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by bruckie 7mo ago
OnShape is pretty approachable, and has lots of good tutorial videos. They offer free accounts for non-commercial use with the caveat that all of your documents must be public. If you haven't tried FreeCAD recently, it's gotten a
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by bruckie 7mo ago
My kids do this all the time. They also use the touchscreen in conventional laptop configuration (not folded-flat tablet mode) on their Chromebooks all the time. It's bizarre to me. I'm always trying to get them to use the keyboar
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by bruckie 7mo ago
AirPods Pro 2 and 3 can amplify ambient sound. Sinus/ear infections cause one of my kids to temporarily not be able to hear well due to fluid in the ear, and AirPods help. https://support.apple.com/en-us/120992
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by bruckie 7mo ago
The funny thing is, at least as I understand it, ITAR only applies to things produced in the United States. As example, you can't buy very good FLIR IR cameras in the United States without a lot of paperwork, but you can trivially buy
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by bruckie 7mo ago
From his description, it sounded like this was more of #1. He cared a lot about the topic he was writing about, and has high standards for himself, so it's very likely that he would have considered and rejected poor suggestions. I have
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by bruckie 7mo ago
My elementary school kid came home yesterday and showed me a piece of writing that he was really proud of. It seemed more sophisticated than his typical writing (like, for example, it used the word "sophisticated"). He can be prec
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by bruckie 8mo ago
The current market price is based on current supply and demand. Splitting water to create enough hydrogen for non-trivial fraction of the transportation sector would generate an enormous amount of oxygen. The price of oxygen would likely ta
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by bruckie 8mo ago
Very few sites are going to be flat or square. I suspect prefabbed parts mostly wouldn't fit without custom adapters around the edges.
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by bruckie 8mo ago
Batteries make that less true today than in the past. Solar/wind + batteries are becoming cost-competitive with coal for energy on most days (24x7). 24x7 every day of the year is much harder, though. Solar/wind + batteries are now
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by bruckie 8mo ago
Google doorbell cameras send clips to the cloud. They're accessible to users for 3 hours for free, and a month or two if you pay. While they become unavailable to users after 3 hours, it's unlikely that they're deleted immedi
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by bruckie 9mo ago
If you believe Hank Green ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=325HdQe4WM4 ), a lot of recycled plastics aren't recycled the way I used to think they were (by shredding them, melting them down, and extruding them into new s
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by bruckie 9mo ago
> Energizer batteries I see the point you are trying to make, but Energizer batteries are a bad exemplar for it. Even if all of the batteries are the exact same SKU, some of them may be 10 years old and some of them may be fresh from the
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by bruckie 9mo ago
The people you're replying to aren't talking about converting from AC to DC or stepping voltage up or down. Rather, they're talking about grid stability. You can have mechanisms to convert from AC to DC and to step voltage up
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by bruckie 9mo ago
The California Public Utilities Commission moved last month to prevent the shutdown of the Ivanpah solar concentrator. They cite data centers, grid reliability, and the state's clean energy goals as reasons to keep it online. https:&#
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by bruckie 10mo ago
$79 https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/wifi-special-devices/pro...
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by bruckie 10mo ago
Is is essentially a SaaS version of what businesses like OSH Cut and SendCutSend have built? And are you doing just the quoting, or full shop management?
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by bruckie 10mo ago
Doing this (reversing the bits of sequential ids) is common guidance inside Google for its distributed datastores like Spanner and Bigtable.
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by bruckie 11mo ago
He was at Microsoft for a few months, and Google for 16 years before that. I worked pretty closely with him and his team for a bit at Google, and he seemed like a great human being, in addition to being a great engineer. I wouldn't rea
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by bruckie 11mo ago
This is amazing. It feels like it could be a tom7 project ( https://tom7.org/ , https://youtube.com/@tom7 ).
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by bruckie 11mo ago
I'd assume that "victims" includes injured, not just killed.
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by bruckie 1y ago
I've been very transparent with them that the interest rates they get from me are far more generous than out there in the real world. :)
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by bruckie 1y ago
I run a "Bank of Dad", tracked in a spreadsheet for my kids. They can choose to "invest" their money with me or not. To make investing meaningful for them, I pay 10% interest per month, up to a $50 balance. To avoid bank
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by bruckie 1y ago
From "So how does Astral plan to make money? " ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44358216 ): "What I want to do is build software that vertically integrates with our open source tools, and sell that softwa
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by bruckie 1y ago
$560 out of $200k is 0.3%. $4500 out of $200k is 2.3%. Either way, yeah it's a small fraction.
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by bruckie 1y ago
I didn't ignore it, but perhaps I wasn't clear. My point is that if Safari is in use throughout the system, but used, say, 50% less often (vs. a hypothetical 100% secure browser), then 50% of the time attacks that were previously
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by bruckie 1y ago
> Adding a new browser will just increase the attack vector. More potential ways to attack? Sure. More actual attacks in practice? Not necessarily. Let's imagine we have a hypothetical 100% secure browser, and we can get people to u
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by bruckie 1y ago
I've always wondered how people manage this in practice. Is seems great if you never sign up for anything new, but I end up creating one account per week or something. How do you keep the key in your safe deposit box current?
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by bruckie 1y ago
I found FreeCAD more difficult to learn than other 3D CAD programs, but the 1.0 release that came out about a year ago has improved things a lot. It also looks like 1.1 (being stabilized for release right now) is going to add a lot of nice
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by bruckie 1y ago
Nope, there were no ads at the beginning. It was a big deal when they announced AdWords. And the ads were unobtrusive and often quite useful at the beginning. Google was quite vocal about clearly marking ads, in contrast to Overture, Yahoo,
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by bruckie 1y ago
Always have been. In large part, government contracting is what created Silicon Valley. https://steveblank.substack.com/p/if-i-told-you-id-have-to-k...

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