notabot @ notabot @lemm.ee

Due to the impending lemm.ee shutdown I have migrated to notabot@piefed.soc

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The longer I stare at this, the wronger it gets. It's like a magic eye picture made of nonsense.

Yes, and it's horrifying for a whole range of reasons!

No, I don't have anything of that sort. Feel free to ask here if you'd like, but I'm just using the information I can find on the web.

Oh, I know. The trouble is my brain keeps trying to flip to match the peas, then back for the rest of the image. It's just subtly wrong enough that it isn't absurd until you focus on it.

That image is genuinely making my brain feel like it's twisting around in my skull to make it make sense, and it's not working.

I'm only going to do this very roughly, only for the transport and using US prices (as they're easier to find), because the total cost of mining, transporting and dumping that much material is astronomical compared to the $70m budget. Even the transport cost alone are an order of magnitude higher.

Soil has a density of between 1,200 and 1,700 kilograms or 2,645 and 3,747 pounds per cubic metre.

I couldn't easily find bulk rates for trunking soil, but bulk trucking rates for grain seem to be in the right area from what I can see. A truckload of up to 80,000lb costs somewhat over $6 per mile.

Given the weight limit per truck, and taking a middling estimate of soil density of 3000lb/m^{3 (rock would be heavier and so increase the cost), we can transport around 80000/3000=26m}3 per truck, at a cost of at least 615=$90, or $3.46 per m^3. Our budget for the whole operation was 75,000,000/(3,500,000100)=$0.20 per m^3.

From those figures we can see that simply trucking the spoil fron the operation would be more than 15 times the cost of paying the landowners. That ignores all of the other costs. Local rates may be sonewhat cheaper, but probably not enough to make a serious difference, and you'd need to ship over 10 million truckloads of dirt, which would put massive strain on local infrastructure too.

If I read your measurements correctly, you're talking about digging up over 350 million cubic metres of soil and rock, transporting them 15km and dumping them safely. Comparing that to the cost of paying the land owners gives you a budget of approximately $0.20 per cubic metre. Ignoring the digging costs, you'd have to check what your local rates for trucking bulk soil would be over that distance, but I suspect they're more than that on their own.

Then you have the rather signicicant issue of what to do with the literal mountain of soil and rock you need to dispose of. Just dumping it is going to cause pretty serious changes to the local environment, not least of which would be a new mountain.

The sad part is that as I get older, the hardest part has become threading the needle...

If you dont have one, a needle threader is a huge boon.

It would be worth finding out why the other seamstress is quoting $25 for each seat. Are they trying to underbid you (or other seamstresses), is that rate sufficient for them, or do they just have no idea what their labour is worth?

If they'd normally bid higher but underbid to get the work in preference to you, you need to talk. You'll either need to work together or in some way set a reasonable rate between you. If they are underbidding to beat others, the market may be saturated, but from your post it sounds like there should be enough work for all.

If the rate is sufficient for them they either have lower living costs somehow, but yours sound low anyway, or they are producing pieces more efficiently than you are, so their effective rate is higher. If that's the case, you might want to talk to them to find out how, although they may not be willing to say.

If they just don't know what their labour is worth and the boss has pushed them to quote that much, you probably need to talk to them about that.

In summary: talk to them. They might not want to talk, which is their perogative, but you both might get more insight into the issue, and maybe find a way to boost your income in the process.

https://archive.ph/Lou5o

Narwhals, Narwhals swimming in the ocean.
Causing a commotion.
'Cos they are so awesome!

With thanks to Weebl's Stuff

Why, yes, my pop culture references are right up to date, thanks for noticing.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

• Robert Frost

Archived version for future reference: https://archive.ph/NayZN

They're not blocking you sueing them, they're blocking you sueing the directors on behalf of the company. So you, as a shareholder, can't then raise a lawsuit saying, for instance, that a director has done something that harms the company, and thus the shareholders.

From the rest of the article I very much got the 'crazy people send crazy message' message, but I can see how that might depend on the reader.

You say the letter is meaningless, but I think we have to be careful. Sesame Street teaches kindness, inclusivity and caring, and I think the republicans would be only too happy for an excuse to tear it down.

I've read the NYT article, and I can't see anywhere where the author 'sincerely considers the idea that Rachel Griffin-Accurso, the popular children's entertainer known as Ms. Rachel, might be financially compensated by Hamas.' Instead they report that 'the advocacy group StopAntisemitism' 'sent a letter urging Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate whether Accurso is receiving funding to further Hamas’s agenda.'

The article as a whole seems pretty positive towards Miss Rachel, and uses her comments to point out how bad things are in Gaza, and insinuates that StopAntisemitism are the problematic ones.

If roll thrusters fired because the star tracker drifted and if the heater was still off, then an explosion would destroy Voyager 1.

That is some high stakes remote maintenance. I don't want to imaging the stress for everybody involved. The relief when they finally got a signal two days later confirming the craft was still in obe piece and the heater was on must have been immense. I get stressed enough waiting minutes for a remote server to come back up.

DSN Canberra upgrade will cause loss of comms until Feb 2026

Oh great, another stressful wait!

Add on the climb of bitcoin and thats pretty much it.

Split the difference, it's octal.

On the assumption that the rate doesn't change over that period, yes, the price will halve in just over 11 years.

You can validate that by 0.94^11=0.5062982072, where 0.94 is the ratio of the price that's left after one year. Raising that to the power of eleven gives 0.506, or just over half, as the ratio of the price remaining after eleven years.

You can get the exact time needed by dividing the log of the ratio you're looking for by the log of the ratio per year, so: ln(0.5)/ln(0.96)=11.2023055836, so the cost will halve in 11.2 years.