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Great another thing to self diagnose, except now you can sound pretentious too. Most people, myself included, don't have anything truly wrong with them other than bad habits and bad discipline that will just take a year or more time horizon to struggle and work through until resolved. It's not that they're not real. I just don't like the idea of adopting something as a title or ownership "I have depression/I am depressed" vs "I am experiencing depression as a symptom from a lack of exercise and an abuse of the internet and entertainment."

Also therapy is more available than ever and talking to a real person is guaranteed healthier than reading WebMD. If you can't afford a therapist talk to your friends. It takes a bit of courage to admit your feelings but everyone has experienced these feelings to some degree and likely has great advice. Even finding out, for example, that it took one friend a few years to get over something is helpful since it means you don't have to beat yourself up about not getting over it today.

Nice!

This article is fantastic and answers a lot of questions I didn't know I had!

It's a truck you dork. You do work with it. It gets dented. Gravel comes up and chips your window.

Are they being greedy or is this just inflation? $7.99 was the original DVD rental fee in 1997 → which is $12.51 in 2019 dollars. I wish I had a better mental tool for working with inflation in my "get-mad-o-meter", haha.

no problem! glad you enjoyed:)

That's an interesting thought. Those can see the actual tissue as well.

Could we actually do this in a safe way? Having ill fitting shoes can cause a lot of long term damage. There could be a case that it's worth the X-ray risk...

Unicomp bought the tooling and makes a full n-key rollover usb version of the M http://www.pckeyboard.com/page/SFNT

I think we all tend to focus on building the system which is the most point of failure resistant rather than the point of failure itself. I've found performance reviews to be fantastically valuable and motivating when I have a good manager.

Rather than endless optimization of the system. Train your managers. Everything from giving good feedback to ignoring or forgetting a bias is a skill that can be learned.

It's hard not to be dismissive of what appears to be a simple set of concepts, but you're missing on an opportunity to learn a very cool set of skills here. I recommend that anyone who wants to live a better life and do better work read books on the Toyota Production System and Taiichi Ohno. As for Poka-Yoke, It's a word that seems simple but when used in industry contexts communicates a deeper set of requirements than just "make it foolproof". Also, don't undersell how useful systematizing common sense is (and how difficult its application can get).

Yea, I don't know why this reporter took such a negative tack. They deserve praise for continuing to deliver service during downtime.

Please. They released an iOS update and the calculator wasn't working. How many expensive 10x PhDs do you need to release a working calculator app?

Ya'll need to go outside.

No. It would be boring.

I use the numberpad all the time as a Mechanical engineer. ffs, there are other fields than clacky clack let's make another bullshit frontend library artists.

Fusion is likely to displace Solidworks and Autodesk's own inventor in the market within the next few years. It's easy, powerful, and most importantly update regularly and with features people want. Onshape is pretty awful, so no threat there. Source: Spent about a hundred million hours in this sort of software ;;' _ '

Craigslist is one of the best pages on the internet. It's functional, it loads fast, it doesn't have a stack built of buzzwords and bullshit. It works on every device everywhere. I mean, what business does a page have being megabytes and megabytes if it's gonna display a couple bytes of text? None. It doesn't matter if it's "technically free" these days, that's just bad design and engineering.

Hackers got most of it right.

I really like my hosted email because it's not on my computer. I love offline software, but it all sucks for security. Dropbox, Evernote, Outlook, etc. They all just dump my data in a folder anyone with physical access to my very stealable laptop can get at. Email is especially terrifying because there's just so much personal info in there. I have evernote and dropbox sitting in a bitlocker, so that's okay-ish, but the email thing is just too much.

I used to be the top hit on google, then someone made Gerrit. Damn them.

This one is so fast! Nice Job!

The biggest thing to remember is that a manager is a servant of the team. Never the other way around. You enable them to do work. Which means handling information, communicating, helping them communicate, talking to management, protecting them from unreasonableness, setting clear goals, going to pick up the dang pizza yourself so the work doesn't stop, making sure there are long stretches of time to do work,etc. You do more grunt work than anybody and in return leadership happens.

There are sections of this that overlap with how I treat meetings, but overall it seems like a bunch of verbal fluff that's the opposite of what a meeting should be. Exceedingly clear, short, and purposeful.

I learned a more pragmatic, even meeting-hostile approach to meetings: http://hackaday.com/2016/10/06/life-on-contract-how-to-have-...

Hah, you're right. That would improve the article, fixed.

Well, I don't disagree with you, but I can add some merit to my recommendations.

1. Each cable has a bend radius recommended by the supplier. If this bend radius is exceeded (too small) then it is very unlikely that the cabling will function properly electrically, especially for high speed communications. Cross-talk, dropped packets, etc. If anything the supplier is off the hook for meeting their spec since it wasn't installed correctly.

2. The plastic insulation will take this for a while but two things happen to polymers with a constant stress on them.

2.a They suffer stress relaxation via creep. The long linked molecules will reach a new alignment over time. They will no longer be in their plastic range and settle in a new configuration. This could result in more crosstalk or even a complete insulation failure as a function of time.

2.b Flexible plastics typically slowly lose plasticity over time due to the breakdown of the plasticizer that made them flexible. (That nice new cable smell) Most cables have PVC made flexible due to these additives. If this box is warm due to the heat from the drive and pi, then it's entirely likely that the cable could further degrade under the constant strain and creep and fail. Causing not only thinning but brittle breaking of the jacket. It doesn't have to be visible breaking for it to stop working electrically.

Basically you can't trust your wire anymore. It could work forever. It could fail randomly. It could just cause communication errors that are hard to trace.

As for the box, they just used too much plastic and pushed the thing through the machine too fast without cooling. But then again, I am not an ultra expert on injection molding. It's an art. My recommendation would be "Have a sit down with your molder, these faults do not need to be."

Oh god the bend radius on those cables. Also atrocious sinking and warping. This is the kind of stuff I have nightmares about. Please if you're thinking of building a hardware project and have never done it before at least consult someone like me. I'll look over anyone in SF's project and give a list of things to worry over for the price of a coffee, just don't do this.

I've spent probably ten hours in the last week doing market research for my startup pitch deck in the SFPL. I have five books checked out and more on hold. Anyone who isn't constantly using their library is both wasting money and missing out.

So... if a company does all due diligence to perform a recall, but very few people actually send back their five dollar web camera. Is the company pretty much off-the-hook then if that customer's kept webcam gets hacked and is used to brick a nun's IoT pacemaker?

Huh. If this works I should be way more aggressive about finding a ME/EE oriented product design engineer job in SF.