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Heat rejection.

The company for which I work seems to be run by engineers. When learning to be an engineer you're taught that doing nothing is always a valid option. In Army leadership courses we were taught that ANY decision is better than NO decision.

My company is stifled by a bunch of engineers in leadership positions who always choose to defer up the chain rather than make a decision themselves.

The people who cheer the USAID cuts fail to grasp the moral necessity of sending their already inflated away tax dollars to other nations while there are still problems aplenty at home.

Asian manufacturing will continue to undercut Western manufacturing on cost due to the absence of safety culture and the spending that comes with it. The value of human life is higher in the West, and the manufacturing costs reflect that.

[2015], with a nice correction from 2017 about the differences between compressive and tensile strength.

Turn on the sink before you flush so a sizeable drop in header pressure becomes obvious.

Due to corporate IT working its fingers into everything vaguely computer related, I now have to annually change the passwords that operators use to log onto the HMIs on my OT network (which has no connection to the greater Internet.)

That means I now get calls after hours for a couple weeks (allowing for all shifts to cycle through) from operators who are locked out of their ops stations. I can't send the password via email, obviously, and word-of-mouth is inconsistent at best. So I'm left with the sticky note under the keyboard or stuck to the monitor, which the operators won't read anyway.

Loading a tennis ball full of the heads of strike anywhere matches is a core childhood memory.

Thanks. It was unclear reading the article and linked paper. I didn't follow the citation/link trail far enough.

I'm struggling to figure out what they're trying to say here in the linked (and very anemic) paper:

30% of Black applicants apply to at least one position that demonstrates adverse impact against Black applicants.

The whole thing reads like a tautology.

You don't understand! I NEED to drive a one-ton pickup every day to and from work! I MIGHT stop by the feed store on the way home to pick up some fence posts and fertilizer for my hobby farm. I HAVE to have the flexibility of a daily driver F350 just in case! It doesn't make sense for me to have a farm truck AND an economical Honda for daily driving!

What were the Belfast arson and Edinburgh stabbing in response to?

I've lived in Mississippi Hill Country, the Delta, and the Mississippi coast. The Delta is awful. Mechanization in farming and fleeing industry left the population behind to wither. North MS and the coast both have great things going for them and are relatively nice places to live, especially when cost of living is taken into account.

Accounts you can create inline as you go. Scheduled and automatic movements that just happen.

Things Gnucash does.

Considering the rampant fraud in a certain country's university system, give me local CC graduates.

This is the concern I have with all the driving aids: adaptive cruise control, automatic braking, lane departure assist, et cetera. It all leads to drivers paying less attention to the road and more attention to their @#$%&*! phones because "Muh car drives itself."

Nothing made me doubt the moon landings more than working for NASA.

Absolutely, and the future where everything digital is "in the cloud" seems closer and closer every day. RAM and SSD costs skyrocketing sure is squeezing out the consumer and making her more dependent on cloud-based services.

Buyers and sellers alike pointed to the same reason: growing up in the digital age has intensified the desire for analogue objects and tangible connections to the past. There is something special about holding history in your hands.

Books don't change. The online written word is subject to revision and change, as are ebooks. A physical volume which one owns and holds cannot be memory-holed.

Lotta middle managers here goofing off instead of working :D

No, because the state owns a monopoly on violence and cracks down hard on vigilantism.

Thinking that middle management is useless isn't a fad, it's an acknowledgement of reality.

If I own property in multiple municipalities/states, then I should be able to vote in all of them on local issues.

Malawi has also long been a darling of donors. Malawi’s aid per capita in 2023 was roughly 2.5x the global average.

Maybe the population doesn't feel like it needs to be productive, if they're continuing to receive such generous largesses. Isn't that the goal of UBI for developed nations? People should be able to pursue their passions and not have to worry about the necessities of life?

The legislative process has a check valve. Vote on it until passes, then it can't be undone ever.

There's an incredibly serious lack of education with how LLMs & carb-counting works

The public's education comes from the incessant marketing from AI companies that their models are the panacea for everything.

Each knob on the Master Control Panel has a different geometrical shape, allowing the user to distinguish the knobs by feel.

Auto manufacturers should take a clue here.

The tragedy of the commons doesn't seem to exist in Japan to the same extent it does in Western nations, especially the US. As you said: that's largely due to reasons not mentioned in the article.

Medical malpractice consistently ranks in the top three leading causes of death in the US. Student use of AI to pass courses can only exacerbate the issue.

Not mentioned in the article is that whales were once able to communicate globally, but the low frequency noise generated by maritime traffic killed the "Whale Internet."