bargainbot3k

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by bargainbot3k 2y ago
> New testing done at China’s Shidaowan nuclear power plant has confirmed its ability to be naturally cooled down, an industry-first milestone for achieving commercial-scale inherent safety, according to researchers. Amazing. Well done!
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by bargainbot3k 2y ago
Shitpost in, shitpost out.
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by bargainbot3k 2y ago
I for one would like to see Alex Jones on the DOGE committee because of all the things he was up to in the decades past. Not a popular opinion I know, but there it is.
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by bargainbot3k 2y ago
> As outbreaks continued to occur, the mortality rate surpassed 50 percent. Discuss.
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by bargainbot3k 2y ago
I read through most of this to realize the author isn’t saying much so feel free to skip. They mostly put together a list of the sort of things you can find in a public library for $1.50 in late charges. They put them in a kind of an order
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by bargainbot3k 2y ago
The smugness of that article had me thinking I was reading The Atlantic for a moment.
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by bargainbot3k 2y ago
I have in the past applied a similar (though broader-stroked) analogy to other things, by simply asking “if things were to continue this way, could a civilization or at least a society be built out of it?” The answer in a lot of cases of th
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by bargainbot3k 2y ago
Why is this even measured? What do we actually achieve from this metric as a goal, one way or another?
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by bargainbot3k 2y ago
If you’d put this much effort every day into privacy laws, neither Google nor journos would be able to snoop. But, here we are, and it’s fair game.
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by bargainbot3k 2y ago
Sounds like the issues around dating, marriage and children aren’t really cut and dry in Japan. The population crisis isn’t a “just so” thing. The society optimized for one set of criteria but is buckling under others.
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by bargainbot3k 2y ago
I haven’t yet had a chance to work on aerospace (or beyond) equipment though I do work on medical grade things and some of the parts are aerospace certified, though they haven’t been put through the ringer. In particular, I work with high v
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by bargainbot3k 2y ago
For the HN ultra-nerds: is there a book that details the voyager 1 construction including sensors, PCBs, materials compositions manufacturing processes and all that? I’m looking for something so dense I’ll need a therapist to find my way ba
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by bargainbot3k 2y ago
Most of our car engines run at a small fraction of their capability, even when going at highway speeds. Most servers have a 15-25% utilization to handle failover situations. If you have a beefy as fuck set up with extra wide tolerance margi
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by bargainbot3k 2y ago
Embedded. Your UB is my opportunity.
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by bargainbot3k 2y ago
Yeah I actually read just about all of this. It’s amusing to me because the language used to express banal ideas is so over the top but the subject matter borders on pseudoscience. “Cultish academia”? Not sure. I’m still trying to determine
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by bargainbot3k 2y ago
I’ll act as a counter-balance on this topic. I have conducted hundreds of technical interviews across varying levels of experience - from interns and juniors all the way to PhD grads and those with lots of years under their belt. I have ext
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by bargainbot3k 2y ago
That would be a follow up question if the answer to the first question is “yes.”
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by bargainbot3k 2y ago
Whenever medical advice is being thrown around by anonymous handles, it helps to ask one simple question to clear the air: “Are you a doctor?”