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by froindt 9y ago
I hate Facebook so much for this. Their apps are beyond bloated and track far more than I'm interested in sharing. It used to be no issue at all to send messages. But suddenly it's not possible to send a message without going to
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by froindt 9y ago
Sad as it is, lots of people on the coasts perceive it that way. As an anecdote, I was born and raised in Iowa. My dad was on the board of a a non-profit which primarily operated out of the DC suburbs. As the only person from the Midwest
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by froindt 9y ago
Probably not a system most people would voluntarily submit to, but I'm glad you made the best of things. Hope you're doing well now.
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by froindt 9y ago
During college I had a semester with 5 engineering classes and was the president of an engineering club. I didn't realize when signing up for classes, but all 5 courses had engineering projects worth 25-60% and still had final exams. I
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by froindt 9y ago
I'm an industrial engineer who also plays factorio. It does a really good job of teaching some of the core parts of running a factory. * what happens when there are supply chain hiccups? * how much inventory do I want? Converting too
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by froindt 9y ago
To throw an anecdote in, my brother was riding straight through an intersection on green when a driver turned into him. Witnesses said he flew up around 10 feet, up and over the car, and completely shattered his helmet when he landed. He go
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by froindt 9y ago
That's like a $40 upcharge at my optometrist (USA). But she is a good family friend, walks me through everything she's seeing on there, and gives me glowing compliments on how beautiful my optical nerve is. It sounds stupid, but
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by froindt 9y ago
At 600k you could work a job that covers your expenses only while investing the money, and have ballpark 1.2M in a decade. Another decade could put you around 2.4M. Saving just 10k/year would massively inflate these numbers. I encourag
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by froindt 9y ago
Have you looked into engineering economics? The formulas you'd need are already developed depending on the scope you're building. Present value calculations will handle most of the hard work, letting you talk about everything in &
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by froindt 9y ago
There is middle ground though. Yes, if you don't have marketable, non-easily replaceable skills you'll have a harder time, but many people could make a median income, live a modest lifestyle, and retire 10+ years before 65.
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by froindt 9y ago
I agree, but to add a few more details: * This is typically cited from the Trinity study ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity study). * It is looking at a 30 year time horizon. For longer periods you'd need a
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by froindt 9y ago
That goes to show how frugality and not allowing lifestyle creep makes all the difference. At the end of the day, it's not your salary that matters but your percent of income saved. Two people can follow the same trajectory even when s
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by froindt 9y ago
>But functionally, it pretty much is insider trading, because you might be the only person in the world with that knowledge. That's great! It helps the markets become more efficient. You can freely tell people that info, use it excl
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by froindt 9y ago
> initial setup of a CNC machine part. If you don't have $50K-$100K, you are setting this up by hand. Curious what specifically you need your hand inside for? Do you simply mean the machine is on (though entirely inactive) while put
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by froindt 9y ago
As others have noted, this goes beyond just "there's something here". For military bases, you can sometimes get a good idea of the patrol routes. For sparsely populated areas, you can get a good idea of what routes a particul
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by froindt 9y ago
I actually asked that exact question. Ultimately the person wanted cash, and the best way to do that isn't to let the servers go to the sheriff's sale. But it sounded like if the person had FU money and didn't even care, th
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by froindt 9y ago
A friend of mine is an attorney. His client had a judgement against a relatively small bank. In his words, the bank was being a "horse's ass" and not paying. He got a judge to sign off on the sheriff assisting in collection
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by froindt 9y ago
Yep! I work in a heavy industry now and we have original installations of equipment that take 9-12 months typically (after the shell of the building is in place). Once it's installed, it's getting run as much as possible for profi
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by froindt 9y ago
>At the local margins, it's definitely more efficient for the firm, since the other solution would be to hire more workers to meet peak demand who might then sit idle during lower demand periods. There are also times where it's
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by froindt 9y ago
Ah yes, the emergency shipment that must go out ASAP and throws a wrench in dozens of other orders who were previously scheduled to maximize throughput. Unfortunately you can't really tell management "a lack of planning on your
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by froindt 9y ago
I do some programming (unfortunately mostly VBA, the language of the non-technical business world) and spent 4 years of college working on robots for a competition with a bunch of mechanical engineers and computer engineers. I agree. I spe
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by froindt 9y ago
I come from an Industrial Engineering background and I really liked this quick overview of the job. The cost of robotic arms has dropped considerably in the last ~10 years. Glancing through Ebay quick, you can get tons of robotic arm mode
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by froindt 9y ago
> It makes sense because gas usage is very correlated with road wear, so people who drive heavier vehicles pay a proportionate share of the road maintenance costs. There are also some cases where it makes no sense, particularly since fue
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by froindt 9y ago
I've posted this before, but I'd like to bring it up again for those who are unaware. -- As a general note, the validity of claims from Mercola should be taken with a large grain of salt. He publicly holds a number of frankly dang
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by froindt 9y ago
For current tools, I was looking into online Graphviz renderers a few months ago. My take on things: http://viz-js.com/ - Almost live updating. Quite fast, looks good, has lots of flexibility in output format. http:&#x2F
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by froindt 9y ago
>Better to see 10 cops dead than 1 single innocent killed by the police in my book. Those 10 cops were also innocent, and are still people with families and people who love them. I'm not saying the way things are right now is the w
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by froindt 9y ago
For a regular person, the potential to need to kill somebody isn't part of their job duties. Of course there are very limited times where it's appropriate to do so.
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by froindt 9y ago
It's not a reward. /u/thatsnotmynamesir details exactly why that's the policy. https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtectAndServe/comments/1s01lr/mos... Sub-quote: >Even then, the Administr
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by froindt 9y ago
Obviously setting a property such as visible=false will lead to an invisible form element. Is there a way to detect other invisible form elements, like if one was hidden behind another part of the UI?
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by froindt 9y ago
>I heard an analyst say that you have to carry a lot of fuel to carry a lot of fuel. Yep! Aerospace has been on the leading edge of manufacturing methods for many years because of it. Even worse is having a heavy airplane at the start of

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