abakker

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   by abakker 1y ago

   We don't even need this - we have a pretty good explanation for what's going on, it's just that people don't want to admit it. the reality is that "work grows to fill available space", but, up until a point. Sl
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   by abakker 1y ago

   I mean, I assume that most people who are in a position of financial stress continue with their near-term need to commute to earn a living, and bear the cost of a tax that hurts them. The government's job is to say that in aggregate, t
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   by abakker 1y ago

   All costs are regressive to people with less ability to bear them. By making them not regressive we don't change behavior! It doesn't matter if they're regressive if the objective is to get people to not drive or to burn less
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   by abakker 1y ago

   They’re called expert networks. Usually, basic research practices like “fact checking” and “sample size” apply. I guess they just decided on the lottery approach.
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   by abakker 1y ago

   Yeah - 304 is nasty stuff for work hardening, too. I wonder if what they're really describing is a very specific amount of work hardening that improves certain mechanical processes. It can't be hardened/tempered since it&#x27
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   by abakker 2y ago

   I think it is important to distinguish between Consulting, Staff Augmentation, and Managed Services. Many of the large integrators/consultancies do all of these options, but the objectives, contract sizes, and durations of the contract
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   by abakker 2y ago

   The gym, I think. Usually the brand new buildings, too.
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   by abakker 2y ago

   We are definitely seeing a renewed interested in "Sovereign Cloud" A.K.A. cloud with local ownership and regional AZs that are regulatorially aware.
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   by abakker 2y ago

   I'm working on designing a survey to help assess the degree to which enterprise tech buyers believe that they need to invest in improving data access, metadata management, architecture, storage, and integration as a necessary prerequis
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    by abakker 2y ago

    yeah, we have alkaline expansive clay, so moisture retention was an objective. I added the nitrogen to offset the fact that fresh wood chips tend to be a nitrogen sink rather than a source. I theorize that thermal protection and moisture re
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    by abakker 2y ago

    Its interesting because last year I did an experiment where I put ~6" of wood chip mulch and slow release fertilizer over the root zones of several trees (climate 6a), and now that its spring, every tree that got the thick coat of mulc
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    by abakker 2y ago

    I think the antidote is to intentionally avoid routines to optimize. Cultivating an objective of variety helps break out of the mundanity-loop. (caveat: everything in moderation, including moderation)
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    by abakker 2y ago

    Man...If you built this for large mainframe codebases, I think every outsourcing provider would use it. many of these apps have >1 yr parallel runs even when rewritten because there is so much dormant and seasonal code that it is very ha
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    by abakker 2y ago

    Line of sight to a problem solving architecture, while cool, is nowhere near line of sight on upgrading the existing crappy data that is critically intertwined with literal thousands of apps in a typical enterprise.
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    by abakker 2y ago

    All good for the average user. You cannot run a saw or other corded power tool off an AFCI breaker. it trips _constantly_. This is a problem because NEC wants AFCI/GFCI in all rooms with concrete floors, like garages. This means you ba
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    by abakker 2y ago

    definitely true with dimmable LEDs. I have noticed that dimmable LEDs die in a year when running on a GFCI circuit. Solution is to find the junction and branch the switch/dimmer before the GFCI.
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    by abakker 2y ago

    https://www.livingcarbon.com - they actually genetically engineered trees to grow faster.
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    by abakker 2y ago

    Haha, as I read your comment I was thinking “yeah, like back in CT.” I saw this done in ridgefield as well. My friends property was basically all bedrock about 1’ under the topsoil.
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    by abakker 2y ago

    I’d say it: we know that some people currently know more, but, the average person mostly knows something about what is known, rather than knowing it directly.
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    by abakker 2y ago

    likewise, but also worth noting that the saw stop saw is just a...nice saw. Better than the old delta I used to have, better than the powermatic 66 that I grew up using. Probably not as nice as my buddy's $20k sliding Felder saw, but..
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    by abakker 2y ago

    Truly an incredible work.
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    by abakker 2y ago

    I'm not a physicist, but, why should this be fairly easy to disprove? The person proposing this theory seems relatively informed and obviously still published, so it's obviously not trivial. My (naive) assumption reading the artic
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    by abakker 2y ago

    I haven't read the original paper, but my assumption is that if their model suggests the universe is much older and that things like light speed actually decay over distance, then maybe they are suggesting that some of the other consta
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    by abakker 2y ago

    I think it's OK to make that mistake because "starting" is a more positive force than "starting over" is a negative one. if the abstraction or assumptions were wrong, you already built some kind of lossy approximati
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    by abakker 2y ago

    Username checks out :). But, really, I think we’re both posting with a bit of hyperbole here. Of course monetizing resources is how we get resources. OTOH, not monetizing every resource is fine - there exists the possibility of future value
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    by abakker 2y ago

    same reason we monetize every click, fund every ad tech, and track every data point. People feel the need to exploit resources in order to get rich. A billion dollars in actual gold is pretty real. Look at superfund sites like Captain Jack
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    by abakker 2y ago

    This is quite different than the lines people were doing at my high school /s. But seriously, earlier specialization does make sense. American education takes too long to get people into the workforce if you are in liberal arts.
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    by abakker 2y ago

    G41,G68, S curve acceleration, and basic things for parking positions, pause, resume, single block, separate feed rate and rapid rate overrides, etc. Those would be pretty basic and important. Also, good gui driven probing routines, TLO cal
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    by abakker 2y ago

    Yeah - I guess as a someone who considers my machining "non professional", I've never even really consider GRBL for a machine because "running G code" and "running a mill/router/lathe" feel like
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    by abakker 2y ago

    Do you not consider Mach4/UCCNC/Masso/Centroid Acorn to be hobby? I’ve never encountered a hobby grade controller without loops.