BostonEnginerd

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by BostonEnginerd 5y ago
The Midwest makes some sense for building fabs. The two largest inputs are power and water - and the midwest has plenty of both. There's a small but thriving fab community in Minneapolis. Hilariously, there isn't much in the way o
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by BostonEnginerd 5y ago
There are a few options for smaller fabs. There's SiView from IBM, a few products from Inficon which can handle much of an MES's capabilities and some others: [1] https://www.ibm.com/products/siview [2] http
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by BostonEnginerd 5y ago
I just looked up how much energy my last dryer load used. It came in just shy of 6kWh. The unit is a standard electric dryer, around 10yr old. Just wanted to provide some additional data. We do about 4 loads per week here. I hope that the
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by BostonEnginerd 5y ago
I'm not really seeing it. In most of the workflows I've used, one person is responsible for maintaining most of the document including the bibliography. The other coauthors will add in notes requesting to add in a new item, etc. Z
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by BostonEnginerd 5y ago
I believe that they support WebDav. https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/webdav_services You also have an option to use the Zotfile extension to sync with other services.
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by BostonEnginerd 5y ago
At least in Massachusetts, much of the data are being imported from state GIS resources. House data, street data, etc. Most of the mapping which needs to be done are enhancing the park data, etc.
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by BostonEnginerd 5y ago
$20 / yr is perfectly reasonable. GM wants $50/mo for that service. The basic on/off, lock / unlock function is still $25/mo.
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by BostonEnginerd 5y ago
I love our induction stove - on the same burner that I can boil a full pot of water in 2m, I can keep a soup going at a precise simmer. I could never get our old gas stove setup that precisely.
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by BostonEnginerd 5y ago
I doubt that they’re cheaper to install if you’re already putting in air conditioning. Plus you save the $30/mo meter fee from the gas company.
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by BostonEnginerd 5y ago
Is there anything which prevents non-CSAM images from being added into this catalogue? As I understand it, the only thing stopping that is a promise from Apple - which can be steamrolled by a government request.
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by BostonEnginerd 5y ago
I’d suggest that dense city living without the suburban sprawl would be the ideal. Pack the people in, and free up as much open space and agricultural land as possible.
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by BostonEnginerd 5y ago
To be fair, many of the outdoor eating spaces are 8-10ft wide, 20+ feet long and have substantial structure like roofs. An SUV is probably be easier to tow out of the way.
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by BostonEnginerd 5y ago
We’ve recently transitioned to Salesforce for a project. It’s remarkable how laggy the interface is. Removing a line from a quote takes three clicks and four seconds. The UI also doesn’t always refresh the items in a reasonable period of ti
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by BostonEnginerd 5y ago
Because silicon carbide has a wide band gap, you can use it to switch higher voltages. This means lower current losses through wiring. It also can operate at higher temperatures more effectively, so it can be driven harder than a silicon tr
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by BostonEnginerd 5y ago
I saw the original video on the Twitters, but didn't check out the followup until now. I'm thrilled that her visit worked and that the files were posted! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj04MKykmnQ
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by BostonEnginerd 5y ago
Their devices look really neat, but I don't think I can bring myself to buy one until they resolve their GPL violations. https://www.reddit.com/r/Onyx_Boox/comments/fz4yka/max3_revi...
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by BostonEnginerd 5y ago
I believe that the feedstock for most plastics is natural gas.
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by BostonEnginerd 5y ago
I wonder if those plants are just particularly good at leaching lead from soil. Phytoremediation is an area of active study for cleaning toxic soils.
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by BostonEnginerd 5y ago
I was fortunate enough to subscribe to the Times through the Apple Subscription platform. Only took me one click to unsubscribe.
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by BostonEnginerd 5y ago
Someone could easily get into my house in 20m with a reciprocating saw. The lock is only there to make it marginally more annoying to break in.
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by BostonEnginerd 5y ago
I really enjoyed my time as a Blue Apron customer, but the sheer amount of packaging that I threw out made us stop. Very little of it was recyclable.
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by BostonEnginerd 5y ago
I really love visiting there. Hoping that I can get over there sometime soon!
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by BostonEnginerd 5y ago
Thanks for the recommendation! In pre-COVID times, I would visit Budapest a few times per year. My coffee stops are usually Addicted2Caffeine on Bartok Bela, and Tamp & Pull, depending on which hotel I'm staying at. There's al
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by BostonEnginerd 5y ago
Interesting. I don’t think we got those questions for either of our kids. We do live in an urban area though. I recall some questions about food security and heat security though.
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by BostonEnginerd 5y ago
The other tip with the instant pot I’ve found is to put your food in a glass bowl on the steamer tray in the instant pot. This way you can add exactly the amount of water, and you don’t make a mess of the pot.
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by BostonEnginerd 5y ago
The Superfest glass process is very similar to what is used to produce Gorilla glass. The glass is heated up and submerged in or sprayed with a potassium solution. The hot glass matrix opens up enough for potassium ions to diffuse into it.
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by BostonEnginerd 5y ago
Assuming that the water supply holds up. Unfortunately one of the largest semiconductor inputs is clean water.
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by BostonEnginerd 5y ago
I don’t believe that the data stored in iCloud is encrypted from Apple since you can view it through the iCloud website.
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by BostonEnginerd 5y ago
That’s at least a pretty honest response.
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by BostonEnginerd 5y ago
I don’t think that photos are encrypted as you can view them from the iCloud website.

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