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by starky 5y ago
The engineers know full well that this stuff is bullshit, but they aren't making a living unless they do what they are told. The problem is our society and the shareholders that demand maximal profit every quarter that result in the ex
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by starky 5y ago
Companies also love recurring revenue because it is far easier to convince finance once to pay a modest ongoing monthly fee, than it is to go back to them every few years to get approval to spend a large chunk of money the next version of s
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by starky 5y ago
>Isn't it pretty easy to to get a good phone? If people buy line A from brand B and are happy with it, I'd expect that 2-3 years later when they buy the latest A from B, they'd get a phone that's as good or better. I&
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by starky 5y ago
Unfortunately on Windows is uses EqualizerAPO which has to be re-enabled every time Windows is updated or it stops working. I've given up on my headphone EQs because of it.
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by starky 5y ago
I don't get how Swiftkey went from being almost perfect to being almost perfectly shit at predicting what I want to say. I've switched to GBoard and also hate it (e.g. it won't auto-capitalize "I" for me), but at le
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by starky 5y ago
I found it interesting that the author was making a case for 2-3 people for someone inexperienced. I've seen people claim that you need to give someone new to leadership a team of 4-5 people because it is so easy to drop into micro-man
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by starky 5y ago
I disagree, here in Vancouver our system is also from Cubic and it is terrible. Our transit corporation, Translink, had to switch all the buses to a single zone fare because they couldn't get the system to work over the cellular networ
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by starky 5y ago
Due to the vaccine not being approved for children yet, the numbers will be low. Here in Canada it appears to lag by about 10% of the eligible population, so until that happens, 80% is probably the maximum limit I would expect. However, wit
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by starky 5y ago
The store I usually buy tennis balls at is showing over 1200 tubes of just one brand of balls in stock at the store near me, must be pretty localized if it is a problem.
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by starky 5y ago
Yup, a company doesn't want to develop more products than it needs to, so they instead try to stuff all the market needs into a singular product, which results in a compromised product for every customer. I'm constantly complainin
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by starky 5y ago
>Asking an iOS developer to work on Objective-C is asking them to sacrifice their future prospects. This just sounds insane to me being a non-programmer. Literally nothing in my job requires me to be up to date on technologies that are l
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by starky 5y ago
Looked it up because I was sure I heard this before. Brunswick house balls are indeed listed as being urethane [1]. I can say from experience that my polyester ball is both less durable than a house ball and curves less than a house ball wh
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by starky 5y ago
This article is pretty crap, it really gives no insight into what a core does to the ball (mostly change the shape of how the ball curves, not how much). Like how does the article not make one mention of how the core causes the rotation of
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by starky 5y ago
I mean, shooting and archery would absolutely fall into the same category. In reality, Bowling is much more complicated than it appears at first glance. The lane is covered in a thin layer of oil in a specific pattern. The pattern greatly a
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by starky 5y ago
Not true, if you get enough revs on the ball a urethane coverstock will curve no problem (IIRC most alley balls are urethane due to higher durability than polyester). Throw two handed with no thumb with your palm under the ball and axis rot
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by starky 5y ago
Just because it isn't easily calculated on an individual basis doesn't mean that it is impossible to figure out. If you know how much revenue your group provides to the company and then look at who contributes what relatively as a
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by starky 5y ago
If the lock is effective, then you are definitely going to have cases where a paying customer receives a tool that is locked or re-locked itself. The organized groups on the other hand now just have a slight inconvenience (at worst, until t
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by starky 5y ago
Evaluating value is usually not straightforward, unless the person was working alone it is always a subjective thing. If a junior is given a project alone, then they may provide zero value to the company if they can't complete it, but
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by starky 5y ago
At least from my perspective. It is a combination of needing a certain number of senior level employees to mentor junior employees and to lead projects and we have a good pipeline of junior candidates through our co-op program such that the
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by starky 5y ago
It should be easy for a senior to provide $40k more value than a junior employee, especially considering that a lot of the value a junior employee creates can be due to mentorship and working with senior employees.
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by starky 5y ago
Yeah, I've got zero interest in using their software after they broke TreeStyleTabs, what replaced it was crap. I'm quite happy with Vivaldi, which, while based on Chrome, at least seems to understand what users need.
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by starky 5y ago
This really annoys me about North American cities. In Asia, even if a city has incredibly expensive real estate (e.g. Hong Kong or Singapore), you still have oodles of independent stores and restaurants who can afford to be in business beca
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by starky 5y ago
It irritates me to no end how Microsoft keeps updating their programs to make them be "helpful". I literally NEVER want their suggestions, I just want their programs to get out of my fucking way so I can do my work.
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by starky 5y ago
Of course your smartphone doesn't have to be glued shut, but the video shows 3 phones that are larger, have lower quality materials, and are missing features like water resistance. The fact of the matter is that customers won't bu
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by starky 5y ago
I would be very surprised if the camera modules put out anything different than the standard image sensor interfaces such as SPI, MIPI, and SLVS. Anything else would require extra circuitry that is too big. Then it just becomes a case of fi
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by starky 5y ago
Great example of a pet peeve of mine. Having to open the article to learn what kind of industry they are talking about because non-hardware areas of tech completely ignores that civil, electrical, mechanical, etc. designers/engineers e
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by starky 5y ago
>If you're making bread for example, some recipes will say don't add the salt with the yeast because it will make it rise slower and some recipes say it won't make a difference - it should be simple to confirm this with an
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by starky 5y ago
>having the computer reverse engineer voxel or polygon models back into a tree of features (something like solidworks) As a ME with extensive CAD experience, there is nothing that annoys me more about the 3D Printing community than the i
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by starky 5y ago
You can setup a cold storage scheme or enable vault compression for old versions to save space on your archive server to save space.
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by starky 5y ago
Because they are programs used to do industrial design and general aesthetic 3D modeling, they aren't CAD programs.

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