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901.
by jbay808 6y ago
This is actually one of the reasons that anime characters have colourful hair. It helps serve as a creative outlet and an escape from the conformity, rather than to depict it. (Conformity at work and school, that is. Walk through somewhere
902.
by jbay808 6y ago
A place I used to work had engineers documenting their work essentially in the form of a blog. It was actually really a useful habit, and reviewing the project blogs once each week made it really easy for me to find cases when I could help
903.
by jbay808 6y ago
Snowden made it pretty clear that they already are.
904.
by jbay808 6y ago
Don't be surprised if your colleagues start to very frequently say "sorry I didn't see your hello", six or seven hours or even multiple days late.
905.
by jbay808 6y ago
"Hey are you around? I have a quick question that I need an answer for right away. If you don't reply in the next 5 minutes then no worries, I'll ask Jim next. Anyway here's the question: {...}"
906.
by jbay808 6y ago
Lying in a hospital bed with your medical treatment paid for is still a much worse experience than being healthy in the first place.
907.
by jbay808 6y ago
Such a connector can certainly be made, and might look like this: https://globetech.jp/products/standard-high-current-connecto... They aren't very cheap though.
908.
by jbay808 6y ago
Speaking as a reviewer, reviews do take an immense amount of time, especially just in trying to figure out what was done and how. Code would actually speed things up a lot.
909.
by jbay808 6y ago
Wait, they value one SWE-year at $200,000,000?
910.
by jbay808 6y ago
Exactly. If you need to make changes to the design of an injection molded part, you'd better make them all at once, because the cost of a new mold is $100k whether you make one change or seven.
911.
by jbay808 6y ago
Unfortunately, the common pattern for an academic abstract is something like: In this paper, the Soyuz clock is analyzed in detail and the underlying reason for its high complexity is described. You still usually have to access the full p
912.
by jbay808 6y ago
It's not more complicated than that. There is a confusion between incremental torque, which does get reduced (as correctly noted in the above) but only because the increments get reduced, and stall torque or holding torque, whi
913.
by jbay808 6y ago
Definitely, if your driver is bad there might be no improvement from microstepping, either.
914.
by jbay808 6y ago
Microstepping isn't bad. The author says it reduces torque, but it does not. That is a myth. As long as you are below the maximum pulse frequency that your controller can process, there's no penalty at all to microstepping.
915.
by jbay808 6y ago
Microstepping does not reduce torque in any respect.
916.
by jbay808 6y ago
His new company Rapidia, which makes metal 3D printers, is pretty awesome too!
917.
by jbay808 6y ago
Interesting to see a reference both to Moxer Technologies and Dan Gelbart's prototyping videos in this post. Is the author from Vancouver?
918.
by jbay808 6y ago
For air-breathing vehicles like cars, you assume the oxygen comes for free. For rocket fuel, you have to include the oxygen tanks in the energy density calculation.
919.
by jbay808 6y ago
> You can generate revenue to infinity, but you can only cut costs to zero. You can also increase costs to infinity. Frugality doesn't have to be about cutting down on costs that already exist.
920.
by jbay808 6y ago
Doesn't a green run refer to a beginner level course? Like a practice ski hill?
921.
by jbay808 6y ago
I don't think that's a charitable reading of the GP. More like "the government is aiming for something other than efficiency, and it gets what it's aiming for". If the government were aiming for efficiency, we might
922.
by jbay808 6y ago
They aren't Facebook. They just need to keep me subscribed, not engaged. I bet someone has an engagement OKR anyway, though.
923.
by jbay808 6y ago
In terms of framing as a Western narrative... This is an article in the Mainichi , a major Japanese newspaper. Original Japanese version here: https://mainichi.jp/articles/20210111/k00/00m/040/02100
924.
by jbay808 6y ago
I think it makes everyone feel like they're not earning enough money.
925.
by jbay808 6y ago
Personally, I want the government to set the rules on hate speech, and private companies to follow them.
926.
by jbay808 6y ago
Wow, that is beautiful and clever.
927.
by jbay808 6y ago
But these days we do expect every cook and taxi driver to be in the market, because dollars in a savings account are getting returns below inflation.
928.
by jbay808 6y ago
That's true, but this is also an attempt to a moral question with a pragmatic empirical answer. The problem with this is the data can always change. How would your opinion change if that correlation were found to disappear in the comin
929.
by jbay808 6y ago
That's true, although the technological literacy to make them might disappear. Their disappearance could also have other knock-on effects in other industries, like shrinking the market for high-precision air bearing spindles, magnetic
930.
by jbay808 6y ago
The English word "cookie" is derived from Dutch "koekie". If some Dutch people bring back Oreos as souvenirs from the US and call them "cookies" instead of "koekjes", are they adopting a cringeworthy

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