Accujack

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by Accujack 4y ago
Electrolytics have a limited lifespan, that's not due to poor quality like the PCs with caps blowing out. Almost any old electronics will need caps replaced if they haven't already been.
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by Accujack 4y ago
Like Yoyodyne?
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by Accujack 4y ago
Speaking as a former employee of a Fortune 100 company for who PWC provides services, PWC is pretty thoroughly "captured" by their clients... they will never report things like Sarbanes-Oxley issues even if they're hit over t
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by Accujack 4y ago
It was a more innocent time.
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by Accujack 4y ago
EBay is also a monopoly, and so is Paypal.
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by Accujack 4y ago
...and at the same time, GNU was making the same comments about CAD software. It's been on the list of desired projects for GNU since about 1990 - a CAD program comparable to AutoCAD. The problem is that writing one takes a big effor
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by Accujack 4y ago
No. A free software CAD/CAM package has been desired for a long time, and no one has ever written something that competes with commercial packages except in token form. To create a quality 3D CAD/CAM program takes more than just
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by Accujack 4y ago
Eisenhower!! Your mimeograph machine upsets my stomach!!
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by Accujack 4y ago
>We don't know that this manufacturing method will work out better than prior attempts. There are never certainties in anything except in hindsight. Most people with expertise who have reviewed SMR designs (and there are many) bel
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by Accujack 4y ago
My bad. Same applies to any for profit corporation, however.
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by Accujack 4y ago
>I'm sure that wasn't what they were looking for and their monthly bill is big ( perhaps too big ), but setting fire to the whole thing isn't the right move. It's owned by Microsoft, a for-profit company with a long h
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by Accujack 4y ago
That's not how licenses work. If they change the EULA, users of the software have to agree to it again for it to bind them. Usually what happens if a library license changes is that users are stuck on an old (potentially unsupported)
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by Accujack 4y ago
It won't be, because those regulations aren't in place to ensure safety, they're in place to be a barrier to small manufacturers getting started and competing with the incumbent US Auto makers.
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by Accujack 4y ago
>Yeah, morally, but we need to start working to make this guaranteed legally. Good luck with that. The main reason it isn't illegal is the people who have been in charge of the Federal government are too old to understand computers
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by Accujack 4y ago
>the author seems very confident in their conclusion They are, but honestly all that can be concluded safely IMHO is that the original D-K graph doesn't support that the widely discussed "effect" which their conclusion des
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by Accujack 5y ago
>Middle managers just have a higher probability of being ineffective due to lack of experience/resources, Actually, I think it's because they're more difficult to discover; Determining whether a middle manager's per
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by Accujack 5y ago
This is the most difficult part of FOSS projects, and why relatively few of them match commercial products in quality or usability. FOSS programming tends to be largely recreational or a labor of love, and a lot of the discipline and organi
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by Accujack 5y ago
My first guess would have been beaver farming.
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by Accujack 5y ago
> we can live everywhere by adapting. It'll take more than thousands of warheads to wipe us out. How do you adapt to having no food? It's entirely possible that most plant life on earth would cease to exist, with the correspo
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by Accujack 5y ago
So... this is based entirely on speculation. Think about it - how many cities have been destroyed by modern nuclear weapons from which they could draw conclusions? Even the results of a simulation of such an event is highly speculative... w
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by Accujack 5y ago
Sadly, it's considerably easier to rise to power in any organization if you have sociopathic tendencies. Jobs had a significant lack of empathy among other traits, and that gave him a huge advantage. The only reason he's lauded a
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by Accujack 5y ago
That's mostly because it's cheap, and the US doesn't want to suffer the environmental cost (and political cost) of uranium mining. Note that the US has Uranium reserves remaining, and countries like Canada, Australia, and the
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by Accujack 5y ago
>aren't they at severe risk of radiation poisoning No. Radiation effects are based on time and exposure level, and even with dust kicked up they're not likely to spend enough time there that it makes them sick at all. Breathin
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by Accujack 5y ago
It's a nice effort, but not terribly practical. They can't have the drones performing surveillance over wild lands for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that a crashed drone could start a fire. They also make noise
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by Accujack 5y ago
You can, but it's not as simple as it sounds. Since the timing of the explosives is critical to achieving a nuclear explosion, you can't really do the timing all in software. You need a specialized network of switches that spl
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by Accujack 5y ago
A fizzle is just a nuclear weapon that doesn't reach its design potential yield, which isn't the same thing as no nuclear criticality. A 5 MT hydrogen bomb that "only" yields 750 kt of explosive power is a fizzle, but yo
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by Accujack 5y ago
It depends on what level the detonation was triggered at. An accidental detonation that actually triggers the primary device detonation mechanism could result in the bomb actually going off. If an accidental detonation means just triggeri
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by Accujack 5y ago
I do the same, although I got it on sale for about $300. The specific features that are missing which I really wanted to be able to use are multi-axis tool paths. Autodesk seems to think that only "professional" users will ha
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by Accujack 5y ago
Not most of the employers I deal with. Wages are exactly where they've been for decades.
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by Accujack 5y ago
I think you really mean that in your experience there's not that much cash that makes it to the bottom... more cash COULD filter down if the corporation was run that way. Most corporations aren't.

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