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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
That is unfortunately my reality working with other Java developers. I mean, it would be if it actually wasn't even worse than that. They are constantly pushing to create more "microservices" which is just just a misguided tr
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
It is hard to know the difference between efficient, frugal and cheap. Your employees will always want to spend more money, you always want to save it. You may not be expert on the topic of servers but you also know you can't completel
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
Was he doing something illegal/immoral? Maybe he had two Ferraris because he was frugal with his business? Why does everybody think it is absolute must to maximise the profits? Maybe he was ok with his profits and just didn't ca
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
I am (an amateur) sailor and every time I have a new crew I go through the same set of safety rules with them including explanation of what to do in case somebody falls overboard. We will usually also go through a training exercise (throw a
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
> I cannot explain the physics Here, this is actually the problem. Water can store many times the amount of energy per volume or mass, per degree Celcius, than rock. What you see is that rock has much lower thermal conductivity. It can b
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
> -Order of magnitude smaller coefficient of thermal expansion. On the other hand the thermal expansion of water does not matter because water, you know, is a liquid -- it conforms to whatever vessel you put it in. > -No real risk of
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
100MWh = 3.6 * 10^11 joules sand's heat capacity = 830 J/kg degree C sand battery size is "13m tall and 15m wide". Assuming most voluminous possible shape that's 13m * 15m * 15m = 2925 cubic meters of sand (100% fi
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
I think there is a great opportunity to use AI in design and development, as long as it is used correctly. Which is as tools to help engineers. At my previous workplace I wrote a documentation bot which helps people find documentation based
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
All development was offshored to a lowest bidder. Thanks to this, all our critical flight control software is now developed by a single intern aided by Copilot (sic!) We are now looking for a way to optimize the intern away.
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
I did not mean doing home electrical work. That I do leave to professionals. But there are times I have a device on my bench that is consuming 230V AC. I have a 3kVA separation transformer set up, which makes it safer for me to work with th
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
Well... one difference between a stun gun and CRT tube is that in a stun gun you usually have both terminals relatively close to each other. Little chance of the main pulse going deep across the chest. On the other hand working with the CRT
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
> It's also a safety issue, since the Cathode voltage might be substantial. When I was a small kid, my father had a TV set repair side hustle. I was 7-8yo but I would sometimes be called to help him a bit. Once he asked me to clean
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
It is hard for me to understand WHY they spent so much time discussing the process and whether to record or not record it in CMES, but they could not be bothered to remember the truly important part -- to bolt the fucking thing properly. It
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
As a mathematician we can easily confirm by going outside and waiting until we can see 19 people being visibly obese. Best see 19 obese people at the same time to eliminate possibility that some of them are the same person who just changed
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
Decades, in most cases. And not necessarily self-neglect. Frequently it is neglect by the parents or by your environment. Currently, in many countries it is pretty difficult to maintain healthy diet if you have below average income. The way
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
More likely helpful with perspiration and heat management.
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
It is absolutely OBVIOUS why there is no old forests in Netherlands. I don't think there is any danger of the same happening to the US. US is 237 times larger than Netherlands. Netherlands also is 17.5M people. If US had the same popul
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
I don't think real requirements are known and understood in general. For example, consider a team that has been maintaining the system for a long time. Most or all of the people that has initially created the system have moved on to ot
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
I think people tend to want to rewrite software for the psychological break from the old, bad and ugly thing they don't want to have anything to do with anymore. It is so easy to think "If only I could start everything from scratc
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
I think the authors do not understand how planetary resonances work and how precise (or imprecise) the orbits need to be for the resonance to hold. Resonances are very common. We have lots of resonances in our Solar system in all different
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
That's exactly what is happening. But it is also not enough for the airplane to fly. In a normally flying airplane, the wing compresses and pushes an amount of air under its wing. But there is actually even greater amount of air sucked
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
Thank. You. That's exactly what is missing and that's exactly what I have mentioned in my... highly criticised comment. It just shows how pervasive the misconception is. If you take a step back there is a simple way to think about
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
I wish every presentation on how planes fly started with an actual flat plane. A wing that has a flat crossection. I think the shape of the airfoil of the wing is absolutely distracting and prevents people from understanding what is really
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
That's a very good point. I would add, that sometimes being a newcomer is a benefit. Many times a particular industry is stuck in groupthink, having shared understanding on what is and what isn't possible. And it sometimes require
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
Of course. And the way to go is to set up incentives so that everybody wants to report issues rather than hide them. In a normal, healthy situation a company like Boeing should not feel threatened if some problems are exposed from time to t
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
> I'd be curious to know how many non-conformances they typically see during assembly of a plane (...) Very likely that number is meaningless. I suspect this is the kind of environment that incentivises hiding non-conformances whene
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
No. As a business owner you will hire couple lawyers, give them a bunch of programs to automate searching through texts, answering questions and writing legalese based on human description of what is the text supposed to do. These three are
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
I think what you are missing is businesses doing what businesses have always been doing: finding a niche for themselves to make a good profit. When you can hire less lawyers and get more work done and cheaper and at the same (or better) qua
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
> Laywers hoard their contracts and it was very difficult in our journey to find lawyers who would be willing to write contracts we would turn into templates because they are essentially putting themselves and their professional communit
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by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
Not doable. There exists nothing, even theoretically that you can put on the spaceship to get you that 1G continuous acceleration. I don't remember exactly what is the maximum achievable delta V but if I remember well it is not a high

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