FatActor

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by FatActor 4y ago
Just because he does "tame" things doesn't mean he's not abusing his privilege as an uber-rich white dude. He's a million times better person than Musk, but this is still immature behavior that not everyone could ge
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by FatActor 4y ago
Depends on the job. Cutting unistrut is far more challenging than 80/20, it weighs a lot, and the connectors are expensive because they are engineered to bear significant loads. 80/20 is a little pricier per foot but it is much, m
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by FatActor 4y ago
> One man's snark is another man's war story. This is why I'm glad to see the old guard boy's club fading into a memory, despite the loss of skills that we may never see again as a culture. It's a mixed blessing.
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by FatActor 4y ago
That's an interesting historical perspective of a code review from 50 years ago. Especially where you state that the Q&A team would review the code and decide to patch it or not. Did I used the wrong term from the 21st century? Cle
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by FatActor 4y ago
What an interesting theory. Talking to new hires, they learned python because that's what they were taught in school. Maybe in the 1990's when Python was competing with PERL for 2nd generation scripting languages that was the case
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by FatActor 4y ago
I don't see how that could have been accidentally discovered. It is so esoteric and time consuming, that even if someone owned an arcade and could set the machine to free play, what kind of thought process from historical hacks prior t
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by FatActor 4y ago
There's a reason your being down-voted, and its not a hive mind, or a conspiracy, or a personal grudge against you. That's simply what it is like to be "wrong". Saying what you said is just playing the victim card.
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by FatActor 4y ago
Inkscape has a plugin for gear teeth pitches. I no longer have the link to it (or the install because it was 13 years ago), but I was able to cut a whole bunch of HDPE gears. THe next hard part was getting hubs to match with them. :|
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by FatActor 4y ago
"real" handwriting also gets tired so it becomes progressively worse. unless the person writes a lot. which is why you see people who write left-to-write on a blank page compress and slant upward as they go.
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by FatActor 4y ago
You keep saying less is less more is more. That's a truism which is completely orthogonal to the point, yet you seem to be hung up on it to the exclusion of everything else every other commenter has said to you. Consider that just for
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by FatActor 4y ago
Again, black and white thinking doesn't solve the problem. It just alienates people, and sometimes worse.
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by FatActor 4y ago
I agree with that, as do most people. What I object to is that calories-in-calories-out is the ONLY thing at play, and people claiming "simple physics" are working against any deeper understanding of the issues. I think this side
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by FatActor 4y ago
Who generated the heat that you measured in the calorimeter? Gut biome bacteria consumed an amount of those calories. How many? It varies from person to person. So calories in = calories out, but we don't know how many were used by the
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by FatActor 4y ago
One problem I always run into with rotary motion: gearing. Finding gears of the right diameter, thickness, and thread pitch is always such a stumbling block for me. Most sites that sell gears to fit their motors have a small selection, and
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by FatActor 4y ago
But you've moved on to a new flag, so I cannot let the association sink in as I have forgotten the flag already.
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by FatActor 4y ago
It says "Learn the flags..." But doesn't give me the correct answer when I'm wrong, so I can't learn.
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by FatActor 4y ago
Aw man, really? I still have my 5. I was hoping some day it would be a fun retro computer experience. Eh, the Lion battery will probably be dead in a decade anyway.
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by FatActor 4y ago
No billion dollar company is anywhere near as glib has the author makes them out to be. Maybe my experience varies, but the European companies I've worked with have strict cybersecurity liability, and they take every aspect of security
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by FatActor 4y ago
> But, you know, people like narratives which match their ideology a whole lot. We can see that.
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by FatActor 4y ago
Society of mind. We're all just a bunch of different people in the same head.
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by FatActor 4y ago
I've been using TT for decades. Their "tricks" are basically asking you 2 or three times during the process if you want to pay for a new feature. Pretty lame for tricks. But annoying still. Also: just be rich. They don't
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by FatActor 4y ago
I restarted mine at 41. I was lucky to have saved money, but I just walked out of my 25+ year job with a 2 week notice. Decompressed for a year living off savings, and went from hardware to software engineering. Still engineering, but radic
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by FatActor 4y ago
Reading this caused me to do a 180 in my life, both job and marriage. I changed both within 1 year of reading it. https://www.issendai.com/psychology/sick-systems.html
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by FatActor 4y ago
The 2000+ billionaires in the world sure do have amazing timing. Truly flawless almost.
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by FatActor 4y ago
> People are expecting more and more handouts and no one wants to pay for it. Do you mean the super rich that want more of the tax revenue for themselves, or boomers, or who are "people"?
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by FatActor 4y ago
I get tired of hearing day after day about billionaires making not just billions, but 10's and 100's of billions without doing much of anything except having impeccable timing... and a lot of money to invest.
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by FatActor 4y ago
a solution has been around for ages: lockstep processors. https://www.microcontrollertips.com/dual-core-lockstep-proce... https://www.synopsys.com/designware-ip/processor-solutions/a...
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by FatActor 4y ago
Saturated arithmetic instructions do not do this.
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by FatActor 4y ago
As a U.S.-er, this is how I feel when I see Europe with their health care.
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by FatActor 4y ago
> For a start, if you're monitoring your whole house, getting to zero load while keeping the sensor powered on is not trivial :) Hahahaha! Duh. I just assumed you could power cycle the target (which you could but not without potenti

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