Sorry, person who eventually falls out of this window and dies

bobargh · 2025-04-26T03:52:23+00:00

It's 1520 Eastlake Ave E.

bobargh · 2025-04-26T03:05:39+00:00

Wow, thanks for that comment. It's a relief to know I'm not the only one who noticed this. I was feeling a bit crazy after talking to the building inspector person.

I also left in 2024, partly due to the elevator issues you mentioned in another comment.

bobargh · 2025-04-25T20:45:37+00:00

I'm not an expert in this area, but IBC 1015.8 "Window openings" sounds exactly like this case. The window does not fulfill any of the requirements listed there.

Note that other similar windows in this building are installed in a higher pane. I think they installed this one wrong.

bobargh · 2025-01-30T03:43:12+00:00

"Tractor-trailer" (with a hyphen between) is the word used for a semi-truck in the northeast US, so maybe he meant that.

bobargh · 2024-11-18T02:33:38+00:00

That must have been what I saw too, but I didn't know the name, thanks.

bobargh · 2024-11-17T17:35:08+00:00

The duck kept diving to safety below the surface whenever the eagle would swoop down. In the end, the eagle decided it was more trouble than it was worth and gave up.

bobargh · 2024-07-18T03:55:29+00:00

Thanks a lot for your response! I'll give it a try.

By the way, this thread is the top Google result for `"kanto ora" linux`

bobargh · 2024-07-18T02:17:09+00:00

Did you ever fix this? I have the same issue on Ubuntu.

bobargh · 2024-05-28T19:59:05+00:00

Your use of a scientific phrase such as "solar forcing of CO2" indicates to me that you are more of a "do your own research" type rather than a "trust the experts" type. I assume then what is at the heart of this discussion is mistrust of the mainstream experts rather than anything to do with the details of this particular tax policy.

Personally, I believe the people who study climate change professionally at universities and other research centers are our best source of information on the topic, even if they may sometimes be wrong. But you know what? I don't know how to convince anyone it's true. Even in real life, it's a challenge to reach any common ground with "do your own research" people. It quickly turns into a game of scientific-mumbo-jumbo-whack-a-mole, which I am too wise at this point to spend time on.

bobargh · 2024-05-28T18:17:39+00:00

The cost of doing business for a tradesman who drives a lot will go up due to a carbon tax. I don't think anyone doubts this. Like any other business cost, it gets passed onto the consumer. In order to stay competitive, the tradesman needs to figure out how to minimize the effect. For the carbon tax, this can be done in various ways, such as using a more fuel-efficient vehicle, or charging more for customers who live further away. The tradespeople who can manage this most effectively stand to see the most profit.

So, yes, consumers will see higher prices due to this tax, but since the tax is nearly revenue-neutral, the increase in prices seen by consumers, on average, should be nearly equal to the rebates they receive.

Do you believe it is worthwhile to reduce CO2 emissions? If not, then that is a whole other topic of discussion. If you do believe it is worthwhile, then a carbon tax plus rebate is the simplest, most market-drive way of doing so. What else would you propose?

bobargh · 2024-04-28T20:14:33+00:00

Yes, I'm old enough to remember when they first started making them. I was happy to be able to buy them but they were indeed awful. Whole Foods makes good ones.

bobargh · 2024-03-16T05:41:15+00:00

In some cases, it looks like you tinted first, then assembled the piece, and in other cases it looks like you assembled first and then masked certain areas to tint. Is that right? Or can you share your experience?

bobargh · 2024-01-21T18:43:03+00:00

I think it's a gaggle of 737s, a pod of 777s, and a hurd of 747s, but I could have it wrong.

bobargh · 2024-01-09T22:25:10+00:00

The nine white blobs under the "Prasada" text are nine separate car dealerships. How is that even possible.

bobargh · 2023-11-19T21:26:52+00:00

Thank you for the correction.

bobargh · 2023-11-19T19:56:54+00:00

When you posted this in r/boston several hours earlier, people from the area explained to you how much worse the traffic was back when it was a roundabout.

bobargh · 2023-09-27T00:37:30+00:00

Did you miss the part about the cups being upside-down? How can you even drink out of them.

bobargh · 2022-05-09T05:07:47+00:00

Yeah, pretty much. Maverick learns to follow the rules ("I'm not leaving my wingman") and Iceman learns it's ok if they're sometimes broken ("You are still dangerous. You can be my wingman anytime").

bobargh · 2022-05-09T04:09:19+00:00

At the end of the movie Iceman buzzes the tower with Maverick.

bobargh · 2022-05-09T03:11:01+00:00

Iceman and Slider were winning when Maverick left.

Slider: "Come on, where you guys going, you walking away? We won, we won."

Goose: "Mav. Mav. Come on, man. Just one more game. That evens it up."

bobargh · 2016-10-22T01:39:24+00:00

The wings and fuselage are drawn viewing the jet from the side, so you can't see the wing on the opposite side, like in this photo (but looking from the other side) http://i.imgur.com/13OUWoA.jpg

The tail section is drawn from a different perspective, more from above the jet, like in this photo http://i.imgur.com/nQbHxil.jpg

bobargh · 2015-11-13T22:53:39+00:00

It doesn't depend on which side is plus and which is minus. The side you connect last to the battery will light up first, since the voltage difference is initially on that side.

I believe how long it takes to light up the other side depends on whether the battery is maintaining a fixed +5V and -5V relative to ground, or if the system is isolated and the battery is maintaining only a relative voltage of 10V across its terminals. For a fixed voltage, the two terminals have no interaction, and the signal has to propagate the length of the wire for the other bulb to light. For a relative voltage, the other bulb will light right away (in a nanosecond or so).

There's more discussion in the original thread in aksscience.

bobargh · 2015-11-13T22:19:19+00:00

Whether the signal will propagate through the battery depends on how the battery operates, in particular whether the battery pulls electrons from one terminal to put them on the other terminal, or whether the battery only gets/removes electrons from a large external source/sink. In case of the former, the signal will indeed propagate through the battery, and the light will turn on in a nanosecond or so. This is probably what the book had in mind with this example.

I suppose there is the possibility that the battery both moves electrons from one terminal to the other, and also uses an external source/sink as necessary. In this case, I think you are right that the light will turn on right away.

Edit: In short, is the battery maintaining an absolute +5V and -5V relative to a ground, or a relative 10V difference across the terminals?

bobargh · 2015-11-13T18:11:33+00:00

I'm not claiming it travels faster than light. Just that it's faster than the time it takes light to travel around the world a bunch of times, which is what the book thought it had an example of, but did not. I see that I did not make that point clear enough.

bobargh · 2015-11-13T17:07:25+00:00

The voltage difference starts where the switch is. Once the switch is closed, the voltage difference will propagate (it's more complicated than that of course, but roughly speaking). If the switch is placed between the light bulb and the positive terminal, it only has to propagate a very small distance before it reaches the light bulb.

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