NovemberWhiskey

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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
I suspect you pay less than half of 0.46 $/kWh but not less than half of 0.46 ¢/kWh.
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
Don't monitor your servers, monitor your application.
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
Try Frontier: Elite II if you want to try a "realistically modeled" view of space combat - things are pretty much strictly Newtonian.
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
Do you let people run arbitrary code on your linux box? If not, you don't have anything to worry about, as far as I can see.
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
This doesn't help people who have a "one item stack", which occasionally describes me. If I'm holding something, and I find something else I need, I'll just put the one thing down to pick the other thing up. If I&#x
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
IB analysts are not dumb - they put up with this because the worst of it only lasts for a few years, and on the other side are huge riches.
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
No, a boiler room operation is typically a brokerage, which is a completely different kind of a business from an investment bank.
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
For those who are clueless on this: the primary work of "investment bankers" is providing advice to corporate clients on raising capital (through market offerings like bonds and stocks), mergers and acquisitions, and also by under
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
The barrier to entry for learning to fly is literally a few hundred dollars for a discovery flight. You don't need to do any preparation and you will actually fly the plane the first time up. A discovery flight is flight training, and
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
> Most cars give you significant warnings that you're about to run out of gas and as a result very few people do. You will see accident reports where the problem is that the pilot just completely failed to put enough fuel in the ai
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
How many hours do you sleep per day?
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
It's been a while since I looked at this, but my recollection is that the essential smell is 'distributed transactions with unreliable connectivity and end-of-day synchronizations are hard'. Works 99.9% of the time; hard to t
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
$2,000 to $3,000 per square foot is absolutely the asking price for condos in parts of New York like Tribeca and Soho.
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
What's described here is called "signature with (total) message recovery" as opposed to the more common "signature with appendix". This is a legitimate technique used when the message payloads are small and can be w
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
But then you'd be an employee, rather than an independent contractor; and that would break the business model. No value judgment there, just facts.
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
Other than the algorithmic aspect, isn't that basically exactly how the employment market works?
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
If workers are low-skilled, easily replaceable and practically fungible then realistically speaking why would their employer pay them based on value-added?
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
I mean, it wasn't "a clear case of wage theft" as these weren't wage workers; and in any case it's not like they weren't told ahead of time how much the order would pay.
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
... and they were right, and there was a massive destruction of capital invested in companies that installed dark fiber and went bankrupt. The difference was that the dark fiber then got lit later on, because it was useful physical infrastr
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
From my perspective, a much superior explanation would be something like: "A wing causes an aircraft to fly because its shape, and the angle at which it moves through the air, creates regions of higher air pressure under the wing, and
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
> Paper planes have been a thing for a long while, but I guess no one thought that could scale? ... and they were right, because aerodynamics is not scale-invariant.
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
> A scam would be intentionally misleading people about the ability of this thing to fly at all and then grabbing the money and run. There's a fine line between a scam and a business plan which bakes in assumptions that are unreali
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
The pressure difference explanation is the basic explanation, though. The name of the force is "the aerodynamic force", and there's not really any confusion on that point. The difference of shape between hydrofoils and airf
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
> The explanation based on Newton's laws of motion is more to the effect that the wing interacts with the air in such a way as to accelerate some of the air towards the ground. The reaction force is upwards. But that doesn't h
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
My favorite example of this was in the air-data computer I was working on for a fighter trainer. I was just on the software side rather than the aerodynamics, but it was notable that the corrections to angle-of-attack and angle-of-sideslip
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
> So indeed, airfoil shape does not matter. ... what do you mean by that? If you mean "you can demonstrate the aerodynamic force using a flat plate", then yes you can do that. If you mean "a flat plate is a good tool to e
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
OK, but that's just saying "the aerodynamic force exists, because we can observe the plane goes up and the air goes down", isn't it?
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
The Newton's third-law explanation is "air bangs into a bottom of airfoil and pushes it up". Without having the concepts of boundaries layers, laminar and turbulent flow, flow separation and (more generally) the entire Navier
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
If Newton’s third law sufficed, then the shape of the upper surface of the wing wouldn’t be important. In fact, it matters a lot. There is no single explanation for why airfoils generate lift that works at a grade school level.
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
Ask it to provide references. I just asked it for an explanation of the Fresnel effect in VHF communications and to provide references. The first was Wikipedia. One of the other links was a site about radar that had no relevant content. One

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