aarongough

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by aarongough 6y ago
I have been lucky enough to work with a lot of great people, and I definitely found a lot of enjoyment in a lot of the work I've done, but I definitely wish that time had been spent doing work with more of a positive impact... Luckily
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by aarongough 6y ago
I'm 35. Luckily I'm now running my own manufacturing business where I get to work on a much wider range of stuff!
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by aarongough 6y ago
Correct! Interesting point you make: there is definitely selection bias going on because of this, but I've honestly never thought about it that way before!
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by aarongough 6y ago
Unfortunately I agree with this. A great quote I saw a while ago: “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.” –Jeff Hammerbacher Every paying software job I've ever had was in some way involved ge
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by aarongough 6y ago
Ooof, that is a lot to deal with. Really hope things start looking up for you soon.
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by aarongough 6y ago
[citation needed]
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by aarongough 6y ago
Yeah I'm not sure about that either... All the parts look FDM printed too which is definitely way cheaper than that if you already own a printer. Perhaps they had some company print the parts? Honestly for that kind of money you'r
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by aarongough 6y ago
Methanol exposure through the skin can also cause a lot of issues: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/ershdb/emergencyresponsecard_29750...
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by aarongough 6y ago
Droplets are produced to a lesser degree by just breathing or talking: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK143281/ Additionally as many as 50% of people who test positive for COVID-19 have virtually no symptoms:
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by aarongough 8y ago
Off topic: over the next couple of years I'm looking to develop a small-scale ion-beam coating system for applying DLC as part of a single-piece-flow process cell. I currently send out my products for DLC coating, and the coater does a
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by aarongough 8y ago
The footage is hugely slowed down, hence the deep pitch of the rocket motor sounds (they are usually very 'hissy' at this size), and the slow speed of the sparks coming from the motors. Also if you listen closely when the rocket i
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by aarongough 8y ago
Very interesting methods you used to detect the changes! Out of curiosity: was there a reason that taking an xray of the devices was not an option? Industrial/veterinary xray machines can often be had quite cheaply...
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by aarongough 8y ago
Care was taken to make sure these invasive species didn't get imported in the first place, but clearly that didn't work... What makes you think preventing the altered species from being transported back will be any more successful
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by aarongough 8y ago
Interesting, I didn't realize that was done at scale... As the comment above me said, seems harsh to use CO2 for that...
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by aarongough 8y ago
Source?
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by aarongough 8y ago
I think this is poorly written in the article... Likely the Co2 gas is used to power bolt-guns which are in turn used to stun larger animals like cows before slaughter.
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by aarongough 8y ago
A friend of mine is a researcher in water quality, I asked him what the primary source of microplastics was and his answer surprised me: textiles. Apparently things like fleece shed small plastic fibres constantly every time they're wa
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by aarongough 8y ago
How is a 'mind' ever supposed to develop in a neural system with no sensory input?
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by aarongough 8y ago
Not to mention that the suspect really appeared to be attempting to provoke the officer into shooting him by brandishing something dark and acting like it was a firearm (was a cell phone I believe). The officer's response was very rest
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by aarongough 8y ago
I think it's fairly obvious that I didn't mean this situation would apply to everyone, I just wanted to supply another view/data-point. Out of curiosity, what does your github look like? I know you said you have a lot of open
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by aarongough 8y ago
I don't have a degree and honestly have never had any issues with recruiters or interviews for intermediate/senior 'software engineering' positions. I never represent myself as having a degree, but I don't go out of
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by aarongough 8y ago
Farming in general is a dangerous occupation, even in the USA where machinery tends to be reasonably modern and well guarded: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cfoi.pdf I wasn't able to find a source but m
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by aarongough 8y ago
I find Festo's work interesting, but the spider bot in particular looks really clunky overall in comparison to even some of the hobby level stuff that's out there. It would make sense to have a rolling robot if it was really fast
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by aarongough 9y ago
> Software developers on average write only about ten lines a day That is far too low of an estimate for any productive programmer. Perhaps when trying to solve some sort of insanely complex bug perhaps?
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by aarongough 9y ago
If you have a look through some of the Google datacenter tours you'll see they actually implement this idea on a massive scale, though I believe they use lead-acid batteries... Every motherboard in the datacenter has a small battery ca
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by aarongough 9y ago
Sweet! I've been looking for something like this for a long time, thanks for the link!
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by aarongough 15y ago
It's an FN F2000 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FN_F2000 )
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by aarongough 15y ago
I would suggest starting by creating your own open source projects, that way you get to learn the ropes without anyone hassling you... Once you feel more comfortable you'll contribute to other projects as if they were your own...
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by aarongough 15y ago
That's generally referred to as 'mutation testing'. There are a number of systems that enable this in dynamic languages, the one I am most familiar with is Heckle: https://github.com/ryansobol/heckle Mutation testing is great, it highligh
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Introducing Flea - A tiny Lisp written in Ruby(github.com)
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