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by dugditches 7y ago
What happens when you can manufacture from raw materials, but your raws themselves come from offshore? There is still lots of manufacturing of high quality here. However they're costly and smaller in scale versus overseas.
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by dugditches 7y ago
They used to post the number of tests on the site. They've stopped. https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/health//health-topics/coronavi... if you pull up the cached version, they reported 300 tests do
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by dugditches 7y ago
What I was wondering too. Especially with the rough surface and slits in the back. Maybe putting a small amount of Bleach in the water would prevent it.
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by dugditches 7y ago
Interesting to see how it impacted sunsets. To the point they theorize The Scream may have been influenced by it. Painting of the phenomenon: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23&#x2F
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by dugditches 7y ago
While the Internet provides a platform for Essays, as he says, I think maybe a bigger point is it allowing the rise of 'Video Essays'. Where now content creators are turning out 30+ minute videos on a single subject. While in the
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by dugditches 7y ago
What about the next line? "Our greatest concern is the potential for this virus to spread to countries with weaker health systems which are ill-prepared to deal with it." I'd call it simply stating their reasoning rather than
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by dugditches 7y ago
Guess they're going the Costco loss leader hotdog route.
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by dugditches 7y ago
Appears to be fairly on rails, which I guess eliminates the whole movement thing. Good to see them releasing something, even if it is a narrow market. Seems to be a lot of doubt in them after lackluster Artifact and Epic Store entering thei
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by dugditches 7y ago
I mean that image of the 'before/after 'topological optimization' seems like a poor analogy. >confirming that our intuitive preference for “straight line” designs has nothing to do with performance As the first is mad
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by dugditches 7y ago
And he'll make a fuss, a video, and it'll get fixed. They'll all get their stuff back. It'll add to the\ sour taste in his mouth but it'll get fixed. While smaller creators in similar situations are completely out o
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by dugditches 7y ago
Sounds kind of like CAD/CAM software a bit. Where it was so archaic(least in UI/usability) and extremely expensive that AutoDesk has found success following the Unity/Unreal model. Offering a "free" CAD/CAM sof
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by dugditches 7y ago
What you're talking with 'render rights' is a major plot point in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Congress_(2013_film)
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by dugditches 7y ago
If you're ever uncertain of a mushroom you can take a spore print to help. Say you have some in your yard and worried about a pet or child. It's very vague sometimes trying to identify a 'typical' looking mushroom. But i
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by dugditches 7y ago
125 parts per car. It's a macro issue not a micro one. If you're making thousands of cars that's a lot of parts. Then eventually when you no longer need the Combustion Engine and Transmission, the two most complicated parts i
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by dugditches 7y ago
>Working in an auto plant is hard, backbreaking work that will leave you physically broken by retirement Maybe 80 years ago. These fellas workin the forges and lifting those blocks certainly went home more sore than someone operating a p
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by dugditches 7y ago
>He has an accomplice who is watching the stream and texting info? Does the stream show the players' cards (never seen it)? From the 4th sentence of the article: >and the game was broadcast on a half-hour delay so that viewers co
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by dugditches 7y ago
Lots of major cities are dealing with growing Homeless populations. Stuff like this just seems like a gross bandaid https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/03/article-0-13E7211...
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by dugditches 7y ago
Youtube used to have something similar with annotations. You'd get videos spammed with them covering the screen. But some uploaders used them to make something akin to DVD menus. Being able to skip to other videos or timestamps in a lo
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by dugditches 7y ago
Sensationalism creates attention. There was a sour Interview on the old show 'Q' with Billy Bob Thorton that ended worse. But brought a lot of attention to the show and the host. Been instructed to only talk about Music/The B
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by dugditches 7y ago
While a lot of analog measurement tools have been replaced by digital ones, Gauge Blocks are still often used as the de facto reference(Though CMM machines[1] are becoming more and more common). You have a 'Master Set' of expensiv
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by dugditches 7y ago
Remember the cool kid having a Dual Deck stereo to make mixtapes. Having a rats nest of tape when one failed. Then that evolving into whoever had good internet and a CD Burner. Eventually almost 'renting' music by returning a CD-R
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by dugditches 7y ago
Not necessarily true. It's a an employee's duty to bring any abnormality to their superior, and then let them make a decision. Sometimes something anomalous to a newer employee is actually normal, and an experienced superior know
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by dugditches 7y ago
This is an _excellent_ Radio Documentary on a Russian Pianist that mentions these records 'Music on the Ribs'(41:00~). He was persecuted and sent away to work camps. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p03c
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by dugditches 7y ago
A lot of Gingery's stuff is obsolete in terms of not being 'expensive'. The books were based around the fact that scrap/metal were pretty cheap around that time. Nowadays you're better of surfing Craiglist or buying
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by dugditches 7y ago
Environment matters a lot. Road salt and Ocean Air destroys car bodies. The drivetrain can be fine, but the body just falls apart around it. There's going to be an interesting time for Used Cars coming up, with all the electronics and
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by dugditches 7y ago
And then they proceed to show the Left Engine Oil Pressure rising while the Right Engine is off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YQmkjpP6q8#t=4m45s
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by dugditches 8y ago
On the wall at the National Security Archive office down at George Washington University, we have a piece of White House email that was sent to Colin Powell when he worked in the White House. The two versions are almost mirror images in th
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by dugditches 8y ago
Sony sells TVs. Getting consumers more familiar with the 'next' format helps them down the road. Also bigger is always better, unless it's fractional.
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by dugditches 8y ago
Maybe Nicotine rather than Alcohol would have been better for his point. But I'd still trust Joe to drive the forklift after a cup of coffee and cigarette than a drink and a doob.
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by dugditches 8y ago
Do cars even come without 'smart' options nowadays? As in, is it possible to buy a new basic trim car with a traditional radio/without a screen? That can be removed or replaced? I just wonder if this 'smart tech' wi

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