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by scrumper 2y ago
I have a couple ideas for you from my own experience. There's about a bajillion C/D+ stage 100-500 person software companies in any B2B vertical you could mention who would fight hard for your type of experience. Not necessarily S
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by scrumper 2y ago
I like the idea of this quite a lot (at a minimum, it would cut out all of those "how do I do XYZ in Mathematica" web searches) but not enough to subscribe. I'd rather buy some bucket of credits because my use of MMA is very
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by scrumper 2y ago
Great comment, which incidentally serves to illustrate just how much energy you can store in a flywheel.
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by scrumper 2y ago
Aaagh you monster it's only November and now that horrible aimless effected wobbly chord fever dream is stuck in my head again. I had at least another couple weeks before hearing it for the first time this year. I never understood how
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by scrumper 2y ago
Ha, came here for the same comment (after stopping by Tracey Boards to order a set for my family first.) It's a good coinage. I took it to mean something along the lines of competitively pressured in a structured combative manner and i
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by scrumper 2y ago
It's certainly rich, and the trilogy is satisfying to read, but I had to stop with his giant epics because he's just so relentlessly cruel to his characters. Every remotely sympathetic female character is going to spend at least a
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by scrumper 2y ago
Yes I think you have it, having read it again. I didn't read it properly the first time.
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by scrumper 2y ago
Commenting here because this describes a fascinating phenomenon and I hope some more people see it. In short, lunar surface temperatures decreased during the pandemic, hypothesized as being due to a reduction in anthropogenic radiation from
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by scrumper 2y ago
Same here, we loved it at school. Also a liquid simulator called "Aliquid" has just popped into my memory. Hours of fun. Despite playing hours and hours of Elite on the school BBCs before we got a room full of Archimedes machines,
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by scrumper 2y ago
"High quality" and "can buy on aliexpress" huh. I'd drop the latter requirement. Kester rosin core is available everywhere including Amazon and is excellent quality. 60/40 works nicely, #44 too.
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by scrumper 2y ago
OK fair.
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by scrumper 2y ago
That's not how I read it: “Through a partnership with Microsoft, Kroger plans to place cameras at its digital displays, which will use facial recognition tools to determine the gender and age of a customer captured on camera and presen
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by scrumper 2y ago
You too! Enjoy the cruise. And I had an unfair advantage - I was already drinking my first cup.
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by scrumper 2y ago
Oh interesting - I'm familiar with the combination shoal keel/centerboard from daysailers like the Montgomery 17 but wasn't aware of it at the scale of something like the Wellington. I can imagine that being very popular out
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by scrumper 2y ago
What? Are you talking about active roll stabilizers? Not on a 40' sailboat there aren't. The keel does that job. What's a "boating permit"?
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by scrumper 2y ago
Short of a 10' dinghy I can't think of any boat where you can remove the rudder and even if 'fin' means 'centerboard' that's still dinghy stuff. Nobody (bar a once-a-generation daredevil) is dinghying acro
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by scrumper 2y ago
Yes exactly. Teenage humans frequently do monumentally stupid and destructive stuff because they're bored or want to impress peers. Everything on a continuum from egging and TP'ing houses to keying cars, graffiti/tagging, bre
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by scrumper 2y ago
> move the rudder and fins back in the boat What does that mean?
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by scrumper 2y ago
They're attacking exclusively sailboats, which are silent. Granted, not many motor yachts are transiting the straits and those that do tend to be larger than 40 feet, but some do. Their method of attack (disable the rudder) is also onl
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by scrumper 2y ago
The article talks about a descent stage built by a private space company* that won't be delivered on time. So even if the rover tested out perfectly, they can't land it. (*which might just mean "contractor")
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by scrumper 2y ago
Oh, that's a shame. The big willy I drew is only visible at exactly the width I have it set at. I wonder what random things I'm missing. It takes a while to reflow too so it's not like it's easy to resize the window and
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by scrumper 2y ago
I agree with you in terms of how it feels. I haven't yet made up my mind about the balance of benefits and drawbacks. When I get cross about them I try to remember that I've never really minded airplanes crossing my path when star
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by scrumper 2y ago
Oh very very well done.
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by scrumper 2y ago
I think it'd be better as a fully mechanical device. 1,400 printed pages that flip like a book minute by minute.
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by scrumper 2y ago
Heh I came here to moan about the latency but I'll shut up :) I will say it did lead to unexpected results which I guess is a big part of the point.
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by scrumper 2y ago
Ha but the factory is in Poland. Closest thing it reminds me of on land is those Toyota MR-2 Ferrari 355 pseudo-replica cars. It's quite (a lot) slower than a P-51 but I think that's a smart choice. The performance is much more in
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by scrumper 2y ago
"Screen Time" under Settings on iOS controls most of the functionality. You can set downtime, school time, allowed apps, and permitted contacts for your kids' devices from that. For example my daughter is permitted to contact
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by scrumper 2y ago
Tried a Gizmo when my daughter hit 5th grade; a big increase in independence comes around then (at least in our town which is still quite old fashioned with many, many kids walking, shopping, socializing, and playing outside unsupervised al
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by scrumper 2y ago
Useful too for sales people at business dinners, execs doing corporate entertainment, journalists, even politicians - anyone who's employment requires them to engage in quasi-social activities with 3rd parties where it's awkward t
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by scrumper 2y ago
Yep, you sing into one but not the other, so there's a big difference in the vocal signal, whereas spill from the speakers is going to hit both mics pretty well evenly.

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