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by mabbo 5y ago
Thanks, my mistake. Sheppard was the first American in space, Glenn the first to orbit, so it should be easy to remember.
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by mabbo 5y ago
Edit: terafo pointed out I've got BO rocket's names wrong! Fixed! And most of these launches on rockets that have never flown. > The satellites will fly on powerful rockets currently being developed by European launch provider
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by mabbo 5y ago
> and I still think you need to be able to build the software and review diffs and write serious ones now and again. I've had some good managers that could do that. But the people management skill set is so much more important to th
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by mabbo 5y ago
Amazon had an interesting system for this: one of the interviewers, the 'bar raiser' gets the final decision, ideally based on what everyone else says (but not necessarily). That BR has done 100+ interviews, took a lot of addition
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by mabbo 5y ago
Yeah this also is a big issue. It was nice having the "debrief" meeting afterwards. This meant that people had to back up what they had written. " Why do you think this person 'isnt a good culture fit'? Oh because
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by mabbo 5y ago
Having been an interviewer at a FAANG for many years, I can explain some of the logic behind it. I'm not saying this logic is valid , but it's how we got here, imho. First: we no longer trust the hiring manager alone, because p
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by mabbo 5y ago
The robots, yes. The sorters and conveyance, far less so. A huge portion of their cost is just the installation. For a big, high speed 'shoe'[0] sorter, you're talking about a machine more than 100m long that is heavily, heav
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by mabbo 5y ago
I remember when my friend and I first installed it on the PC. We must have spent 20 minutes just admiring water that looked like water . Going back and seeing it now, it looks like nothing special at all, but for the time I remember it bei
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by mabbo 5y ago
> Why can't it be in Long Island, New Jersey, Newark, or any other place around NYC? Because they already have fulfillment centers in all of those places, and during the holiday season (peak) they are maxed out.
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by mabbo 5y ago
The capital cost to build a modern Amazon Fulfillment Center is absolutely staggering. I used to be part of a team that helped launch them. Go watch one of those "inside the Amazon warehouse" videos on YouTube. The box/tote s
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by mabbo 5y ago
They can be defined, but nobody does so explicitly. Consider the classic example of the order of adjectives. You can have a big brown bag, but if you have a brown big bag, something sounds wrong. You can have an excellent blueberry muffin,
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by mabbo 5y ago
There are the valid grammar rules and there is the way people of the language actually speak. The unspoken rules. If I can read the text and guess what language the original text was in, I would argue that it's not a very good translat
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by mabbo 5y ago
> Recent example: peaceful protesters in Canada As a Canadian, and a former Ottawa resident, I can assure you those were not "peaceful protestors". I had friends and family who had to leave the city to escape the unending noise
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by mabbo 5y ago
In a system run by people, the transaction could be reversed, traced, and the culprits eventually brought to justice. In a system run by algorithms, designed to avoid oversight by people (governments), there is no such powers. There's
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by mabbo 5y ago
Howso? If the universe is infinitely large and old, and light works as well believe it does, then light should come from all directions. That's the entire point of this paradox. Light as we know it moves without limit. If anything is b
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by mabbo 5y ago
There's something great about physics and astronomy when it comes to naming things. What is it? An odd circle of radio waves. What are we going to call it? Well, if we call it an "odd radio circle" the initialization is the s
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by mabbo 5y ago
What we know is that an infinitly old and large universe is not possible given our understanding of physics and the sky being dark at night. That's all.
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by mabbo 5y ago
Most teams at Amazon are still using Brazil and Apollo (internal build and deploy systems that were brilliant 12 years ago but have aged poorly). CDK is just starting to become more common throughout the company. Many orgs barely use it. An
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by mabbo 5y ago
I recently moved from a professional developer that didn't know how networks worked to one that gave an intro talk on HTTPS to a student group. I wish I had had a book like this to make that change faster. One callout: a table of conte
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by mabbo 5y ago
Without any intent to take away from how cool this is (seriously, it's awesome) I do wonder what kinds of applications need this sort of capability. Surviving a reboot is a very specific capability. With no hyperbole intended, who need
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by mabbo 5y ago
The non-web frontend is largely dead outside of specific use cases (gaming, for example). So embrace it. Java does a fine job on the backend. It honestly shines there. So let it do that. And let the modern front end platform (the web) do wh
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by mabbo 5y ago
Did OVH make it clear to customers that the saved money was coming from lack of safety? I've never worked with them so I don't know. But it seems to me that if you're advertising yourself as equivalent to a competitor only th
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by mabbo 5y ago
I think some folks are missing the really neat thing about this: remote play. Steam supports playing games remotely on another computer. So your desktop is doing the heavy lifting, but you can view the game on your TV in the livingroom. Now
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by mabbo 5y ago
My cat likes to fall asleep at the foot of my bed every night... until we fall asleep. Then he gets up and move somewhere he likes better, usually his cat tower.
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by mabbo 5y ago
Right now, having children is a nightmare financially. Most of my friends simply can't afford it, and are wise enough not to. If the government wants to avoid disaster, they need to make changes to fix this reality. Example: add a k% t
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by mabbo 5y ago
> I'm not sure I could be paid enough to I think a better way to frame this: "No one will ever be willing to pay me enough to". Because everyone has a price for just about any job imaginable.
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by mabbo 5y ago
The energy needed to vacate the earth is some very long-term sci-fi indeed. You'd need a space elevator at a minimum. But mining rare-earth minerals in asteroids is theoretically feasible with today's technology.
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by mabbo 5y ago
There's a wonderfully fun hard sci-fi novel by Daniel Suarez called "Delta-V", chronicling a group trying to mine the first asteroid (in secret). The premise of the book, however, is that doing this is not just going to make
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by mabbo 5y ago
> The primary outcome was the rate of patients in full suicidal remission at day 3, according to the scale for suicidal ideation total score ≤3. Analyses were conducted on an intention-to-treat basis. Question: does reducing suicidal ide
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by mabbo 5y ago
While I doubt this war will trigger the end of globalization, perhaps it will end blind globalization. I can imagine a lot of countries are now asking which critical resources come from so few countries/places that a trade blockage f

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