samtho

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by samtho 3y ago
Or a locally run and operated coworking space.
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by samtho 3y ago
This is very true and something I didn’t mention (I don’t live in an area where this is a problem). If it’s just a little bit of water and a sump pump can be used or you are able to install a water-resistant concrete sealant, a basement is
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by samtho 3y ago
This does not work differently in other states as far as I’m aware, California just might be more willing to enforce the laws already in place. Additionally, this not a tax credit which is money owed to you by the tax authority, rather a
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by samtho 3y ago
To slightly contradict my original statement, cabins (or recreational use homes) are an example of buildings in colder climates where a foundation may be pier and beam rather than basement. Part of this has to do with the fact that mountain
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by samtho 3y ago
Likely because you need to hire a structural engineer to sign off on the project. Building codes allow us to do this sort of thing without direct engineering input and most municipalities have not adopted a code that define safe practices f
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by samtho 3y ago
This rhymes with the tend in the US pre 2020 of fancy live/work, urban lofts that look like industrial spaces with exposed brick, masonry, metals, etc. Cottagecore was a sort of backlash to that movement - especially during a time wher
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by samtho 3y ago
Most of the time, rebar and concrete is placed and poured in the vertical column created by laying the block effectively turning into a vertical slab. It’s so much easier to build a wood-frame dummy wall on the inside to house utilities.
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by samtho 3y ago
Prior to tech, I primary worked in construction during and right out of high school. Cast-in-place concrete dwellings have never caught on despite it making a tremendous amount of economic sense. While it has a foothold in the market for sp
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by samtho 3y ago
> A bigger population just hasn't been trained properly. We have no controls for that, so people get lucky with disparate learning being just enough for their first job, then that turns into experience towards the next job. I agree,
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And where it does exist, it’s usually someone exploiting power and/or access to another person, e.g. superiors in the workplace taking advantage of subordinates, customers being inappropriate to servers and not understanding or caring
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by samtho 3y ago
With regards to hiring, this is tricky because all candidates will try to put their best food forward and have a reasonable explanation for everything on their resume. In addition, low performers can look like high performers if their exper
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by samtho 3y ago
I am unsure of the context in which codabar was developed, but I know it was originally made for dot matrix printers, maybe if you go back to how those worked, it lended itself well to monospaced fonts because we had a fixed number of “dots
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by samtho 3y ago
While this is true, the frequency and ease in which engines are swapped does allow the potential for innovation to creep into the space. We’ve made ICE engines smaller and more efficient over the last 3/4 of a century - but the FAA doe
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by samtho 3y ago
I really love barcodes and barcode symbology for reasons I cannot fully explain. I even wore the npm module named ‘barcode’ which I desperately need to update. Fun fact about codabar, it is among the only barcode symbologies that can be imp
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by samtho 3y ago
I made a cheap barcode display-er with a Bluetooth MCU and an E-ink display, that works for all 1D only barcode scanners.
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by samtho 3y ago
Also a project manager, and one of those is a lead developer/architect. One year is not a lot of time, either.
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by samtho 3y ago
> I do not know why pilots would be giving you a hard time with a truck given that most general aviation aircraft in operation are older than your truck. The airframe likely is older than the truck, but the engine is usually considerably
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by samtho 3y ago
One of my friends that helped me build hours does experimental aircraft and just runs his c172 on 91 unleaded from a highway fuel pump. Pretty sure he has a lycoming IO-360M1A on it. He does have to haul fuel in, however.
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by samtho 3y ago
> Most attempts to water down R2R specifically involve limiting the access provided to "assemblies" rather than individual chips. This is how the automotive industry has managed 3rd party repairability, and it’s served them wel
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by samtho 3y ago
People generally choose to participate in a makerspace and projects there are inherently physical. The remote work movement is predicated on the idea that employees owe less of their life to their employers, orgs that require employees to s
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by samtho 3y ago
18km/s is almost understated in terms of speed, so I looked it up to more familiar measures of speed: 65,000kph or 40,000mph. The only thing I really learned here was how even in the thousands of miles or km per hour, it’s just inconce
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by samtho 3y ago
The only reason why we got these probes as far and as fast as we did was because we were able to fly by each planet and use their gravitational influence to skip to the next one, increasing velocity after each slingshot.
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by samtho 3y ago
Or perhaps a (non air) bus
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by samtho 3y ago
This is a very disparaging view and I’m sorry you fell victim to what sounds like grifters and con artists. This broad characterization is not fair to the hackerspaces that continue to this day, however.
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by samtho 3y ago
Most traditional hackerspaces either went defunct or pivoted more towards coworking. The allure is pretty obvious: way higher margins. No tools to maintain, no giant safety concerns, just need tables, chairs, and vending. Also, people (or r
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by samtho 3y ago
I found out about this company when I was job hunting last year. I almost thought it was some sort of joke or pilot for something more innovative than replacing a transparent refrigerator door with a screen. I do not like putting down peopl
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by samtho 3y ago
I don’t disagree with the assessment that hackerspaces on government property will never be cool, mainly because I think we are beyond the days where being “cool” is a given. There is a distinction I need to make first, however: The label o
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by samtho 3y ago
I honestly think a library is the best place for a general public makerspace for 90% of cases. That last 10% encompasses famous ones in specific cities like Noisebridge in SF or c-base in Berlin (all of which can only exist in that city’s c
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by samtho 3y ago
I was involved in makerspaces for a while. While I have not given up on them, I will admit that I have become thoroughly disillusioned with the idea. Real estate is expensive and a makerspace should be near public transport (which will like
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by samtho 3y ago
It can get messy, especially because the very thing the city can offer (real estate) ends up being a political pawn. With no provision in the city’s charter to protect it, anything the city provides is going to be quick to the chopping bloc

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