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by d-sc 8y ago
Humans are good at building houses and have many standard plans detailing how to do so. Yet we still hire architects to design custom homes. I’m ok with that. Efficiency doesn’t always need to be the end all goal.
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by d-sc 8y ago
You have a fair and understandable point. Here’s my perspective as someone who has been proximate to both industries. My parents ran a construction company. One day a guy showed up for his first day of work. By virtue of the project’s sched
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by d-sc 8y ago
Heck: for what it’s worth. If you or anyone else on HN is interested: I’m in college right now working part time, so I’m low on spare time, but I come up with seemingly profitable business ideas pretty regularly. If you want something to wo
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by d-sc 8y ago
Find a purpose that drives you. Volunteer your time, start a business, have kids, get another degree, build a house start to finish. From the purpurse, the desire to get thinks done and associated time management will follow. Jobs can serve
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by d-sc 8y ago
No offense intended here. I have a commercial drivers license and have put a bit of time in driving a truck as a summer job after high school. It sucks. Society basically treats trucks as outcast from the nicer places of our communities. Tr
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by d-sc 8y ago
Not only that. There’s usually development regulations for ‘sub divisions’ that specify minimum things like street access, utilities, etc.
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by d-sc 8y ago
Presumably this has been solved. It’s a mailbox. Once the software infrastructure for autonomous delivery vehicles is in place, I feel that people will gladly install $100 ‘autonomous-delivery-ready-mailboxes’. We gladly spend more than tha
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by d-sc 8y ago
LED bulbs contain more components than incandescent bulbs and have more failure modes that simply going ‘pop’.
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by d-sc 8y ago
... and this is the reason we can’t have nice things. Source: In 8th grade our class had to do a book report ‘project’. I selected an ebook on intro to processing (it’s an environment build on Java that lets you create graphics applications
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by d-sc 8y ago
Also design mechanical stuff for a living. I’ve spent multiple days over the course of the past six months creating drawings to demonstrate how a design will ‘feel’ once made. A 1:1 3d model that other stakeholders could walk into would be
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by d-sc 8y ago
But the laymen, like most techies, don’t like ads and thus will want to use add blockers. Thus they will be trained by their fellow tech folk to ignore those warnings which will decrease the effectiveness of other warnings.
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by d-sc 8y ago
Just tried this with my brother. Apparently I can listen to his iMac audio from my phone. This could mean and increase in the time to fix the bug.
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by d-sc 8y ago
People can get slightly better vacuum pressures in elaborate lab settings than are present on the moon. With trivial amounts of effort (and non-trivial sums of $), you can get within a couple orders of magnitude. Source: have done so myself
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by d-sc 8y ago
I would recommend investing in a set of pre-prepared samples as well, if you decide to get a decent microscope. They’re not super expensive and show a good glimps of what is possible.
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by d-sc 8y ago
Magnetic fields tend to decay with distance from the source which helps.
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by d-sc 8y ago
In my working experience, mainly with small companies: if you consistently deliver good value, management and other employees shield you from most of the BS out there. If you don’t provide as much value you get to deal with the unpleasantri
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by d-sc 8y ago
Granted. I probably don’t know as much about firefighting as you.. My experience growing up in an area where forest fires happen on a yearly basis is that there is a different cost/benefit calculus with regards to human safety that goe
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by d-sc 8y ago
Yeah. To take it a step further - I would argue that for a lot of things, the coding isn’t most difficult part of the innovation process.
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by d-sc 8y ago
> Not that you’ll want only experience. A balanced work force is the best in my opinion. Can confirm. I(college student) work in small remote product development lab with a guy in his 30s and one in his 70s. The rest of the team is 1,000
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by d-sc 8y ago
I call the F150 pickup I drive small. It is compared to the F350’s and semi that I’ve also driven. In absolute terms it may be big. But for an electron app it’s probably not too bad.
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by d-sc 9y ago
I can’t speak on their usability in circuits. However, materials that show properties characteristic of zero resistance exist. I’ve used them at work before. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconductivity
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by d-sc 9y ago
I feel like this would be a bad idea seeing as their employers are in the business of watching your internet traffic and catching such shenanigans.
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by d-sc 9y ago
You just typed out my comment for me. I tried 59715. I like to cook entirely local meals for fun and Montana has plenty of readily available farm goods for that.
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by d-sc 9y ago
Funny you say that. I used to drive by that street on the way to school.
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by d-sc 9y ago
As long as we’re getting into anecdotal evidence. I’ve driven an F150 as a personal vehicle and ran it pretty heavily(80 MPH over steep passes, firewood hauling, heavy trailers, off-road on farm, etc) and haven’t had any problems. I’ve also
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by d-sc 9y ago
Ran great on my iPhone 8.
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by d-sc 9y ago
I would agree with this. If only by a personal anecdote: I got through calc 1 & 2 by the end of 8th grade. This was though an online class while at a smaller rural school in Montana. Being 'smarter' than my classmates had litt
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by d-sc 9y ago
A call or text is a different interaction than scrolling through an infinite newsfeed designed to keep you addicted.
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by d-sc 9y ago
I'm curious if you could elaborate on this more. What other probably techniques would you recommend knowing?
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by d-sc 9y ago
The used netgear router a friend gave me, does a fine job of getting my devices ip addresses on time without me touching the config.

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