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by chrisBob 11y ago
The point of this gearbox is the small size. The space needle gets to use a gear that is the size of the top level, and drive it with a gear that is a few inches in diameter. That has always been easy to do and is the sort of thing this com
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by chrisBob 11y ago
I am most concerned about the efficiency of a design like this. People usually look for a gear reduction to increase torque, but an inefficient gearbox can make the output both slower and lower torque which is rarely desirable. The wobbli
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by chrisBob 11y ago
>> I'd be willing to bet, if you've ever been in a relationship, that you've also been attracted to other people I will assume that EugeneOZ is male, and has decided that this rule only applies to females, so your logic
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by chrisBob 11y ago
You are getting a lot of down votes, but the truth is that this behavior is very common in some cultures, and not all of HN may have seen it before. When I get impatient I just swirl the mouse in a small counter-clockwise circle, but I have
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by chrisBob 11y ago
Ever been in the middle of a hard workout and noticed that you smell like ammonia? That smell means you are burning protein, probably from your muscles. I have only ever seen this during extended exercise, but the same thing during a fast w
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by chrisBob 11y ago
Turn down the AC at work, and home will be much more comfortable. People acclimatize to hot weather pretty quickly, but we spend a lot of time fighting it in favor of temporary comfort. A few years ago I found myself freezing trying to slee
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by chrisBob 11y ago
I am not sure I understand. You can't major in math and teach middle school math. You have to major in education to teach middle school math.
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by chrisBob 11y ago
I did get a business license from my town, but mostly because I wanted a bank account with the company name on it, and this was the easiest way to get a business or DBA bank account.
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by chrisBob 11y ago
That is completely different. The TSA is there to make passengers feel safer. As long as you don't read news stories about their failures then it works.
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by chrisBob 11y ago
The article quotes a student complaining about the pressure for extracurricular activities, but I think this is a good case in favor of sports: Do you know a runner? They have experienced failure and lost races. This is an important lesson
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by chrisBob 11y ago
By hardware do you mean open at the chip level? Most of the stuff at Sparkfun is open.
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by chrisBob 11y ago
If it is intentional then that is bad news. Anything that asks me for a password and won't accept the dashes that Safari puts in when it recommends one for me just gets 'Password1!'. Oh, you won't even take punctuation?
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by chrisBob 11y ago
The link in his profile works ( https://scott.arciszewski.me/ ) even though I see the same error when going directly to https://arciszewski.me/ does not. My guess is that arciszewski.me is not on the certific
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by chrisBob 11y ago
Using a copyright work and modifying it in some way often qualifies for fair use. I also think that in your example the antivirus companies would be happy to see who complains about their copyright violation. http://copyright.gov
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by chrisBob 11y ago
It sounds like you are fine then.
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by chrisBob 11y ago
It was unclear to me at first that a default rate of 0.4 on the map is actually 40% !!! I had no idea it was that high, and I just assumed it meant 0.4% until I saw the numbers later.
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by chrisBob 11y ago
How are speakers usually wired? Are they in parallel or in series? This makes a big difference when you just short the wires together, and my guess is that they are in parallel which makes connecting them with a wire nut the wrong answer.
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by chrisBob 11y ago
Don't get stressed about asking people to hire you. I am in a mechanical engineering research lab and we will have two undergrads and a master's student from France in or lab this summer mostly doing computer work. They are mostly
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by chrisBob 11y ago
I think the standard was to be paid on the 1st and the 15th, but you could opt for one monthly pay check if you had trouble saving for rent with the twice a month schedule. I never really thought about it. Are weekly or monthly that much mo
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by chrisBob 11y ago
In the military you will often hear "Don't thank me. The government thanks me twice a month." So there are parts of american culture where these pleasantries are less common.
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by chrisBob 11y ago
> Besides, for simple games, using those engines are a huge overhead and an unnecessary cost. I don't think the pricing of $0-$75/month is a huge cost. They made some big changes to their fee structure this year.
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by chrisBob 11y ago
I don't understand why the lottery commission would know and not stop this. If they are guaranteed to win I think that is the same thing as the state have a guaranteed loss.
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by chrisBob 11y ago
Lots of people make bad business decisions, and I don't want to give them a hard time about the shipping company they chose, especially when they were willing to share the experience in a blog post. What worries me most is the internal
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by chrisBob 11y ago
I love math where $500 in hardware plus 6 months of engineer salary equals $500. I am a grad student making about $30k/yr and my advisor still says to figure labor as costing $1,000/day.
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by chrisBob 11y ago
The Republic of China is only about 100 years old.
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by chrisBob 11y ago
In the US depression kills more people than starvation. Even in that situation, a pet may be the right answer.
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by chrisBob 11y ago
One issue I don't see addressed is that I appreciate the warning I get as my batteries die. In an apple trackpad, like the one in the "article", I get a few weeks notice when my batteries are dying. With this am I more likely
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by chrisBob 11y ago
We already have perfect soldiers that are "ever courageous, never sleep, never miss", but land mines are outlawed in most situations.
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by chrisBob 11y ago
There are worse things than open offices. One of the new trends is open lab space . Chemistry labs at UNC made the transition a few years ago. Did someone, anywhere on the floor, open something that produces hazardous vapors? Why contain i
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by chrisBob 11y ago
In the US reducing your hours is often ever worse than just taking the fractional pay cut: part time jobs don't typically include benefits, so you end up with much less than 60% pay for 60% of the work. If it weren't for health in

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