erobbins

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by erobbins 7y ago
> In California trucks can only go 55 mph lol :)
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by erobbins 7y ago
and vacuum desiccated. Freeze dried poo.
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by erobbins 7y ago
No I certainly would not. They didn't mind when the tables were turned though, is my point.
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by erobbins 7y ago
They oppose dependence on a black majority state. They were a-ok with whites running everything under apartheid.
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by erobbins 7y ago
the AF flight that was lost over the Atlantic years back (10 years now maybe?) did just that, when the pilots believed that the plane's automation was in a state that would not allow them to do anything that would result in unrecoverab
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by erobbins 7y ago
I'd like to see some honest feature ads. Drink Coke! - Tastes good if you like sugar and caramel, much better than Pepsi - Not the most unhealthy drink in moderation - Carbonation that bites your tongue so you feel alive - Our tax doll
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by erobbins 7y ago
Their numbers are slanted, to say the least. You can't compare freeway crashes with all crashes.
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by erobbins 7y ago
This is my question... must be the schools fault, right?
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by erobbins 7y ago
The one weakness of this system is that it doesn't understand or handle foreign key constraints. If you have those you have to manage it the old fashioned way (whatever that is for you)
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by erobbins 7y ago
Based on a sample size of 1 (me), I don't think that's a reason at all. I took a year off once and being able to to whatever I want every single day was awesome. I went back to work because I needed money, not because I wanted to.
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by erobbins 7y ago
Except fuel oil used in shipping is like $1 per gallon or something similarly low.
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by erobbins 7y ago
One big reason I looked at (and bought) my current car is that it's got a sea of button and dials. I can't stand touch screens in cars, they are hard to use while driving.
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by erobbins 7y ago
That could easily run into zoning issues if the neighbors figured out what was going on and didn't like it.
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by erobbins 7y ago
Super good post. Long ago I realized that I'm a starter and not a finisher, yet I often end up in SRE type roles that are all about finishing and I struggle to have any motivation to work on things that just quite frankly bore me to de
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by erobbins 8y ago
So if I'm reading this right, the previous testing was done with a 3 cubic inch foam block at 200 ft/sec impact velocity... and the foam ramp was 1900 cubic inches and going 900 feet/sec at impact. This is like saying "s
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by erobbins 8y ago
I saw multiple space shuttle launches in person, and this article captures it pretty well. The visuals are spectacular, but the sound... I thought I knew what to expect but it's just indescribable. If you can go see a launch in person,
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by erobbins 8y ago
> everytime he let the nose of the plane come down the stick shaker activated again as the AoA was decreasing into the range that the airplane considered a real signal That's true, but the pilot response was insanity. When the stick
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by erobbins 8y ago
> "I think this is a common thing that very analytical people trip themselves up with. They look at things as if there’s a right answer and a wrong answer when, the truth is, there’s often just good choices, and maybe a great choice
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by erobbins 8y ago
Government seems pretty powerful. I mean, there's one guy elected by 213k people blocking the entire congress from passing any bills.
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by erobbins 8y ago
Because it's a scam all the way up. FB profits handsomely off these fake numbers.
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by erobbins 8y ago
It's not the latter. Additional years don't matter as much past 10 or so... you're kind of doing the same types of things over and over as history repeats itself.
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by erobbins 8y ago
I forget about ubeam all the time, and once a year or so some article comes up and I'm reminded about them and how utterly stupid people have to be to have given them a single dollar much less millions.
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by erobbins 8y ago
Yeah, even longer lived things that decay via alpha particles are dangerous when ingested... high energy atomic nuclei hitting DNA makes for bad juju.
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by erobbins 8y ago
You're not wrong. There are plenty of accidents caused by inattention and poor driving that aren't fatal, but that do result in injuries... a quick search didn't give me much information but crashes with injuries appear to be
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by erobbins 8y ago
I think Tesla eventually has a catastrophic accident and is sued and/or criminally prosecuted into oblivion. I feel sorry for the people who are going to have to die for this to happen. This trope that humans are bad drivers is, in gen
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by erobbins 8y ago
So? Companies have seminars for upper management on how to squeeze workers harder and try to retaliate against complainers. Seems fair to do the opposite.
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by erobbins 8y ago
No, FB datacenters are geographically diverse. They do run quarterly 'storms' where a datacenter is shut down to test failover and resiliency. I have no idea if today is one of those days, since I left last year.
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by erobbins 8y ago
But be prepared to stand in line for longer than it takes you to actually eat.
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by erobbins 8y ago
Unregulated financial markets draw crooks like moths to a flame. Forex used to be just as bad. I wonder if there's anything to be learned from this? Perhaps deregulating markets driven by greed, margin, and leverage is a bad idea? LeT
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by erobbins 8y ago
It doesn't go unsold, everyone pays via subsidies.

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