isanengineer

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by isanengineer 6mo ago
Yes, I noticed this shortly after the update. I forget the specifics, but Apple first party apps definitely have this issue.
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by isanengineer 2y ago
There's some interesting history here. Toyota started manufacturing in North America in the 70s-80s largely due to pressure from the US government in the form of tariffs and import restrictions. For example, from https://en.
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by isanengineer 3y ago
As a mechanical engineer, I want to offer some perspective on how specific this is for people working exclusively in software. I would never ever even consider working fully remotely, mainly because my job involves designing physical thing
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by isanengineer 3y ago
Article is paywalled so I can't read past the first 2 paragraphs, but I still don't understand what the controversy about this is. EUV was developed with significant input and resources from the US government [1], so I understand
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by isanengineer 3y ago
This exactly. And this is the reason that Venmo or Paypal need to charge fees for commercial transactions, because they're providing a service. What bugs me is that Zelle seems to be marketed as equivalent to those other digital paymen
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by isanengineer 3y ago
Thanks, but I don't think I know enough about this to speak about it on the pubic record. My experience is based on remembering what random customer service reps said a few years ago and a bunch of reddit and forum posts. For example,
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by isanengineer 3y ago
Agreed. I'm being hyperbolic when I say "do not ever use Zelle". I'm sure it's fine for passing money between friends. It's just that my version of the $40 lesson had a few more zeros on the end, and so stings
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by isanengineer 3y ago
It's not just fraud you need to worry about. Here's a horror story for you. A few years back I was moving to a city for graduate school and needed to rent an apartment. A friend of mine toured the place and when we decided to rent
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by isanengineer 3y ago
I don't really care about Oliver Stone, but as a longtime climate activist (and engineer) I'm glad to see any publicity promoting nuclear. I can't take seriously any proposal for reducing fossil fuel generation that doesn&#x
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by isanengineer 4y ago
> find more ways to use electricity I’m not sure if you were serious with this comment, but for the sake of other readers I wanted to point out this is a legitimate strategy. Many people tend to pair solar with installing mini splits, E
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by isanengineer 4y ago
I worked in the solar industry for years and this is a very good summary of the residential install process from the customer side. I’ll also second one of the main points of the author: do NOT get a solar lease. Either finance it through a
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by isanengineer 4y ago
I agree overall, but there are a lot of misconceptions about cast iron that can give it a learning curve. The post glossed over this, but it is certainly possible to damage your seasoning, especially if something you're cooking sticks
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by isanengineer 4y ago
Those AMD presentations are publicly available though. It looks like hot chips is a tech conference, and those AMD presentations were published as part of HC 28. I’ll follow up with a link if I can find one, but I think it’s pretty clear th
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by isanengineer 4y ago
Does anyone have any insight into how much benefit MSFT actually gets from these decisions? I understand that the intent is to 'make line go up', but as a simpler user I can't really imagine how telemetry and shilling OneDriv
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The Day Facebook Ruined the Internet(nytimes.com)
6 points by isanengineer 5y ago|0 comments
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by isanengineer 5y ago
I didn't understand that either, but I found a good explanation on page 2: "The fair use question is a mixed question of fact and law. Reviewing courts should appropriately defer to the jury’s findings of underlying fac
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The internet didn’t kill counterculture – you just won’t find it on Instagram(documentjournal.com)
559 points by isanengineer 6y ago|436 comments
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by isanengineer 6y ago
Good point. I think the what's missing is how electron energy states work in quantum mechanics. The wikipedia paged (linked below) has a pretty good explanation: "A quantum mechanical system or particle that is bound—that is, conf
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by isanengineer 6y ago
I've had a very good experience with Strongbox. I personally haven't used the Nextcloud integration yet so I can't vouch for that specifically, but I've used it with multiple cloud services and it's been seamless ev
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by isanengineer 6y ago
This is a pretty good summary of the scope of the allegations: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/12/she-was-so-d... A useful concept to keep in mind as this develops: https://en.wik