GreyEyedGhost

Yeah, it really depends on the location. Both heating and cooling batteries are a problem where I live, and these batteries would need a lot more protection where I live.

You won’t get an answer because he’s wrong. This link shows some stats about heat stroke in America. People under 5 years old die at a rate of 190 per 100k, the it craters to 27 per 100k from 5 to 14 and keeps climbing from there, peaking for those between 55 and 64. Note that deaths between 35 and 44 are more than half of the cohort most likely to die of heat stroke. Everything about that chart says that unmanaged heat is very dangerous and as we get older it gets harder to handle, at least once we are over the age of 5 and our heat regulation mechanisms have matured. This is the same excuse anti-vaxxers use for why it’s okay that children and old people die from the flu. “The flu isnt dangerous, it only kills the ones who are too weak to survive.” Of course, kids who don’t die of the flu live just fine for decades, whether they avoid doing so by luck or vaccination, and while seniors won’t necessarily live for decades if they avoid the flu or heat stroke, they can still live for years. Here’s an abstract talking about morbidity for people over 80. 23.9% mortality for those without the flu vaccine vs 20.9% for those with, for total morbidities. There is a significant reduction in all morbidities if these really old people just don’t get the flu.

And it _is_ an option. It's just completely orthogonal to what is being discussed here.

The point of going low density is to reduce cooling requirements. Cramming them into a shipping container is the exact opposite of that.

Ive always thought of it as more of a shot against the man than the woman. In your example, the man slept with someone he normally wouldn’t, for whatever reason, and only recognized that fact once his desire for sex was satisfied. The woman didn’t change in the entire situation. Likewise, I’d say my choices in this area were poor, but had nothing to do with looks.

Yes, Esperanto has many advantages of a manufactured language, but I think there are only something like 2 million speakers worldwide. If someone wanted to dip their toes into it, Harry Harrison’s Stainless Steel Rat series has Esperanto sprinkled throughout it, and has been translated into Esperanto. He was a fan. You certainly won’t learn it reading his (English) books, but the structure is very recognizable.

Does that make the drone an avatar?

Biblically accurate angel. Seriously, am I wrong?

There was a story about a researcher using evolving algorithms to build more efficient systems on FPGAs. One of the weird shortcuts was some system that normally used a clock circuit, but none was available, and it made a dead-end circuit the would give a electric pulse when used, giving it a makeshift clock circuit. The big problem was that better efficiency often used quirks of the specific board, and his next step was to start testing the results on multiple FPGAs and using the overall fitness to get past that quirk/shortcut. Pretty sure this was before 2010. Found a possible link from 2001.

One of the more memorable lines from “Whoes Line Is It Anyway”, for me as least, was when one of them said, “How’s it hanging, Tes-ti-cles?”

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The kind of truck that can handle any kinds of undeveloped forest are more expensive than the land you say is too expensive for the people who would want to do what you’re saying. So, unrealistic expectations all around.

I like how your dream of self-sufficiency starts with there being g a road you can drive on. Or do you think most woods are reasonable places for driving trucks? You’d be better off buying a donkey or mule. Worst case scenario, you’d have a bit more meat to eat before you starved.

A single point of data rarely answers the question unless you’re looking for absolutes. “Will zipping 10 files individually be smaller than zipping them into a single file?” Sure, easy enough to do it once. Now, what kind of data are we talking about? How big, and how random, is the data in those files? Does it get better with more files, or is the a sweet spot where it’s better, but it’s worse if you use too few files, or too many? I don’t think you could test for those scenarios very quickly, and they all fall under the original question. OTOH, someone who has studied the subject could probably give you an answer easily enough in just a few minutes. Or he could have tried a web search and find the answer, which pretty much comes down to, “It depends which compression system you use.”