Galxeagle

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by Galxeagle 4d ago
> Wanted to work with tech from a more overarching level > I get a huge sense of accomplishment seeing customers user our product’ > Interface between business and tech You might like trying your hand in Professional Services eithe
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by Galxeagle 7mo ago
I had a lightbulb moment when someone said 'the point of iterative approaches is not to find bugs, it's to do something (small) successfully and build confidence+learn'. There's a subtle but important difference between
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by Galxeagle 8mo ago
Not clear to me from the article - what's the different between an 'open rotor' engine and a turboprop ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turboprop )? At face value, both seem to be jet engines with propeller
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by Galxeagle 9mo ago
The key insight here is the same reason why every internal department service eventually goes to a ticket system - adding queues (and by extension delays) improves efficiency. Resources can be used at 100% capacity ('always more work t
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by Galxeagle 9mo ago
One of the big design challenges with self-driving cars like Waymo is communication with pedestrians - have to have some analogue to making eye contact or waving so pedestrians know they've been seen (possibly through audio or LED mess
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by Galxeagle 10mo ago
well I never said their sales team was good ha Thanks for closing the loop - always interesting to hear about any progress when stuck in a bureaucratic logjam.
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by Galxeagle 10mo ago
Have you tried going through Sales? Account teams can usually move mountains if they can see a clear path to a paycheque - you might have luck just by going to the 'chat with me' popup on the azure home page and saying you have th
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by Galxeagle 10mo ago
In my experience, having a fixit week on the calendar encourages teams to just defer what otherwise could be done relatively easily at first report. ("ah we'll get to it in fixit week"). Sometimes it's a PM justifying pu
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by Galxeagle 1y ago
I've come to appreciate that using AI tools are a skill on it's own. Anything beyond auto code completion takes quite a bit of conscious effort to experiment with and then learn how to delegate to in a workflow. They often end up
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by Galxeagle 1y ago
I like thinking about the ISS as primarily engineering (and operational) experiments rather than hard science. As a space platform, it's provided learning on how to contract private companies for space flights, and in turn, how they sh
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by Galxeagle 2y ago
I get the sense that #2 is viewed as a risk for DRM, given all the work that goes into preventing firmware downgrades to potentially insecure firmware. Specifically thinking of the Nintendo Switch[1] that goes so far as to blow fuses on e
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by Galxeagle 2y ago
You piqued my interest enough to go hunting - this StackExchange[1] question estimates ~19% of fuel is spent on initial climb-out to 30k feet for a 737-800 on a 5-hour LA->JFK flight. Without doing hard calculations, it intuitively feels
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by Galxeagle 2y ago
Any extra time spent during a burn is wasted fuel. Intuitively, any time before the rocket is in orbit, some part of the rocket thrust is resisting the force of gravity or else it would fall back down to earth. The longer that time is, the
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by Galxeagle 2y ago
Also from a license negotiation perspective, gives the buying company the option to threaten to self-host and/or fork. Even if they never do (and I'm sure the source company is very careful to balance the value story), it can act
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by Galxeagle 2y ago
Political blowback has been enough to keep the power in check - it significantly raises the visibility of the attempted action whenever it's invoked(1) and historically has been associated with a political hit. It also has a 5-year sun
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by Galxeagle 2y ago
I encounter similar behaviour as you in an entirely different genre - I've long since suspected that Spotify keeps redirecting me back to songs that are either less royalties for them to play, or located closer to me on the CDN to save
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by Galxeagle 2y ago
Air traffic communication is structured and a very limited subset of English. It makes more sense if you remember that that first call in the video isn't coming out of the blue - the pilot of Delta 29 Heavy would have already been in c
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by Galxeagle 3y ago
I will often do the reverse, especially when they've repeated the same opposition point more than once or I'm feeling unheard - 'I'm worried I've miscommunicated, can you paraphrase back what you've heard my po
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by Galxeagle 3y ago
If it’s the interior design aspect that’s enjoyable, we’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of the Animal Crossing expansion pack https://animalcrossing.nintendo.com/new-horizons/happy-home-...
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by Galxeagle 3y ago
Kerbal Space Program gets high marks for giving me a great intuitive sense of orbital mechanics, aeronautical design, and space mission architectures (‘to get to space you need to go sideways, not up’), even if the actual rocket building is
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by Galxeagle 3y ago
This is what helped me work through some perfectionism tendencies: change the target. Reframing from 'making sure this project goes perfectly' to 'maximizing my personal benefit' helped me step back a bit and prioritize
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by Galxeagle 3y ago
The key reason is that an extra second of time spent hovering or close it is another second of resisting gravity, which takes fuel, so the most efficient hypothetical ‘burn’ is one big bang ‘hoverslam’ right at the end and 0 seconds spent f
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by Galxeagle 3y ago
As a SpaceX fan reading through the post-launch analysis, this was definitely more of a success than the headline applies, but 'massive' is a stretch. Most commentary I'm seeing put it at a C or B-. It's true that there
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by Galxeagle 3y ago
Finding lots of value in drafting emails, especially for topics or asks I'm not as used to dealing with, like asking for extensions or blaming other teams for blockers. Obviously takes a few iterations ('be less verbose!') bu
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by Galxeagle 4y ago
Copying my favorite quote from a different thread about data scientists: it's 'decision-based evidence-making'
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by Galxeagle 4y ago
From an individual perspective, we've really valued Google's SRE whitepapers in interrupts and incident handling. The key message is that setting up your team to enable bundling 'jumping on things' and also 'focus d
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by Galxeagle 4y ago
Use 1:1s to talk about things you can't talk about in a group setting. I tend to use them for two main things: organizational gossip and negotiation. Often times managers have much richer insight in to other managers or where the depar
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by Galxeagle 4y ago
I'm in the market for a new car after living car-free downtown for several years. Interestingly I actually have some anxiety about the resale value of ICE cars - when I sell in 5 or 10 years, the value will be inherently tied to the pr
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by Galxeagle 4y ago
“Never wrestle with a pig because you'll both get dirty and the pig likes it" - the source of disagreement here is about whether or not policy needs to be followed, not about the details of the policy, so stop trying to argue the
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by Galxeagle 4y ago
Can't speak to exactly why they didn't have it, but it was not a deliberate decision ("It's my uniform," said Master Cpl. Perry Morrow. "I'd rather wear this than no clothes at all.") from a relevant

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