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by catherd 5y ago
In most forms of bulk goods transport the power unit can be decoupled from the part the goods ride in. Seems possible that might also work for ships.
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by catherd 5y ago
some (most?) languages have a single bidirectional word
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by catherd 5y ago
SEEKING WORK | Shenzhen/Islamabad/Remote Smart products. Most any physical device that runs firmware. Design concepts, engineering, prototyping, manufacturing, fulfillment. Experienced with firmware, PCB design, mechanical design,
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by catherd 5y ago
Try adding him to your contact list.
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by catherd 5y ago
I'm currently having the same experience. Unlike virtually all other email providers, Microsoft does not cooperate if you follow standard email practices. You can follow all their instructions, sign up for their monitoring tools, submi
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Microsoft Silently Dropping Emails – a Sad but True Story (2020)(nerd-quickies.net)
221 points by catherd 5y ago|108 comments
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by catherd 5y ago
Huh. Well, LibreOffice still can't preserve the formatting. Not sure if the last version of real-Excel I tried could. Having the compose box fit itself to the formula size or give other indication that there is more to see is still a h
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by catherd 5y ago
The thing that's always baffled me about Excel is why you must always work in "minified" mode when composing formulas. It seems like just adding the ability to spread a calculation out over multiple lines and add some indenta
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by catherd 5y ago
Spreadsheets are like the ubiquity of motorcycles in 3rd world countries. Jumping on one and blasting off without any safety equipment is cheap, fast, everyone uses them, and they get 80% of the job done. And they will kill you, but that&#x
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by catherd 5y ago
My contract manufacturing company does this. Our standard contract has a 5% bonus for being less than 10% late on the delivery date (and penalties start around 25% late). After suppliers see the contract they will often revise their origina
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by catherd 5y ago
Not sure this matters. Is your screen incompatible with other iPhones?
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by catherd 5y ago
When we did our testing we went through all the iOS settings and more than one user was testing on iOS. It was a client problem, not a settings problem. Everything here sounds to me like "with a year or two of improvements, non-technic
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by catherd 5y ago
Please prove me wrong, but self-hosting an XMPP server isn't something you can just install and have it work, if your definition includes all the XEPs that you actually end up needing and chat working at a level of user friendliness pe
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by catherd 5y ago
I believe it's the only major protocol that doesn't rely on google services for push notifications on Android and also has clients available in the app store on iOS. So if you want to, for example, chat with people in China and av
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by catherd 5y ago
Exited self-driving car project to make hardware and herd cats, which turns out to be the same thing.
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by catherd 5y ago
For a run we're doing of 800 boards that use 8 commodity ICs, 3 of those ICs are having significant supply issues right now. Just spent a fun 2 days soldering a bunch of 0.1mm wires to boards and adding test sockets so we can sort out
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by catherd 6y ago
After reading through the documentation and poking around in the UI, I didn't see any way for participants to stream their webcams. Do you know if that's possible? I don't think we want a VR teleconference, we want to see eac
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by catherd 6y ago
Thank you. Can you comment on how reliable it is? It seems to have a limit of 24 users, and says it might not work on mobile past 10 users.
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Ask HN: Best Technology for an E-Christmas Get Together?
2 points by catherd 6y ago|7 comments
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by catherd 6y ago
Where are those numbers coming from? A line manager working near a top city might get that... that's about the same as an engineer with a couple years experience makes. A high level engineer might expect 30k per month. Foxconn pays abo
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by catherd 6y ago
Should smaller countries just close their borders if they don't have a large enough economy to support compliance with ~200 other countries requirements? Even now I know factories that only export to the EU, or only ship to America bec
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by catherd 6y ago
I think having visible pricing differences for made-in-USA phones is good purely because it will make a lot of starry eyed kids starting hardware companies reconsider their assumption that they can make the economics of manufacturing in Ame
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by catherd 6y ago
Some whitewater playboats have a concave chine that I was told makes bubbles that have this effect, but intended to make turning the boat easier. No idea if it was the bubbles that actually helped, but I've been in a boat that had them
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by catherd 6y ago
That test procedure sounds similar to the standard test for CADR (ANSI/AHAM AC-1-2015), which uses a 1008 square foot test chamber and measures the ability of an air purifier to deliver clean air. CADR is the product of air flow and fr
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by catherd 6y ago
Well, I tried selling to the hobby market in the $150-$200 range because I figured hobbyists would be more forgiving if it didn't have advanced features. The market was completely uninterested (which may have more to do with my lack of
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by catherd 6y ago
Not sure how to feel about this. Strangely close to the overall concept and selling points from my project a few years back. I talked with Nate in depth about it as I was getting ready to launch it and he seemed super interested, even going
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by catherd 6y ago
Does anyone else find the "recent" files section in the Debian 10 (XFCE) file selection dialogs to be significantly less useful than in previous Debian releases? Recently created files just... don't show up. This is a hard on
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by catherd 6y ago
The actual curvature of the earth is what mattered. We used both laser interferometers and highly precise levels as part of the install. If you assume the vertical axis and gravity are aligned, over the distances our machines moved the dev
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by catherd 6y ago
The worst issue we had was competing with the windmill people for giant bearings. We were actually ordering those 1.5 years out at one point, for machines that no one had ordered and weren't designed yet.
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by catherd 6y ago
I worked on some of the automated machinery that manufactured these, and the scale of it all really is impressive. It was fun building a robot bigger than most houses. We had to be careful to design it in small and light enough pieces that

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