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> No but my naivety thought there would be more automation in place to reduce walking, sorting and picking up heavy things. Having worked in a non-Amazon fulfillment center, I’m am…

> Does this lead to the same sort of problems with the development of physical systems? I would argue that physical systems aren’t developed in a “waterfall” method. In mechanical …

I guess it depends on how much leeway you can be given for using “almost nothing” and “remotest connection to anything technical”, but Wikipedia says Ford Motor Company was incorpo…

Not personally, but I worked in manufacturing and the company bought them. The company is required to adhere to ISO and other certifications specified by the customer. In order to …

> Technicians (also called technologists in Canada) Nitpick: technicians and technologists are distinct in Canada. They operate at different levels in the stack as shown in [1]. [2…

> What would be the purpose of loading disintegrating box anyway? Sometimes you're unloading or on the receiving end of disintegrating boxes, and you need to unload the container t…

Wow, I keep hearing people like Tim Ferris and Dr. Peter Attia talking about using Metformin. I had no idea it is a diabetes medication. From what I keep hearing on random SV relat…

The WHO has issued guidance in 2015 to avoid naming issues such as you described from continuing to occur. https://www.who.int/news/item/08-05-2015-who-issues-best-pra...

The article is talking about detached housing. In Vancouver I keep seeing the trend of several detached houses in a row being bought, bulldozed, and converted to low-rise condos or…

Judging by partlysean’s response, “our industrial design team would use Rhino and then hand it off to the mechanical engineers to rebuild it in Solidworks.” I would think Rhino lac…

I know what you’re talking about, but I don’t have links. I took part in a “training session” at a med school. Basically undergrads were brought in to go through a “PBL” session so…

> not one person thought critically about the specification or tried using the app from a user’s perspective. I come from a manufacturing background and have moved into software. I…

In all seriousness, I stopped going to lectures* and studied at my own pace. My learning isn’t linear, so there will be some topics that are easy that you can move quickly on. Othe…

Two fitness principles: - Specific Adaptation to Imposed Demands (SAID) - Training blocks / periods / cycles / waves What are you trying to accomplish with C++? If you’re looking t…

Broadly speaking, math is made up of theorems. The goal is to prove the theorem by establishing a proof, or disprove the theorem using a counterexample. In math textbooks and cours…

> I’m a ‘Software engineer’ in Canada. Have been at multiple companies. Do not have an engineering degree... I'm mixing between EGBC (Engineers and Geoscientists British Columbia) …

What type of product and where overseas? Is this a a North American or European product looking to be manufactured in Asia? Or is this designed in Asia and wanting to be manufactur…

> You are entitled to your opinion and Trudeau to his If you’re referring to the point about Canada being a cultural mosaic, I don’t think this a Trudeauism. I recall learning that…

I won’t be shocked when they start introducing ads, reduced ads accounts, and premium content subscriptions.

I assume you’re referring to this part: > This last point is contentious but make no mistake: PEDs are ahead of detection capabilities. I think that at this point any elite athlete…

> You can’t exactly run a project at a multi billion dollar loss What is the cost of running the games though? I assume (with absolutely no evidence) that the costs would be heavil…

What about the athletes who have been training for the event? Some of them won’t get a chance to participate in 4 years time.

Control+F —> 22 yields this comment on the article: “1,551 tests, 340 cases = 22% positivity rate Apply it to the whole nation and you have theorically 28 millions people infected.…

> exams to certify vocational skills _after_ such training and/or real world experience (e.g the bar exam, the F.E./P.E. in engineering, "masterpiece" evaluations in the skilled tr…

Maybe this is a BC thing, but you should consider a second degree in computer science. UBC [1] and SFU [2] both offer them in BC. I’m not sure if Ontario schools offer them. From w…