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by froindt 9y ago
That's sort of what the national guard is for. They train a couple weeks per year and respond to situations like this.
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by froindt 9y ago
I've also worked in an "insane scale" plant and totally relate. I've been in two facilities where it took over 5 weeks to get product through from start to finish. One made big things, one made small things. Literal squa
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by froindt 9y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I'll throw some more down below. Factories to me are like software to software engineers. * Complicated systems with certain requirements to meet (transactions/second | units/day) * Uptime requiremen
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by froindt 9y ago
I almost added that one (love it), but decided to take a bit more serious tone with the ending of the comment.
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by froindt 9y ago
No problem. It's probably analogous to showing an end user a UX mockup and then them changing the whole scope of the project and expecting it done in 2 weeks since the whole thing is basically put together. There are lots of changing
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by froindt 9y ago
There could be, but you've got to remember they're often used in heavy industrial environments. Whatever solution would have to be...durable. They aren't treated gently. You have collision risks on the ground (people, guar
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by froindt 9y ago
I graduated a couple years ago from Iowa State with an Industrial Engineering degree. Totally agree on how little most people understand on production issues. There's so much that goes into setting up a high volume assembly operati
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by froindt 9y ago
> Ehh. A $1/week expense which buys you hope and dreams for a week isn't that bad in the grand scheme of things. The problem is that poor people aren't just dropping 1 dollar per week. They're spending much more. Some
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by froindt 9y ago
Oh goodness, and polygamist groups. TLC has an interesting show called escaping polygamy, where a few people (formerly in groups) help others escape. They're routinely followed when they drive into places like Colorado city. It would b
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by froindt 9y ago
It is a tricky issue. I have a bunch of friends who were involved in these programs in college. I didn't quite get it until one of them pointed at the computer engineering and software engineering programs on campus. Of all the enginee
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by froindt 9y ago
There is significant difference in the price different places charge for services. It's not necessarily deciding whether or not to do the treatment, but can also encompass consumers being cognizant of cost and choosing providers who ar
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by froindt 9y ago
I've sworn for years if I ever own a store, all prices will either include tax, or will be to a round dollar or quarter. The US got rid of the half cent when it couldn't be used to buy anything of worth. Inflation adjusted, it had
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by froindt 9y ago
Man, it's a good thing nobody else is working there! /s
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by froindt 9y ago
For anyone curious about how they are doing relative to others around their age, here are two interesting calculators. Income percentile by age: https://dqydj.com/income-percentile-calculator/ Net worth percentile by a
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by froindt 9y ago
What level of security is the prison? There are low security facilities in the United States where prisoners leave to work for the day and have to be back at a certain time.
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by froindt 9y ago
I understand the principle, and I had that feeling as well, but I would encourage you to reconsider. I played through risk legacy and there was tons of excitement around opening packages of cards, adding elements to the board, etc. I'm
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by froindt 9y ago
Hadn't seen the jmol stuff before. We were putting this project together around 5 years ago. Shapeways was around, but we had resources on campus for 3d printing which we used. Typically a chemistry student would have been using MacM
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by froindt 9y ago
This reminds me of a project I worked on a few years back. There was a blind chemistry student. There's lots of software to visualize chemical structures, but displaying things on a screen doesn't work for someone who can't s
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by froindt 9y ago
I wonder if we will see more software including query based input like their charts, and what sort of speed improvement we could see? At first I was not excited to type something where I could click a couple buttons, but then I recognized t
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by froindt 9y ago
>I think no one will ever dare to hire Levandowski. His career is over. Yeah, things aren't looking awesome for him to work for anyone else. Perhaps he should look into starting his own company in the self driving car space. It work
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by froindt 9y ago
As someone who graduated with an engineering degree from one of those large Midwestern universities, yes. There are millions of acres of farmland and tons of ag companies who are making developments to eek out another 1% yield. At my univer
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by froindt 9y ago
I hated the ribbon style of a lot at first because only about 20% of my time was in ribbon. Once my home and all school computers switched to ribbon, I picked it up quickly. I also like knowing the hot keys to get stuff done (Alt+h+b for bo
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by froindt 9y ago
>Delaware, being the hub of all sorts of business litigation, sees things at a more abstract level. You're less likely to get a judge or jury in Delaware that comes in with a particular preconceived notion of X or Y being bad. There
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by froindt 9y ago
Sorry, I misread it as last airline crash in the US.
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by froindt 9y ago
Unfortunately I bet this will be the case for the next few years until funding agencies figure out not everything has to be done with machine learning.
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by froindt 9y ago
>and the last fatal US passenger airliner accident was in 2009! Asiana flight 214 (San Francisco crash with the fake names announced by a major news outlet) was in 2013. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiana_Airline
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by froindt 9y ago
I wasn't around here during that dispute. As I remember it (and I could be off substantially), both sides were slinging mud at each other drawn out over a long period of many months. Both had large patent portfolios to throw at each ot
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by froindt 9y ago
This case reminds me of the glory days of Samsung vs. Apple in intensity and interest in the case, except it's not all wildly up in the air. It's fairly straightforward as to what side "looks" good, and it feels like it&
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by froindt 9y ago
When I was 18, some lady at the community pancake breakfast in my grandpa's small town told my mom that 13 and younger are free. Humans make mistakes too.
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by froindt 9y ago
I wonder if the age error is symmetrical, or if it tends towards guessing lower or higher? It would make for an interesting study.

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