piloto_ciego

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by piloto_ciego 2mo ago
Well, my thought would be on the way up? Like, you punch into the first layer and get icing on the nose of the rocket? That would largely be my only concern up here, and turbulence? I don’t know how well large rockets do in rough air? Th
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by piloto_ciego 2mo ago
Totally this is reasonable, but, I flew in AK (and a couple thousand hours in the lower 48 too) professionally for over a decade, there are other advantages up here? Not nearly as many thunderstorms up here. Icing might be a problem? I wo
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by piloto_ciego 2mo ago
The thing is that I kind of hate my smart phone? Like, it's fine I suppose, but yeah, I'd much rather just not have it? But at the same time getting a cab or whatever is a lot easier with it, and I'm ssh-ing over tailscal
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by piloto_ciego 2mo ago
I know it sounds bananas, indeed I thought it sounded bananas for a long time, but in a world where we can't get high speed rail built anywhere because of permitting, and there's an artificial scarcity of available land to build,
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by piloto_ciego 2mo ago
I mean, I'm just speculating? But yeah, I'd be willing to bet serious money (well, in a way, I have) that this is why. Sun-synchronous orbit is something like 7 degrees off of a purely polar orbit? Something like that? So a bi
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by piloto_ciego 2mo ago
It's for sun-synchronous orbits, almost assuredly. This is for space data centers. Man, I was hoping they would pick Alaska (as it's even better for launching into those orbits) - we could really use new industries other than jus
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by piloto_ciego 2mo ago
This rules. I want this so bad, I might install this when I get back from my cabin build-site and replace my smart phone with my kobo and a flip phone
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by piloto_ciego 2mo ago
Why does it matter? I would love it if I could get my drill driver to build the cabin for me. It would save me a shitload if work. I actually have no problem with that either? Mechanical minds or mechanical muscles, who cares?
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by piloto_ciego 2mo ago
Oh, I definitely think its silly. "Nobody should use nail guns! It's against the true carpenter ethos." Nobody is spazzing out about Makita because they produce drill drivers and people can't built things with a plane
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by piloto_ciego 2mo ago
Or, and here me out… “Become ungovernable.”
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by piloto_ciego 2mo ago
I actually would have been fine with this move too, “look, first 5 commits per day are free, after that it’s $cost” would have been fine. But look at the comments and discourse around this. I guarantee you it ain’t about the money.
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by piloto_ciego 2mo ago
I think we will, tbh. But I also think these people saying, “how dare you use AI to write code” for ideological reasons or some variation on that theme are silly.
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by piloto_ciego 2mo ago
<rolls eyes>
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by piloto_ciego 2mo ago
I didn't move the goal posts, what I'm saying is that you must have worked for good companies. I'm not saying you're intrinsically wrong, but maybe you just haven't experienced this. Your anec-data is no more valid
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by piloto_ciego 2mo ago
It's laughable to me, imagine a company saying that they would only host projects that were written in assembly. I mean, "sure" you do you, but I will not be doing business there. These kinds of ideological purity tests and
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by piloto_ciego 2mo ago
Arguably though, this is why it was a F500 company and not a poorly managed consulting firm headquartered in Des Moines or whatever. I’ve definitely seen something approaching this before, in different industries even.
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by piloto_ciego 2mo ago
“You can’t have it all” frequently comes unbidden into my brain when thinking about this sort of thing. I don’t know, my goals are more and more about cool stuff I can do with my kids, and far less about business stuff? I’m not less ambiti
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by piloto_ciego 2mo ago
I am not an ADHDer (though I often wonder if I'm on some spectrum or another), but this is one of the things I have found great success in. If I can yeet through most of the busy work associated with a project, and focus on the stuff
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by piloto_ciego 2mo ago
I have never said they need to accept the "corporate system they hate" - I'm saying they need to adapt, and the genie is never going back into the bottle. You can take my advice, or you can ignore it. Up to you, but what I se
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by piloto_ciego 2mo ago
You should just handle your situation. Though, not necessarily like I did, but handle it none the less. I am enlightened on this particular topic - one of the few in the world I'm qualified to viscerally understand. This is the
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by piloto_ciego 2mo ago
If you’re not a math major I can translate: “if A is a subset of X and p is in X, that does not imply that p is in A”
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by piloto_ciego 2mo ago
But, you know, we can move past that grief, and instead use it as fuel! We'll be better for it in the long run even though we might not like it now.
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by piloto_ciego 2mo ago
Not covid for me, but around that time. One of the last things I did before I got sick that year was fly Covid patients out of rural areas. It was a very stressful time - especially when I was so damn tired all the time for no real appare
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by piloto_ciego 2mo ago
All I ever wanted to do in this universe was fly airplanes. And I did it professionally for nearly 15 years. Then I got sick, and couldn’t do it anymore. Suddenly, all my skills were meaningless and unemployable. I got over it. But it t
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by piloto_ciego 2mo ago
This is totally how I’m feeling right now. This stuff has empowered me to finish the BS I don’t want to do rapidly then do other cool stuff I want to do.
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by piloto_ciego 2mo ago
New times require new techniques.
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by piloto_ciego 2mo ago
Now did I advocate for that? There's a hell of a lot of room between laissez faire ancap nonsense and October Revolution. The binary thinking in this thread and the lack of creativity is just... astounding to me.
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by piloto_ciego 2mo ago
Then what are you going to do about it? I’m going to build.
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by piloto_ciego 2mo ago
Then enlighten me.
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by piloto_ciego 2mo ago
Man, you’re living the dream.

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