rkomorn

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by rkomorn 1y ago
What gets me is the people who decide not to call me by the name I specifically introduce myself with. I have a nasal vowel in my name that, so far in my life, only French and Portuguese speakers have pronounced properly. I learned English
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by rkomorn 1y ago
I don't get why this got some downvotes. It does sound unlikely, and it's not like the comment is saying "no f'ing way!!" It's about as polite a way to say "that's weird" as anything.
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by rkomorn 1y ago
Intersting! Thanks for chiming in. :)
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by rkomorn 1y ago
No, it was 2018, but of those students, more than 50% are now/still in tech. Edit: Well, that said, I still mentored recently, and the numbers for the one bootcamp I mentored for are about 50% over the last couple of years, which hones
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by rkomorn 1y ago
Moderators don't work for Reddit, though?
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by rkomorn 1y ago
I don't see too much appeal to AR, but VR has a very fun/enjoyable immersive aspect to it. One of the things I very much hoped for was to be able to "hang out" with friends who have grown geographically distant in a spac
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by rkomorn 1y ago
Same. Trying to play some 3D piloting games (Flight Sim, Elite Dangerous, etc) that had cockpits with text to read on displays also proved disappointing. Had to lean really close to be able to read it. "Someday", it'll happen
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by rkomorn 1y ago
I assume it is a relevant enough concept to flying an aircraft (which also happens to be the context of TFA) that you learn about it while flying. I guess another thing worth noting is that "glide ratio" isn't the same as &qu
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by rkomorn 1y ago
> but that only happens at one end of the trip Ah, I get what you mean.
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by rkomorn 1y ago
There is an asterisk that you have to be at the right glide velocity, but yes: they'll have the same glide angle. The leaden one will just go significantly faster. And yes, it does sound unlikely. That's why I made my previous com
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by rkomorn 1y ago
If your plane+cargo glider weight is the same as your larger cargo plane weight, won't you need the same amount of runway? Your towing plane is going to have to accelerate the same mass to takeoff speed before it can get off the ground
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by rkomorn 1y ago
Aw man. There are so many angles though. Your p25 employee is probably much closer to your p95 employee than to the p50 "standard" human, so yeah, I think you have a point there. But at least in food prep, p25 would already be pre
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by rkomorn 1y ago
I feel kind of attacked for my sub-p50 bread slicing skills, TBH. :(
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by rkomorn 1y ago
I don't think they're as bad as snake oil. I taught at one for a year and a good number of my students (it was above 50% last time I took a pulse) had life-changing career switches. I think what people don't realize is that t
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by rkomorn 1y ago
"Weight doesn't affect glide ratio" is one of these things I learned why taking flying lessons that still feels counterintuitive every time I read it. (Don't worry, reader, I never intended to get a pilot's license.
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by rkomorn 1y ago
But, just like lots of people expect/want self-driving to outperform humans even on edge cases in order to trust them, they also want "AI" to outperform humans in order to trust it. So: "humans are bad at this too"
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by rkomorn 1y ago
I'm all for it but maybe with caution. I bailed out of a FAANG job to cook in restaurants in the Bay Area and it was very double-edged. I gave up after a year for a variety of reasons. The actual work was definitely more enjoyable. &qu
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by rkomorn 1y ago
If you don't like the grass where you are, maybe the question of whether it's really greener somewhere else doesn't matter. Maybe you need to change pasture no matter what.
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by rkomorn 1y ago
Well that's bad news for all the infrastructure projects in my current city and country. They're gonna run out of hydrogen before our subway extension is finished.
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by rkomorn 1y ago
Yet both sides will reproachfully ask you why you'd choose that vendor (edit: as evidenced by basically all the other comment threads on this post).
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by rkomorn 1y ago
The context of the comment I was replying was "The person mandating the question doesn't care if you sound hostile to the person at the window". So the premise is "the customer is hostile".
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by rkomorn 1y ago
Did things change after you left?
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by rkomorn 1y ago
Not sure about the technical reason, but as someone who's spent a lot of time on a bicycle in the Bay Area, I can at least confirm the lights typically didn't change just for cyclists.
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by rkomorn 1y ago
There are definitely some people who think that directing anger and unpleasantness at the person they talk to (who has no control over the situation other than choosing not to do their job) is a valid approach to providing "feedback&qu
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by rkomorn 1y ago
I never said it was a smart dream. It all seems somewhat (at best) shortsighted to me. I'm pretty sure they all see the it as someone else's problem to solve.
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by rkomorn 1y ago
Zero labor cost is the dream!
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by rkomorn 1y ago
Never been so conflicted about whether to flag a comment.
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by rkomorn 1y ago
That kind of stops working when (for example) your "payload" is configuration in a file where comments may make sense, though. I'm more partial to YAML for readability, but I don't think JSON configs are an awful anti pa
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by rkomorn 1y ago
I had to invest a bit of time to get my NixOS install to play well with secure boot and the TPM. Something Windows was doing for free (time-wise). Edit: my point was agreeing the TPM is useful which is why I spent time making Linux "mo
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by rkomorn 1y ago
How are contrails related to engine maintenance?

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