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Post by Scoundreller »

ClumsyPilot wrote: post #232
amluto wrote: post #129

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My “modern” (20-year-old, which is solidly modern by this standard) dishwasher cleans much better than I remember my childhood dishwasher cleaning. It also doesn’t melt plastic on the bottom rack, which is a fantastic feature. The main downside is it takes two hours, and I think my childhood dishwasher took one hour. My modern front load washer gets clothes clean. It also doesn’t severely abrade them. As I understand…

> My modern front load washer gets clothes clean. It also doesn’t severely abrade them. I had rented a place with a washer that ruined all of my clothes. I didn't figure out whats happening untill it was too late

Yeah, I’ve had front loaders trap a sheet in a seal and then scorch a bunch of stuff when it spun at a bajillion rpm against the 0rpm fabric.

Wash on delicate with Cold water my friends!

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Post by UmbertoNoEco »

micromacrofoot wrote: post #273
UmbertoNoEco wrote: post #160

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You just need to get on with the times. To read somebody now, you must: A) Be sure that whatever they wrote you agree 100% with. B) That person must share your full worldview and must have a pristine moral reputation. Anything else is dangerous, wrong and frankly subversive so I dont mind if you get punished by violating these simple principles.

there’s a very wide chasm between “don’t agree with an opinion” and “serial murderer” you’re talking about the unabomber like he’s a victim of cancel culture instead of a guy that killed 3 people and maimed a dozen more

I've read books or articles by far worse people. Reading != morally approving the character of the author. Even easier in this case when the content is very interesting and relevant and the criminal author is not getting any revenue from me reading his content.

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Post by noduerme »

maccard wrote: post #209
noduerme wrote: post #152

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I remember my grandfather in Vegas lamenting that allowing people to wear trashy street clothes or anything less than formal wear / suit and tie into the casinos, or on airplanes, would lead to more and more bad behavior. This seemed incredibly uncool and old-fashioned at the time, but it turns out he was right. Decades of increasingly lax social codes around how people present themselves in public have led to genera…

> I remember my grandfather in Vegas lamenting that allowing people to wear trashy street clothes or anything less than formal wear / suit and tie into the casinos, or on airplanes, would lead to more and more bad behavior. This seemed incredibly uncool and old-fashioned at the time, but it turns out he was right. I don't agree at all. A huge amount has changed since airlines enforced formal wear - for example, I can…

>> I can fly to Prague/Budapest/Amsterdam for under €30

The three flights guaranteed to have a stag party.

The common way to look at this is that flying has gotten cheaper. Another way to look at - the way the Soviets would have looked at it - is that the masses have gotten much wealthier.

So if you agree that rich people are not necessarily better-behaved than poor people, and that anyone who can afford to fly for vacation is wealthy by the standards of 40 years ago, then there's some other explanation for why people feel alright making complete asses of themselves on RyanAir. I submit that when people feel like trash, they act like trash. When they feel like they're shown respect, they act with respect. When the people around you are dressed formally it's a sign of respect for the place and for each other, which creates a circle of respectful behavior.

This is why in my grandfather's time even the poorest folks had "Sunday clothes" and acted a certain way in them. Certain activities like flying or going to a casino called for your Sunday best.

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Scoundreller wrote: post #289
Xeoncross wrote: post #278

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Same goes for construction materials. So many people fail to read the wood/adhesive/countertop/screw/paint datasheets which sometimes include recommendations against the way the product is often used. reminds me of medications and antibiotics which include their own datasheets that not all medical providers cross-check against your current medications.

Oh c’mon, if I read those things I wouldn’t ever use a q-tip again in my life.

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Post by matthews2 »

kortex wrote: post #252
javajosh wrote: post #79

Am I the only one who looks at these projects with a combination of awe and apathy and jealousy? I do software, not hardware, and I like knowing how things work. When an expert in a different field glances at a PCB and identifies components, their purpose, by sight, and then rummages around a loose parts bin to go deeper, it dawns on me: this is someone's life. The same way I've been swimming in (application) softwar…

I was in the same spot when I met this brilliant hardware hacker at this hackerspace who had no formal EE degree but could design circuits in his sleep. "How do you do it?" "I read data sheets and a lot of wikipedia". I already spend tons of time on wiki, so I started reading data sheets. And he was absolutely right, datasheets for components are often chock full of information on how to use them, often with recipe b…

The application notes for microcontrollers are usually pretty good. They don't just explain how you do something, but why you do it a particular way.

