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You could join the resource industry, there's a labor shortage and there's all sort of vocational training. Some jobs require minimal training others more but you can be up and run…

You can contract the pcb work out on fiver and have the boards made at one of the Chinese board houses nowdays. I think I've seen people on Fiverr that provide turn key solutions y…

Yea, the difference is in capex cost and capabilities so the best you'll get is the ground temperature. Ideally you put a ground source heat pump but the energy needed to run it is…

The tubes are called earth tubes or ground-earth heat exchangers. If you look for geothermal heating you'll end up getting the wrong information, mostly for ground source heat pump…

You wouldn't be able to know how many years exactly from the core drilling visuals, for that you'd need to assay the cores for the grades, build a mining block model and then devel…

Dam, didn't think I'd see another mining person on hackernews. Exploration geology that far down is wild. Was it core sampling all the way from grade or only in mineralized zones?

Make a shield for an Arduino, kicad has a template for the dimensions and positioning of the headers. A fun one is to make your own Arduino board, take the design for the uno and l…

Tried that, management still insisted I get all of it from Fastenal, great pricing and they have an online catalogue, but ffs it takes a week to get stuff in.

10/10 agree for Canadians McMaster Carr is a godsend. Can order random stock material and have it tomorrow and have a certificate telling me exactly what stuff is with a nice cad m…

Energy input is the other. It takes at minimum the combustion energy to reconfigure the molecules but most of the processes happen at high temperature and pressures which takes ene…

Bit flip probability is inversely proportional to density of the storage media so denser might have you run into issues. Also theres no point on building a recorder that's 10x larg…

The worst is when the other guys think you're crazy because they're not suffering the same problems because either the smps they have had a soft start or they overspeced the living…

Real world effects of parasitics are underated. Found out the hard way that there's a whole lot of pain involved with hot plugging a battery into a board when there's a modular swi…

Until the REM is up and running, then truly never need to go outdoors.