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by scrumper 1y ago
I'm curious why you did that? It's not a very complicated sequence. The whole point of engaging in a discussion here is to think about the issues raised and offer a point of view while incorporating other perspectives into yours.
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by scrumper 1y ago
I think the article says that someone saw 220kg written on a log - that's about 6 minutes worth at cruise. So yeah, it's zero basically.
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by scrumper 1y ago
Correct, article says they landed with 220kg which is around 6 minutes of average fuel burn over an entire flight - bit less at cruise, a hell of a lot more at takeoff/climb. So I don't think 220kg is enough to do a go-around in
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by scrumper 1y ago
Irrelevant even if true, which it isn’t, so you’re both mean-spirited and wrong. Does this kind of comment soothe some wound? Your characterization doesn’t make any sense anyway. A nepo baby how? He wasn’t in the construction business, work
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by scrumper 1y ago
Yeah that's a good example. That genre tends to export well so platforms like Britbox are absolutely full of them.
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by scrumper 1y ago
I've only seen it do prototypes of CRUD apps, e-commerce storefronts, dashboards - vanilla stuff in other words. Get an end-to-end skeleton up and running fast; it's really good for that. Never seen it used for anything novel so I
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by scrumper 1y ago
Yes true, that is a possibility and something that's quite hard to police remotely. It doesn't feel likely, everyone's working kind of the same, booking the same hours and overtime is no different, but I can't rule it ou
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by scrumper 1y ago
I was that manager. I dunno about your senior leader but with me it was coming from a healthy place. After a few months of ra-ra from the C suite about how we were now an AI-first company (we're a tech consultancy building one-off stuf
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by scrumper 1y ago
The classic stories described in the article may have died out in print form, but many of the tropes live on healthily in British TV. There's a vast range of charismatic, rationally insightful detectives to choose from. Granted, a lot
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by scrumper 1y ago
That was fun, unexpected, learned something. I can barely calculate a restaurant tip but the thing I noticed was that our n=2 circle is smooth and continuous, the others have abrupt angle changes. Perhaps that is a clue to why "our&quo
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by scrumper 1y ago
> Dual Capture is a new feature that combines the front and rear cameras, so users can record themselves while at a concert or get their reaction to a game’s big play. Oh goody.
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by scrumper 1y ago
You’ve got to use the one specific brand and type of battery they insist on. It’s some energizer lithium thing I’ll have to check for you and comment later. Anything else fails very fast, the correct ones last for years.
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by scrumper 1y ago
I'm generally looking at multi kilopage manuals where rapid search and navigation are important, and good zooming for diagrams. I didn't even try a browser as the machine is a bit constrained and I just thought it'd be too sl
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by scrumper 1y ago
I was pretty shocked by this. I recently bought an old PC laptop to use in my workshop, to run some engine diagnostic software and machine control stuff that doesn't work on Mac. Of course one of the first things it needed was some PDF
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by scrumper 1y ago
I second this. Perplexity is the only AI I actually pay for. It absolutely excels at the kind of deep search into narrow domains where expertise is concentrated in forums and specialist sites. Things like mechanical work on obscure classic
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by scrumper 1y ago
I watched this, it's a fun video. Turns out an isomorphic piano is one where the gap between every key of the same type (white and black on a regular piano, but here "raised" and "lower", or "fat" and &quo
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by scrumper 1y ago
I've seen this a lot from Indian colleagues, some European colleagues, and people from various (not all) Latin American countries too both senior and subordinate to me. I see it occasionally from some older gen X and boomer USA and UK-
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by scrumper 1y ago
I've seen worse at an airport bookshop. This was funny: "The irony is delicious and deeply instructive. Every flaw we've identified in artificial intelligence exists, magnified and unchecked, in human intelligence. But here&#
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by scrumper 2y ago
I first read this story in the back of the manual for a DOS program called Fractint in the very early '90s. It was a super-fast fractal generator made by a collective called the Stone Soup Group. It's still around but the SSG disa
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by scrumper 2y ago
"First-wall power flux" - am I right in thinking that means the heat energy the innermost wall has to contain? Half a megawatt per square meter? Good lord. You're not making it out of 3/4" plywood then. Maintenance
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by scrumper 2y ago
I was reading the story until that point, then it started reading me.
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by scrumper 2y ago
I enjoyed this a lot while consulting in Chicago in the winter of 2002. Good clean fun alone in a hotel room while the snow raged, though I don't remember winning much. I'm tempted to dive back in but don't really fancy deali
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by scrumper 2y ago
Spam account, flag & kill.
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by scrumper 2y ago
I'm so happy this is actually a thing that lots of people like and locals take pride in. It was such a delightful surprise to see it after coming through security on my way back from a stressful business trip to Kenosha, my first time
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by scrumper 2y ago
Some Steely Dan albums are 50 and over. Say what you want about the music but their albums are sonically incredible.
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by scrumper 2y ago
Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough
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by scrumper 2y ago
I'd say the opposite actually, that the idea that an established company can lose money and still be considered a success is absolutely a hallmark of late-stage capitalism - and not a very healthy one either. (I know Boom isn't gi
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by scrumper 2y ago
But, are those polar orbits more accessible from Shetland than from more equatorial locations? Is that potentially useful? Does the lack of earth assist matter for the kinds of small satellites that can be thrown by the rockets applying to
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by scrumper 2y ago
This is disappointing. I _want_ Siri to be good, but it's dumber than it was at launch. It's the only assistant I'm even a tiny bit comfortable trusting, but it can't do trivial-seeming but still useful things like creat
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by scrumper 2y ago
Yeah fair question and one I thought would come up. Tl;dr: those are orthogonal concerns - work/life balance doesn't mean the job is easy, it means it's not toxic and doesn't kill all your time. But more fully, what I me

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