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by namirez 5y ago
I went through a similar experience with a radically different outcome. I was given a coding assignment and one week to finish it. I spent more than 30 hours on it and came up with a solution that was supposedly 500 times faster that what t
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by namirez 5y ago
I use Watson which stores the time tracking data in plaintext so I get to push them to Git.
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by namirez 5y ago
Basically concrete is good only for compressive loads. Under tension it easily cracks. The steel reinforcement adds tensile strength to concrete.
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by namirez 5y ago
Some people [1] attributed the failure of the Russians to go to the Moon to the complexity of the N1 rocket with 30 engines. Let’s see how it works out this time. [1] https://twitter.com/paulg/status/13887903129030
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by namirez 5y ago
Your comment is sad but true; that said Iran wasn’t always like this and I’m sure it won’t be. As an Iranian in diaspora I hope my people win their painful struggle for having a free and just society for everyone.
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by namirez 6y ago
GitHub pages! It’s free so I don’t think it can get any cheaper.
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by namirez 6y ago
Now this is what I call a tone deaf question! You shouldn’t be asking if a minority or person of color would perform the job any better? The real question is whether there are competent workers who are not white? And if your workforce is en
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by namirez 7y ago
This is interesting but sadly their service is not accessible in Iran, one of the hardest hit countries by Covid-19, not due to censorship by the Iranian government, but due to server-side blocking of IP addresses originating from Iran. The
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by namirez 7y ago
What you're missing is the effect of speed and altitude on engine performance. Please take a look at this (pdf): http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.167...
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by namirez 7y ago
This is a common misconception. Flying at higher altitudes doesn't mean just lower air resistance; it means lower lift as well. As a result you have to fly faster for compensating lower air density. If you do the math, you realize the
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by namirez 7y ago
You are right but the reality is even worse. Fuel consumption is proportional to power (velocity * drag) rather than drag itself. When you go twice as fast, the travel time is halved, so the total fuel consumption quadruples. And as you sai
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by namirez 7y ago
Exactly! I bought the first Essential Phone, PH-1, because I liked the design of it and wanted to support a new product. And to be honest, it's a decent phone, but that was before his misconduct came out to the media. Once it came out,
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by namirez 7y ago
Fair enough! I meant there are not many options other than Thinkpads and some business models from Dell or HP. Even an expensive consumer grade laptop will have all sorts of driver issues.
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by namirez 7y ago
> Bright screen with anti-reflective layer True! I've come to realize that anti-reflective coating is more effective than matte screen.
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by namirez 7y ago
Yes, I've seen the DIY videos of it, but I never felt confident enough to do it myself. And what would you do with the old panel? Ebay?
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by namirez 7y ago
I like matte screens too but my problem is their brightness. T495s comes with a 250 nits screen which can be quite dim. The Intel models have more screen options.
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by namirez 7y ago
FreeBSD developers and people who use FreeBSD on a daily basis need laptops too. There are not many options out there unless they opt for ancient hardware.
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by namirez 7y ago
The other good development with Thinkpads is the introduction of AMD processors in their mainstream offerings (T495, T495s, X395, etc.). Unfortunately their screens suck though.
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by namirez 7y ago
> what U.S immigration selection bias was being compared against If it's not clear to you, take a look at immigration policies of Canada and Australia. In the US, only 12% of visas are employment based which are very strict in ter
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by namirez 7y ago
Or as Vincent said in Gattaca: "There is no gene for the human spirit."
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by namirez 7y ago
> There's also significant selection bias on the entry side. U.S. immigration policies are heavily biased towards people with unique skills, high levels of education, and a fair amount of money in their home country Categorically
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by namirez 7y ago
That's in interesting observation. Yes, the same thing happens at the leading edge of a flat plate due to curvature resulting in flow separation and a vortex bubble on the top surface. If the flow doesn't separate, the velocity at
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by namirez 7y ago
"We have no way of finding the best possible shape yet" In general, you're right but for certain class of problems we absolutely have solutions. Just look up inverse methods whereby the input is a pressure distribution and th
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by namirez 7y ago
This is a confusing take on lift. To explain lift intuitively we need two ingredients: the Laplace equation and the Kutta condition. Most people have an intuitive understanding of the Laplace equation. For example lightning usually hits the
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by namirez 7y ago
I think the difference between "alone" and "lonely" is usually clear and he is talking about being alone.
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by namirez 7y ago
I use Authy for all my accounts and it’s way more convenient than SMS.
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by namirez 7y ago
Fair point, but these kinds of cancellations are not unusual. For example, YF-23 and X-32 were both cancelled due to losing the competition to YF-22 (later F-22) and X-35 (later F-35), respectively. So individual designs were cancelled, but
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by namirez 7y ago
> Those prototypes were also cancelled. Could you please name the program? AFAIK the 1954 interceptor program [1] was not cancelled, but perhaps you're talking about a different program. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by namirez 7y ago
Almost every Canadian knows the sad story of Avro Arrow, yet most people in the rest of the world, including the US, have never heard of it. There are people in search of what is left of the program. https://www.rcinet.ca/en
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by namirez 7y ago
Agreed, but this reminds me of the old joke about a bruised scout who comes limping to his friends. "What happened?", they ask. "I helped an old lady cross the street", says the scout. "But why are you so hurt?&quot

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