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Another Day in Katerradise(constructionphysics.substack.com)
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People know what the bolt looks like, but the wrench is missing.
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"Paula Vennells, who took over as Chief Executive in 2012 with, by all accounts, the best of intentions, found herself surrounded by a senior management team desperate to protect their own reputations and that of the Royal Mail. They t
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by abakker 5y ago
Self reply here. From the POV of someone who has been full remote since 2012, I will propose an alternative list of effective behaviors. Essentially, effective remote work is designed around the same principal as an API - liberal in what yo
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I think this seems kind of anti-empathetic. What the author proposes is that being an ineffective remote worker is entirely the lack of real-time comms, unless someone needs the author in real time in which case they are not available witho
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yes - they are well engineered, and part of this is large engines with low specific output. If you design an engine that can easily make 500hp with a tune, but instead configure it to make 300, it will last a long time. Net of the emissions
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by abakker 5y ago
The reality is that Toyota has an antique model of amortizing an engine design over too long. the CAFE regulations put them in a tough spot because the overall fleet has to reach a certain MPG. For a long time they made it work with the pri
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by abakker 5y ago
No persistent chat, doesn't reliably report availability status / presences, tells you messages were sent when they weren't, messages don't always arrive on all devices, message with error that says "message couldn&
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by abakker 5y ago
Last time I checked, blender didn’t do solid modeling or understand tolerances - has this changed? Can it really be used for industrial design, or is it really just a competitor to the animation software that autodesk makes?
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It seems like the only better alternative might be a fixed price based on count/average yield. It’s not perfect, but it seems possible that you could pay a farmer more (net of water costs) and the supplier could save money (net energy
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by abakker 5y ago
Vegetables bought from contract farms (most of them) are bought by weight. This means the farmers have an incentive to over water right before harvest weigh in heavy. Even for stupid stuff like ketchup where more energy is then spent to deh
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by abakker 5y ago
Amazingly, the mobile app version does!
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Leaking coolant is a major problem. The standard for most small heat pumps is r412a and it is problematic. To make the installs cheap, these systems use flare fittings that almost all seem to leak. Couple that with the fact the 412a systems
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I made the switch a few years ago and it took me 3-4 days to get it down. Now I can’t even do it the other way without thinking.
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I think the costs of taking it seriously before the disaster and after the disaster would be similar. The difference is that before the disaster, the budget seems discretionary and afterwords feels mandatory. Also, after the disaster, many
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by abakker 5y ago
13th warrior?
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I always personally thought descriptions of Grendel were very much that of a silverback gorilla. Fangs, Fur, Loping gait, strength. Its a pretty good image.
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I’m not sure, but I’d bet that this is a debate over precision Vs accuracy.3D printers can be pretty precise in relative terms, but they are difficult to make accurate. Extruder style printers struggle with small feature size because the he
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Because the government doesn't have a history of reducing property taxes when house values decline. In Fairfield county, CT many of the local municipalities left property taxes at 2006 levels straight through 2007-2010 even though real
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Because if the world later decides the rock is worth $5, the government doesn't give you the taxes back. Taxes levied at the time of transaction are sensible and reduce the risk that people who own volatile assets will end up paying ta
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by abakker 5y ago
A friend of mine in CT has problem now in the hardwood supply chain. The issue is that the kiln drying backlog has now caught up with hardwoods as many kilns are full of fir and pine. The supplies of paint grade poplar and soft maple are ru
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by abakker 5y ago
That wood from Stimson is the worst ever. I don't think you can buy worse. I've used all sorts in my life and HD consistently has lumber that cannot even be used to start fires until you dry it. Plywood is fine, but if you need an
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Only use the recommended dose!
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Ever read Ubik? I think the only thing missing is that it should charge your for each piece of toast you make and remit the payment to either the manufacturer or your landlord. If you are behind on rent, you can’t make toast.
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by abakker 5y ago
Triple pane glass with an e of .24 is still worse than 1.5" of polyiso foam. Glass is just not very good, even energy efficient glass is quite a bit worse than even basic insulation.
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I thought the idea was that these would allow more insulation in the doors than glass, and that the energy use from the screen was less than the energy saved from cooling losses (but what is the payback from the manufacturing, shipping, ins
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by abakker 5y ago
Possible that they mined your Dr.'s email, not yours. I assume it is possible you have fallen for LinkedIn dark pattern, but I would bet it more likely that your physician did.
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has anyone considered legislating a reduction in the types of plastic that can be used for packaging that would result in an easier time sorting? I.e. all bottles must be made of same thing?
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This is a highly complex problem. One reason to run below capacity is that many of the trees that have grown in the souther US were left standing to grow longer during persuades of low demand in the last decade. Now that there is high deman
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by abakker 5y ago
Honestly, I've not had this particular issue in about 10 years, but you're right. If it is dead enough it won't boot, then I guess wiping it would be tough. For me, the combo of Target disk mode, recovery partition, or extern

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