scrooched_moose

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by scrooched_moose 5y ago
Regardless of whether the underpaying allegations are true, Amazon keeping 60-75% of the sales price is absolutely egregious. People were absolutely up in arms about Apple's 30% app store cut a year ago.
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by scrooched_moose 5y ago
Oh bizarre. I hadn't seen that one. Appears to be a very dubious Spain-only campaign. As far as I'm aware, the official Hasbro one went quite well: https://hasbropulse.com/products/heroquest-game-system
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by scrooched_moose 5y ago
What happened there? From the outside I thought it was pretty smooth and successful. Delivered what was promised and only a couple months late. I think the worst I've seen is people realizing it was never all that good to begin with,
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by scrooched_moose 5y ago
There's some really bizarre tribalism that develops in the Kickstarter/preorder realm. I back a fair number of board games and see the same thing there. Its like the people who get in that early feel like they are part of the deve
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by scrooched_moose 5y ago
I recently left a major part supplier for a good portion of the heavy equipment industry and Deere was one of our biggest customers. They were truly despicable to work with. On every bid we sent them the #1 requirement was Proprietary Fit.
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by scrooched_moose 5y ago
I recently left a job that I was 100% checked out of. It was a fine job before Covid but something about the switch to remote absolutely ruined it. Things that used to take 2-3 hours to plan started taking 6 weeks as management insisted on
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by scrooched_moose 5y ago
Previous company went through a fairly disastrous change in management. I was the 5th person out the door on a team of 8. New manager was super "data driven" so productivity plummeted as we were inundated with piles of new process
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by scrooched_moose 5y ago
I kinda thought all 3 of my offers during my recent job change were suspiciously close. Now I know why, as all 3 employers requested it. Fuck everything about this. A few jobs are missing, but the most recent (and therefore most relevant) i
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by scrooched_moose 5y ago
There's no guarantee of that. Omicron seems to be exceptionally capable of infecting both those who had the current vaccines and/or previous variants. Maybe Omicron provides immunity to Rho (or whatever is coming), but it may prov
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by scrooched_moose 5y ago
It's a mixed bag and I'm not sure which side wins out. On one hand, cleaning up plastic pollution is a fantastic thing. On the other, there is a tremendous amount of carbon currently locked up in plastics which is for all practica
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by scrooched_moose 5y ago
Most of the time flops have had too much material cut out to hit runtime requirements ("nobody will watch a 3 hour movie!"). Kingdom of Heaven, Batman v Superman, Watchmen, Alien3 all get better with restored material. Blade Runne
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by scrooched_moose 5y ago
In the last few years I feel like we've reached "notification hell". Technology used to be a tool that was used when needed, now it constantly demands our attention. I feel like something is always beeping at me across countl
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by scrooched_moose 5y ago
Are there guidelines for how long a given type of media is considered stable? From experience, hard drives seem safe on the order of years; I've spun drives back up from the early 2000s and they are fully intact. The lifespan of burned
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by scrooched_moose 5y ago
Both of those are more shock events - there is a one-time impulse of energy into the system. The main difference here would be damping - the punching bag absorbs and dissipates the energy readily via internal friction of whatever the stuffi
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by scrooched_moose 5y ago
My guess based on the very limited press release and some aerospace experience: Because it's only a 4 day slip, they'll start with simulations to look for any systems that may have been damaged. If they don't see any issues a
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by scrooched_moose 5y ago
I'd imagine there were redundant systems that caught it, but it still caused a significant shift in load distribution and possibly the satellite to drop some distance which would impart an acceleration load.
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by scrooched_moose 5y ago
To everyone saying "what's the big deal, it sees more vibration on launch": It sounds to me like this is more of an unintended shock event (see zeeb's response below) that caused an oscillation at the natural frequency
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by scrooched_moose 5y ago
Sounds like we have similar roles. I've never gotten them on paper, but multiple times a month I get emails along the lines of "My account doesn't work. My password is Banana1. Please fix". Every time I reset every singl
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by scrooched_moose 5y ago
Just for comments though, right? Stories can only be flagged, which as I understand can lead to bans/losing the privilege if it's abused.
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by scrooched_moose 5y ago
Something like "Checklist Script", as that's what they really provide?
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by scrooched_moose 5y ago
As someone who custom builds a lot of picture frames, the ability to add frame + mat ratio to the image would be great. Those can more than double the linear dimensions (4X+ on the area) and are a pain to properly size for the wall. For exa
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by scrooched_moose 5y ago
Will Smith (of Tested/Maximum PC) mentioned in one of his recent podcast episodes [1] that GPU vendors tried to add dedicated power supplies to cards, with their own AC connection, a while back (mid 2000s or so if I remember right). Co
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by scrooched_moose 5y ago
Modeling a tractor in CAD isn't the issue. Manufacturing it is. A 25 year old tractor design (probably out to 75+ year old tractors even) still has hundreds of millions of dollars in infrastructure and tooling behind it. Molds or dies
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by scrooched_moose 5y ago
I've probably given away 15-20 endgrain cutting boards over the last few Christmases to various family and friends - nothing fancy, just random pattern to use up scrap from other projects instead of tossing it in the fire pit. I know o
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by scrooched_moose 5y ago
Worth adding that lead test kits are pretty cheap at any big box store and easy to use: https://www.homedepot.com/p/3M-LeadCheck-Instant-Lead-Test-S... (this actually seems expensive, I'm used to closer to $2-3 pe
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by scrooched_moose 5y ago
I'm at least hopefully because this one appears longer (~9 years; if you count 2012-2019; most of the other drops were shorter and seem to be tied to major economic events - the 73 and 79 oil crises, fall of the Soviet Union in 91 and
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by scrooched_moose 5y ago
If you'd actually bothered to read it, this paragraph explains the difference: The real killer in Chennai is the humidity. The combined measure of heat and humidity in air is the “wet-bulb temperature”—the lowest temperature to which s
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by scrooched_moose 5y ago
Doesn't the plot on that page directly contradict that? It was effectively flat from 2012-2017, then small upticks in 2018 and 2019? The second derivative of CO2 seems to show a huge decrease in the last few years.
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by scrooched_moose 5y ago
I find their approach of "drag and drop these 6 words to form a sentence" or "fill in the missing word in this sentence" was just leading me to recognize correct patterns of letters, not words or meaning. "aog&quot
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by scrooched_moose 5y ago
See Duck curve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve Essentially, solar is great from 8am to 4pm, and California has replaced about half of their load during those hours with solar. However, they have negligible ren

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