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by scrumper 3y ago
My experience was B2B. I was certainly expecting a lot more of the problem identification and solution generation work that you described. The difficulty was that the owners at the top had unshakeable ideas about what the product should be.
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by scrumper 3y ago
It's a fairly harsh take, as a whole, but there's parts of this that absolutely ring true. Once you get that "product org" in a company, it tends to progress the way the author describes, with committees and OKRs and rev
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by scrumper 3y ago
> Leaded avgas mainly benefits turbines, which are a minority of GA planes but the majority of avgas users, Eh? No. Turbine (i.e. jet) aircraft engines burn Jet-A, which is essentially kerosene and doesn't have any lead in it. Jet-A
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by scrumper 3y ago
A tempting target for a bit of hacktivism - break in and display some Banksys, pages from Marx, porn, whatever. Seems like there's some issues with the hardware engineering so no particular reason to expect the software side to be any
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by scrumper 3y ago
Yeah. And that's part of why all those cars have fully electronically controlled brakes. They're all balanced so when you put your foot on the brake pedal, the car combines calipers and regenerative braking to induce the decelerat
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by scrumper 3y ago
> On cars with an electronic handbrake, do they have a way to apply the brakes while the car is moving? It's a while ago now, but I had a Jaguar XJ with an electronic parking brake. If you just pulled it up while driving it would be
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by scrumper 3y ago
Regular braking on electric cars partly involves the motors themselves - this regenerative braking helps to convert the kinetic energy of the vehicle back into stored energy in the battery by turning the motors into generators (vs. turning
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by scrumper 3y ago
Only if I touch them. And a single button I can cover with a bit of painter's tape.
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by scrumper 3y ago
Yes it's been very easy to get advice, that's for sure, and it's made me want to go find a junkyard core and see if I can salvage it. Not that I have anything to put it in. This is a marine application so not everything appli
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by scrumper 3y ago
Not a lot, but the snake orgy of wiring harnesses and the three or four plates of accessories bolted to each end of the heads and block and the specific order they're attached is a different story. Also, a monkey can tear down; putting
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by scrumper 3y ago
I am currently in the middle of rebuilding a pair of 6.2L small block Chevrolet engines. By a factor of six these are the largest engines I've ever worked on, and the rebuild is far more extensive than anything I've attempted befo
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by scrumper 3y ago
I think far less efficiently than propelling a light sail - asteroids being not very reflective. There would be some momentum imparted by the photons impacting and more by ablation of the surface though (if the laser is powerful enough). En
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by scrumper 3y ago
The endgame - as advocated for by several people on this very page - is that AI takes all the creative and interesting jobs while us displaced humans exist on UBI funded by taxes on excess AI-sourced profits. Which is fucking bullshit. What
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by scrumper 3y ago
I think it's interesting that we don't have a well-known philosophical framework for discussing "could vs. should" problems in technology development. The argument comes up time and again; the response to my balrog comme
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by scrumper 3y ago
Well done AI researchers, keep digging. The balrog isn't far below you now.
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by scrumper 3y ago
Maybe it's fair? It's the first major persistent broadcast messaging platform since Twitter popularized the concept with non-computer nerds.
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by scrumper 3y ago
Ah thanks. Got it.
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by scrumper 3y ago
What is "AI Wealth" here, where's it measured? Human wealth I get, it's the money stat. Human knowledge is the book. AI IQ is self explanatory. Population, GPUs, same. So which one is AI wealth? I enjoyed the Paperclip t
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by scrumper 3y ago
I mean they did, the kettle was built in 1976 :)
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by scrumper 3y ago
I think the advice you've got here to try to slow down and give yourself a bit of time to recover is good. It feels at 17 like you have to charge into the future and not wait a second or opportunities will disappear, but it's not
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by scrumper 3y ago
We never had one because my mum thought they'd burn the house down while we slept...
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by scrumper 3y ago
Wow, what a trip. The Russell Hobbs chrome-on-copper (number 11, first page of the '76 catalog) is like a wormhole to my childhood kitchen. I remember that red rocker switch so clearly now, how it felt to turn it on and off. It was bea
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by scrumper 3y ago
Or much bigger wings. Pretty viable given the gravity.
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by scrumper 3y ago
It's definitely English (modulo several centuries of spelling and words that have fallen away). Many words are recognizable but I can't read a whole sentence either - except maybe "But myself tho me to blame". Lots of co
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by scrumper 3y ago
At the risk of writing one of those smugly ignorant HN comments with a poorly thought out "why don't you just" solution in it... That actually sort of does. An observer hits a MOB alarm, like a fire alarm point, and that caus
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by scrumper 3y ago
If there was ever a product page that needed a video... Spinny jog wheel thingy is lovely. And apparently it moves while you're recording? If you put your thumb on it to slow it down does it pitch the audio up on playback? It's no
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by scrumper 3y ago
Yes. There's some flexibility in there, though I haven't got enough experience with it yet to see whether that is a way through a ceiling or just a source of additional confusion. Isadora has GLSL too, and a JS actor which is nice
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by scrumper 3y ago
A couple weeks ago I'd have agreed with this wholeheartedly. The complexity ceiling in particular. But then I found myself having to quickly do a bunch of "creative coding" to come up with some realtime visuals to support a s
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by scrumper 3y ago
I mean if you squint... everyone watched it, because of the location and general wtf-ery. Could it have been a clever bit of PR psychological hackery? Nah. But, like, maybe.
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by scrumper 3y ago
SV first stage had 5 engines, vs 33 on the Starship's booster. Which I think answers your question :) I don't know about other metrics for comparing engine efficiency. But the design requirements seem quite different here - they h

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