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by albrewer 2y ago
keeclamp - https://keesystems.com/product-category/fittings/kee-klamp/
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by albrewer 2y ago
There's a youtube channel called "Kathy Loves Physics & History"[0] that goes over all these things in video form. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/@Kathy_Loves_Physics
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by albrewer 2y ago
> The cost of developing and maintaining Proton, Linux driver improvements, and their own Arch-based OS has probably exceeded the amount they saved by not shipping Windows on Steam Deck. So far. Depending on Microsoft's continued be
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by albrewer 2y ago
If you read the content of the PDF instead of focusing on the problematic wording of the section title, you'll see that he doesn't mean it in a personal boundary context, but in a problem solving / sales context. Most people
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by albrewer 2y ago
> One of the symptoms was extreme craving to the point that I have a kidney disorder that causes me to waste potassium. Without a supplement, I can't get enough in my natural diet without eating like 10-20 avocados a day, or 6 cups
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by albrewer 2y ago
> What is the default? The old behavior > Do the defaults differ across versions? No > How do you keep it consistent across computers and installations? It should be per-cell, so it's document specific. > What if you actual
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by albrewer 2y ago
For really simple databases, I've had limited success getting people to use a UI in front of SQLite: https://sqlitebrowser.org/
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by albrewer 2y ago
> ACE 8 I married a woman who scores the same. There's so much to say. But here, I think the best thing to say is that, after years in therapy, she's finally reached the point where she feels like things might turn out OK. I kn
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by albrewer 2y ago
> “will I understand this code later?” My driving principle in the same vein is "where do I have to look when/if this doesn't behave as expected?" - if the answer is not in the docs (wiki -> package/module -&g
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by albrewer 2y ago
I grew up in a poor "rural" area (it was a 5 min drive to a 300k pop. city). Most technology is about 10-15 years behind "the times" when you leave the city. Most people I knew didn't have cellphones until ~2007-08.
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by albrewer 2y ago
I read the same book / story! I have no idea where I read it or who it was by.
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by albrewer 2y ago
> FE solvers love boring quads That's because, in a mathematical sense, triangular and tetrahedral meshes aren't able to be as accurate as quickly.
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by albrewer 2y ago
When the regression is handed off to QA, they find that it's still possible to drop keys when: the keys weigh 100 tons, there are thousands of keys, there is no keyring, the keys are actually marbles, or the keys are covered in oil. Th
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by albrewer 2y ago
> However to build them requires stringent regulations to make them a viable cost solution In the US, the EPA has had regulations around this since the late 70's; it's a cost of doing business at this point, not a wild new theo
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by albrewer 2y ago
This happened with a local burger chain - once they grew beyond 3 locations that were relatively close together, the quality at all of them dropped significantly. My guess is that the founder put managers in place who weren't as passio
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by albrewer 2y ago
A lot of remote controlled air conditioning systems (like mini-splits and windows units) send the entire state of the remote via the IR blaster every time a key is pressed so there's no chance of the two getting de-synced.
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by albrewer 2y ago
I paid $50k for 24kWh nameplate capacity with no battery, fully installed and integrated, a year ago at 2% interest (the only reason it made sense to even do the deal). My electric bill went from an average of $350/mo to $16/mo (t
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by albrewer 2y ago
> the population has no interest in I definitely have an interest, but there's always something wrong with the existing headsets, so I never adopt. The Oculus is close, but the mandatory Meta integration is a no-go for me.
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by albrewer 2y ago
See figures 3 and 11 in this[0] paper - sometimes this is visible with the naked eye, though only up close with your eye practically touching the part [0]: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/10/7/969
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by albrewer 2y ago
I used to work as a design engineer for a pressure vessel manufacturer - we used explosion bonding all the time to bond more expensive corrosion resistant layers to carbon steel backing parts. Example: In a shell and tube heat exchanger, th
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by albrewer 2y ago
> I sometimes wonder if I'll regret that choice later on down the line. As a data point, I skipped mine to sleep in; no regrets 11 years later
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by albrewer 2y ago
Mine runs all my home automation stuff (HomeAssistant) and has been doing so faithfully for a few years
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by albrewer 2y ago
> This information is worthless for electric vehicle owners who charge mostly or exclusively at home I need to make a 310 mile 1-way trip fairly regularly through _very_ rural parts of Texas. That trip is specifically why I don't ow
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by albrewer 2y ago
> it was the days where you could prophetically "hear" that you are about to get a call or sms through your computer speakers When I was getting my private pilot's license in '07, my instructor put his cell phone in t
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by albrewer 2y ago
> because you can really get the correctness on the first go much more often than with Python Helpful only when you have a full-ish picture of the problem ahead of you and know what's correct when you start programming.
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by albrewer 2y ago
> But then you rewrite the whole thing in vanilla Rust without profiling once and it's still 20x faster The main reason Python is used is because developer time is expensive and computer time is cheap. When that balance shifts the o
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by albrewer 2y ago
> who here doesn't think they'll be bailed out One can hope that, if they're "bailed out," that it comes with mandates for quality control that, if violated, result in a corporate death penalty and temporary nati
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by albrewer 2y ago
I got about halfway through and forgot I was in the middle of reading it. The story never really grabbed me. I say this as someone who usually rips through a book a week.
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by albrewer 2y ago
Very niche, but deal.ii, the most popular open source library for hand-rolling finite element method code, lays out its tutorial exactly like this https://www.dealii.org/developer/doxygen/deal.II/Tutorial.ht..
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by albrewer 2y ago
> Groceries are cheap and fresh I took my kids to the Netherlands a few years ago; in the week we stayed there, they wiped out almost every berry the local (very small) grocery store had in stock. My kids couldn't believe how much t

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