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by pbourke 5y ago
Seems like you’d have tons of applications for an orbital assembly capability
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by pbourke 5y ago
Not everyone is able to do that, for a number of reasons: - not capable of using a mobile app or website for ordering - low language proficiency - not able to be at home to accept delivery during the day - don’t have a means of payment comp
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by pbourke 5y ago
> in the west buying stuff usually requires no human interaction at all And then you step foot in a car dealership, and you might as well be in a souk
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by pbourke 5y ago
“High technology within broken human systems” is how I’d describe much “cyberpunk” writing. Reading tons of it as a younger person has made the present feel eerily familiar. The most unrealistic part of most science fiction for me are not t
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by pbourke 5y ago
> It's like a fucking Joy Division video here from October through April. :-D So people used to the Pacific Northwest would fit right in.
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by pbourke 5y ago
Do the hospital executives of ThedaCare (the original employer) think this will improve their chances of recruiting anyone 2 years from now? Irrespective of the insanity of the ruling, it’s an abject failure of leadership to pursue this cou
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by pbourke 5y ago
> land space They’re living on a boat, so wouldn’t that be literally zero land space?
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by pbourke 5y ago
> I guess I have never seen the "cart return" thing as something you do out of politeness. I see it as something you do as a participant in civilization.
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by pbourke 5y ago
> pay off all debts Why would you pay off your debt if you thought civilization was going to collapse?
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by pbourke 5y ago
With all of these train robberies we’re going to need some Pinkertons
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by pbourke 5y ago
> The only significant thing that passed was an infrastructure bill The American Rescue Plan passed in March 2021
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by pbourke 5y ago
The Fed controls monetary policy, and it’s still mostly independent of the administration. Trump often seemed displeased with Fed Chair Powell. Also the bull market started before Trump’s inauguration. I don’t think you can blame Trump for
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by pbourke 5y ago
This posits that politics remains “politics” and does not devolve to widespread bloodshed. I don’t have a sense for how likely that is aside from “more likely than when I grew up.”
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by pbourke 5y ago
> Could anyone in 1990 have predicted the smartphone, let alone 1922? Yes https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Newton
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by pbourke 5y ago
C++ was quite common back in the day. Amazon began as a C++ monolith (obidos).
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by pbourke 5y ago
> It was going to run on every device in my kitchen, and they were all going to talk to each other. Instead the first niche it found was J2EE The first niche was applets. A managed language with a batteries-included library, familiar syn
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by pbourke 5y ago
> The Netherlands was fully capable of transitioning from a nation of car dependent choked cities to a bike first micromobility haven in 30 years. The only thing stopping the USA from doing the same is the enormous government subsidies p
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by pbourke 5y ago
In the 90’s I worked at a Canadian company that developed a CNC machining training simulator. We produced some professionally narrated training videos for a new release of the software and sent them off to the publisher. A few days later ou
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by pbourke 5y ago
There are some echos of trading systems (control cycles, publishing telemetry streams, small-world distributed systems). I was also reminded of James Gosling’s VJUG talk about the Liquid Robotics onboard software for autonomous ocean vehic
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by pbourke 5y ago
Some people are switching to the “book time with me” apps, which seem to be a better way to handle this.
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by pbourke 5y ago
You typically don’t have access to Google when you’re taking a test. The onus should be on the test writer to ensure that what is tested is math knowledge and not math knowledge + some random facts about gardening.
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by pbourke 5y ago
PEs, architects and lawyers all need to pass standardized tests in order to enter their professions. You have to study for these. Expecting preparation is not the end of the world.
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by pbourke 5y ago
These are poorly worded questions. Half the issue with “word problem” test questions is that they assume a cultural context or knowledge. The questions should explain themselves more (what is edging?) or choose a better context.
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by pbourke 5y ago
> Nope, the worst thing a corporation can do is try to sell me something I don’t want. I think poisoning your water supply with benzene might be a bit worse.
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by pbourke 5y ago
What a great story, thanks for sharing.
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by pbourke 5y ago
> I haven't seen reports recently of any large migrations to Ada, Pascal or even C++ or other old (20yo+) language. Things are quietly rewritten in Java and C# all the time. I’m sure it happens with C++ as well since the more recent
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by pbourke 5y ago
I feel lucky that at 44 I still get a thrill when something runs as expected for the first time or when tests go all green. I still enjoy working with software in the general sense and learning new things in my areas of interest. Organizati
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by pbourke 5y ago
There have been plenty of new backend approaches since the term Web 2.0 was minted. The important change was a shifting from one request per view to multiple requests that comprise a view: it was the client/server interaction patterns
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by pbourke 5y ago
Web 2.0 was a hokey name, but at least it was a new approach to building web apps, built on the techniques and technology that preceded it. Web 3 is ... not that.
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by pbourke 5y ago
30% less severe with twice the rate of spread does not seem like a good tradeoff. You have an exponential increase in cases but a linear reduction in hospital admissions.

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