albrewer

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by albrewer 2y ago
Given their respective histories, I'd say we're still in the "Volt pile" era of LLMs and AI.
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by albrewer 2y ago
> none of that is the same as spending time to figure out how to ensure that something breaks at the right time Yes it is. At the absolute limit, balancing cost and reliability is this exact optimization exercise; we are talking about th
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by albrewer 2y ago
In mechanical design, you typically target an order of magnitude of stress cycling for product design. In a pump, everything stress cycles, so it all needs to be simulated. If this was a pump you were going to make ten million of, then sudd
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by albrewer 2y ago
Amsterdam lets little vehicles like this operate in its bike lanes. They can't be capable of going over ~30 mph. I imagine a similar policy is being followed here.
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by albrewer 2y ago
The solution is not to stick strictly to prefix, postifx, or infix notation. Instead, all three should be valid. All these should be equivalent: + a b + c d + + + + a b c d a + b + c + d a b c d + + + More insidiously, these s
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by albrewer 2y ago
> sell their skills to foreign countries? 200 of the world's most experienced nuclear personnel are now unemployed. Yes, these people are the kind that get actively recruited by nation states.
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by albrewer 2y ago
I've read about this exact practice in one form or another since the Pentium 3 (sometimes just directly cooling with R134).
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by albrewer 2y ago
Sounds like you might have conscious control over your tensor tympani muscle[0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_tympani_muscle
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by albrewer 2y ago
> The primary use for a smartwatch for myself (and many of my family, friends) is fitness and health tracking. It also needs to be a good watch. Don't forget to not fail at that.
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by albrewer 2y ago
> People are furious that the price of delivered food has gone up recently If I was confident that increase was mostly going to the driver, I'd be fine with it.
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by albrewer 2y ago
I sold a mk3s because I could never get it to work to my satisfaction. I tried for weeks, trying everything I could find on the internet, using filament supplied by Prusa. Eventually the print head crashed into a failed print overnight, fus
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by albrewer 2y ago
Not sure if you chose 17mm on purpose but the tolerances on most sockets and wrenches make 17mm and SAE 11/16" sizes nearly interchangeable.
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by albrewer 2y ago
It still peters out eventually
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by albrewer 2y ago
No kidding - it really did take about a year for me to finish it. That was _with_ a guide.
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by albrewer 2y ago
I'll take it. My resume probably doesn't match your qualifications, but hey I'm sure you guys are willing to train people up where they're deficient, right? For that kind of pay, I'd never leave - surely me being a
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by albrewer 2y ago
You're right, and that's 100% on me for not clicking your link.
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by albrewer 2y ago
Inflation from 15 years ago to now is 33%[0]. Inflation from 30 years to now is 107%[0]. So yeah, median incomes are dropping. [0]: According to this calculator - https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
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by albrewer 2y ago
This is to prevent bot spam
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by albrewer 2y ago
I don't see my 80 year old grandmother learning how to use a terminal anytime soon.
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by albrewer 2y ago
> Perhaps consider creating your own product as a "micropreneur": a mobile app, a SaaS service, a social media website, etc Part of being burnt out is not caring about any one problem enough to want to solve it yourself.
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by albrewer 2y ago
> "gun to the head" heuristic Never underestimate the power of hiring a new employee and training them how to do what the software would do, thereby writing zero lines of code. That $250k in initial feature development costs +
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by albrewer 2y ago
Texas has a similar thing going on (technically), but you still have to pass an NCEES[0] exam, which is not easy. Also, if (in Texas) you stamp something outside of your area of expertise and it comes up in a review, it's viewed as if
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by albrewer 2y ago
> A "Professional Engineer" is just a Bachelors level engineer who took one extra test At least for mechanical, it's 4 years' working experience, documentation of sufficiently advanced projects, and sign-off from 3 ot
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by albrewer 2y ago
I learned it for the first time from this[0] course; part of the course covers deal.ii[1] where you program the stuff you're learning in C++. [0]: https://open.umich.edu/find/open-educational-resources/engin.
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by albrewer 2y ago
Early in my career as a brand new baby mechanical design engineer, I would have absolutely made some huge mistakes were I not able to pick up my drawings and ask a machinist with 30 years of experience if I was being an idiot or not. I lear
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by albrewer 2y ago
> Probably Java and Python have similar constructs In Python, the closest you can get is a "frozen" dataclass, but you don't get true immutability[0]. What you _do_ get is effective enough for just about all practical use
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by albrewer 2y ago
I completed college with unmanaged ADHD (diagnosed 10 years later; worst result my psych had ever seen on the TOVA lol). My second and third semesters went exactly as you described for courses where I was exposed to new things and wasn&#x27
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by albrewer 2y ago
I jumped to Lemmy since my favorite Reddit client switched straight to it after the API fiasco. Seems suitable and I like the small community.
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by albrewer 2y ago
> Are people that dense? did you not observe 30% of the world population's actions between 2020 and 2023?
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by albrewer 2y ago
Location: Texas, USA Remote: Yes, but flexible Willing to relocate: Yes, flexible. Eager to relocate to areas with high walkability/bikeability. Technologies: Solid understanding of Python, SQL, and PowerShell library cod

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