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by jfim 4y ago
The material costs for 3D printing are really small. A 1kg spool of PLA is in the order of 20-30 USD, and most 3D prints have only a small amount of infill, so they're surprisingly light for their volume. For example, I designed a set
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by jfim 4y ago
> If diversity was actually a strength, then it wouldn't take such a monumental effort (of actual discrimination, no less) to achieve it. Something being worthwhile and it being hard to achieve are unrelated. It might be hard to dri
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by jfim 4y ago
In my opinion, it's really about whether or not one wants to pay particular attention to it or not, and that applies to coffee and other things. If I want to sit down and enjoy a nice cup of coffee at the coffee shop, then of course I&
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by jfim 4y ago
As far as I know, most laser cutters available to hobbyists for cutting wood are either diode or CO2 based, and both have a risk of setting the wood on fire, as well as generate a fair amount of smoke and combustion gases. For cutting holes
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by jfim 4y ago
You have to pay taxes on RSU when they vest, regardless of whether you sell or not. It's basically considered cash compensation, but instead of cash you receive shares. Since your company is pre IPO, they may have a dual trigger vest
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by jfim 4y ago
The source's lean does matter, as that tends to influence the things that are not said in order to make a point. For example, how much of the predictions that have been made in the past have come true? Does climatology have a different
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by jfim 4y ago
It's too bad that transflective displays didn't pan out, the OLPC display was perfectly workable and worked well outdoors too. It would be the ideal kind of display for such a device, which doesn't really need high resolution
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by jfim 4y ago
If you want a laugh, you can always check out Zume pizza, which was this startup that made pizzas with robots. They burned through several hundreds of millions in VC funding, even though a cursory look at their robots would show that they h
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by jfim 4y ago
There's all kinds of stuff that's affected though. For example, if you want a 16x7 garage door, you're looking at getting it in November or December of this year if you're ordering now [1]. [1] https://www.hom
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by jfim 4y ago
And what do you propose as an alternative? We've known about climate change for over thirty years and there's been no real substantive action nor any decline in atmospheric CO2 levels.
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by jfim 4y ago
Québec. Then again that might be because of the low electricity prices there.
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by jfim 4y ago
Most of the houses I've seen in Canada are heated using baseboard heaters, they're not exactly uncommon. Efficiency seems fine, and most of Europe doesn't get as cold as Canada during winter.
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by jfim 4y ago
IKEA already did, they changed their corporate font from IKEA sans to Verdana in 2009 (you can Google for "verdanagate"), and more recently to Noto (last year I believe).
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by jfim 4y ago
The reminders to be safe are to ensure that people don't grow complacent about things that are dangerous. Our school has a mandatory safety training before students go on internships, and the reason for that is that interns have died i
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by jfim 4y ago
People who have to maintain servers in house for various reasons. Maybe they need to run some software that needs to run even if they lose Internet connectivity. Or maybe they're working on secret stuff and their CIO/CTO has decid
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by jfim 4y ago
If you want to avoid the Walmart marketplace, you can filter by retailer and select Walmart, this gets rid of third party sellers.
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by jfim 4y ago
Outlook beats the pants out of Google calendar when it comes to reminding people of meetings. As an IC, I used to miss meetings due to the Google calendar browser notification being so tiny and unintrusive. Contrast with the totally in your
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by jfim 4y ago
It'd be great to have an option to filter by seller.
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by jfim 4y ago
> don’t tell anyone their expired card will work The expiration date is stored on the card, so expired cards wouldn't work. Revoked cards (eg. ones replaced by the bank) would, though. Keep in mind that the merchant sets terminal li
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by jfim 4y ago
That's a pretty clever hack, nicely done!
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by jfim 4y ago
For those who never had a Latin class, could you explain the joke? Thanks!
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by jfim 4y ago
The biggest problem is TCP. Ping times for multiplayer games on decent Internet connections can be on the order of 10-20ms or even lower.
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by jfim 4y ago
Curved and sloped walls sound cool until one realizes that everything that one would want to put on those walls is meant for flat ones. TVs are flat, couches and cabinets are rectangular, etc.
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by jfim 4y ago
What I've found works for me is to have prepped ingredients handy, and not buy junk food (snacks, sodas, cookies, etc.) in the first place. When the easiest meal available is a salad because it takes two minutes to put all the precut i
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by jfim 4y ago
This really depends on the definition of success. If success is just execution without needing to be too novel, metrics work. Coming up with a new idea, researching its feasibility, and executing on it isn't really doable with rigidly
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by jfim 4y ago
It's cheaper to write a set of guidelines and not enforce them than to enforce them, which might actually reduce revenue. The incentives for them are such that it's better for them not to enforce their own guidelines. If Google wa
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by jfim 4y ago
So channel names like "le canard enchaîné" or 美味しい食べる are completely verboten from your perspective.
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by jfim 4y ago
What's your proposal for differentiating between mais (but) and maïs (corn), or between café (French, Spanish) and cafè (Catalan) using ASCII? How would one write an ideographic language using ASCII?
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by jfim 4y ago
C and C++ are used pretty extensively in the embedded world. For a lot of safety critical stuff though, typically a safer subset of those languages are used, such as MISRA C and MISRA C++, alongside static checkers and validated toolchains.
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by jfim 4y ago
> Unicode, as unpopular an opinion as this is, should only be used for presentation and not storage. Anything past ascii is a security vulnerability. While at it, we should also ban the letters I and L as they can be confused. People who

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