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by bumby 11d ago
> It's genuinely a simple task Eh…like the saying goes “there are levels to this sh*t” If you just want to play around as a hobbyist, sure, it can be treated as a simple task. But if you’re working on, say, space avionics it is muc
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by bumby 11d ago
If you’re wanting to get really serious, there are certification classes. For example, the “j standard” classes are pretty detailed. https://www.protoexpress.com/blog/ipc-j-std-001-standard-sol... There are some open s
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by bumby 17d ago
I think that depends on your perspective of work, and what constitutes value of work. Do you think all jobs of equal moral value? I think most people feel that some work is more "humanizing" than others
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by bumby 20d ago
Even if machines could do it, it doesn’t mean they could do it at or below the equivalent cost. I also disagree with the automation point regarding what humans should do. As we see with current AI, many creative tasks can be automated but
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by bumby 1mo ago
I’m curious where you get the estimate that humans hold “like four” parameters in their mind at once?
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by bumby 1mo ago
Right. As you said, sqlite was developed to fill a specific need, therefore it’s applied research and not basic research. (I wouldn’t even consider it research, but more development, but I’m trying to be generous to the discussion)
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by bumby 1mo ago
I took “basic research” to mean “fundamental research”. Sqlite is not fundamental research. It’s an exception that proves the rule. It was literally designed for a solving a specific problem. Somewhat ironically, it also comes from the indu
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by bumby 1mo ago
I don’t agree, but understand the sentiment.
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by bumby 1mo ago
It’s not basic research in the vast, vast majority of business cases you’re describing. They aren’t Bell Labs doing novel work, they’re usually doing busy work on mundane apps. I’m not going to move our understanding of financial physics fo
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by bumby 1mo ago
Yeah, I see this. I think in that case, both the sales and development team are deadweight (ie self licking ice cream cones)
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by bumby 1mo ago
What about charging people for electronic books? From an IP perspective, code is just a really bad book.
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by bumby 1mo ago
A less cynical take is that sales connects the people who need a problem solved to the people who can solve it.
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by bumby 2mo ago
Isn’t that what they advertise as a “feature” on their website?
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by bumby 2mo ago
As someone else mentioned, a software-oriented solution is likely to introduce more failure modes because of the number of dependencies, updates etc.
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by bumby 2mo ago
Is the fouling functionality more complicated than one would assume? From a naive perspective, it seems like it would just be a simple photo-eye sensor
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by bumby 2mo ago
You can make even more money if you make sure you have accurate data while your competitors do not.
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by bumby 2mo ago
As long as it’s properly addressed to avoid abuse, I don’t have a problem with private companies and individual citizens both benefiting. You could easily put rate limits if you think it’s a major issue while still maintaining the free serv
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by bumby 2mo ago
I don’t follow. I would rather the government manage the API, like what NOAA does/did.
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by bumby 2mo ago
Depends if the accuracy is counter to profit. Not to say governments don’t have their own biased incentives, but they tend to be of a different kind.
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by bumby 2mo ago
As a counter example, the government manages and collects all kinds of weather station data. But the trend is for private companies to get contracts to privatize the dissemination of that data through fee-based APIs etc. I would rather the
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by bumby 2mo ago
Annnd…we’re full circle. Again, DC-X was considered a successful proof of concept. Almost 40 years ago. Musk himself said SpaceX was “just continuing the great work of the DC-X project." https://www.thespacereview.com/a
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by bumby 2mo ago
Maybe somewhat ironically, I think this is an overly cynical take. People can acknowledge a difference of values and recognize what they consider a destruction of the commons without their stance being distilled to simply being a hater. Wou
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by bumby 2mo ago
>”claiming it was impossible” Again, what do you mean by “it”? Economic viability? I already stated I agree with that. Technologically viable? I disagree, since the proof of concept was shown decades earlier. We don’t need to to keep g
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by bumby 2mo ago
That’s kinda the point. 40 years ago it was questionable whether it was technically possible. It was “JWST-stuff”. The forerunners of ULA showed it was feasible. 20 years ago it was questionable whether it was economically viable. SpaceX ch
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by bumby 2mo ago
Not in scientific edge domains. Eg: quantum computing is shown to be scientifically feasible right now, but nowhere close to having economic viability in a business sense. Same with fusion etc etc
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by bumby 2mo ago
Economic viability is not the same goal. One is a business goal, one is a scientific/technological one. The goal from the DC-X 35+ years ago was the latter. Certainly, we'd expect the economics to improve since then. The technolog
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by bumby 2mo ago
I think that misremembers or misrepresents history. The DC-X was program developed in the early 1990s expressly to prove the feasibility of orbital rocket vertical landings and rapid turn-around/reuse. It never made it to the full orbi
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by bumby 2mo ago
I think I disagree. I think the administrative overhead makes for additional problems and is certainly imperfect at mitigating the risk. Risk mitigation (where the risk defined here is emissions outside some acceptable threshold) usually fo
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by bumby 2mo ago
I know people used to look for retired police cruisers back in the day because they thought they were “detuned” but I’m pretty sure that was a resale marketing myth.
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by bumby 2mo ago
> If you want people not to have out of spec tractors that is a regulation and oversight issue, not an issue of locking down tech. It can be either, but be careful of the knock on effects. If you want to manage it via administrative con

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