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by michaeljx 2y ago
Does the flight termination system consist of the rocket free-falling into the ground resulting in a fiery explosion?
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by michaeljx 2y ago
There was a very fun debate on this, summarised nicely here[1]. Two parties took opposing positions on lab leak theory, with 2 independent expert judges (accepted by both participants). Loser had to pay the winner 100K USD https:/&#x2
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by michaeljx 2y ago
Could it be a memory related bug, which would not have existed in a memory safe language like Rust?
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by michaeljx 2y ago
I am saying that a government,and any other system, operating in an environment of abundance without external pressures to improve, ends up accumulating year's of cruft, inneficiencies, unproductive bureaucracies and 4-eye principles e
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by michaeljx 2y ago
Well,it didn't say anywhere that they are stopping grandma's checks. And if the system is so fragile that grandma will die before getting some human person to resolve her case, then we've got bigger problems than a 25 year ol
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by michaeljx 2y ago
Having a young optimistic uncynical person, untainted by years of painful lessons and bitterness, attempt to fix these systems with raw speed and brute urgency, might be the exact shock a system like the public sector needs. People complain
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by michaeljx 2y ago
interesting perspective. Care to elaborate a bit more? Where you in the design department? Why did they put up chinese walls? Was it to enable the foundry to have other customers other than Intel designs? Why did you have similar type of eq
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by michaeljx 2y ago
4. If it is personal data, you have to know where they came from, where they are stored and why. If you don't want to do that, then invest the minimal effort it takes to anonymize them during ingestion and then you can do whatever you
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by michaeljx 2y ago
Civilian, as opposed to military
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by michaeljx 2y ago
And potentially QuantumScape, although they've been through their SPAC related shenanigans and relevant lawsuit, they seem to be doing ok now
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by michaeljx 2y ago
Their rocket is closest to capabilities to a falcon-heavy [1], but to get to the space-x level, they need to demonstrate reusability, turn around times, and the ability to produce second stages once every 2&3 days, whilst maintaining an
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by michaeljx 2y ago
Elon had a great year.Him weaponizing Twitter to go all-in on Trump has earned him so much political capital that those perky 50billion he paid for it look like a still now. I bet Zuck is feeling the heat, now with the government gunning fo
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by michaeljx 2y ago
Private insurance can and generally withstands large calamities (known as natcat losses) without government intervention via the utilisation of global reinsurance organizations. Especially for earthquake, a properly reinsured insurance can
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by michaeljx 2y ago
No this is general insurance (motor, property, travel etc). It is also founder-led, which is an important factor, as the reason they started it was their personal frustration with the motor insurances.
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by michaeljx 2y ago
Scale-up means youngish (10-12years old), mid-size in the countries we are operating, think 3 countries 600-800m revenue. Fraudulent claims are a tiny percentage of claims, and are rejected after human review, usually involving detectives.
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by michaeljx 2y ago
I don't understand the comments excusing the CEO of his responsibility. I work for a scale-up insurance company, and the CEOs are pretty clear with their mandate: customer service is paramount, we make money by streamlining our process
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by michaeljx 2y ago
This is cool but I do wanted it to be more realistic. This is too idealistic
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by michaeljx 2y ago
They can still sell those data, to Alphabet, Meta, whomever, all of them
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by michaeljx 2y ago
I think his point is that it's a bullish market, so they will find plenty of buyers
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by michaeljx 2y ago
That's for people outside the Scrum team, meaning that no external stakeholder may manipulate the backlog by bypassing the POs. Internally the team must act as a cohesive unit, which means that a Scrum dev should have the same objectiv
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by michaeljx 2y ago
>In Scrum, Product Owners have sole authority over the Product Backlog; That first sentence was enough to stop reading
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by michaeljx 2y ago
Sounds interesting. Do yo mind sharing more details?
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by michaeljx 2y ago
Just the text. Not the code
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by michaeljx 2y ago
FTA >T-Mobile contradicted that clear promise on a separate FAQ page, which said the only real guarantee was that T-Mobile would pay your final month's bill if the company raised the price and you decided to cancel
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by michaeljx 2y ago
Same here. After doing Java the entire first year, the second year we did a 6-hour course for C, and then had to write a ram-disk for a toy Linux operating system. We had to write the code, compile, boot in the new system, run a specific te
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by michaeljx 2y ago
I' ve done 2 large software migrations in my life, here are my findings: 1. If you can't do gradual deployment, try to do a primary-secondary (master/slave) type of deployment where new system runs in read-only mode (mirrorin
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by michaeljx 2y ago
Kind of like what the iPhone did when they launched without copy-pasting, and a very underwhelming gsm radio
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by michaeljx 2y ago
But there is so much context that the LLM has no access to. Implicit assumptions in the system, undocumented workflows, hard edge cases, acceptable bugs and workarounds, Peter principle boundaries, etc... All these trade-offs need someone t
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by michaeljx 2y ago
That's because we've been here before. Be it the ERPs of the 90s-00s, the low/no-codes of the 2010s, the SaaS and the chatbots of 2015. There was always hype about automating the job. At the end of the day, most of a programm
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by michaeljx 2y ago
The python requests library

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