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by _moof 4y ago
I do surface mount with a $20 hotplate from Target. A lot of parts you can even do with a soldering iron. I know it looks scary but once you give it a try you'll find it's not really any harder than through-hole and doesn't r
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by _moof 4y ago
por qué no los dos dot gif, my friend.
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by _moof 4y ago
And while we're getting proof, can we also get a clear explanation of why it's even relevant?
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by _moof 4y ago
Probably not related to English being Germanic; Old and Middle English nouns weren't capitalized, so some other influence had to have sprung up later.
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by _moof 4y ago
"Litter the code with aborts and test the ever-loving hell out of it" is more or less the strategy we use with flight software.
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by _moof 4y ago
I loathe secret requirements in interviews and am up-front and explicit about what I'm looking for. Even with that guardrail though, lots of folks don't answer the questions I'm asking. So I guess a more general piece of advi
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by _moof 4y ago
Sort of related, just curious: Does anyone else mostly remember things from a third-person perspective? When I recall past events the mental images are almost always from outside myself. Thought I read somewhere that this is common but I ca
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by _moof 4y ago
I know this isn't really what you asked, but I've administered hundreds of software engineer interviews, and there are two very common mistakes I see when it comes to system design: 1. Not clarifying the problem. The very first th
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by _moof 4y ago
Didn't work on Zaphod though. He just ate the cake.
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by _moof 4y ago
> Who is flagging this extremely valid criticism of this photo release circus? People who are more interested in the photo and the technology that produced it than public communications, would be my guess.
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by _moof 4y ago
They aren't from the mirrors; they're from the struts.
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by _moof 4y ago
Has to be the end, purely for time paradox avoidance: they are fast approaching the year that Winona Ryder stars in Beetlejuice.
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by _moof 4y ago
Starlink sats orbit at around 550 km altitude; other services are over 35,000 km high. That's 2 ms for a transmission to make it up (or down) versus 120 ms. Multiply by four to get the theoretical minimum ping, not including any comput
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by _moof 4y ago
Peak Prop 65 absurdity, for me, was when I saw one of these warnings on a hospital.
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by _moof 4y ago
It is, yes.
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by _moof 4y ago
Until you start dreaming.
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by _moof 4y ago
I was on an Emirates flight that had this.
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by _moof 4y ago
1500 hours is also the requirement for an airline transport pilot certificate. Seems like a similar level of complexity and risk. /s
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by _moof 4y ago
I wrote software for both platforms and it was shocking how similar they were. Like, surprised-nobody-got-sued shocking.
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by _moof 4y ago
Moof, indeed!
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by _moof 4y ago
42 and semi-seriously considering switching back to a computer from the 1990s and a flip phone. Not even memory protection is worth the crimes perpetrated by today's generation of designers.
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by _moof 4y ago
I'm not smart enough to articulate exactly what about it drives me nuts, but I can tell you that ten minutes with the classic Finder or NeXT's file manager makes the current incarnation of Finder feel like ****.
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by _moof 4y ago
You recover from a stall by relaxing back pressure, not by pushing nose down. If you're pushing when you stall, you're scaring your instructor. :)
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by _moof 4y ago
Probably the other way around. There is a sensory illusion that occurs when accelerating that will induce a pilot to deliberately push nose down, sometimes aggressively. It's powerful - I've seen people do it. (And then quickly to
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by _moof 4y ago
This is more of less where I'm gravitating to. This whole thing is framed in terms of ethics, which is kind of a tell; "sentience," as used in this discussion, is just a talisman that grants its bearer rights and special stat
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by _moof 4y ago
This is a question of courtesy, not the law.
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by _moof 4y ago
And you need a place with enough room to land--extremely difficult to find in a city. I really don't like flying single-engine aircraft over large cities.
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by _moof 4y ago
> I thought it was obvious that short-sightedness (Exclusively Short term thinking) is an epidemic, nobody on Wall Street can see past the next Quarter's numbers. I don't need the economist to point that out. Nearsightedness
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by _moof 4y ago
> real autopilot on an airplane is just keeping it in a straight line and constant speed Not even close. Even light aircraft autopilots can fly a full route from just after takeoff all the way to 200' AGL on final approach. Autopi
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by _moof 4y ago
It will climb (and slow down), but again, it's the thrust that's producing the climb, and this is an extreme example that isn't illustrative. Fighter jets produce enormous thrust for their weight with many having thrust-to-we

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