andrewwharton

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by andrewwharton 6y ago
Yep, seems like the big expectation here is to retain jobs and keep a competitive market in Australian domestic travel. Doesn’t seem likely anymore, which is a shame, because I always liked flying Virgin over the cattle-mustering experience
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by andrewwharton 6y ago
There’s also some fantastic videos explaining the inner workings of the 555 timer (from a practical perspective) in this series on building a clock module for a breadboard computer - https://eater.net/8bit/clock
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by andrewwharton 6y ago
And that hasn't IPO'd yet.
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by andrewwharton 6y ago
Also available from http://www.antarctica.gov.au/about-antarctica/history/explor... Can higly recommend. It seems like there was a completely different view as to what were "acceptable risks" back in tho
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by andrewwharton 7y ago
After reading only the headline, I for one assumed it was the official's child, so it's at least somewhat misleading, perhaps not intentionally though.
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by andrewwharton 7y ago
I just realised we just spent more on 5 days for a holiday rental over Christmas than this family received for selling 2 kidneys to try and escape their debt. It’s crushing to read stories like these. Surely there must be some sort of struc
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by andrewwharton 7y ago
Interesting interpretation of the data. It would proably lead to the same conclusion though, that teachers are being rewarded for having naturally smarter/more developed students rather than their own performance.
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by andrewwharton 7y ago
This one... :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jl9hTIkXXc
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by andrewwharton 7y ago
Like he says in the video, catching is actually the easy bit. Having the booster survive the re-entry heating and aerodynamic loads while only using passive methods to slow it is the hard bit.
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by andrewwharton 8y ago
Microservices, essentially. It's not really 1 x ten year project as such, but heaps of smaller 3-6 month projects (many running in parallel) to add chunks of new functionality (as microservices) and rewrite parts of the monolith that w
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by andrewwharton 8y ago
We're in the process of migrating off a 4+ million line Delphi application that basically runs the whole business, but it's a 10+ year project to "grind the monolith", so who knows when we'll actually be done. In th
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by andrewwharton 8y ago
Absolutely. I think his main issue is with Pinker and Gates way overselling any successes and attributing them to neoliberal globalization. I'd posit that anyone characterizing this as an apocalypse story hasn't actually read the
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by andrewwharton 8y ago
To be fair, that's only a very small part of his rebuttal, dealing specifically with the period prior to 1970, as well as the fact that GDP estimates for this period "take little if any account of the goods and resources that peop
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by andrewwharton 8y ago
The title is a play on the old saying "Those who can't do, teach". Whether this is actually the case or not is debatable.
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by andrewwharton 8y ago
It's not the gross population that's the problem, it the rate of growth in population and the infrastructure that's required to support it. The basic problem is that if infrastructure last 50 years, you have to replace 2% of
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by andrewwharton 8y ago
In C the interviewer is also spending time reviewing the assignment. Maybe not the same amount, but if you also have a handful of your current devs review it and give their feedback, the company time spent on it might not be trivial. Also t
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by andrewwharton 8y ago
Good for you. Thankfully we have marginal abatement cost curves and EVs are pretty far down the list of priorities at this stage.
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by andrewwharton 8y ago
I've also heard there's no true Scotsman either...
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by andrewwharton 8y ago
Between shipping modes, yes. Hence the name "Intermodal Container". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermodal_container
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by andrewwharton 8y ago
Greece/present day/crap plumbing. https://www.worldnomads.com/travel-safety/europe/greece/toil...
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React Static – A progressive static-site generator for React(react-static.js.org)
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by andrewwharton 9y ago
It doesn't accelerate the air like a typical air breathing engine, but it certainly ingests the air like one. It's basically a ramjet but uses electric charge to accelerate the exhaust gas rather than hydrocarbons.
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by andrewwharton 9y ago
There's another photographer as well (Brady Kenniston) who got some magnificent shots of the Falcon Heavy launch. This is my favourite: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bradykenniston/26259934188/
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by andrewwharton 9y ago
The phrase that jumps to mind is "Easy come, easy go". Companies built on slow painful progress inevitably have a broad customer base, customers that were acquired through slow painful progress (although they probably have a few w
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by andrewwharton 9y ago
7 cents per employee per month isn't exactly a generous discount either. Even if your chat is down for half the work day (4 hours), you're looking at $3.55. I mean, it's better than nothing, but let's not pretend it&#x27
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by andrewwharton 9y ago
The common procedure I was taught when growing up was chilling the crayfish (stick it in the freezer until it goes to sleep) before killing it [1]. It really takes very little effort and make no discernible difference whatsoever to the end
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by andrewwharton 9y ago
I noticed on the top right screen when landing the 2 outside boosters that they did a 3 engine landing burn. Previously they'd only done this over the water, but considering that the last one went well on 31 Jan, perhaps they also trie
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by andrewwharton 9y ago
Absolutely, its compressive strength (~1 MPa) is so low that it's better to think of it as rigid insulation that anything structural or load bearing.
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by andrewwharton 9y ago
I came across a nice video/presentation from some guys at SpaceX on using GPUs to model and visualise the fluid flows inside rocket engines (specifically the Raptor engine) and around spacecraft during reentry, as well as a good explan
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by andrewwharton 9y ago
I'm skeptical that Google divides its revenue and investment up in this way and that more search ad revenue allows Google to invest more in search. I'm sure that Google is already investing the amount they need to in search to m

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