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by blackguardx 1y ago
My US-based company has the same policy for all international travel now to avoid any incidents coming back into the US.
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by blackguardx 1y ago
I worked at Microsoft pre and post-pandemic. Microsoft has an extensive shuttle network, but the public transit (Sound Transit) to the office was nicer in many ways. It ran more frequently and the seats reclined!
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by blackguardx 1y ago
The purpose of de minimus is to streamline small shipments, commercial or not. It can't really be abused unless the declared value is false and it is really over $800. If you are taking issue with Temu-like shipments, that is more of a
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by blackguardx 1y ago
The Digi-key situation is funny. Going forward, ordering from Digi-key will be cheaper for europeans than for folks in the US. Digi-key operates a bonded warehouse where they don't pay tariffs until it gets shipped to a customer. ICs t
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by blackguardx 1y ago
They were still complaining about Solyndra over a decade later.
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by blackguardx 1y ago
For many years, they piped the entirety of the Owens River to LA, over a hundred miles away and over a mountain range. It is wild that the follies of Los Angeles water management has led to permanent scars in the east side of California fro
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by blackguardx 1y ago
I lived in Erie and Cleveland for a while. There are non-union shops all around and the locomotive business in Erie was owned by a declining company (GE) that divested it in a fire sale along with many other parts of their business due to t
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by blackguardx 1y ago
I grew up in the rust belt. I've never heard of anyone leaving to "escape unions" but rather there just being not many jobs, lots of historic pollution to deal with, and a poor future economic outlook. Why were unions specifi
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by blackguardx 1y ago
I'm an EE in my 40s, have 20/20 vision, and never solder without a microscope no matter how large the packages are. The ergonomic advantages are worth it.
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by blackguardx 1y ago
"Flatten the curve for just 2 weeks." Wait, who was in power for the first year of Covid?
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by blackguardx 1y ago
86 pages is not long by today's standards. Also, when was the last "clean bill" passed?
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by blackguardx 1y ago
My father was taught to use condition 3 carry (unloaded chamber) with a 1911 in the 1970's US Navy. It all depends on circumstances.
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by blackguardx 1y ago
I'm surprised this article focused solely on blurry rendering when mouse pointer location in "fullscreen" Mac games is also commonly affected by this bug or whatever we are calling it. You have to dive into an OS menu for eac
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by blackguardx 1y ago
The RF spectrum is a public good in the US and there are requirements placed on the winners of those auctions to demonstrate it provides some public benefit. A company can't just buy spectrum and sit on it, for example. They must use s
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by blackguardx 1y ago
This is the first time I've seen this framing. Typically folks blame bloated admin and fancy dorms. Where can I learn more about this take on the student loan crisis.
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by blackguardx 1y ago
The controls are you go to jail if you get caught. At least this is what one is told in the mandatory ITAR compliance trainings. That seems to be how the law works for most crimes.
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by blackguardx 1y ago
I worked on an ITAR-controlled camera once and it was drilled into me than even allowing a non-US person to view the output images of the camera constituted an ITAR violation.
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by blackguardx 1y ago
I have a B.S. and M.S in EE. In undergrad, I took a class where we had to solve a different problem using a new analog circuit each week. At first, we could only use BJTs, resistors, and capacitors. Eventually, we made 555 timers from discr
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by blackguardx 1y ago
There are loopholes for kits if it acts like a subassembly: https://emcfastpass.com/fcc-rules-kits-subassemblies/
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by blackguardx 1y ago
In Epee, if you poke someone in the toe, it "kills" them. Not sure it is any more realistic than foil.
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by blackguardx 1y ago
Before it was passed, I as a young 25 year old was unable to get individual health insurance at any price due to "pre-existing conditions."
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by blackguardx 1y ago
Cortex-M33s are decently powerful in the non-Linux embedded world. Micropython isn't competing with Linux, it is competing with bare-metal code.
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by blackguardx 1y ago
Charles Schwabb (the person) and Roger Penske were on video with Trump bragging about making money off the stock market turmoil around tariffs: https://newrepublic.com/post/193860/donald-trump-brags-tarif...
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by blackguardx 1y ago
I also live in Colorado and have noticed the same thing lately. A state park near me gets slammed with tourists but there isn't much to do there unless you like hiking up steep trails or rock climbing. Most folks seem to drive in, walk
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by blackguardx 1y ago
I learned to program C in high school on the original iMacs and thanks to OS 9's lack of true multi-tasking and Ive's penchant for lack of buttons, anytime our code crashed or made an infinite loop, we would have to reach around a
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by blackguardx 1y ago
I went to Munich last September and didn't see any mountains from the city. I was very surprised because I flew direct from Denver and maps made it seem similarly situated. Munich and surrounding areas more closely resemble Wisconsin t
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by blackguardx 1y ago
My Nokia Lumia 521 running Windows was the best phone I've ever owned. But when MS bought Nokia, they pushed out an update that made it really slow and buggy.
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by blackguardx 1y ago
My data point: in NYC, the crosstown bus on 125th is noticeably slower than walking.
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by blackguardx 1y ago
dBm is fully defined. Its reference is 1 mW into 50 ohms. I agree that using dB as a unit and not as a comparison (10 dB more power) is confusing, though.
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by blackguardx 1y ago
I have tinnitus from an inner ear injury from snorkeling/free diving. Tinnitus can be caused by clenching your jaw or otherwise stimulating your jaw muscles. My ENT told me the nerves for the muscles are extremely close to the nerves f

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