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by rm445 4y ago
I'm due to interview someone tomorrow who has had 20 jobs in 25 years... a few 6-month contract positions but mostly 12-18 months in 'permanent' roles. I'd estimate that most of the roles would have been on project-based
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by rm445 4y ago
Yeah, I remember reading a long-form story about the 'Death Valley Germans' from this site, and it was so sad - a family with young kids, that just hadn't comprehended how far they could be from help when they got into troubl
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by rm445 4y ago
Because task runners come from the lineage of build systems, I (previously) would have thought that smart management of dependencies was a critical feature, especially skipping outputs whose inputs haven't changed, so that tasks can be
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by rm445 4y ago
I think so. Even with a compiled library distributed with a header file but no source, the header file needs to forward declare something like 'typedef struct foo FOO;' So (unless there's some clever trick I've missed) y
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by rm445 4y ago
Yeah, that's what it's for. But the ideas generalise to general project-management and processing of 'stuff'. A lot of it makes sense in multi-person hardware development projects.
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by rm445 4y ago
Transistor-free compute in memory? Am I hopelessly behind the times in thinking that memory is, like, flip-flops in CMOS? I get that memory could be anything which holds an encoded state, for instance magnetically. But how is the compute pa
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by rm445 4y ago
The implication, though it's still quite conspiracy-minded, is that we're just as credulous today about things that fit within our worldview, the current paradigm. And utterly blind to what those things are, they just seem to be h
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by rm445 4y ago
Got to respect Mr Watterson's stance, but I was a little bit gutted to learn he had turned down Pixar - surely a safe set of hands that could produce something incredible from his creation. Would he turn down Hayao Miyazaki as well?
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by rm445 4y ago
Your friend sounds like a remarkable person, but it's not really clear from your account whether he has hacked career success in the career field of academia, or has found more efficient ways to do great science. If you accept there&#x
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by rm445 4y ago
Can I ask, did you lose a relative on the Sheffield? It's quite rare to see the Falklands conflict through the human lens rather than the almost irresistible chance to see just how effective cold-war technologies were: - naval area den
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by rm445 4y ago
It's a job title in HR with a certain level of seniority. It doesn't imply that the business is organised as a partnership. It's a dumb title, but very common. I think the root cause is a lack of a general job title for a sen
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by rm445 5y ago
Dale Carnegie wrote 'How to Win Friends and Influence People'. It's an enduring work, but did you perhaps mean the industrialist Andrew Carnegie?
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by rm445 5y ago
Nice site, but it makes a meal out of the material. The technique of 'completing the square' is about as quick and easy as the quadratic formula (indeed, doing it with generic coefficients is what gives you the quadratic formula)
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by rm445 5y ago
Just to nitpick, there were two Falcon Heavy missions in 2019 - Arabsat and a DoD one. That's after the successful demo launch, which was in 2018. There are also some number scheduled for this year - I doubt we will actually see five F
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by rm445 5y ago
Quite a few, though it may have crept up slightly - one link I found said the Uk average new builds size 2002-2012 was more like 1030 sq ft. UK new build houses (as a type - of course there's lots of variety) are a strange breed. Small
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by rm445 5y ago
Catching up with a couple of friends recently, it came up that our daughters, all of similar ages, are crazy about watching Encanto and even more keen on the songs. It's perfectly reasonable to have normal movie-criticism opinions abou
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by rm445 5y ago
Quite a bit more than $20, but the option to pay more for Apple products and get a better experience has always been there. I don't want to come across as a shill or anything, of course Apple has made blunders and many people have alwa
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by rm445 5y ago
Just to note, the linked story is about David Mayman of Jetpack Aviation in California, while the other stories you mentioned are (British) Richard Browning of Gravity Industries - the one recognisable by its wrist-mounted supplementary eng
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by rm445 5y ago
Big congregation, arena-like seating? Check. Incredible 300-metre-plus gothic tower? No. I saw a drawing somewhere online that just captured my imagination - a cathedral-like building on a scale absolutely dwarfing regular buildings. I&#x27
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by rm445 5y ago
> Microsoft > Ban FAANG I know exactly what you mean, but is that what we're doing now? Including Microsoft in FAANG but not changing the acronym?
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by rm445 5y ago
There's plenty of money in the hands of religious people. Where are the ultra-tall cathedrals? It would be absolutely staggering to see modern construction techniques used with traditional-style facades, to produce church towers compet
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by rm445 5y ago
I find it weird that there are two kinds of snobbery for goods. (Harmless snobbery - de gustibus non disputandum est). Coffee, wine and whisky lovers adore the rarest and most refined, and insist the everyday stuff is vile. But lovers of cr
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by rm445 5y ago
We live in an absolutely wonderful biome, at the bottom of a deep, steep well. Sending materials down the well might or might not make sense, depending on the needs of the people at the bottom, who will be the vast majority of humanity well
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by rm445 5y ago
The 'what makes science work' is stored in the scientists. They learn by reading the literature, but also by communicating, and by an active process of testing their own understanding and resolving gaps and inconsistencies. Even w
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by rm445 5y ago
There are safety-critical systems, though. Big vessels full of poisonous (but useful!) chemicals. Aircraft control systems. All carefully designed to be far more nines than 99% reliable - provided that the components behave according to the
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by rm445 5y ago
Yeah. I'm not qualified to judge the quality of an instruction set, but this writer destroyed all credibility with me by claiming that an undergraduate could design a better architecture (than this enormous collective effort) in a term
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by rm445 5y ago
The promise of crypto(currency) is that you buy some and then you get rich. I'm not even trying to be super-negative here - after all, if it does become a lasting store of value, accepted as money in the long term, then early adopters
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by rm445 5y ago
Great post, but somebody has to care about base load, round-the-clock power, grid frequency and so on, right? The cost argument is quite compelling, but there seems to be a narrowing menu of options at the whole-system level. Bet on battery
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by rm445 5y ago
This event happened back in the eighties and there have been changes to warning symbols in response to this and similar incidents. ISO 21482 specifies an extremely scary-looking radiation symbol [1], to be placed inside such equipment (ra
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by rm445 5y ago
Ah, someone beat me to it. I was going to suggest one of the ancient universities with 800+ year traditions, on the grounds that even once the money dried up they might continue to host the website out of sheer force of habit.

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