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by albrewer 4y ago
The most confusing ones that people might run into regularly are for sodium (Na) and potassium (K) since the medical conditions for having too much / too little of them are named after the Latin names - (hyper/hypo)natremia and (h
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by albrewer 4y ago
> they have added all sorts of phantom merges which often obscure the real next turn/exit until the last second because there is a nonexistent merge on the map This is the thing that I hate the most. It wouldn't be so bad if th
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by albrewer 4y ago
My entire role at my current company could be better served by spending $60k on software licenses a year, but they choose to pay triple that for me to create a shittier version of it. I'm not complaining, really, because it's been
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by albrewer 4y ago
This is why I quit my engineering job. I loved what I did. I hated the environments I had to do it in, and the other stuff that wasn't engineering that inevitably comes with engineering roles.
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by albrewer 4y ago
That doesn't control the existence of screenshots and copy-paste though. Once you have released something to the internet, there's no guarantee it won't be copied and distributed via channels you don't desire.
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by albrewer 4y ago
At a job I had long ago, embedding an interactive 3d model of a laser scan diffed with a CAD model was one of the products of my work. It was probably the best and easiest way to get that information to other people because otherwise we wou
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by albrewer 4y ago
I haven't looked in awhile, but I used to just back out when I encountered a Taleo-powered job application website. Their search interface was terrible, and there was no way to open job descriptions in a new tab with middle click. No i
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by albrewer 4y ago
In my experience, engineering tools tend to not run well (or at all) on Linux, even with WINE. I don't mean SolidWorks and AutoCAD - programs like Compress, Caesar II, CFTurbo, MAGMA (not the CAS), Carrier HAP; in short, all those engi
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by albrewer 4y ago
If I recall correctly the only reason that configuration was abandoned was because the physical distance between the CPU and RAM needed to be as short as possible. I liked the Pentium 2 card as much as the next guy but I like faster system
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by albrewer 4y ago
If you don't own or didn't use a torque wrench to tighten the connections and this was awhile ago, I would go and re-torque them. Properly connecting these types of connections requires more technique than "give it five ugga
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by albrewer 4y ago
> fakes and frauds happen constantly I don't think the presence or absence of a seal will change this. If the fraud already happens constantly and this board is in place, then this would be an argument for replacing them, yes? >
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by albrewer 4y ago
Probably more specific to me, but I took bupropion for a month and the urge to drink completely disappeared. Serotonin replacement drugs in general seem to help kick the neurological chemical dependence.
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by albrewer 4y ago
I used to work in a really niche engineering field. The amount of stuff I used from documents released by the US military was non-trivial. Never anything directly, but most of the time the docs were useful enough to shed deeper light and co
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by albrewer 4y ago
In very rural areas, cell phone towers use microwave repeaters to get to a hub station that has a hard line connection to the backbone.
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by albrewer 4y ago
Didn't read the article but from what I understand drilling fluid for environmentally sensitive areas tends to be water with bentonite clay and a small amount of thickener like barium sulfate or calcium carbonate (i.e. seashells) in it
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by albrewer 4y ago
> As long as you run services locally on your Synology (assuming it supports docker) and don’t expose them to the Internet How do I do all this while exposing it to the internet? I want to host stuff for my friends and family without put
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by albrewer 4y ago
I think this is my favorite incremental game of all time. I thought it wasn't really possible to tell a story through gameplay in a game like this but this one and Kittens game[0] have shown me it's possible. [0]: https:/&#x
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by albrewer 4y ago
Looks like she got 2.5 years: https://www.knkx.org/law/2022-02-14/metallurgist-from-auburn...
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by albrewer 4y ago
Background: I worked in the pressure vessel manufacturing industry as a design engineer and have pretty deep experience with designing around brittle fracture. 1) Just because the testing requirements say -100 °F but the temperatures will &
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by albrewer 4y ago
I'm a fan of https://everynoise.com/ > Every Noise at Once is an ongoing attempt at an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space, based on data tracked and analyzed for
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by albrewer 4y ago
Your work made a positive impact on my life, much fun was had on my part thanks to your games :)
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by albrewer 4y ago
I think the biggest thing killing malls is parking requirements. When there's a quarter mile of parking lots in all directions from the main building, it makes it impossible to connect to the rest of the city without a bus system.
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by albrewer 4y ago
Increase teacher salary to $100k a year and cap teacher to student ratio at 20 and see how hard it is to hire them. I'd go straight back to school to get a teaching cert to change careers, even though it'd be a pay cut. Imagine ge
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by albrewer 4y ago
According to their link, the error at a human scale is about 1e-6 units on Earth. You need to be doing the math at velocities such that the object's apogee is over 100k feet / meters from the surface to be "off" by more
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by albrewer 4y ago
Are you contesting the fact that a thrown ball's distance above the ground (y) at a particular time (t) relative to its initial velocity (v) is equal to y = vt + 0.5 * g * t ^ 2, (where g is the direction of acceleration due to gravity
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by albrewer 4y ago
I used to work as a framer during the summer when I was going to college. What you're glossing over here is that about 10-15% of the timber you buy to frame a site-built house is wasted (ad-hoc cuts, bracing, jigs, etc.) and thrown int
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by albrewer 4y ago
The main problem is I don't have the ability to only pay for the content I consume.
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It happens, but they're easier to tear down and repair / rebuild. Main problem that occurs in a manual is the synchronization gear mechanisms going bad (so you have to do the 1940's double de-clutching to manually synchronize
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by albrewer 4y ago
Coupon is used in metalworking to mean a sample you can submit for destructive testing that is representative of the whole piece under test. A weld coupon, for example, is a piece of test material of the same thickness and weld preparation
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by albrewer 4y ago
I wanted to be a teacher when I was in high school (and I still do; I like teaching people new things). Then I found out brand new engineering graduates made more than any adult employed by the school district except for the superintendent

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