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by gridspy 1y ago
I think the scammers created this time pressure by messaging and then suggesting they interview in 30 minutes from now (in real time)
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by gridspy 1y ago
One of frustrating truths about software is that it can be terrible and riddled with bugs but if you just keep patching enough bugs and use it the same way every time it eventually becomes reliable software ... as long as the user never doe
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by gridspy 1y ago
I think old in this sense is "released" rather than "beta" - it takes time to make any software reliable. Many of the examples here further prove that young software is unreliable. Remember when debuggers were young? Rem
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by gridspy 1y ago
Or more precisely https://xcancel.com/colin_d_m
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by gridspy 1y ago
> This feels like anxiety more so than anything. When things are hard and you anticipate that you're going to struggle, it's perfectly natural that you're going to develop an anxiety response to those things. It's pos
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by gridspy 1y ago
Either that or specialization
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by gridspy 1y ago
If you run your own business, you just have customers (and investors) instead of a boss. That still requires just as much social skill to navigate that relationship and the goals are often less clear. I like the point you are making about b
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by gridspy 1y ago
I hope you find a path that works for you.
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by gridspy 1y ago
It's harder than you think. - Go into a bright, commercial space - All the packets are "shouting" at you with colorful labels - There is noise of shoppers, a PA system, canned music and/or advertising - Navigate lots of
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by gridspy 1y ago
Don't forget to account for the additional battery wear from extra charging and discharging. However your cost saving probably exceeds the wear cost.
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by gridspy 1y ago
Bear in mind that charging and discharging batteries has an efficiency penalty - perhaps 98% efficient for each. So 74 stored is worse than 72 used directly because 74 -> 72.52 stored -> 71.06 discharged. And usually the efficiency is
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by gridspy 1y ago
Search engines only (well, mostly) trust pages with inbound links. Given all this crap has no inbound links from the rest of the internet it should be harmless. Well, until the endless "look at this item I made" posts show up on R
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by gridspy 1y ago
In addition you don't need to worry as much about people scratching the side of your satellite after parking using SpaceX rockets. (Driving a Tesla is subject to public scrutiny from others both while driving and when parking)
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by gridspy 1y ago
1. You raise some valid points, but it's pretty common that when you lower the price for something ($ per KG to LEO) you raise the demand. The planned price drop is so severe that it becomes practical to send full weight objects into s
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by gridspy 1y ago
And isn't that decision to leave humans behind on the ground an inspired piece of mission planning. It's wonderful that computers and telemetry has progressed so far.
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by gridspy 1y ago
Keyword based search (Google) requires the user to know which keywords to enter. It's very bad at finding things related but with different words to what the user is trying to search. Sometimes half the challenge is figuring out what t
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by gridspy 1y ago
Often the problem best solved by AI isn't "How do I use Anisble to do X" But simply knowing that you should be using Ansible at all. Or which features to use. Then you can be laser-focused on learning exactly the right part o
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by gridspy 1y ago
I think your DM might have changed their tune had you used an OP shield and turned yourself into a flying projectile. It sounds like your cool application of physics was interesting and harmless. Good on you and your DM for making it part o
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by gridspy 1y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20090727013542/http://www.newsci... (The original link says "Page is Gone") And here's some more quoting Could a single-stage-to-orbit spaceship, something that
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by gridspy 1y ago
Okay, so lets move back to a driving metaphor, since you seem to prefer that. If you drive in the US, the contents of your car are somewhat protected by law. It's not trivial for authorities to obtain the right to search your car, thou
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by gridspy 1y ago
Underlying this issue is that the judicial system (or the patent system, or the political system) is not populated with enough individuals possessing software engineering "common sense." It is highly likely that this is not confin
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by gridspy 1y ago
Seems that a judge does not understand the impact of asking company X to "retain all data" and is unwilling to rapidly reconsider. Part of what makes this newsworthy is the impact of the initial ruling.
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by gridspy 1y ago
Your two examples don't map to the concern about data privacy. Speed cameras only operate on public roads. The camera in the store is operated by the store owner. In both cases one of the parties involved in the transaction (driving, p
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by gridspy 2y ago
You say "likely never" but eventually we'll have covered the earth's surface in solar panels. Unless we are transitioning to space based solar and transmission we'll want fusion to increase energy generation beyond
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by gridspy 2y ago
This optimization is important because you can then discard most of the number in question, bounding the integer size required for computation. For instance you could store the number in question in a 128 bit integer, shift left (double), c
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by gridspy 2y ago
Well, more correctly the difference needs to exceed the breakdown voltage of the insulation barrier. Or (depending on the insulator) some current might flow the entire time, but a limited amount.
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by gridspy 2y ago
While you raise some valid points, you need 10kV to jump a 1cm gap. So in a domestic situation at the much lower voltage involved (130V / 250V) I imagine you don't need to worry so much about the air gap. The care instructions and
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by gridspy 2y ago
The skin is very resistive, the body itself is not. There is a soldier who "won the darwin award" by taking the probes of a multi-meter and after measuring their skin resistance decided to measure their internal resistance. After
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by gridspy 2y ago
When someone is talking about insulating shoes their point is that the body is electrically isolated from the floor. Without that isolation charge can travel between the two. Concrete and skin are fairly good conductors by comparison with a
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by gridspy 2y ago
If you change 1,2,3,4 into A,B,C,D - you're still counting. You're just using different symbols to do it. Take a moment longer to think about it and you realize that 1,2,3,4 are also just symbols - potentially raw counting does no

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