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by iSnow 7y ago
>if it turns out people can know what WoW does to your studies, and they still end up doing this, how should we think about this? Easy answer is that their real desire is to play WoW all day, but that doesn't seem very satisfying. I
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by iSnow 7y ago
I am just playing on the nice little dog-whistle in the comment above me.
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by iSnow 7y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/23/business/global/23rare.ht... but also read https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-05-30/we-all... and https://w
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by iSnow 7y ago
Hum, do we have the same observations from civilian flights? considering thousands of airliners are in the sky daily, we should. The other thing that bugs me is the variance in the observations. One time it's giant tic-tacs, one time i
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by iSnow 7y ago
I will not deny that I am biased as I am pretty sure I am afflicted with ADHD and it fucked up parts of my life well and good. So, by all means, take it with a grain of salt and do your independent research. That said: >I've thought
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by iSnow 7y ago
Did you get tested for ADHD? I know I always wondered about my procrastination habits, lack of discipline or executive functions (prioritizing and time-boxing tasks) and anxiety. Seems this is very frequently co-morbid with ADHD - and there
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by iSnow 7y ago
OP is talking about the A220 (néé Bombardier C-Series), not the A320.
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by iSnow 7y ago
The article implies it wasn't a very nice or well-structured codebase, so I guess they didn't make it much worse. And they ripped out the COBOL Data management system and replaced it with a RDBMS. This alone probably is worth it s
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by iSnow 7y ago
Wait, what, Apple Maps is partially developed in Berlin?
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by iSnow 7y ago
I am not very sensitive to all those issues, I find the JS/CSS/HTML web stack a bit antiquated (virtual DOM, LOL), but very usable. But the build toolstack is a pure, unadulterated nightmare. I used to think Maven's XML orgie
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by iSnow 7y ago
>My bet: Java lic not allowing you to use PostGres I've no love for Oracle, but the amount of uninformed comments here is scary.
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by iSnow 7y ago
My god, I just read a bit more about the Extension Manifold, and that is crazy good. I am doing both Java and JS, and I started to like duck-typing and extending prototypes so much in some situations. Now, Extensions give me something simil
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by iSnow 7y ago
Or car parts, who can tell...
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by iSnow 7y ago
Wow, this looks like a god-send. The @Jailbreak annotation would give mid-2000's Java coders a heart-attack :) The only contentious point I find is that they are basically replicating Project Lombok's @SneakyThrows annotation via
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by iSnow 7y ago
Ever tried to "sell" an alternative language in BigCo Enterprise? Where I work, Javascript is still a front-end only language and just tolerated as a toolchain for compiling LESS, ECMAScript etc.
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by iSnow 8y ago
That sub...
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by iSnow 8y ago
Most likely, one of the bigger chips would have developed a cracked contact, simply because of the bigger surface would introduce more stress if the whole board was deformed/shocked. Now, those BGA's, you cannot solder them with a
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by iSnow 8y ago
Oh yeah, tantalum caps... I stuck one into a prototyping breadboard but messed up polarity. It's surprisingly hurtful if one of those little fuckers explodes between your thumb and index finger.
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by iSnow 8y ago
>If you're developing a new system, you might as well throw in some faster hardware. From my experience, this is not how the development of transportation systems work. They throw in faster hardware if they need it, as it is insanel
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by iSnow 8y ago
>Why exactly does this author think an airplane needs a lot of computing power? I think the way you criticize the article is about as faulty as the article itself. This piece is about detailing how the 737 is an outdated design that got
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by iSnow 8y ago
>First, as a person who makes web sites and apps, I believe it's unprofessional to fail to account for users who can't or won't run JS. JS abuse is rampant. If you do web for a living, you should also know that fallbacks a
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by iSnow 8y ago
I know there have been a couple of occurrences where I dropped into the web dev tools to see which font a site was using because they used beautifully, fitting fonts.
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by iSnow 8y ago
>Asking "can modern monetary theory work" is sort of like asking "can I recreationally use heroin and not get addicted". The answer to both of these questions is yes, in theory both are possible. I would say it's
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by iSnow 8y ago
Well, that's the law of unintended consequences. Customers wanted so not pay for retraining, Boeing wanted to get to the market faster and not wait for re-certification, managers wanted a physical problem fixed in software - and in the
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by iSnow 8y ago
But management also relies on customers to tell them which compromise is vital to selling a product. And in a market with such huge price-pressure as aeronautics, I can easily see how this is going to override engineer's concerns.
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by iSnow 8y ago
Well, I've been working in mass mobility and they had 4x redundancy with different sensor types. The more sensors went bad, the more restricted the operation regime became as it went through degraded modes. And the on-board systems wer
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by iSnow 8y ago
I work with noise cancelling headsets all the time and they do nothing for cancelling out phone calls or office chat. You could work with them next to a big machine and have a more distraction-free environment than I have right now while my
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by iSnow 8y ago
>My old 2011 MacBook Air is still going strong and being used by my mother. Coincidentiall, this is also a machine where you still can swap the SSD. With the help of some Alibaba engineering, you can even use a stock m.2 SSD. The latest
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by iSnow 8y ago
But they would not go down all at once like one or two sensors. As they would be spread across the plane, the system would "feel" it is losing sensors and be "aware" of it. It would know when to invalidate sensor input a
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by iSnow 8y ago
That seems interesting, if I get it right it needs Hasura and by extension Postgres, right?

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