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by quasse 2y ago
Yes. This might be unfamiliar to software engineers, but there's a reason mechanical engineering and architecture (there might be more, but these are the ones I'm familiar with) schools put students through at least a semester of
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by quasse 2y ago
My alma matter (which is directly on a lake) has been gradually banning all unsupervised swimming for students because someone gets blackout drunk and drowns themself in the lake every year. I think it's a tragedy; I spent a lot of my
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by quasse 2y ago
This article is a detail-free puff piece that is either serving as SEO spam to increase "Xiva"'s page ranking, or support this guy Dave Fishwick’s career as a hired speaker.
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by quasse 2y ago
Kagi returns basically the same result set including the AI generated slop, which is disappointing.
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by quasse 2y ago
Someone commented on the thread yesterday about people's most humbling experience and it stuck with me: > I will never be a world champion at anything, so I might as well play for the love of the sport. The place to start is your ow
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by quasse 2y ago
> Realpage should just be concerned with keeping their saas customers by making a good product The coordination is the service. Realpage is literally offering CaaS (cartel as a service). The "market insight" would be nearly v
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by quasse 2y ago
This is interesting because the district court seems to initially have decided the opposite of Tom Waits vs Frito Lay ( http://tomwaitslibrary.info/biography/copyright/frito-lay/ ). Looks like the appellate cou
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by quasse 2y ago
This is not a very useful link since only the abstract is available without paying, and the pre-print does not seem to be on arXiv.
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by quasse 2y ago
This ad *really* reminds me of the absurdly tone deaf ads Meta ran during the Super Bowl (great breakdown by David Roth here https://defector.com/facebook-meta-asks-wouldnt-it-be-nice-t... . To me, the message is clearly &qu
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by quasse 2y ago
> In Seattle, for instance, the policy is to distribute drugs and needles to users Please cite your sources if you are going to make ridiculous claims. The city of Seattle does not have a municipal policy to distribute drugs to drug user
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by quasse 2y ago
This has generally been my opinion on the office of the President. The actual quality of the administration comes from the level underneath the chief executive and I have been very pleased with the people in this administration. The FTC, De
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by quasse 2y ago
Do you have in-house SMD assembly experience? When I was doing fast turnaround prototyping, being able to build up the boards in house was invaluable. Do you need your prototypes to be on flex PCBs? If you can get the electronics ironed out
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by quasse 2y ago
I'm assuming OP is using JLCPCB for assembly instead of doing it in house, because if they just want bare boards they should just be paying for rush processing. PCBWay can ship bare boards by noon the day after you order them if you pa
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by quasse 2y ago
> I see lots of AI companies are trying to transform the MedTech industry, but I'm unsure how much of their products useful / are actually adopted by the hospitals. Maybe some experts in that space can enlighten me on that? My
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by quasse 3y ago
... So just like US sales tax already does? I'm not saying it's a good system, but I'm already paying some random amount on top of the sticker price for everything I buy, depending on what state, county, and city I'm in
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by quasse 3y ago
I feel the same way thinking about computer security back in the early 00's. Nothing was ever really locked down, sometimes you could get administrator access by pressing "Cancel" on the login dialog three times, network driv
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by quasse 3y ago
My favorite academics in the automotive field were the ones who had already been in the the industry for long enough to make their bag and had come back to teach because it was fun. The head of the automotive program at my alma-mater was ve
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by quasse 3y ago
> logically the most likely outcome is that the Amazon will start to die This seems like a very large leap of reasoning to "logically" make. My understanding is that Saharan dust clouds carry phosphorus across the Atlantic, whi
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by quasse 3y ago
It's not understanding the local rental market that's the problem. It's controlling enough of it that you can influence prices globally upwards outside of economic competition. If 60% of a city's major property compa
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by quasse 3y ago
It's no longer legal as of Jan 1, 2022 (part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021). If you want a list of the real worst of the worst Senators, go look at the people who voted against making this a law.
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by quasse 3y ago
Full text of the new version of the bill can be found here: https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/21424kosabil... I am reading though the bill right now and do not have quite the same takeaway that
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by quasse 3y ago
Via lawyer / legal representative if I had to hazard a guess.
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by quasse 3y ago
This is very cool. Thanks for sharing it.
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by quasse 3y ago
From the article: > this code is shared to show the algorithm, not as a drop-in application that just runs. It depends on two private modules configmanners and Points. Both of these are on github I don't know why you would find this
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by quasse 3y ago
One problem I have is that I primarily work on embedded distributed systems (multiple software components talking over a high speed messaging layer, using both sockets and shared memory). As soon as you pause the code in a debugger you &quo
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by quasse 3y ago
I'm glad R/C seems to be shifting to meet a younger demographic in a way that model railroading hasn't been able to. I recently bought an ARRMA and I'm blown away by how powerful it is compared to the Tamiya and HPI stuf
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by quasse 3y ago
I came here to say this. For a blog post accusing the Wirecutter of being "rife with factual errors, [and] misleading statements" the author could have, ya know, not gotten basic facts wrong about filtering standards? Just a few s
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by quasse 3y ago
Aeroflot Flight 1492 is a perfect example of this. Passengers were actively working to get carry-on bags down the emergency slide as 41 people were burning to death in the back of the plane.
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by quasse 3y ago
The parent comment poses a question: > If Adobe can't buy them, what other exit options do they have? Operating as a sustainable business that sells a good product for a profit is apparently not even on people's radar.
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by quasse 3y ago
At least in my experience, it really helps to have one senior person lead the way. Our company hired a greybeard with a rock solid condition of his employment being a four day work week. After that, it was much easier for "normal"

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