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Any pointers to resources or groups around 3D printed musical instruments? Sounds really interesting!

This already happened with Affinity Photo v1 on iOS; a lot of functionality did not work after an iOS update. It feels like Apple changed something in their libraries, so it doesn't even matter how robust your software is if the underlying OS doesn't honor compatibility.

There's already precedence for app deterioration in their iOS apps. Affinity Photo V1 for iPad lost a lot of functionality in brushes and other features with later versions of iOS (e.g.: https://www.reddit.com/r/AffinityPhoto/comments/1725daf/what...)

It was never updated.

I'd imagine it would be similar to this scene from the movie Disturbia: https://youtu.be/b9qMqGTi1uc?si=s-QoxZ4hRv9Oyjhn&t=28

I'm one who started with only a BS, and I'm at a top-20 public university in the US. It depends on your PIs, but I've definitely been appreciated on many of the projects I've worked on (e.g., listed with 2nd most ownership percentage on invention disclosures, which also won a campus-wide yearly award).

Admittedly, my path was convoluted; I started as a engineer to help with non-research software at a large lab, and got pulled on to projects via reputation. But I was replacing a Master's student who was essentially at the same academic level as me anyway. It does pay less, but I made the tradeoff for the quality of projects, which was worth more to me at this point in my career. It's still much more than I need, just not at industry levels.

Non-planar slicing? https://all3dp.com/2/non-planar-3d-printing-simply-explained...

I explained my problem in a confusing way. The main problem is solely that I can't find the word I want to say. Normally, I'd just freeze up and just keep racking my brain for the right word, but my coping mechanism has been finding a related word or phrase to keep the communication going.

But, you mention practicing. What do you think is the activity to practice? Are there tests/games/exercises that strengthen that part of thinking you know of?

Some things I have thought about looking into:

* Reading aloud text in a very quick speed. Maybe I need more practice in just brain-to-mouth coordination?

* Flash card style training, from just words to even actor headshots (because that feeling of "I know that person but I can't remember their name" is a similar feeling).

* Just speaking more, maybe getting into VR Chat or something similar.

Could you send some links to the community you found who were hacking away on the partial refresh drivers? I have a 7.5" that I started with and would love to work off of whatever has already been accomplished.

Waveshare is probably the easiest way to play with eInk today. If you're willing to look at different sizes, they offer displays with partial refresh already built in.

The 2.7 inch models are nice for people beginning with hardware because it's already built as a Raspberry Pi HAT, literally plug and play, no soldering or wires required. https://www.waveshare.com/product/displays/e-paper/2.7inch-e...

The bottom of that page lists the other models; look for the ones supporting partial refresh to get around that flashing distraction.

I start chats with a separate "Hey" message solely just for the chance that the recipient is sharing their screen in a meeting. That way others in the meeting will only see the "Hey" popup and not any details of the rest of my message.

>amazon had a rule that you can't sell your product on amazon and sell it for less on your own site.

Why not create an Amazon exclusive SKU, the same way manufacturers do for Costco and the like?

Anyone have recommendations for a relay that could handle 20A but would work with the ESP8266's 3.3V?

Is it reusable, or is it a one time deploy?

Are we sure we're spelling it right? Is it an abbreviated version of "I know, totally"?

To me, the biggest feature that Photoshop has that others don't is their type support, especially with kerning. I can accomplish most of what I want with other tools until I need to tweak the kerning of a word. Most tools require you to select pixels and move it over and don't support in-place editing.

The original SmarTrip cards came from a company that went out of business, but used proprietary technology. WMATA eventually found another company to create the cards, and I believe this came about the time when new SmarTrip cards reduced in price from $5 to $2. So perhaps not a change in the design, but definitely a change in the manufacturing.

http://wamu.org/news/10/10/15/metro_board_replacing_smartrip...

"...government regulations did not allow them, even though they offered, to be volunteers if they worked for any sustained period. So they were put on the payroll of contractor QSSI as hourly workers, making what Dickerson says was "a fraction" of his Google pay"

This information troubles me, because QSSI was just hired to fix Maryland's broken Health Exchange site. It sounds like the company is cashing in on the donation of brandonb and others experts' time?

brandonb, is your team involved with the Maryland efforts, or is that a completely separate team?

I appreciated the fractal poetry in including the story of Sadi Seyni's village well (an example of the need for spreading accurate information to our fellow villagers), which is itself wrapped in a letter which calls on the reader to spread accurate information on the myths being presented.

It would be interesting if someone set up a test similar to Harvard's Implicit Association Test to see if this is true.

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/user/agg/blindspot/tab...

It's a smart move in several ways. For one, Monsanto has to grow all the seed it is going to sell, so knowing which areas will most likely have the weather patterns conducive to that particular hybrid will increase their yield. Secondly, knowing what to expect in weather trends means they can decide what to focus on for crop traits, both in research and marketing. The recent drought caused Pioneer's first-to-market drought-tolerant seed to sell out, and I'm sure Monsanto is looking to find the next hit seller trait.

Do GPS signals not correlate themselves with a compass reading? I would think that comparing the change in coordinates to the external fact would prevent spoofing.

The sterile males compete with the rest of the population, which drops off the population as mating produces no offspring. This has been attempted with good results in several cases:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14422440 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterile_insect_technique

This article in MotherEarthNews had a commenter who stated that this trap also attracted other insects, including bees (which the boric acid is also fatal to). So, even if it is effective, unfortunately it seems that it's too indiscriminate.

http://www.motherearthnews.com/diy/homemade-mosquito-trap-zm...

I'm curious: does state funding apply to out-of-state students? When I went to college in the 90s, out-of-state tuition was about 3x as much as in-state, a ratio that seems to have held to today--at least for my school. I would have expected the ratio to decrease as in-state students presumably received less state funding, but both have risen equally about 300%.

(I worked at the cashier's office, so historical tuition prices are still in my memory, but I have no other schools to base this on.)

Is there a reason other than aesthetics that glass needs to be sorted? Do the chemical colorants not work well together, or is the glass types incompatible with each other? Wouldn't multi-colored glass that looks obviously recycled be a product that would be attractive to "green-conscious" companies?

My friend and I created http://www.eulascan.com/ back in 2005 with this same concept in mind. We got some nice writeups, but it never really gained traction and we didn't have the time to upkeep the site; spam weeds have overgrown it at this point. My thought was that people still didn't care enough about EULAs to bother using it or reviewing it.

Generally, we got the most comments on companies that were unliked (Apple, Microsoft), and the reviews became another way to express disgust at a company.

Another thing to consider is the ever-changing terms in an EULA. Your site does not have a version concept, meaning you could be reading reviews on wording that does not exist in the existing EULA.

What if the data was obfuscated? You still could do analysis on trends without linking anything back to a specific phone number. If you see something suspicious, then you could obtain a warrant and only then have the phone companies reveal which numbers are actually in contact with each other.

So say the folks who think all wood is interchangeable. For instance, red oak and white oak are more than just differences in color. Someone with experience would know which one to use if one needed more resistance to water and rot (hint: white oak). Some woods are more workable with hand tools, and others machine better. This is the stuff you want someone to know.

I think there is some value in knowing the nuances of a new technology/language/wood. That could be the difference in whether you'll have to redo someone's work because they wanted to start their curly bracket on a new line in your javascript project. Of course, that won't excuse the non-technical HR person who skips your resume because their buzzword isn't listed there.