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by jacurtis 3y ago
I know it is semantics, but the activities you listed are all very different than free soloing. I'm not trying to pull a "no true Scotsman" here, they are genuinely much different. What you list are activities that have risk.
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Ok, I know this is off-topic to the core idea of this essay, but one line made me think: > the cost of a respectable degree is *spiraling upwards*, while the value of that degree is spiraling downwards. The phrase "spiraling downwar
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by jacurtis 3y ago
If using the term "consumers" broadly speaking, then I would agree that they assume trustworthiness of the vessel. When I drive my car onto one of the Seattle ferries, I pay my ticket and as a consumer I have total trust in the sa
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Yeah my understanding is that it was not profitable either. The founder claimed he was losing money and to his credit, he ate the cost on the previous failed missions (of which there are a shockingly high number of). There was one article I
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by jacurtis 3y ago
As I have moved through my career and been in charge of larger and larger companies, I continue to be surprised how much of what you would expect is critical infrastructure that affects many people is being "cobbled" together. I&#
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by jacurtis 3y ago
This is an important distinction which I believe was made to thread some legal loopholes. They all signed paperwork that they were participating in the "mission" as a crew member of an experimental vessel. So literally, it is like
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by jacurtis 3y ago
That was my immediate reaction when I read "carbon fiber tube". Really? Carbon fiber doesnt seem like the right choice, but I am not a submarine designer. Maybe there's something I don't know. But for me it immediately f
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Yeah, everyone calculating oxygen rates is a nice optimistic view on the situation. I think occams razor suggests that they experienced a breach or defect in the viewing window (or possibly the hull). At the pressures they were at, it would
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Yes there were oxygen scrubbers on-board that had an estimated endurance to provide clean air for about 5 days for 5 people. It has come out that it is wildly untested and optimistic estimate. The longest mission they had conducted onboard
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Yeah at this point, it seems that catastrophe struck 90 mins or so into the dive. That is when contact was lost. They were early enough into the dive that they would have abandoned the dive after losing contact, they would have only been ab
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by jacurtis 3y ago
The carbon fiber tube is also sealed from the outside by 10 inch long bolts. There is no way to open it from the inside (not that it really matters at 13,000 ft deep), just to add to the terror. Yeah, I'm happy to enjoy the views of Ti
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by jacurtis 3y ago
I was an OG r/mtb subscriber and loved the content for years. I noticed more and more low-quality content slide in around 2017-2019 and I stopped frequenting it. It was one of my favorite subs back in the day. By the time COVID hit, th
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by jacurtis 3y ago
You can still use old.reddit.com, which is vastly superior and faster than the modern reddit. It also loads videos and images inline (when you click for them to load) and it de-emphasizes comments. This allows you to work like the compact f
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by jacurtis 3y ago
There's a term for this "market effect". See also Twitter and Facebook and many other social networks that are objectively terrible platforms now (they all had periods of greatness that they fell from). Despite continually ge
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Reddit will survive just fine. But potentially consider this comment from the linked reddit post. It is heartbreaking. > I'm just so tired! That is all! I'm so tired of feeling left behind by people who aren't aware, and w
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by jacurtis 3y ago
> how do people who build web stuff daily not know.. I'll stop it right there. You'd be surprised how many people who build web stuff daily know surprisingly little about how the web actually works or any details aside from tha
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by jacurtis 3y ago
They do look dumb. But compared to most other VR headsets, I think they are the best we have seen so far. The problem is, that you are still going to look weird walking around with these. I am also not sure if that is practical (ie the batt
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by jacurtis 3y ago
I think it must be a semi-transparent screen. Because otherwise the interior cameras would need some sort of illumination inside the goggles, which would be very distracting and draining on your eyes. Edit: Whelp, I was wrong. I wrote this
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by jacurtis 3y ago
As a PhD candidate myself, I have to say this is an amazing idea. Meet with your local university's CompSci department and they will have many good uses for them. I don't need them, I have actually accrued a large collection of cr
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Can confirm. I am a bot.
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by jacurtis 3y ago
It is a metric similar to a "like" on YouTube or Instagram or something. Github does more than just "rent space for git repos". It does do that, but there are two sides of GitHub. There is the legit CI/CD Git platfo
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by jacurtis 3y ago
For syncing on my own database, I just put the source directory of my graph into a folder in my computer's documents folder (on a mac). Then I have the documents folder enabled for iCloud syncing. I do the same thing on my work compute
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by jacurtis 3y ago
This was the most powerful idea I learned to harness over the past year. I work in a similar Staff Engineer position and jump between lots of teams, immediately required to go very deep with each team. Then a few minutes later I need to jum
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Reading into the early comments from this piece, there is a clear divide in opinions even here on HN. The opinions seem to fall into two camps: 1) This is just a move that evil tech companies are making in order to control who has access to
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Mine did that on the AppleTV but not the web. I have aggressive cookie blocking in my browser though, so maybe it is just me.
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by jacurtis 3y ago
I experienced the HBO Max captchas just a few days ago. Everyone did since they launched a new app and made everyone switch to that and re-login. Some of the solutions are clearly just wrong. I have a PhD in Computer Science and if I am fai
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by jacurtis 3y ago
ESPN is horrible. I build auth systems for a living, and I have given up logging into ESPN on numerous occasions because I can't get through all the steps. As recently as a few weeks ago I was watching a game downstairs, and it went in
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by jacurtis 3y ago
It is because, especially in tech, most people can't even vocalize what they want to the detail that an AI could generate it. Even in my day-job (which is probably similar to yours), most people give me the wrong information when askin
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by jacurtis 3y ago
A system like this will lead to an overall increase of mis-readings. Humans are incredibly forgiving and lack focus when confirming opinions, versus generating raw opinions. Imagine a Radiologist that already has to read 20 scans per day. W
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Whether EVs last longer is yet to be seen. The batteries are a huge flaw in their ability to last long term. Replacing the batteries are likely a $10k+ cost, meaning that as cars get older it may not be worth doing. Imagine having a car wor

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