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www.bermita.com mitch_hn@bermita.com
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mhb··on Formlabs Studio 1 $699 Resin Printer
I'm not a marketing agency. I just saw it on Applied Science and was impressed that mainstream resin printers were available for that price.

3D-printed, alcohol-powered, Einstein-Szilard absorption refrigerator https://youtu.be/doZ5e4YVdEs?si=WNiw0_R7efE6M_jM

mhb··on Formlabs Studio 1 $699 Resin Printer
For another $250, you can get another box that washes and cures.
mhb··on Formlabs Studio 1 $699 Resin Printer
> "true" SLA

What is that? Why is it better?

mhb··on Formlabs Studio 1 $699 Resin Printer
It says it includes "Open Material Mode" which let's you "...print with any 405 nm photopolymer resin or 1064 nm powder on Formlabs 3D printers..."
mhb··on Whatever Happened to Fire Escapes
> Except if you are hitting 100% utilization at any point, there isn't really any slack.

Yes, that's why the phrase "when the need lessens" is important.

Besides that, it may be a reasonable decision that 95% utilization is acceptable in order to spend the additional money on something that provides more benefit.

mhb··on Whatever Happened to Fire Escapes
You must be enthusiastic about people using ERs when they have strep throat, right?

Let me think for a few seconds about ideas. Fitter EMTs who can assist people in more demanding physical situations. A subset of firefighters who can provide medical assistance but don't need the complete fire training curriculum and so can be paid less. Maintaining the ratio of firefighters and stations which was previously found satisfactory but adjusting it for requiring fewer of them since we have fewer fires.

Your turn.

mhb··on Whatever Happened to Fire Escapes
> Ahh yes, the old "why do we have all these inefficient empty hospital beds???" problem.

Yeah. That makes sense a lot of the time. It also makes sense to reduce capacity when the need lessens while still maintaining adequate slack.

mhb··on Whatever Happened to Fire Escapes
Sure. And that's carrying someone out of a burning building. Most of the time the building you're getting someone out of isn't burning and you don't need someone trained to fight fires to do that and that person will cost less to employ.
mhb··on Whatever Happened to Fire Escapes
Neither does firefighting. The point is if we don't need as many firefighters to fight the fewer fires we have, there are more cost-effective ways of maintaining a group of first responders for medical emergencies.
mhb··on Whatever Happened to Fire Escapes
So is powerlifting and ...?
mhb··on Whatever Happened to Fire Escapes
I realize it which is why their strategy is a good one. Does it make sense for the people who are able to do that job also all be able to put out fires?
mhb··on Whatever Happened to Fire Escapes
Is that because a fire extinguisher is spoken or that it's not essential?
mhb··on Whatever Happened to Fire Escapes
Is that because the firefighters are bored or because they want to show the public that they're doing something valuable before the public realizes that we don't need so many of them?
mhb··on Documents: Police officer gave her Flock login to her ICE agent husband
If only we could just air gap it.
mhb··on Tesla Roadster
Better than the handle of the banana that indicates which side to open?
mhb··on New Apple TV 4K
What's the relevance of it being for-profit? You're assuming that non-profits necessarily have less of a hunger for data?
mhb··on How machines learned precision
Once a year display of large steam engines running in Providence, RI at the New England Museum of Wireless and Steam. Saturday, October 10:

https://newsm.org/

mhb··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
Who cares about them? I want Tao to stop proving all the interesting problems I was planning to work on.
mhb··on Driver Ticketed for No Insurance Just Because Flock (YC 2017) Said She Didn't
You find this one example hard to believe because you have several sort of counterexamples? Weak.
mhb··on Sherline Tools Is Going Out of Business
Sherline still has new ones.
mhb··on Sherline Tools Is Going Out of Business
Mine just worked. Couldn't be happier with it.
mhb··on Israeli Minister Threatens Filmmakers' Citizenship over Gaza Documentary
No, that's not the "definition".
mhb··on Eating Fruit Skins
Maybe it's like bacon in the same way that spaghetti squash is like spaghetti? (Shape only)
mhb··on The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]
And, unsurprisingly, the video also includes speaking where the head of the company says that.
mhb··on A Small Telescope That Surprised Me
Read the first few sentences. If you don't like it, stop reading. Stop being concerned about the provenance. In a year, you won't be able to tell that AI wrote it.
mhb··on A Small Telescope That Surprised Me
I'm not really disagreeing but people who grind their own mirrors might have the same feeling about people who buy a conventional telescope.
mhb··on A Small Telescope That Surprised Me
The same way you avoid a too-long article in the New Yorker.
mhb··on A Small Telescope That Surprised Me
Because you think you're always going to be able to tell the difference between AI writing and human writing? That's WILD!
mhb··on A Small Telescope That Surprised Me
How is this criticism not just ad hominem slop? You could have said "It's way too long and verbose for what it's trying to say". The writer is orthogonal.
mhb··on GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven
The rolling luggage is primarily useful in the vicinity of airports. Inside airports there were no curbs. And I don't think people are going on long journeys through downtown areas with their luggage. I think you have a better argument asserting that rolling bags were facilitated by cheap polyurethane skate wheels.
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