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by krapht 4y ago
For what it's worth, while on any single contract you might get bad behavior from a contractor, their reputation will matter when they go for a recompete or bid on a new contract vehicle. Not all contracts are automatically won by the
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by krapht 4y ago
You must be somebody who's never had to remove an underperforming colleague on a public project. What happens is that they get promoted to another team, or put on a project that has absolutely no future, and everyone knows it. Why is i
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by krapht 4y ago
Those games you play are a lot easier to deal with oversight-wise. I disagree with your conclusion. You're assuming in-house doesn't have the same perverse incentives. Also, pricing information can be impossible to discover. You o
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by krapht 4y ago
Huh? It's already happening. It's not labeled AA, but admissions officers do it anyway because women don't want to attend universities where they are a significant majority.
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by krapht 4y ago
Would it be weird if I named my son Guy Fawkes?
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by krapht 4y ago
Are you telling me the government is fluoridating my precious bodily fluids?
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by krapht 4y ago
It would be way cheaper to design the radar detector to have better RF isolation than to go towards an SDR solution. A modern radar gun operates in the Ka-band, Google says between 33.4 and 36 GHz. Assuming 12 bit samples, your proposed sol
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by krapht 5y ago
Don't need to imagine, I lived in that world where most utilities I used were shareware with a nag screen on startup...
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by krapht 5y ago
I don't think it was just "muh War on Drugs" Stimulants, especially crack cocaine, caused loads of crime in the 80s. I mean, it even does today - addicts crush and snort Adderall all the time for the high. It's the 5% of
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by krapht 5y ago
Is it wrong? I don't think anyone is up in arms over coffee and cigarettes, and my personal experience is that Adderall is just caffeine without so many side-effects. Incidentally, coffee and cigarettes is how I managed before getting
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by krapht 5y ago
Bilinguals are already better than the low end translation market.
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by krapht 5y ago
The rest of the lab/company uses python and collaborating with Julia code is difficult.
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by krapht 5y ago
What. That really depends on your task. In my field, real data is extremely expensive and if we could generate believable synthetic data, we'd save a ton of money.
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by krapht 5y ago
Thanks for the links! Interesting reading.
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by krapht 5y ago
The difference is intent, and this is a core consideration of our justice system.
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by krapht 5y ago
Define actual harm. You don't seem to hold the time of people who play games very highly.
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by krapht 5y ago
FTA > The billion-dollar question here is really whether or not developing another new fighter could result in an overall reduction in cost without creating a reduction in capability. Since this is HN your bullcrap-meter should be going
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by krapht 5y ago
> The A-10 is truly remarkable as are the drones. Meanwhile the F35 is an overpriced hangar queen that should never have been built (the F22 is a solid stealth plane). No.
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by krapht 5y ago
Only on Hackernews would somebody be surprised that high-performance system software would be written in C++...
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by krapht 5y ago
This is a pretty obnoxious way to tell me you don't work on real-time systems without explicitly saying you don't work on real-time systems.
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by krapht 5y ago
Comparing just to SF is a bit misguided. By the same reasoning, what is your reaction if I told you the average software developer makes $120 in Zurich?
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by krapht 5y ago
Why are so many formerly desktop applications sold individually per major version now sold as subscription services delivered online through the browser? The answer is the same.
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by krapht 5y ago
This is one of those sayings that I don't think is helpful. What it should be is: limit variable scope to the smallest thing it can be. Nobody is being fooled about global state when you have a singleton database connection, event bus
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by krapht 5y ago
In my experience, it is more they "share" spam documents with you.
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by krapht 5y ago
Right. Snow tires, 4WD, and engine block heaters should be standard equipment on cars because obviously things should be designed to handle every environment they might reasonably encounter. /s
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by krapht 5y ago
Why are you confusing something that could be used to implement the back-end of a REST API (Kafka) with the idea of a REST API? Your question makes as much sense as: why is <new database X> any different from SQL?
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by krapht 5y ago
Is Starlink such a big deal that it would materially affect phased array costs? Cell base stations are already ubiquitous. From my own experience with phased array systems, the big cost is usually in the massive FPGAs that are needed to pro
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by krapht 5y ago
I assume you have two eyes, right? What happens when you close one eye and only have monocular vision? Not much, but it's a lot harder to judge distances correctly. You still can, if you use outside knowledge and perspective, but it&#x
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by krapht 5y ago
You're getting downvoted because your question makes no sense. They are not related at all, which means you must not have read the link.
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by krapht 5y ago
Even if you had that representation, resolving merge conflicts would be a huge headache. Imagine resolving code conflicts by resolving things at the AST level. Forget CAD, we don't even have a good way to version control images, someth

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