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I would say it's extremely misleading. If a friend told you they got a 35% pay raise at work, wouldn't you assume it was instantaneous / for that year? I can't help but think peopl…

Electric Boat (US navy submarine maker) is trying. They were down to under 5k employees in the 90s (IIRC) after the end of the cold war and significant cuts to defense spending. Now they are probably …

Better aerodynamic design, better (aka lighter) materials available, better manufacturing methods, etc. It's less one specific thing and more just aero as an industry pushing forward on all front…

Yeah, I will add that things weren't overbuilt back in the day just because they "built things better" (although sometimes they did) but because the engineering wasn't advanced eno…

I don't know if that could work but I think it points out the fundamental issue; Companies that change to prioritizing shareholder value over focusing on their purpose (planes, chips, etc.) are d…

From the video: 1. Over engineered 2. More generic design choices (easy to upgrade) 3. Continued support to upgrade it and keep it relevant 4. "the crew concept" (not really sure how this su…

For those interested in digging into this passive solar design concerns itself with solar gain optimization. Passive house is a standard that makes use of these concepts as well but goes alot further.

And so the cycle continues. It's sad that it seems the fate of all the big aerospace companies is to get gutted by business and finance majors and slide into technical decline and turmoil.

It's lots of short interviews of ordinary folks across america from around 2009. Worth your time.

As someone that already often runs into them due to vpn use being flagged please no more. Think about how much human time has been wasted on these things.

For anyone thinking about a Framework I would echo the same final thought. They have there issues but are really worth giving a shot. I have a 16 that had a motherboard that got bricked by a bios upda…

Another similar thing from the end of last year: https://www.geaerospace.com/news/press-releases/other-news-i... They really seem to love to talk about how fast they move ex…

Yes, he would have been treated much better for being involved with the dissemination of classified material in... which country exactly?

For anyone immediately going to UAF 232 as an example please realize that this is titanium used in the air frame not the engine. The engine is under dramatically higher loads and is far more material …

To what end though? I know Taiwan is the hot button issue at the moment but it's hard for me to think China wants to get into war with the US, let alone the whole "west", over it. Doesn…

Did you read these? The first article clearly states the US is actually ramping up production better than expected and it can do even better with more support/funding. It's Europe/NATO …

Imagine yourself as an employee at amazon who sees people being laid off due to "unfavorable macroeconomic conditions" just to then see the company report massive profits while you saw no pa…

If you came looking for actual numbers the closest they come is saying "in vibration-mediated suppression mode it could reduce sound transmission up to 75%".

It's an error, it shouldn't say 800 a day but 800 less than normal a day.

That's the dream. I have access to a nice makerspace to tide me over for now. I don't know if you follow the youtube machinist community at all but you may find some enjoyment in This Old To…

Haha, I am unattached but have no space to speak of sadly (a large home shop is a future goal, just need the home first along with the very understanding wife). It lived first in a friends garage, the…

Aerospace, semiconductor, etc., basically anywhere you have precision round parts. You can debur alot by hand but not so much external diameters which are often done on these machines for low volume &…

Sounds like a fun project. How do you find the lathe? I always preferred old American iron to something new from China/Taiwan but having to haul around two tons of lathe when you move is not a tr…

If nothing else it'll help you tap a hole properly.

Wow, as someone that loves vintage machine tools and owns a Monarch 10EE ( http://www.lathes.co.uk/monarch/index.html ) it's funny to see this little corner of the internet fi…

I will add to this that in the USA Mitsuibishi is one of the highest quality ones you can get with the longest warranty (10 years last I looked).

In the US heat pumps have only seen widespread adoption in the last decade or so and even then mostly in new construction applications. Most houses still use either window or central AC units and then…

Just because something "can" be repaired doesn't mean it makes sense to. With most appliances if you are going to hire something to fix it outside of warranty it will cost hundreds of d…

Individually that's one way to look at it that makes sense. On mass scale though, if in 10 years someone can make one that's 50% better, it still behooves the world for the the units of toda…

I just want to throw this out there to this audience. As someone that has worked in and been interested in energy efficient housing for 10+ years, I have been heartened to see the start of proliferati…