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Pretty easy to look this stuff up rather than depend on decade old memory. Temperature in Europe is rising much faster than the worldwide average. Here it says +2.3C by 2022 - that…

Was in an Uber in Korea recently traveling from the airport and the car literally beeped every 30 seconds for the entirety of the one hour drive with what presumably was a speed li…

> When I talked to the dealers, they said that the speedometers only have to be accurate +/- 10% according to the SAE specifications. I believe the requirement is only one way - th…

> Big big shops have "dumbed down" troubleshooting as much as they can - for a lot of reasons. You don't have to pay folks as much because they're thinking and doing less, the more…

> it's a force majeur I assume you meant something like 'force multiplier"? Force Majeure is an uncontrollable event that prevents a party from fulfilling a contract. Which some ma…

I've always felt bad about not understanding git better and wanted to dedicate time to learn it properly but never got to it. Finally this is a use case where AI is really good. It…

It will still be application dependent. Code to compute fillets and blends gets incredibly complex when multiple surfaces are involved. And when surfaces are barely intersecting, o…

> The goal of art isn't merely beauty. It's primarily communication. "Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as a mediator between this strange, hosti…

> Thus things dangling from the rear mirror in a car are a bad thing, they need (subconscious) attention. And open offices with the associated foot traffic. Constant distraction qu…

How does this work in combination with age related hearing loss? At some point you will lose high frequency sensitivity in that 11-15Khz range. Would be nice to get some benefit fr…

Another great Eric Bogle song is Green Fields of France. I like this version by The Men They Couldn't Hang best : https://youtu.be/Kr6OzLJrS2k?si=ZX6lrXqjZktV20-V

Is that really how it works - everything is just weighted equally? I would hope there would be at least some kind of tuning, so gets more weight than ? If not, that seems like an o…

> Fillets and chamfers are a good example. They seem simple but are geometrically non-trivial, and OCC will fail on cases that Parasolid handles without complaint. A long time ago …

Problem is that in an EV world the raw figures are really not going to be that impressive. Plenty of Chinese EVs have 1000+hp at far lower cost, and likely as good or better accele…

I think you are a few years out of date. Certainly they used to be not great. They are way better now.

> This was the world of Dilbert’s rise. You’d put a Dilbert comic on your cubicle wall, and feel like you’d gotten away with something My former manager used to have Dilbert comic …

> Also what's up with the people hiking (by themselves) with a bluetooth speaker. You're by yourself, in nature. If you want to listen to music wear headphones!! Washington Departm…

Both are true. Costs have gone up a lot over the past few years and are also going down this year.

Ah, memories. At my first real job, my desktop machine was an HP-UX workstation with a monochrome monitor. The company did UNIX CAD software, so each developer got a different type…

Engineers have a perception that most other roles are lesser and if only they were allowed to be in charge things would go better. I certainly used to be this way. When I was an en…

If that is the case then why does it drop in absolute terms later in the year?