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by anon7725 4y ago
I was under the impression that weather balloons fly well above the max altitude of commercial airliners (60k ft). It seems significant that the last 3 “objects” have been encountered at typical airliner altitudes (40k ft or under)
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by anon7725 4y ago
The WW2 Japanese balloon bombs were later (1944-1945). Some were shot down.
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by anon7725 4y ago
If you send 100,000 bomb-balloons at your nuclear-triad-possessing enemy you have telegraphed the world’s worst sneak attack. You’d better get it over with and try your first strike after launching your balloons because your enemy will prob
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by anon7725 4y ago
That was Britain vs France. Are you thinking of the War of 1812? Britain vs USA.
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by anon7725 4y ago
Sending 100,000 armed balloons towards a nuclear-armed adversary doesn’t sound like 10d chess strategic thinking.
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by anon7725 4y ago
Philosophically, it matters whether LLMs understand something or merely act like they do. Practically, it doesn’t matter.
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by anon7725 4y ago
Many/most of these companies have a huge portfolio of projects underway and have lots of open headcount that they’re hiring for. What sense does it make to say cut an engineer from one org only to hire another one a month later for ano
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by anon7725 4y ago
Lmfao. Do you know how hiring works at a large company? When your management chain has won a few headcount marbles during this quarter’s game of Hungry Hungry Hippos, it’s not in your interest to blithely challenge them on it.
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by anon7725 4y ago
The medical licensing body is making the market in surgeons. Their interest is in keeping wages high and supply low. In fact, “making the market” is not even the right analogy - the licensing body is the sole supplier of surgeons. Nobody is
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by anon7725 4y ago
Supply impacts wages. More people want to be game devs per open position than want to be non-game devs per open position.
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by anon7725 4y ago
Layoffs are life changing. Not everyone who is laid off is an in-demand engineer. “Tech jobs” obscure the fact that most roles are non- or light-technical jobs that are common at many companies (HR, sales, support, etc).
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by anon7725 4y ago
There is no way that 60% are engineers. This kind of scale up is usually in sales and customer support roles, and moderation if applicable.
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by anon7725 4y ago
Traditional guilds fostered apprenticeship, mentorship and relationships between practitioners that transcend firms/projects. Given that “the market” seems to have settled on LC as the only measure of skill I don’t think it’s far fetch
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by anon7725 4y ago
Did you happen to notice the phrases “it’s conceivable” and “perhaps” in my reply? I’m not making any categorical assertions. I think people who make categorical assertions in the negative regarding other life in the universe and its potent
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by anon7725 4y ago
> There's no reason to think FTL travel is possible This seems like fairly closed thinking. We’ve observed strange behavior at the quantum level. We have plausible theories of wormholes and multiverses. It’s conceivable that some ci
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by anon7725 4y ago
How would you know what’s on the balloon before you shot it down.
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by anon7725 4y ago
Because the country is called Ukraine not The Ukraine. You wouldn’t say The Germany, would you?
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by anon7725 4y ago
> What happens next? They retrieve the wreckage and analyze it. We hear nothing further.
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by anon7725 4y ago
None of the large tech companies conducting layoffs have had their back against the wall. They are mostly just purging after their irrational pandemic hiring as well as doing galaxy-brained copycat layoffs. Isn’t it remarkable that “economi
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by anon7725 4y ago
So you spend a good portion of your waking hours at Burger King and feed and clothe yourself from the money that you make there?
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by anon7725 4y ago
Just till it reaches altitude
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by anon7725 4y ago
Maybe they did - gathering intelligence or probing for an exploit, etc.
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by anon7725 4y ago
Just stop all the random unnecessary extra curricular activities and travel at work. And have a “no alcohol in work contexts” policy.
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by anon7725 4y ago
Once you become one of the most valuable companies in the world, with virtually all revenue derived from ads, you give up the ability to recruit for passion.
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by anon7725 4y ago
Now is a good time to interject a lament that VW has not brought the California/Grand California to North America. Given that people buy $150k vans from garage upfitters like they're going out of style, I think VW would absolutely
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by anon7725 4y ago
A truck camper is a bit of a unicorn - class B level flexibility (modulo a higher roof clearance), with the ability to dismount the camper at a campsite if needed.
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by anon7725 4y ago
Yeah, it’s unfortunate that it hasn’t come to market. Ford has the eco boost 3.5L engine in the Transit but not its Powerboost hybrid cousin from the F150. It would be an ideal engine for a camper van.
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by anon7725 4y ago
IME RV heat pumps are not worth much below around 10C. They’re okay to take some chill out of the air in temperate weather. The propane/diesel furnace is a much better option for heating below 10C.
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by anon7725 4y ago
It matters because morale and perceptions matter during times of change.
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by anon7725 4y ago
And who sits on boards? Current and former executives who have vested interest in the status quo.

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