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by gangstead 2y ago
Neal Stephenson has a brand new book out this month called Polostan. It's my favorite Stephenson book in a while. It's historical fiction in the Cryptonmicon genre.
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by gangstead 2y ago
Definitely read Liftoff first. Reentry picks up at the next chapter of SpaceX right where Liftoff wraps up. Both great books.
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by gangstead 2y ago
Reentry by Eric Berger. It came out in October. It's a follow up to his book Liftoff from 2021. Great books for space nerds. Makes me really admire what Space X has accomplished while also eliminating any desire I had to work for them.
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by gangstead 2y ago
I suspect that the real problem with prioritizing by pay is that it shows that a lot of employers are using H1-B workers to put downward pressure on wages. Also there are a lot of parties involved in gaming the complex system whose services
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by gangstead 2y ago
Doesn't salary at least set a floor on what a company thinks that employee is going to add in value? They wouldn't spend dollars on salary to get dimes of extra revenue. I would also argue that prioritizing the highest paid jobs
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by gangstead 2y ago
One idea to replace the H1-B lottery that I've seen on HN is to sort the applications by salary and let in the top XX highest paid. Do you have any thoughts on that? Is this one of those "why don't they just..." type of
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by gangstead 2y ago
In the NasaSpaceFlight coverage they caught an anomaly with one of the SRBs. You can see the cone burn through, burn loose and tumble away. Centaur burn was an extra 20ish seconds to compensate.
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by gangstead 2y ago
I get a lot more enjoyment out of billionaires spending their money on rockets and super sonic planes than buying land in Hawaii and kicking native people off of it.
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by gangstead 2y ago
My friend made his own Nerves powered sprinkler system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS3Iap-2umQ I believe he's still using it to this day.
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by gangstead 2y ago
I'd like to expand on this and clarify for anyone reading this that it's not just using the same type of engines as the shuttle. They are literally the same reusable RS-25 engines taken off the shuttles over a decade ago and used
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by gangstead 2y ago
Wikipedia says they have 4 Crew Dragons in service, 1 under construction. - Crew 8 is docked at ISS - Polaris Dawn is on the launch pad scheduled for Monday. It is configured for a space walk, so I think that means it doesn't have th
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by gangstead 2y ago
I always figured it was so that the bridge acts as a storage buffer for backed up traffic so you don't get the ramp to 635 eastbound so backed up that there is stopped traffic on 75 southbound. I mean you still end up with that at rush
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by gangstead 2y ago
Exactly right. If a bunch of thrusters don't fire up again you now have a huge piece of debris at risk of colliding with the ISS. This probably gives NASA the most pause before doing an unmanned Starliner exit. Having people on board
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by gangstead 2y ago
That is the date they will send up a half full Dragon for Crew 9 Mission, which will return home in February. They aren't changing its return date, just how many people it launches with. Crew 9 can't take off until there is a fr
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by gangstead 2y ago
The author says his cancellation was prevented by Travelers not sending out a non renewal. Is it really just delayed for a year? Certainly they will"fix the glitch" and make sure to not renew his policy correctly the next go aroun
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by gangstead 2y ago
I've been to the last 3 Starship Launches, it's only a 10 hour drive each way! I hope I'm able to go to everyone and to eventually see a booster catch in person. Everyday Astronaut did a great writeup on seeing a launch in S
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by gangstead 2y ago
That was not my experience with Node.js and C++. The options were to either accept mediocre performance and all JS/TS or start writing the important bits with the Node-API.
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by gangstead 2y ago
You have to know a lot about Rust to write performant Deno. Is there a list of language code smells? If the best parts of your language come from another language are you better off skipping the middle layer now instead of later when there&
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by gangstead 2y ago
I wonder how the pricing works out. I look at the failure rates and my general take away is "buy Western Digital" for my qty 1 purchases. But if you look within a category, say 14TB drives, they've purchased 4 times as many
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by gangstead 2y ago
Are you sure the combination is Welbutrin and metformin? What you are describing sounds like the combination of bupropion (Welbutrin) and Naltrexone. The two generic medicines are packaged together as Contrave, a branded drug for obesity w
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by gangstead 2y ago
I had one employer that offered that years ago. If you opted out of the healthcare plan they gave you $100 / pay period instead. I think the goal was to get married people to choose their spouses plan if they could. It seemed to me
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by gangstead 3y ago
Totally agree. I'm not usually in the habit of defending millionaires. But I thought there used to be a justification for private jet travel of maximizing the CEO's time. The company is investing $20M per year in this asset and
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by gangstead 3y ago
What was the outcome? Free car? A strongly worded letter and you wrote another check?
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by gangstead 3y ago
They've also slashed prices https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-27/fisker-sl... . Presumably that's on existing inventory as the manufacturing is paused. So even if they do cash your ch
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by gangstead 3y ago
I've never seen blurring in my images. Is that something that they add when you do API access? I'm running SD 1.5 and SDXL 1.0 models locally. Maybe I'm just not prompting for things they deem naughty. Can you share an exam
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by gangstead 3y ago
He mentioned having a private, firewalled VLAN. Is there anywhere to get more info or example setups for the beginner homelabber? I've got Unifi gear, I poke around the interface. I realize I can make new VLANs, but what makes them i
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by gangstead 3y ago
Since they raised $61 million (source https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/05/cloud-native-container-man... ) they probably had way more team than $10 million could support. Since they raised the VC money I guess t
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by gangstead 3y ago
> smaller consultancies that have awesome developers that build customer tooling on the side I've worked at a couple consultancies and they were always chasing after that recurring product revenue. I grew to believe that it isn&#x2
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by gangstead 3y ago
I'm in the process of replacing the remote+canopy module in my hands with Lutron controls. With those you can control from both the wall and the remote.
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by gangstead 3y ago
At Strange Loop this year during the keynote the organizer said he was usually signing the contract for the hosting venue 2 years in advance. I'm not saying a first year 200 person conference has to plan as far out as an established X,

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