JR1427

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by JR1427 7d ago
I think you could decrease the costs a lot. I don't see the value in using aluminium extrusions to stand it off from the wall. You could use softwood for that, and glue, and negate the need for expensive custom connectors.
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by JR1427 26d ago
> The case is CNC milled from a solid block of aluminium What a waste of material and machining time!
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by JR1427 27d ago
There's nothing clever about being "smart". And being smart on its own really should not be seen as any kind of good thing. Being smart _can_, however, be an enabler to achieving certain positive qualities (helping people, be
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by JR1427 27d ago
I have found it a bit frustrating that I am more junior on the company scale than most people my age. In some respects, I have lots more experience with people my pay grade, but in others, not so much.
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by JR1427 27d ago
I have a PhD, because at the time I wanted a career in academia, and I enjoyed research. I did a short post-doc, because I still wanted a career in academia, and enjoyed research. I quit academia because I no longer wanted a career in acade
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by JR1427 1mo ago
I've used an INOGON entering a marina in the UK, and it really did have a very narrow dredged channel, not a wider safe area. One problem with lights or marks is that they can be very hard to see. At night, there are lots of other ligh
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by JR1427 1mo ago
I know my city well, but if I drive anywhere in it, I still put on GPS because roads are really often closed for roadworks here.
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by JR1427 1mo ago
Good on you for creating something fun, but vibing something up and then trying to charge for it, when anyone else could produce the same product for less, is poor taste.
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by JR1427 1mo ago
Multiple people I know, and myself included, have experience failure of their USB-C port on their phones. I don't think they are really durable enough.
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by JR1427 2mo ago
> You know those really annoying shower controls in fancy hotels when you need to adjust two separate knobs for the pressure and temperature separately? That's clunky. I like being able to control those two variables separately.
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by JR1427 2mo ago
Just buy your kid a good quality pedal bike [0], and take the pedals off. That way they can learn to use the brakes, and when you put the pedals on, they will quickly learn to cycle it. Took my daughter an afternoon. [0] e.g. https:/&
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by JR1427 2mo ago
If you like this, check out the amazing works of Edwin Lord Weeks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Lord_Weeks
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by JR1427 2mo ago
What are the advantages to putting them between the rails, where you need trains to stop running in order to access them? If it's about using wasted land, why not put them beside the rails, which would make access easier? There is usua
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by JR1427 2mo ago
I used to read it every week, and always liked the fact they stated their biases upfront - "This newspaper believes XYZ". Now I just live under a rock, and don't read any news.
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by JR1427 2mo ago
Totally agree. Programming is not art. Does my company pay thousands of engineers to make art? I think not! We're paid to solve a problem that the customer has.
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by JR1427 2mo ago
I used to use that a lot, but now would favour bowline, for ease of tying and untying. Less beginner-friendly, though.
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by JR1427 2mo ago
Knowing common knots is not just useful because they are handy, but they also represent a common toolkit - when sailing with someone, if I see they tie a certain thing with a specific knot, I can do likewise. When I see a knot I recognise,
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by JR1427 2mo ago
Depends what you're doing. My favourite knot is the bowline. Non-slip loop, very strong, easy to tie, easy to undo. Can be used for tying two ropes together, ropes to things. Other useful ones (especially for sailing) * Clove hitch * R
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by JR1427 3mo ago
All my university (Oxford, UK) exams were in-person and had written. I had 6 exams over 6 days in 2012, in which my entire undergraduate degree was examined. It's not easy, but I think that method is just as good (or bad) now as it was
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by JR1427 3mo ago
If hair greying was mostly caused by UV damage, I would expect that the pattern of greying would be even, and begin on the top of the head. In contrast (based on my own unscientific observations!) greying typically begins in small areas, an
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by JR1427 3mo ago
When most people think of age-related hair greying (which you referenced in your original post), they think of the phenomenon whereby hair follicles stop producing pigments that colour hair. This is distinct from UV bleaching of the pigment
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by JR1427 3mo ago
After a quick skim, that article seems to be talking about something other than typical age-related greying. More photobleaching.
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by JR1427 3mo ago
I've not heard that grey hair is sun damage. Do you have any sources for that?
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by JR1427 3mo ago
I really recommend reading "Ravens in Winter" by Bernd Heinrich https://jake-reich.co.uk/blog/17
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by JR1427 3mo ago
(forgot to say I'm a former post-doc in Cell Biology)
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by JR1427 3mo ago
Images like this show how specifically the antibody binds to the antigen. Generally, the ideal is to have very specific binding. As such, this type of image (Western blot) would only have single bands in any vertical lane. Any other bands s
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by JR1427 3mo ago
Travel, adventure, camaraderie, to name a few. At university I started down the path of joining the infantry as an officer. At first it was great fun - getting paid to go camping on weekends away from university. But when the political side
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by JR1427 4mo ago
My home wifi doesn't reach my side the bed from the router downstairs. Best way to prevent doomscrolling.
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by JR1427 5mo ago
A central package cooldown is not really any different to individual cooldowns. The main reason for the cooldown is so security companies can find the issues, not that unwitting victims will find them. One problem of the central cooldown is
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by JR1427 5mo ago
I have cut myself once, and only once with a sharp knife. I was about 7 years old, and my grandfather gave me a new (sharp!) Swiss army knife.

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