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by wcunning 8y ago
I'd be curious if you could point me to some links? Feel free to dm me, I'll stick my email in my profile.
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by wcunning 8y ago
That's quite a lot more than I knew about statistical areas! Thanks for keeping me honest and informed. I mostly mean that in the following sense: due to some historical Michigan laws, the "City of Detroit" is vastly poorer t
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by wcunning 8y ago
The question I have about this, gun related content and anything else that is "A violation of our T&C" is this: when does YouTube/FB/whatever stop being a safe harbor according to the DMCA? Which special interest gro
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by wcunning 8y ago
As in all engineering related choices, there are tradeoffs that make the decision between FPGAs and DSPs: Similarities: ->Both are specialty items, with specialty dev. environments and proprietary libraries. ->Both are designed to do
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by wcunning 8y ago
Check Zillow right now -- Ferndale is not particularly cheaper than Ann Arbor these days. More importantly, my Ann Arbor Area to Detroit-ish commute is shorter (in time, not distance) than my friends working in the same building coming from
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by wcunning 8y ago
It's entirely legal because all of the rules surrounding the right to repair and maintain cars are related to emissions certifications, which Tesla doesn't have to do... Other car manufacturers, like Nissan, certify their fully el
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by wcunning 9y ago
I'd like to modify the statistical argument against the author's conclusion -- if we take his yearly probability of violent regime change in the US and take the yearly likelihood as i.i.d., then the probability that it will happen
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by wcunning 9y ago
" Thou canst not kill that which doth not live. But you can blast it into chunky kibbles. " -- Quake Manual, describing Zombies.
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by wcunning 9y ago
One of the things I've heard mentioned by professional driving instructors, without a good citation, is that many more accidents could be avoided if people trusted ABS more. Specifically, when you're braking hard/panic brak
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by wcunning 9y ago
Cruise control on my car actually gains me about 1 mpg. This is specifically because the car "knows" that the speed won't be changing much so it locks the torque converter completely and drops the engine RPM by 100~200. Man
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by wcunning 9y ago
My bad for missing this when I did a quick search of your website. Glad to see you guys still sticking up for the good fight, even if it is never ending. Do you see any particular clear legislation coming out of this that I can call my repr
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by wcunning 9y ago
OP here, I ran across this from the Cyberlaw Podcast notes[0]. Their brief description of it is why I thought it'd be interesting for the HN crowd: >The National Academy report on encryption access has demonstrated that access is we
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Decrypting the Encryption Debate: A Framework for Decision Makers(nap.edu)
62 points by wcunning 9y ago|26 comments
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'The stench of it stays with everybody': inside the Super Mario Bros movie(theguardian.com)
1 points by wcunning 9y ago|0 comments
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by wcunning 9y ago
But that distinction makes Google no longer a DMCA safe harbor. Once you start censoring content not actively illegal, you are now liable for any copyright infringement on your site.
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by wcunning 9y ago
The recourses available in court are few and far between against officers of the company as a shareholder. That's not how this gets resolved or what the officers are concerned with. The shareholder power is to vote in a different board
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by wcunning 9y ago
I largely disagree, but for a fairly nuanced reason. The work that it takes to get an FFL is mostly knowing what is and isn't legal, with a bit of proving that you have proper safety facilities to store what you keep on hand (proper po
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Buying Machine Tools: Foreign or Domestic, New or Used?(hackaday.com)
5 points by wcunning 9y ago|0 comments
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by wcunning 9y ago
Replace "are using Slack" with "discussing at the bar across the street from the office" and what changes about the situation? If the company has an obligation to look into something, they have to look into it. They don&
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Repair cafés waging war on throwaway culture(theguardian.com)
571 points by wcunning 9y ago|364 comments
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by wcunning 9y ago
The F150 assembly line in Dearborn Assembly is ~650 trucks per 10 hour shift. They can't keep up with single shift numbers, much less weekly output.
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by wcunning 9y ago
The bigger thing, at least among my friend group, is that some people will take a pay cut to work on something interesting/avoid doing CRUD work/etc. I feel like that's the most common reason a EE is willing to accept lower
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by wcunning 9y ago
My mother, and actually her mother before that, made modifications to the Nestle Tollhouse chocolate chip cookie recipe. Specifically, replacing butter with shortening and using just a bit of extra flour, while whipping the eggs a bit more
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by wcunning 9y ago
Ahhh, that's the dream. I just let a friend use my mill to bore out and sleeve the cylinders in the brake calipers for his vintage Corvette rebuild. On a side note, that's the sort of thing you generally don't know about a ne
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by wcunning 9y ago
The problem is that no one (myself included) wants to do the work for the measurement. You need to retime the machine in front of you, and once you do, you don't really have any need to make up the gauge... Also, this is probably going
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by wcunning 9y ago
Modern sewing machines are cheaper because the intricately machined cams and drive mechanisms that connected the upper mechanism that moves the needle to the lower mechanism that moves the bobbin are no longer used. They're replaced by
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by wcunning 9y ago
The F150 line at Dearborn Truck (the famous River Rouge plant featured in many terrible tales from the beginning of the UAW) produces 650 vehicles a shift on average, 2 shifts per day. The plant manager gets kinda angry when production drop
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by wcunning 9y ago
I spent a while learning about sewing machine timing and repair a couple of years ago after buying a very nice vintage Elna at a thrift store for $20. Turns out that the way most of the timing is set is based on the height of the needle whe
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Elon Musk’s Boring Co. flamethrower is real, $500 and up for pre-order(techcrunch.com)
3 points by wcunning 9y ago|1 comments
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by wcunning 9y ago
You actually do need approval for selling cars -- EPA and CARB. Similar organizations worldwide.

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