maicro

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by maicro 3y ago
My super rough understanding is that asphalt, like many plastics, are actually made with otherwise scrap byproducts of the fossil fuel refinement process. So if electric vehicles become far more common, and fossil fuel refinement decreases
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by maicro 3y ago
Fair point, and I don't have enough background to really answer that. I'll look for any information on "reclamation" rates of asphalt - there's got to be some amount that's just lost in general (ground up into
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by maicro 3y ago
I think they meant the "safety" use of "security" - ABS is most likely "anti-lock braking system", which per Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-lock_braking_system ): "An a
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by maicro 3y ago
I like your general comment (nothing against the others of course, but your point about engineering trade-offs is always important to keep in mind), so I'll throw this note here: As far as I understand it, asphalt is also highly recycl
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by maicro 3y ago
I've always had a bit of a love-hate relationship with Spotify - for the most part it's great, and I'm happy to be paying for a service that provides so much value (and it's a great example of how having a reasonably pri
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by maicro 3y ago
Sounds like it's meant as a living document (they reference github, and it's available here: https://github.com/basecamp/handbook/blob/master/README.md ), so doubtful. You could always clone t
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by maicro 3y ago
Not poster/related at all, but loads fine for me in Vivaldi ("6.5.3206.53 (Stable channel) (64-bit) "). uBlock Origin only plugin installed that should impact anything. For helping the poster - what browser/version and
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by maicro 3y ago
Huge, longtime lover and advocate of Everything here - it's just so powerful to be able to find every file Everything knows about with .jpg in the name, sort by date, then if I really care start filtering by drive and folder ("C:&
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by maicro 3y ago
In that case, you might want to look at a mechanism called a "planetary gear set" for inspiration - I don't know if it's common for the rotation of the "planet" gears to be harnessed to drive something other th
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by maicro 3y ago
And one final message for now... First, once you get several projects under your belt, you should start integrating "design for manufacture" into your main design process - that way you don't waste time designing some custom
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by maicro 3y ago
Still not sure the general layout of this - is the end goal to have some form of rotisserie that has multiple rods, each of which rotates about their own axis in addition to the primary axis, so that the food is cooked more evenly? If so,
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by maicro 3y ago
Ah, caught one of my unspoken assumptions when talking about suppliers - I try to avoid operations that are very custom / very different from their normal operations. In this case, yes, any local machine shop could theoretically get or
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by maicro 3y ago
Plenty of comments already cover a lot of this. I'll throw my two recommendations here as well: - OSHCut for sheet metal cutting and bending. - 3DHubs (very very recently became Protolabs Network) for aluminum machined parts. In gener
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by maicro 3y ago
I've brought this up before, and even though I don't use the service much anymore, I still love Airtable's API documentation - they customize the API calls for the table you're actually on, so instead of the generic exam
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by maicro 3y ago
As others have said, ebay. One thing that helps is looking for "thin clients" - I know the Dell Wyse (not Lenovo obviously, but an example) can be "unlocked" to install normal Linux fairly easily. First page of results
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by maicro 3y ago
That actually is a good point I hadn't considered; I think it would still make enough sense in the local context ("tomorrow" is "the next time most of us will wake up"), but yeah, it adds a lot of confusion for shor
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by maicro 3y ago
Honestly I would prefer to go even further - UTC for the entire planet, no offsets. Unfortunately I know most people won't go for that...
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by maicro 3y ago
The Easy Bake Oven was built completely around that idea - small incandescent bulb used as the heating element in a kid-friendly small electric oven.
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by maicro 3y ago
I'll comment here but this is more for the original comment than yours specifically: Looks like they specifically call out selling structural components (brackets, plates, etc.) pre-assembled with the component, bolts and slot-nut bolt
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by maicro 3y ago
Agreed, thank you and the parent comment here for the mention of it - looks great, works great with the little bit of experimentation I've done so far.
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by maicro 3y ago
Thank you for the examples - now I know to not try to make and publish an alarm clock or calendar app/site/feature...
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by maicro 3y ago
Yeah, proprioception in general is amazing. I always find it fun to do stuff like close my eyes, then quickly spread my arms apart, and just as quickly bring them back together and try to touch specific finger tips together; seems to be ge
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by maicro 4y ago
I'm not going to read the paper to check your work, but excellent TLDR - thanks X)
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by maicro 4y ago
It was indeed a joke, but yeah, that's valid (and was how the Eufy issue was discovered IIRC).
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by maicro 4y ago
Fair point, though I will say unless I look at the circuit myself and confirm the hardware mute switch is cutting an actual signal to/from the microphone, I won't fully trust it. Whether that matters is up for debate - I carry ar
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by maicro 4y ago
"Hey Alexa, disable all microphones." "Sure." "Thanks Alexa." "You're welcome."...
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by maicro 4y ago
Plus you get to invent portable closed-loop particle accelerators...net win, I'd say.
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by maicro 4y ago
"Hey, can you xerox me a few copies of this document real quick? Yeah, just use the Canon all-in-one on my desk." Little clunky, but I'm certain it's been said somewhere/somewhen.
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by maicro 4y ago
I'll bite - what notes tools do you like to use/recommend? I previously used Evernote for everything, but switched to Notion a while ago; neither are great at "get[ting] out of the way" though I think Evernote was proba
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by maicro 4y ago
All joking below aside, I'm not sure how I feel about this either, though I also haven't been following things too closely yet. The below is the first "real" use I've made of an AI to write a response for me. I gue

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