adamweld

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by adamweld 4y ago
The existing NHTSA female dummies have breasts as well. See: https://www.nhtsa.gov/nhtsas-crash-test-dummies Presumably the difference here is around weight distribution and other limb length and size proportions. Still I
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by adamweld 4y ago
pogo pins?
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by adamweld 4y ago
Searching Amazon for 'suicide' or 'suicide kit' is showing me a hotline banner, currently. I'm not sure if this is new behavior.
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by adamweld 4y ago
kexp is the fucking best.
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by adamweld 4y ago
What industry are you in?
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by adamweld 5y ago
Octos aren't social creatures.
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by adamweld 5y ago
I've tried a lot of note taking apps and Workflowy[0] has been my favorite for the last ~5 years. At its core it's a bulleted list that you can expand and collapse. Super simple and works just as well for quick ToDo lists as for i
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by adamweld 5y ago
Can anyone recommend a laptop that gets great battery life on Linux and has a good keyboard? I've been thinking about selling my current beefy laptop (razer blade 15) since I end up doing all my MCAD/ECAD work on my desktop anyway
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by adamweld 5y ago
I don't know anyone who thinks of 'having anxiety' as an out, identifying it as something that's negatively impacting your life is just the first step in making changes to reduce its presence. Furthermore the vast majori
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by adamweld 5y ago
I'm not sure I get what you're trying to say, what's wrong with advocating for people to take personal time off when they are feeling burnt out or tired from repetitive stress? I'm struggling to understand why that'
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by adamweld 5y ago
Quadcopters scale up fine, in fact as other commenters have mentioned they get more efficient as they get larger. However, quadcopters are mainly useful because they are simple and cheap. Once you add the amount of redundancy necessary to s
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by adamweld 5y ago
13% is huge in a low margin, highly competitive field. the price difference comes down more to economies of scale and less to artificial segmentation.
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by adamweld 5y ago
also see: https://basecamp.com/guides/how-we-communicate
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by adamweld 6y ago
I think it's pretty clear than the author believes he may have offended people with his statement, and is rephrasing in a more precise manner to avoid confusion.
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by adamweld 6y ago
I think you massively underestimate the cost (land, machinery, labor, upkeep) of undertaking such a project.
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by adamweld 6y ago
If you're interested in becoming proficient text editing in the shell, I highly recommend just biting the bullet and learning the basics with vim. It's significantly less of a "cliff" than you'd expect. Just spend a
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by adamweld 6y ago
The enclosure costs will be negligible, but the PCB will not be. These phased array antenna designs from SpaceX and Amazon are some of the most complex PCBs ever theorized, with many dozens of layers and requiring manufacturing processes th
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by adamweld 6y ago
This is absolutely not true for the miniaturized balanced armature drivers that this MEMS speaker design is competing with. The coil must be wound in-situ and is usually epoxy potted due to fragility. https://navcomm.eu/img&
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by adamweld 6y ago
I wonder if those that disagree with you have taken a look into the speaker drivers that this MEMS speaker targets (smartphones and earbuds). These devices are many times more complex to manufacture than the large scale dynamic drivers you
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by adamweld 6y ago
KEXP is amazing. Highly recommend people check them out (online at kexp.org if you're not in seattle).
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by adamweld 6y ago
The BENQ monitor I bought a few years ago had capacitive buttons. It started flickering and the warranty replacement was a newer model. I was happy to see that they had switched back to physical buttons. That said, the OSD interface has not
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by adamweld 6y ago
On the golf it's not a button but a dial (furthest right). I leave it on Defog most of the time (straight up) and change from there without needing to look. If I'm unsure a quick glance tells me the angle and I can make the adjust
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by adamweld 6y ago
Modern oscilloscopes still are largely driven by buttons and knobs.
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by adamweld 6y ago
I don't know, I think the controls [0] on my car (VW Golf 2017, <20k new) are pretty close to perfection. Physical buttons or dials for everything except for infotainment settings, but minimal with no clutter. Steering wheel input f
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by adamweld 6y ago
I read through the article, I don't really see how it fits that definition. Long shifts on your feet, physical labor, short breaks and no cell phones. Precise tracking of performance. Does it sound like fun? Hell no. But it seems like
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by adamweld 6y ago
This is specifically an improvement to meshing, a method used to simplify the solid model of a mechanical design for simulation. It's (generally) a pretty small percentage of our workload. This press release looks like something that w
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by adamweld 7y ago
1) and 2) - the fact that Google and Apple have what is essentially a monopoly on smartphone software is exactly what makes this a good approach. it's the easiest way to reach a high percentage of the population. 3) false positive are
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by adamweld 7y ago
He didn't say it was the only job pitch that he'd read at the end of an article. He said it was the best one.
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by adamweld 7y ago
Perturb and observe, my friend. An excellent model for life.
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Time Machines and Species Failure(profgalloway.com)
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