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Comment Re: AM radio is nothing in terms of volts. (Score 2) 314

The number of fucks you give about EBS isn't necessarily relevant. Given the sort of extreme conditions where one might actually need to use commercial broadcast equipment for emergency communication, that communication could be operational traffic among leaders, first responders, the military, etc., as opposed to public broadcasts.

Comment Re:Did someone actually say this? (Score 1) 314

RFI mitigation is not something new ... cheap simple methods are already known ... and used

The cheap simple methods don't cut it when your switching hundreds of amps to several motors located on the perimeter of the chassis. EMI in EVs is a whole different level of problem than conventional ICE vehicles that might have one or two much smaller EMI sources under the hood on the other side of a firewall.

Comment Re: AM radio is nothing in terms of volts. (Score 1) 314

Yeah saying it would affect ev range is hilarious straight up lying.

No, they're not.

Controlling RF noise is hard. Especially when you're switching enough current to accelerate your four ton electric tank from 0-60 in 4-something seconds while you're saving the planet or whatever. Switching current generates RF. Basic physics. To prevent the RF noise you have compromise the design to avoid generating RF hash in the first place and/or shield things and provide low impedance paths for the noise. There various ways to do this, but all of them add something to the system, and that manifests as size and mass. Every gram of mass or cubic mm you use for one thing is a gram of mass or cubic mm you can't use for something else.

So they aren't actually lying. If the mandate is that the product can't just spew RF hash then the design will have to be compromised.

Comment Re:AM radio is nothing in terms of volts. (Score 5, Informative) 314

but I don't understand how I

So part of the national emergency system in the US is built around AM radio. The reason for this is the behavior of radio waves at these frequencies. If, for instance, some large fraction of all communication infrastructure were wiped out, a small number of powerful AM radio stations could, with their output power at maximum and during nighttime hours, cover the entire continent with a signal that can be received by very simple, very low power receivers. This is a basic property of AM radio that's been understood for a hundred years now and the basis for certain regulatory decisions, like maintaining a select set of special, geographically distributed, high power AM radio stations across the US.

Unfortunately for car makers, which are either actively pursuing or being pushed into electric products, high power electric motors and their power supplies are hard (read: expensive) to keep quiet: they make a lot of RF noise, especially around the same frequencies as AM radio. So, rather than innovate or pass on these costs, the car makers just figure the easiest (read: most profitable, lowest cost) thing to do is take a giant shit all over the RF spectrum while selling their 8,000 lbs electric tanks.

Comment Re:My first programming language (Score 1) 106

Before any of us even imagined we'd have a computer or a course on it, we "programmed" in text books. The language was mostly GOTO, but might even have the occasional conditional as in, "If you like cheese turn to page 56 otherwise 103". Typical applications were insulting the teacher's appearance, as in "for a picture of the teacher, turn to page 45", where there was a picture of a gorilla.

This was of course, not permitted which made us low-key black hat "hackers". In private school the penalty for this was far too steep. I don't know if public school kids learned how to diagram sentences or not; but we did. I later realized we had been taught parse trees by another name.

Yes, BASIC was my first programming language on an actual computer.

Comment Re:Fuck it. Buy American or fuck off. (Score 1) 98

Yea, well, that band of fanatics are ... fanatical. You, poasting on the interwebs, aren't going to dislodge them. They've got their vision for this world and you're not in it. And I mean right now, not some terrible future. You don't matter. Your preferences, your ideas, your votes. None of it.

Comment Re:Fuck it. Buy American or fuck off. (Score 1) 98

You're free to tell our leaders to pound whatever you think is best. Google, on the other hand, sets up our leaders kids in nice, cushy non-profit no-show jobs at $250K/year. Guess how our leaders are going to vote?

It's done. The fix is in and you lost. Accept it. Adapt to it. That's the only rational plan left to you. The rest is some form of self delusion.

Comment Re:Fuck it. Buy American or fuck off. (Score 1) 98

And why do you think our youth is like this?

I know exactly why they're like this. Knowing that, and even knowing Google contributes the the problem, doesn't solve the problem Google has, however. When they aren't trying to take over HQ they're proudly indulging their bathroom confusion and creating other problems. So obviously Google wants a pipeline of workers from Asia that aren't all fucked up in the head.

Comment Re:Fraudsters (Score 1) 88

FWIW, there was reasonable evidence that resveratrol might work. Nothing approaching the level of proof, but reasonable evidence. And other evidence that it was at least harmless. (I used that as an excuse [to myself] to have several glasses of red wine over the years.)

FWIW, I'm willing to believe that he believes in what he's doing. There probably is evidence for most of what he's pushing. It's just that most theories about how biology works, even those by experts, are false.

I wasn't interested enough to follow to read how he decided that the dog had become younger. I'm willing to believe that there are some measures by which that it true. But there aren't any good measures of age, except the calendar, and that's not that good, as different events cause people (and animals) to age differently.

Comment Re:Harvard and bad science (Score 1) 88

Cinder blocks and bricks are a bad choice in earthquake country. I don't know what's wrong with timber-framed houses, but I do believe that a good foundation is more important than that choice...and I've seen some houses being built with extremely poor foundations. (They also weren't handling the materials in line with the manufacturers instructions.) This, of course, is extremely difficult to check on unless you watch the house while it's being built.

Comment Re:Sinclair is quite credible IMHO. (Score 1) 88

Intermittent fasting improves some measures and damages others. I think I read recently that it lead to increased heart attacks. Paleo diet is not well defined. (Different groups ate different things.) But avoiding complex sugars and foods high in carbohydrates is probably good. (OTOH some paleo groups at reasonable quantities of honey.) B-vitamin complex is something to ensure, because you can't store most of them internally. (I think you can with B12, but there's also the problem with digestive absorbtion of that one. Consider sub-lingual tablets.) I've no information on "red light therapy", but heat lamps are a traditional treatment for arthritis. And daily exercise is something that everyone recommends.

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