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Ah, the main "eat vegetables" interface is actually emergent behavior driven by three different interfaces: the "parental mimicry" interface, the "repeated exposure" interface, and the fuel sampling system&#x27
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I've found that, while the smaller model's battery life seems boundless, what really drives the appearance is their remarkable ability to recharge quickly. I can wipe out the battery of both of of the smaller models I'm curre
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> lubricating the threads can cause over-tensioning of the bolt if you torque it to the (typically) unlubricated torque spec This is correct. My main exposure to it was from the ASME's boiler and pressure vessel post construction c
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by albrewer 5y ago
There's a fantastic set of two textbooks covering bolted joint design by John H. Bickford. One for gasketed assemblies and another for non-gasketed assemblies, if you want to really _really_ dive deep into it. At the end of the day you
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Luckily my problem-solving thought process is already like conversation so just saying out loud what I'm thinking is just vocalizing what's already going through my head. The more I read HN comments the more I realize that not eve
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They probably defined some microcode operations -> created a minimal assembly language -> wrote it in C -> hand-optimized the asm output -> compiled to "machine" code All the steps are things you cover in a computer en
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> A lot of alternative voting systems that people like (e.g. ranked choice) are too complicated With the quadratic method, though, all the complexity of the voting system is on the ballot rather than in the tallying process. It's p
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> [...] instead, invest it in finding a job that's not so toxic. Nobody's saying they're not doing that. Depending on life circumstances and where you live, it can take months to find a new job that's actually better
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I find it hard to read some textbooks, especially older ones. If I'm missing a core concept or key piece of background, it's difficult or impossible to even know what the gaps are that need to be filled in my knowledge, and the bo
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by albrewer 5y ago
I agree with point 1 and point 2 should really be to the end of the original author's lifetime, or 40 years if it's the work of a corporation i.e. a work for hire. Additionally, the renewal should cost (2 * i)^n dollars for each y
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I like this guy's talk about doors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YYvBLAF4T8
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> In the mountains of Italy, drivers give a short honk before entering a turn on a serpentine road, This was common in Puerto Rico when I visited.
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SO is a great place for finding that one little code snippet that plugs a hole in your understanding of a problem. Many times you're 3 layers deep in a dependency chain of problems solved, and the question addresses some totally unrela
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> companies will check sequences submitted to them against databases of 'dangerous' or regulated sequences. Weird, that's kind of how computer antivirus software works.
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It's usually proscribed in terms of inches per 100 feet of height. For things like wind deflection, more than 2" per 100 feet is considered excessive.
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Brittle fracture toughness for carbon steels (resistance to cracking) gets really bad below about -20 °F. The colder you get, the more things you have to do to keep that toughness up, or else steel will crack like cast iron instead of bendi
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> I would imagine a higher up got very angry every time a batch failed. > After awhile you learn to just keep your head down. Many people don’t feel safe enough to push back. Or they stop questioning after awhile. Worked at a foundry
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> I think Monster Hunter World was the first time I worked out a dynamic programming algorithm in anger. Care to elaborate?
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Yeah I worked as an engineer at a plant (different company) with ~400 union jobs. A year after a successful union contract negotiation, my plant was shuttered and the output sourced China. 7 years later, my friends that still work at the d
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by albrewer 5y ago
I'm just as distrustful as everyone else regarding FB, but the messenger kids app is, so far, the only one I'm ok with letting my kids use regularly. Nothing else has enough parental controls where I can be certain some rando cree
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by albrewer 5y ago
Oh man, I'm running into this just teaching my kids to read. English is a shit language to speak natively and then try to read. When starting, words like "people" you read like "pee ah pull" - there are so many word
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Yes, sort of. I haven't taken a deep dive into anything like how to implement an OS, and I know I'm woefully undereducated about networking and the internet, but I have a tough time learning stuff without a concrete problem to sol
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Similar thing happened to me. I had to take a C++ course (with C++ 2008 on Windows) and hated the way it was taught. I conflated that with hating programming. After I finished my engineering degree, I got frustrated with repetitive tedious
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> rich Corinthian leather skeumorphism In my opinion this design was a lot more usable than the current 10 year trend toward having no borders around anything anywhere.
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This is supposed to be enforced in code review or with other team practices / processes.
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If I waited for the clearest, best solution to become apparent to me every time I went to get something done I would still be deciding what food to buy at the grocery store. Sometimes it makes sense to run with a "good enough" sol
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Or RoadRunner -> Time Warner -> Spectrum depending on your region and age
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Applied Science is just a really smart guy who works (worked?) at Valve who reads cutting edge research papers and tries to recreate it in his home machine shop / garage. I just discovered Not Just Bikes a few weeks ago, and I'm r
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I'd put Euler up there. And Laplace, Fourier, Heaviside, Lagrange, Poisson, Gauss, Jacobi, Green, and all the other guys you cover in an undergrad classical engineering degree. Our current world is literally built on their work.
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Engineerguy's youtube channel is a real gem, and I wish he made more videos. Every topic he's picked has made the subject matter interesting, even about the really mundane things like baby diaper design. My substitute channels in

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