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In Portland, OR there are 100 or so public fountains known as Benson Bubblers. If you drink from one there is a small chance it is one of the bubblers I machined back in the day. Unfortunately, there have been a number of instances of these bubblers being used as a bidet so you can imagine folks in the know are hesitant to use them. However, the Water Bureau says they are routinely cleaned.

https://www.portland.gov/water/about-portlands-water-system/...

I'll offer a counterpoint. I have a 6x7 and it's heavy and cumbersome. I never use it.

You absolutely do not need to pay $20k for a medium format rangefinder. You can buy a Plaubel Makina for $2k-$3k right now and that's one of the more expensive options.

For what it's worth virtually every medium format rangefinder uses a leaf shutter integrated in the lens. Many are simply fixed lens cameras (Fujifilm). Even kits with interchangeable lenses like the Bronica RF645 and Mamiya 6/7 integrated leaf shutters in the lenses.

To get a sense for what is required to have a focal-plane shutter on a medium format camera look at the Pentax 67. It's huge and heavy. Even with the mirror locked up there is a significant amount of inertia from the shutter transferred to the user requiring the use of a tripod in many settings.

When I was in high-school 20 plus years ago excerpt based reading assignments were fairly common in non-honors/advanced placement classes. Except there were whole textbooks full of excerpt based assignments instead of computer software for this purpose. Anecdotally I took honors and AP English and those classes destroyed my desire to read for years. I only read a few of the assigned books cover to cover because they were either dreadfully boring or the expectations for how quickly we should read them were more than I, a very average student, could manage. Usually some combination of both. Rather than relying on cliffnotes and sparknotes alone I would typically read the first chapter, the last chapter, and then some chapter in the middle so I was prepared for tests and discussions.

At the end of the day the AP exams didn't test you on your knowledge of The Scarlet Letter or The Great Gatsby. The exam tested you on your ability to read an excerpt and answer questions about it as well as your ability to write a multi-paragraph essay from a prompt while a proctor wearing the most hideous smelling blackberry perfume bathed you in an olfactory assault every time they walked by. In-classroom writing assignments were the most effective way to prepare and we did them frequently. As a reward for doing well you got to skip a couple of 100 level English credits in college.

Sure there are lots of brainrot distractions available to kids today, but it feels like the education system never takes a moment to look inward and acknowledge that The Scarlet Letter and My Antonia are dreadfully boring reads. It took me three tries to finish 1984 because the beginning is such a slog. It is strange to say kids aren't interested in reading (from the article) when a lot of the subject matter is objectively dull. Four of the six books in the article header are books I don't even want to think about let alone read.

They are also very heavy duty compared to a normal washer and dryer, even a basic one. I've had mine since 2017 and they just work.

You haven't really provided any info that can help someone provide you with concrete advice.

  How are you apply to jobs?
  How many jobs have you applied for?
  What is the furthest you have gotten in the interview process?
  Are you working with any recruiters?
  Have you tried applying to another internship to see if you can convert to FTE?

A couple of things:

  It's the game I've always wanted to play

That doesn't mean it's a game everyone else wants to play. However, the game mechanic itself seems pretty decent.

What the game game lacks is "juice". Read up on game feel or game juice to get an idea. Play an addictive game like candy crush to understand what good game feel looks like in a puzzle game. Then go back to your game and think about how you can juice it up. For example, could the arrows be something more interesting like characters? Can the visual experience of clearing arrows be more rewarding? You get the idea. Juice it up.

Also, adds in games is an immediate turn off. I would make it good then figure out how to monetize.

There is no reason to be "more careful" about Godot. It's exactly what it says it is on the box, an OSS game engine with a permissive license. It's a newcomer to the game dev scene and I'm honestly surprised to learn Telsa uses this for in-car graphics and UI. Unreal is an established product that can be licensed. It has many advantages, but many choose not to use it because of it's licensing.

The cost of college is astounding. However, companies are not giving preferential treatment to non-grads. Find a school in your state with a good internship program for CS majors with a track record of converting interns to FTEs.

At first I thought maybe you were cherry-picking some examples from more prestigious schools. Then I checked on the tuition rates for the schools I attended. $29,000/yr for the less desirable school. $35,000/yr for the more desirable/well known school. That's the IN STATE rate. Neither of these are considered top tier or prestigious by any means. Just regular state schools that are virtually in the middle of nowhere.

Let's say you get a student job on campus to help cover costs. In my state you can only work a maximum of 19.5 hours per week in a student job by law. If you earn minimum wage (which you probably will) you can earn a maximum of $14,327/yr while attending school with your student job. That isn't enough to cover housing at either of these schools, let alone tuition.

