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by cletus 4y ago
The best form of history, undo and redo I've used is on hte various Jetbrains editors. It's a feature called Local History and is insanely useful. 1. It's always on. It never requires an explicit save or commit; 2. It automat
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by cletus 4y ago
Ex-Facebooker here too, also during that time. Zuck's response to Covid definitely had upsides, particularly (as you mention) the continued payment of contractors even though offices were closed. There were downsides too. The "Don
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by cletus 4y ago
It still amazes me that over 2,000 years later we have the direct writings of Julius Caesar of his various campaigns. I believe these texts are still used heavily in teaching Latin because the language is so clear. Obviously there's bi
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by cletus 4y ago
If this interests you, I highly recommend Dan CArlin's Hardcore History podcast [1], specifically his King of Kings series dealing with the notable Kings of Persia. Episode 3 deals with Alexander specifically. Something Dan said has re
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I get that you dislike this format. There are legitimate critcisms. But to extrapolate this to a company-wide strategy failure is beyond ludicrous and simply belies just how much you detest whiteboard coding. Please, for your own sake, try
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by cletus 4y ago
This is an abstract of an article behind a paywall so we can't see this details but it is from 2021 and I managed to find an article discussing the concept [1] > In this case negative energy is not required — rather it’s gravity its
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Doesn't this warp drive depend on negative energy density (whatever that means) or has the fundamental flaw from out-of-domain values shifted in this version to something else?
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by cletus 4y ago
The lesson here is an idea, no matter how implausible, can have legs as long as people want it to be true. That particular idea here is FTL travel (or communication). Nearly all of these ideas spring from a basic inability to understand the
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> ... interstellar voyages will be undertaken by those intelligences, not meatbags. The energy requirements for interstellar travel are so vast that the life support requirements for thousands of meatbags for possibly thousands of years
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by cletus 4y ago
It might be better to replace the link with this [1] article from yesterday that digests the argument: > The authors of this new paper don’t think so. “We suggest, following the hypothesis of Hansen & Zuckerman (2021), that an expand
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by cletus 4y ago
So this clearly wouldn't work but it is a fun thought experiment. Thing is, there are places that it would work. Pluto and Charon notably are tidally locked to each other and have muich lower gravity and much lower distance (~12K miles
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So I don't think fossil fuelds will completely go away. It's just that most use cases will be eliminated once there is a cheaper and equially suitable method of power generation. I strongly believe in the future of solar power in
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You can build it in sections because the wire itself is travelling at orbital speeds. That's actually what makes the whole thing work. Running a curent through that creates an electric field. You would probably encase the whole thing a
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by cletus 4y ago
Here is my hope (and my belief): the ultimate end here is orbital rings [1]. To summarize the video, you can put copper cabling in orbit, run a current through it and keep things in place (relative to a point on Earth) with magnetic levitat
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by cletus 4y ago
IANAL but I have personal experience with this having gone through it myself. It is totally possible (or, at least, it was -7 years ago and I V don’t believe the roles have significantly changed in this regard) to go directly from an E3 to
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by cletus 4y ago
The worst case is orbitals will require some active stationkeeping. If your civilization goes the route of interstellar highways well you already have the ability to focus a large amount of power on a sail of some sort to give propulsion. Y
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by cletus 4y ago
I love futurist content. Isaac Arthur's channel on Youtube is a fantastic resource for this. I'm convinced that a Dyson Swarm (ie orbitals around a star to near-fully capture the energy output of the Sun) is our inevitable future
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Story time. I left Google in 2017 after Fiber (which I worked on) was unceremoniously mothballed. I mean it still exists bu tall expansion palns stopped and it went into maintenance mode. Before leaving one of the teams some of us considere
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by cletus 4y ago
You could focus on those 460 pages but I'll raise 2 points: 1. There's still a lot of complexity and ambiguity you can fit in 460 pages. This presentation notes one example of decrement operators on volatile variables being deprec
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by cletus 4y ago
Just a note but I'm fairly certain this is purely from the perspective of Google Chrome, meaning it excludes google3 (Google's repo for nearly all Google services). I don't know this for a fact but I suspect it's the cas
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It's so funny to me hearing Sundar Pichai of all people advocating for scrappiness considering he is probably the most overpaid CEO in the world [1]. Now also consider that Google's profits have never been higher [2]. The amount o
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What you see with IR35 and various laws in the US (eg preferential tax treatment for passthrough corporations that produce stuff since the Trump tax cuts) can all be boiled down a complete failure in dividend taxation. In the US, corporate
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You cannot overstate the importance of "social proof" in terms of your access to education, work opportunities and even social status in American life. This is really why you go to elite universities: to open doors. It's not
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I couldn't disagree more with the point about checked exceptions. Pretty much everyone else has essentially agreed that checked exceptions were a mistake. They leak implementation details and/or pollute your interface. Practically
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So for any of these destinations there are really two options: fly-by or orbit insertion. Pluto obviously was a fly-by. There were several reasons for this. Distance is a big one. Also, the more distant planets are the lower their orbital v
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> First, it’s important to understand that managers are held to outcomes. Respectfully, I disagree. First, let me point out that when I say "popularity" I don't mean friends necessarily in the nepotism sense (in response t
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It's worse than that. Not only is it graded on a curve but to prevent ratings inflation there are quotas for each ratings bucket. Many deny this, even when presented with concrete proof that such quotas exist (but were called "per
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by cletus 4y ago
I really hope to see a Cassini or Juno like probe to visit Neptune and Uranus in my lifetime. As good as JWST is and these images are, these objects are so distant the only high-res imagery you can get is by visiting them. Prior to New Hori
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> Java has null in it, all object references can be null, and it’s too late for that to change. At Facebook I used Hack, which is a fork of PHP. They've spent a ton of time on the type system to the point where I'd argue it&#x2
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> Living in Silicon Valley for eight years is what killed my faith in liberals So there are several issues here. We, as tech people, when scaled up to be a significant demographic are in totality a pretty boring lot. There are an awful

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