sammydavis

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by sammydavis 10y ago
Ha, the queen doesn't see it that way.
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by sammydavis 10y ago
It's not really free today. If you buy less than the 85kwh battery, it costs $2000. If you buy 85 or higher, it's included.
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by sammydavis 10y ago
I have a tesla and somehow in 4 years of ownership have not had to replace my drivetrain (anecdote, blah blah). But earlier, Tesla had a goal to get people back on the road faster, so they had a deliberate policy of replacing drivetrains si
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by sammydavis 10y ago
This is very sad. Those poor people. It's a lot of money, but how would you feel if your town had to move? Resistant and mad, at the least. There must be dozens or 100s of small villages like this in Alaska that will need to move. We c
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by sammydavis 10y ago
You have to take into account that the electric motor in a tesla is more efficient than a gas motor (3-4x). The reasoning is that a gallon of has has about 33.6kwh in a gallon (see wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by sammydavis 10y ago
The superchargers might have an impact on battery life, but in practice they don't seem to have much impact. The reason is that unlike all other electric cars, they heat and cool the battery pack. The reason why leafs do have a demonst
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by sammydavis 10y ago
It's clearly a good idea. I've long had the same idea, Heinlein had the same idea, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_Long works.
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by sammydavis 10y ago
I also have 2 decades of exp and I'm over 50. I had no problem recently switching jobs but I also had good experience, and I'm a dev and have recent dev experience. I wonder if part of your problem is not being a dev but being pm
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by sammydavis 10y ago
I suggest reaching out and asking those companies why they didn't hire you. The recruiters might tell you something. Are you asking too much salary, or too little? There might be something setting you off. In seattle, there is still hu
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by sammydavis 10y ago
Leap seconds and now "leap gps". Never thought about the earth's movement being so frequently and steady. I wonder if glonass has a better solution for this dynamism? And the new Chinese system?
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by sammydavis 10y ago
all those things (agile etc) are better than working on waterfall style software with 5000 other programmers at microsoft and massive teams of PMs to coordinate it all. That was awful.
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by sammydavis 10y ago
The average feudal person from the middle ages would love to live in our world! Yes, they would have to pay a lot of taxes. But they'd have enough food, be free from the king's men raping them, have very low infant mortality. Did
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by sammydavis 10y ago
I also don't have a problem with taxes. Taxes build our needed infrastructure (here in Seattle we need so much road and mass transit work), they pay for medical care for all of society, services for the poor. There are a lot of irratio
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by sammydavis 10y ago
It is a requirement, it's just that apparently the test of English as a foreign language (TOEFL?) either are too easily cheated or aren't adequately checking for that. I should add I knew many excellent students in grad school, fr
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by sammydavis 10y ago
Amazing that it working on that stuff was an individual experiment, with your hands in the mix!
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by sammydavis 10y ago
There is the fascinating history of Athens and direct democratic voting that comes to mind. The citizens could all vote on anything, and that turned out to be a bad way to fight a war, especially with Sparta. Athens wasted their greater str
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by sammydavis 10y ago
The point is that recruiters also don't do that. They often do stupid keyword searches for people without really understanding them.
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by sammydavis 10y ago
Just making a generic statement like that without qualifying it serves only to excuse that one source. Are the government of China's comments on Tibet equal in weight to Amnesty International? No. Is the Heritage Fund pushing an agenda
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by sammydavis 10y ago
That webpage won't load. did the ai war already start?
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by sammydavis 10y ago
I think it's hard to do argue that the federal government wasn't involved. Don't forget why they call them hookers, General Hooker was the source of the name during Civil War and it wasn't B.C. he used them himself.
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by sammydavis 10y ago
You are so right about state power being the way to get influence. That is how groups like elec operate.
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by sammydavis 11y ago
Just educated myself on the Moldbug fellow and The Cathedral and Dark Enlightenment. Liberal progressivism, such ideas as civil rights for women, civil rights and tolerance for gay people and people of color, health care for poor kids are s
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by sammydavis 11y ago
One thing that modern CS programs should give you is more insight into the engineering and craftsmanship side of programming. Also, I think most of techniques we use to build distributed systems today were built way after the 90s. Think of
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by sammydavis 11y ago
Ah, STFU was the most wonderful command. When I was on call for my service at the big G as a swe, we dreamed of the day that the SREs would take over.
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by sammydavis 11y ago
also, thanks for the pointer to ascii math, looks like a nice way to render
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by sammydavis 11y ago
Good, you caught that he was only dividing by 2, not 2a
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by sammydavis 11y ago
Since about 1980, only 10 states have been potential swing states. So those 10 get most of the attention (Ohio, Florida). We'd be far better off with direct vote for the prez. I want to make house of rep elections be fore an entire sta
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by sammydavis 11y ago
Love your ideas. I also had the same idea that a single elected body would serve us better. The existing parties would never go for it. What we need is to break down our existing parties into reasonable pieces, have one house, and have that
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by sammydavis 11y ago
Man, I love that idea. In Seattle, there is a long dream of cutting the state in two at the Cascade mountains. Eastern washington is poorer, more conservative, hates taxes. Seattles sends tax money there, is liberal, has infrastructure need
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by sammydavis 11y ago
That was a fascinating case. The photographer lost in the initial round, but won 2 appeals, and then the hall of fame gave up after that. Imagine if you could prevent people of taking pictures of buildings. Then you couldn't take a pic

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