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by nabilhat 6y ago
And critical! Being able to snag a timespan of data, with point in time for records is the majority of what business users want. How this works usually depends on your data's provenance. Databases get built with lots of different and v
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It's even worse considering all of the conditions being controlled for and the precision expected. Spark timing needs to fall within a degree of rotation. Modern cars get direct injection of fuel into the cylinders, which needs to be p
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Absolutely! The majority of tools and systems in distribution are templates for effective workflows. For setting up your personal life as in this post, by all means go bespoke in your area of expertise or curiosity. It's certainly not
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Pine is using the Pinephone as a workbench to build open source, Purism is using open source as a workbench to build a phone. I'm not applying either of those negatively. In either case, I think one gets what they pay for and a deliver
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by nabilhat 6y ago
It would be a game changer for anyone involved with manufacturing layout for solid objects at any level of business. I've personally used my own perspective from playing Factorio to influence real world factory design. It's a grea
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See also (comment on same parent): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24146991 Will the ELIZAs learn to know each other somehow and throttle input, or will we someday approach the critical mass necessary for endless GPT-3
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I guess MS is still feeling the sting of their previous foray into the phone market, so they're trying to market it as a Surface? As a phone, it stands out. The giant screen that fits in your pocket is a neat gimmick. It stakes out som
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by nabilhat 6y ago
Falling Down. I grew up in fundamentalist cults and lived in a rural area favored by the antisocial. This film was the indulgent catharsis of reactionary Luddism, anticulture, bigotry, and social paranoia I was immersed in. A naked display
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Yes. I was horrified at the point of: > ...he closes the door and takes out his badge. “I have to show you this first.” This job is not near the level of encountering FBI interviews as an actually critical part of work. "How about
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The irony of the ad box blurb for the book itself fits in: "...currently available in paperback and Kindle formats. " It's also available in several other ebook formats not authorized for use with the affiliate link. The loc
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> In 1995, astronomer Bob Williams wanted to point the Hubble Space Telescope at a patch of sky filled with absolutely nothing remarkable. For 100 hours. It was a terrible idea, his colleagues told him, and a waste of valuable telescope
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Who even uses calipers for critical precision? Calipers are for dimensions machinists append with -ish, as in four thousandths-ish. Important dimensions deserve a micrometer, especially the feeler guage that just said you need to tell your
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by nabilhat 6y ago
Already done! NEDRA [0] is the north American drag racing scene that has been around over 20 years. Much of the best DC EV equipment was developed by the hobbyist market. Perhaps the most impressive example of hobbyists becoming electrical
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by nabilhat 6y ago
I have the same frustration. The real split seems to be on local files / encryption. I ran into a couple that had encryption stapled on as an afterthought and handle the encryption/decryption in storage, which misses the point. So
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by nabilhat 6y ago
Related, worth a mention: https://github.com/MassMove/AttackVectors I'm not promoting the products of the work as it sits, I'm just happy to see accessible open source propaganda identification efforts. We ca
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Needs more safety! Commercial full pressure handling tubing starts at 0.049 to accomodate stress at fittings and thermal cycling. Don't think I'd be comfortable next to 1/4" / 0.035 at full pressure after forming li
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by nabilhat 6y ago
I just loaded the map by itself in its own tab [0]. I think it just wasn't tested very well in Firefox. The third party map is blanking out for me at widths over 2048 pixels in a Firefox window. That's what I get for using an ultr
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by nabilhat 6y ago
Metafilter has been successful, I believe primarily due to the $5 charge to create a posting account and the warmup period of limitations for new accounts. New accounts trickle in at a manageable level. All account owners get that sense of
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NEOWISE has been lining up with outbreaks of noctilucent clouds [0] as well for fortunate observers! With its position moving to be visible in the evening rather than before the crack of dawn it'll be a lot easier to look for soon for
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> Now, there ARE people who learn Excel but refuse to go further... Since Power Query was first included by default in 2016, I've introduced tens of regular Excel users. Because there's no way to work cell by agonizing cell,
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by nabilhat 6y ago
Same here, I'd rather upgrade to a comfy class for 12 hours than spend multiples of the cost to shave off a few. If it's flying on a schedule the only real point is less seat time (okay, also whee fast airplane), much of the time
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by nabilhat 6y ago
Definitely on the same page. I'm just glad there are dedicated people doing the hard work to hold government's actions under the light of their own rules. There's way too much room for improvement in the system(s).
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Everyone deserves a vigorous legal defense, even the most reprehensible. If the accused or convicted are exempt from the rule of law, so are those who are accused or convicted by mistake, corruption, or abuse of power. Competent and committ
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> Sounds like a win to absolutely everyone involved. Let's pare it down to only you and the unsolicited service - You come home from work and the neighbor kid from six blocks down you've never met bills you for mowing your la
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I've been collecting upstart search engines since DDG started ignoring search syntax instructions. It passes my first test: https://www.runnaroo.com/search?term=%22do+any+of+these+resu... ...More accurately than DDG, w
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Because of my lousy memory I've been doing several versions of the same for a long time. It's the most impactful thing I've done in my various jobs. Early in my career, a reputation for good records put me in charge of projec
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by nabilhat 6y ago
It really helps make sense when automation is a sibling product line or you're able to partner with an automation business. Given the detailed pictures of the assembly line for a critical product at launch, I'm suspecting that aut
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Weight is optional. A new Miata weighs exactly as much as a 1998, only 200lb more than a 1989. An entire 2020 Honda Fit weighs 200lb more than a 2020 Miata. Those are death traps and outliers, some might say. Consider that a 2020 F150 start
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The manufacturer's website is still up: http://commutercars.com/ The site hasn't been active in years, but if you've got $240k burning a hole in your pocket and need a quirky kit car, can't hurt to see i
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by nabilhat 6y ago
People talk about the old internet and how it used to be full of people sharing their interests and obsessions. I would argue that content on Youtube is intersecting the Geocities end of that period. Every oddball thing you could look up in

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