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by bobsomers 2y ago
I don't think it is, to be honest. All three of those examples are clearly official acts. The President is commander-in-chief of the military, and is also responsible for granting pardons. The key piece of the ruling which lends credib
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by bobsomers 2y ago
> I'm forced to use a Macbook for work, but would never use it if given the choice. MacOS is for people that value style over substance and non-technical people, just like everything else Apple. You’re obviously free to prefer whate
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by bobsomers 2y ago
No, it’s not. Identifying which problems are worth solving (regardless of their complexity), and solving those is worth promotion. Lots of engineers have a fascination with solving complex problems purely for the sake of solving them. W
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by bobsomers 2y ago
> How is it demonstrable that they aren't worth $1m per year? Probably because of this: > How does any company burn $36 billion on a headset they got handed a prototype for?
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by bobsomers 2y ago
Calling California a “failed state” over this seems absurd when the most extreme example in recent history is the Texas freeze power outage in 2021 which left 4.5 million homes without power for several days during winter storms. Somewhere
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by bobsomers 3y ago
The problem with Bazel is that a sandboxed build environment is useless unless you also have a hermetic runtime environment, and Bazel does nothing to solve this problem. While you may be able to consistently build, your runfiles tree can e
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by bobsomers 3y ago
Everyone makes mistakes, it's about learning from them and what you change to try to make things better in the future. Generally speaking, the west has been significantly improving the living conditions and human rights protections
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by bobsomers 3y ago
> Yes there are some exceptions like Bucha, Belgorod, Charkov, Yalta or Maripol events It's pretty disgusting to reduce what happened to civilians in those cities to "some exceptions".
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by bobsomers 3y ago
You can't drive if you only use the current "frame" of data as the basis for your decision. Imagine driving on the highway, a comfortable distance behind a lead vehicle. The planning software would want to slam on the brakes
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by bobsomers 3y ago
> Art can become a craft again, not a career. This sounds nice, but having worked with many artists in the past a lot of them do it because they're good at it, it's enjoyable enough, and it pays their bills so they can eat. Tel
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by bobsomers 3y ago
> The same people that minimize what people like Musk have accomplished. Oof, I agree in general with what you're saying but Musk is a bad example. His companies have been successful in spite of him, rather than because of him.
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by bobsomers 3y ago
> No matter how you calculate it, 737 Max been through more crashes than A380, unless you ignore the previous two crashes, obviously. Correct, but again this is too simplistic of a view and it's not a question that gives you any rea
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by bobsomers 3y ago
> It already has two crashes under its belt, compared to other models that never had any crashes (like the A380). You can't come to any conclusions from simple math like that because it isn't corrected for flight hours and expo
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by bobsomers 3y ago
> How about stop putting lipstick on a pig and retire the whole 737 entirely? What? The 737 NG family (along with the Airbus A320 series) have been the workhorse of short to medium haul air travel for decades now. Throwing out the 737 en
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by bobsomers 3y ago
- No additional consumption of land These benefits are comparatively minuscule I think that benefit is significantly less minuscule than you make it out to be. For rural installations, sure, but in high density areas the cost of l
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by bobsomers 3y ago
Correct, but I've seen a lot of confusion that its a systemic problem (ala MCAS) with the Max family. It doesn't look that way. It looks like a manufacturing problem on one particular variant.
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by bobsomers 3y ago
FWIW, it's only the Max 9s which have this issue. The Max 7s and 8s don't have an exit in that location (too few seats) and the Max 10s require an exit door to be installed in that location, not the door plug. It's only the M
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by bobsomers 3y ago
I don't understand why you think a search engine requires the use of "real engineering skills" like picking and choosing libraries and identifying which opportunities will yield fruitful optimization. Literally all of the lis
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by bobsomers 3y ago
> Cruise did the wrong thing by lying to government regulators. This is exactly the core problem. It wasn't the crash. Regulators expect there to be problems with new technology, but they want to do deep investigations when they hap
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by bobsomers 3y ago
> Sennheiser is the last decent manufacturer of headphones. Are you just not familiar with many headphone manufacturers? I had Sennheisers years ago and they were fine , but since then I've had headphones from Sony, AudioTechnica,
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by bobsomers 3y ago
> It's more about lower management becoming less needed. If a dude managing a team of 5 and not contributing anything can't have f2f meetings all day he suddenly feels obsolete and fears for his future at the company. I don&#x2
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by bobsomers 3y ago
Look at the 1010music Bluebox. It's about twice the size of the TX-6, half the price, and infinitely more usable as an actual mixer and multitrack recorder.
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by bobsomers 3y ago
Eh, I feel like most people would never use 80% of the "features" of the TX-6, which mostly feel like bolt-on justifications for its price tag. If you want a super portable mixer, something like the 1010 Bluebox is infinitely bett
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by bobsomers 3y ago
1^2 = 1 * 1 = 1 2^1 = 2
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by bobsomers 4y ago
My knowledge is probably outdated at this point (the now open source code is probably a better reference than my memory!) but at the time it was exactly as you described. Each workstation loaded the scene independently and work was distribu
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by bobsomers 4y ago
I can maybe add a bit of context to this. I worked on Moonray/Arras at DWA about 8-9 years ago. Arras was designed to let multiple machines work on a single frame in parallel. Film renderers still very much leverage the CPU for a lot o
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by bobsomers 4y ago
I wrote the RDL2 library for Moonray when I worked at DWA about 8-9 years ago. At the time, USD was still very nascent, and we already had RDL (v1) as an internal reference point, so that’s ultimately why Moonray uses something “non-standar
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by bobsomers 4y ago
> HFTs and other market makers are time- and risk-shifting supply & demand. In a functioning market, you can always find someone else to take the other side of the trade if you wait long enough, but you may not be able to find them n
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by bobsomers 4y ago
> If you ask most financial institutions they would say the service they provide is "liquidity". I've honestly never understood this. Economics 101 teaches us that artificially manipulating supply (liquidity) is at direct
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by bobsomers 4y ago
This is a strawman argument. GP never claimed what you stated.

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