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by ajford 4y ago
PVA glue will indeed dry in a vacuum bag. Most wood glues used for veneer pressing or lamination are indeed PVA glues and vacuum pressing is one of the best ways to get an even clamping pressure on complex or bent laminations. PVA glue cure
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by ajford 4y ago
I'm assuming OP here was referencing Google's cloud services vs AWS. As in Google's abysmal behavior in regards to AdWords has spoiled them against using any other Google services.
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by ajford 4y ago
Oh yeah, I totally get that. I'm lucky enough that my team really averages less than an hour of meetings daily. Usually under 30min, most of that being a daily standup. Our larger scoping/planning/brainstorming meetings are s
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by ajford 4y ago
I've found having camera on full-time during meetings and making use of a $50 usb drawing pad has been a very acceptable substitute for in-person meetings and whiteboarding. Being able to see the faces and body-language of your colleag
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by ajford 4y ago
So can you explain how a number of escaped pet-trade ferrets can grow into a force that can threaten an ecosystem when they are unable to increase their population size?
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by ajford 4y ago
It's highly unlikely, given that released/escaped pet ferrets can't breed. Ferrets purchased for the pet trade are all sterilized as a ferret in heat doesn't end well. Females can die if they go into heat and don't
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by ajford 4y ago
It's really rare for an escaped "pet ferret" population to boom on it's own, since most ferrets purchased in the pet trade (i.e. not specifically purchased for breeding) are already spayed/neutered. This isn't
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by ajford 4y ago
And development, which you seem to skip over. Most people draw the line at third trimester, which is generally when a fetus is viable outside the body. A fetus in the first or second trimester isn't capable of life outside the mother&#
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by ajford 4y ago
Entry level EVs exist that are under $30k USD new. Used EVs and Plug-in Hybrids exist that are under $20k USD. I spend less on electricity for my Chevy Volt than I would for any combustion vehicle. Sure, your example "low income people
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by ajford 4y ago
Or maybe if politicians had put together a bill to improve roads and bridges and highways. Some kind of bill to improve the Infrastructure of the country everywhere... Now why don't politicians do something like that...
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by ajford 4y ago
So it's not exactly what you're talking about, but the Parkes radio telescope used to have it's control system wired up with speakers and the control software used Australian animal sounds for various statuses and errors. So
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by ajford 4y ago
In the three years my spouse has had an Apple device, I've had two first-party cables fray and wear out at the connector, the lightning port get fouled up with lint and require cleaning, and I think three third-party cables stop workin
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by ajford 4y ago
Yours doesn't hold for hardware either. MacBooks are comparable and competitive to PC laptops, but it's only your opinion that they are superior. Having used a few different models of MacBook over the last decade for work, and own
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by ajford 4y ago
Generally with much reduced functionality compared to a full app. Can't mobile deposit from the web, and couldn't use a one-time access method to use my bank's ATM without my card (which did only occur once, but it was damn c
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by ajford 4y ago
Are you able to use any banking apps? I stopped rooting some time back when that became normal for financial apps, and the ability to monitor/manage account balance from anywhere was hard to give up.
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by ajford 4y ago
I've always wanted something like license points for law enforcement officers. Every time they have a valid complaint/incident, the LEO looses a point of their national LEO "licence". Pair that with their dept. liability
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by ajford 4y ago
Smarter than your average proxy, but apparently dumb enough it doesn't actually cache at all, according to the reports.
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by ajford 4y ago
Just about every CDN out there manages to cache at a global scale from a single hit, so I don't understand what's so vastly different about the go mirror system that it can't do the same under the hood.
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by ajford 4y ago
The Thinkpad chiclets suck compared to the scissor switches of the earlier models, but compared to the soft putty that is Mac keyboards, they're still a winner. When I had to use a Macbook for work a few years back, I was unable to use
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by ajford 4y ago
Exactly. There's so many stories from earlier generations about working their way through college and a family home. My partner and I make three what my parents did, and while we're comfortable, we're nowhere near what my par
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by ajford 5y ago
A friend of mine from some time back chatted about this once. His take was that as you get older, your "mental models" grow and are able to cover larger parts of your day/week/month and your mind simply keeps the importa
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by ajford 5y ago
Unfortunately, imperial measurements are a pretty common thing in the EE field when it comes to boards. A lot of parts are standardized on the 0.1 inch grid that was relatively common for a good 40yrs or so. I think the commonly understood
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by ajford 5y ago
erm... a hostel [0] is NOT a brothel [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostel [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothel
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by ajford 5y ago
Worked for a state agency (nothing enforcement, just dealing with state level stuffs), and we did have mandated lock-down drills once a year. Mostly I assume because we shared a state building with other depts. that might have been targeted
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by ajford 5y ago
Yep. It's common in the US. I wouldn't call it normal by any stretch (at risk of normalizing this bullshit), but it's definitely common. My kids have gone through it every year. Heck, I think they've had more shooter dri
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by ajford 5y ago
While I don't doubt other manufacturers have taken steps to charge better at cold temperatures, since theoretically you can do this if you have the charger warm the pack up to temperatures above freezing, this isn't just an issue
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by ajford 5y ago
Definitely something to consider. I wonder if there's some value to a secondary/supplemental seasonal battery that can be added for part of the year to handle the extra load. Would come down to whether the installation/remova
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by ajford 5y ago
There's far less going on in a normal EV drivetrain, which kinda supports the lower maintenance cost. Fewer fluids required, just your differential and some coolant for the motors really. Given the specialization of parts, it's fa
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by ajford 5y ago
Cold air impacting heath & capacity on the Li batteries, perhaps? Lithium batts tend to be finicky about their temperatures. Even my PHEV chevy volt de-rates the capacity if the ambient air temps hit less than 36*F.
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by ajford 5y ago
This is where programable keyboards win out when using alternative layouts. When the layout is at the hardware level, the OS only ever sees the actual keycode for the N key, instead of an "L" which is later transcribed into "

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