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by VLM 4y ago
Famously, their inspection infrastructure and regulation boils down to "buyer beware" so its going to be an apples to oranges comparison.
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by VLM 4y ago
A plumber can charge $15K to install a new sewer line, both in 2022 and in 1972 (inflation adjusted). However, an increasing fraction of money is likely being spent on lower margin lower productivity "construction". I'm sur
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by VLM 4y ago
Engineered to cool by convection and gravity, yes. Somewhat safer than reactors that melt without continuous active cooling. But that comes at a cost: the good parts of low power density AND the bad part of low power density, such as bein
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by VLM 4y ago
You need to read the wikipedia article on the "Cursus honorum" from the roman empire. Everything old is new again, not just in computer science. You step one foot off the path, and the pyramid means there's a zillion people
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by VLM 4y ago
Why do contemporary discussions of post scarcity always require something in the future rather than appearing in the past due to "the assembly line" or "agriculture"? Surely in the vast universe of past human discovery i
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by VLM 4y ago
The circular reasoning is entertaining, as the low priced labor is theoretically generating the AI to be the ultimate labor-saving technique. But you don't need to save "too cheap to meter" labor. What was the last thing th
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by VLM 4y ago
Its a supply and demand problem. The supply of human AI gig workers vastly staggeringly exceeds the demand for human AI workers. Trash talking the entire industry just means the poor will get poorer and be worse treated when the demand dr
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by VLM 4y ago
Treat the symptom, technically. The problem is a toxic working environment. The meta problem is handwaving away too many toxic working environments with "the root cause of the problem is solved because the victims can get therapy"
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by VLM 4y ago
A remarkable number of jobs are about putting fires out. Is someone responsible available for that revenue generating, or loss preventing, "thing", that has a high enough uptime to not attract anyone's wrath? OK then.
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by VLM 4y ago
photography perspective: Lets say hunting (any species) is most effective when the hunter has a wide field of view from a small pupil. So any hunting carnivore animal, will hunt better under non-ideal light if their pupils are smaller, wh
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by VLM 4y ago
Much like social media in general, "sending a signal" is much more important than doing anything.
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by VLM 4y ago
Unironically where's this tier 3? I got leetcoded at an interview for what I thought was a sane employer when trying for what amounted to a K8S position. Not developing K8S but setting up a rather elaborate database system on it, LOL
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by VLM 4y ago
The right people were doing the raping, which explains the entire situation.
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by VLM 4y ago
The new satanic panic.
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by VLM 4y ago
1 in 20 is "most"? What about the other 19 in 20? I was under the impression that the most common cause was being fat.
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by VLM 4y ago
Propane market is a good analogy for solar and wind energy; lots of it, but hard to stockpile, and matching the producers to the consumers seems a very inefficient market with lots of economic and energy losses. Electricity will be like pro
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by VLM 4y ago
Could be too capital intensive to run. Could be asking the wrong question. In AI we gave up in the 80s on top down lets write an expert system and now we're trying bottom up. What if we're asking the wrong question? People of a
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by VLM 4y ago
Specifically, as a Chinese product, the ratio of UK economy vs Chinese economy is relevant.
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by VLM 4y ago
To catch every random person visiting a site you do need to control most of the Tor nodes which is probably affordable for the three letter agencies. To catch one specific guy doing one action one time that he might do hundreds of times wit
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by VLM 4y ago
With a side dish of "we can't find any employees willing to work here"
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by VLM 4y ago
The people who need a pyramid structure to strive for, and office politics to fight, will never settle for "from each according to their ability and to each according to their need", and those are the people we've selected fo
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by VLM 4y ago
Ironically extreme selection pressure is exactly what leads to extreme risk aversion. "We only hire the absolute best" does not lead to "move fast and break things" (which sounds awful in a FAA context anyway) it leads t
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by VLM 4y ago
"The source said the NOTAM system is an example of aging infrastructure due for an overhaul." The concept of "lint" a file and the concept of verifying a backup are truly ancient and coincidentally are also completely ab
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by VLM 4y ago
You might be in for a difficult discovery about how unreliable consumer-grade connectors have always been across all the history of EE-land, compared to professionally installed (or even amateur installed) wire nuts. (edited, not to say its
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by VLM 4y ago
From a technical engineering perspective the -22F claim in the article is amazing. When I was a kid that number was +40F and we walked up hill both ways to school in the snow. As cool it is as an engineering story, its AWFUL as a marketing
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by VLM 4y ago
"go bigger" will result in short cycling during the hot summer resulting in high humidity and mold problems in the summer.
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by VLM 4y ago
So, essentially "power over thicknet ethernet". Nobody liked that tech. "Worked in the lab, and whenever it breaks we can blame the user for improper abuse" was such a fiasco it resulted in the world being re-networked
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by VLM 4y ago
If I were a helicopter in IFR conditions and I just need a gas stop, I've never landed here, I'd forget about it, there's five heliports within 20 miles that have absolute zero drama. Legally technically the heliport is open
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by VLM 4y ago
Its a flight planning mystery. Lets say you are not flying to, but flying by, my hometown airport. You decide arbitrarily to use it as a divert in case of awful weather or engine trouble enroute or you just want a bathroom break (this is m
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by VLM 4y ago
All hyper optimized systems become fragile until they collapse. The NOTAM system is ridiculous, no surprise it collapsed ... you can lose your ticket for flying thru a MOA that went active AFTER you took off. What could possibly go wrong wi

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