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I’m not OP, but a strategy I’ve seen on Hacker News in the past might be called ‘clout hijacking’, wherein you get a momentary boost from someone who has an established audience already. A popular Twitter user, a YouTuber, a newsletter auth
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Individuals are not powerless in this fight. We can use democracy to try to maintain our freedom. The people of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts recently voted to enact the following: > “Question 1 (2020) required manufacturers that sel
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Greetings weary web traveler. Before you leave this comments section you must behold the majesty of the ‘Beluga Livery’ displayed on the Beluga XL: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%22Beluga_XL%22_A3...
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You can get them in various stainless alloys. My understanding is they have a really defensible patent.
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You are correct, I had a brain fart.
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Fireball Tool is a great YouTube channel! I recommend it for any hackers interested in fabrication. The content is very approachable.
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I have used Nord-lock washers, they are demonstrated to be one of, if not the most effective thread locking washer devices under heavy vibration, but as you say they are quite pricey. I would certainly recommend them if you have the time&#x
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First, I love the plain text diagram! (Edit: not fatigue) This failure should be predictable during the design phase and that fastener is either wrongly specified or should have a recommended number of cycles after which it should be inspec
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True, but this caveat is generally pre-empted in design phase through safety factor principles - multiply certain design parameters by a coefficient greater than 1 to account for the inaccuracy in things like torque-tension correlation.
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Interestingly that has kind of moved upstream to a design phase consideration in modern times due to the incredible depth of understanding we have about materials. Structures can be designed such that their expected loading will not stress
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Installing to a known torque and painting a line on the fastener is a lot less expensive, which becomes important when your project has potentially tens of thousands of key fasteners, like a bridge. But for something like an MRI machine whe
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That’s true, but you can have a qualified inspector mark bolts with goo with a paint line that straddles to the fastening surface. Then you can just inspect the paint line for movement, which gets you most of the same functionality at signi
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I’m a mechanical engineer - smartbolts are cool but rarely used in my experience. Much more commonly used are DTI washers: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_tension_indicator Due to the washer style can be used wi
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No pay, no spray: Firefighters let home burn over $75 fee (2010)(nbcnews.com)
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Discussed here yesterday with 520 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29709369
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In that period have you seen someone eat Cheez-Its, Pop-Tarts, or Pringles? These are also Kellogg’s brands.
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I wouldn’t have even heard about the Veritasium film if not for this response. Smart marketing play.
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To quote Dyson from the same video: > “An expert thinks he knows it all but he's also rather inhibited by his experience, his knowledge. He finds it difficult to steer off the well-known path.” One of Dyson’s well-known paths might
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Also, Dyson products feel incredibly cheap in the hand to me for the price paid. You can just feel how many cycles of cost reduction each one went through. Expensive products are one thing, but products that are upmarketed primarily because
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Look at the photos—the panels that make up the exterior wall are segmented into narrow vertical strips. There’s not much you can do about a direct hit across all the cells.
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The photos of the aftermath are shocking. More than half of the building is completely demolished. Exterior walls flattened. Vans are draped with 30 foot concrete panels. The roof is everywhere. A ruined skeleton of support columns and trus
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>“Drive Pilot enables the driver to turn away from the traffic and focus on certain secondary activities,” the luxury carmaker said in a statement. “For example, to communicate with colleagues via the in-car office, to write emails, to s
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That was a crazy read. This stuck out to me: >“Here’s what we don’t know about whale barnacles, at least with any certainty: just about everything else. Like, how do their larvae, no bigger than a grain of salt, find a migratory whale to
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PKD himself wrote a semi-autobiographical story (“A Scanner Darkly”) about mental breakdown due to drug use. It’s a haunting book and the feeling it evokes has stuck with me since I read it about ten years ago. https://en.m.wikip
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See for yourself the Reddit forum that NYT alludes to: https://old.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/ Notable rule on that subreddit: > Posts about non-public figures must redact the entire name(s) of everyone in ev
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Good catch, so they are probably ‘cooked’ from both ends topologically.
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In the Tom Scott video linked upthread, they cover this. The pit is being used as a hydraulic control device-collecting all the badness from a ridiculously vast (~10,000 miles) network of tunnels into one huge dilute volume. Then, they pipe
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Migrating birds stopping to rest in water tend to drink the water. Once inside the body, if the water is too acidic, it begins breaking down cell walls and denaturing proteins. These actions are analogous to cooking.
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Model X ownership is a breeze far from the Bay Area. My mom’s model X has gone in at least a dozen times and there’s never a wait for an appointment. The local service center is excellent.
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In the Boston metro area, a portion of the ‘sludge’ from the MWRA Deer Island water treatment plant gets piped underneath the Boston Harbor to Quincy, MA where it is turned into fertilizer pellets and sold to the public. Very popular for go

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