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by _xerces_ 1y ago
Unfortunately, the trend seems to be that as manufacturability of a product increases, repairability decreases. A simple example is the heavy use of fragile, easily broken clips to hold on parts that used to be held on with bolts and screws
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by _xerces_ 1y ago
How do they attach those bond wires? Seems difficult and fiddly!
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by _xerces_ 1y ago
I don't understand this service. I feel it takes away from the experience. One of the few hobbies that gets you outside and under the stars and learning to navigate the sky and its motions was already being reduced to pressing a few bu
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by _xerces_ 1y ago
I was taking taurine 1000 mg per day but stopped when I heard a plausible link to colon cancer. Having a strong family history, it wasn't worth the risk. Eagerly awaiting the results of this trial: https://ascopubs.org/
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by _xerces_ 1y ago
Apologies for the double post. I got a "link expired" error when submitting so assumed the original post had not succeeded.
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Energy drinks linked to rise in colorectal and blood cancer(thenightly.com.au)
38 points by _xerces_ 1y ago|30 comments
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by _xerces_ 1y ago
It appears that the trial is still ongoing: https://www.cancer.gov/research/participate/clinical-trials-... The theory is that the taurine added to the drinks is feeding gut bacteria that then produce hydrogen sul
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Energy Drinks Linked to Rise in Colorectal Cancer(msn.com)
4 points by _xerces_ 1y ago|3 comments
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by _xerces_ 1y ago
It appears that the trial is still ongoing: https://www.cancer.gov/research/participate/clinical-trials-... The theory is that the taurine added to the drinks is feeding gut bacteria that then produce hydrogen sul
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by _xerces_ 1y ago
If Tesla Insurance is paying out for parts to fix damaged Teslas aren't Tesla effectively paying themselves and so recouping some of the paid out monies? Sure, it goes on a different balance sheet, but it's all Tesla in the end. O
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by _xerces_ 1y ago
Two interesting things I took away from that were first that the uncertainty and constant changes of mind by the President on the actual rates and lack of reliable communications were almost as harmful as the tariffs. Second, that there is
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by _xerces_ 1y ago
Non lite version: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/the-shining-photo-ident...
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by _xerces_ 1y ago
In the realm of fiction, they released edited versions of Roald Dahl books that were more politically correct and designed to be less frightening to the fragile children of today.
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by _xerces_ 2y ago
I like it! I spent an enjoyable 10 minutes clicking around and checking out what battles took place at various places I have lived in the US and Europe. Is there any way of adding country/US State boundaries for the more geographically
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by _xerces_ 2y ago
Prime customers tend to buy more stuff from Amazon, so they get you that way maybe.
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by _xerces_ 2y ago
I had mixed feelings about those that demonstrated their knowledge by answering the question extremely thoroughly with a lengthy treatise. On the one hand, their answer was a great resource for deeper understanding, on the other I just want
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by _xerces_ 2y ago
Do you feel the H1B system denies jobs to Americans or suppresses wages for those with jobs?
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by _xerces_ 2y ago
Many cities have an organized theft problem and are doing very little about it. Even when the police catch the perpetrators, they get little to no punishment. There doesn't seem to be much of an effort to go after the fencing networks
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by _xerces_ 2y ago
Curious how navigation at night was not possible without expensive equipment, sounds like they were relying only on starts in the morning and evening? Are the measuring something like angle of those morning/evening stars or their set&#
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by _xerces_ 2y ago
Those stories about people (the internet generation) not being able to read anymore are true!
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by _xerces_ 2y ago
It's better than using it on crypto mining which is a huge waste of resources for something so useless to humanity.
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by _xerces_ 2y ago
I think words like these are also used now as a means of signaling...well.. something about your views or beliefs or group identity. Reminds me of the politically-correct nonsense in the 90s with *-challenged, like a short person is now
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by _xerces_ 2y ago
I thought at first this was discussing why early CD-ROM devices had a flimsy tray that came out and held the disk vs. just being able to push the CD into a slot and have it automatically pulled in like on modern devices.
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by _xerces_ 2y ago
Unfortunately, a lot of those meal toppers for pets are made using freeze dried raw chicken parts. They often use the fact they're raw as a selling point.
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by _xerces_ 2y ago
I remember Lexmark just before things started to go bad for them, back when they still had a huge campus with multiple buildings, developers had their own office or shared with one other person and they owned their own huge park with a disk
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by _xerces_ 2y ago
The vastness of the Pacific and indeed the planet's oceans is something I noticed was missing from the article. I think of it in terms of detection, you can have the sophisticated technology and perhaps focus it on one area or choke po
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by _xerces_ 2y ago
Is it a nice language? As an embedded software person who writes mostly pure C (and hates C++), I have been avoiding Rust as it seemed tedious and annoying when I last dipped my toe in. Perhaps I am just old and stuck in my ways :) I would
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by _xerces_ 2y ago
Strain-wave gears are becoming popular in many areas including astronomy for sky-tracking telescope mounts, they're kind of odd but clever. https://howtomechatronics.com/how-it-works/what-is-strain-wa... If you se
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by _xerces_ 2y ago
The idea of shining polarized light through gears made of Lucite to view the stress lines at the point of tooth contact is genius!
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by _xerces_ 2y ago
This old training video is great too, it also mentions the idea touched upon in the article that gear teeth are levers: Spinning Levers - How A Transmission Works (1936) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOLtS4VUcvQ

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