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by vturner 8mo ago
Similar story here. I got RIS 2.0 after it had been out for awhile, but my parents couldn't justify the cost. Finally, Toys R Us had a beat up box sitting on the shelf and marked it down. I wandered over to that aisle every time we wen
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by vturner 3y ago
Thank-you!
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by vturner 3y ago
Wish I could offer more than best wishes, but I am in a similar boat: pondering some product ideas while working as a SWE. This line caught my attention - "I also love learning about mechanical engineering and manufacturing" How d
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by vturner 4y ago
There is such shortage of skilled contractors. It's unreal, so I've considered getting in via being an electrician. The starting salaries always stop me though. How can I reset the salary clock 10 years? Maybe if I had started out
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by vturner 4y ago
How did you come to have the skills to design and build whatever it is you manufacture? I'm guessing you have a mix of mechanical and electrical background. I always have ideas for little products (some involve electronics others not)
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by vturner 4y ago
A couple years ago I became quite interested in building my own grow lights for starting garden veggie seedlings. The YouTube recommendations surrounding such videos were quite interesting... It turns out another plant needs high power as w
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by vturner 5y ago
JsonParser() is Scala syntax. Not sure how you'd accomplish that in Java and as for parse<Book> Java's generics are erased at compile time.
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by vturner 5y ago
Grondbreaking? Unless this extends to more components, Kia has had this since at least 2009.
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by vturner 5y ago
Agreed, I'll have to check but I'm fairly confident my 2009 Kia Soul had 10 years and 100,000 miles
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by vturner 6y ago
The impetus to leave these big tech platforms has gone up at least 40% for me. If I want filtered information, the big news players provide that 24/7.
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by vturner 6y ago
This is off-topic, but your comment on your user base caught my attention. Do you think Android app development can be monetarily worth the time investment for individual developers who would be just starting out? I made two apps years ago
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by vturner 6y ago
MIT and Harvard being rather dishonest here. Seems like this is reverting back to what was before? "Due to COVID-19, SEVP instituted a temporary exemption regarding online courses for the spring and summer semesters. This policy permit
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by vturner 6y ago
The assymetric geometry brings back memories. Trying to tie a stack of bricks together with a "girder" vertical across connected with the pegs! I guess there's upsides and down. I think what bugs me is each brick before was m
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by vturner 6y ago
Does anyone else find the studless beams and associated pieces much more difficult to build with than the old (very old as in Robotics Invention System) beams and pieces with studs? This was my second year coaching an FLL team. The kids see
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by vturner 6y ago
Recently came back to a React GUI at work. Doing the Docker build is almost comical as the npm red text rolls by :). You would think the thing is surely going to explode. Of course, when you run the app React reminds us of all the new best
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by vturner 6y ago
As I've been learning Scala, traits is the feature that grabbed me and is what convinces me to keep learning. What a brilliant feature that cuts through all the OOP clutter that can come from various patterns to build up functionality.
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by vturner 6y ago
Where in Ohio is this? I'm not doubting, just like to read local news on it as I'm in Ohio too. I applaud DeWine for acting quickly, but I'm concerned that maybe for rural and small city locations the shut down was too much.
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by vturner 7y ago
Hope not too off topic, does anyone have books on building simple electric-powered machines? I often have ideas for little machines for my garden or cooking but have no idea how to go about selecting motors, controller boards, designing str
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by vturner 7y ago
Terrific! Data pipelines I've built have had JSON as their intermediary steps which I'm growing weary of.
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by vturner 7y ago
The key point I presume is the definition of "market" here; and I'm not convinced the market "software that runs on iOS" is so large that monopwhatever can be declared there and used to justify price control. Though
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by vturner 7y ago
Thanks for the holiday chuckle :)
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by vturner 7y ago
Us Americans have an impractical revulsion to lobbying and industry groups. Most Americans simply do not have the time and, at least until recently, are not too concerned what someone a state away does. Unfortunately, like you pointed out,
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by vturner 7y ago
In the states, the authors model is absolutely true. Pick up a high school algebra text and it's a more colorful with some meager attempts at explanation version of a Springer book. American education,at least what I have seen, is devo
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by vturner 7y ago
Sigh, I know new language features are cool, but I highly doubt the growing dominance of Python and JS is a question primarily of language features. Python has a REPL and the outstanding tooling built on that along with an ecosystem of libr
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by vturner 7y ago
That is interesting. I wonder how other national programs are generally funded (or would be funded, Medicare For All for example). Are they massive wealth transfers from low tax to high tax states?
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by vturner 7y ago
This may be somewhat off-topic, but I'm often surprised that leftist policies like the article advocates are often proposed at a national level? Why is this? Why not propose a state-sponsored child-care system in a leftist state - Cal
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by vturner 7y ago
Trying in my limited spare time to learn Scala and use it here and there on the job for script like stuff of our Java sim and simple analysis. I found almond a bit slow in compiling cells and then found BeakerX. Seemed much faster. Have any
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by vturner 7y ago
My personal hope is that because of the democratization of information and growing ubiquity of makerspaces and knowledgeable people around, that we will begin to not only repair but also produce many of the goods that once only came prepack
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by vturner 7y ago
This point has stunned me recently. I purchased an air conditioner and furnace recently and thought hey I wonder what is in the massive manual. It turns out a lot! The same is true for most of the appliance and machine manuals I've loo
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by vturner 7y ago
I second the request for any channel recommendations, I bought a estate of two small houses that needs work. Contractors where I live are so busy and expensive, it's hard to get someone so I'm trying to get knowledgeable.

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