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by roel_v 5y ago
Ah yes, the true and tried "my martial art is too deadly to be tested" argument.
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by roel_v 5y ago
"Bruce Lee's movie fighting style" then, which has little to do with his proper fight training, like Jean Claude van Damme's fight choreography has little to do with his fighting background. Apart from that, I do take is
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by roel_v 5y ago
The reality is that most "martial arts" are mostly performative, as the principles of actually useful hand to hand combat are fairly universal and anything that isn't effective and efficient "evolves" out quickly. E
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by roel_v 5y ago
Yes you need active ventilation systems, because the thermal efficiency is highly dependant on the house being airtight - to the point where efficiency scores are calculated by overpressuring the house (basically taping a huge fan into the
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by roel_v 5y ago
OK, well now come up with a formula that says (from a series of objective and not-readily-gameable characteristics) for a random electrical/electronic device (or, if you want to separate the two, provide a way to do so - is a 1980&#x27
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by roel_v 5y ago
But consumer electronics are written off on much shorter timeframes than cars. Are we going to require support for electronics for 7 years? I would be in favor of it, but I don't see it happen. Device was EoL in 2015, the vuln is from
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by roel_v 5y ago
Additionally, in my (relatively) highly educated country (The Netherlands), selection for university starts in primary school, where about 20% is assigned ('given the advice of going to') to the type of secundary education that pr
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by roel_v 5y ago
Nonsense. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php... : 34% of the EU population 25-54 years old has completed education to ISCED levels 5-8, and level 5 isn't even university (depends on
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by roel_v 5y ago
"and the entertainment bill was huge" Is that how it works though, 'even' in the US (where in my understanding there are a lot more options for deductions than in the European tax systems I have experience with)? Can you
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by roel_v 5y ago
Why? (if your answer is going to include some form of 'but housing is an essential requirement to live', be aware that my next question will be how to differentiate housing from food, or some other essential requirements to living
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by roel_v 5y ago
"They're both extremely well rounded adults now" What do they do? Did they get any schooling after the GED's?
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by roel_v 5y ago
Maybe this is a good time and place to ask - let's say I want to buy something using Ethereum. Is it correct that when I look at, say, https://ycharts.com/indicators/ethereum_average_transaction_... , you have to
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by roel_v 5y ago
I don't think what you're looking for is sales, but rather marketing. But if I'm wrong and you really are looking for sales, I learned a lot at what was basically a "hard selling" course. It was 3 days, the audience
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by roel_v 5y ago
I live in a city center, no driveway. My neighbour with an electric i3 runs a charging cord across the sidewalk, I'm not going to do that, ever. I'd much prefer a hydrogen car I can fill up someplace else over requiring plugging i
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by roel_v 5y ago
This reads like it's something new, and maybe parts of it are, and probably any implementation will be 'new' in the sense that it uses recent technical innovations; but when I was in law school 10 years ago, I had a professor
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by roel_v 5y ago
It's easy to be healthy, just eat right, exercise more, sleep enough and lower your stress levels. Tadaa! The secret to being healthy!
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by roel_v 5y ago
"Significantly above that salary, even in most of Europe." LOL you're saying someone, in a rank and file (even if senior) developer position would be paid 'significantly above' $11k per month anywhere in Europe? T
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by roel_v 5y ago
Yes that's it, after some Googling it turns out that the word I had in mind is a regional word and the 'official' word is the literal translation into Dutch of 'head cheese'.
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by roel_v 5y ago
"I think it hilarious when people like me, urban dwellers, tell me to my face they only buy meat from some small butcher because they only trust him, or some variation of that story." I bought half a pig some time ago; I have a co
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by roel_v 5y ago
PSA for us Euros that instinctively ignored latimes.com links since blocking us when GDPR came into effect: they now let us in! Time to unlearn the reflex.
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by roel_v 5y ago
It's very common in gaming circles (not game dev afaik, just ppl who play games). I found it weird wording too, at first; it seemed like a euphemism for 'bug' to me, but I think I now have a more nuanced understanding. I thin
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by roel_v 5y ago
The "How to make everything" YT channel ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfIqCzQJXvYj9ssCoHq327g ) does that. He started from digging up clay with his bare hands to make pots, and is now roughly in the iron a
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by roel_v 5y ago
Where are we on charging-from-underneath-the-car? I live in a city center, where I can't hook up to my own charging unit, curbside units are scarce and a pain in the ass having to plug in your car every time anyway (my neighbour's
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by roel_v 5y ago
It's all over all sorts of EU media, I think in no small part fueled by 'remind me why we're giving Italy 222 BILLION euros in Covid recovery money when they spend it like this?' thinking. Which on the one hand is fair
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by roel_v 5y ago
Right, but a ghostgunner is not a CNC machine in the common meaning of that word. It was made specifically for cutting 80% lowers (even if the GG website claims it's a 'general purpose' CNC), and even then, only the lowers fr
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by roel_v 5y ago
In fact, my viewpoint is entirely Europe-centric. I know it's easy to order an 80% lower in the US. The whole point is that with 3d printers, even those in jurisdictions that don't have weird 'let's take one componen
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by roel_v 5y ago
Have you ever tried using a lathe or mill, CNC or not? I have, and I did some summer jobs in metal working businesses, and I can tell you that making a metal part vs 3d printing one is nothing alike. You need highly specialized skills to
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by roel_v 5y ago
For a lathe, CNC or not, you need 10's of thousands of $ worth of equipment and specific skills and experience; several months worth, at the very least. Plus you need a space where you can put a workshop. To 3d print a gun, you need a
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by roel_v 5y ago
The ignorance in this thread is mind-blowing. You most certainly can manufacture a reliable, semi-automatic, 9mm compact rifle where the only part that is not 3d-printed is the barrel and the springs. And even the barrel can be home-rif
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by roel_v 5y ago
Well yes, but your original claim was that you cannot 3d print firearms, and you implied that 3d printers are not great tools that make it vastly easier to manufacture firearms by people who do not have years of metalworking experience. Bot

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