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by quartesixte 2y ago
It's a lot harder to just spin-off and "build your own stuff" in hardware though, which is I think what keeps the "married employees" around longer. The startup costs are much higher and riskier. And you need a lot
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Counterpoint: I know grammatically it isn't the most correct, but I don't see anything non-idiomatic about "amount of features". Reason: "Just the right amount" is a set, idiomatic expression. "Just the ri
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by quartesixte 2y ago
If you so much as LOOK at Titanium funny you may have a really, really fun time. Some powders have been known to burn inside the collection receptacles for excess powder while a print is running.
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by quartesixte 2y ago
And once you are done, services like Xometry allow you to print out the metal by having them source a printing vendor from their network.
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Aluminum is magnitudes cheaper than Inconel. And since volume is cubic, and pricing mostly on based on powder weight, you are about an order of magnitude or two off for the size of engine ABL is producing here.
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Or some people are so good at their jobs that even while being completely obsessed, they still have great work-life balance. I interact with a lot of people like the author in the article from this industry. And while yes, their worklife ba
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Plastic to verify dimensions is a great approach. But don't forget that the laser sintering of metal powders might result in design constraints not present in plastic printing!
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Very. Very. Expensive. Inconel powder is also Not That Great for your health and at the particle-size the printers rocket companies use, you need full PPE to safely handle the loose powder floating about. The machines themselves are also ex
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Among all the other problems: lack of imagination. This especially comes up in discussions with those who do not live in the dense, Tier-1 cities of the USA. The ability to imagine and envision what a dense, urban city serviced by public tr
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Unfortunately they're not really a thing. Some grandfather/grandmother clocks came with moon phases, but innovation never made it further. IMO mostly has to do with the fact that mechanical clocks didn't see much innovation o
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by quartesixte 2y ago
The generous reading is this. And I don’t exactly blame whoever interpreted the regulations like that. However, they really should have gotten a lawyer or consultant specializing in health product regulations.
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by quartesixte 2y ago
How many regular mass attending, God fearing Anglicans could even recognize on the spot the minor prophet Habbakuk? Bizarre project all around.
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by quartesixte 2y ago
And with growing rumblings of people wanting to be “offline” more and more, promotions of “digital well-being/health”, and GenZ and GenAlphas’ increasing appetite with tactile, physical objects (with 90s/early 00s flair), I don’t
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Wait are you telling me that the only reason why we think Burke class ships are small is because 1) “Destroyer” and then 2) CVNs are just fucking massive?
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by quartesixte 2y ago
That list is the CIA/State Department evaluating the average time to fluency for English natives going through one of the foreign language training programs they run. Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Arabic sit on top of the list because
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by quartesixte 2y ago
As I mentioned in another comment, make the bureaucracy a bit more prescriptive and easier to, for lack of a better word, unit test. You don't want no-regulation in dense urban environments. But the rules are unclear, the permitting sy
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by quartesixte 2y ago
"Regulations are written in blood" is, while a valid point, also something of a brain-worm. Plenty of countries have just as good safety track records without the difficulty many US municipalities present while you are trying to s
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Counterpoint: starting with assuming over-specific context is not entirely useful and there is general consensus on broad meanings of both “felon” and “felony”. We can then quickly either narrow down to specific instances of those words, or
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Establishment of proper contexts and applicable related terminology. "Felon" allows everyone to know what "node" of the vocab network you just jumped into.
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Yeah I live in a virtually windowless bedroom because of noise, light, and air pollution problems making me block off the windows. Whenever I need sun I go outside. Or usually I’m at work where there are massive windows and great views of t
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Yeah, the average user gets very used to "modern UI design" and then immediately starts noticing older designs. This flags the site as being "less safe" and when money is involved, "less safe" is a pretty big r
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by quartesixte 2y ago
>Then there's telegram and discord, full of all kinds of strange stuff I was just about to say this. The new pockets of internet communities are filled with interesting and fun things again. It’s just that a lot of them are for and
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by quartesixte 2y ago
When that "de minimis" limit was introduced, importing singular <$800 orders were probably a lot rarer and/or more difficult. When the average shipment being imported was an order of magnitude or more larger, it wouldn&#x2
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by quartesixte 2y ago
I am like you. I grew up without screens, and grew up spending a lot of time in car trips. I remember distinctly being keenly aware of my surroundings out the window, and playing games with my parents on how many exits I had left before we
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by quartesixte 2y ago
But closing that loophole will have some very unpleasant knock-on effects to the course of all the other "import" activities going on at borders. It's unfortunate but seems like this time, consumers are acting rationally and
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by quartesixte 2y ago
It doesn’t help that the knowledge in this industry is 1) held by people who statistically are less online than software engineers 2) are closely guarded “trade secrets” (job security!) 3) is in one of those “is more art than science” fiel
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Almost none. Because Factorio handwaves a lot away. There will be a LOT of walking around though.
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Six months to understand and learn. If you’re completely new to MFR and Supply Chain, it will take you about that long to start understanding how to think and ask the proper things. This is also about how long it will take to build up rappo
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by quartesixte 2y ago
I work in the hardware space. Here’s what helped me get my feet wet the fastest: 1) Make friends with the technicians on the floor 2) Find ways to either shadow, observe, or actually learn to do what they do 3) Walk around the shop floor an
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by quartesixte 2y ago
No I get what the response meant. It’s the muscle of being able to quickly orient yourself in sudden problems and drive towards useful solutions in a focused manner. And to be fair, if the product line hadn’t been thrown out before I starte

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