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by mabbo 5y ago
Can we crowdfund 3 more this way, I wonder?
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by mabbo 5y ago
It's a problem of energy and orbits. To get from low-earth orbit to the sun-earth Lagrange point 2 (where the JWT is headed) takes around 7 km/s of delta-v[0]. That's a lot of speed. You could try to do this gently enough tha
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by mabbo 5y ago
It must be a bit strange for Andy Weir. He wrote 'The Martian' as a serial online, originally, and later published it on Kindle as a bit of a 'why not?'. (I bought the Kindle self-published version for $2!) Fast forward
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by mabbo 5y ago
> You know those fancy vinyl car wraps? I keep expecting someone to do that for laptops. I had one of those in like 2006. There was a website where I gave my laptop model, uploaded the image I wanted, and they mailed me a perfectly sized
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by mabbo 5y ago
Many years ago, before we legalized it generally, an acquaintance of my father fought a fun court case related to this. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/pot-smoking-motorist-not-guil... From everything I've rea
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by mabbo 5y ago
All work is remote work at Shopify. The entire company. The only physical locations are meetup spaces. My CV: 9.5 years at Amazon. Was able to pass the interview and leave a good impression. I think the latter was more important than the fo
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by mabbo 5y ago
One doesn't work for the US company, just a Canadian subsidiary. Which means Canadian HR, who handle all of that stuff for you. It's a long-solved problem you're worried about. Also: It's Canada. Health insurance isn&#x2
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by mabbo 5y ago
It's a great market for senior developers in Canada right now. A lot of companies are moving to full remote for a large portion of their developers. Especially important is that this includes some Bay Area big names. These companies ar
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by mabbo 5y ago
I'm a pretty general Staff Developer at Shopify. No niche. I live in Canada.
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by mabbo 5y ago
Oh hey, I did this recently. The pandemic seemed like it was winding down (remember those naive days of 5 months ago?) and I decided I don't want to go back to the office, ever. Got a kid on the way, and I decided that the time I spend
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by mabbo 5y ago
The real reason is very clear to me: Wolfram builds a fairly unique and complicated product. Their advantage comes largely from a very narrow market with few competitors. Releasing the source would deprive them of that advantage, which has
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by mabbo 5y ago
Is $company a large Seattle-based ecommerce and cloud computing company? Because that company talks about one way and two way doors a lot.
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by mabbo 5y ago
They explain part of that in the article > Today, however, it’s recognized that what’s needed isn’t necessarily negative mass or negative energy; that was simply the way that Alcubierre recognized one could induce the needed “opposite ty
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by mabbo 5y ago
This reminds me of the xkcd comic "TornadoGuard"[0]. Whatever else the company is doing, if their core functionality doesn't fundamentally work when it needs to, then what is everyone paying for? [0] https://m.xkcd.
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by mabbo 5y ago
Are the actual services down, or is it just the console and/or login page? For example, the sign-up page appears to be working: https://portal.aws.amazon.com/billing/signup#/start Are websites that run on A
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by mabbo 5y ago
The problem with guys like Wenig and Wymer is the classic problem with large organizations: they didn't explicitly say to do something horrible like this, so they're off the hook. All they did was hire the horrible people and se
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by mabbo 5y ago
> Say one can send the exact cryptographic fingerprint and impersonate me. How is this anything better than me just sending password to authenticate? If you're genuinely interested in this topic, you will, I think, really enjoy what
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by mabbo 5y ago
I don't want to work in your "lively atmosphere". It sounds pretty toxic.
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by mabbo 5y ago
Seriously? You're blaming the victim?
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by mabbo 5y ago
The goals of Google have changed. Or rather, they haven't. At one time, the premise was that good results would bring people back. Getting the exact right answer every time was the go-to means to get customers to return, and see more A
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by mabbo 5y ago
> if the CV algorithm fails against these examples when humans don't, then the CV algorithm is too brittle and should not be used in the real world. This is the tricky bit. Night-time driving, bad weather, icy roads, bumper-to-bumpe
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by mabbo 5y ago
When covid-19 first popped up, it seemed the time from sequencing to first trials of vaccinations was in the order of weeks. This mRNA tech is just incredible that way. Is anyone making and testing new vaccines that address the new variants
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by mabbo 5y ago
I had a wonderful grade 12 calc teacher in high school who taught everything from first principles. I would leave his class feeling like I had gone to the gym from my brain. Despite his incredible teaching, I only pulled off a low 70s grade
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by mabbo 5y ago
While I'm generally inclined towards pessimism when it comes to new technology, there is something to be said for when billions of dollars start being invested in a large number of companies chasing the same dream. One could argue that
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by mabbo 5y ago
I think some companies might do that. I think they'll wind up losing money as a result. If you're willing to pay more for identical work because your employee chose to live somewhere more expensive, you're encouraging your em
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by mabbo 5y ago
Like all industries that can move to remote, I suspect we will soon see a split. Some companies will embrace it, some won't. And that's not to detract from either side of that choice. It's just a choice that has to be made. W
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by mabbo 5y ago
Not necessarily. Andy Weir's 'Hail Mary Project' describes a way you can get the best of both worlds: don't make a full ring, but spin two objects separated by cables. Split the initial station into two stations with a l
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by mabbo 5y ago
You're not wrong. But I feel that like most things, it's only hard because it hasn't been tried. Once we've done it a few times, it's routine. That's human nature. We've also done some experiments already.
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by mabbo 5y ago
One thing many of these designs don't bring up is long-term growth. Is the plan to build it once and that's it? Boring, and too prone to failure if the project runs into trouble at any point in time. What I'd prefer to see is
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by mabbo 5y ago
Awesome. Now just have it carry a few containers and we're really on our way!

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