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by richk449 2y ago
I’m not sure that the writing quality is the point. A better question to ask whether the creator has something they are trying to convey. It can be something artistic, or philosophical, or ethical, or none-of-the-above, but there is somethi
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by richk449 2y ago
As an ender-3 owner, I’m curious what makes the Bambu better?
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by richk449 2y ago
Similar machine at Arizona state university: https://news.asu.edu/20230205-discoveries-firstofitskind-ins...
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by richk449 2y ago
Multibeam corporation is making “maskless” lithography tools: https://multibeamcorp.com/applications/#high-value
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by richk449 2y ago
It’s a well documented story: https://www.technologyreview.com/1999/01/01/236818/melted-ch... It was Percy Spencer - fourth employee at Raytheon (third employee was Vannevar Bush, for reference)
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by richk449 2y ago
A colleague asked me for advice on being a manager. Amongst other advice, I suggested he read High Output Management. He came back a few days later and said that chatGPT knew what was in the book - was it okay if he just read the summary? I
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by richk449 2y ago
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dissolve Definitions of dissolve: to cause to disperse or disappear to separate into component parts to become dissipated (see DISSIPATE sense 1) or decompose BREAK UP, DISPER
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by richk449 2y ago
For those who haven’t read the book, Amusing Ourselves to Death is incredible, and absolutely worth reading. One of my mentors gave it to me years ago and it became one of those mind blowing reads. In the book, Postman analyzes how media af
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by richk449 2y ago
Nuclear waste is transported regularly: https://www.nrc.gov/waste/spent-fuel-transp.html
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by richk449 2y ago
(1) the actual message doesn’t say the fair is canceled - it is still on; the message says no employers specifically looking for software engineers will be attending. (2) it says that IT employers will be attending the carer fair. (3) it al
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by richk449 2y ago
If nobody wants to live there then why is it so expensive?
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Anyone have a reference to this technique? I’d like to learn more.
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> To be fair, it makes everything twice as expensive. The article argues it makes it less expensive to reach any specific quality level (above some threshold). The threshold isn’t really addressed in the article, but it is implied that f
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by richk449 2y ago
Pretty much everything that has to do with space was first developed by governments for military purposes. Rockets, satellites, communications, imaging, etc. I think your point supports the general thesis that many technologies are develope
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by richk449 2y ago
Many technologies are developed long before they are viable because they have military value. Access to space is currently a major national security issue, so a space elevator could be a manhattan project. Some technologies are developed by
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by richk449 2y ago
If you have no computers, getting to kHz is a huge advantage. Eniac ran at 100kHz (I think) and it was revolutionary.
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by richk449 2y ago
Great plan. Highly robust autonomous robots that build weapons by themselves.
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by richk449 2y ago
An event that happens much too often to me: My son is playing with other kids. I wander off. When I check back, all the kids are watching a screen. I say “what’s going on?” And some parent says “the kids were getting roudy, so I put on a sh
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by richk449 2y ago
Is that why John Irving keeps writing about bears and high school wrestling?
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by richk449 2y ago
What was an acceptable answer to “derive maxwells equations”?
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by richk449 2y ago
What’s most weird to me is that the PE firm owns Red Lobster. So if a deal is bad for Red Lobster, the deal is also bad for the PE firm. I guess the reason that isn’t true is differing time horizons. If the consequences of the deal only bec
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by richk449 2y ago
Can you tell me how you generate dxf files from python? I’m trying to find a good workflow.
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by richk449 2y ago
I like the question. Bible aside, here are some other options: Where is my Flying Car? Zero to One Paradise Lost East of Eden
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by richk449 2y ago
Look up “price discrimination”.
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by richk449 2y ago
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
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What about Jonathon Franzen?
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by richk449 2y ago
Interesting point. One difference: It is easy to tell if a tennis instructor is giving “good” instruction, where good means instructions that help you be a better tennis player. You just look at their students. If you want to know if they g
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by richk449 2y ago
A contrarian take on Casablanca from Cowen: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2024/02/my...
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by richk449 2y ago
The Turing test for husbands: determine if your husband is actually a good person or if he is acting like a good person so that you will love and appreciate him.
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If you accept the Pareto optimization framework, it is highly unlikely that there will be only one Pareto optimal solution.

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