lambda_obrien

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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
I find it fascinating to use the natural things you have available as a motive force, and it's really cool to think all you might need is a few bits of conductor and the earth's own relatively static magnetic field to move a satel
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
9 out of 10 times it's not the developers failing to deliver, but the management failing to provide a good plan and making bad decisions. I suggest that if you're only given the nebulous goals of better quality and less downtime,
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
Well, if everyone is an attention seeker online trying to pitch their own line of BS and side hustling, then not using social media, or being genuine there, is counter to culture.
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
That's an interesting idea, I wonder if you would need a loop or a winding method to get enough counter-emf?
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
All government contracts that outsource a service with private data to a third party should have an absolute requirement that the data itself is not to be shared without approval and that it had to be necessary for the service's functi
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
Shoot it with a dart that has a really long wire attached to it, then release the wire to drag in atmosphere, so the satellite is slowly pulled down?
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
I'm one of those people who use keyboard shortcuts sparingly. I actually prefer the mouse, even for things I do over and over everyday. Why? I'm not quite sure, but I've tried using the keyboard in the past with vim or whatev
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
I love the Office 'ribbon' because it has icons whereas the menus don't. It makes it very easy to quickly pick the tool I need by muscle and visual memory. Also, MS does icons and design well, IMO, because they don't mak
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
I think to truly get the interoperability you see in sci-fi you're gonna need to upend the large stack we currently build on and reconsider what we want to do with our software and computers. Adding APIs to everything is great for toda
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
It would be neat to use a sort of reverse-holomorpic encryption, where the client could send the server a computation to perform on some data the client had access to then return the results, but the server cannot see exactly what the compu
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
I think we should try to encode types in a common notation and create a gobal package manager for them. Then get people to actually use the types and you'll get much closer to automating API connectivity. I think Tree Notation and a ye
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
Example of what, because I think that's probably the idea: protect the full time employees' hours to ensure the company doesn't try to make everyone go below full time and lose benefits (see: Walmart). If you're already
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
I always remembered how I hated unions for taking all those dues, but then I actually joined one and it was like 30 bucks a paycheck on a 3k paycheck, so like 1 percent. In exchange, my boss never asked me to stay late, work on weekends, or
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
Hmm yes, quite. Never thought about that haha.
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
I don't know, I was trained in the navy to drive ships and sometimes I have a near accident when driving my car, and a car is way easier to drive. I think people are just imperfect and sometimes have accidents, so we should allow for t
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
It's a race condition, so it had to do with two operations happening in a certain incorrect order. I bet they are able to see the exact situations where it occurred with pretty great certainty by reviewing the logs of the two operation
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
All that from today's AI? The best I've seen from today's AI is a few gpt-3 articles that are clearly in the uncanny valley and a car which may or may not mistake an exit ramp wall for a passing lane.
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
In practice, are there maybe a few problems for which this guarantee unlocks a big performance speedup? How might this be used practically?
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
It's my opinion, mostly, but I've written drivers to control several different models and makes of battery installation, so firsthand experience. The difference is in the control software and reliability: Tesla batteries are way m
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
Tesla batteries can operate in freezing temperatures in heat mode.
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
Don't, just price it into the project and leave it down there.
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
Indeed, the Tesla powerpack is years ahead of the competitors, probably because they engineer only the hard parts themselves and use commercial products for the easy stuff.
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
The 80-20 rule: the last 20 percent of the work takes 80 percent of the time.
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
Sometimes you even fall through the floor and find a whole 'nother world down there.
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
That's kinda true for most things in competitive arenas, right? Sports, chess, e gaming, etc. I hate it, but at mid life I'm way slower thinking than I was 20 years ago, there's no chance I could compete with young people on
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
I guess not everyone agrees, since my comment was demolished.
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
Is there anywhere which optimizes for LOC count today? I figure everyone knows by now LOC is a bad metric.
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
You don't have to ask yourself that, you can just accept that the people who you work with will usually be out of your control and respect their skills separately from what they look like. If they suck, then they suck, but don't p
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
Your government can force you to do or give them anything, don't think math will stop them from trying. If they fail, they'll just lock you up.
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
If our body is not a part of our mind, then where does the mind exist? Are we just loops of code controlling a mechanism? I'm curious why you casually toss away the possibility that our bodies and self are one inseparable thing when no

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