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by drfrank 3y ago
Elon wrote: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1649523985837686784 > 3 months ago, we started building a massive water-cooled, steel plate to go under the launch mount. > Wasn’t ready in time & we wrong
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by drfrank 4y ago
Naively, it seems to me that there should at least be a warning somewhere if there are declarations after a REJECT-THE-REST. I'm not familiar with whatever language this is, but wouldn't such a construct always indicate something
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by drfrank 4y ago
It seems this is a one-time opportunity for some engineers to catch up with inflation. It doesn't seem that Microsoft is adjusting it's salary ranges. Put another way, starting to work at Microsoft, this year, will still be 11% le
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by drfrank 4y ago
Has an insurance market already arisen? I.e. can I buy insurance for some percentage of my transaction against a bug swallowing the whole value of my transaction? Seems like an opportunity to let an economic market drive more rigorous dev a
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by drfrank 5y ago
If you want to influence the direction of the sequel to Star Control II currently under development it seems that you can do so on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/uqm2/
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by drfrank 5y ago
TFA implicitly conflates "leadership" and "management", suggesting that the author is oblivious to the distinction. Even when the author describes dividing the responsibilities of "leadership" among multiple pe
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by drfrank 5y ago
What was "the fasting condition" in the study? They started a fast with sugar? They ended a fast with sugar? What was the interval between the ingestion and the test? How much sugar was consumed?
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by drfrank 5y ago
If you're having trouble concentrating on a ketogenic diet it's likely that you're not eating enough vegetables, and might be eating too much protein. Too much protein can take you out of ketosis, but people think they can ju
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by drfrank 6y ago
> Take regular breaks from the medication. I'm not sure this is universally necessary. When my pre-adolescent son forgets to take his medication in the morning it's immediately obvious, so it's clearly still having pronoun
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by drfrank 6y ago
A spherical Whipple shield might be able to capture debris. A 1 mm thick aluminum shell with a radius of 100 m would mass 810,000 kg. If SpaceX's Starship can achieve launch costs of 10/kg, that's $8 M per sphere. But passive
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by drfrank 6y ago
That handles plastic that's already floating, whereas this claims to bring plastic to the surface. The two solutions seem complementary.
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by drfrank 6y ago
I discourage the use of "this" except for field references, in C#. Field access and modification are the most important part of a member to consider. Mutation is a well-recognized pattern for bugs. I want the points in the method
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by drfrank 6y ago
The U.S. doesn't have to choose between total shutdown and total opening. Targeted opening is feasible. The U.S. also doesn't have to choose between individual destitution and death of the vulnerable. Some combination of financial
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by drfrank 7y ago
Aren't physical side mirrors also still required in the US?
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by drfrank 7y ago
Is this the phenomena described in Neal Stephenson's _Atmosphaera Incognita_?
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by drfrank 7y ago
Many telemarketers have switched to "soundboards" which use responses pre-recorded from native speakers. It's increasingly difficult to recognize that a robot is talking to you. You can ask them if they're a robot, and t
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by drfrank 8y ago
This is the article that I share with my coworkers when I see them reaching for the Visitor Pattern: https://lostechies.com/derekgreer/2010/04/19/double-dispatch...
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by drfrank 9y ago
Seems likely it could scale with expected usage.
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by drfrank 11y ago
I don't get it. What does this do?
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by drfrank 11y ago
I don't need the numeric keypad; I'd rather have that space for my mouse. But I do need an ergonomic angle between the left and right sides. I've been waiting for such a keyboard for 15 years.
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by drfrank 12y ago
As I understand it, this article misrepresents the purpose and nature of the Null Object Pattern ("NOP"). The author cites a comment that describes (very) vaguely a "hotel booking" example, expressing the idea that &quot
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by drfrank 13y ago
The article referenced by this article lists nine features of which eight are syntactic sugar. (Being able to declare the out parameter in place has a very minor but significant impact: Preventing abuse of a variable intended to be used as
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by drfrank 13y ago
I wonder what a woman that spends $50,000 to freeze her eggs in her mid thirties would say about a man who spends $50,000 in his mid thirties on a sports car.