frickinLasers

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by frickinLasers 6d ago
I wonder if she got the idea from https://www.sonicfiretech.com/
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by frickinLasers 27d ago
I think you might be misreading this person. If the point of homework is to learn the subject, while tests assess your understanding of the subject, why do the homework if you already have a strong grasp on it as soon as the teacher explain
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by frickinLasers 2mo ago
I come from a culture where the price is always listed. If I don't like the price, I'll either find a better deal somewhere else (shop) or not buy. Any time I'm forced to barter with a person I lose, because I do feel guilt
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by frickinLasers 3mo ago
I'm not going to bother to write an essay like the other person. Here is a scientific outcome that directly impacts the quality of medicine a majority of American citizens receive: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/
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by frickinLasers 4mo ago
Great question! Mostly it goes toward maintaining the campus and paying the admin folks. PIs are paid to teach, basically, and are expected to pull in the money to support their own research (and maintain their facilities and pay the admin
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by frickinLasers 6mo ago
Aside from the occasional problems like printers waking up at night to print gibberish [0] and attempts at locking down their ecosystem [1], Bambu Lab makes the most consistent, reliable printers for casual use you will find. [0] https:&#x
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by frickinLasers 9mo ago
How about if people with a higher reputation contribute an exponentially higher score when voting? Like, someone with ten top-rated answers has a 1,000-point vote (more nuanced than that, obviously).
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by frickinLasers 9mo ago
As someone who is essentially financially illiterate, what does this mean, "allocate resources efficiently?" Nobody's investing in companies that promise to cure world hunger or alleviate childhood suffering. They're inv
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by frickinLasers 11mo ago
Yes, it probably is. Have you ever heard of the spherical cow?* Simplifying the surface makes it possible to model the system with equations that can be solved analytically--which gives theorists something to work on. Modeling more complex
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by frickinLasers 1y ago
I hope you're not implying they're already digging mass graves. Some are unaccounted for--they're probably in Guatemala or something. Some will die. But I don't see the gas chambers being built for, like, another six mon
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by frickinLasers 1y ago
> who knows how many have died in detention facilities If you're talking about ICE, it's officially 15 so far this year. [0] While this outbreak is bad for DR Congo, I wonder whether they will be able to contain it within their
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by frickinLasers 1y ago
Hmm...I wonder if it matters which browser is being used.
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by frickinLasers 1y ago
My US bank removed check deposits from the browser about a decade ago, and I haven't met anyone who can use Zelle without an app.
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by frickinLasers 1y ago
> You can actually see this cognitive dissonance play out most overtly in Wikipedia's definition of authoritarianism. I'd say a more overt example is playing out on the national stage, where protests in support of (murdered, ra
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by frickinLasers 1y ago
Is that much different than the python inline script format? https://peps.python.org/pep-0723/
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by frickinLasers 1y ago
Would be nice to have a page full of forum posts like this for various cars. Incidentally, this link recommends termination resistors, which I think are the better answer if there's a suitable connector (which I imagine is the case for
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by frickinLasers 1y ago
Do you have examples of cars (that aren't Teslas, perhaps, since they don't play by normal car rules) having been disabled due to lack of cell service?
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by frickinLasers 1y ago
This doesn't seem possible, because self interest will always lead to hacking the structure for better returns, and technology accelerates the ability to do that. It seems to me that whatever is put in place to direct selfish behavior
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by frickinLasers 1y ago
Okay, but the I-5 doesn't bother with loops and tunnels. It just barrels right over the top of the mountains, including a 5-mile section of 6% grade according to the sign ( https://www.crashforensics.com/tejonpass.cfm ).
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by frickinLasers 1y ago
You mean the train? I don't think they do well with steep grades [1]. [1] https://engineering.stackexchange.com/questions/23106/what-d...
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by frickinLasers 2y ago
The small fraction of people perpetrating fraud does not warrant leaving science for private corps to pursue. The end result from that is companies sitting on their IP and suing anyone who comes up with something similar--with the cost pass
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by frickinLasers 2y ago
> ironically, the very people most likely to move abroad (in it for the career, not for the principle) are biased to be the types bringing down our system of science. What the hell are you talking about? I chose to get into science for
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by frickinLasers 2y ago
> His manage-by-trolling technique is demonstrably effective in industry. Or are his companies successful despite that? The impression I get is that his direct reports are exceptionally good managers and shield the companies from his dum
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by frickinLasers 2y ago
The one case where I find ads useful, when word of mouth isn't an option, is in a static image on a site (review site, blog, whatever) where I'm researching a thing. The ad would be related to that thing, doesn't need to know
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by frickinLasers 2y ago
Average rent per square foot since 2014 has increased by 42% [1]. By your unadjusted income chart, incomes have only increased by 33% in that time. In my case, existing just to the left of the income median, that's meant going from com
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by frickinLasers 2y ago
Did Bambu fix that thing where their printers need to be online and waiting for instructions from the cloud to be useful? I'm not about to send my designs through their servers. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023
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by frickinLasers 2y ago
The terms look like boilerplate that only addresses "your" data--not the information you enter about the target. If they end up selling the addresses/names/activities of unwilling participants, their "don't sue
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by frickinLasers 2y ago
Why are "running a business" or "holding a regular job" the options? That's the most mundane description of making a living I can imagine. What about "extend laser emissions to a new part of the spectrum to ena
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by frickinLasers 2y ago
What do the fish drink?
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by frickinLasers 2y ago
Well, TIL something I thought was demonstrated mid-century didn't happen until the 90s.

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