Czarcasm

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by Czarcasm 3mo ago
In 2015-2016 I did some mechanical engineering work at BWXT, designing nuclear waste containers for the Bruce Power CANDU reactor refurbishment program. I learned that the spent fuel storage is pretty trivial for a few reasons: 1. The amou
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by Czarcasm 11mo ago
iPad mini sells pretty well for how little it costs apple to keep producing.
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by Czarcasm 2y ago
My team at Apple had PMs.
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by Czarcasm 2y ago
Rubber alone would require pressure pushing the battery against the housing to maintain the battery position during a drop. This pressure against the underside of the display module would mess with the display. Adhesive is needed because t
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by Czarcasm 2y ago
I fail to see your argument. How would opening up immigration benefit Japan, other than depressing wages? Japan is an island already overpopulated relative to it's native energy and agricultural resources. Importing more low-value wor
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by Czarcasm 3y ago
I cancelled my Prime within 24hrs of them adding the ads to the base tier. Just isn't worth it anymore.
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by Czarcasm 3y ago
Flawless communication between team members is important when developing complex products. If my team was primarily comprised of people who only fluently speak German, and we are located in Germany, is it not reasonable for me to set a req
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by Czarcasm 3y ago
They have an operating profit, but they choose to reinvest it all back into the company, thus they don't have an overall profit. They could reduce the amount they are reinvesting into the company at any time in order to produce an ove
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by Czarcasm 3y ago
Github can't monopolize the word "copilot". It's a basic english word to describe someone that is assisting you to steer a vessel/team/project. It's been around for hundreds of years in naval industry, a
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by Czarcasm 3y ago
In rural areas with no cell service, AM radio is often the only available form of weather and news. It's also a great form of emergency information broadcasting in the event of a natural disaster.
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by Czarcasm 4y ago
> US intelligence agencies by law do not operate within the US. The NSA (a US intelligence organization) has verifiably been conducting widespread surveillance of US citizens on US soil for decades.
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by Czarcasm 4y ago
The Airpods and Apple Watch I think were both legitimately innovative when first released. They were massive leaps over what previous existed in their respective segments.
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by Czarcasm 4y ago
Over the last 10 years Dassault has slowly been destroying Solidworks. Each update brings new bugs, and almost no new features. They are now trying to force all users over to their new 3DExperience platform which is a half-baked pile of g
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by Czarcasm 4y ago
What you can do instead, is slip under the car and splice into the wire harness that is running under the car to the transmission or differential. The transmission controller and differential speed sensor (or even differential controller o
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by Czarcasm 4y ago
Check out Joby Aviation! Currently hiring all types of engineers. Developing zero-emission aircraft. The company is very social/environmental-impact conscious, and has an incredible culture. https://www.jobyaviation.com&#x2
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by Czarcasm 4y ago
This is probably the best counterargument to raise in response to the "late-bloomer" anecdotes that many people raise. For every unit of societal productivity created by a late bloomer that is saved by a common-stream system, I wo
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by Czarcasm 5y ago
Chickens are amazingly stupid, disloyal, impulsive animals. Not anywhere close to pigs, and far away from octopi. (I grew up on a farm with both chickens and pigs).
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by Czarcasm 5y ago
That's not true. I work in aviation and we've had a number of reports of radar altimeter interference during takeoff and landing near airports with the new 5G towers. Older aircraft are particularly effected.
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by Czarcasm 5y ago
I'm a mechanical engineer, and ASME Y14.5 (the leading drafting standard in the west) requires the use of all capitol letters for technical drawings. Because of this, I use the CapsLock key very very frequently. Removing the CapsLock
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by Czarcasm 5y ago
Canada has the largest nuclear power station in the world [1], led the development of one of the most successful reactor designs [2], and continues to be a leader in nuclear fuel, steam generators, and nuclear waste management engineering [
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by Czarcasm 5y ago
Of course it’s not ideal, but in the real world the designs are often impossible or impractical to build. If work halted every time construction workers came across a design that didn’t work, instead of tweaking the design onsite and keep
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by Czarcasm 6y ago
Nearly every engineer I know would benefit from =>32GB of RAM as opposed to 16GB. On the consumer side, if more of the market has 32GB available, you can bet that applications will expand to utilize the available space.
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by Czarcasm 6y ago
Same. I have no idea how I would navigate in China without an iPhone. All the other English language map applications are straight up unusable.
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by Czarcasm 6y ago
Automotive engines are designed to produce power at a wide range of operating speeds, at the detriment of peak power output and peak efficiency. Aircraft engines can take advantage of the fact that they will be operating at a single RPM ra
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by Czarcasm 6y ago
Apparently the physical controls below the screens can perform all of the mission critical functions in the event of a display failure.
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by Czarcasm 6y ago
Well TIL. This gives me hope. I will put some time back into FF and see if there is an eventual drop in reCaptcha.
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by Czarcasm 6y ago
If someone spends their UBI on drugs instead of food and literally starves as a result, they have done a service to society. Foodstamps are already being traded for cash/drugs, all you are doing with UBI is removing the middle man.
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by Czarcasm 6y ago
Nobody is advocating for the removal of free markets in the existing housing market. They are advocating for the increase in the supply through removal in the artificial scarcity created by bad policy.
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by Czarcasm 6y ago
This is my biggest issue. I tried using Firefox exclusively for a period of time but experienced a 10x increase in the number of reCaptcha manual verifications I had to complete. Going to the same sites on Chrome has no reCaptcha. For me,
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by Czarcasm 6y ago
Idk if it's just me, but I feel that even r/geopolitics has begun to slide in the last few months. Mods are typically great though. They seem to try very hard to keep the discussion academic.

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