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by cbanek 7y ago
I think this is a really neat idea. I am always interested by the being able to find my stuff items. Although I wonder if having a lot of bluetooth devices will overwhelm devices. For example, when you're in a plane or in a hotel is
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by cbanek 7y ago
I love learning about past Earth climate history and just history in general. One of my mind blowing climate events is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messinian_salinity_crisis It's not in the list you link, but i
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by cbanek 7y ago
I've also heard (not a Googler myself), that parts of the code are private, like very specific parts of the search algorithm that are very critical IP. So while a vast majority of the code is readable by most, it's not some kind
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by cbanek 7y ago
If this was in Chicago, pretty sure I was there for this. It was indeed a very interesting time! If not, I think it's hilarious that this could have happened multiple times!
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by cbanek 7y ago
I used to, but it drove me slowly insane. It wasn't all day every day, it was one day a week for about 4 hours in the afternoon. Everyone is in a conference room, working on laptops, munching on food, discussing things, etc. There&#
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by cbanek 7y ago
So while it sounds good that we've fixed the launch industry and can launch everything cheaper, that we should only have space based telescopes, space telescopes are a very different game from ground based telescopes. First, as others
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by cbanek 7y ago
Actually, you kind of do, because how do you know it's an anomaly and not something you want to observe? Especially if it's just occluding things in its path, and you can't see it. It's really helpful to know where eve
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by cbanek 7y ago
(I'm not speaking for any of my current or past employers, just for myself, and how I've seen this play out. One employer being a telescope impacted by Starlink, and the other being SpaceX, I want both sides to succeed.) First,
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by cbanek 7y ago
> "Only one injury was reported: a firefighter in a hazmat suit was injured when he unepectedly came off a curb and twisted his ankle"
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by cbanek 7y ago
Well, to be fair, I feel like I know a little about how computers work and the internet started, but I didn't know all these names off the top of my head either. (To be fair, one rang a bell) I think it's a very different thing to
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by cbanek 7y ago
Tinder for laundry seems like good, clean fun.
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by cbanek 7y ago
More interesting to me was the Gilfoyle subplot of trying to get him to catch up on his work and sticking him with a team. That was just sheer brilliance, and having seen similar things come out in real job life, only made it more hilariou
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by cbanek 7y ago
After a few seasons, I feel like people's characters aren't really growing or have much of an arc. Bachman is gone, BigHead seems to be doing his normal things after losing all his money, Gilfoyle and Dinesh are doing the same th
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by cbanek 7y ago
I think the article missed the actual reason why they aren't considered part of the COGS (cost of goods sold): taxes. First off, I'm not a CPA or tax lawyer. You don't get tax incentives for having more input cost on each ite
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by cbanek 7y ago
He definitely could have - he worked at SpaceX as well. But saying things about what other companies are doing is a big no-no in the launch industry, and I doubt they would give permission. It's the kind of thing that can get you put
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by cbanek 7y ago
I agree, in general, it's a relatively thankless job, where you are constantly cleaning up after other people's messes. Many developers don't think how their decisions impact downstream processes, deployment, or operations.
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by cbanek 7y ago
One process way I like of getting the right outcomes is making lists. It makes me feel like I'm making progress every time I check something off. Making plans and trying to figure out if they will work is also pretty interesting. I t
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by cbanek 7y ago
Pretty sure cops can follow the same rules to tear apart your car looking for drugs, and even if they don't find any, will happily return your stack of car parts and say "have a good day."
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by cbanek 7y ago
I've had similar problems to this, although my back pain is a bit higher, and creeps into my neck and jaw. I think I've lessened the pain a lot, but it is always somewhat there. Here's what I've learned, tried, and don
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by cbanek 7y ago
Now I'm wondering if the people that did the pizza ordering scene in _The Net_ read this article. It does the same thing with the pizza design and showing the toppings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CnWs8jDbXo
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by cbanek 7y ago
As someone who has loved going to see "classic" movies in the theater, it's a different experience than watching them at home. I'm not going to the theater because I don't have the movie, but because I want to see
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by cbanek 7y ago
> do you really want to pass on a good job just because you didn't like their interview style? Well, the problem is when you're interviewing, that you don't know if it's a "good" job. You and the company ar
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by cbanek 7y ago
As a woman who worked at MSFT through the Ballmer era, I have to agree with this whole article. It really nailed it. Especially this part near the end where I never felt it would get better: "But my former female colleagues who revi
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by cbanek 7y ago
I thought the content of this was really interesting, although the results were actually way off. I love pizza, for one thing. Although, to be honest, their picture of pizza did not look very tasty. I also wonder how these results would be
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by cbanek 7y ago
Well, red in nature doesn't always need to mean blood. It can also be a signal to other animals, even if they don't have red blood. Red is pretty hard to camouflage in nature, and it really stands out. Sometimes it's for at
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by cbanek 7y ago
"Remember to build your business" - so obvious, but I think we're honestly missing that these days, so it's good to hear it. Now it seems fake it till you make VC money, then take the money and run.
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by cbanek 7y ago
> I wonder how possible it is to essentially sum together lots of pictures one after another where occasionally you would reject photos that had a satellite passing through them? Like is that how they deal with it now? This is what LSST
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Introduction to Artificial Neural Networks (For Astronomy)(colab.research.google.com)
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by cbanek 7y ago
> If I make a mistake at work and people are aware of it I am afraid that it reflects negatively on me more than the good things I do reflect positively. I think this is just how you think about yourself, because everyone is their own wo
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by cbanek 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsiolkovsky_rocket_equation It's also about gravity, since gravity is what you are fighting against.

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