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Not directly the answer, the only weird part (albeit not LLM alike attribution) would the use of 'reach out', after the negative attitude towards corpo-speak. "Contact", "call," "talk", "meet", etc. would be a lot better/normal/human words.

Indeed, and it's filled with top-level filler comments unfortunately.

Even setting up camera, lights - etc. goes in the way of doing things. Then someone would have to narrate it, and so on.

Look at the picture at the title - RTL8103EL - which has absolutely nothing to do with anything regarding the text below. Then it quotes HN comments

Well, don't use impact drivers (if that's "the gun", esp. an air tool). Like mentioned earlier, a drill driver with a low clutch setting is totally ok.

a half-turn before breaking is how tight you want it to be

That feels super random, I would not think it allies to lots of fasteners - e.g. lug nuts, spark plugs, crank shaft bolts, or even deck screws (where another half turn would berry them too deep), or plastic self tapping screws. Perhaps some smaller ones like M4 bolts, or non-counter sunk wood screws?

Learning to use power tools (well any tools) should be considered desirable.

Editing used to be fine, back then like 15-16y ago. Personally I posted mostly everything as community wiki (no reputation gain) as I got the mod-alike reputation anyways.

At some point the (say 2013-2014 or so) the site deteriorated quite massively, though - as folks considered stackoverflow CV worthy material...

While not-precise settings 1-3 usually don't do much and after 4-5 screws you'd know which setting feels right (incl. tightening by hand to climb the scale). Most folks won't have sub 5Nm torque wrenches in general to calibrate or finish, so it'd be wrist tight feeling, I suppose.

depending on the battery SoC,

The clutch is mechanical, so it should not matter and for brushless motors, the battery charge (voltage) should not matter at low torque, either. Just to be clear - I'd not advise to copy someone else's drill clutch settings.

Worst case if you end up stripping the chipboard - fill with putty of epoxy and wood shavings, wait for 5-6mins, re-drill, so on. It's annoying if it happens but overall it's quite easy to recover from.

it’s still going to take longer.

I never said otherwise, and the rest of my post tells it could be time consuming. The criticism is to the random time quote based off solely on parts count.

Just for reference IKEA tend NOT to include wall fasteners (or anything alike, e.g. nylon inserts) that alone is a way more involved process (incl. leveling that I mentioned in a top post) than connecting a mdf-board plate (parts) with dowel pins (many parts) and metal screw(s) (even more parts).

Hinges need more time in general as well.

use an angle grinder.

I do use wood glue on all dowel pins, so most stuff is assembly once only. Unless the furniture provides metal inserts for machine screws, I do not consider it disassembly material. It's likely to exhibit the spontaneous disassembly on its right own otherwise (or squeak soon enough)

Any drill nowadays would have a clutch. Use it, so it limits the torque. It applies for pretty much any kind of work (e.g. including mounting intake manifold on a lawn-mower, but then it's likely to use a torque wrench too)

What's the assembly time based on?

IKEA in general is piss easy to assemble except for leveling stuff where you'd need a laser and often times another person. Some of provided tools (the famous L 6mm hex key made of cheese) and hardware (nails) tend to be very poor... and sometimes it'd need a visit to buy extra hardware - e.g. low-profile head, non-counter sunk screws to attach to the wall.

Repairing furniture or addressing mistakes tend to be fixable by a mix of wood shavings/dust and epoxy in most cases.

So the assembly would depend on previous experience, available tools, and free space.

C led to an atrophy of assembly muscles.

This is not true, though. Technically I don't do C but I used to do Assembly. Yet in Java code paths, to have a decent proof (and satisfactory results) of the optimizations made by JIT, PrintAssembly still works.

Assembly is not just the raw instructions that trigger microcode or knowing the latency of each one of them, or the (un)expected cache misses, it's the understanding the hardware, itself.

Not really, it got turbo charged to Nasdaq which involves some involuntary investments.

alternatively, you ignore the feelings of all (hurt) parties and carry on. The original article is exceptionally poor when it comes to any detail.

I am no metallurgist, or machinist, or work in fabrication, at best I can qualify as a welder made by grinder and paint. Yet, reading that feels more like a sci-fi story (and even technologies that haven't been imagined yet) than just sci.

It's very rare (if ever) I'd want M on both ends... and no work stealing. Usually it's one M and an S.

You can try 'ugreen phone holder car' in amazon. Ugreen is an ok brand. Usually there will be a hook and some tension mechanism for the air vent.

that works with random rental car I get. Any suggestions?

Clip based ones, worst case you can mount them on the aircon vents. They are not great in general but they are cheap and you can fit them pretty much anywhere

that was the joke

no way it covers 1000m2 in an hour. It is ~35cm in diameter, so it has to travel around 3km. That would mean it'd require around 1m/s, which is 3times its rated speed... Then of course, it'd have time to charge. Even with 1C it's still 1 hour between cleaning sessions. We assume regular battery changes every couple of weeks too

Now that it's history, we can look back and learn that the antitrust case just didn't matter one way or another. Nothing was really gained by victory, and nothing would have been lost by defeat.

You are missing the fact that the US administration did change and Microsoft was not broken... similar to the fact google/alphabet escaped that too

That'll be five billion Euros please."

feel free to pull out of the market, if you dislike the rules. Google pulled out of China for instance.

This judgment fails to recognize our significant investment to ensure Android remains open

I wonder if that could be considered contempt of courts.

I thought the title missed the year (in parenthesis)

it's easier to remember that it originated from the Byte range, where all bytes could be kept in. Character didn't have negative values so it did [0-128) instead. Long and Short are the same as Byte.

Years before the autoboxing/Integer.valueOf() caching stuff (and before generics), (I) used to have IntegerProvider that did similar stuff to higher ranges. Personally, I have considered autoboxing on integers net-negative for Java

It will randomly turn the TV on/off and switch the channels as a funny bonus. Cool idea nontheless

running 5090 on 32GB RAM is just weird, still

S4 suspend

Is not popular in general, so yes. But also no - I don't use swap ever, if I have to go over the RAM (32GB being low, with 64GB the norm), might as well consider the system dead.

you can make it abc with 'C' being cunt

Or even simpler stuff like RAM and SSD (and soon phones) will be reasonably priced