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I find it very hard to believe that someone who has never done any CAD could design that with Fusion 360 in a day. I do lots of 3D design with Fusion and there is a serious learnin…

Google suspend email accounts that get lots of spam reports. It happens a couple of times a year for salespeople in my company who use Gmass (a bulk email sending tool). I mention …

Yes! Ask anyone with 30 years in the industry whether "agile", for all its problems, was a force for good or bad, and the answer will be an emphatic Good! If nothing else, it gave …

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> and people strongly prefer the taste and texture. ...and _people in the USA_ strongly prefer... Although, I don't know how solid the evidence for even that statement is.

I am puzzled that the media is widely reporting that the issue was caused by solar radiation, and that the immediate fix is to revert to the previous version of software for the EL…

If you're in the vicinity of the road called London Wall (where the car park referenced in the article is) then it's only a short walk to London's Roman amphitheatre [1]. It doesn'…

You don't need a removable wheel to sharpen a pizza cutter on a stone. That's actually pretty clear from the video showing the sharpening of the removed wheel - the fact they the w…

The dominant themes in the thread relate to using existing WiFi infrastructure in real world environments. I thought it would be obvious that I was critiquing this line of thinking…

This is just a dedicated RF emitter combined with a dedicated receiver. The fact that is it uses WiFi hardware is probably just because that's the cheapest and most available hardw…

> You'd be surprised by how many amateur cyclists ride more than that each year. You wouldn't. As an 8k km/yr cyclist with a lot of cycling friends, I can tell you that 12.5k/yr is…

Yes. Are you confusing "adventurer" and "explorer"? There are plenty of contemporary adventurers (motivated by ego, fame, personal achievement) but explorers? Not so much.

The idea that you can apply lower-quality engineering practices in some systems is totally wrong, I think. Good engineering practices will help you retain good developers, will all…

Our team has thorough, high quality, automated tests. In the past 5 years we have never released such a badly broken system that emergency remedial work was required. We still don'…

I am a runner. I had proper flu this year for the first time. I have never been that ill ever before. I could not even get upstairs to bed one night when I was at my worst.

Fantastic app. My wife and I are gradually becoming able to recognise more and more birds by their call. This is great because the human ear is better than the app at rejecting env…

The preliminary report seems to suggest that the yacht's construction was at fault. I don't understand the following: "The study indicated that if the wind was blowing directly ont…

My 5-year-old Volvo reports 73-74 mph when GPS tells me that I'm exactly at 70mph. Similarly 21 mph when GPS says 20.

I built something like this. I am amused that mine too was built for my wife and also was one of the few techie things I've ever done that received unqualified spousal approval. Mi…