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My first guess is that the change on the electronic band allows downstream electrical switching of a prism/mirror or other photonic device. So you have a special light signal contr…

I’ve been thinking about making cheaper cryocoolers for CO2 condensation. I’d love to hear your perspective on other applications :)

Since this is the topic, I'm going to post my own recent experience with Google/Youtube: (also with the hope that a good soul can assist/give pointers) I have a YT channel with a s…

This is a common misconception. It's something that was discussed orally and taken out of its context and is being repeated today [1]. Besides the fact that NATO is a voluntary all…

Historically, Pantone & Munsell in the US of A. Pantone is really print-oriented, even if they've surfed on the brand to expand to fashion & cosmetics. That's why the standard Pant…

Another aspect in addition to what others said: digital color libraries are generally available for free or low cost. - Pantone recently removed its color libraries from Adobe prod…

RAL is a lot, lot cheaper than Munsell or Pantone (now both owned by X-Rite) and is particularly well suited for Industrial Design. - you can get yourself a fan of RAL Classic colo…

I am not sure this is the correct take, they happened to have assumed the debt prior. But the building was sold independently for this price at a public auction. They had to do thi…

What difference does it make? It cost them more than $6.56M in the end but to deduct the building at a fair price they had to auction it and nobody bid higher than that.

There probably are exemptions for emergency or defense applications.

The equivalent today would be 3Dbenchy boats -- "we found an identical boat toy design in multiple sites made of different plastic materials, colors and sizes. It is spread univers…

The idea is that it could help lower inflation as shelter is a large portion of core CPI. It’s not about lowering the prime rate, but having a lower rate for creation of supply, wh…

Does anyone have a good explanation of why the Federal Reserve isn’t able to have lower interest rates for supply creation activities? It appears that would be a useful tool that w…

Machining & Prototyping shops or "on-demand manufacturers". That involves choosing a region, evaluating the options/making a list, contacting a few and having a NNN ready for them …

And the only thing that seems to be ruining him is the pure software play (Twitter)

I am a Software Engineer like you. I got started in making physical products in 2017 first with 3d printing, and today I do design for manufacturing. This might surprise some here,…

fun tidbit: the standard was updated in 2013 to replace the chasing arrows with a triangle because of this

I have the reverse issue, I am constantly coming up with creative ideas, so that by the time I am done building idea A prototype v1 (something like what you see in this video) or v…

This whole post is an anti-pattern and bad advice. It read as from someone who didn’t go through the growing pains of building complex websites. This is how we started building web…

Second this, I'd say started being common for Web apps in 2008 and "industry standard" by 2012 in the SF Bay Area.

The feasibility is not a function of the time or number of people. When you remove material, the slightest error is irreversible. By combining error rate, design tolerance bounds a…

The rough shaping is not at issue. The challenge is maintaining tolerances along all axis and constraints on your detail work while using high forces and pressures to work the hard…

As someone who works with manufacturing, I don’t think it’s silly. Precision is not just a function of time available, manpower and talent, but also tooling technology. Manufacturi…

Not pre-human but challenging the understood modern human timeline of industrialisation — We have not found the tools, but we may have found the products; in the form of stone-base…

I assume it sort of balances out, if properties don’t sell, they may go on the rental market. Another thing is that the renters pool has some elasticity built-in: renters may move …