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by msds 1y ago
Honesty I know a bunch of people who are burntout climbers and burntout geologists - sounds like a blast. Fun mineralogy with climbing that’s not…super exotic but still fun? I’d pay for it.
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by msds 1y ago
No, good thermal management with a chiller, active thermal compensation, and glass scales make um precision on that scale reasonable. 10-100x better? Sure, you’re getting into machines where the room to keep them happy is significantly more
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by msds 1y ago
Ok but my neighborhood children have started using electric leaf blowers as jet propulsion on skateboards. I have insisted they use hearing protection, but the rest of us are shit out of luck…
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by msds 1y ago
It’s fun seeing an uptick of rhino/grasshopper content here lately - two articles in a week?! The McNeel extended universe is a fun place to play around in, and I’ve met lots of great people since I started working on Rhino.
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by msds 1y ago
You've got the heat cycles for annealing, hardening, and tempering confused. The slow cooling is for annealing, hardening requires a fast cool from rather hot and is a very different process from tempering, which is a short soak at a c
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by msds 2y ago
It doesn't really detect stringing together latinate nonsense, so all of my coinages got perfectly coherent definitions. On the flip side, I guess if you're erudite and willing to butcher other languages for sport, nothing has eve
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by msds 2y ago
Very important habitat restoration for electric eels, actually.
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by msds 2y ago
I'm not running the show, but I am working at a place that does this. One time fee for a perpetual license for the current major version, free support, and historically ~6 years of updates per version. Users tend to be quite happy abou
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by msds 2y ago
Turns out you can take out a driver side mirror by putting most of your weight on it and bouncing a few times. But that's reserved for drivers that have made contact with me...
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by msds 2y ago
If we're "unbundling"/giving into "free market" nonsense in a highly regulated area, I just want to be able to pay reasonably proportional fee for musical instruments and get a guarantee that they'll be ca
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by msds 2y ago
This is a real worry? Don't you just not go to meetings but otherwise solemnly swear that you're working on the plane?
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by msds 2y ago
Machine shops actually used whale oil until quite late. Much better than equivalent petroleum products until the '50s or later.
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by msds 2y ago
I was using it to build a dilatometer - an instrument for measuring thermal expansion curves of materials. Theoretically simple, in that you take a sample of something and measure how long it is while sweeping the temperature around. In pra
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by msds 2y ago
LVDTs are fun! I bought one for a project a few years ago (since abandoned), and have been slowly designing my own readout electronics for them. Three revisions later, and the performance is very good - to the point that I've bought mo
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by msds 2y ago
As a consequence of the aging members, a lot of churches (particularly the less virulent mainstream protestant flavor) around here are merging congregations and getting demolished, to be replaced with more apartment buildings. Sometimes the
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by msds 2y ago
That was a line directly from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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by msds 2y ago
That's exactly a disposable camera flash circuit.
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by msds 3y ago
Don't worry, if you don't know what BIM is, you don't need BIM and you should be thankful about your previous life choices. Weirdly, no one in BIM really seems to agree on what BIM actually is either.
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by msds 3y ago
"Droplet superpropulsion in an energetically constrained insect"( https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36376-5 ) is a great paper from the same authors - I came across it last year when I was deep in a p
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by msds 3y ago
I second this; this is super bad advice. CO2 systems are comparatively safe from an eye damage perspective - unless you take a direct hit, (...don't, seriously, that's what interlocks are for...), 10.6um is strongly absorbed by yo
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by msds 3y ago
I don't know about that. Paying yourself a nice salary, having a stable job doing something you probably (at least at one point) find interesting, and having lots of autonomy seems like a pretty nice gig.
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by msds 3y ago
Yeah, but that lineage of banjos became 17-fret tenor banjos in the teens, which are still really nice instruments if you play Irish trad tenor and don't need the volume of a 23-fret. So, not all a bad thing.
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by msds 3y ago
Well, there isn't a meaningful inner product, so how can you speak of parallelograms? The geometries are definitely weird! Once you leave p=2 and break the rotational symmetry around the origin, the only isometries in your geometry are
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by msds 3y ago
One thing this doesn't touch on is that there are multiple meaningful definitions of pi-like constants for the p-norm unit circle that don't necessarily agree with each other in p != 2. Defining pi as the area of the unit circle g
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by msds 3y ago
CT is the wrong imaging tech for Moka pots at least - they're much cooler looking if you're doing neutron imaging and can see the water: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VESMU7JfVHU
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by msds 3y ago
In that case, it would increase in mass though.
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by msds 4y ago
Kinda a weird list; in my experience with hanging around lots of shops, it goes Mitutoyo 500-196-30 (non-IP67), Mitutoyo 500-752-20 (IP67), followed by a long tail of everything else.
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by msds 4y ago
This is definitely a big thing! Having a group of musical friends to play with is a lot of fun, really helps keep them interested, and is the only way to learn how to play music with people. I wish I/my parents put a little more effo
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by msds 5y ago
Can confirm, went to a school like that but without a namesake building. They can either always admit someone else, or more often, just not bother because educating kids is an expensive loss leader for the endowment even with full tuition.
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by msds 5y ago
There was a death in the family, apparently, so he's focusing on family stuff since then.

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