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31 Hours Inside SpaceX Mission Control(nytimes.com)
1 points by HillRat 4y ago|0 comments
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by HillRat 4y ago
"Pedantic" is probably not the most felicitous term they could have used; they clearly meant something more like "abstruse," given their obvious admiration for the film.
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by HillRat 4y ago
He represents VA-08, which is basically 90% defense contractors, systems integrators, and technology consultants — there’s a reason he’s chair of Space and Aeronautics — so arguably this is right in his constituents’ wheelhouse.
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72-year-old Congressman pursues a Master's in AI(washingtonpost.com)
226 points by HillRat 4y ago|134 comments
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The ultra-wealthy have complained for years about this. There's actually a method to get temporary and anonymous call signs for PJs through the FAA, but it's not supported internationally, so every time you leave US airspace you h
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by HillRat 4y ago
The only point of principle Musk is standing on is that this affected him personally, so it has to go (a principle that new Trust and Safety head Ella Irwin is evidently happy to go along with). And, of course, this is the guy who’s handing
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by HillRat 4y ago
The Americas and Africa would probably like to have a word about the legacy of Spain and Portugal's decision to "explore new worlds"...
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by HillRat 4y ago
Turns out having a monetary union but not a fiscal one is really destabilizing when things go wrong!
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by HillRat 4y ago
There's a real "it depends" flavor to any answer you'll get. If your feature set could be handled by off-the-shelf Magento with a couple of plugins, then, sure, you probably should have gone that way. But if you have unu
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by HillRat 4y ago
Yeah, the cost of capsules for NIF is something like 4 orders of magnitude higher than it needs to be for commercialization, though admittedly it's not like they've industrialized the process yet. The other thing is that if LLNL i
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by HillRat 4y ago
At the risk of being pedantic, if this is the LLNL NIF, then it's ICF, not MCF, though putting a graphite rod at the heart of a laser-driven thermonuclear event probably looks about the same either way.
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by HillRat 4y ago
Standard MIT licensing's attached to the source code itself.
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by HillRat 4y ago
It’s a nonsensical, clickbait article that uses trivial techniques to create ridiculous conclusions. Using AWS street prices to estimate TWTR’s on-prem costs, leaving aside their initial assumptions, is not only incompetent, it suggests the
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by HillRat 4y ago
I think the implication is, “I used to manage my own DB instance and I’m now willing to pay anything even vaguely reasonable to not have to do that again.”
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by HillRat 4y ago
It was a long time ago, so I'm operating off questionable memory here, but IIRC the major tell was looking at patient longevity (questionable hospices had longer patient tenure, presumably because of more aggressive recruitment of no
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by HillRat 4y ago
Ironically, one of the more effective ways to reduce billing waste was when health systems (or their PE owners) decided to slash costs by laying off their coders (for everyone else who didn't live revenue cycle, a "coder" in
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by HillRat 4y ago
Interestingly, both HHS and IRS have law enforcement arms that are extremely effective and could be used more extensively in these cases, but they're overburdened dealing with things like opioid prescription crimes (which are worthy of
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by HillRat 4y ago
I was deeply involved in hospice software, and specifically developing hospice revenue cycle solutions, about 15 years ago, and I can certainly confirm that the Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement formulas -- while in most areas arguably a
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by HillRat 4y ago
This article predates XHTML, and was almost certainly not informed by the then-current work on RDF/Dublin Core. At the time, terminal screen-scraping was ... not an uncommon method of data interchange between systems (hence the context
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by HillRat 4y ago
As advertisers are saying, what Twitter really had going for it wasn't that it was a great place to advertise so much as it was a very engaged ad sales team that leveraged their agency and advertiser relations for all they were worth.
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by HillRat 4y ago
LaPorta's a fine reporter who absolutely doesn't deserve to be scapegoated for what was primarily an editorial error in judgment (also, Nixon's an excellent national security reporter with deep sources). The initial few hours
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by HillRat 4y ago
Twitter has laid off, fired, and will likely continue to bleed out some of the finest minds working on highly resilient, performant, and distributed technologies. Product design was absolutely hollowed out by the first round of layoffs, and
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by HillRat 4y ago
Tesla's market cap in no way supports this strategy, but from a core competency perspective they would be an amazing tier 1 vendor. Not sure how long they can sustain being a poor-quality OEM now that traditional automakers and competi
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by HillRat 4y ago
Coming out of BigCo consulting, pretty much every decision in our sales and solutioning pipeline had Excel somewhere beneath it, simply because it was the fastest way to do financial and project modeling for rapidly-changing requirements. I
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by HillRat 4y ago
Seems to be a "backend for frontend" (or "digital decoupling") design, where you have purpose-built APIs for each specific product or experience.
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by HillRat 4y ago
There seem to be two concurrent drivers there -- first, that Mideast terrorism tended to attract young men who lacked economic and social opportunities despite being credentialed, and, second, that engineering disciplines are overrepresente
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by HillRat 4y ago
One of my mantras is "what you say no to is more important than what you say yes to," and the Go team says no to a lot . It can be frustrating and Go can be incredibly inexpressive (and, frankly, boring) compared to other languag
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by HillRat 4y ago
Anything that can be done to reduce developers' direct interaction with any EDI-based workflow -- and I was on the X12 standards committee back in the day -- is god's work, as far as I'm concerned. FHIR and SMART on FHIR are
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by HillRat 4y ago
Musk's skills are pretty domain-specific and not, I think, transferable. He really excels at: 1. Choosing hard (and inspiring) problems that decompose down to a series of relatively linear engineering challenges; 2. Getting large amoun
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by HillRat 4y ago
No, we’ve created a class of global citizens whose only job is to handle, without protection, the torrent of psychological toxic waste we create every single second of the day. The vast majority of the work they do is to act as an ablative

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