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by sigstoat 5y ago
> Cast iron is 100% iron. plenty of cast irons have all sorts of things mixed in them. i don't think anyone particularly cares to use pure iron, because additives make the process easier. if your pan manufacturer will even tell you
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by sigstoat 5y ago
if you wanted to say "C makes it possible/easy/likely to have memory errors", i wouldn't have said anything. you drug in "offshored code delivered by sweep shop consultancies", got a response, and then mov
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by sigstoat 5y ago
hot tip: those folks don't produce good code in any language, don't blame it on C.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
I interpreted it backwards, "if you want to use a numeric keypad for controlling access to something, the codes MUST be at least 6 digits long, and you MUST assign them"
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by sigstoat 5y ago
the code appears to just do a smooth extrapolation from some past value. it claims that (magnetic) disk seek is 2ms these days. since when did we get sub-4ms average seek time drives? it also seems to think we're reading 1.115GiB/
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> Telling them “yes there is”, sort of escalates the conflict in my book and while it’s totally understandable (and I’ll do this myself on my less good days) it’s also just asking for things to go south. Which is something I have learned
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by sigstoat 5y ago
webapps were a mistake.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
they get whatever they agreed to when they took the job. which is generally very little, in exchange for a salary not conditioned on patent income.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
thanks for addressing things with far more patience than i would have.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
the slower your power MOSFET, the more power you waste and heat you generate.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
quite. a house i occasionally looked after suffered some pipe damage because somebody else thought setting the thermostat to 50F would suffice to keep the pipes from freezing in the depths of winter. they were not right enough.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> Also with 30+ engines its less of an investment if one goes bad, just swap it out. also less bad to lose ~3.3% of your total thrust than 100% of it.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> I'm asking if there's a proof for determinism itself. sounds like you tried to take a flying leap away from the mathematically sound, and pedestrian statement of darawk into philosophy. you should warn people about that, so t
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by sigstoat 5y ago
it's the definition. "chaotic systems" aren't just... unpredictable things that we find laying around and say "yeah we'll call that chaotic because it looks like my kid's bedroom". they've got to
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> The difference with Xbox/PlayStation is that those aren't general purpose platform. they've been general purpose platforms for years. they just don't look like it because the manufacturers are even more restrictive
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by sigstoat 5y ago
synthetic materials for the action and body will help a bit. using something rust resistant for the harp wouldn’t hurt. not claiming that will do the job. pianos are heavy and more delicate than they appear.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
they do (did?) also have showrooms. customer service staff. who knows if they did their own assembling or final product qa. they certainly weren't running your average SaaS service. i'm not _too_ surprised about 2800 people. i&#x2
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by sigstoat 5y ago
i'm perfectly aware of openscad, i literally referenced it in my question. you've completely wasted both our times.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
is there any programming style for it which doesn't look like some crazed 90s java, with all the method chains? something with contexts would be nice, maybe? with cq.Workplane("XY").box(h,w,t) as plate: plate.faces("&g
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by sigstoat 5y ago
they have very different goals. game engines and such make all sorts of performance compromises you positively wouldnt want your CAD software making.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> The airline just wants the gov't to do something for free so that they don't have to put any work or expend resources doing it! probably also lets them dodge blame. "oh you're on the no-fly list, take it up with the
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by sigstoat 5y ago
it’s especially fascinating since it was conventional wisdom amongst HN and every designer that i ran into that somehow white backgrounds were easiest and also you should use grey text to reduce contrast. (added: we’ve got some of those fol
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> In case someone has any advice beyond finding a hobby, going to therapy, approaching random strangers did you try those things? they're common advice for a reason. > I tried to meet new people at hobbies and dance lessons, but
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by sigstoat 5y ago
the canakit packages are luxury items with a bunch of stuff you don't need. get a pi, an sd card, a power supply, and a cardboard box to shove it into. you don't need any of the other stuff they include. also get an old pi, not on
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by sigstoat 5y ago
there's a lot which has been written on the subject, from all perspectives. you can find whatever explanation will satisfy your political leanings.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> as if it's impossible to - you know - amend the constitution somehow, if one wanted to in the real world, where everyone has to live, the constitution isn't seeing amendment any time soon on any subject, and the 2nd certainly
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> It takes special connectors to survive being disconnected and reconnected daily i don't know what you're using, but the LC/LC connectors i use seem pretty durable, and the springy bit that wears out can be replaced. the
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> - 1x dvdrom narrowly beats 100meg ethernet. that doesn't fit with my recollection of reading/transferring DVDs, or with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_storage_media_writing_... > - ATA133 narro
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> Are the ports in pairs at each location? there are a variety of ways to screw that up. i've seen a house that has a bunch of cat 5e run, but the installer stapled it down, and most of the cables have a staple through them somewher
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> And fiber is less physically robust and not great for desktop connections i buy armored multimode patch cables for, i dunno, 10 or 20% more per unit length, and they seem indestructible in my residential short-distance use cases. >

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