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by leetcrew 5y ago
helicopters also have one major advantage for manned applications: autorotation. there's at least a chance to survive loss of power in a helicopter. a quad with no power just falls.
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by leetcrew 5y ago
yes, kudos to them for bringing it to market ($90k seems almost reasonable for this sort of contraption), but it's a much less ambitious vehicle. the aircar was supposed to cruise at 300 mph with an 800 mi range. this thing maxes out a
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by leetcrew 5y ago
can you give an example of a material you would prefer over steel and why?
544.
by leetcrew 5y ago
in reality the "needs of shareholders" can be interpreted pretty flexibly. leaving a lot of money on the table in the short term to avoid a substantial loss of trust in the long term is not a breach of fiduciary duty.
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by leetcrew 5y ago
strictly from a pedagogical perspective, sure, there are better choices. but java is at least decent for most of the core cs curriculum, and it's widely used in industry. when you're trying to get your first internship with no wor
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by leetcrew 5y ago
I don't think it's necessary to stay with the same company a very long time to develop "deep knowledge". on my last team there were two engineers with about 20 years of experience. one had spent all of it at that company
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by leetcrew 5y ago
what's the alternative? there's a small risk that the bank screws me at some point, but if I don't make some kind of positive EV investment with my savings, it's a near guarantee that I'll never be able to retire.
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by leetcrew 5y ago
> Some of the point of insurance is cost sharing of extreme events. I guess this borders on a philosophical point, but I don't agree. car insurance is not (or shouldn't be, imo) a payment plan for likely crashes. if, for whatev
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by leetcrew 5y ago
> If the tides shift and big tech starts tightening their belt, leetcode practitioners will start competing 100 engineers for 10 positions at big tech, and that's when salaries get pushed down. it's already like this just for p
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by leetcrew 5y ago
> Why should I get paid more than other jobs that require more skill despite if my work is garbage? it's a mistake to think that degree of skill is or should be the only input to compensation. whether the skill is actually useful to
551.
by leetcrew 5y ago
this isn't a solvable problem with a sufficiently dispersed group. not even all US states observe DST, let alone all the countries in the world. you can't set a recurring meeting that will always be at the same local time for ever
552.
by leetcrew 5y ago
why stop there? pretty much any form of transportation is more dangerous and/or generates more emissions that humans on their own two legs. collectively, we have decided to trade some of that away to actually get places in a reasonable
553.
by leetcrew 5y ago
I think that actually illustrates the above commenter's point about gray areas? the highway does not devolve into lethal chaos when people exceed the limit by 10 mph. even 20 mph over is not so bad when the relative speed among vehic
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by leetcrew 5y ago
I do agree ultrabook + powerful desktop is the best combo for most people who actually need a powerful computer. that's what I ran for many years. there are a few reasons why you might want a powerful laptop though, mostly coming down
555.
by leetcrew 5y ago
it seems like your argument boils down to "I prefer a for loop because I'm more familiar with it". if that's true of you and most of the people you work with, that's certainly a valid argument. the opposite happens
556.
by leetcrew 5y ago
> 1) Because electricity costs money not to an extent that really matters to a home user. let's say you actually let your cpu draw 250W 24/7. average US consumer electricity rate is ~$0.13/kWh. that would add ~$23 to your
557.
by leetcrew 5y ago
not necessarily. the "limits" exist in the context of reasonable cooling solutions and the power delivery capabilities of the cheapest supported motherboard. if intel could assume everyone had overbuilt VRMs and a 360mm radiator,
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by leetcrew 5y ago
I wouldn't get too excited. my pixel 2 came with a headphone jack dongle. the audio quality was not great, and according to forums I read at the time, that OEM dongle was actually one of the better ones. to be fair, I believe that was
559.
by leetcrew 5y ago
there's at least one major reason to be skeptical of that result, and they mention it in their limitations section. what they did was create a lexicon of hate speech terms from two large subs that were banned. they then counted the fre
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by leetcrew 5y ago
a text editor (especially for code) is a good example of a case where both matter. it doesn't take much latency to make typing a very frustrating experience. the common case (editing small files) needs to be very fast. but we also need
561.
by leetcrew 5y ago
> How can you support free speech but prevent a company from exerting that speech? I can be deeply disappointed by youtube's moderation decisions without suggesting that the company be compelled to allow certain content. as an asi
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by leetcrew 5y ago
I mean, it certainly looks flat (or at least, not curved) to me when I look out my window ;) it's pretty rare for an ordinary person to have the opportunity to directly observe the curvature of the earth. I personally don't notice
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by leetcrew 5y ago
> after allowing rampant misinformation for a year and a half my recollection is that they started dealing with the "misinformation" early on. they've been ratcheting up the countermeasures the whole time.
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by leetcrew 5y ago
it's not so much the cost of providing services so much as what is driving the property value. in highly desirable locales, the value of a property is affected much more by what people are doing around you than any improvements you cou
565.
by leetcrew 5y ago
I just went through the job search again, and I found the exact opposite to be true. for context, I went to a regionally-known (at best) state university and have just a few years of experience at a small company you've probably never
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by leetcrew 5y ago
it's a huge company. not every single project is intrinsically evil (eg, there are lots of FB employees that just work on open source projects). the ones that are might be parceled out in a way that makes their impact non-obvious. I ca
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by leetcrew 5y ago
sure. any given procedure has a happy path and many different ways it could go wrong and become much more expensive. you can't really predict what it will cost for an individual. but after performing the same procedure hundreds or thou
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by leetcrew 5y ago
> Perfectly correct English yes - I just meant that I was disagreeing with that, you're not locked to it. fair enough :) and I saw that guide too. my skepticism is regarding what happens when the next generation (or an AMD variant)
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by leetcrew 5y ago
55 Wh is a pretty good size for the form factor. looks like it's suffering from a comparison against competitors with lower resolution screens.
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by leetcrew 5y ago
we'll have to wait and see whether this actually happens, but if so, that would certainly invalidate my biggest criticism. if they could pull it off on a 14"-15.6" chassis with a discrete gpu, they would probably get my money

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