Nomadic Nerd

Dad, husband, engineer for hire, torque & recoil enthusiast, student of constructive self-abuse. 07/02 FFT/SOT

[Nomadic Nerd @HardcoreHarold2]

Just a reminder: if your proposed data center in space project doesn't have a solution to the space radiation problem, you don't actually have a viable product

[Nomadic Nerd @HardcoreHarold2]

@homegymcoop I thought that the question of the day had to do with discovering the purpose of doing a bunch of bench reps that provided less load than the same number of pushups.

[Nomadic Nerd @HardcoreHarold2]

@StevenGlinert Don't forget their domination of stuff like rare earths.

[Nomadic Nerd @HardcoreHarold2]

@LynAldenContact When the debt-to-GDP ratio is 225%, a rate of 1.0% is pretty expensive.

We'll find that out soon enough.

[Nomadic Nerd @HardcoreHarold2]

@mattdykema We'll see lots of this particular type of assembly in the next few years, but that one appears to have a couple unique details compared to what's recently crossed my virtual desk.

[Nomadic Nerd @HardcoreHarold2]

@Roadman_Podcast One bike for everything? I'm supposed to toss out some sort of $20k dream ride, but in reality it's gonna be a (relatively) light fat bike with cargo rack mounts, and a few different wheelsets to cover trails, winter, gravel, touring & commuting, etc.

[Nomadic Nerd @HardcoreHarold2]

@bowtiedcheetahh Some of those numbers in the middle of that date range look like they are from someone who is quite ill.

[Nomadic Nerd @HardcoreHarold2]

If I do some heavy farmer's carries or split wood or use a manual screwdriver or literally anything else that causes grip fatigue to occur, do I also age by 13 years? Incredibly dumb take.

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

Jet lag increased my biological age by ~13 years.

> as measured by grip strength
> pre-travel: 141 lbs, grip age 48, ~98th percentile
> post-travel: 125 lbs, grip age 61, ~98th percentile

Traveled across 7 time zones, Los Angeles to Australia.

Grip strength predicts mortality better than almost anything you can measure at home.

A published study of a comparable eastbound flight found the same pattern, about a 7% morning drop.

[Nomadic Nerd @HardcoreHarold2]

@mkalajian @JacklouisP Modern automatics *don't* use this level of hydraulic complexity. This is for a 10sp and is obviously much simpler than an older 4sp slushbox.

[Nomadic Nerd @HardcoreHarold2]

@MorosKostas That was my experience with my comp'd Staccato P - it simply shoots way easier than any other handgun I've ever handled. It wasn't just at the square range; the difference was even more bigger at the first tactical comp I shot with it.

[Nomadic Nerd @HardcoreHarold2]

@michellelsun I'm not particularly inclined to do anyone's homework for them at this moment, but looking to automotive supply chains will be instructive and enlightening when it comes to producing millions of electromechanical and mechatronic products.

[Nomadic Nerd @HardcoreHarold2]

@DavidBCollum You can eventually get enough cooling via a lot of surface area but now you have the problem of space radiation affecting all those very delicate GPUs. Shielding requires yet more mass; lots of water is probably the lightest way.

It's a pipe dream.

[Nomadic Nerd @HardcoreHarold2]

@Xenoimpulse Yep - it's not domestic politics, but something worse and/or inevitable (full economic collapse, geopolitical forces outside the control of https://t.co/HOb7ph6VIp, geological doom, etc.).

[Nomadic Nerd @HardcoreHarold2]

@_baldtires This gets fixed with multi-ratio stepped gearboxes once we collectively decide that hitting the winding with ever-increasing amounts of current is an inelegant technique.

[Nomadic Nerd @HardcoreHarold2]

@budvandoor Mechanical failure is very rarely the cause of car crashes (and the bulk of those are tire failures).

Most shops are just pushing back the pistons and dropping in the absolute cheapest pads anyways.

[Nomadic Nerd @HardcoreHarold2]

@i2cjak I currently work for a manufacturer of durable goods that puts things some basic electronics into its mechanical products. The USB standards have kicked me in the nuts several times (and usually it starts with a customer using Samsung products).

[Nomadic Nerd @HardcoreHarold2]

@davepl1968 Note that heptane, naphtha, acetone, and similar solvents will wreck many plastics (especially polycarb) and paint finishes. Citrus degreasers are indeed messier, but much safer on most surfaces (styrene is a very notable exception).

Spot checking is always a valuable step.

[Nomadic Nerd @HardcoreHarold2]

@blind_via Think very hard about implementing a method to mechanically retain magnets along the axis of attraction. Slots, overmolding, etc.

Adhesives seem easy at the time but are rarely so.

[Nomadic Nerd @HardcoreHarold2]

@davepl1968 Sasse is at least half-wrong anyways; in just the past century, we've seen farming and manufacturing go away as major drivers of mass employment, and I guarantee that a lot of 22-year-olds made wrong assumptions about the longevity of jobs in both fields.

[Nomadic Nerd @HardcoreHarold2]

Important to note that the primary reason this happened is that entitlement inflows were much larger than outflows. But having politicians who had not yet rationalized annual trillion-dollar deficits helped, too.

Both of these things are unlikely to occur again in my lifetime.

[Today In History @historigins]

In 1998, the United States achieved its first federal budget surplus in 29 years, effectively ending a streak of deficits that had lasted since 1969. ⁠
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This milestone was achieved under President Bill Clinton, following the passage of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, which resulted in a fiscal surplus of approximately $69 billion for that year.⁠
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[Nomadic Nerd @HardcoreHarold2]

@brianmccallum The future of high-volume printing isn't bigger spools, it's in hopper-fed pellets. No need to reinvent what has already been matured in the injection molding industry.