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by Tossrock 4y ago
Playing League of Legends... in Bronze league: https://archive.ph/gW721
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by Tossrock 4y ago
If you find this interesting, there's a very long, very good episode of the Omega Tau podcast about how seafloor mapping is done in practice. The host goes aboard the HMS Enterprise - a Royal Navy survey ship - and interviews a bunch
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by Tossrock 4y ago
Okay, that's pretty good. We have been collectively roasted.
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by Tossrock 4y ago
I have ordered a large amount of bolts from them, and they're quite good. They don't have McMaster's selection of weirdo stuff (ceramic bolts, titanium bolts, etc), but for your standard Grade 5 / Grade 8 etc, they'
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by Tossrock 4y ago
Interestingly, this sounds like a paraphrase of an Elon/SpaceX quote, something like "if you want to win an argument, you better have Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein on your side."
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by Tossrock 4y ago
Theyre not series, but Aurora and The Ministry for the Future both deal have those themes, and are quite good.
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by Tossrock 4y ago
Their natural resource is their strategic location on the Straits of Malacca. Massive trade volumes pass through the area, which brings wealth.
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by Tossrock 4y ago
Early in the war, "someone" (obviously Russia) released a deepfake of Zelenskyy giving a speech telling his soldiers to surrender: https://www.npr.org/2022/03/16/1087062648/deepfake-video-zel...
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by Tossrock 4y ago
https://blog.roblox.com/2022/03/real-time-facial-animation-a...
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by Tossrock 4y ago
My feedback: I don't like when web apps override default browser right-click behavior. I understand why you did it, and it seems reasonably well implemented, but it's still a peeve of mine.
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by Tossrock 4y ago
Why would that be a solid assumption? If Russia were actually engaging US forces and was "allowed" to shoot the AWACS, then they would also be engaging the USAF - by far the most effective air force in the world - who would deny s
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by Tossrock 4y ago
As ammending 1001.42 §8, Paragragh (c)3: "Classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity may not occur in kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is not age-appropriate or d
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by Tossrock 5y ago
Indeed, and I called it 7 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9882217
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by Tossrock 5y ago
Some tankers and transports already are turboprops, eg the C-130 family.
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by Tossrock 5y ago
Looks like mold flash (unwanted material that's squeezed out from the narrow gap where the pieces of a mold fit together due to the high injection pressure) and it's normal for some to come off. There's doubtless a cleanup st
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by Tossrock 5y ago
Fusion360 has FEA in the Simulation workspace.
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by Tossrock 5y ago
Depends on what the "plumber" is doing. Certainly there are plumbing tasks (eg pipe sizing for a chemical plant) which I would qualify as engineering. I would qualify it that way because they probably had a series of constraints (
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by Tossrock 5y ago
I think I would agree with that (industrial / process engineering is "less" engineer-y than, say, mechanical engineering), but since they're still optimizing against measurable physical constraints (how many chiller unit
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by Tossrock 5y ago
I think the best definition of engineering is that it's a process of optimization within a solution space bounded by constraints. If you pile up some mud and let it dry, you have made a dwelling but you are not an engineer. If you calc
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by Tossrock 5y ago
5 - 10 gallons per day?? Are you including washing and other non-drinking usage? Because drinking more than 2 gallons of water a day, even in high, dry heat with physical exertion, is extremely difficult. I've done a good amount of des
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by Tossrock 5y ago
Of course you can speed up and direct evolution, it's called artificial selection and it's how we got dogs, cattle, and almost all crops.
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by Tossrock 5y ago
Despite being presented in language which suggests that this is somehow settled science, it's actually trivially false given the existence of obvious counterexamples, eg music which provokes an emotional response without any lyrics to
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by Tossrock 5y ago
Best way to sleep in comfort in a dome is to take advantage of the crazy strength and hang hammocks!
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by Tossrock 5y ago
I like the "smart, but not wise" quote from Kahn in regards to their utility as permanent living spaces. When everything in our material culture is built around straight lines and right angles, domes just don't use space well
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by Tossrock 5y ago
"There are still other ways for them to get paid" is not the same thing as "they would in actuality be paid the same amount". I agreed in my message that it was always possible, and yet it wasn't happening. I don&#x
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by Tossrock 5y ago
I'm not convinced this dialog is in good faith, but no, my argument is that it is a way for artists to get paid, at a much larger scale than they have in the past. Personally, I think artists getting paid does change the world for the
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by Tossrock 5y ago
So why didn't people do that? There has been the option to give artists money forever, and yet as a society, we generally haven't. NFTs are demonstrably transferring massive amounts of wealth from crypto bros with too much money t
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by Tossrock 5y ago
My favored approach to offset drilling / drilling on curved surfaces is to use an endmill. Doesn't wander, goes straight in. Of course, you need an endmill for that approach, but id you're building a CNC those should be in re
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by Tossrock 5y ago
Interesting that their renders show what appear to be inflatable modules a la Bigelow Aerospace's designs, but don't mention them as a partner. Wonder if inflatable is catching on for space station designers, it definitely has som
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by Tossrock 5y ago
Unity can target web as a platform. AFrame is a web-native engine built on top of three.js

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