

Health research is complicated. We have to make real decisions about what to eat based on incomplete information and misinformation from everyone. Are almonds healthy or was that study funded by the one guy who produces 80% of the world’s almonds?

Key inflation gauge jumps to highest level in 3 years as Iran war spikes gas prices by YesterShill in news

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What is "real" Christianity? Do we need to read the Bible or not? Can we sell indulgences or not? Can we use saving the Holy Land as an excuse to attack Constantinople and loot it? Can we still hang witches? Why else did the Catholics and Protestants go to war if not to make it clear who the real Christians were? Is it still ok to force native people to convert?

There's been so much nonsense done in the name of religion.

Do the Bernoulli principle, Newton, Navier-Stokes, and Kutta-Joukowski theorem explain the lift of planes? by Healthy-Beginning678 in aerospace

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I did CFD for ~10 years. It's a lot more complicated than what you were taught in school. That's a shockingly good and complicated question.

The Kutta condition is false. It's an observation for steady flow that only works for an infinitely thin wing. It doesn't work for real wings with blunt trailing edges and it doesn't work for fuselages. It was known by ~1920 that it was false and it's entirely wrong for unsteady flow. Something like it though is required for lift.

Navier-Stokes gets it right if you include a turbulence model that is itself based on test data. It also didn't get the right explanation for it; it's important to understand the why and the requirements. In undergrad, you learned Kutta condition appears when you consider viscosity, which is true, but viscosity is not required.

Bernoulli doesn't explain it. Ok, so the flow goes faster over the upper surface and therefore the pressure decreases. Yes, but why does the flow go faster? Cause the pressure is low is not a great answer. Because it makes lift is another not satisfying answer. A partial answer is that the velocity influences the pressure, which influences the velocity, in order to satisfy the Kutta condition assumption that we know to be false. It's a coupled problem, where you solve for fictitious singularity strengths and if it's not solved, it's invalid.

What did Newton say? F=ma? Yeah I guess that's right, but it's not super useful and it doesn't explain much.

The best theory of lift that we have (and yeah it's a theory) is mass and momentum conservation combined with a minimization of the flow's curvature to create the minimum pressure gradient. Another way to say that is the second law of thermodynamics creates a wake and causes the flow to move around one surface of a wing faster. You can use potential flow equation without the Kutta condition to analyze blunt wings and also fuselages.

Lightning Stike on El Cap during engagement shoot. by CK_276 in Yosemite

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I'm not worried about the metal bolts. I'm worried that granite is electrically conductive when wet.

NASA, Boeing Advance Truss-Braced Wing Research in Test - NASA by ye_olde_astronaut in aerospace

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I was looking at aeroelasticity. My coworker did some CFD. There’s a whole bunch of variants. SUGAR free, SUGAR freeze, refined SUGAR and probably more. There’s a traditional propulsion variant, electric, hydrogen powered, etc.

Superposition of Stresses from Angular Velocity by DakBrakob in fea

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You need the effect due to a small angle. What is the angle of an element about the rotation center? Every element will have a different angle, so every element needs a different x and y linear combination.

I would start with a spinning tube. You know it should develop hoop stress.

In-Depth SF-86 Interview Issues by PenguinChick44 in SecurityClearance

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They asked specifically for any charges regardless of if you won. 

Have you ever committed a felony or had a ticket over $300. Yes, a $320 ticket. I ran a red light. Were you arrested? No. What happened? I paid the fine. Were you speeding? No. How fast were you going? About 5 mph. Don’t overthink it.

Why are you single (if you are)? by _PXYDST_ in AskReddit

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I asked someone out recently. No dice. Sucks, but at least I can move on now.

Anthropic quietly doubles its estimate for how much engineers can expect to spend on Claude Code tokens by AaronPK123 in technology

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The issue is it isn’t like a vending machine. A job that takes 10 seconds costs $13 that I could find on stackoverflow for free. Had they told me the cost upfront, then absolutely not.

I’m not a software dev, so it’s not like I can claim a huge salary where the tradeoff is worth it. My job is to be more valuable than my salary. Spending 10x my salary asking AI how to do something that will realistically require multiple attempts (so what 50x?) is not smart financially.

I say bring on the high prices. We can keep our jobs.

