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The wording may be unfortunate and/or mangled through the Chinese whispers that press releases are, but you can most certainly 3d print jigs to ECM barrels. And yes, the ECM process takes 20 minutes not 2, but still.

3d printed weapons are here. Crude, maybe, and you still need quite a bit technical expertise; but give it another 5 years and everything will be much easier still.

That said, there have always been 'home manufactured' of course. Arguably even Khyber pass guns could be designated 'home manufactured'. But I still think that the ease with which one can make guns with 3d printers today is unparalled with anything we've seen before. Also, ironically, I think Biden's ghost gun ban is only going to accellerate research into 3d printed gun manufacturing.

I have a system based on Markdown-formatted (along with some custom markup for metadata) recipes on Dropbox, and some Python code that generates a formatted (as in, nice looking, like a proper cookbook) PDF cookbook. I then print the cookbook, make my notes in it, and once it gets too greasy/scribbled on, I consolidate the notes into the Markdown files and re-print. Every time I add a new recipe to my regular 'rotation', I add it to this cookbook (along with some tweaks for my ingredient availability and equipment), to not let it become just a random stack of disjoint recipes. This way I grow a proper 'family cookbook' that I hope I can pass on to my kids when they move out. It's also somewhat integrated with a broader meal-planning system, think GTD for keeping yourself fed.

I think the main problem with 'recipe websites' is that people don't want 'recipe websites'. They want 'cookbook websites', i.e. some editorial oversight over recipe quality, some standardization in units, style of directions, have a picture with each recipe, etc. What am I going to do with 100k crappy half-asses notes on everything someone somewhere ever threw together in a kitchen somewhere? I'd much rather have 2000 quality recipes that I know I can rely on.

" Watching from Europe, where roughly nobody is diagnosed with it nor prescribed drugs to treat it"

And here is yet another victim to the 'Europe is a homogenous country-like entity' fallacy. Where in Europe are you talking about, and what age category? Because I can tell you that in the Netherlands this is very much wrong.

Now all that is left is virtual audio output...

Writing Python (and most other languages) with a proper IDE with integrated debugger and all is like eating right and exercising: it's much better when you do it, you feel better while doing it, each time you start again you think "why did I ever give this up?", and yet it takes conscious effort to keep it up, circumstances just make it so tempting to fall off the train. 'Oh just checking the value of that constant, I'll just use Vim.'. 'It's just one trace line, I'll just use print.'. And before you know it you're back in the stone ages, and the circle repeats.

"So string is no longer a "string of characters""

It hasn't been for 30 years.

But in what way would digging a bypass be faster than 'just' digging out the sides of the canal where the ship is now stuck? No matter how you put it, digging out the ship has to be less work than digging a bypass.

Secondly, considering that parts of the Suez canal were dug out by hand (when were the first mechanical diggers like we have now developed?), digging speed must be much more than 20% higher than in the 1800's.

Fascinating stuff. Apart from the stress and time pressure, it must be a great job to do engineering on something like this.

I can't tell - is that more or less than you expected?

That's a utilitarian argument (I think?) that I could get behind (not that anyone asks for my opinion on what rooms should be called). From that POV I guess it would be best to just call any room that isn't a kitchen or bathroom just 'room' and let buyers decide. But then again, most people don't have much imagination and like to be shown how space can or is intended to be used, much like how a neatly decorated house sells easier than an empty or cluttered one.

But the objections I read about last summer (tried looking but I can't find it any more) were moral, that the term is also 'oppressive' (not sure if that's the actual term they used, that was the gist of it), basically the same arguments that are made for removing 'master' from Git, language frames our thinking etc.

UK. Uses the term 'bully van', linking to urban dictionary, which specifies that this is a UK term. Plus has some British colloquialisms.

'Master bedroom' is going out of real estate descriptions, being replaced by 'main bedroom'. E.g. https://www.housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/fun-at-home/a1087/m... but that's just the first google hit, there's plenty out there.

In Dutch (both in .nl and .be), the English term 'master bedroom' was fashionable for a few years, until the stigma of that term carried over from the Anglosphere and it's now being replaced (in the woke areas of the country) with 'ouderslaapkamer', which is literally translated 'parent bedroom'. Although now that term itself is 'controversial' (not mainstream controversial, more in small hardcore circles, so I'm not sure if this will actually become an issue) because (to the best of my understanding of this objection) 'parent bedroom' implies that the 2-parents-with-children family form is normative (you can't make this up if you tried to), which it shouldn't be.

Not sure what my point is, maybe that using 'master' for 'main' is no longer outright commonly accepted usage?

In this context, for people in the Netherlands - there is a 'class action' (well not really, we don't have those in the same way as in the US, but functionally equivalent) lawsuit against Facebook in order to get monetary compensation from Facebook for the time(s) they violated privacy laws. The first hearing will be on the 1st of April. Of course Facebook has been trying to delay this case, e.g. by claiming Dutch users should have asked for redress in Irish courts.

If you want to join (for free), see https://www.consumentenbond.nl/acties/facebook/aanmelden .

Even if I only ever get a single euro from that case, that euro will feel better than making 1000's from regular work, and if it's ever paid out, I'll take my children out to dinner from it (I suppose I'll have to chip in the difference myself so that we won't have to split one item off the McD's dollar menu...) to celebrate that not all hope is lost.