People used to joke about people who went into six figure debt for an arts degree from a private college. Now a degree from a no name state school will set you back six figures.

Well paid collections agent? Collections engineer, if you will.

  Your onboarding will be making collection calls.

That's really interesting, but I'm curious to know if that amount of vibration is expected. It seems like something isn't mounted correctly from the videos.

  The keyboard arrangement was incidentally changed into QWERTY, first to receive telegraphs, then to thrash out a compromise between inventors and producers, and at last to evade old patents.

Interesting article. The connection to Morse code makes a lot of sense (C being similar to S). The requirement to move I below 8 to type 1870 or 1871 quickly is hilarious in retrospect. At the time who could have known the decision to focus on efficiency for the coming decade could be so enduring?

It's the 4 speed with the granny low gear.

I'd say that 6.5 as plenty of life left. My 6.2 is pushing 400,000km.

I would argue the 6.2L/6.5L Detroit Diesel is a superior choice in North America, which is the engine used in the article.

You can buy what is basically the same engine new. https://quadstartuning.com/products/amg-gep-optimizer-6500-l...

My time to shine! I still own an early square body truck with the 6.2L Detroit Diesel. The thing that stands out to me in this article is that the Suburbans shown are an earlier generation produced from 67-72. Those did not have a Diesel engine, however the 6.2L Detroit Diesel was designed to drop into anything with a Small Block Chevy, so I can see how these may have been retrofitted. In fact, these engines are still produced today in 6.5L form (see the AM General Optimizer) and are used in the HMMWV.

These really are very simplistic engines and simplistic vehicles in general. Mine has power nothing, at least electronically. The shifter really is comically large and very inconvenient to whoever sits in the middle. The highest gear is third gear.

Powerful? No, not really. But surprisingly efficient for the size. Reliable as well.

The seats weren't really all that comfortable to begin with. However, you can rebuild the seats. LMC Truck has rebuild kits with new foam and covers. You can even add heated seats.

The turbine version going for $2.4m is in fact the plane from the article OP shared. So that's what they are looking to get for their version.

https://www.planecheck.com/?ent=ap&man=antonov&des=an2&type=...

I bought a Bunn VP-17 commercial coffee maker over a decade ago and use that. It makes a fresh pot in 3 minutes and it can make 4 gallons of coffee an hour.

Edit: I just looked at the prices these go for currently and I definitely did not pay that much for one. At the time it was around $200 instead of the $400+ they sell for today.

I fail to see what part of my comment constitutes a "hateboner". Avoiding bias in journalism predates silicon valley by decades, if not centuries.

How about building an electric guitar? I made one when I was 17. It does require some special tools. Stewart Mac is a great resource for information and parts/equipment. Check out their book. https://www.stewmac.com/luthier-tools-and-supplies/supplies/...

Building a fender-style guitar first is the easiest route, especially if you use a double-truss neck rod (get it from Stewart Mac). I recommend buying a pre-cut fret board as well. Also, you can use tung oil instead of clear coating. Trying to do an opaque spray job was my biggest regret. I could have oiled my beautiful mahogany body with much better results.

Tools:

* Flexible edge (for pegboard and body profile https://shop.pacificarc.us/products/flexible-edge-curves)

* Bandsaw (body and neck shape)

* Drill Press

* Router (For the neck and body cavities)

* Thickness planer (only need this once to plane the body wood before gluing)

* Curved carving knife (Like this https://ramelson.com/product/curved-hook-carving-knife/) to profile the neck.

* Pipe clamps

Nice to have tools:

* Oscillating spindle sander

* Belt sander

* Router table

I recommend using an easy to work wood like maple for the first attempt. I found mahogany to be a lot of effort to work. Expect the project to take quite a wile. I think mine took 200 hours.

Yep, that's the sketch I'm thinking of.

Great project. It reminds me of the SNL sketch (can't remember which) where the character says "I like to keep a piece of sliced ham folded up in my pocket just so I have my own little secret."

The secretary of state also publishes this data.

I don't see how this was a result of complex automation or software appliances interfering with the captain and first officer's ability to fly the plane. The investigation concluded the flight was recoverable until just five seconds before impact. The plane was in full manual flight configuration well before impact. The captain failed to keep the first officer inside the control loop by failing to call out what he was doing and as a result the first officer made the situation worse. The captain stopped giving callouts in response to his perceived frustration with the control tower and the commands they gave.

Already did, but I still use forums like this site and Reddit in a mostly anonymous capacity. If you want to quit unfollow everyone and everything. It took time but one day my facebook feed just said "we don't have anything to show you.", and that was it, I was free.