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by cromulent 2y ago
“Currently, all civil aircraft flights are prohibited from operating above Mach one speeds over land in the United States.” [1] Mike Bannister’s excellent book Concorde talks at length about how “handsomely profitable” the BA service was
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by cromulent 2y ago
There is a lot of GPS jamming happening these days, especially in the Baltic around Kaliningrad. Makes a lot of sense.
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A Waymo robotaxi and a Serve delivery robot collided in Los Angeles(techcrunch.com)
2 points by cromulent 2y ago|1 comments
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A Visual Guide to the Aztec Pantheon (2022)(pudding.cool)
20 points by cromulent 2y ago|2 comments
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by cromulent 2y ago
I re-listened to Malcolm Gladwell's podcast episode about Nobel prize winning Howard Temin on the weekend. According to his student: > “At one point, Howard Temin wrote Francis Crick, Sir Francis Crick, Nobel Prize winner of Watson
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by cromulent 2y ago
To illustrate the difference (hopefully I get this right): A transaction needs to balance, left vs right. For example, you receive a sales order for 1000€ of widgets, which cost you 600€. You ship them. You invoice for 1000€. No money moved
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by cromulent 2y ago
> A double-entry system is an accounting method that tracks money at both its source and destination. Nope. Double entry bookkeeping means every transaction is recorded in (at least) two accounts.
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Russia's Espionage War in the Arctic(newyorker.com)
3 points by cromulent 2y ago|1 comments
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by cromulent 2y ago
I hear the phrase "best practices" not from the best practitioners, but from Dunning-Kruger types. Recently I was told that Hungarian notation was "best practice" and I must use it.
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by cromulent 2y ago
You keep posting this link, but it does not support your arguments. > A continuous record of the past 66 million years shows natural climate variability due to changes in Earth’s orbit around the sun is much smaller than projected future
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by cromulent 2y ago
The article you posted says: "Now that we have succeeded in capturing the natural climate variability, we can see that the projected anthropogenic warming will be much greater than that.” That does not seem to support your claim of &qu
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by cromulent 2y ago
No experience with CI, however: SI has SSHL left side from infection. Dealt with it for 20 years, then an impact basal fracture degraded the right side. Started with Apple Airpods Pro as aids. Now using Oticon CROS and Own. CROS works OK, O
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by cromulent 2y ago
I guess my point was that the value of a days work is realised later, over months or years, rather than on the day. So indeed, corrective and maintenance work have payoffs. This would also be true of managers - their work should pay off ove
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by cromulent 2y ago
Software engineers are constantly investing their expertise into the product. Measurement (if any) should be on the realised gains in the short and long term, not the visible investment. LOC, tickets closed, hours spent etc can all have neg
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Today is the 30th anniversary of this blog. Hola!(scripting.com)
1 points by cromulent 2y ago|0 comments
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by cromulent 2y ago
> the house always wins Well, until Lloyd’s did lose a lot of money in 1991, and the Names had too much exposure. Berkshire Hathaway cover them now, I believe.
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by cromulent 2y ago
It's clever, but not original, so it's not ingenious :)
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by cromulent 2y ago
I think they are referring to the room with a glass bathroom cubicle in it. Linked ABC article says $400 / week, blog post says $400 / month. The author mentioned they were having a few beers, I think we should give them a break.
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by cromulent 2y ago
I don't think it's that ingenious - many teams have been working on the wing flex for a long time. Red Bull famously in 2011 and 2017 for example. The McLaren F-duct, the Mercedes toe-in reducing steering wheel, and asymmetric bra
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by cromulent 2y ago
Great project. Down for me. $ curl http://playin.coz.is/index.html curl: (7) Failed to connect to playin.coz.is port 80 after 166 ms: Couldn't connect to server
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by cromulent 2y ago
Yeah I am guessing it is from the motor RPM pitch but I would like to find out. The Renault F1 engine could famously play tunes this way. https://youtu.be/XRXwWbo_mX0?t=60
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by cromulent 2y ago
Swappie is a popular service that refurbishes and sells used iPhones. They are doing very well, and expanding. They have sold over a million phones so far. Apple do not prevent this. I guess that most of these are to "people of lower i
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by cromulent 2y ago
You are yelling about Apple making every single decision about revenue. This is demonstrably and famously not true - not every decision. Apple was challenged by shareholders to only commit to environmental or accessibility projects if they
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by cromulent 2y ago
Demagoguery.
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What came first? A game where you pick what came first(artsandculture.google.com)
1 points by cromulent 2y ago|1 comments
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by cromulent 2y ago
Some background from Freakonomics a few months ago: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-is-23andme-going-under-...
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by cromulent 2y ago
The guy who reverse-engineered the Bitkeeper protocol, triggering the creation of git, is the same guy who created rsync - Andrew Tridgell.
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by cromulent 2y ago
It's infuriating. I worked on a Y2K project in 98-99 for a major car manufacturer. They tested the ERP system for Y2K (in 1997) and it failed, in a way that would make the business fail. They replaced it via this project and the busine
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by cromulent 2y ago
PG put this perhaps more gently in his essay Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule . I work with people whose days are a sequence of meetings and chats within meetings. They don't understand (or respect) that I have meetings
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by cromulent 2y ago
The volume of humans is approximately 500B liters [1] and this would make a sphere just under 1km in diameter. [1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=volume+of+all+humans

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