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unbalancedevh
6y ago
I got my engineering degree almost 30 years ago, and at my first job was working with other "engineers" who did not have a degree. I was dismayed at first, but got over it. I think it only matters if you're offering services
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6y ago
> I, on equal grounding, assert that the author is wrong. The burden of proof remains with the author. The author, at least, gave relevant analogies from his area of expertise. I don't see any evidence to back up your assertion, or
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6y ago
I have experience at several companies with many different cultures, and I don't know of anyone who likes to slog through the details before getting to what the final problem or solution is. People just don't have time for that.
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unbalancedevh
6y ago
Or go to the library!
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6y ago
>> Compared with fifteen chews, chewing forty times per portion resulted in lower hunger (P= 0·009), preoccupation with food (P= 0·005) and desire to eat (P= 0·002). It's a good thing, because while I'm taking 40 chews per b
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6y ago
burns, or stores
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unbalancedevh
6y ago
Drilling into wood doesn't make much noise. Cutting wood with a hand saw doesn't make much noise. Using a hammer can be noisy, but a project like this wouldn't use many (or any) nails.
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6y ago
e-mail it, or save it for your records.
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unbalancedevh
6y ago
I'll never be able to get used to just putting 1 space after a period, and it really bugs me when editing a sentence deletes one.
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6y ago
>- Near-Instant Gratification >There is something great about having code you wrote be actually executed by thousands of people every day. So few people get to show their friends and family a site they visit often and say "I did
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7y ago
I just got a refund check from Progressive, the same time I got my next bill. I wish they had just reduced the bill.
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7y ago
I have years of experience in asm programming with PIC processors, and my job is embedded software development. I got an STM32 development board a couple years ago to get my feet wet in ARM embedded development. I got completely bogged-do
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unbalancedevh
7y ago
I think your demo would be a lot more enticing if you fix the captioning. It flows poorly, omits critical words, and has spelling and word choice errors.
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7y ago
Happy to see Omega in the list. I enjoyed so many hours playing that in college! Too bad the version I had was buggy and impossible to win.
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7y ago
If the idea is to focus on tires, then why not just look at how many tires are manufactured each year? 100% of tires end up polluting something, somewhere. Or, again if the focus is tire wear, there must be pretty good data about how much
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7y ago
> The story is a good analogy but the tone of the article is weird and condescending. In think that's part of the point. And at the end he realizes that maybe he's not any different than the lotus-eaters; or, that the lotus-ea
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7y ago
> A hardcoded 1 second delay during a potential emergency situation. Horrifying. As a controls engineer in the automotive industry, I can tell you that a 1-second delay for safety-critical systems is not atypical. The expectation is tha