nik282000

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[–] nik282000 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

mass production efficiencies wouldn’t kick in until they’re building hundreds or thousands

Maybe if you are building laptops and dishwashers. These are small building crammed with plumbing and electrical work, making 4 or 5 of them in a dedicated factory will significantly reduce production costs. You can have one guy who is good at flanged stainless pipe, one guy who is a panel building wizard, and so on. The first project will take the normal amount of time, each subsequent one will go much faster because the team already has a process in place.

Source: I worked industrial construction for 6 years, jobs where more than one copy of the same machine was being built always came in under budget because each copy was built quicker than the last.

[–] nik282000 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

A baseload power source’s most important quality isn’t constant output, it’s rapidly adaptable output.

A baseload supply shouldn't need to throttle up and down, it's the Base Load. The load that exists 24hrs a day.

[–] nik282000 18 points 1 month ago

Hey, what do you know! There is no labour shortage it's just that BUSINESS OWNERS DO NOT WANT TO PAY EMPLOYEES. They want to go back to paying slave wages to migrant workers.

[–] nik282000 3 points 1 month ago

Yup, I have a 500gb HDD for Steam Games, loading screens are a few seconds longer than you would expect but that just makes time for a beer break.

[–] nik282000 17 points 1 month ago (7 children)

If you put a little water in the pan with cold bacon it will steam for a bit and help render out the fat before it then deep-fries in that fat. To much water and you get whatever this is.

[–] nik282000 12 points 1 month ago

FAFO incarnate. Unfortunately while a subset of people did the fucking around, everyone is forced to experience the finding out.

[–] nik282000 1 points 1 month ago

TIL SearXNG, I will be testing that out this weekend.

[–] nik282000 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They wanted the other guy. Voting 80% in favour for a guy only to have him tossed out by some rich prick might change some minds.

[–] nik282000 5 points 1 month ago

That has been good advice for at least a two decades.

[–] nik282000 5 points 1 month ago

Valve devs said "we are not working on, and have no plans to re-start work on Half-Life 3" in the recently released HL2 audio commentary. How much clearer to they have to be?

also, go play HL2 with the commentary on, it was awesome and worth the re-visit

[–] nik282000 10 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Beaverton or not, it is true. No one wants to be known as the company that hired the failed trucker convoy pm.

[–] nik282000 4 points 1 month ago

Betteridge's law: no. The liberals were the smart choice this time but there is no reason for them change the rules that let them win.

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