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by aj7 1y ago
This is ridiculous. I’ll tell you why. Here I quote: “All parts in the assembled model must be made of paper. Each part must be a single, solid color. The parts must not use any printed textures or designs. The model must be represented as
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by aj7 1y ago
I have a fairly generic reaction to this. Make metals at the top of Everest. Then we’ll talk.
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by aj7 1y ago
May be?
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by aj7 1y ago
China, which has a good, but not dominating manufacturing sector, will have a run of leadership, especially when it masters EUV, airframes/avionics/propulsion, and then potentially leads at the beginning of post silicon. But the U
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by aj7 1y ago
See my comment about 612.6 above.
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by aj7 1y ago
In the stacks of the Main Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, if you went to 612.6, you saw that a librarian had direct view of that aisle from her desk. But she was often not at that desk, so timing was involved.
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by aj7 1y ago
I’m a physicist. I can align and maximize ANY laser. I don’t even think when doing this task. Long hours of struggle, 50 years ago. Without struggle there is nothing. You can bullshit your way in. But you will be ejected.
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by aj7 1y ago
Yes. We have a low end industry, but China has the ability to kill it. Haas is already importing from China. And at their current list prices, their machines, with known problems, are not that competitive with imported products costing 3
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by aj7 1y ago
This only stops when China equalizes. The real shame is our country is not such a nice place to live, when we enter our phase as a less-advanced country. We always had brilliant immigrants and democratic ideals to keep the ball rolling.
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by aj7 1y ago
Yes, absolutely. Our skill is in design, management, and marketing, and distribution. Making stuff is today’s farming.
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by aj7 1y ago
Correct.
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by aj7 1y ago
The tariffs will kill our industry. That’s my prediction. They will raise the cost of our inputs significantly, reducing demand, and giving China breathing room to catch up.
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by aj7 1y ago
Fascists need an enemy, an “other.” Your last sentence describes globalism. But 51% of the voters voted for something else, and you and your children will now lead your lives in “interesting times.”
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by aj7 1y ago
Exactly.
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by aj7 1y ago
At what wages? Come on, man. Do you know what the average wage is in China on an iPhone assembly line? The pressures on workers?
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by aj7 1y ago
No one will hire the people you are describing. We had 3.5% unemployment, before Trump began destroying the world economy. People in most fast food restaurants are making $30k. In fact the “entry level workers” and “illegals” were relative
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by aj7 1y ago
Nobody is concerned with any of that. A $15,000 Chinese mechanical engineer is just as productive as an American who expects $70,000 for his efforts. This repeats over and over, from the lowest level workers to the executives. It is destro
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by aj7 1y ago
LLM’s are statistically great at inferring things? Pray tell me how often Google’s AI search paragraph, at the top, is correct or useful. Is that statistically great?
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by aj7 1y ago
Brings to mind Feynman’s takedown of the Brazilian educational system in the 60’s.
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by aj7 2y ago
Yes. And a surgeon can remove your appendix in minutes too. A 777 can be landed in a crosswind, in minutes. Why a pass can be intercepted and run back for a touchdown in seconds! All of this easy. I’ve seen it on TV, even.
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by aj7 2y ago
One time at the laser show, the booth across from us had a methane analyzer. You could tell when people farted.
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by aj7 2y ago
You could taste it. But working on a good dog interface is the way to go.
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by aj7 2y ago
People can’t even tell how much cheap oil is in olive oil, let alone “extra virgin olive oil” vs. el cheapo olive oil. Take it from this old laser spectrocopist. When there’s 75 mirror mounts on a 4 foot by 8 foot table, with a Chinese gra
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by aj7 2y ago
No there is not that symmetry, because the helix is handed, and the result could depend on the rotation direction with respect to that handedness.
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by aj7 2y ago
Grow, of course. I mean, come on.
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by aj7 2y ago
Here is my guess. If you twiddle your thumbs in the screw-in direction, the heads move together at twice the rate that a head would move when screwed into a fixed thread. And in the screw-out direction, the heads would move apart at twice t
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by aj7 2y ago
What do you do once you have that file?
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by aj7 2y ago
Can I use this color scheme in Chrome?
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by aj7 2y ago
I use Google translate all the time, and I definitely noticed you have to kick it to update.
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by aj7 2y ago
Faster? It’s gotten slower! Significantly slower. Haven’t you noticed that modern jetliners don’t really even have swept back wings any more? The sweet spot for fuel efficiency is around 530mph for modern, very high bypass turbofan engi

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