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by obmelvin 3y ago
I agree it's good to consider the whole picture, but ton-miles are probably the most important to consider given the increased diesel required to truck heavy loads, correct?
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by obmelvin 3y ago
Thanks for sharing! I hadn't heard of either of those, so good to know. For anyone reading, the federal act only applies to employers with 100 or more employees and the Cal act requires 75 or more.
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by obmelvin 3y ago
> "firing without notice": First, not legal in California where most of their highest skilled people work Can you expand? Doesn't at-will meant that you can be fired without advanced notice?
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by obmelvin 3y ago
Is there any evidence that's what happened? As far as I can tell, the NSA was doing it's routine thing of spying on foreign governments and and discovered that Airbus was trying to bribe a gov official. Maybe you agree with Henry
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by obmelvin 3y ago
There are rumors that will end later this year - https://stratechery.com/2024/an-interview-with-arm-ceo-rene-... (search for 'exclusive')
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by obmelvin 3y ago
My 2c is that culture around work (in general - not specific to tech) and pay in Europe are a much bigger contribution than hiring. By no means am I trying to disparage European engineers or those who stay for a myriad of good reasons. But,
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by obmelvin 3y ago
AFAIK, Plus has always trained on your conversation data. Enterprise and the API do not.
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by obmelvin 3y ago
The Journal app doesn't have a Mac app and neither do any of the other apps I was hoping to use. I understand what you are saying, but personally I'd be more than fine with the touch-centric UI - I recognize that as a trade off. I
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by obmelvin 3y ago
I tried to do this recently to download some apps to my Macbook - a few 3rd party apps and the new Journal app from Apple. As far as I could tell, only some apps are directly installable on the laptop, despite this claim? It seemed like I b
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by obmelvin 3y ago
It seems like they grounded all of their 737 Max 9 fleet immediately after the incident. But apparently they have begun inspections and returned some of the fleet to service - https://twitter.com/jonostrower/status&#x2F
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by obmelvin 3y ago
I can't say that I've seen any proper physics analysis of this, but my small understanding would be that incoming lasers will not be effective against ships*. The lasers currently fielded for Navy tests require tracking a target f
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by obmelvin 3y ago
Yes, they seem promising for ships assuming the output can be increased so it doesn't require tracking the target for multiple seconds. I'm a bit less knowledgeable wether the energy requirements can easily be met for other vehicl
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by obmelvin 3y ago
I can't recommend Al Dente enough. Apparently I'm only at 134 cycles with 92% capacity*. M1 max is 26 months old. I have used a work computer for large portions of time obviously. * TBH the capacity seems a bit low for my cycle co
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by obmelvin 3y ago
You might find this recent article interesting about the uptick in people moving from Pentagon -> VC, as opposed to Pentagon -> Prime Defense Contractor. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/30/us/politi
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by obmelvin 3y ago
Range is obviously a clear advantage that missiles will basically always have over guns for anti-air, but the cost difference is also huge. This is currently a very real issue in the Red Sea - https://www.politico.com/news&#
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by obmelvin 3y ago
Given the years (91-94), it seems likely these were printed out a long time ago and have sat in filing boxes for nearly 30 years. Looking back it may seem crazy to print so many things out, but screen quality and norms have changed a lot si
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by obmelvin 3y ago
I'm not saying that it doesn't happen. But the reality is, to make one random comparison to a bigger threat, that 597 people have died in 2023 from mass shootings [0] and I can't even find any statistics on the number of peop
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by obmelvin 3y ago
A lot of people are just ridiculously scared of homeless, which really fuels the media narrative. I see it in San Diego - the way the media talks about it, the way the city doesn't spend money allocated for such issues, stand up comedi
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by obmelvin 3y ago
There are many people in tech industry who began to learn about coding precisely because of video games. Age of Empires II was essentially the first gateway to my career.
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by obmelvin 3y ago
Yes, missing prior work at best can impact your review, and at worst can mean you waste a significant amount of research time
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by obmelvin 3y ago
Read/discussed "As We May Think" in a grad school HCI class - highly recommend it to anyone interested in the history of computing. It is available behind a paywall on The Atlantic website, but you can see the original magazi
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by obmelvin 3y ago
I never questioned that 20B was high. It's also important to keep in mind that Adobe has failed for years with xD - so the value to them is quite different than it would be to almost any other purchaser The poster clearly has an axe to
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by obmelvin 3y ago
The lowest estimate I see for Figma's ARR is $200m, so to suggest that even $500m is a high valuation is just untethered from the facts
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by obmelvin 3y ago
I believe the second issue is that engines which work well at supersonic speeds don't work well at slower speeds and visa versa "A typical air-breathing DMRJ propulsion system can only begin operating when the vehicle achieves sup
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by obmelvin 3y ago
See this peer comment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38669000
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by obmelvin 3y ago
I find the amount of people calling this a hit piece odd. Does every article need to talk about every bit of information related to the subject? Yes, it's important to give context that he's not the only one building compound(s) l
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by obmelvin 3y ago
Almost no one does that though, so I'm confused as to the point you are trying to make? Even the people who do make their own bread usually don't grind their own wheat.
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by obmelvin 3y ago
I really don't understand the notion that people should be able to just get over their child dying, but addiction is something you can't just get over? I'm not trying to downplay addiction, but let's be real - people can
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by obmelvin 3y ago
I'm pretty sure this targeted at the fact that larger dogs in general live shorter lives than small dogs. I don't think this has anything to do with the genetic issues caused by some breeding.
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by obmelvin 3y ago
My interpretation of that was that Sam felt Helen's duty as a board member is to come to the company with her complaints, and work to improve the safety measures.

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