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by roeles 5y ago
Have you looked into working at a non-agile company? I thought working in waterfall projects would suck, but I think it is a large part of why my current job doesn't require much interaction and why most of my colleagues have a calm ai
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by roeles 5y ago
Interestingly, the F-22 appears to handle stuff like engine failures for you[1]. Perhaps it's inertia of regulations and training. Radically automating airplanes involves training loads of people. There's also certification, whic
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I wonder how those trees communicated then. I am reading "the hidden life of trees" at the moment, which talks quite a bit about how trees communicate using fungi. The fungi benefit from this by receiving certain nutrients.
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I worked about a year at NS as a consultant. I wrote python software that broadcasts the audio messages in the passenger compartment, steers the outside lcd screens and such. It is a great place to work. A nice atmosphere, good coffee and t
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by roeles 5y ago
> While I don't doubt your line of reasoning, one would assume these factors were taken in to account by the specialists who designed the protocols and they would have used obvious strategies like reducing the time domain for new pe
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by roeles 5y ago
> Small tangent, I’m a massive fan of e-ink, I’m waiting for the day where I can get a proper monitor as a reasonable price and use natural or backlighting when programming. Me too. Kobo devices run Linux and are easy to hack. Perhaps th
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by roeles 5y ago
Perhaps this book would have helped. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/486256139X
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by roeles 5y ago
I wonder how well protected the charging circuits are against damage from malicious chargers. If it is at all possible to damage the car, then I can image this turns out to be a problem.
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I have seen this a lot in my hobby (flying gliders). People spend boatloads of their time and money chasing some temporary fame, meanwhile suffering from something that not a lot of people are able to experience.
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by roeles 5y ago
https://gitlab.com/roeles/zen/-/blob/master/src/physics/unit...
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by roeles 5y ago
Using templates I once implemented logic for dealing with SI units[1]. I also included angles, which is a bit odd but useful in practice. It is really nice to have a type system that checks your formulas. Saved me a couple of times. [1] ht
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by roeles 5y ago
I would recommend looking into what Doug Engelbart was on about. This also makes massive sense to me: http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/ I basically believe the future of humanity lies in collaboration. As problems i
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by roeles 5y ago
Yes, very much this. I listened to the Stephen Mitchell audiobook during a week of patiently sanding something down. That was the seed for a slow but radical change of perspective on life.
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by roeles 5y ago
I see similarities between Buddhism and Taoism. As far as I understand both, their attitude towards life is similar. Both acknowledge dualism and the need for balance in your life. I think both acknowledge the interconnected-ness of life. T
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by roeles 5y ago
If diversity is a threat, then I wonder why Taoism is not treated like buddhism.
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Not sure if this is a perfect fit, but perhaps it makes sense to briefly look at the solar impulse foundation and see if it makes sense to apply for a spot on their list of verified solutions.
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by roeles 5y ago
Ms teams is available for Linux... When I used it for work it ran fine on debian 10, but used enormous amounts of cpu. Not ideal for a laptop. Perhaps it's worth trying out?
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One interesting thing I learned from the book "essentialism" is that the word priority used not to have a plural. It described the single most important thing to do.
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> Teams working together on a single priority ("swarming") seem to be more successful than teams where each person is doing 1-2 things on their own I wonder if there is a reference supporting that statement. I believe it, but i
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by roeles 5y ago
I think a popular book is this one: https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Algorithms-3rd-MIT-Press... However, it was too mathematical for me. I prefer this book that I bought in for a University course on Algorithms, Data st
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by roeles 5y ago
This is mostly true, but due to a small Reynolds effect the heavier plane should actually perform a little bit better. What you describe is why gliders sometimes carry water as ballast in their wings. It enables the same lift/drag rati
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by roeles 5y ago
I've tried to frame it in terms of standard Propagation of Uncertainty rules. This ignores any correlated errors between inputs, but it makes it easier to understand. Things clicked fairly fast for me when I tried this. It's just
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by roeles 5y ago
One of the better lessons I had to learn at work was: sometimes small things have to go wrong in order to make big things go right.
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by roeles 5y ago
As many are saying, what you did is great leadership. A somewhat "out there" book on servant leadership that I really like is John Heier's "Tao of Leadership". It's an adaptation on the Tao Te Ching towards mod
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Thich Nhat Hanh: 'Father of mindfulness' Buddhist monk dies aged 95(bbc.com)
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I've had some classes from Sape Mullender where he showed Plan 9 source code. It was also quite beautiful. Each function fit on 1 slide and was clear enough to need no documentation.
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> I think I learned more about eastern philosophy by taking a taichi class than I ever did reading about it or listening to lectures. Yes. Before Covid I did some lessons too. Very humbling experience when you've only intellectualiz
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You're welcome! Thanks for the reply and the expansion!
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Yeah. I sometimes compare it to gardening. You take care of the causes, and let mother nature take care of the consequences. As said below though, practice is an entirely different thing from intellectual understanding.
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There are people who easily interpret Taoism's themes such as goallessness and stories like these as idleness. I used to be one of those people. This might be in part due to the western translations of the Tao Te Ching. Recently I foun

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