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Dayton OH -> Port Townsend WA for next steps

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Back of the envelope: for a Panamax cargo ship to get from Japan to Hawaii requires about 1GWh of stored power.

This is probably about $40m in batteries, but saving maybe $4m/year in fuel.

(Batteries will of course get cheaper, and fuel more expensive).

avi,
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@kboyd solar would reduce it by 10%. Sail is harder for me to estimate.

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this hand printing project is driving me a little nuts but i keep reminding myself that it is good precisely because it’s imperfect, not made by a machine

avi,
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@lzg I prefer to have the best of both worlds and use machines to make imperfect things

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@lzg frankly, I view making imperfect things by hand as taking the easy way out

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Truly, we live in a marvellous age where computers can perfectly understand our every utterance.

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A mnemonic for my kids to pronounce Euler correctly: “You learned it wrong; I learned it right.”

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I will not be making it to the @oshwassociation summit, due to the unfortunate, but my work will be there! Find Nate and ask him about his differential GNSS rangefinder, if FedEx gets their shit together, he might even be carrying it around!

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@North @rrmutt guilty as charged. I was also planning to be there and now won’t.

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    avi,
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    @lzg forbidden pupper

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    @lzg One Money Per Child

    avi,
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    @lzg the $100 C-note project

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    @lzg YC but for cults

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    Testing the ubiquiti nanostation loco 5ac to beam internet from the office to the house. Figured we test it out before drilling holes into building

    avi,
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    @nervous_jessica I’ve installed hundreds of those and that’s about the max you can expect. If you get the more expensive dishes you can probably double that.

    avi, to random
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    I'm going to the west coast of Vancouver Island next week, where (as I'm just reading) a couple of weeks ago there were 2000 earthquakes in one day as the ocean floor got ripped apart to form a new crust.

    The scientists in the news are very clear that this is normal, happens every 20 years, poses no risk, and definitely will not cause any kaiju to rise from the sea floor and rampage the coast.

    avi,
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    just a very normal event happening at the "Endeavour site" which is very closely monitored by the Canadian government and has the hottest water ever observed coming up out of the sea floor which just ripped open to let out magma and definitely, absolutely no rampaging monsters

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    @lzg you could organize one at Gradient. Pick a few people you want to spend the week comfortably not talking to.

    avi, to random
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    I do understand why we can’t have giant hybrid sheep cloned from smuggled Kyrgyzstani sheep parts but I’ve got to respect that this guy had a dream and the tenacity to see it through https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/montana-man-pleads-guilty-federal-wildlife-trafficking-charges-part-yearslong-effort-create

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    I hope we get to see his pitch deck tbh

    avi, to random
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    @boris this would be an interesting starting point for some kind of intentional village: https://www.royallepage.ca/en/property/british-columbia/texada-island/block-28-blewett-street/21391350/mls17818/

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    @simon_brooke @boris forgive me, but that’s nonsense. $25k per unit in land cost is not “exclusive” in Canadian terms, far from it. I agree that it’s not appropriate for a group supporting itself off the land but that’s not the only kind of work I recognize as valid.

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    Boat friends, anyone used a Portland Pudgy? It looks like a very well engineered safety-conscious dinghy, with the benefit of a sailing rig. But curious if anyone has hands on experience.

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    @lzg when I was going on anti-anxiety meds, I asked, anxiously, “but being a bit anxious is useful, what if this makes me not anxious enough about the things I should be anxious about?”

    The doc was like “… yeah, that’s not gonna be a problem for you.”

    avi, to random
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    My boys are, presumably, dropping their country album next week.

    gsuberland, to random
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    there's a saying in electronics that there are two types of PCB designers: people who make antennas on purpose and people who make antennas by accident.

    and having looked at a bunch of designs made by big companies recently, I think more PCB designers should go be antenna designers instead, because they've clearly got some innate skill at it which is currently untapped.

    avi,
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    @gsuberland thanks for these! Just curious, what kind of marine operational tech do you work on? My interest in electronics overlaps heavily with my interest in boating.

    avi, to random
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    Ok @timbray and others who might be interested, I threw together https://sphinxboat.com

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    Do I get to call this solarpunk?

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