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by bdamm 7y ago
There are airplanes constructed with chemical bonding as well, such as the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and my personal favorite, the AA-1, released in 1967! Welded airplanes are practically nonexistent, but there are techniques other than rivetin
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by bdamm 7y ago
Also, by paying the neighbors 3x their property value to buy out their homes.
903.
by bdamm 7y ago
We're not talking about desktop machines or even mobile phones. I'm talking about specialized sensors that are sold to big customers who deploy millions of them at a time. A 10-cent increase in the cost to manufacture easily resul
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by bdamm 7y ago
My employer produces low-power devices with hardware cryptography built into them. Without the crypto hardware, almost all crypto (including ECC) is too slow for practical use. It's all well and good to have "crypto agility"
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by bdamm 7y ago
Inability to power on a build machine is not a serious issue. It is a temporary problem with many solutions. To suggest that the build may never happen would imply a much more serious problem. That does not seem like effective communication
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by bdamm 7y ago
That's exactly the case for me, but I've been handing out these addresses for nearly 20 years. I also suffer from the problems with gmail that the GP referred to. I can't even forward all my email to myself without having it
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by bdamm 7y ago
Indeed, I am patronizing the indie cinema much more these days. Mainly, because they have actually interesting movies, unlike the bland drivel that being spooned out of Hollywood.
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by bdamm 7y ago
The amusing but strange sub-story here is the build engineer claiming that the product may never be built. That is a type of endemic first class whining the type of which I am sick, sick, sick of.
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by bdamm 7y ago
This is exactly my problem as well. How would I actually be able to differentiate high pitches (which I hear constantly) from noisy electronics and power supplies? The times where I'm out in deep nature with utter quiet (e.g. no airpla
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by bdamm 7y ago
Mobility is really restricted to the top half of people. Yeah, it's not so bad as to cause mass refugee exodus, but that's a very low bar to aim for. We can and should do better.
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by bdamm 7y ago
That is “stealth”. It’s obvious because it is expensive and secret tech. But also because if you look at the ship you see a ship, whereas the radar shows an albatross or something small. Transitions are also notable for radar operators that
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by bdamm 7y ago
Indeed, I'd sign up for that sociable experience. There used to be (in the pre-legalization days) speakeasy-type places you could go to smoke and enjoy; live music, fruit juice on tap, that kind of thing. But nowadays it is all but imp
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by bdamm 7y ago
There are some short-line commuter rails that are absolutely worth it. Some of them are even run by Amtrak. That does not outweigh the general statement, but I do want to point out that rail is not a universal failure in the US.
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by bdamm 7y ago
Meanwhile, my wife and I have not even worn rings for years, and no plan on the table to get new ones. Initially it was caused because we went through a very rough patch and we both were giving up on the marriage. But that turned around, an
915.
by bdamm 7y ago
You may like websequencediagrams.com The site is only for sequence diagrams “swim lanes” but at that task I’ve found nothing better. I love describing the relationships textually and then selecting the best style for the job. Many tools fai
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by bdamm 7y ago
It’s also sometimes the only way, with certain people problems.
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by bdamm 7y ago
Mainly because avgas is not a meaningful contributor to climate change or environmental lead. It's a pittance when compared to anything else; commercial aviation all sources, DoD, road transport for GhG and piping, paint, and industria
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by bdamm 7y ago
However, reducing the cost of fuel by 1/10 would be very attractive to basically all airlines, so the manufacturers may very well step up for it. Bombs away!
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by bdamm 7y ago
There's lead in paint all over America, just dripping off old buildings into the soil in some places. And asbestos in insulation and other building products. So?
920.
by bdamm 7y ago
While I am just about to start reading the article, I would expect a difference between microdosing (antidepressant use of psilocybin, certainly consistent with how most antidepressants are used) and a trip or macrodose of psilocybin.
921.
by bdamm 7y ago
It is possible to scrape through a program without much curiosity or real understanding. Thus defining a clear gap in the workforce that those with CS degrees (and who actually paid attention) can fulfill. Specifically, building the tools,
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by bdamm 7y ago
What if all wild animals died? Would insect extinction still be worth it?
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by bdamm 7y ago
Product Dork? Death by a terrible name.
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by bdamm 7y ago
That's true, but, we also accept a certain risk as GA pilots being non-commercial. The risk we accept is translated into a larger GA industry that makes flying as a hobby "affordable" to mere mortals (read: wealthy non-millon
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by bdamm 7y ago
I do happen to know that for me to ignore murder took nothing more than the implied threat that I would be murdered myself by the team doing the murder. I learned my lesson; getting away with murder is not hard for people that are good at i
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by bdamm 7y ago
Close on the timing mark, this one did it for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDUeh8nyLT0&t=129
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by bdamm 7y ago
Right, and presumably using a VPN would stop this as well, but you'd have to get a pretty nice VPN to not impact your experience by 250ms/req.
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by bdamm 7y ago
The argument is weak, but it's also desperate. These days trying to influence companies often comes down to some argument based on objective costs. "You are modifying my content against my wishes and adding latency to my Internet
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by bdamm 7y ago
Quite right. Also, trying to prevent harm through prediction is vastly more expensive than trying a product out in the market, and gets more expensive the more harm you try to prevent. It also causes product development paralysis, as deeper
930.
by bdamm 7y ago
Flight limits on lithium are because the TSA and NTSB can't control the quality of products shipped in luggage holds on passenger jets, not because lithium batteries can't be made safely. Also piercing a battery is a secondary con

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