BilboBargains
@BilboBargains@lemmy.world
- Comment on Historically love sugar 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 5 weeks ago:
You son of a bitch
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
In that case we have to rely on Elons white power.
- Comment on TRUCKIN' 2 months ago:
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- 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? 2 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 2 months ago:
It comes from chy-nah
- Comment on carlos for scale 2 months ago:
Those are some nice slip-ons
- Comment on Max pulling THIS shit every time I finish watching Last Week Tonight 2 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 2 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? 3 months ago:
Control theory is a bitch
- Comment on Why is Jury Nullification a Thing, But You Can’t Talk About It in Court? 3 months ago:
Like the guys at the Nuremberg trials. Turns out ‘just following orders’ was not a creditable defence.
- Comment on SMH 3 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? 3 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 3 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.
- Comment on Entropy? Never heard of it. 4 months ago:
What is this tree technology you speak of
- Comment on Seven arrested over alleged sexual abuse ‘claim farming’ scheme that police say netted more than $1bn | New South Wales 4 months ago:
Let’s solve this problem with more application of the law. You can never have too much law, just ask the guys prosecuting the war on drugs and popular contemporary war criminals such as Clinton, Bush, Cheney and Netanyahu.
Never ask scientists and philosophers how to solve a problem, you’re much better off leaving it in the hands of lying psychopaths.
- Comment on Anyway to erase the permanent marker so I can reuse this? 5 months ago:
Would make a decent paperweight.
- Comment on Time to make your decesion 5 months ago:
Jokes on you, I smell like a vagrant
- Comment on how do I show a coworker that I care about her after her mother died? 5 months ago:
Sometimes people just want to be left alone. There’s no solution to grief besides time. You can’t materially improve this position but you can be around if they want to talk or just be around people.