wtfmcgrill

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by wtfmcgrill 2y ago
There's the metric tonne 1000kg, the US short ton 2000lbs and the US long ton 2240lbs(1016kg) also known as imperial ton. I started calling the metric tonne a megagram because I got tired of trying to figure out if it was short, long o
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by wtfmcgrill 3y ago
The margin is in cutting and faceting. The Swiss make a CNC diamond cutting machine that can cut and facet a diamond in about an hour vs days for manual cutting.
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by wtfmcgrill 3y ago
I got one of the cups from DS9 and it's by far my favorite mug
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by wtfmcgrill 3y ago
The positioners and tools are much cheaper if you buy direct from a DMC distributor. I bought the afm 8 and af8 from patlon in Canada and I got charged the MSRP on the DMC website. AF8 and the universal positioners was like 400usd when I go
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by wtfmcgrill 3y ago
By the limited information provided in their engineering video yes, it's basically a battery + BMS in the really big box and a charge controller, inverter and service disconnect in the other box. The batteries seem to be liquid cooled
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by wtfmcgrill 3y ago
Pb free man, gotta show people that you believe in your product by huffing tin fumes.
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by wtfmcgrill 3y ago
Underground mine planner, also worked on surface as an instrumentation tech. Cool to see other people from the industry on hacker news.
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by wtfmcgrill 3y ago
Someone works at a surface mine :O
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by wtfmcgrill 3y ago
My immediate thought when I saw Handbook of Black Magic was "wonder what book has his nickname". "High Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic" well I'll be damned, wish I had known about this a year ago.
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by wtfmcgrill 3y ago
You are my hero, been telling this at clouds for years after I took a power engineering course. Solar and wind are cheaper until you consider storage and grid reliability. Grid storage battery can be used for peaker/frequency regulatio
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by wtfmcgrill 4y ago
Relay go click. Nice board, should add an LED parallel to the coil with a jumper to enable/disable the led, can very helpful if you're in a louder area and you can't reliably tell if the relay is on.
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by wtfmcgrill 4y ago
Second that, osrs had consumed my life after I found it. Dam crack addiction.
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by wtfmcgrill 4y ago
I have the same problem, I don't track my spending but have money automatically plowed into different investments and am generally frugal. Been looking into money manager ex and home bank as foss softwares. Mint, quicken and ynab are p
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by wtfmcgrill 4y ago
If it's life safety chances are there's an acceptance/certification test that needs to be done to demonstrate safety. I think some applications that are life safety can use FEA for acceptance test but the criteria are strict
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by wtfmcgrill 4y ago
Mentour pilot did a detailed video on this accident a couple months ago. He gives the insights on the accident from a pilots perspective. https://youtu.be/Im334Eg3ZLE
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by wtfmcgrill 4y ago
I jump from altium to kicad to solidworks multiple times a day but the most annoying jump is when I go to ltspice and go, why is move bound to F7. I stopped even bothering to try to use hotkeys on LTspice.
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by wtfmcgrill 4y ago
The running joke among my doctor friends is that pediatricians are immune to disease. Sick like a dog for the first couple years but then they become bullet proof.
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by wtfmcgrill 4y ago
Burn the evidence eh?