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by cr4ig_ 3y ago
Another former draftsman here...started a new job at a civil engineering firm and was tasked with learning AutoCAD. Quickly became once of the lead CAD draftsmen in the department, as part of that I picked up AutoLISP scripting to automate
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by cr4ig_ 4y ago
I would say "technology" is more appropriate than "automation". That and globalization have done it. Example: I live in Baltimore, a city that used to have an array of industries paying living wage blue-collar jobs that
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by cr4ig_ 5y ago
One of my favorite "dead tech" memories is from when I worked as a CAD operator for an engineering firm in the late 1980s, where we had a half-dozen AutoCAD workstations and a Roland pen plotter that used a large roll (several hun
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by cr4ig_ 6y ago
The small ship with the orange deck appears to have been blown onto land (look above its docked location in the after picture). I saw a live feed from later in the evening after the blast and there was a ship in that approximate location th
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by cr4ig_ 7y ago
My former boss used to get really exercised by my doodling in meetings. He tried to bust me on not paying attention until I recounted in detail the meeting discussion along with several questions about subtle points that came up from variou
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by cr4ig_ 7y ago
Hey, it served it's purpose -- as a shiny prop for whatever political candidate championed it to come and spout some pretty words and get a nice photo op.
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by cr4ig_ 7y ago
If on some midnight dreary there is suddenly a tapping, as of someone rapping, at your chamber door... It's probably a raven. Nevermore.
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by cr4ig_ 8y ago
What happened in the 1980s was the culmination of Baltimore's deindustrialization. Baltimore had the misfortune of having every single one of its major job-producing industries decimated by globalization and consolidation. Manufacturin
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by cr4ig_ 8y ago
I think affluence of the local population and job competition also affect the rankings. The places with the worst-rated homes generally have larger populations of less affluent (i.e. on Medicaid or will be soon) patients, and there are also
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by cr4ig_ 9y ago
Just make sure that if you're going to be discussing disconnecting DeepLens that you turn the pod so that the camera can't read your lips.
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by cr4ig_ 9y ago
Actually, the government (NNSA, https://nnsa.energy.gov/ ) trains for that on a pretty regular basis. They scan cities for known sources of radiation (hospitals, certain types of industries, natural sources) and map it all o
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by cr4ig_ 9y ago
Why does it have to be a DoD/CIA mission? It's quite possible it is Homeland Security gathering information on illegal immigrants, or possibly the FBI conducting surveillance. I've seen these sorts of overflights regularly in
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by cr4ig_ 9y ago
Yep, for example they continuously scan license plates with police/parking enforcement vehicle-mounted cameras. Just do a data dump at the end of shift (saves on those pesky mobile data usage fees) for later processing and aggregation
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by cr4ig_ 10y ago
I was looking at FlightRadar24 and listening to ATC while an A380 took off from Dulles near DC. Not only did they warn for wake turbulence when the plane was already well away, they held other aircraft for a runway inspection after the plan