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by jjk166 7mo ago
> just adding metal to a structure is commonly not a way to solve the problem you stated, it just makes the structure heavier which means other systems have more to support As a mechanical engineer, that is exactly how you solve that pro
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Pretty sure the helium plant is in Qatar because the helium is in Qatar, not because of globalization.
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The people in the era of unlimited resources envisioned an unlimited future that needed to be safeguarded. The people in the era of limited resources envision a limited future that any resources would be wasted on. They are not ignorant of
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If a bridge girder isn't strong enough to support a load, you add material in the right places to make a larger, stronger girder. That is engineering. The idea that if you're not making fundamental improvements to your formulation
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by jjk166 7mo ago
> but it will definitely impair their ability to continue to support science. I would argue that hiding the science when politicians don't like it would also impair their ability to continue to support science. Further, sending a le
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Pretty big jump from "we don't yet know the best ways to use this new tool" to "the tool doesn't work well"
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People have been saying, without any evidence at all, it's reached or about to reach a plateau for years now. We are clearly still seeing significant forward progress. While it's reasonable to think it will hit some plateau eventu
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If you are working from home, you are judged solely by your productivity. If you work in an office, there is productivity and there is also attendance. Someone can show up every day and appear to be working hard, yet get nothing done. You j
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I would say that there was also a deliberate push to save the value of commercial real estate. If it were purely about management vs labor, letting people work from home was a great way to offer an attractive benefit for free (or even while
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I think modern democracies and autocracies are really just proxies for societies where wealth begets power and where power begets wealth, respectively. A rich person buying their way into power (either through gaining a formal position or i
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by jjk166 7mo ago
We named the eighth month after a guy whose name was Eight, but October was taken so we called it August instead.
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And driving during the week instead of the weekend changes what exactly?
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And you are doing what with that dimensionless number? Multiplying?
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I would argue that multiplying 10 by 86400 is just as easy as multiplying 10 by any other number. Hint, it's the same as multiplying a number by 10.
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No, that is how it works. If you are charged with criminal contempt, you have the right to a jury trial, and the jury determines whether guilt has been proven to the appropriate standard.
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A jury could have decided whether his refusal to disclose made him guilty of a crime deserving of that punishment. Authority and power are two different things. Lots of people have authority without the power to unilaterally throw people in
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Okay but they didn't give it in meters per second, they gave it in micrometers per second. Converting to micrometers per second is exactly as much arithmetic as converting to meters per day.
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by jjk166 7mo ago
Ukraine war, Nagorno Karabakh war, Iraq war, Kosovo War, Gulf War, Falklands War, Vietnam war, Korean war, wars frequently are named for where they are fought.
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Did they not grocery shop when they worked in the office?
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3 degrees is the generic "I don't care and don't want to worry about it" draft angle. In many cases 0.5 degrees of draft angle is a non-issue. 3 degrees on a lego brick would be a difference of .3mm over its height. For
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> It's better to communicate as an individual, warts and all, than to replace your expression with a sanitized one just because it seems "better." Language is an incredibly nuanced thing, it's best for people's o
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Nah, just write not good like rest of we
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The key is to accuse everyone of being an LLM. Those who don't react are bots. Those that fight the charge no matter how much its levied are also bots, but with better programming. Those that complain at first but give up when too much
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by jjk166 7mo ago
Targeting industrial and economic assets (factories, ports, telecommunications infrastructure, etc.) has always been legitimate. If tech makes an effective contribution to military action, which includes much more innocuous stuff than major
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Dart's results can't be directly translated for solar sails
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Dart's results can't be directly translated for nuclear weapons
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> They're cut from hardened steel using wire EDM, a process that erodes metal with controlled electrical sparks, achieving tolerances within a few microns. They're made by sinker EDM, not wire. The physics are similar but it&#x
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by jjk166 7mo ago
> It wasn't until a few years ago I learned there's an official brick separator tool You mean a little brother?
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Actually they do have a draft. The bricks are designed so you don't notice it, both by the draft angle being quite small, and the parting line is moved up slightly so by the time you get to the bottom of the brick you're back to t
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Make 'em sick, sell the cure

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