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by samcheng 7y ago
Cory, I really enjoyed reading your "Opps Daily" emails. Even though I, like many others, never acted on any of them. Thanks for your effort here!
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by samcheng 7y ago
My understanding is that the design is fundamentally flawed; the engines are too large to fit under the wings with the existing landing gear, so they were moved forward, thereby upsetting the balance between the center of thrust of the engi
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by samcheng 7y ago
Yikes, this kind of stuff is going to make black-hat SEO even worse.
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by samcheng 7y ago
Cool project! Thank you.
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by samcheng 7y ago
Thanks for the tips! I've been doing something similar with Python + FreeCAD for FDM (3D plastic printing). Wood is just so much nicer as an end product, though.
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by samcheng 7y ago
I've been thinking about wood CNC myself. What kinds of tools are used these days? I have seen basically X-Y stages hooked up to a hand router, but I wonder if there are other approaches.
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by samcheng 7y ago
The van life (well, mostly RV life) is really taking over Silicon Valley. Many streets now have a row of RVs parked at the curb. For example, El Camino right in front of Stanford. The wealth disparity is dramatic, but so is the rent in t
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by samcheng 7y ago
Really interesting think tank: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JASON_%28advisory_group%29
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by samcheng 7y ago
I haven't been too close to this recently, but a common technique is called "Model Output Statistics" where the output from these computationally-intensive physical models are fed into another model, trained on historical obs
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by samcheng 7y ago
That seems a bit obscene! I'm sure there are much smaller / fairer measures that shouldn't be dismissed out of hand.
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by samcheng 7y ago
They grounded the 737 MAXes because that probability of death was too high. If the probability of assault in an Uber is within an order of magnitude, that suggests to me that it is reasonable to expect some additional scrutiny / regula
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by samcheng 7y ago
FreeCAD is not bad and used pretty extensively by the 3D printing hobbyists. It's nicely script-able with Python. However, from my experience, it's still nowhere near the level of polish that e.g. Solidworks has, so professional
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by samcheng 7y ago
A coworker of mine lives in the east Bay Area hills and had power outages on two occasions for a couple of days at a time. Their Tesla worked just fine, backed by solar panels and a power wall. If grid instability becomes a bigger problem,
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by samcheng 7y ago
After the San Bruno pipeline explosion, where PG&E gas pipeline maintenance and inspection records were falsified, is anyone surprised? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Bruno_pipeline_explosion#L... If a company i
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by samcheng 7y ago
Is there a free / open alternative for exterior / architectural work? I know there is AutoCAD, and Chief Architect, but they are all quite expensive.
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by samcheng 7y ago
Seems like cool stuff. Unfortunately, both of the StimulusReflex demos (Heroku apps) are giving errors right now. Maybe somebody hit a quota!
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by samcheng 7y ago
It's very common in the bay area to put biodegradable compost (paper towels, food waste, pumpkins, etc.) into the third green bin, along with the yard waste. The other two bins are for recycling and other garbage. It's not very
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by samcheng 7y ago
As a low-ping AWP sniper back in the day, we weren't all cheating. It was super satisfying to get a string of headshots...
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by samcheng 7y ago
They spent a couple of years building a shiny new building, only to move out of it after a year?! What a waste...
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by samcheng 7y ago
A mom-of-three friend of mine loves her electric Xtracycle. She mostly leaves the minivan at home, and neatly bypasses the morning school-and-office traffic. It zips along at 20mph surprisingly quickly, too. While not everyone can be that
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by samcheng 7y ago
I really think the concept of bike boulevards is one that needs more attention than bike lanes. Take a network of side roads and make them inconvenient for large vehicle through-traffic via bollards and other obstacles. https:/&#x2F
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by samcheng 7y ago
I was surprised by just how simple the 'meet-me rooms' at the core of these internet exchanges were. Basically just fiber from other places and a nice switch...
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by samcheng 7y ago
Thanks. "Multiple complaints from guests and verbal confrontations with others in attendance" makes it seem pretty defensible to me.
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by samcheng 7y ago
Political speech doesn't seem to be banned: https://www.nba.com/sixers/nba-fan-code-conduct
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by samcheng 7y ago
> And then there is Apple: the company is deeply exposed to China both in terms of sales and especially when it comes to manufacturing. The reality is that, particularly when it comes to the latter, Apple doesn’t have anywhere else to g
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by samcheng 7y ago
"RODI" (de-ionized reverse osmosis) water can be as pure as distilled water, and is common in labs. I'm told you don't want to drink the lab-grade stuff.
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by samcheng 7y ago
Distilled water, particularly if heated, is dangerous to drink, according to some chemists I know. The concept is that the ultra-pure water leaches potentially harmful ions from its surroundings, for example chromium from stainless steel fi
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by samcheng 7y ago
Frustratingly, to me at least, that one didn't have an HDMI port, requiring a dongle.
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by samcheng 7y ago
The 2015 MBP is great! I have a spare one stockpiled. I wish they would keep it basically as-is, replace one of the (generally unused) thunderbolt ports with a USB-C port, add their secure enclave T2 security chip, and update the CPU/
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by samcheng 7y ago
My users are reporting that it's back up, or at least intermittently working now.

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