dehrmann

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by dehrmann 1y ago
> I'm not an expert, but it seems we need a better UX/UI right? This isn't where the problem is. It's system reliability, increased air traffic, and increased controller workload.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
> Air travel is far too subsidized by the public Don't most of FAA's funds come from taxes on air travel? And around half of Americans travel by air every year, so it's not a niche service.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
> its implementation of a “NextGen” air traffic control system to replace the current version may not be completed until 2034, even though the project was started in 2003. Governments (and a lot of businesses) like to look at software as
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Are there better tools for finding this? It feels like the sort of thing static analysis should reliably find, but it's in the Linux kernel, so you'd think either coding standards or tooling around these sorts of C bugs would be m
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by dehrmann 1y ago
I thought we all moved to Bitwarden a decade ago?
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Makes it even crazier that Bart would choose a non-standard gauge 75 years later. And now they're stuck paying for custom trains with less flexibility and longer lead times.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Sorta, but Germany's mistake was depending on an arguably rogue state for energy. Taiwan wouldn't be doing that, and it's already vulnerable to a blockade. This isn't an added threat.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Is there any scenario where a pro runner can gross $4M in lifetime running earnings?
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by dehrmann 1y ago
> Sweden, having their legacy in social democracy and more state control, hates privacy Generally, this is because Swedes trust the state.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
XRF might be able to non-destructively tell you the alloy.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
In college, I took a history class called Shakespeare's Kings where we read through most of the Henriad. It presented post-hoc, editorialized versions of history (the plays) against how we currently see it. It's too bad literature
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Plants are almost always more sustainable because they cut out the middle man in calorie production. It takes less land to grow food for a human than to grow enough food for enough pigs for a human.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
This is Carmack's favorite observation over the last decade+. It stems from what made him successful at id. The world's changed since then. Home computers are rarely compute-bound, the code we write is orders of magnitude more com
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by dehrmann 1y ago
> 1.5 Buy your beans whole and grind them. It really makes a difference. I did an experiment with this (and you can, too!), comparing the same beans ground 5 min, 2 days, 4 days, and 6 days before brewing. The freshly ground beans were t
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by dehrmann 1y ago
How many major distros support releases for 6 years?
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by dehrmann 1y ago
I'm actually sympathetic to using fly-by-wire technology to keep the interface the same. When it works, it can be safer since pilots' experience transfers directly, they don't mix up subtle differences between the models, and
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by dehrmann 1y ago
2014 is interesting for tech because... - College students just in it for the money hadn't taken over yet - Low interest rates led to lots of investment - Most people had broadband in developed countries - Most people had cell LTE smar
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by dehrmann 1y ago
> Saudi Aramco It's powerful to a point. If it tries to flex its power too much, and international military coalition rolls over Saudi Arabia.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
> it was a good thing AT&T was dismantled Citation needed. I hear this repeated, but the consumer experience was it was split into regional monopolies, and consumers now had to deal with both local and long distance, and both were st
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Isn't that just 2.x% inflation?
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by dehrmann 1y ago
I agree, and to be clear, this makes it more acceptable that Disney would make a Walt animatronic, right?
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by dehrmann 1y ago
It also hints at what his reaction would be. It seems unfair for the family to criticize them doing to Walt what he did to Lincoln.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
> invest the money in the market? Unless you're Berkshire, most investors don't want this. They buy a company for its success in widgetry. If they wanted to pay someone to invest in the market, they'd buy an actively manag
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by dehrmann 1y ago
> near all-time highs Because of inflation and market growth, a company that isn't shrinking should usually be sorta close to an all-time high.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
> Stock buybacks are substantially equivalent to dividends There's a whole theory on this: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/dividendirrelevance.asp The easy way to see it is if all shareholders reinves
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Tomcat wanted to be some sort of compile once, run anywhere Docker.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
For low-latency applications, and this can be anything from your computer's UI to a webserver, at around 80%, you start to see latency increase quickly. If it's CPU-intensive on your computer, you can run the CPU hog at a lower pr
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by dehrmann 1y ago
My favorite example of complaints about "putting people out of jobs" is that's an argument against self-serve gas in New Jersey (and recently Oregon).
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Their mission statement: https://www.omsystembolaget.se/english/systembolaget-explain...
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Can you add narration in Gilbert Gottfried's voice? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu_Pzuwy-JY

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