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I have been lucky enough to work with a lot of great people, and I definitely found a lot of enjoyment in a lot of the work I've done, but I definitely wish that time had been spen…

I'm 35. Luckily I'm now running my own manufacturing business where I get to work on a much wider range of stuff!

Correct! Interesting point you make: there is definitely selection bias going on because of this, but I've honestly never thought about it that way before!

Unfortunately I agree with this. A great quote I saw a while ago: “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.” –Jeff Hammerbacher Every paying…

Ooof, that is a lot to deal with. Really hope things start looking up for you soon.

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Yeah I'm not sure about that either... All the parts look FDM printed too which is definitely way cheaper than that if you already own a printer. Perhaps they had some company prin…

Methanol exposure through the skin can also cause a lot of issues: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/ershdb/emergencyresponsecard_29750...

Droplets are produced to a lesser degree by just breathing or talking: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK143281/ Additionally as many as 50% of people who test positive for COV…

Off topic: over the next couple of years I'm looking to develop a small-scale ion-beam coating system for applying DLC as part of a single-piece-flow process cell. I currently send…

The footage is hugely slowed down, hence the deep pitch of the rocket motor sounds (they are usually very 'hissy' at this size), and the slow speed of the sparks coming from the mo…

Very interesting methods you used to detect the changes! Out of curiosity: was there a reason that taking an xray of the devices was not an option? Industrial/veterinary xray machi…

Care was taken to make sure these invasive species didn't get imported in the first place, but clearly that didn't work... What makes you think preventing the altered species from …

Interesting, I didn't realize that was done at scale... As the comment above me said, seems harsh to use CO2 for that...

Source?

I think this is poorly written in the article... Likely the Co2 gas is used to power bolt-guns which are in turn used to stun larger animals like cows before slaughter.

A friend of mine is a researcher in water quality, I asked him what the primary source of microplastics was and his answer surprised me: textiles. Apparently things like fleece she…

How is a 'mind' ever supposed to develop in a neural system with no sensory input?

Not to mention that the suspect really appeared to be attempting to provoke the officer into shooting him by brandishing something dark and acting like it was a firearm (was a cell…

I think it's fairly obvious that I didn't mean this situation would apply to everyone, I just wanted to supply another view/data-point. Out of curiosity, what does your github look…

I don't have a degree and honestly have never had any issues with recruiters or interviews for intermediate/senior 'software engineering' positions. I never represent myself as hav…

Farming in general is a dangerous occupation, even in the USA where machinery tends to be reasonably modern and well guarded: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cfoi.pdf I wasn't…

I find Festo's work interesting, but the spider bot in particular looks really clunky overall in comparison to even some of the hobby level stuff that's out there. It would make se…

> Software developers on average write only about ten lines a day That is far too low of an estimate for any productive programmer. Perhaps when trying to solve some sort of insane…

If you have a look through some of the Google datacenter tours you'll see they actually implement this idea on a massive scale, though I believe they use lead-acid batteries... Eve…