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Post by micromacrofoot »

UmbertoNoEco wrote: post #292
micromacrofoot wrote: post #273

Earlier quoted context omitted.

there’s a very wide chasm between “don’t agree with an opinion” and “serial murderer” you’re talking about the unabomber like he’s a victim of cancel culture instead of a guy that killed 3 people and maimed a dozen more

I've read books or articles by far worse people. Reading != morally approving the character of the author. Even easier in this case when the content is very interesting and relevant and the criminal author is not getting any revenue from me reading his content.

Yeah this isn’t reading it though, this is going online and praising a serial killer. Imagine a loved one dies from a mail bomb and someone online says “yeah but he made a good point tho”

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Post by a4isms »

Waterluvian wrote: post #69

Wow. So I'm watching the Techmoan review and it's just amazing. You've got this pretty awesome product.... up until you can clearly see the business types shoving their grubby hands in the way of UX and good engineering. Oh no no no. We can't just sell a product. We need recurring revenue. So we'll make DRM proprietary detergent pods that require electronics in each one. Ah, but people will reject that because they k…

It's interesting that we have already had this exact same transition with pure software: It is increasingly difficult to just buy an indefinite license to use a program that is dowloaded or shipped to you on physical media, to be run on your device.

Instead, companies find increasingly flimsy reasons to ship "Software as a Service," which in many cases exists solely to generate Annual Recurring Revenue, or "ARR."

I'd like to make a joke about ARR Growth Hacking, or "ARRGH," but I'm too depressed to take pleasure in it. Sure, there are convenience factors involved in apps you can just use from a web browser. Sure, many apps require a centralized aspect to be valuable, like social media. And sure, maintaining compatibility requires ongoing overhead, and companies need a revenue model that is aligned with their expense model, or they will close their doors.

But the end result is still a world where the ability to just buy a thing--whether physical or not--is rapidly shrinking.

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Post by ddingus »

OJFord wrote: post #121
dkurth wrote: post #108

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Exactly. We pre-rinse the dishes, get the water running hot before starting the machine, and choose the heavy cycle. Even so, the dishwasher barely cleans our dishes. And it's a Bosch, well reviewed by Consumer Reports when we got it! People in this thread are talking about the SpeedQueen washing machine. Is there something similar for dishwashers? I would pay good money for a dishwasher that actually cleaned my dish…

> get the water running hot before starting the machine Interesting if this is a US difference - but here (in the UK) at least dishwashers (usually? I suppose I don't want to claim to speak for 100%) only have a cold water inlet; they do their own heating.

Ours is a US model, has a pre-heat water cycle. I think it does have a hot water inlet, but we do not use it.

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Post by lostgame »

ssl232 wrote: post #184

Reminds me of the Juicero [1]: an attempt to bring DRM to fruit juice. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cp-BGQfpHQ

I often wonder what the CEO and investors of Juicero actually felt when the video of the ease to self-squeeze was released. I can't imagine that level of just instantly knowing everything you've worked on is absolutely fucked and there can be absolutely no recovery or hope for it.

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Post by MandieD »

GuB-42 wrote: post #251
javajosh wrote: post #79

Am I the only one who looks at these projects with a combination of awe and apathy and jealousy? I do software, not hardware, and I like knowing how things work. When an expert in a different field glances at a PCB and identifies components, their purpose, by sight, and then rummages around a loose parts bin to go deeper, it dawns on me: this is someone's life. The same way I've been swimming in (application) softwar…

I think you have the right mindset, you don't need that much to start hacking digital electronics. Analog is harder for programmers because there is less skill overlap but simple hacks can't be that hard if you are willing to do it. What always frustrated me with electronics was material considerations. You need all sorts of stuff, like a good soldering iron, oscilloscope, hot air station, magnifying glass/microscope…

Yeah, I've learned that my new amateur radio hobby is not very compatible with a newly-climbing, curious little human. Thank goodness I have my own little office so I don't have to unplug and carefully pack EVERYTHING every time, but forget anything involving soldering - there's just not enough room for even a small workbench anywhere I can close the door to the little guy who loves anything shiny or with a cable.
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