That could very well be what the quantum uncertainty principal is, floating point non deterministic errors. It also could just be drawing comparisons among different problem domains.
The QUP is indeed what allows to quantize continuous equations with h, and once they have been turned into integers like this we can then meaningfully calculate our lack of information (aka 'entropy').
The Parker solar probe gets much closer than the solar orbiter, 0.046 AU vs 0.28 AU respectively. The successive Venus flybys are to drop it increasingly further into the sun's orbit to take solar atmospheric data on quick flybys while the Solar orbiter is more for spectrograph measurements of the sun's corona, just different mission sets.
But think about the corollary where places like McMasterCarr have exact products in known quantities, types and breakdowns because they used to be a catalogue. I will go to McMaster 9/10 times because it's just easy to find exactly what I want and so they get my money.
Amazon seems hostile to this very idea, that I know what I want, will spend 15% more to have it tomorrow and will not by the random stuff it smashes in the search results because I know what I want.
Oh I get it. I actually think there’s a huge opportunity in online retail to gate off categories and brands that are already in, say, Walmart. Then do the Amazon algorithmic model for everything else.
I think you’re missing how crucial Amazon’s algorithmic model has been as a way to connect shoppers with 2 day delivery for an unimaginably long tail of products. We sell a technical product that would be at home on McMaster. On the 2nd largest retailer in the US. It’s incomprehensible that our products would ever be in Target or Walmart stores. Yet we have access to the same customer base at the same place where they can buy Tide. Amazon’s purely algorithmic approach is what allows companies like us to do product/market discovery for them (and their customers).
Did you know that Amazon has a section that drives to compete with McMastercar? It’s somewhere in Amazon business they have parts and stuff and it’s just a horrible shit show.
The conclusion is that the US just has more psychos. But the restraint of wrecking their vehicle to accost me holds them in line. On public transit they can accost me and nothing stops them.
Let's be real for a minute; the relative incidence rate of highway shootings is far lower than the relative incidence rate of violent crime on public transit in American cities.
My not-sufficiently-informed opinion is in agreement with yours. Do you have any studies that we can use to compare shootings versus violent crime rate on public transit?
A quick Google search revealed some data collected by the US government on the topic.
Solar panels are themselves tiled by roundish wafers cut to make squares out of circles. To make them triangles throws away a different tiling advantage.
True!
Assuming manufacturing will be +10% and installation will take 2x time and assuming half panel will produce half the power, my back of the napkin calculation suggests my solar roof would pay for itself not in 5 but in 6 years and would keep producing $ for the rest of its lifespan.
My point is that you’re an expensive niche (manufacturing and installation wise) in a market usually competing on $/sqft.
Manufacturing would be more than +10% because existing lines would need to be retooled to produce it, and it would require different packaging. Volume will be lower as well, so margins need to be higher. 50% more expensive? Or maybe even the same price as a normal panel twice the wattage.
Installation would be more than 2x because standard mounting wouldn’t work, so it would be 3x the time (probably) plus figuring out how to mount them. Since you have an odd shaped roof, that would also likely increase difficulty/costs.
Very high snow load or flexible solar panels are similar (but larger) niches.
Looks like someone does make them though! And my guess is someone does already have all the mounting knowledge, it just may not be the regular solar install guy, so it may take tracking someone down.
Unlike the other products in their site, that link doesn’t have specs and wants someone to ‘contact us for details’ which doesn’t seem like a good sign.
This is also why utility scale solar has been the trend lately - it’s often more economical to turn some random low value flat land half way across the state/country into a maximally cost effective solar installation and then sell the power. Which means square panels on the simplest and easiest racking they can figure out.
Every random person figuring out their own bespoke solution is a lot more expensive.
if it will actually pay back that quickly, that’s awesome - then you get to bypass whatever insanity your utility is doing to cause those high prices. I haven’t heard of any up to code installations having nearly that good a payoff. Where are you located?
Makes sense. Thanks! I am in NJ and my house has good insolation. And with all the federal and state incentives plus no-financing cash purchase solar panels may pay off just like installer is promising. I wish I had a larger and flatter roof though.
Default to speed and then the first time a device has crashed "your battery has worn to a level that we will have to start slowing down your device or it will keep crashing, will you accept these crashes or slow your device?"
That would be transparent and also allow decisions, if AppleCare also allowed for free battery replacement after receiving that message it would be a PR boon, not a kerfuffle.
Not to mention that most retirement accounts have yearly maximums, if you where making 401k for 10 years at 100k you will have significantly lower effective taxes than a person who made nothing and then sees high earnings trying to put into retirement.
This is on some android phones, double tapping power will open the camera. I use it all the time to take pictures of information that I don't want to write down, package numbers, measurements, error logs, all just tap tap, point, volume down.
I occasionally use it that way for painted labels on parking-spaces at the airport. (I have yet to need them, but it seems a reasonable precaution given how even a small amount of floor/zone/row forgetfulness could leave me wandering the 10,000-spot complex.)
That said, I also find myself wishing I could mark those photos as "temporary", so that they get auto-deleted within a month or whatever.
HDPE is very stiff, MDPE is kinda stiff and LDPE is flimsy. Same monomer just cross linked differently with a different production process. Plastic is chemistry magic.
It's just carbon and hydrogen chains. How complex can it be? Surely not so complex to require its own field.
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For those unaware of the joke, Organic Chemistry is quite complex. Hydrogen+Carbon can make plastic or Gasoline depending on the details of how it chains.
