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by buildsjets 2mo ago
B is absolutely not easy to fix, if the government does not offer the bid for public application, and pre-selects the one bidder that they plan to award the contact to, and only invites that one contractor to submit a bid. I think that you
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by buildsjets 2mo ago
You're thinking of Objective Chlamydia, I believe.
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by buildsjets 2mo ago
Naming things is hard, it's best to pick a theme and stick with it. A Columbo family mafioso I grew up near used to be in a never-ending competition with the Sultan of Brunei and the Aga Khan over who owned the worlds fastest megayacht
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by buildsjets 2mo ago
This company really bribed the Trump administration to relax health and safety oversight of their operations. The resulting increase in frequency of contamination by filth (feces, poop, crap, shit, turds, brown water, sewage, reclaimed bio
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by buildsjets 2mo ago
I get it, I have over 60,000 miles commuting on two wheels (Most of them on my 2003 Kawasaki ZR-7s that I have owned since new and just rode to work on Thursday), in all kinds of inclement weather, primarily to avoid parking hassles and tra
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by buildsjets 2mo ago
I use it to spot check the temp of my cast iron pan all the time.
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by buildsjets 2mo ago
I’d suggest you read “The TSO’d Pencil” to understand the reference. Http://www.rstengineering.com/rst/articles/tsodpencil.pdf
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by buildsjets 2mo ago
The pencil hardness scale is commonly used to assess paint film hardness by checking what is the softest pencil that can mar the surface when you scratch it with a given force. In this case, we needed to assess whether exposure to a certai
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by buildsjets 2mo ago
Truth. I once paid nearly $500 for a set of 17 certified, calibrated wooden pencils, with documentation showing that each one met their rated hardness levels of 9H thru 6B. And for $500, they don't even come with erasers, that is an a
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by buildsjets 2mo ago
Cap your meal off with a NIST 1196a standard issue cigarette? I am told they taste like drywall and taxes. https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2020/02/nist-releases-... Perhaps you would prefer some s
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by buildsjets 2mo ago
You could have chosen to use "Trump" instead of "Admin" and met the same character limit. But you chose not to.
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by buildsjets 2mo ago
Thanks, that's a lot more accurate and informative than the bowdlerized Hacker News title.
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by buildsjets 2mo ago
Facebook jumped the shark the instant they allowed non-.edu email domains to sign up.
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by buildsjets 2mo ago
Perhaps the clerk was not sullen, and just preferred to stay out of other people's affairs. You're not allowed to rent here anymore! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEEj6d3GTOU I don't think any movie could
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by buildsjets 3mo ago
Good. Children do not belong in first class.
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by buildsjets 3mo ago
Fred Dibnah's BBC series "Age of Steam" is a fine overview of the development of steam engine technology and the industrial revolution in the United Kingdom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl_UA36ouzM&lis
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by buildsjets 3mo ago
Example, throttle controls on a Dogulas DC3. All engine controls forward is the typical convention for full power. (At sea level, neglecting the altitude effect on required engine fuel/air mixture.) https://www.douglasdc3.c
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by buildsjets 3mo ago
They are commonly used on small single-engine fighter jets as well. They typically cannot be retracted once deployed, and free-fall using their own mass, so there is no actuation system weight to account for.
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by buildsjets 3mo ago
And besides that, there is the looping parachute APU. https://patents.google.com/patent/US9452721B2/en
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by buildsjets 3mo ago
No, Boeing did it first with the original 777, way back in 1994. A folding wingtip was designed, the folding mechanism was built and qualification tested, the engineering drawings were all released, it was added to the option catalog, but
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by buildsjets 3mo ago
Walmart sill sells multiple brands of cassette recorders in this specific format. They sounded terrible when they were peak technology, so I have to assume they are even worse now. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Cassette-P
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by buildsjets 3mo ago
I mean, this might have been slightly impressive if he had demonstrated the use of an oscilloscope to correctly set the output level of the DAW/preamp to prevent clipping while still utilizing enough dynamic range to get a decent pres
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by buildsjets 3mo ago
And from a recent Show HN: I Ching simulator with accurate Yarrow Stalk probabilities https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46261942
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by buildsjets 3mo ago
To expand on the levels of bullshittery, he initially picked “sometime in 2012” based on noting the number of elapsed days between 3 events in his life that he considered significant. (death of his mother, meeting a woman, and the date of
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by buildsjets 3mo ago
Someone wants to taste the curb! https://achewood.com/2007/07/05/title.html
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by buildsjets 3mo ago
Smart TVs mostly exist to subsidize the cost of the hardware though licensing deals. We use none of the features that came with our Smart TV, and stream through an Apple TV instead. If your Smart TV gets deprecated, you can always upgrade
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by buildsjets 3mo ago
Why does Wifi 5-7 require designing the case so it is shaped like an F-117 fighter jet instead of a box of candy?
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by buildsjets 3mo ago
To be perfected, this app needs a feature that uses AI to identify the difference between edible and poisonous plants and fungi.
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by buildsjets 3mo ago
Mostly because it is made in a multistep batch process that requires a few hours in an autoclave to cure the epoxy that bonds the skins to the core. And if you want to make anything but a flat panel you will need a very expensive bond jig t
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by buildsjets 3mo ago
Incoming trademark infringement lawsuit from Strava in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

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