bcohen5055

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by bcohen5055 4y ago
This qualifier is actually more about lawyers and accountants. The US has a very unclear policy about labeling something as USA Made. It comes down to the US content in the BOM cost and it is specific to costs essential to the product, at m
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by bcohen5055 6y ago
Not a home but if you were a bank and a 17 year old walked into the bank, talked to someone and was able to walk out with a fat stack of cash i think the insurance company would have to reconsider your policy.
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by bcohen5055 8y ago
The distinction you are looking for is parametric vs. geometric. Parametric models such as Solidworks or Creo use complex equations to derive the 3D geometry. Geometric models use a point cloud built from polygons to develop surfaces. These
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by bcohen5055 8y ago
There is a system for TV Meta Data to be sent over the air and TVs with tuners used to be able to read this data and create an on screen guide. I had this on one of the first HDTVs I got but haven't seen it since https://en.
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by bcohen5055 8y ago
I've been running Home Assistant for a while in Docker on my home NAS server. It runs great, is reliable, very scriptable, and so easy my wife can use it! I run it on my LAN without needing any additional online services and I VPN when
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by bcohen5055 8y ago
To be fair they don't pay for it every time... The chargers are now in LA, not SD
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by bcohen5055 8y ago
I grew up in Colorado and having them as a local resource for components was truly a gift. My dad was an EE and in his eyes Sparkfun was a great alternative to the Radioshack of his early days. When I was in college in Fort Collins I made a
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by bcohen5055 8y ago
Thanks for this list.. you have killed my productivity this afternoon.
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by bcohen5055 8y ago
Any links to good articles about this? I for one have not heard of this before.
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by bcohen5055 8y ago
Yes, because seat belts and airbags only encourage people to drive faster and more reckless
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by bcohen5055 8y ago
Where I live in Southern California the problem is that supply is kept down by people renting out their first home and buying a 2nd. The houses appreciate at 4% per year and the rent increases at nearly 8% so it's win win for owners. O
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by bcohen5055 8y ago
I work in a product development environment. We have a worldwide network of suppliers. At the beginning of this year our employer stopped reimbursing our monthly cell phone bill. When asked if we still should respond to emails form our phon
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by bcohen5055 9y ago
Profession: Mechanical Engineer - Full Time (large well known consumer product brand) Workday: -[8:00] Meeting, once a week with Italy (tool supplier), 2 days a week with US manufacturing (on site) -[9:00-11:30] Catch up on emails, review 3
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by bcohen5055 9y ago
I'm a current robinhood non-gold user and they actually eliminated this restriction around 6 months ago. Now as soon as I sell a position I can buy my next with the funds from the sale.
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by bcohen5055 9y ago
If it's made in China and involves electronics it probably involves Shenzen
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by bcohen5055 9y ago
Investors are always focused on the rate of new subscriptions, if they can't be profitable they can at least say they are growing subscriptions in new markets and possibly save the share price
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by bcohen5055 10y ago
*citations needed
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by bcohen5055 11y ago
I was hoping to click on this and find the same page in Comic Sans
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by bcohen5055 11y ago
Phone manufacturers typically optimize around a 1 day use case. The battery takes up a significant amount of space and adding more than a day of charge at the expense of a thicker or larger phone typically doesn't play out well in the
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by bcohen5055 11y ago
I've always disagreed with the statement that elegant engineering is art. The purpose of art is to convey a statement or emotion while engineering is to deliver the best possible solution within a pile of constraints. Scientific and en
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by bcohen5055 11y ago
Hi Derek, I'm interested in learning a bit more about some of the mechanical engineering positions. If you see this send me an email. My address is in my profile. Thanks, -Ben
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by bcohen5055 11y ago
In the united states there are very specific rules about the height and spacing of almost all plumbing fixtures in public places due to ADA and other local plumbing codes. Lots of the examples in the article are clear violations in the Unit
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by bcohen5055 11y ago
Instead of a bomb how about a warning that these vans exist? You could have a bunch of nerds leaving arduinos in Ubers around NYC. Have the arduinos measuring radiation and phoning home with any locations that are above average. At the very
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by bcohen5055 11y ago
I've always wondered if sites do this the other way around. A site invests a lot in content they create you would think to get the most out of it they would serve it with different headlines to different demographics. Knowing from Face
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by bcohen5055 11y ago
Ya, "Our OS goes to 11, you see... a typical OS can only go to 10. Our OS rocks that much harder"
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by bcohen5055 11y ago
Although yes "connected to the drive shaft" in a sense is how it works but there can be some great discussions of 3 phase motor design, torque demand motor control systems, power electronics, regenerative breaking... The list goes
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by bcohen5055 12y ago
All they have done here is produce a head that can produce a new support structure pattern, but I don't see the advantage of this pattern. The build layers are isolated by the support so you are left with only thin spider web type fila
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by bcohen5055 12y ago
It has an onboard ARM micro controller that can be programmed with Wiring just like Arduino. It also has its own REST API for simple web app type uses and has serial analog and digital io pins
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by bcohen5055 12y ago
Does anyone know if Randal is "Live Animating" this event or does he just know enough about the landing procedure to draw it all out ahead of time?
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by bcohen5055 12y ago
I'm an ME who uses CAD on a daily basis and I'd have to say that yes at first parametric modeling in the current software packages is a challenge. But I'v found it is a learning curve similar to syntax in programming. Once yo

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