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by sopooneo 4y ago
Perhaps when you do layoffs naively, you can accidentally adversely affect certain groups. For example, if your policy was last in - first out, you would likely be letting go a disproportional number of young workers. I can't say wethe
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by sopooneo 4y ago
The real down-side to this, as with deepfakes, I think, is not that it makes fake things look real, but that it makes all real things possibly fake.
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by sopooneo 4y ago
I remember when HTML5 and CSS3 were just in the RFC phase and many web developers thought they would make their jobs simpler. Because the things they were being asked to do, for which they were currently creating tortured workarounds, could
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by sopooneo 4y ago
At the very least, I feel talking to users will give you decent hypothesis to test. The creation of hypothesis is often glossed over as a trivial first step in scientific or data-driven decision making, but in fact, that's where the ma
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by sopooneo 4y ago
As far as I can tell, there is some degree of convergent evolution, with current sea mammal all coming from three separate earth-to-sea ancestors. There’s the seal, sea lion, walrus line. The whale, dolphin line. And finally the humble sea
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by sopooneo 4y ago
I’m with you on this. One clarification I’ve had to fight for is that it be A prioritized task list, singular.
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by sopooneo 5y ago
The place I went supplied little floating pillows for just this reason. For people that haven't done this, the issue is that you have to tip your head farther back then is comfortable before the water starts supporting it.
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by sopooneo 5y ago
There is some truth to what you say, but memories of my aimless twenties literally sustain me now.
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by sopooneo 5y ago
I believe Facebook could catch them if it wanted.
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by sopooneo 5y ago
In one of the pictures I believe I see a hang glider. I am breaking my brain trying to figure out the dynamics there. Maybe it's simpler than I'm imagining, but what happens as you fly "up-rotation" at speed?
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by sopooneo 5y ago
I would agree those terms are "jargon", but in this case a legitimate use of it. The concepts are important, and warrant the creation of such specialized vocabulary.
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by sopooneo 5y ago
As for movement following line of site, I've felt that. I took an instructional (dual) hang glider ride and at one point the instructor told me to look right cause we were going to enter a right hand turn. And then told me to look stra
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by sopooneo 5y ago
Perhaps because boring things, and often even simple things, can still be extremely difficult. They can be exhausting. It's very tempting to believe that more exciting and/or complicated approaches, will be easier.
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by sopooneo 5y ago
"...Ahhhh now I get all the 42 references"
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by sopooneo 5y ago
But what about once you are going downwind faster than the wind, and thus experience an apparent headwind? I'm not a sailor, but I thought I'd seen people using the term "tacking downwind" to describe that.
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by sopooneo 5y ago
I agree that theoretic top speed is limited only be drag (and other resistive forces) if you are able to adjust propeller pitch, gear ratio, or wheel diameter on the fly. But if those values are fixed, as with Blackbird, then you are of cou
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by sopooneo 5y ago
Not an expert, but I'm going to say no. There is no medium in space, moving relative to the solar wind, against which the "keel" of a solar sail ship could push.
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by sopooneo 5y ago
Most critically: the wind is not turning the propeller. If you watch the videos when the thing is first getting going, it is slow enough to see that the propeller is actually spinning in the opposite direction it would be if it was acti
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by sopooneo 5y ago
You're right that it falls far short, but it corrects one of the fundamental misunderstandings many people have about the vehicle: the wind does not spin the propeller, the wheels do.
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by sopooneo 5y ago
The treadmill demos made me think of another counterintuitive possibility that I wondered if anyone had pulled off: sailing a boat indirectly up a river in no (bank relative) wind. Turns out, it has been done: https://www.youtu
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by sopooneo 5y ago
I was about to ask for help understanding why the East India Company needed to sell anything in China? Why not just buy the tea/porcelain/etc in China and sell it in Europe for a profit? But in writing that question, I think I got
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by sopooneo 5y ago
Apologies for comment thread hijacking, but I have a related question I hope someone could help me understand. I have worked on many teams that did continuous integration, but never continuous deployment. With continuous deployment, say I b
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by sopooneo 5y ago
I used to have that fear also, but after playing with reflow a bit and seeing how you can get back to almost anything, I’m more comfortable.
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by sopooneo 5y ago
Sincere question: does a “squash merge” implicitly include a rebase as well when the merge target has diverged?
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by sopooneo 5y ago
For those who have worked on traditional desktop apps (rather than web), what underlying paradigm is used for UI updates there? I assume all these problems of fast partial updates must have been addressed there long ago. So apart from the s
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by sopooneo 5y ago
Interesting. Thank you. I always assumed they were 180° out of phase.
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by sopooneo 5y ago
I think I get the tech side of this and how creepy it is to be caught that way. But what is nefarious or needs to be secret about a "happy hour"? Isn't that just a promotional event for bars/restaurants where discount fo
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by sopooneo 5y ago
Agree completely. I failed greatly at #11 at my last job. And payed for years. And absolutely second your endorsement of The Managers Path. If anyone here has ever read a “management” book and been baffled by how stupid it was, know that th
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by sopooneo 5y ago
I don't think it materially affects the calculations presented, but I get the feeling the "value of vacation time" logic is flawed and works approximately in the example only due to small relative vacation time. From the arti
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by sopooneo 5y ago
When you say "growth has plateaued" do you mean that year on year increases to our output are now constant? Or do you mean year on year output is now roughly constant? I realize this distinction between derivative values is fu

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