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Awesome. Good luck. Unfortunately I'm no longer in PDX or I'd be there. I always wanted a "hacking dojo" -- a sacred place to think and create with other in flow, together. Shower before entering, robes and laptops only :)

field sobriety test != breathalizer

Deceptively dangerous!

An exposed, spinning shaft seems benign but once it wraps you or your clothing around the shaft it pulls you in and destroys you in a flash.

it seems this could be solved by refusing last minute bets?

I previously managed a firewall via scripts which would automatically revert your update in 20 seconds unless interrupted. So if you botched it and lost access, you just had to sit tight for 20 seconds.

On Reddit perhaps. Not here.

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14% over estimates it because the user isn't clicking with uniform randomness, their clicks are normally distributed about the center of the line.

In total the thickness went down from 7 to 6 pixels, which is a 14% decrease, making it 14% more likely to miss it.

Pedantic, but chance of miss is actually less than 14% more likely since the user's click location is not uniformly random over the thickness area, it's biased toward the center (normally distributed).

No furniture in front of the window.

See https://Schematix.com

Has a graph query capability which is like a reasoning engine. And beyond that, can run simulations on the models.

Multi user, version control with branch and merge, time shifting, etc.

It's for diagramming whole environments, not just discrete diagrams.

How many died waiting for approval of cures we did find?

If you like diagrams that are also interactive via topological graph queries, See:

https://schematix.com/video/depmap/

https://schematix.com

Schematix is somewhat unique. Direct competitors? -- not exactly, but IT asset managers, DCIM, BC/DR tools, and CMDBs are all competitors to some degree.

Some of our best users are professional consultants who use us for a project which often introduces us to a new customer.

A Show HN would certainly be in order. Thanks for the thoughts!

You might be interested in:

https://schematix.com/video/depmap

I'm the founder. It's a tool for interacting with deployment diagrams like you mentioned in your article.

We have customers who also model state machines and generate code from the diagrams.

The subject matter of the example used to demonstrate the interface is unnecessarily complex. It can be simple yet still stimulate a complex discussion. That would make it easier to understand the interface.

I think he was describing the fact that they already operate with decision framework that they already understand. Implicit in the results received from a particular test is the fact that there was a particular observation made that suggested they get such a test.

If they get results from a test, but without the compelling observation, they're then operating outside their well established statistical framework, and they can't confidently evaluate the meaningfulness of the test results.

To me, this doesn't mean the extra information is bad, or unhelpful, it's just they are not yet properly calibrated to use it properly.

I've heard this sentiment from medical professionals before and this was my conclusion.

"Interestingly, the pitch for a lot of robotic welding systems is often more focused on the difficulty of finding skilled welders, rather than on the potential cost savings of a welding robot"

Inability to find skilled welders IS THE SAME as seeking cost savings, because in a market economy, skilled welders can be found if you pay enough.

Check out https://schematix.com/video/?play=schematix-editing

Schematix generates diagrams (models) from code which can be entered via the web interface, or from a remote command line or scripts.

Diagrams are rendered on-the-fly from queries called "topological expressions" run against the model. The model must be updated as IT workers change the environment, but since diagrams are generated from code, they always reflect the most up to date information from the model.

Complex pricing is intended to impede price shopping.

Oh yeah! Give a throttle blip during shutdown and you could cause a huge back-fire, sometimes occurring after you already exited the car! Always a crowd pleaser.

Use sshfs.

See also the Michael Crichton movie Looker https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082677/ which is about this topic

I've noticed that these commercial auctions conspicuously do not publish the mileage in the listing, just a photo of the odometer. It's interpretation is up to the buyer. That behavior should tell you something.

I too am perplexed. Perhaps the compressive strength is all derived from the epoxy not from the carbon fiber.

If the smaller circle rolled along the INSIDE of the larger circle, it would be one LESS rotation rather than one MORE.

Magnetic coupling is clever. I always figured they used centrifugal force instead. Perhaps some do.

Wind and solar are parasites. They can't exist without the fossil fuel energy sources handling the times when the wind doesn't blow and the Sun doesn't shine.

Like the employee who gets all the easy shifts and never works weekends.