BilboBargains

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It’s amazing how lethal cars are and we drive them every day without a care in the world. I never think about the particulate pollution spewing from my brakes or the noxious gases emitted from the exhaust. I don’t consider the pedestrians I will eventually hit if I drive long enough. I never think about anyone dying in my car from heatstroke. I think of my vehicle as the best and only solution to all of my transportation needs because every problem looks like a nail when your only tool is a hammer.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The consequences so far have been a warm feeling on hearing the news but I’m starting to doubt that feeling. Shawty, are they playing me like a fiddle?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which one are you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Shopping trolleys are a rich source of materials for the aspiring welding fabricator. Road signs can also be good but they get banged around.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oatmeal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Don’t call him ass
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It’s the business model that shareholders love and seems to be fairly ubiquitous. Eventually these corporations undergo trial by anti trust as their influence becomes increasingly toxic e.g. Google. The concentration of power into the hands of a few people is a problem with large hierarchies generally, ordinary people end up doing whacky stuff on the whim of someone that you never meet or know in any meaningful way.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Historically love sugar⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
We are wistful for the days when our biggest problem was getting rid of kings and queens. Our first order of business is getting rid of bigots and racists. Then we can focus on alleviating the stranglehold of business, which will clear the path for dealing with climate change and investing in our health and education.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Historically love sugar⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
English people. The Scottish, Welsh and Irish mostly disapprove of the monarchy. Very few people aside from the English actually like these people. I guess that goes with the territory of being a billionaire family for hundreds of years.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crikey ⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
How big are your pockets?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I would not argue against that. Two steps forward and one back is usually how it goes with technology. Reliability is the problem that has only been achieved relatively recently. I remember a time when the hard shoulder was full of stalled vehicles. Japanese cars from the 70s and 80s were notably inferior to their competitors. We’ve come a long way in making this technology polished and affordable to the masses. Now the science shows us it is contributing to climate change and we have a new challenge. So it goes.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Car companies hate this one trick.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I would argue that it is already the case that cheap cars look and perform excellently, compared with cars produced fifty years ago. They are more reliable, economical, comfortable, higher performance, superior in virtually every respect.

The other factor to consider is the use case. Something like a Ferrari is not reliable compared to a VW Golf, it sucks at carrying passengers and cargo, terrible fuel economy, it is horrible value for money and inferior in most ways apart from one - compensating for a small penis. That is its chief purpose and it is supremely well crafted for this use case.

Source: automotive engineer of 25 years.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What went wrong for the Greens in the Australian election?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
English DNA and the green party do not mix. You will never explain that car culture, shit education and healthcare are a problem to these people. What you need to do is directly access their feels and leverage their innate sense of entitlement with a populist message and a cultish leader. Or wait for the ecosystem to collapse, that’s a good option.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What're they gonna do about it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
You son of a bitch
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
In that case we have to rely on Elons white power.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TRUCKIN'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Add Friend
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Somebodys got a case of the Easter Mondays⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Make the eggs bigger
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Call now, and we will give you a second can F R E E!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Jokes on you, I already have crabs
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a highly-rated, critically acclaimed TV series that you couldn't get into, or have no interest in?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Almost all of them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As a US citizen who was born in the UK, how risky is it to leave and reenter the US right now?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
That depends what colour your skin is or if you wear any non christian headgear, symbols, etc.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The one good thing about all this⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It comes from chy-nah
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨carlos for scale⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Those are some nice slip-ons
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Max pulling THIS shit every time I finish watching Last Week Tonight⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Bill went bad. He was okay until we found out what he really believes.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infrastructure construction in Britain is defective. The most budget UK tramway is more expensive than the most costly french tramway⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The British seem to be particularly bad at big infrastructure projects. The computerisation of the NHS was a debacle, for instance. HS2 has fallen massively short. The people in charge don’t understand technology and are not good at taking advice.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now that's an interesting question⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
And then we all clapped
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can’t HVAC be made smarter?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
That’s generally true for most HVAC applications. Bang-bang control creates limit cycle behaviour and as long as a small oscillation in temperature is acceptable, it’s a nice simple solution.

OPs problem seems to be a discontinuity between the two limit cycles, heating and cooling. The way to tackle this is to make time series vectors of all measurements and compare them with the subjective sensation of the room temperature. That should inform the relevant set points for the control actions.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can’t HVAC be made smarter?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Control theory is a bitch
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Jury Nullification a Thing, But You Can’t Talk About It in Court?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Like the guys at the Nuremberg trials. Turns out ‘just following orders’ was not a creditable defence.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SMH⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
We saw it and thought ‘we should invent a process that prevents us from falling prey to the naturalistic fallacy’.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Jury Nullification a Thing, But You Can’t Talk About It in Court?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
How is this even a question? If you believe someone is good and they decided to do something against the law but for good reasons, are you going to punish that person? We know rules are important in society and we all aspire to be good citizens but sometimes we find ourselves in situations where we have to abandon our principles or break the law. Nobody is obeying the speed limit when carrying a dying child to hospital and nobody is condemning that person for breaking the law, to give a completely fatuous example.

The reason jurys convict ethically sound defendants is the same reason people fail to make the ethically sound choice in the Milgram experiment.

It doesn’t matter what the legal statutes say, you still have to think for yourself and others to make compassionate choices.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨no ragrets⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
According to Bryson’s account, he deliberately mislead us about the dangers of tetraethyl lead by making a public demonstration of washing his hands in the chemical. As a chemical engineer he knew a single exposure was not sufficient to cause the lead poisoning that was evident in the workforce at his factory and was counting on a scientifically illiterate public not understanding how toxicity operates in organisms. He was correct on both counts and we can never let the profit motive enter these type of calculations e.g. money in healthcare, oil companies publishing climate science, etc, and expect healthy outcomes.