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There are a lot of things that don't react well to bullets in a submarine. One Jack Ryan comes to mind...

The Insulation is in place all the time because the process is very energy intensive and the glass over the whole basin is supposed to cool evenly. Just the end is not closed off a…

Its not an oven alone, its a kiln that smelts up the components for glass of the desired recipe, then purs the glass on a long (~half a km) basin of molten tin where it stretches a…

Float glass is a continuous process, so it runs 24/7 and too much product is recycled into the smelter at the start again (Funnily, glass waste is actually a scarce resource). Gett…

Can't answer for aluminium, but I can answer for window glass: One of our plants was threatened by massive flooding 2021, threatening the float glass oven (which doesn't float itse…

At least where I live, the Steam is either reused from thermal power plant waste heat which would be evaporated off anyways, or its the heat directly produced from specialised comb…

I always wanted to build a controller for Canon Telephoto lenses to use them with c-mount cameras and control the focus from a PC. Might be helpful for that.

Working at a large Tier 1 Automotive supplier for most European OEMs but Tesla as well, it was a not-complete-joke to make show prototypes that massively hinted at Tesla or had som…

I did something similar with a friend for some time for another game. As it went, our data was used to prove things to the developer they would have loved to hush-hush, which led t…

I am in the vehicle glazing/ automotive electronics industry. Sometimes I wonder if I shouldn't switch to making child-sized sewing machines, toy-shaped landmines or fentanyl-laced…

Another amazing feat of age is Noriaki Kasai, 51 Years old, still active in competitive ski jumping. Oldest Person to ever win a world cup competition. In 2014. And still (sometime…

A 4-Bay one from Amazon, Icy-Box. Pretty Cheap. I decided on external Backup over Enterprise-Hardware. YMMV though. https://www.amazon.de/ICY-BOX-Externes-Festplatten-Aluminium...

I cut some kind of DIY-Rack on my Laser Cutter from Plywood, because I couldn't get it stored better in any way. https://i.ibb.co/XWKDmwS/IMG-20241127-134555-527.jpg

A 4-Bay one from Amazon, Icy-Box. Pretty Cheap. I decided on external Backup over Enterprise-Hardware. YMMV though. https://www.amazon.de/ICY-BOX-Externes-Festplatten-Aluminium...

In theory you can use the WiFi-One, though I don't know if that one is BIOS-locked. I just use it with USB3 and a 4 Bay Enclosure, which probably someone is gonna explain to me is …

In all honesty, and considering that everything you build with a SBC is not that powerful and a cabling mess, I would recommend to go for a refurbished ThinkCenter Tiny or similar …

I would love to buy one of the Maruti Suzuki Jimnys. It's been sold in Europe, but you can't get one in Europe anymore because its not complying with arbitrary eco-guidelines (Whic…

If you liked The Martian and Project Hail Mary, two books I cannot recommend enough are Daniel Suarez' Delta-V and Critical Mass. Highly technical focused hard-sci-fi about asteroi…

Having been part in localized efforts after a similar event, it's nearly always that the national emergency response is late, slowly, bureaucratic and makes things worse. Some Bigw…

"In the long-term, the funding touted should, at minimum, allow Arch Linux to improve the security of its distribution and provide more structured releases compared to its current …

I do work in automotive EMC testing and it's nearly always the voltage conversion at fault when you fail tests or influence other devices. Buck-Boost converters are a noisy and fin…

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Interestingly, I am in that Industry. That's why I have such a cynical view of it and why I drive an ancient shitbox. Interestingly, a lot of Automotive EEs I know do. I wonder why…

I always love when people with background in software talk about the car industry. Noone is interested in Software. Software is what is outsourced to India. Software is the super-a…