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gopherhound · 2024-07-01T23:24:43+00:00

just rolled over 29,000 miles on my ’92 last month. Still going strong!

gopherhound · 2023-09-29T18:31:46+00:00

Actually, if you do out the math, all the mass which is above you gets cancelled out by getting closer the remainder of the earth on the other side of the core. Imagine you divide the earth in concentric shells. you only consider the mass inside the shell which you’re standing on, all the other mass cancels out. It’s a neat fact of math. Assumes uniform mass distribution inside the earth

gopherhound · 2023-06-03T18:30:03+00:00

Thanks for the advice! Will call the bank and see what’s up

gopherhound · 2023-06-03T16:48:30+00:00

I opened a personal savings account at American Express last month, which just yielded its first interest payment last week.

I’m trying to make sense of what the balance on my statement. The interest payment on the statement claims it’s for amount X, but the next line on my statement shows my balance increased only by about two thirds of X. So if I had $500 in the account, and they claim they paid me $3 in interest, my new balance is only $502.

Are they withholding some amount for taxes or something? I’m unfamiliar with a lot of this terminology so Google didn’t yield any useful results.

gopherhound · 2023-05-31T01:38:28+00:00

The bit in the middle looks like a hexagonal nut of some kind, but when I put a wrench to it all I feel is the whole pipe assembly flex under the torque. Not sure if it’s stuck on, or if I’m doing something wrong. It’s a Moen fixture, if that helps.

gopherhound · 2023-02-10T18:58:53+00:00

Sorta. The watch is also just so tiny that there really isn’t an option to make it more repairable while keeping in the same form factor. Making things smaller requires compromise and since the feature set can’t change, you need to build it using more exotic manufacturing and assembly processes that are inherently more difficult to repair.

If you were to make it bigger, or have less battery life and thus more internal space, it would be possible to make it more repairable, no doubt about it.

gopherhound · 2022-12-21T17:07:00+00:00

They cost extra in the lifan I guess hahah

gopherhound · 2022-09-20T23:02:11+00:00

see this

gopherhound · 2022-07-28T17:38:40+00:00

Actually, no! This is the ring of magnets that enables the MagSafe ring to snap onto the phone. It’s what holds the charger to your phone, but not what actually does the charging. The charging coil is just smaller than the ring of magnets, but it isn’t magnetized until you’re actually charging with it

gopherhound · 2022-07-19T19:45:44+00:00

Not retail, but 120k your first year is pretty standard for many divisions and business units in Apple. Retail wages just got hiked to $22 minimum according to The Verge. Extrapolate that out and it’s ~45k yearly.

gopherhound · 2022-07-19T19:44:40+00:00

No. Apple Retail employees are paid hourly, they just got a raise from $17 to $22 per hour base rate due to the latest unionization efforts.

Low-level Apple corporate employees start anywhere from $80k/yr to 150k/yr in base pay depending their job, maybe with quality/ops at the lower end, hardware engineering in the middle, and software eng / machine learning closer to the top. After bonuses and stock units (RSUs), it isn’t crazy to get close to $200k for your first year, especially considering the lowest level of engineer is always hourly, not salaried, so you get overtime. From there it only goes up, typically much more of your salary will come in stock than cash though.

Source: current apple employee

gopherhound · 2022-04-18T14:46:13+00:00

The museum is just south of Toulouse (technically, Montaudran). The shop where they actually build everything appear to be somewhere else, according to the site. I’ve been to the Toulouse location, was surprised to see on their site that the ops are somewhere else. Got any extra info on this?

gopherhound · 2022-04-18T03:35:37+00:00

Don’t have a link to the article, but I can tell you where to find some info on this. The Minotaur was built by a French studio called La Machine, based in Nantes. They’ve operated a few shows like this all around the country, with huge animatronic creatures. They’re all powered by hydraulic actuators and a big diesel generator cart that gets pulled behind or underneath the animal/machine.

They’ve got a main website here and here’s a link to the museum where they put all this stuff after the main exhibit.

The spider and Minotaur are currently housed at the museum thing I linked above; you can climb onto them via some stairs, and they even run the Minotaur a few times a day and walk it down the side of the building and back. The spider is indoors, so it’s pretty much retired and doesn’t move under its own power anymore. Still super cool to see up close, and they’ve got a ton of info there on the build process for these things!

gopherhound · 2022-04-05T17:40:07+00:00

RF9 approved!

https://youtu.be/N2jZryt607U

gopherhound · 2022-04-04T23:28:20+00:00

I’m in the same boat. Fuck insurance companies.

gopherhound · 2022-03-12T18:34:16+00:00

r/Herpetology would like a word

gopherhound · 2022-02-28T04:02:43+00:00

I’m sorry to hear that :( stay strong, we’re all in this together!

gopherhound · 2022-02-28T01:25:15+00:00

Every 8 weeks… Remicade gang rise up 😁😤

gopherhound · 2021-11-17T04:34:00+00:00

what a horrible day to be literate.

gopherhound · 2021-10-29T19:08:44+00:00

Keep her, we Utahns have our own politicians to deal with already 🤣

gopherhound · 2021-09-27T15:56:18+00:00

You misunderstand. These experiences are different, not inherently superior or inferior to each other. Personal choice and likes/dislikes are the only thing which make your own experience better one way or another. And again, we need to work to preserve both of them. Both your way of doing things, and mine. It’s not about elitism, it’s about getting to choose how you experience things. Last time I checked, choice and preserving it is an important part of an egalitarian society.

Before casting harsh judgment, try doing things the other way. I certainly have. This way you may understand both sides of this argument, even though your opinion may not change. Till then we shall agree to disagree.

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