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by taion 2y ago
Good luck! Those were the behaviors that got you promoted to senior staff in the first place – so I would imagine that your org is actively expecting that you will continue them!
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by taion 2y ago
Assuming your leveling matches standard bigtech leveling, it's generally expected at level 7+ that you are doing lots of cross-org work anyway, and have responsibilities at quite a high level. Unless you're one of those rare engin
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by taion 2y ago
You can do that, but now you have a runtime dependency on your analytics system, right? This can be reasonable for a one-off experimentation system but it's not likely you'll be able to do all of your experimentation this way.
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by taion 2y ago
The problem with this approach is that it requires the system doing randomization to be aware of the rewards. That doesn't make a lot of sense architecturally – the rewards you care about often relate to how the user engages with your
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Why Did Supersonic Airliners Fail?(construction-physics.com)
4 points by taion 2y ago|1 comments
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by taion 2y ago
And in that sense Tillich isn't that far from, say, Aquinas, who is consistent about asserting that existence is not a "real" predicate and that God's existence is outside of the world and outside of space and time. You
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by taion 2y ago
That one is not going to be particularly useful at all. It's a linear probe, which means it's really only for imaging things near the skin. It's one-third of a typical set of probes: https://stanfordmedicine25.stan
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by taion 2y ago
Yes, they still require gel. That's just a matter of physics. Changing the transducer technology doesn't change that.
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by taion 2y ago
You're not allowed to buy these without an NPI number. And while ultrasound is relatively easy, it's still not really usable without some training. I think there have been some studies of training users to do ultrasound at home fo
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by taion 3y ago
A big part of the point of that Construction Physics Substack is to explore these factors around innovation, productivity, and process change in the construction sector. I don't think it's really quite as simple as you imply: htt
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Mass timber is great, but it will not solve the housing shortage(construction-physics.com)
184 points by taion 3y ago|775 comments
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by taion 3y ago
I'm not sure why this piece mentions deregulation. The drinks limit was in 1956, while the sandwich spat was in 1958 – but deregulation wasn't until 1978, two decades later! The collusion in question seems to only relate to regula
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by taion 3y ago
The Construction Physics Substack had a good piece on the economics of building commercial aircraft a bit ago: https://www.construction-physics.com/p/a-cycle-of-misery-the... , with discussion on HN here: https:/&
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by taion 3y ago
It's also not entirely a technical issue, anyway. In a vacuum the Sourcehut UX might be fine, but if people are used to GitHub-style UX, then they will have a hard time with Sourcehut and end up doing the wrong thing, like emailing the
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by taion 3y ago
It’s not uncommon for vocal music to have different conventions like this, especially which the pitch isn’t absolute so standard notation isn’t quite correct anyway. Note the use of neums for chant – and those are harder to learn!
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by taion 3y ago
This is exactly right. This kind of structured logging is great, but it doesn’t replace metrics. You really want to have both, and simple unsampled metrics are actively better for e.g. automated alerting for exactly those reasons. They’re c
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by taion 3y ago
You also lose accuracy because of sampling noise.
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by taion 3y ago
Matthew Ball had a good essay on this about a month ago: https://www.matthewball.co/all/gaming2024 The industry as a whole is facing huge financial pressures, Sony included.
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by taion 3y ago
That makes sense. So first they have to go closed-source before that attack vector is even feasible, and doing so would be sufficient on its own to raise alarms.
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by taion 3y ago
One thing I’m curious about here is how BlueSky can credibly commit to only use the open portions of the protocol. BlueSky appears to be de facto quite centralized – given that, it seems like there’s no technical reason why first-party Bl
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by taion 3y ago
A fun bit of Bluesky trivia is that it’s also named after a person, apropos that post from a bit ago – the CEO’s first name is literally “blue sky” in Mandarin.
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by taion 3y ago
This feels “truthy”, but I wonder how much of this is selection bias. Organizations that do solve their problems tend to cease to exist or be relevant. In that sense you would expect only the organizations that have not (yet?) solved their
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by taion 3y ago
Google are already indexing Reddit, so this might reflect the incremental value of direct API access plus keeping everyone happy. I would be surprised if Reddit’s threats to block Google’s crawler were all that credible.
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by taion 3y ago
The framing of this as a Google issue would suggest that other search engines wouldn’t have this issue, but I’m not sure that’s true? The “air purifier” search on DDG seems to give the same set of blogspam results: https://duckdu
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by taion 3y ago
Or less kept secret than not written down, especially before the early modern period, especially outside of things like war horses, just based on who was engaged in that activity. In fact a quick glance at the Wikipedia page for medieval ho
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by taion 3y ago
The premise of the argument seems wrong. Even in just Europe, there’s evidence for an increase in animal size during the Roman period, a decrease during the early middle ages, and then an increase into the high middle ages, e.g. https:&#x2
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by taion 4y ago
It's not really "fixed" for other languages in general. The support in Node for multiple different versions of transitive dependencies is actually quite nice. In Python, for example, you simply can't have multiple versio
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by taion 5y ago
The argument here is correct as far as it goes, but the “yes but”s are somewhat severe. For a minimal MVP deployment, as a client likely you’re not going to have anything like that Kafka setup, but instead have something like a single polli
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by taion 5y ago
Strong recommendation for Zena Hitz's book _Lost in Thought_. As an engineer, it's hard to take a step back and enjoy the pure intellectual pleasures of my work and hobbies, but I found it quite worthwhile to do so, and her book d
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by taion 5y ago
Renovate gives you links to diffs on the published npm package: https://app.renovatebot.com/package-diff?name=hookem&from=1.... It's also great at doing bulk updates, so you get a lot less spam than you do from Dep

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