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by VLM 4y ago
Like a lot of skills / crafts to some extent you can trade hours of experience for dollars. You will probably learn more and produce better joints by melting $50 of solder than buying a $500 iron. You "can" intermix real sol
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by VLM 4y ago
LEDs are a lemon market where the only people making profit are those who ship lemons, everyone else gets pushed out of the market. The luxury days of installing an incandescent bulb that lasts for ten years are gone, lucky to get six month
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by VLM 4y ago
Probably "Sugar The Bitter Truth" by Lustig 2009 which was "controversial" at the time but more than a decade later its pretty much mainstream. You're always going to have members of the general public and docs who
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by VLM 4y ago
An interesting perspective is most of the suggested docs were written in the last couple years, at most. I think you'd benefit by finding retrocomputer people and asking them about docs they've seen to find the best technical writ
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by VLM 4y ago
The purpose of democracy is to pacify people who vote into thinking that they have responsibility or they are somehow "heard" while leaving the people who select the candidates in charge. "Look, you had a choice between two c
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by VLM 4y ago
One way to think about 10% downsizing at a company that doubles in size roughly annually is its being off schedule about a month. IF they go back to doubling in size every year, THEN its a short term one month layoff. Looking at the number
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by VLM 4y ago
Or fish
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by VLM 4y ago
This is "older" tech so the installed base is (was?) large. In the past I found out if you use "level" in the format string it will output signal strength type data that you can analyze. It is not rocket surgery to stor
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by VLM 4y ago
I follow the energy field for mostly financial reasons and its a strange but true story that the first time oil was ever radio dated was by a Canadian team just a few years ago and they were surprised to discover the Alberta oil sands are m
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by VLM 4y ago
I used to invest pretty heavily in the energy sector in general and I learned a lot of the science along the way and I really have no idea what fraction of the earth's surface has been geologically surveyed. I would imagine if someone
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by VLM 4y ago
I'm sure it happens, sometimes. Most of the time, the lawsuits for digging up someone's fiber optic cable or natgas line are so staggering that there are various "free" one-call services that mark buried objects. The pu
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by VLM 4y ago
Well, poor or not, they did it, I found the American TM for german bombs of that era printed in the 50s and the SC250 definitely has a forward and after fuze pocket. Took 5, 17, 50, or 57 series fuzes. Its wild that all this stuff from dec
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by VLM 4y ago
> I can just hopefully toggle it on or off or disable I used an accelerometer. Just a funny UI idea, flip it upright to jiggle the mouse. I used a different board of course, although you could add an generic accelerometer to a Pico W pr
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by VLM 4y ago
Heroin, my advice would be to not use it
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by VLM 4y ago
Who, exactly, is this "they"? On HN of all places we should realize complicated technical systems result in complicated technical problems and the easiest, lowest status, people to blame are usually not the cause of all problems i
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by VLM 4y ago
It seems a bit much to assume the union believed that saying "no thanks" meant the NTSB would run away with their tail between their legs after a serious incident. The outcome of this legal wrangling will be an impartial judicial
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by VLM 4y ago
"Based on everything we know so far, the fault for this lies squarely with the American pilots" Do we? The discussion has VERY carefully avoided any discussion of what happened. Pinning the blame entirely on the pilots is what I
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by VLM 4y ago
"hows that working out for you" has been completely replaced in society due to social media with "how many updoots will I get?"
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by VLM 4y ago
Cite needed LOL. They're great for weight gain, which is not much of a medical necessity in the current year although there are special situations (cancer patients, etc) If you don't eat an essential nutrient (vitamins, minerals,
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by VLM 4y ago
Compartmentalization. Plenty of stimulant and H and other drug abusers in tech. Sugar and alcohol are addictive and addictions are irrational and you can't use rational objective thought to get out of a situation that is inherently irr
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by VLM 4y ago
This isn't actually an elm post or a functional post although I know "a little" about that specific topic. All new industries or genres or fads or anything really, go thru rapid growth of small players which get gobbled up in
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by VLM 4y ago
The right people did it to the wrong people, mostly. Oldest story in human history.
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by VLM 4y ago
Cool now do this with refined sugars or high carb diets in general. It'll be the same discussion, addicts trying to rationalize away the science and statistics.
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by VLM 4y ago
The world is full of people who strongly and honestly believe anecdotes are more important than statistics and statistics are meaninglessly astrological in nature. Its a very popular set of beliefs, majority in some areas.
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by VLM 4y ago
Sure there's plenty? Some reqs are ridiculously detailed and specific. Oh you have Python 3.10.7 installed, sorry we can't hire you we use 3.10.6 here. Next! Oh we want someone with 4 years experience, you only have 3 yrs 11 m
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by VLM 4y ago
My experience trying to set up my next C2C contract is remote is utterly dead and every posting has like 500 to 1500 applicants, whereas the locals are mostly hybrid (like you will attend weekly team meetings live in person) and locals are
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by VLM 4y ago
Truck driving is frictional. The management that screwed up something as obvious and profitable as railroads created a frictional desire for diesel trucking to work around their mistakes. Likewise, strangely, coding is also frictional. Th
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by VLM 4y ago
> The issues are wattage and whether the radiation is ionizing or not As an EE-type guy the issue is actually the dose rate. Even if the effects were sub-linear, which it seems they probably are not (like, why would they be?), there is
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by VLM 4y ago
When you see clickbait headlines talk about rates increasing, you know the absolute value must be very low or they're be trumpeting the actual numbers rather than rates, much like most coverage of the recent pandemic. Unsurprisingly, I
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by VLM 4y ago
"a high bar for quality, safety and groundedness" This sounds like its going to be cringy. Not a guarantee and I hope not, but it sounds bad.

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