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by lumost 3y ago
In most modern aircraft, the aircraft over g's long before the human body. When aircraft are pushed to the limit in a combat situation, you'll hear the warning alarm blaring "over-g, over-g" as continued operation in tha
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by lumost 3y ago
The AIM-260 can be guided by AWACS to within ~5 km of target, where it then turns on it's own radar for final targeting. Generally, the expectation of a modern F-35 pilot is to act as a missile truck with the basic A2A/SEAD/C
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by lumost 3y ago
Their most recent quarter shows a steep year on year decline in earnings. If there is hanky lanky in the books, it’ll show up in a down year.
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by lumost 3y ago
the pilot isn't the expensive kit, although the flight-hours to train them may be. Even an unmanned NGAD will probably cost ~500MM.
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by lumost 3y ago
Problem emerges when there is at least one influential team/individual which is allergic to written communication. I work with one such team that avoids a written paper trail in order to avoid difficult questions. Once one such team ex
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by lumost 3y ago
You can ask it to do so, it’s incredibly useful for coding tasks where the AI simply misunderstood the requirements.
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by lumost 3y ago
Isn’t ancient Egyptian ideogrammatic?
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by lumost 3y ago
Ample is debatable. We have biased evidence from specific biomes and regions. We are restricted to artifacts that survived from this period - effectively tusks, rocks, and specific forms of art.
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by lumost 3y ago
It’s always confused me, under the radar absorbent material is stuff like engines, cockpits, and other reflective material. I’ve always wondered if under the smooth aerodynamic shape was a polygon frame covered in carbon fiber. That way the
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by lumost 3y ago
Pre-history is tough. Outside of written accounts and a few major cities cited in particular environments - there isn’t a lot of evidence about what humans were doing for 100k years before the Roman/Chinese empires formed. Even Egyptia
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by lumost 3y ago
It's surprising to me that Europeans aren't more opposed to generational wealth. Didn't many countries fight multiple wars and revolutions to overthrow/re-instate the entrenched agrarian aristocracy? why would European
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by lumost 3y ago
I did find that it's important to work on teams where folks have kids. If you're politely vocal about the time blocks... it helps. But honestly I've had to use the 8PM-11PM slots for work with folks on the west coast. I treat
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by lumost 3y ago
I saw HubSpot (a former employer) started turning short weeks into a "week of rest". Seemed like a great idea, just synchronize everyone's vacations so that no one plans work for that week.
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by lumost 3y ago
I'm honestly surprised that more companies haven't invested in broader vacation policies. My experience has been that the constant "on" state wears you down. The only way to get to "off" is to be OOTO officiall
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by lumost 3y ago
In theory someone like stub hub could operate as a super scalper by buying all tickets and creating scarcity. Alternately, they are simply trying to create liquidity in the ticket market by buying tickets today to resell tomorrow.
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by lumost 3y ago
It’s a tricky legal ground. Companies DO make decisions which they know will kill people. Sometimes, they downplay the risks in less than ethical ways- sometimes they actively cover up the risks/reality. I don’t think that it is so f
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by lumost 3y ago
The highest stress points of the rocket will be the engines. If I were to guess (which is all anyone can do), the booster can be re-used a practically indefinite number of times (>100 launches) - while the engines need to be replaced eve
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by lumost 3y ago
It does make one wonder why the people vs hitman LLC isn’t a case before the Supreme Court.
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by lumost 3y ago
> It really isn't. Again, that's when the least is known. I think a much better point to set a particular standard is when there's some sort of team disagreement that would be solved by setting a standard. At which point y
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by lumost 3y ago
aye - I kept things broad as ultimately circumstances are going to dictate a lot. The point is that it's important to decide these decisions prior to starting the project. I've seen more than a few engineers throw the term "t
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by lumost 3y ago
The advantage and disadvantage of an apprentice system is that practitioners cannot massively scale up their pupil count (at least normally). This implicitly aligns incentives to a static arrangement where apprentices are training to replac
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by lumost 3y ago
We need to have something on the order of a fiduciary responsibility of executives for externalities. It’s tough to find a basis for harm in these cases, as so many people were responsible over so long of a time.
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by lumost 3y ago
> Setting our standards early on in a project, when we're most ignorant, guarantees we'll be setting the bar wrong. This seems like an artificial constraint, there are obvious basics such as - Code should be reviewed by N peopl
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by lumost 3y ago
I've also found that the term can be used to describe anything. Some folks would think of anything that isn't "shiny new framework" as tech debt. Some folks think of unsupported features as tech debt. Some folks think th
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by lumost 3y ago
yes! I was using GPT-4 as a citation engine for a bit by pasting in text and requesting related citations. The accuracy rate of 3/4 was good enough that it was still saving me hours reading irrelevant material, particularly as validati
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by lumost 3y ago
My suspicion is that we're collectively becoming accustomed to ChatGPT failures. These failures cause problems, and become more annoying with time. The same thing happened with voice assistants. That being said, the safety filters have
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by lumost 3y ago
This likely varies from department to department. If grades truly didn’t matter, it’s simpler for professors to adopt a lenient curve. If they do not make the grading lenient - it’s for a reason.
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by lumost 3y ago
It really makes you wonder if the university should just have a mechanism to "fire" a grad student rather than pretending that these events aren't simply a mechanism to "fire" someone because they didn't pass X
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by lumost 3y ago
Perhaps this is a locale specific definition of conservative? I’m unfamiliar with a general or even common definition which aligns to this.
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by lumost 3y ago
The median rent in New Jersey is 2500/month. Meaning our hypothetical teacher will drop 55% of their take-home on a median rental at entry level, and 32% of their salary when maxed out. Presuming that rent does not change relative to s

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