Fuck me that is so perfectly on the nose

I was just jokingly rederiving a train instead. I think automated cars is mostly really silly

The safety systems would work perfectly if the cars could communicate, or more robustly if they could be mechanically linked together for the “easy” (highway) portion of the drive. Imagine a lane with nose to tail cars all doing exactly the same thing. At exits (predefined stops) you could get off to change or stay on the same one. Put a little station there with bathrooms and food.

Maybe we could even replace that highway lane with steel tracks and the tires with steel wheels for lower friction.

Damn you just always re-derive the train

I’ll assume the gym membership part is some large chain US gym or something? I couldn’t disagree more.

I have a membership to a smaller gym and it’s a great deal in my opinion. Cancel anytime, no deals, no discounts, just a price and access to a facility. It’s one of the most pure and simple subscriptions I can think of.

I agree with your take on this. I think 1M is way too low. But 1 Billion… It’s a bit easier to imagine the “you can’t or the dictatorship will seize something” idea.

The reality is that the wealthiest people usually influence the most

I was a process engineer in an aluminum plant. While I didn’t directly work in remelt, this is correct as I understand it.

20:1 is the net energy usage for new aluminum smelting:recycling.

Recycle your metals please.

It’s normally used in alcohol specifically to refer to liquid with low fermentable sugars remaining, typically meant that it’s been fermented “fully”. Beers like Japanese lagers have both low fermentable and (mostly) non fermentable sugars left (and are tasty)

Source: former process engineer in a brewery

Bikes! I live in Copenhagen and they’re everywhere of course. I love seeing people at a big train station taking pics of cycle parking being overfull

Oooo as someone who has seen the movie and never read the book, any sales pitch for me for the book?

I’d say that was a lot of what I was interested before I got into this. Car work, house stuff, fixing small appliances and machines. It really piqued my interest from a young age and that’s still by and large true today.

Without getting on too high a soapbox here, I’ll say that job opportunities for me have been plentiful in this career path, and I’ve gotten to work in a lot of different places. We even moved permanently from the US to the EU because of it.

I feel automation is more stable and more hands on than comp sci or software, but that comes with more in-office or field/plant work and less working from home or the beach. The actual work is a lot of PLC/SCADA/HMI stuff, lots of importance in understanding complex electromechanical systems and how they need to work. Of course, like any field, there’s good and bad jobs in it. It does fit the way I like to think and work quite well though.

I think comp sci could be a good field too, like you said: depends on the niche. But it, like many other things, will be around in some capacities for a long time

Well, I guess I sort of have?

I’ve been an automation engineer for my whole career. Transitioned to software engineering at a big company. That lasted like a year. I hated it the entire time. The stupid scrum/agile workflow shit, the politics, the drama. It was very very cushy, pay and hours wise. Very low responsibility and truly if I was good I could do my work quickly and then just fuck around. Long lunch breaks, early days, etc.

But I was totally miserable. I’m back to automation now :)

Looks like a fun festival! It’s a weird juxtaposition to see, I like it. I’ll find an æbleskiver stand eventually (more common in the winter) and snap a pic for comparison 🥳

Æbleskiver is plural, æbleskive would be singular. No s needed (but those look great!)

History + technical museums:

I’d recommend the AMNH and the Intrepid personally, I think they’re both full of cool stuff.

Food, as others have said, so many options. Doesn’t have to be expensive in any way shape or form, there’s a ton of food from any culture there. If you’re in Manhattan (assuming so tourism wise?) Korea town and China Town have tons of authentic food.

Social: chat away, especially at bars. It’s refreshing to see someone wanting that, not trying to avoid it :) it’s a city with loads of friendly people in my opinion.

Have fun!

Lots of good bioshock quotes, but the standout:

We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us

Ah, duh. Interesting that it’s moving to the more typical “ed” ending

Wait, what’s the other option for past tense ‘to prove’?

Just like how when flight was invented people couldn’t figure how to utilize it for a long time.

Or how when the cell phone or iphone came around no one could even find a good use case for a few decades.

Oh, people had thousands of uses for them lined up before the tech was even there? Hm. Surely we can brainstorm and force our way out of AI being a waste of money

Factorio. I blinked and a month went by the first time I played it. It ruins my sleep schedule like no other.

Absolutely love it

I feel like a lot of the grammar sticklers out there only speak one language, and their lack of sympathy towards people speaking English as a second or third language is low.

If you can convey your point– good enough for me!