albrewer

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by albrewer 2y ago
It was a reddish (could be orange, could have been maroon) color lightly mottled in black with a picture of a violin (or cello, idk) set in the lower 2/3 of the cover. I'm somewhat certain it had 6 cds because it filled my disc ch
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by albrewer 2y ago
I had a set of cds that went with an intro to music theory textbook around ~2009. It did also made heavy use of indices in tracks to do exactly the same thing. My car stereo listed each index as a track. I wish I could remember the name of
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by albrewer 2y ago
> Imagine, holding a 2 hour, 10 person meeting to decide if an additional one time $1000 cloud expenditure is warranted I don't have to imagine; I've had it happen within the last month. IT was complaining about dev's stor
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by albrewer 2y ago
This is just anecdata regarding two people I knew personally. As with everything, reality may be quite different in the aggregate and individual experiences will vary.
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by albrewer 2y ago
> quitting coffee led quite quickly to nasty headaches That's caffeine withdrawal. That goes away after awhile, but it depends on how heavy an addict you were.
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by albrewer 2y ago
When I was getting my degree, two of my classmates spoke Spanish as a first language. One was a transfer student from Madrid, and the other was an immigrant from northern Mexico. I was in the room the first time they met and tried speaking
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by albrewer 2y ago
> they had falsified coupon testing/inspection documentation This is accomplished by specifying a separate testing house that you trust for this, if you don't have your own equipment. Many manufacturers don't have a tensil
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by albrewer 2y ago
> expensive metallurgical analysis involving destructive testing, spectrometers, and electron microscopes I used to work in a pressure vessel fabrication shop (for customers like Shell and Exxon). We had a few handheld mass spectrometers
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by albrewer 2y ago
I played it last night. There would be maybe a couple dozen enemies on screen. Which, for a dial-up connection, is a massive amount to communicate about in real time. The fights are structured such that it feels like 5x that amount, though.
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by albrewer 2y ago
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak
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by albrewer 2y ago
> ATF and filters it needs Not all modern transmissions have a filter
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by albrewer 2y ago
Axel from the Twisted Metal video games drove a dicycle!
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by albrewer 2y ago
> I love when really smart people spend a lot of time and effort doing completely useless things. That is the epitome of this guy's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@tom7
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by albrewer 2y ago
One of the things I wish we could start bringing into the public domain are zero-knowledge proofs for biometric data. Basically it'd enable the situation where the person being ID'd gives permission to a third party to know whethe
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by albrewer 2y ago
There was a US tax program last year that cut 30% of costs off of renewable energy projects. I took advantage of it - it brought the project from "will never pay for itself" to "pays for itself in ~3-5 years" due to the
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by albrewer 2y ago
Joke's on you, he works on engineering software used in a highly safety critical industry! /s
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by albrewer 2y ago
I have a 4k@120 Hz projector and it's downright amazing on my 120" "screen" :) They're not that expensive, relative to some of the larger TV screens[0]. Plus, when it's off, there's no bulky appliance to n
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by albrewer 2y ago
I find that a lot of in-the-weeds economics podcasts and publication tend to hew pretty close to reality in their analysis. Mainly because ideological bent, unless it has an economic basis backed by data, is largely worthless, or even harmf
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by albrewer 3y ago
By eating them you contribute to the overall demand for new beef, thereby perpetuating the cycle of bovine misery.
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by albrewer 3y ago
15-60 minute settlement times early on certainly didn't help
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by albrewer 3y ago
A plan to connect Houston to Dallas with a bullet train has been grinding its way along for years now[0]. Since Texas is loath to use eminent domain, the planning phase has been stalled for a loooong time. [0]: https://www.texasc
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by albrewer 3y ago
Hydrogen really likes to strip out all the carbon in your steel, leaving you with pure iron (given enough time). It's a well known phenomenon called hydrogen embrittlement.
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by albrewer 3y ago
> I spent six years attending French classes and three of Latin. I can't read, write, speak, or understand either one. I spent ~4-ish years learning Spanish in high school and was the same. HOWEVER, after visiting Puerto Rico for th
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by albrewer 3y ago
I didn't find this out until I had already graduated, but my school district had a self-paced high school where you could take classes at your own pace. It was meant for disadvantaged kids who could not, for various reason, be in-class
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by albrewer 3y ago
Because flying anywhere during those few short breaks is about 3-5x the cost vs. traveling at some other time. I'd rather fly to Europe for $400 per person vs. $2200 per person; it's the difference between going and not going.
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by albrewer 3y ago
If anything will get us out of this ad-ridden hellhole of the centralized internet, I think it'll be cryptocurrency that allows users to transfer tiny amounts of money to a site instead of an ad platform paying the site fractions of a
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by albrewer 3y ago
CHIP -> Child Health Insurance Program.
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by albrewer 3y ago
> Each level of capability you described was science fiction stuff before they were achieved Machine learning has been a thing almost since discrete electrical circuits have existed, just wildly impractical to make generalizable versions
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by albrewer 3y ago
I'd like to throw in a recommendation for Huygens Optics: https://www.youtube.com/@HuygensOptics Everything you ever wanted to know (and more) about light and lenses, explained in a way that's totally comprehensib
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by albrewer 3y ago
I still use it when testing implementations of mathematical functions. Like if all I need is a bessel function, why pull in a whole CAS to do that?

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