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"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I've noticed that these commercial auctions conspicuously do not publish the mileage in the listing, just a photo of the odometer.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.

China's ability to influence US mass psychology via TikTok is a greater threat than the privacy considerations.

My Airhead composting toilet has an inner door that's opened by a small handle once you are ready to make your deposit.

If you move around a lot, its better without a trailer. I regularly spend nights in urban areas. Towing a camper limits you to typical campgrounds.

Solar charging can add only approximately 3 miles of range per hour of full sunlight charging. Too slow for the intended purpose.

Travato is based on a Dodge Promaster.

Van based vehicles have some advantages over the traditional RVs: Unibody construction, so better efficiency, drivability, easier to park, less obnoxious looking.

I have a Ford Transit with 600 watts of solar and a full sized computer workstation inside. I bought the vehicle used for 23k USD, and put another 10k in the build. If you DIY, it not that expensive.

Yes. Sharper Image sold one called the "Ionic Breeze". They generate ozone, which is a problem however. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_ioniser

Apple Magic Keyboard. Glue 4 cut-in-half ear plugs to the bottom as feet/shock absorbers.

The minimal key travel is very efficient for fast typing and the added feet absorb shock when you bottom out if you bang hard.

I've been doing this for about 10 years -- works great.

Clean water evaporates from the top like a traditional system.

This innovation simply helps prevent the water where the evaporation is occurring from getting too salty over time.

Could you simply contort your face? Could the officer prevent you from doing that?

Sounds like it is predictive. Just not when:

> Controlling for differences such as household income and cognitive abilities ...

So it's a (predictive) IQ test.

Perhaps it disavows the prior assumed basis of "deferred gratification", but not the predictive power of the test.

Somewhat related documentary: Twinsters 2015 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2980626/ It's good.

Could also be lack of hair on your arms/legs.

But there's a selection bias for trendy folks, whereas many executive suites can be quite the opposite.

Perhaps it's doable with humans, but not scalable.

And AI makes it scalable.

Has anyone heard bats making beeping sounds with just your ears? I can sometimes hear what sounds like high pitch computer beeping.

Where can I read comments/discussion about interesting topics like this without all the naysaying and snark? (honest question)

And what friends you do make end up leaving.

I always thought some of the vertical branches growing on this mossy Live Oak in Gainesville FL, were like small trees growing out of the moss on the larger, horizontal branches. They look atypical. https://www.google.com/maps/@29.6527082,-82.3339247,3a,45.5y...

I wonder how much warming and change in precipitation is related to greening of the country from additional CO2 in the atmosphere and resulting changes in the albedo.