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by onetimeuse92304 2y ago
I lived in much smaller mountains. Our house was just by a river about a mile from the start of the mountain side. Whenever there was a lot of rain up the mountains, my parents would keep watch during the night as it takes as little as 20 m
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by onetimeuse92304 2y ago
No. If you could travel at the speed of light you would take no time to reach Voyager 1. Actually, you could get anywhere in the reachable Universe. For example, it takes only 29 years to from Earth to Andromeda galaxy assuming consta
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by onetimeuse92304 2y ago
Your analogy falls apart, too. Sun does not have a surface to be reached. It just sort of gets more and more dense and that's all.
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by onetimeuse92304 2y ago
Distance from the body I have defined as distance from its center. Black hole does not have a surface. At least not that we know of. Event horizon is a surface, but it is not the surface of the BH in conventional sense. If you were fall
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
What is "feeling"? If my senses can register changing spectra of the stars around me then yes, I will "feel" the acceleration.
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
Except this is not entirely true. The shape of gravitational field only differs within the body. The shape outside of the perfectly spherical body will be exactly the same regardless of how the mass is distributed (whether it is all on th
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
Not only that. you have to dismantle the old one and you will pay premium trying to get the new one done as quickly as possible.
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
Yes. I wrote append-only database for the device. I started with the database because I needed a transactional storage but the device used flash chips without wear levelling. This and requirement for constant memory usage basically disquali
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
I wrote something similar in the past. It was credit card terminal application. It was supposed to behave correctly regardless of when in the process of transaction something happened. Something could be application crash, power cycle, etc.
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
I think it is the same misguided discussion as strongly, staticall typed vs weakly typed languages. (Mind I mean the discussion is misguided, not you) The problem is that relational model is a one solution to certain problem of when you wan
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
Technically, you can write a compiler in any programming language. So yeah, you can do it in Java, too. But why if Lisp already has a compiler built in that you can use for the advantage. That's pretty much the idea. I also happen to k
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
> Perhaps counterintuitively, the hardest people to teach Common Lisp to in my experience have been "senior software engineers" who transition into the project, who are so dead-set on their preferred languages and tools That&#x
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
Again, I will stick to saying that if you use technology you have no experience with, the problems resulting from it are on you. Testing out technology on important projects is reckless and is a risk a lot of people take but push away any r
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
I used SBCL for an algorithmic trading framework for EXACTLY this reason. More precisely, this was SBCL/ANSI C application where most of the application was implemented in Common Lisp, some OS / low level stuff was written in ANSI
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
To be fair, almost all product PR teams do the same. I just ignore most of what they say in favour of my own opinion that I try to build based on reading actual technical documentation, experimenting with the product, etc. Anybody who makes
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
Ah, the old "I used a wrong product for my problem and now I complain the product is bad because it does not suit my case." defence. MongoDB is a document database. It is not supposed to be good at relations. Also lacking suppor
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
It is a silly notion there is anything wrong per se about stock buybacks. Just as you can sell stock when you need cash (and lose some control) it is simply buying stock back when you saved some cash (and regain control). The only reason st
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
It is the same type of person that says Romans were more ecological because we have cars and they had carriages drawn by hand or by horse. Which is to say "let's just pretend that all of those pesky details do not exist".
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
For the same reason you chose generals from people who have experience fighting, if at all possible. To be able to appreciate realities of what Boeing is doing and not just focus on financials. The point is it does not matter how much you k
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
I like to tell people that all engineering is about tradeoffs. People who engineered bridges during Roman Empire had different tradeoffs to consider than people who were building bridges in 20th century. Standing for a thousand years is rar
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
> So that wasn't a "slow moving" impact Exactly. It is only the scale and the viewing angle that makes it seem slow moving.
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
Most bridges nowadays (say last century) depend on a careful balance of forces that are transferred through a chain of members in tension and compression. When any piece in the chain of those forces breaks, the entire structure loses abilit
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
Not sure it was hard sell. The computers were expensive but people knew they are the future. Parents who could afford it would buy it for the kids just to have access to the computers without knowing what good they are for.
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
Well... I am an engineer with quarter of century of development experience, just typically not in the know on the particulars of the given part of the system. What I describe is my personal style which has been described as "detective&
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
Simple concept, the author is overthinking it. I have been "problem manager" for many large outages. I use the term "problem manager" to remind people that an outage is something you manage just like any other kind of pr
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
It is really thin pure goose down pillow. Folded, it is less than 1/4in when compressed. I don't think the height of the pillow makes a huge difference.
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
We can lower carbon emissions while still using steel, but it would require factoring in sequestering equivalent CO2 or switching to renewable in the price of steel. Obviously, this would dramatically increase the price of steel but this wo
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
I use a very thin pillow when sleeping on my back. I find sleeping without pillow a bit uncomfortable. Although I am sure I could get used to my head being pushed back a bit, I still dislike the head just resting on the hard mattress and tr
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
Usually corporations tend to act in their own good. Usually, corporations are better and faster at reacting than a government. Here the problem is executives who are absolutely shit at understanding what the product of their company is (eff
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
For my entire life I slept in one of those postures ("the lookout"). I had a bunch of problems (pain in the chest, pain in the back, some problems with my knees not loaded symmetrically, my feet getting "extended" for qu

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