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What stenographers capture is phonetic. These days a computer program translates that back into written language in real time. It uses knowledge of the language to pull this off. S…

I assume BCBS is Blue Cross Blue Shield; which is one of the largest insurers. Can I ask how big is the city you live in (or near)? It seems like big cities have options, but small…

The public version of Google's build tool is Bazel (it's Blaze internally). It has some really impressive caching while maintaining correctness. The first build is slow, but subseq…

Partial check outs are standard because the entire code base is enormous. People only check out the parts they might be changing and the rest magically appears during the build as …

Bose sells line array speakers that will happily work if placed behind a standard mic. They are using anti-feedback DSPs to cancel the audio loop this creates. They can be used in …

Product market fit is a real thing. I'm a typical low end table saw user. You can ignore me at your peril, but many people will have similar values. I just finished a flooring proj…

> what the manufacturers said You expect me to believe that? Really now. And the BOM is not the only cost, but +$50 on the BOM is probably +$100 retail. What will the manufactures …

That $50 number seems incredibly optimistic. Just the rebuild cartridge is selling for $99 right now: https://www.sawstop.com/product/standard-brake-cartridge-tsb... And the saw fr…

That may depend on what you're trying to do. If you are figuring out something tricky, then lots of quiet head down time is what you need. Every interruption hurts when you are con…

They also seem to have overlooked D3 levels. Colorado in particular, has much higher UV levels and people tend to have higher D3 levels.

My local ham group was doeing a "ragchew" on 2m as the eclipse was just starting (over us). It was the scratchiest net I've ever heard. That's only roughly 30mi at 147Mhz, but it m…

I don't think they consider how dazzling the lights can be. Some municipalities seem to be aware of this, but others aren't. I also find them dazzling and have to avert my eyes. It…

It retroactively adds liability to products that were already sold. That definitely feels heavy to me.

If you are providing parts to an authorized service center you also have to provide parts for third party service centers. I think if your product isn't designed to be serviced the…

There's a problem in that the danger is in front but the exhaust noise goes out the back. I was once driving cross crunchy in a big truck with a trailer when I was startled by a lo…

Shame relies on personal connections that they want to keep. People turning to drugs are already losing those connections at a rapid rate. Trying to shame them as they walk out the…

Online safety as a service. I like it!

You might see if a destination medical establishment like the Mayo Clinic or Cleveland Clinic could be more responsive. These kinds of places are setup so people can fly in, see a …

I wanted that with noise levels. I'm so very tired of hearing illegally modified exhausts. It seems like an I2S mic would give calibrated levels.

I find it interesting that he barely mentions the actors, costumers, set designers, etc. These are the "face" of the show. I take this to mean that story trumps all in television. …

It's important to remember the difference between the old Google with ~1k people and today's Google with 100k+ people. Things were a lot more flexible back when gmail was a new thi…

I think Madeleine Albright's comments on this are interesting in general, but particularly relevant to how culture conditions women. https://www.thecut.com/2015/06/madeleine-albrig…

It looks like the problem isn't where I thought it was. Still figuring out how to get it to work, though.

I'd love to know how this works out for you. I was trying to do something similar, but got stuck. The core issue is that the fluent object design approach makes it very difficult t…

CadQuery is usually used within FreeCAD. Most of what you describe is there because the part just shows up in the CAD workspace like any other part. The only difference is that you…