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Regardless of whether the underpaying allegations are true, Amazon keeping 60-75% of the sales price is absolutely egregious. People were absolutely up in arms about Apple's 30% ap…

Oh bizarre. I hadn't seen that one. Appears to be a very dubious Spain-only campaign. As far as I'm aware, the official Hasbro one went quite well: https://hasbropulse.com/products…

What happened there? From the outside I thought it was pretty smooth and successful. Delivered what was promised and only a couple months late. I think the worst I've seen is peopl…

There's some really bizarre tribalism that develops in the Kickstarter/preorder realm. I back a fair number of board games and see the same thing there. Its like the people who get…

I recently left a major part supplier for a good portion of the heavy equipment industry and Deere was one of our biggest customers. They were truly despicable to work with. On eve…

I recently left a job that I was 100% checked out of. It was a fine job before Covid but something about the switch to remote absolutely ruined it. Things that used to take 2-3 hou…

Previous company went through a fairly disastrous change in management. I was the 5th person out the door on a team of 8. New manager was super "data driven" so productivity plumme…

I kinda thought all 3 of my offers during my recent job change were suspiciously close. Now I know why, as all 3 employers requested it. Fuck everything about this. A few jobs are …

There's no guarantee of that. Omicron seems to be exceptionally capable of infecting both those who had the current vaccines and/or previous variants. Maybe Omicron provides immuni…

It's a mixed bag and I'm not sure which side wins out. On one hand, cleaning up plastic pollution is a fantastic thing. On the other, there is a tremendous amount of carbon current…

Most of the time flops have had too much material cut out to hit runtime requirements ("nobody will watch a 3 hour movie!"). Kingdom of Heaven, Batman v Superman, Watchmen, Alien3 …

In the last few years I feel like we've reached "notification hell". Technology used to be a tool that was used when needed, now it constantly demands our attention. I feel like so…

Are there guidelines for how long a given type of media is considered stable? From experience, hard drives seem safe on the order of years; I've spun drives back up from the early …

Both of those are more shock events - there is a one-time impulse of energy into the system. The main difference here would be damping - the punching bag absorbs and dissipates the…

My guess based on the very limited press release and some aerospace experience: Because it's only a 4 day slip, they'll start with simulations to look for any systems that may have…

I'd imagine there were redundant systems that caught it, but it still caused a significant shift in load distribution and possibly the satellite to drop some distance which would i…

To everyone saying "what's the big deal, it sees more vibration on launch": It sounds to me like this is more of an unintended shock event (see zeeb's response below) that caused a…

Sounds like we have similar roles. I've never gotten them on paper, but multiple times a month I get emails along the lines of "My account doesn't work. My password is Banana1. Ple…

Just for comments though, right? Stories can only be flagged, which as I understand can lead to bans/losing the privilege if it's abused.

Something like "Checklist Script", as that's what they really provide?

As someone who custom builds a lot of picture frames, the ability to add frame + mat ratio to the image would be great. Those can more than double the linear dimensions (4X+ on the…

Will Smith (of Tested/Maximum PC) mentioned in one of his recent podcast episodes [1] that GPU vendors tried to add dedicated power supplies to cards, with their own AC connection,…

Modeling a tractor in CAD isn't the issue. Manufacturing it is. A 25 year old tractor design (probably out to 75+ year old tractors even) still has hundreds of millions of dollars …

I've probably given away 15-20 endgrain cutting boards over the last few Christmases to various family and friends - nothing fancy, just random pattern to use up scrap from other p…

Worth adding that lead test kits are pretty cheap at any big box store and easy to use: https://www.homedepot.com/p/3M-LeadCheck-Instant-Lead-Test-S... (this actually seems expensi…