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by abraae 7y ago
Very cool! It looks like the output shaft has quite a bit of lateral movement, perhaps something like a Schmidt coupling ( https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:233667 ) could be used to remove that movement and allow a fixed out
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by abraae 7y ago
Your comment makes me imagine a more nuanced technical interview process - i.e you get to provide feedback to criticisms from the interviewer, you get to escalate/request review from someone else at the employer if you disagree with th
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by abraae 7y ago
> We are thrilled to have them. The royal We? Your comment would read better if you didn't claim to speak for some group - presumably anyone living within a few miles of the HQ2 site. I'm sure that many people could be found th
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by abraae 7y ago
On a first aid course I learned that Another one bites the dust has just the right beat for doing CPR. Delightful irony.
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by abraae 7y ago
There are yachts and then there are yachts. I assume you're negative towards yachts like Larry Ellison's - giant fuel chugging beasts that the owner flies in to port to go on once or twice a year and that requires a crew the size
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by abraae 7y ago
> If it was that easy to make a superplant, evolution would have already figured it out. Is that the case when plants are now living in an unnatural environment,e.g with co2 at elevated levels compared to the levels that today's pla
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by abraae 7y ago
Unfortunately you may be right. I could forgo flight, eke out a sustainable but subsistence living and do the right thing for the planet, while others are flying their asses off and stock piling their treasure. But then when the shit hits t
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by abraae 7y ago
And also of a terrifying large Australian bird that should be treated with extreme caution.
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by abraae 7y ago
To be fair, adding apparently simple undo functionality to a complex transactional system can be fiendishly difficult.
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You're not alone. It feels something like releasing hundreds of rubber balloons into the air, pointless and arrogant.
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What do you believe is most inconvenient about GDPR compliance?
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That looks very interesting. Thanks!
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I've found with two of my kids that they were really into paper-based logic puzzles using logic gates. I draw up a heap of multi-input AND and OR gates, and some inverters, then wire them together in more or less random ways. Then put
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by abraae 7y ago
If you are part of an enormous tribe comprising virtually half the country, made up of people who think like you and more or less share your views, why would you hang out with the other tribe?
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How do you get from a map of the current air quality in Sydney to blithely saying climate change will have "little to no effect" on Sydney for the next 60 years?
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by abraae 7y ago
All good points, but there are other reasons to store images in the DB. One is making it much easier to copy graphs of data, e.g copying an account with a bunch of attached users, widgets and their images. When everything's in the DB t
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by abraae 7y ago
> Someone better came along to fill the role and nobody wants to tell a candidate "We found someone better than you". On the contrary, most automated reject messages from recruitment systems use something along the lines of &q
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by abraae 7y ago
Decades ago there was an amazing piece of software from lotus when I worked there called magellan. I remember the first time I saw someone search, and find results in text documents, spreadsheets and many other of the common formats of the
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by abraae 7y ago
I wondered about trolling too. There are examples in the comments of people taking it at face value. If it's not trolling then there would be something to learn from it for sure for successful trolling.
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by abraae 7y ago
True, perhaps this approach would not work for condors, eagles etc. However for most native birds in my country even a spot of an acre or two can be a good bird habitat for nesting and feeding and birds will happily overfly humanity to get
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by abraae 7y ago
The concept is still useful but without the travel corridors when it comes to birds. Here it is encouraged to put even small blocks of land into a permanent wildlife covenant. Birds can use them as oases.
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by abraae 7y ago
I'm the steward of a small (10 acres or so) piece of land - small enough that I can hear human activity from most of it - and my leisure activity is trapping for introduced pests like rats, possums, stoats and weasels. It's hard t
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by abraae 7y ago
The older I get the more I think labels like "lazy" are not really useful. Some people are beaten down, discouraged, unexcited at doing hard manual labour for just enough money to get them through to the next day. And some, even i
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by abraae 7y ago
The grid would not collapse but instead would evolve (maybe wiping out whole swatches of companies and utilities in the process but so what). Many people won't (or can't) install their own PV/storage, but everyone needs elect
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by abraae 7y ago
I think it's not about readability but rather about context and the audience. On HN all caps is uncommon and, I would venture, considered somewhat aggressive/rude. IMO HN is somewhat of a bastion of courtesy and reasoned debate, a
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by abraae 7y ago
You are the one who asked about downvotes. By all means use all bold, comic sans font, and flashing red text. But don't be surprised when people react negatively to it.
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by abraae 7y ago
I didn't down vote you but I did find your post shrill and confronting thanks to your use of crazy capitalization. > THE SOLUTION IS OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE that will disrupt the landlords of the Web (Facebook, Google, Amazon etc.) as
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by abraae 7y ago
> I’d rather they not use tech much at all than be digital zombies At one of my kids schools, tablets were mandatory so that the kids could develop "technology skills". ipads no less. Give me a break. Tablets and so on took off
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by abraae 7y ago
Pandering to guys who would "freak out and get very upset" and "make the experience more hostile to women" sounds crazy. Better I would have thought to kick such guys off the platform, raising the level for women, which
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by abraae 7y ago
Only tangentially related, but we had a funny incident when an American visitor staying with us told us about his visit that day to a wildlife park here in NZ. He and his wife spotted a hole in the wire netting fence enclosing the lions. Th

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