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by LeifCarrotson 7y ago
We have them all over the place in Michigan. I specifically asked my friend who's a civil engineer with the county road commision when some were being installed just down the road from my house why they were being added. I was personal
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by LeifCarrotson 7y ago
I think we're in a state of transition that will take a few decades to resolve itself. In the past, it was difficult to get an idea published. Money and power are definitely not sufficient to show that someone's ideas should be li
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by LeifCarrotson 7y ago
Interesting, I hadn't seen that. All my work has been with the AZ office.
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by LeifCarrotson 7y ago
I'm likewise skeptical. I've done a number of projects for Boeing, and their engineers are some of the most cautious and careful customers I have ever had. Automotive tier-one customers need it done on time and under budget, no ma
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by LeifCarrotson 7y ago
That nerve is a popular example of an optimization process that produced a local maximum which is highly sub-optimal. For various evolutionary reasons, a nerve routing that was direct and sensible when the aorta passed to, say, the gills of
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by LeifCarrotson 7y ago
Is there an alternative where they don't sign an equivalent TOS and still get the same features? Perhaps they have to pay for the privilege? Or is this a unilateral power grab by the manufacturers?
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by LeifCarrotson 7y ago
There's a balance. Excessive inflammation pushes joints and ligaments out of position. However, it's the way the body brings fluids to heal the injury. Manage it, don't let it go wild, and don't try to drug/compress
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by LeifCarrotson 8y ago
Whick is why a lot of large servers pre-generate the world out to a few thousand blocks.
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by LeifCarrotson 8y ago
Why?
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by LeifCarrotson 8y ago
As a tall, lean cyclist I'm always a bit surprised by both the extremes that people go to in weight reduction and by the palpable speed difference that you feel when riding a light bike. When I ride a 1980s steel road bike, we (bike+ri
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by LeifCarrotson 8y ago
A wireless mouse could last indefinitely, if it used magnetic resolvers instead of encoders (and siphoned off a bit of the voltage to recharge the battery. I expect you could also make a self-powered keyboard with a coil and magnet under th
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by LeifCarrotson 8y ago
To perform a statistical analysis, you want an objective measure, and money is a great proxy for value. You can pay people to be frustrated and stressed. The interesting thing about this definition, to me, is the Lake Wobegon-esque effect t
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by LeifCarrotson 8y ago
I wonder if they've done some testing to compare designs. A site that looks like it's designed in the 90s is probably highly attractive for many users. This "Mail A Letter Online" site, if compared to a 2019-looking snaz
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by LeifCarrotson 8y ago
Success is hardly a heritable genetic trait. Most of the education differences you see among families is environmental, and can be compensated for by improving public education.
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by LeifCarrotson 8y ago
The author of this blog post is speaking as a representative of iFixit. If you were authorized to represent CBRZY Inc, you could write a blog post and include the phrase "CBRZY Inc have published our comment suggesting that a represent
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by LeifCarrotson 8y ago
Probably just browsing the archive to the front page of iFixit as of yesterday, which would link to this article. Search engines aren't the only way to navigate the web, you know...
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by LeifCarrotson 8y ago
Health conscious people prefer margarine to butter on a hiking trip? Must be some pretty relaxed trips: Food is fuel, the more calories the better! I carry peanut butter and Crisco on my backpacking and canoeing trips...they're heavy,
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by LeifCarrotson 8y ago
In a lot of industries, the main factor is your network, and you just need A, B, and C to be adequate to check the boxes. If that's the case, and someone's trying to hire you because someone they trust thinks you can get the job d
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by LeifCarrotson 8y ago
This image helped me understand it: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Orthogra... It's a hemisphere centered on Jerusalem, with North to the left. "ROMA" is across the Me
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by LeifCarrotson 8y ago
On many (American) phone keypads, 1 is blank, 2 is A, or B, or C, 3 is DEF, 4 is GHI, 5 is JKL, 6 is MNO, 7 is PQRS, 8 is TUV, and 9 is WXYZ. So for FLOWERS you'd see that the F is on 3, L is on 5, O is on 6, etc. to get 356-9377. Note
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by LeifCarrotson 8y ago
> Both are solved, controlled and executed constantly by other car companies. Executed for ICE cars and their components. They don't have the supply chains for batteries, inverters, or electric motors.
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by LeifCarrotson 8y ago
Attempts to cause huge changes to global industries, like changing meat production to use fewer antibiotics, can almost never be brought about by suggesting that 7 billion people make a personal choice to eat less meat. That message will n
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by LeifCarrotson 8y ago
> Like the GPS trackers, license plates are devices designed to aid in identifying and locating a vehicle from a distance by technological means. License plates originated in the early 1900s, long before color film cameras were a thing,
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by LeifCarrotson 8y ago
> have a lot more free time due to not having employment I assume you're advocating their support through some social safety net that provides them with basic necessities. Because currently, not having employment is a major loss in
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by LeifCarrotson 8y ago
Hands-down, the best presentation and note-taking math class I recall in college (discrete mathematics, a graph theory course, heavy on drawings) was run through a Wacom pen display on the lectern, linked to a projector. The professor coul
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by LeifCarrotson 8y ago
It's less than a century old, first identified in the 60s and 70s, possibly coming from Rocky Mountain sheep farming operations in the early 1900s per http://cwd-info.org/faq/ . The reason it's fairly new is t
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by LeifCarrotson 8y ago
What if you installed a $200 monitor on your desk, upgradeable, connected by a standard interface like VGA or HDMI, and on your desk had a $50 keyboard and mouse connected over USB or PS2. You could kept the expensive parts of your computer
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by LeifCarrotson 8y ago
> Even though some people win the lottery, it’s fairly uncontroversial that most people would be better off if the lottery was simply disallowed, and nobody wins. We don’t need a replacement for the lottery, just to remove it. There&#x
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by LeifCarrotson 8y ago
I do, too. I also remember a few times (both as a young, scared small child, and as an older embarrased teenager) losing track of my parents and having the employees call "Will Mrs. Carrotson please come to the service counter" ov
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by LeifCarrotson 8y ago
It's not helped by the fact than HN markup is interpreting asterisks as requests for italics and backslashes as escape sequences...

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