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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Looks like a sweet printer. I was thinking of buying a Bambu for the holidays, but this looks like a better deal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (6 children)

What 3D printer do you have? The print looks good.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Are you taking these B-17 supplements daily? I'm just as much as a cynical person as the next guy, especially when it would comes to the pharmaceutical industry, but since cancer affects all life on this earth, I think there is a little more nuance. The cynicism in me says that this B-17 vitamin is being pushed by 'big supplement', the other side of the coin trying to sell products to consumers and corralling vitriol for modern medicine.

'Natural' and Modern medicine can coexist, they both can work and you can also trust neither. As a recipient of the 'poison injection' you are talking about, I am feeling fine so far.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Looks like it's still on pre-order for me

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Not sure the link you sent works on my app, but after doing a quick search, Vitamin B-17 has been banned by the FDA and is even regarded as dangerous.

https://www.webmd.com/cancer/amygdalin-cancer-treatment

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Isn't OpenAI also naming their next model Q as well (Q*)? Or is this the same model and OpenAI is licensing to Amazon?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Do we know if the drivers generally like each other? With all the crashing and attempts on risk of life I could see some at this dinner being uneasy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Some broadcasts yes. You can listen right in

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I understand something like a GMC Suburban or a Cadillac Escalade, but the Porsche Macan (in article thumbnail) and many other compact SUVs take up the same curb space and about the same weight and length as a standard sedan.

  • Porsche Macan (SUV): 4400lbs, 186.1"
  • Honda CRV (SUV): 3285lbs, 184.8"
  • Audi A4 (sedan): 3700lbs, 187.5"
  • Pegeout 508 (sedan): 3290lbs, 187"

vs

  • Cadillac Escalade (SUV): 6200lbs, 211"
  • Range Rover (SUV): 6025lbs, 207"

Unless they put weighted meters at every parking space, would be interesting to see how they enforce this. Compact-SUVs are useful and are well equipped for their weight (AWD, safety features, space-efficient).

Here is a cool chart showing weight vs road wear. Not sure how scientific it is, but shows cars around 4000lbs are considered normal wear.

Unless the goal is to move drivers to the subcompact-sedan form factor.

  • Mini Cooper: 3144lbs, 159.1"
  • Citreon C3: 2226lbs, 156.7"

Then they could make low cost parking spaces ~170" long and any cars that do not fit in that would have to go in the bigger spaces with a higher rate. Very curious how they would implement it without costing the tax payer too much.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd call the genre cowboy bebop, but wouldn't want to insult the show

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like you are a real pleasant person to work with

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I appreciate your opinion. I know that the qualification I made is a controversial one as everyone wants to be an 'engineer', but I'm still confident it holds. Applying physics is not purely at the atomic level. In web development, one of the physical challenges can be bandwidth, however, while most people claim to concerned about bandwidth, in reality they don't do anything about it. Minifying code is cool, but that's not doing any engineering by itself. Calculating the throughput your datacenter can dish out for your 1million users as you write a function that optimizes load vs lag of streaming video, that's engineering.

Thinking about user interaction and experience is more psychological than it is physical in most cases. Designing the user experience of a medical device or cockpit switch are both not automatically qualified for engineering: unless, you are designing the medical interface to overcome spasms that someone with Parkinson's has, or, the cockpit switch is designed with a plastic mix to survive the temperature, vibration or weight requirement, it's going to be more of an art-than-science. I'm not saying one is worse, but we need to make the distinction between designers, developers, scientists and engineers.

I understand that everyone wants to be an engineer, whether for pride or just to feel more important (hell I want the engineer title too). Unfortunately, the tech industry (with arguably one of the most conflated egos) liberally tossed around software engineering to every role to attract talent and I don't see that changing. It's a profession, so whatever you are being paid to do will determine if you are engineering

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