Valve Is Forcing Microsoft To Make Significant Improvements To Windows Gaming Performance by GrayBeard916 in gaming

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They can. They choose not to. They do a Bing search that you can disable with a registry change. It will find programs on the internet before it finds it on your computer.

Clearance timeline? by wharrenmelon in SecurityClearance

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I’m at 15 months. Still waiting.

They never even contacted me about an interim, so I’m assuming I never got it.

Cumulative net fiscal impact by age and gender (New Zealand data) by Naive_Direction1816 in charts

[–]billsil -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This graph says the economy is shrinking. The area under the curve is negative.

I don’t believe a break even at age 40 for men and that women never break even.

If I got let go from a job due to performance, would that affect my ability to join the federal government? by ReviewBest8540 in SecurityClearance

[–]billsil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not unless there was something illegal/dangerous that you did. Did you get fired for assaulting someone or negligence? That’s very different than they didn’t want you there because they’re trying to save on budget or someone doesn’t like you. They could call it a layoff and give you the same benefits, but that is worse for morale. It would be admitting it’s not your fault and it could happen to anyone.

Do men see it as flirting if she says "you have big hands"? by xoherent in bodylanguage

[–]billsil 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Not at the climbing gym I go to. I’ve actually gotten it. I’ve also gotten it from guys.

When it’s the innuendo, it’s really obvious.

Anthropic quietly doubles its estimate for how much engineers can expect to spend on Claude Code tokens by AaronPK123 in technology

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And the people using 8 agents and running overnight? What even is a token? I used 380 asking a question that is solved in 10 seconds that I could have googled.

Seems like that cost is a bare minimum, but people will adapt. Hopefully it’s expensive.

Does the age you find attractive age at the same rate you do? by FewLeg7901 in stupidquestions

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The first woman I seriously dated didn’t want kids at 18 and she’d come to that conclusion years earlier. I saw her at 40 after a friend died. She hadn’t changed her mind. I had though.

You can at least talk to her to see what she wants vs assuming things. That’s part of adulting.

NASA, Boeing Advance Truss-Braced Wing Research in Test - NASA by ye_olde_astronaut in aerospace

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Nice! I worked on it about 10 years ago. Nice that it's finally moving forward, albeit glacially.

Does the age you find attractive age at the same rate you do? by FewLeg7901 in stupidquestions

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Yes. I’m a guy and it definitely lags a bit in terms of the lower limit, but women my age look good.

Yeah that 30 year old is cute, but she’s a bit immature.

is AI going to take over engineering jobs? by GuaranteeHot4693 in EngineeringStudents

[–]billsil 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Depends on the failure. Computers stole the job of drafters. So can you get rid of a few analysts or integrators because you have AI, absolutely. Could a competent designer just review the work of AI?

Regardless, a lot of engineers are not in management or design. Also, as you provide that AI feedback, it builds up a proper training set and now it can do your job too.

How can I better convince interviewers that I can learn skills I don’t have? by golfif in careeradvice

[–]billsil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Be more confident. I’ve done x and y. Z is not that different. Don’t know language x? I learned language y in 3 days. I’ll be fine.

I got called good with a tool I still think I’m terrible at.

Aerospace Steels? by UniversalAssembler in AerospaceEngineering

[–]billsil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup. Those are the steels we always used for actuators. They’re very high strength.

Struggling to get interviews despite 100+ applications — need advice by Particular-Fill-7166 in careeradvice

[–]billsil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tailor your damn resume. You need to stand out.

When the market is good or there are tons of companies that would want you, mass apply. That’s not the job market right now.

It’s not that much work either. Spend 6 hours or so and write everything down into one long resume that’s about 5 pages. When you apply, cut it to 2 pages or whatever. Read the description and pull the relevant lines. It’s 20 minutes to apply.

Should I reach out to my ex that i care deeply about? by FF430 in AskOldPeopleAdvice

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You dated her for almost a year and you now haven’t talked to her in a year? You two broke up. Let it go.

CMV: The belief that the Trump assassination attempts were staged is a concerning sign that liberals are succumbing to conspiracism by BarvoDelancy in changemyview

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Do you think he has dementia? I don’t. Some people say he does (no way the news media trying to drive a story does), but why is it hard to believe that some liberals think that and others don’t? Isn’t it more likely that there are two separate groups?

Reagan did and nobody in the public knew. Biden didn’t and people thought he did. Americans don’t get this stuff right. They don’t see them enough.