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by wcunning 7y ago
I'm a powertrain controls engineer for one of the big three, working on DAT systems on the powertrain side of the interface, and I am now looking to move further into the autonomous vehicle space. I have experience with automotive stan
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by wcunning 7y ago
I think it's slightly more complicated. Having an older manager/supervisor is not a bad thing. Working in a department where you need to have put in 12 years to become a supervisor is a problem. The old automotive company I work f
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by wcunning 7y ago
I would argue that the economist takes much stronger editorial stances than other publications allow. They haven’t given any space to or said any kind anything about Russia in the last 10 years, nor have they given any space to the pro-Brex
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by wcunning 7y ago
At the risk of continuing the non-conversation here, I feel like it's important to consider countervailing long-term trends. I was listening to a fascinating episode of the Macro Musings podcast with Alex Tabarrok of George Mason and h
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by wcunning 7y ago
I have a set of those on a Mazda Miata and the better version built right into the tow mirrors on my truck. I love them -- much easier to see into the large blindspots on both. I really wish that they were built into more vehicles. I trust
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Including the pedestrians in my college town that walk out in the middle of the road nowhere near a crosswalk without looking at anything but their phone while I was doing 5 under. This is in no way unique to drivers or car companies or roa
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by wcunning 7y ago
This is a fundamentally uncharitable take. Protecting pedestrians with technology solely mounted on a car is basically impossible given the regulations on size of vehicle and such. I suppose you could make a vehicle sized squishy balloon ti
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by wcunning 7y ago
There was a discussion not long ago about brain privacy on the front page and this twitter thread was brought up in the comments: https://twitter.com/hashbreaker/status/709314886384427008 > Fun game to play: Ta
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by wcunning 7y ago
In order: Public land will be permanently dedicated to rails and stations and things, if you want to cover the same area with transit access, you'll need similar, if not the same public land. Parking minimums are not about being pro-ca
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Journal 'Nature' retracts ocean-warming study(m.phys.org)
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by wcunning 7y ago
Clinton ran a current account surplus, but overall debt grew because Medicare and Social Security were still losing money at the time. Not to mention that it wasn't all Clinton, some of it was the opposition Congress.
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The bigger question in my mind is how much geography matters inside one country. For comparison's sake, I think the point of the article works even better to compare a woman in America to a woman in Saudi Arabia. On the other hand, it&
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by wcunning 7y ago
This is in fact quite common in the welding world. Several other comments mention companies that hire anyone and train them to weld. I've also read articles from the oil field companies that they do the same. So does the military, if y
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My local community college's welding program includes classes on robotic MIG welding, automated sub-arc welding and CNC laser welding. These things are progressing in the places where people need to learn it, but it does slowly sort it
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by wcunning 7y ago
I've been taking welding classes at my local community college (Washtenaw CC, just down the road from University of Michigan) around my day job as a controls engineer in the auto industry. This program produces people who win national
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Nope, they get unbolted when we start having frosts and put back in the spring. They also replace them periodically when they get ripped off by the large trucks and greyhound buses that don't fit between them perfectly... I really wish
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by wcunning 7y ago
My small midwestern town just put vertical crosswalk markers in place on the lane lines right in front of my house. This makes life terrible because I live on 1) a major road right off of the freeway that takes a lot of commute and out-of-t
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by wcunning 7y ago
Starting at a community college and going to a mid-tier in-state school works quite well for a comparatively huge number of people. I'm in Michigan and went to UM-A2, but I know lots of people in the auto industry that went to UM-Dearb
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by wcunning 7y ago
According to this article [0], "But are fiercer hurricanes becoming more frequent? A July 18 article by the Colorado State University climatologist Philip Klotzbach and his colleagues in the Bulletin of the American Meterological Assoc
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by wcunning 7y ago
But the data are too noisy to draw the conclusion that we are already observing that predicted effect with certainty. It's not that that hypothesis is unreasonable, in fact my non-climatologist understanding is that it's very li
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by wcunning 7y ago
Even at the end of the parent article here, it says that scientists have no proof that hurricanes are hitting land more often. Other sources I've read say that they're not even more powerful or more frequent (the data is too noisy
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by wcunning 7y ago
Citation on the average wage? Federal minimum is $7.25/hr, and at least in my midwestern town, McDonald's is paying $11.25/hr, starting, so that seems shockingly low as an average. Or is that the average of the tipped staff
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by wcunning 7y ago
Round numbers? Something approximating zero... In all seriousness, I actually sat down and read the FEMA recommendations on things to keep on hand. It's surprisingly thorough and surprisingly difficult to keep all of it in stock, rotat
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by wcunning 7y ago
Where can I find a good primer on the powers of the feds with regard to ITAR enforcement? Have there been any law review articles discussing the powers relating to the contemporary systems like this with two parts and disable-able software
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I use a rayon (bamboo) weighted blanket and so long as there's reasonable air flow, it isn't unreasonably warm and is also a lovely weighted blanket.
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The problem with that interpretation is the following: Each active investor gets some return and contributes some movement to the market. If there are enough active investors, the aggregate move of the market matches the actual value moveme
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This feels like the most concise explanation of the underlying mechanics that I was intuiting from the article. Now the question becomes: how do I hedge out of this risk without going full day-trader?
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There are so many examples of this sort of thing. I am frustrated by the ease with which buildings are declared historical sites and how often that designation happens after somebody buys a piece of property to develop it. I think it woul
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by wcunning 7y ago
Well, that depends. Will the urban area allow me to have a workshop? Will it do like San Diego did and disallow any personal car repair even in my own damn garage? Will I be able to even modify the way in which I enjoy my hobbies without in
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by wcunning 7y ago
I would beg to differ -- the vast majority of rural roads in this country west of Pennsylvania are mile by mile grid, wide, and 55 MPH fast moving. They don't get you anywhere nearly as fast as freeways, they often slow down through ti

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