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by shaftway 3y ago
Try this link: https://blog.richardekwonye.com/bezier-curves The animations make it very intuitive to understand what's happening. Once you get that it's trivial to turn that into a parametric formula (`x(t)` and
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by shaftway 3y ago
I wouldn't re-use a blade that SawStop triggered on. I assume the blade itself will go out of true based on the forces. It's a lot more damage than a few teeth.
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by shaftway 3y ago
I use elements in the periodic table. My laptop is Turbium and my spouse's is Polonium. My wifi hotspot is Actinoids, my spouse's is Lanthanoids. In the past I've broken out some of the names to mean something special. Common
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by shaftway 3y ago
I love the ingenuity, but I think this is an opportunity for Framework to make a bit of room inside the case for a pair of dongles. Given how easy they are to open and how often people have a dedicated wireless mouse / keyboard for the
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by shaftway 3y ago
I was teaching myself Rust and got tired of doing Project Euler problems. I've always wanted a program that made it easier to parse arguments in shell scripts. Something like Python's ArgParse. So I wrote it. https://gi
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by shaftway 3y ago
The joke is that BMW drivers don't use them.
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by shaftway 3y ago
Any time you feel useless, remember that it's someone's job to install turn signals into BMWs.
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by shaftway 3y ago
Ah, sorry, I don't keep up with their P&L, and I assumed things hadn't changed in a while.
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by shaftway 3y ago
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/blog/2020/08/27/small-tow... > Winthrop Harbor, Illinois, with under 7,000 residents, received 10 helicopters, a mine-resistant armored vehicle, two Humvees, and oth
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by shaftway 3y ago
Militarization of the police was a pretty big change. It's less noticeable in most rural areas, but some places the police have unexpected access to hardware. Think of towns of ~1000 people that have anti-riot vehicles. That kind of ac
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by shaftway 3y ago
This actually happened to me at Google in 2019. My position was eliminated and I was given 3 months to find a new role before I was axed. HR was extremely accommodating during this. I had a person to contact and to help keep me on track. I
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by shaftway 3y ago
The article links to their source, which has a before and after screenshot: https://mspoweruser.com/google-updates-chrome-incognito-disc...
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by shaftway 3y ago
I looked into it pre-covid and was basically told that it's for the upper level executives. We went with an au pair for our 2 kids, and it cost less than having one kid in GCC.
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by shaftway 3y ago
Oh yeah, that's easy. I don't expect to be able to follow "highly-context-dependent" code snippets. The codebase I work on has a bunch of Ruby scripts with "highly-context-dependent" bits of code in them that I
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by shaftway 3y ago
I don't know Ruby at all, and maybe some familiarity with the language would help, but the biggest example code makes absolutely zero sense to me: RSpec.describe Ticket do context 'when the ticket is closed' do
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by shaftway 3y ago
I'd be curious to see the difference in size / performance with gzipped data in the mix. My guess is that gzipping will make the size difference negligable (may actually be worse in Fleece due to the abundance of pointers that can
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by shaftway 3y ago
I love the Hue switch, but the size is just terrible. If this thing would fit in Decorator Plates i'd have replaced every switch in my house with them. A switch that looks and feels like a built-in but is held on by magnets and you can
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by shaftway 3y ago
If you like ThisOldTony, give InheritanceMachining a shot. Similar explanations of machining, clean shots, regular posts (every 2 weeks), and you can often see him using previous builds when making the next thing.
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by shaftway 3y ago
There was an extensive postmortem for Google+ on Memegen, search for the phrase "vicg" among others.
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by shaftway 3y ago
1984? It sounds like advice for avoiding faeries from the 1200. - Beware of the Fae who doth not cast a shadow, for Fae play tricks with the light. - The Fae useth trickery to create faces. Heed ye closely to the hairline. - Fae speaketh wi
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by shaftway 3y ago
Nobody said they're zero-maintenance. > I drive a 23 year old car, and the only thing I've had to replace that I wouldn't have to replace on an EV is a timing belt. We're discussing things you have to replace in 23 ye
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by shaftway 3y ago
> The comment I screenshotted is passive-aggressive at best It's polite and it asks questions that are very pertinent, given how you claim to manage your repos. > How can the community support? I've been involved in a projec
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by shaftway 3y ago
I know this is really tangential, but one of my favorite lines from cartoons as a kid was from an episode of Pinky and the Brain and it included this kind of wordplay. Their plan included forming a grunge band, which they called "Frog
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by shaftway 3y ago
EVs don't require oil changes.
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by shaftway 3y ago
"Look at these ads or I will hit you with a hammer"
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by shaftway 3y ago
A law limiting top speed to 10 mph would have a massive reduction in accidents and fatalities. That makes sense to me.
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by shaftway 3y ago
Difference between building cost and leverage may cover that gap. Let's say you buy a building with a 50 year mortgage for $50M. You're 10 years into the mortgage, so you've paid off $5M. But real estate in your area has done
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by shaftway 3y ago
There are always going to be parts of life that are uncomfortable and stressful. This one wasn't terrible, and I appreciated a new outlook on how to assess skills. The interviewer was very understanding and we meshed well, so I don&#x2
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by shaftway 3y ago
There's a great video from Don Pettit on the ISS where he used candy corn to demonstrate the polar / nonpolar nature of soap. He coated one end of the candy corn with a hydrophobic substance and water as his lipid stand-in. Then h
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by shaftway 3y ago
Often banks will batch up transactions into a single one, and especially in a real-time market, that may not match what you expect. For example lets say I ask you to sell 10 shares of Google if the price goes over $140 (this is typically ca

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