A few years ago there was a story on here, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9143784 , I've read some more since then but I can't readily find them (it was over the span of a few years). Maybe they were re-hashes of this story, could be. I do remember reading another story about narco subs some years ago (I too find the engineering fascinating) and one described how the technical work was (at least in that story) done by poor students who were roped in bit by bit until they got in so deep that they couldn't leave, and found themselves stuck in remote South American swamps in horrible conditions. Can't find that story though, maybe someone else knows/remembers?

I don't know anything about organized crime other than what I see on TV, but not long ago there was a local story here about a couple of chemistry students who were put to work in an MDMA lab and got themselves killed because of bad ventilation. From what I can tell (again, this is from following media, I may be wrong), engineering in criminal enterprises is low status and quite dangerous, and not even paid particularly well. Cooks in drug labs get into accidents because of how rickety those labs are, there was an encrypted phone dealer around here who got himself killed when his network was dismantled by the police, the telecoms engineers in Mexico in the story above.

"I think this would be a dream jobs to design and built low-tech yet effective solutions for smuggling. "

If you think engineers are expendable to "regular" companies, wait until you learn how the cartels deal with them...

Put a lid on it, 1 cm of vinegar in it, then boil. Put it under an extractor hood or outside though.

My supermarket here in the Netherlands has most condiments in such tubes. I like them in outdoor situations, like when going camping or in the park. They're more messy than bottles or jars when used on a table, which is why I think that packaging is relatively niche.

Now I wonder - what is a 'beverage sipper', and how is it different from a 'glass' or 'cup'?

I've said this on here before, but the trick to better online presenting for us tech-focused nerds is getting very familiar with OBS, get a Streamdeck (or build one, e.g. Deej) and set up your presentations so that you always show yourself in front and in the corner of any slide deck you're showing, much like most youtubers do. Then you can hand gesture all you want, too.

I spend a good 10 mins staring at the figure just before the header "Electrification of Vehicles" (I wish the author had numbered his figures properly). I still don't really understand what this chart means or says. Can anyone explain?

You don't know anyone who mostly eats healthy food, usually flosses, usually gets enough sleep, puts a reasonable amount of effort into their relationships and exercises somewhat? Or you don't know anyone who does all those things perfectly?

That doesn't matter, what matter is demand for housing going up, which it does because due to net inflow, there is still a growing population; plus households get smaller (more people not partnering up or at least not living together, more divorces); and housing supply is geographically concentrated, those that are new to the EU don't want to live in the countryside of Romania or even the countryside of Germany, they want to live in or near cities, where everybody else also wants to live (and for the same reasons).

Depends on the design, I don't see how one would print the design in the link I posted elsewhere in vase mode - even if it could be made to work, it would be a lot harder for no real purpose.

I spend way too long looking for this, but here it is - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxzqkhmcRlY .

I saw someone on YT the other day who basically printed his part with 20% infill and a honeycomb infill pattern, no bottom, then poured epoxy into the honeycomb, and then used the resulting solid 'die' to form sheet metal. Amazing times we live in, where you can do things like that with < $400 total worth of tools from any hardware store.

I saw a movie about that once - think it was called "planet of the mares".

I feel really bad for small restaurant owners. These large delivery companies totally take over their internet marketing too, registering a domain like '<restaurant name>-<city>.com' and when you go to that website, you really have to pay attention to see that this is not the 'official' restaurant website and if you order through there, it's costing the restaurant a lot of money that they wouldn't miss out on if you'd order through their regular website. I don't understand how practices like that are legal - then again, small restaurant owners have other things to worry about than fighting a 5, 8, maybe 10 year trademark battle against huge tech companies. It's a disgusting abuse of power in my view.

Can someone please fix the title to the original in the blog ('Mitigating Memory Safety Issues in Open Source Software'), because the current title is not at all representative of what the blog is actually saying.

I guess you're being downvoted for the political slant it brings to what most would prefer to be neutral, but I think this angle is actually very relevant to frame the OP in current popular discourse; and in fact the article itself reference this relationship, albeit in a somewhat disguised way ("Another constructive use of the total pause that the pandemic has imposed is to reflect on whether it is valid to include the term ‘Anglo-Saxon’ within the category of seriously contested heritage").

It was, at the time of the Unix wars, a rather childish way of 'protesting' the use of trademarks on the name 'UNIX' by AT&T, Novell, SCO etc. in their fights against other Unixy OS vendors. There were urban legends going around on IRC and Usenet that those companies would sue everybody using the word 'Unix' but not using the full name would absolve you of that responsibility. Legally this in the class of 'cops can't lie to you when you ask them if they're a cop' and 'free men doctrine' and such but it was wide spread at the time.

The irony is of course that Unix-like OS vendors spend so much time fighting each other that it was basically mutually assured destruction, and proprietary Unix systems went the way of the dinosaur after the dot com crash.

Are you a scientist? Because it really doesn't. For example, in most papers that I think harder than normal about, I don't care so much about 'the data' as I do about a description of what this 'data' is actually meant to represent, and how it was collected and processed. (I'm talking here about things that are a bit more complicated than e.g. railfall measurements or any other such lab-like, STEM topics) E.g., I do quite a bit of population modeling. You would think that 'population' is relatively easy to quantify, but it really isn't, and I can talk for hours about how cavalier people throw their 'population data' numbers into models and make all sorts of conclusions based on objectively wrong interpretations what this 'data' is.

If the vast majority of papers can't even get that right, I don't care as much about the HN idea of what 'reproducibility' is - i.e. check if 'git clone <xyz> && run_model.sh && run_tests.sh' says 'All OK!' at the end.