ElFitz

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by ElFitz 5y ago
> Science is not the pursuit of "truth". "If it's truth you're looking for, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right down the hall." - Prof. Indiana Jones Quite funny because Indiana Jones is an archaeolog
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by ElFitz 5y ago
Some people do everything in local containers, with one container for each project, the same way others do it with a vm on a server[1] The upside being that you still have little to no "contamination" between projects dependencies
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by ElFitz 5y ago
Perhaps it’s only that, for the first time, they got some time to reflect on their job and actually notice the impact it had on their lives and health, realised it had never been worth it, and want to find something else?
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by ElFitz 5y ago
Even more so when those allowed to do the configuring aren’t those that’ll actually have to work with those tools and didn’t bother to ask anyone anything. Just like when creating software, incidentally.
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by ElFitz 5y ago
> My main guess for that special treatment is merely that tobacco and alcohol were global when we started taking care about global health issues, so we left them, but banned any newcomer That narrative just doesn’t hold up. Opium, heroin
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by ElFitz 5y ago
Yeah. Another of the issues is that it’s picked by people who (supposedly) chose the right tool for them, without considering wether or not it was optimised for those actually doing the tasks. At least that’s how I ended up with boards that
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by ElFitz 5y ago
I wouldn’t advocate getting rid of the honour system; it has proven to work for operating aircrafts. But like [1], I am still utterly confused about the whole self-certification deal. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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by ElFitz 5y ago
A funny thought. Given - how easy it supposedly would be to find someone to bribe with the inheritance one would get from someone like Bezos and Branson, - how many people work on getting these rockets into space and those men back - how co
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Can’t edit anymore, but that link was left by mistake.
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by ElFitz 5y ago
Where did I say, or even hint, that the entire aerospace industry is unsafe ? What I did say, is that this approach seems remarkably similar to the process that is both partially credited with the 737 Max issues, and one of the reasons s
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by ElFitz 5y ago
Oh, certainly, it is much safer than most things. But there still are huge conflicts of interest in self-certifying equipment, wether it’s an airplane or a nuclear power plant. In this case, following the crashes, the FAA's safety mode
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by ElFitz 5y ago
> The nuclear industry is also pushing the NRC to cut down on safety inspections and rely instead on plants to police themselves. The same way the FAA allowed airplane manufacturers to decide wether their planes needed re-certifying when
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Plus, low quality content providers would have a high click-through ratio but very low conversion rate. Might be interesting.
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by ElFitz 5y ago
> It's more of a "Screw you, we make the rules. > It's not all bad, but french government agencies notoriously have a bit of a "labor laws don't apply to us" attitude. That is sooo true. They give themsel
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by ElFitz 5y ago
In the EU, and probably elsewhere, there are entire engineering shops of which the one and only purpose is to reverse engineer competitors’ features and figure out a legal way to get around patents and replicate those features. No interoper
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by ElFitz 5y ago
Hey then? Or any B2B SaaS’ app, for that matter?
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by ElFitz 5y ago
> And apps that do not work without an outside-app purchase are still rejected as well. Apps such as Netflix & Spotify?
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by ElFitz 5y ago
I would rather do everything on a remote server, really, with a different environment for each project. But that starts breaking down when working on mobile or hardware projects.
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by ElFitz 5y ago
Over here we have a 2 years mandatory warranty, and most if not all of the price difference can be explained by the displayed prices including VAT and dollar -> euro conversion. Now, it only covers defects, but that’s what most warrantie
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by ElFitz 5y ago
That’s what models are for. Many systems are too complex to be fully understood as a whole. But by modelling them, we can still understand why they behaved they they have, and predict how they will behave. There is no need for any one indiv
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by ElFitz 5y ago
Exactly. "Committee of Public Salvation" . Sounds weird. So, in this case, considering they considered themselves the defenders of the greatest ideology of all time and the (worthy) people, and were at war with both foreign coun
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by ElFitz 5y ago
Haha! Nice one! We are starting to slide into Cartesian doubt here.
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by ElFitz 5y ago
Who would be Boeing then? Because almost no company has much more serious experience with self-driving cars, let alone FSD.
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by ElFitz 5y ago
You will notice that I expand my point way beyond SpaceX, and even start by stating > While I do get your point and have my own doubts […]
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by ElFitz 5y ago
While I do get your point and have my own doubts, I fail to see how this is a fair argument: > If Google can't do it with its massive resources The companies behind the SLS had and have an enormous amount of resources. Yet, they hav
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by ElFitz 5y ago
Sure. But let’s take the average computer user’s analogy from another comment [1]. A random, average smartphone can use their device every day, and accomplish a great number of things without knowing how it actually works at all. For all th
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by ElFitz 5y ago
The translation is inaccurate. It means safety in the same way as the salvation of the soul for Christians, but in a non-religious way, and applied to all of society. Yes, they were both quite grandiose in their wordings and full of themsel
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Along with "For your own safety".
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Which basically means the brain doesn’t think the way the brain thinks the brain thinks. Aside from the horrible phrasing, it's quite funny to think about, leading us to: My brain thinks it is funny to think about how the brain doesn’t
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by ElFitz 5y ago
> Long time ago I read that walking or taking a shower make your thinking more effective because it somehow enables automation mode and allow to be more focused They mention it quite a lot in the "Learning how to learn" courser

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