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by wildzzz 4y ago
Because most of their business comes from other businesses that receive quotes and pay net 30. The buyer already has a FedEx account so they just send that and it's billed monthly.
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by wildzzz 4y ago
McMaster is like the backend of an auto parts store. You tell the clerk what you need and they might ask if you want the cheap or premium version, then you pay and leave. You don't want to walk the aisles looking at stuff because you&#
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by wildzzz 4y ago
I like buying auto parts from RockAuto. Their website is dead simple to use. They have nice features like good/better/best, showing the most popular item of that category for that car, an icon for OEM parts, and another icon that
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by wildzzz 4y ago
Mil spec part numbers for things like screws are great! We needed a very long screw in a specific style and material that no one stocked. We pulled up the mil spec datasheet for that style of screw, made up the part number based on our need
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by wildzzz 4y ago
Next day delivery is so common for B2B that many times it's the only way to order. I won a free DMM from Keysight and while it took a month for it to be actually shipped, they shipped it next day from Malaysia to the US when it finally
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At my college town around 2013, any prime delivery would always take a day longer than it was supposed to. Saturday delivery wasn't common there at the time so you had to get your order in by Wednesday morning at the latest otherwise y
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These kinds of designs are good to drop into things like kiosk PCs and digital signage, applications where you don't need a ton of processing power but still require a full stack of network connectivity. You could upgrade the compute m
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It's because Facebook has to constantly "innovate" to raise the share price. I'm sure Craigslist makes some decent income for it's owners and can pay it's bills every month but it's never going to explode
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I don't believe that in the slightest. Sure, you do have to usually run some homebrew code to be able to play ripped copies of retail games but how big is the homebrew game and app market (other than XBMC for Xbox) that people would op
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by wildzzz 4y ago
Just because you don't understand how a calculator works, doesn't make it any less precise than a slide rule. Understanding how your tools work is key for an engineer. That's why we go to school and learn how to do all of t
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by wildzzz 4y ago
While SharePoint is not the best choice for many applications, it has enough features to make it work. Since there are plenty of SharePoint experts already in the organization, it could be cheaper to just leverage them to build some SharePo
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by wildzzz 4y ago
Most of the time, it's easy to just put a microcontroller core into an FPGA but sometimes you just need some basic operations and don't have a lot of power to spare for an FPGA you won't fully utilize. The Atmel chip is perfe
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by wildzzz 4y ago
$40k for a QML-V RTG4. Something like $100-150k for the newest Virtex 6 Ultrascale. You can get an engineering model for like a quarter of the price.
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by wildzzz 4y ago
Get a copy of the original, turn down saturation and turn up film grain in VLC.
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Some aspects of 5G do improve normal cell bandwidth which for internet, basically improves reception. Other aspects of 5G really only make a difference when you are right nearby an antenna, like walking down a city street. The problem is th
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Stingrays won't be able to give exact location but can determine who's cellphone is in the surrounding area and the signal strength of that phone. If you know who that IMSI belongs to, you could setup the Stingray to alert when th
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by wildzzz 4y ago
But there should still be some override that would allow for a bunch of taxis to converge at one spot. Say a sporting event just got out, there's going to be a lot of people looking to catch a ride home. If you don't want all of t
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by wildzzz 4y ago
We lit up a dead Christmas tree that had been sitting outside one summer. We were so sure the cops would show up when someone saw the two story column of fire that thing made. The good part is that it was all over in about a minute.
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by wildzzz 4y ago
One way that companies get around ITAR and similar regulations for things like space grade components that have radiation tolerant features is to only rad test up to what the limits are. The components are probably much more resilient than
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by wildzzz 4y ago
Massive phased array that could potentially support multiple spot coverage. You still need a bunch of satellites to ensure continuous coverage unlike GEO birds that can cover a whole continent so it will be awhile until you can get worldwid
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I looked up Apple's "black stick" because I was curious what it was. Turns out I use these all the time at work. We call them green sticks for some reason despite being black. "Plastic/nylon soldering tool" is
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We use lead HASL because gold plating can hide defects in the nickel plating that can create poor solder joints because solder won't stick to corroded nickel. The gold also can embrittle solder joints which is bad for applications wher
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Wtf is this article? Horribly translated and chopped up pieces of a Phoronix blog post. Why not just post the real article that's not written like buzzfeed click bait? https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lenovo-Pluton-Wi
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Lead is no problem for RoHS-exempt components. If they can use these superlattice caps to replace tantalum caps, I'm all for it. Those suckers take up so much space in small designs that you sometimes have to forego the recommended dec
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Sometimes people make music because it's fun, not because they are trying to create studio-quality songs and beats.
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If you want to play music in your business, you typically need a commercial license to do so. Spotify, for example, offers a commercial account that's more expensive and has most of the same catalog. Other streaming sites offer a simil
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Relatively few consumer electronics use Intel chips. Even in the devices that do use Intel chips, it's one Intel CPU versus dozens of others.
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by wildzzz 4y ago
Mr. Blue Basketball Sneakers has been stealing all kinds of stuff from parked cars in the radius of my home. He's been caught on camera probably a dozen times. He wears a black mask, hoodie, and pants but wears some very conspicuous bl
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That would work well if the camera had sufficient resolution and the cards were stacked nicely. It looks like this can still read the cards when they are stacked unevenly since each card has a unique marking and a common marking to compare
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Crypto devices used by the government and military have this same sort of tamper identification design. I've seen limit switches hidden behind the front lip of a server so if you pull it out, it triggers the tamper alarm. There are als

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