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by mdorazio 3y ago
I’ve personally come to the conclusion that the vast majority of sci-fi is sci-fantasy for the simple reason that I can’t convince myself fleshy humans have any meaningful place in the exploratory parts of the future. Novels featuring human
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by mdorazio 3y ago
Bypassing the door locks is not as difficult as you think with the proper tools. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLy65ASXuEQ Standard house locks don't require picking at all - you can bump them in a few seconds i
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by mdorazio 3y ago
If you watch the videos that only provide entertainment, you're creating demand for more of that content. If you go out of your way to find and watch videos that provide more than entertainment, you'll get more of those instead. A
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by mdorazio 3y ago
> a small minority of human drivers cause the vast majority of incidents Citation needed.
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by mdorazio 3y ago
The comma placement makes the glue answer a bit strange, but I'm interpreting it to mean glues are no-go unless the manufacturer provides a solvent and re-gluing kit as well. Full text from [1] (emphasis mine): > A portable battery
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by mdorazio 3y ago
A lot of these seem to fall into the "Management Philosophy" category - applicable if you're a manager or if you are attempting to manage your own career as opposed to solving day-to-day task issues.
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by mdorazio 3y ago
This seems kind of like a twist on the classic 5 Whys method of root cause analysis. I think 5 Whys would work just as well in most of the example scenarios. Example from the post: Engineer is thinking about doing a thing without permission
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by mdorazio 3y ago
That explains it! I didn't know about faceplates - thanks for the info.
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by mdorazio 3y ago
The fact that most people where you've worked have workstations instead of laptops is kind of strange...
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by mdorazio 3y ago
That's fine for the outer pieces, but the ones they mount into have dovetails on both inner crescents. I can't see how you could turn those on a lathe without some weird offset going on.
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by mdorazio 3y ago
Does anyone know how the dovetails of the individual jaw pieces are machined on a curved surface? I can’t figure it out even using a 4 or 5 axis CNC.
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by mdorazio 3y ago
I want a version of this satire where they only sell hammer subscriptions, but to get the hammer the guy actually wants he needs to buy an Extended Hand Tools subscription that auto renews and costs as much in three months as buying the ori
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by mdorazio 3y ago
Universities like Harvard typically like to market themselves as being the height of meritocracy, going so far as to proudly declare their miniscule acceptance rates. It's hard to square that with a very obvious preference for students
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by mdorazio 3y ago
I'll offer another point in support of your experience. I purchased the non-US Sensodyne, verified it had Novamin, used the entire tube as directed with no water drinking for at least half an hour afterward, and saw zero results.
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by mdorazio 3y ago
Loss Leader is not the same economically as Dumping. Gillette is the former, VC-backed companies are the latter. Loss Leader tactics are sustainable in a competitive market, but Dumping is profit negative until someone (hopefully your compe
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by mdorazio 3y ago
Ok, but then how can you compare that to other countries to say the US is higher/lower? I haven't been able to find a unified source of raw interest payments by country (not as a % of revenue).
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by mdorazio 3y ago
Looks like two separate motors to me. The second one is staged after apogee and is only powerful enough to slow the rocket down.
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by mdorazio 3y ago
Was going to make the same comment. The entire BPS Space series of videos is excellent and goes into great detail on how it was done and the many challenges. To me, the BPS solution is also more interesting because it allows "throttlin
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by mdorazio 3y ago
Where are you getting 2% ? I’m seeing much higher: https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/interest-payments-...
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by mdorazio 3y ago
This is really "AI is coming for low-barrier content, including children's books." Which is already happening with low-effort written content and digital art in general.
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by mdorazio 3y ago
Go for it! Happy to help. Let me know if you want upscales.
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by mdorazio 3y ago
Since the author didn't have access to Midjourney, here's the first two prompts in MJ with default settings (not upscaled): https://imgur.com/a/siQG06O https://imgur.com/a/vp2oOHu
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by mdorazio 3y ago
Kind of strange to me that they didn't test any prompts with people in them. In my experience that tends to show the limitations of various models pretty quickly.
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by mdorazio 3y ago
It's not at all clear that he ever wrote a single line of code at Atari. He was on hardware testing, so definitely had to learn his way around electronics, but probably didn't code. Especially with Wozniak doing the heavy lifting
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by mdorazio 3y ago
You didn’t really respond to the parent comment’s question. Sea level around Miami will rise about a foot over the next thirty years and a little over an additional foot over the following 30 years [1]. Most of Miami is about 6-8 feet above
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by mdorazio 3y ago
In addition to the other comment, how many developers do you think are designing an app vs maintaining existing code or adding fairly basic CRUD features?
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by mdorazio 3y ago
It’s not clear at all. Perhaps you can elaborate ?
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by mdorazio 3y ago
I think this is a good outlook, but I disagree on a few points: 1) The US could easily lower its debt load significantly, probably without over-impacting GDP. It's just that doing so would be unpopular with certain groups. [1] is a gre
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by mdorazio 3y ago
As the article points out, in this case the bank is the central bank and letting it fail means collapsing the US economy (eventually).
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by mdorazio 3y ago
I think this is another case of the dichotomy that has arisen around remote work. For senior team members who already know what they're doing and how to self-manage, remote work can be great. But for younger employees and those needing

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