ThinkThenDont
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ThinkThenDont
@bears0
Electrical engineer, programmer, #Tesla
Florida Katılım Ağustos 2009
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@earnknowledgee We had to use a sewing machine in one of our industrial machines and that thing was wicked fast. Up to 4000 stitches per minute (66 per second!!). It’s mind boggling how fast they can be.
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@themishra4402 Dudes friend said “let him cook” and he took it too literally…
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@hicasamadim The pattern follows xⁿ - 2
(Basically RAM size minus 2)
8-2=6
16-2=14
32-2=30
64-2=62
128-2=126
256-2=254
Answer is 254
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@shayner20288369 @QuantumGuard17 Republicans get investigated:
“Yes! Finally”
Democrats get investigated:
“How dare you destroy our democracy”
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@QuantumGuard17 🤔 Patel raiding ONLY Democrats?..... That can't be a strategy to unseat Dem support, could it? .....🤣 ..... Trump and his idiotic minions are the most corrupt govt America has ever had.
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BREAKING: The FBI is currently RAIDING the office of high-ranking Democrat VA Sen. Louise Lucas in a MAJOR corruption investigation, per Fox
Sen. Lucas is a close ally of Dem. VA Gov. Abigail Spanberger
MULTIPLE court-approved search warrants are being executed at Lucas' office as well as the cannabis dispensary next door, which Lucas is believed to be connected with
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You have to set up the pressure so that it cuts into the jacket but not the strands. I have one and it works great for industrial grade wire, but hobby wire is a bit more tricky to get right.
Ironically, my old electrics teacher told me the ones liked you bought were terrible for stripping wire, so I’ve never tried them, but I just watched a NASA soldering video where they were the only wire strippers recommended lol
Btw it’s pretty good and you should def watch it
youtu.be/_RXugDd0xik

YouTube
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@TirpitzTungsten But correct me if I’m wrong, they still bite into the metal, don’t they?
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@Bella_91m7u We don’t know how old Daniel is, but we know His is 65.
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After looking at it closer I understand the process, but:
|X| = 4
Is really not much different than
X = ±4
If I saw:
-X = 5
And you jump to:
X + 5 = 0
You might have skipped a step, but most teachers won’t care unless you’re in basic algebra.
If you see:
X² = 16
I really don’t see anything wrong with just skipping to:
X = ±√16
Or even
X = ±4
I’ve done it on every single math exam in my life and never had points taken off. As an electrical engineer, that’s a lot of exams
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@bears0 @pastthephase @Simi_2210_ Es para mantener la igualdad al sacar la raíz en ambas partes de la igualdad.
La raíz solo puede devolver números positivos y x, al estar elevado al cuadrado, puede valer un número negativo, lo cual rompería la igualdad si no fuera por el valor absoluto
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I skipped the ± before the radical because I didn’t feel like typing it. This is X and not pen+paper, after all.
I know that √X² = |X|, but:
|X| = √16
yields
X = ±√16
Which then becomes:
X = ±4
This:
X² = 16
X = ±√16
X = ±4
Is just as accurate as what you’re suggesting, but I skipped a tiny step that no math teacher would mark wrong unless they were a db.
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@bears0 @Simi_2210_ The result you have is correct but your procedure or reasoning is incorrect, precisely in the third line.
When we have:
X² = 16
It means that after taking the square root from both sides we have:
|X| = 4
Which you wrongly wrote as
X = √16 = |4| = 4
It is not the same.
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@maxberstapen @pastthephase @Simi_2210_ The better question is why? You wouldn’t use |x| unless you wanted only the positive part. The last two rows seem backwards to me
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@childmeal @Simi_2210_ I know but I just didn’t feel like finding the ± symbol on my phone. This is X, not an exam lol
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@bears0 @Simi_2210_ √16って16の平方根のうちプラスの方しかいわないから
X^2=16からX=√16ではなく
X=±√16にしなきゃだし、仮に
X=√16であればX=4で-4にはならない。
X=√16を間に挟んだことで大きく減点ですね。±つければよかったですけど
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@KarkuLineek @Simi_2210_ That’s exactly what I said. [-4, 4] or ±4. The problem has two solutions.
The comma is not a decimal point. In America, it’s 3.14159, not 3,14159
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@bears0 @Simi_2210_ What the fuck do you mean the square root of 16 is -4,4? Its obviously 4 or -4
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@Dussyme If you have to be a mathematician to get this right, we’re screwed
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@atensnut There’s no way that 3.7V battery would make it glow that fast
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Reminds me of when I played little league baseball and we won every single game except the last.
The umpire had something against our coach and decided to take it out on the entire team.
Every strike we threw was a ball, and every bad pitch the threw was a strike. Every single point they had was from a walk because none of them could hit the ball
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This is true with one caveat.
I’ve only owned Toyotas and a Honda Accord, which was my first car. All of them hit 200k+ with no problems. I sold my Tundra early for the gas mileage when I started college.
However, I’ve heard nothing but bad things about the newer Toyota trucks.
They switched the oil to a lighter weight oil for fuel economy, but the crankshaft bearings aren’t held to a tight enough tolerance, so they end up galling up and failing at 40-60k miles. This on top of the fact the the smaller V6 turbo engines don’t have the towing capacity that they claim they do
Toyota did their best to keep things in-house and didn’t want anyone else working on the ones that failed, but when people started pulling parts from wrecked cars, they started to realize what the problem was.
Honestly, the biggest problem we have with cars today is all the emissions laws they’ve passed.
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This mechanic says that if it wasn’t for American made cars, he doesn’t know if they would be in business.
He points out that all the cars currently in the bays are American made. He says they work on all makes and models but it’s the American made cars the make up the majority of their business.
He says that the only foreign cars in the parking lot belong to himself and other people who work there.
He says if you want a car that lasts, buy a Toyota.
I had a Honda Civic once and got over 500K miles on it. Had a Nissan and got well over 300K miles on it. I have owned Ford, Chevy and GM cars. I’ll be honest, they didn’t last like the foreign cars. I do think American trucks are better than foreign trucks but why can’t we make good cars that last ?
What do you think? Do you think he’s right? Are you a die hard Ford Chevy or GM person? Do you own a foreign car or an American made car?
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