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But if you have to prototype with an FDM.... The paradigm in my particular area is to get them doing something that generates some hardware with as little bootstrapping as possible. Only a fraction of them are even headed for ME. It's primarily about the experience of dealing with any/all kinds of constraints faced in getting from Idea to working model. The simplest possible electrical, computer and mechanicals. Learning how to do it right comes later. We want them find out at the beginning why it's worthwhile to learn the hard stuff needed to do it better.

Hill, Cameron and Reyes will all slot below Baddoo as Akil pulls himself together. Then the correct OF would be Grossman, Greene, Baddoo, and Meadows. The rest of them all get the chance to OPS 900 at Toledo to force another look. The obvious plan when they signed Meadows had to be that they would move Grossman sometime before the deadline, but he has played himself right out of the possibility of getting any return, not that much could have been expected, but whatever was, it will be less. Assuming they do move or release Grossman sometime after Meadows returns one of Hill, Cameron or Reyes gets the 4th OF spot. Basically right where they were at the beginning of April but Meadows replaces Grossman.

Perez, and Meadows seem to have gotten a new lease on life with the new development staff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szYlGeEx-OE Good explanation about the design of moving bed wind tunnels, which are the only way to get good data on ground effects. One thing not mentioned is surface roughness. A metal belt is not going to act exactly like pavement in terms of the air drag along it. Doesn't seem to be any reason you couldn't use various coatings on the belt but no mention of whether that is done. I noted he said they were "allowed" to test up to 80 m/s, but that the system could go faster. That's 'only' 180 mph.

Box says the scorer gave it to Lange. More brainless robo-scoring. Should have gone to Peralta if any thought had gone into it. But by giving it to Lange every body gets their participation trophy.

'Rehab' is dumb when guys are out that short a period.

If conservatives in WY are not swayed by Liz Cheney, their isn't much hope. They will become a generation of voters lost to any useful input to the democratic process, of whom the best you can hope is that they start staying home in greater numbers..

Candelario with a hit and walk for the Hens. His rehab OPS is >1000. Why is he still there?

the Riley Greene Tigers are undefeated.

Carpenter hits #22 today along with a double, 2/4 no Ks.

gotta make this Safe for Soto.

really good to see him go to the right side of 2B.

We have our students try to learn a little 'Solidsworks' so they can do 3D printing for their projects right off the bat, and I'm always surprised at how good they are at figuring out how to configure their shapes so that they can be printed with FDM. I think those of us who grew up understanding reductive machining actually have a harder time with it!

Mayer and Lawler are off to big starts, Mayer’s K rates might be more than you want to at A ball. At the time from what I read, the question was whether either was going to stay at SS. You see a number of scouting reports that are sort of self-contradictory. The player “has a body that will fill out for power”, but then project the bat with that power as plus for a shortstop.

IDK chas - on the above part - I would never underestimate what corporations will put up with to gain tax breaks/cut costs. The top officers that make such decisions can live where they choose regardless of where they site HQ. And exceptions are easy to make. A fortune 100 I worked for bought a company in St Louis and moved everyone to Houston, but a top tech group all just quit instead. Within a yr they swung a deal to reassembly the tech group in a St. Louis facility. And that was in the pre-zoom days. Even easier today. Employees with leverage will always have a choice, but corps can easily live with those compromises. We have a Toyota tech center in MI but Toyota won't manufacture here because of UAW strength- same basic principle at work.

Roberts doesn't have much in the way of formal powers as Chief, so I wonder how long he can delay or even refuse to release a decision if he wants to? It's been 6 weeks since the leak, and they must have already been some distance along in the case for drafts to be circulating. I suppose 2 months isn't that long given the generally slow place the Court operates....

too true. And totally ironic as the capabilities that lifted the US to global predominance are all deeply cooperative - public education, science, and war fighting. The lone wolves in Wyoming would all be speaking German or Russian today if theirs had ever been the real ethos driving the future in the US.

to separate the private/public part - say it was a public school, then as far as I understand things think 'generally' the school would at minimum have to show a rational basis that connects the rule to an educational purpose. That is sort of getting to first base for rule making by a government sponsored entity. Suit could have been more fun if the guys had been demanding to wear the skort uniform.....

prolly doesn't matter because if this gets to the current SCOTUS the school will win with the conservatives on two grounds: They won't care that it's public money funding the school, they will still give it private rights; and they won't care what the rational was, 'traditional gender role' in loco parentis will be just peachy with them.

here is one on it's way to Scotus. Alito will certainly find the view of the manager's of this Charter school right in his 12th Century wheelhouse. NYT - charter school dress code overturned at US District level

HaHA - this didn't age well https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/18/business/france-nuclear-power-russia.html

3K in his last 48 PA. That's pretty rare. Wenceel Perez undaunted by AA pitching so far. Parker Meadows with a strong June (870 OPS). maybe having his brother in the org has charged him up. Baddoo with a 9 game on-base streak going.

LOL. I read this and did a deep double take, I still always think of McGwire as an "A".

Point take that it's easy to get over excited about prospects, but in Jackson's case he's almost the counterpoint. He was the real deal as a minor leaguer. Austin had 19 WAR in his 1st four pro seasons across more than 550 games. He WAS a really good pro ballplayer on a solid career trajectory, but for whatever reason his body gave out on him - not even so much a single big injury, but a number of things built up starting with hamstring injuries when he was still in Det. Most guys are over hyped for sure. But there are also a fair number of guys who deserved the hype but ended up with their careers derailed by acute or chronic injuries who could have been great players if they had stayed healthy. You can't really knock the people that scouted them for not knowing that would happen. I think about Madrigal. Kid was off to a great start but it's not clear he will be the same player after that injury. FTM, if Casey Mize does not come back from TJ he'd be the same kind of argument. You could say the pick turned out to be bust and be correct at one level, but doesn't mean the excitement him about him wasn't also justified. He will still almost certainly be a good pro if his arm cooperates.

I noticed the Tigers taking a lot fewer strike ones early in the game, swinging and getting hits instead. I'm all for making pitchers work, but don't do it by just giving them strike one! If I were pitching to the Tigers today I'd have felt pretty ambushed by their new found aggressiveness. You only get the element of surprise on a change in approach once, but I'll take it.