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by spaetzleesser 4y ago
Interesting. Although if that brake is electronic you can't really use it as backup in case something goes wrong with the car's computer systems.
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by spaetzleesser 4y ago
Parking brakes are pretty useless to slow down a car from any decent speed.
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by spaetzleesser 4y ago
Good point. Feels a little like airplanes where at some point it was decided that mechanical backup is not needed for fly by wire.
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by spaetzleesser 4y ago
" I don't do anything that is a crime" You may be doing something right now that may be viewed as a crime in the future. Abortion comes to mind but I am sure there are more.
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by spaetzleesser 4y ago
Privacy would help here but more importantly these big companies need to provide a way to fix errors. Seems once you get caught by one of the filters you get suspended and are offered no path to clarify the situation.
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by spaetzleesser 4y ago
“overbooked calendar”: the ultimate status symbol
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by spaetzleesser 4y ago
"There are a lot of very fat people, " This may be a consequence of building everything in a car-centric way.
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by spaetzleesser 4y ago
Wendelstein 7-X is a fusion experiment. It's far away from a functioning reactor but gives a lot of input into possible designs.
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by spaetzleesser 4y ago
“be working on a profit center rather than a cost center.” Ideally work on something the CEO or another bigwig has passion for and understands to some degree.
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by spaetzleesser 4y ago
“There are many excellent problem solving techniques in software engineering. Taken as religion, to extremes, most of these will lead the zealot to destruction.” This is actually true for a lot of things like nutrition, health or exercise.
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by spaetzleesser 4y ago
Icarus and Barkley Marathons are great
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by spaetzleesser 4y ago
I am not into basketball but I found The Last Dance excellent.
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by spaetzleesser 4y ago
Visual Studio 2010 was the first Windows app with flat design. It was almost impossible to figure out what the icons in the tool bar were doing. They slowly added some color in later releases but none of them were as clear as Visual Studio
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by spaetzleesser 4y ago
When you look at the situation with shoplifters not being prosecuted in San Francisco I don’t think the perception is too far off. Here in Albuquerque it seems they also have given up on going after people who break into cars or steal them.
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by spaetzleesser 4y ago
Statements like “archaic chase-and-detain policy regarding suspected shoplifters was the catalyst for the protests” is why a lot of people think the left has lost their collective minds. They are making perpetrators into victims and blame t
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by spaetzleesser 4y ago
Medicine and economics have quite a history of blatantly ignoring things that don’t fit with the accepted consensus. I still remember how meditation was viewed as nonsense. The gut flora is another issue where medicine was/is way behin
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by spaetzleesser 4y ago
There is a lot of money to be made grifting off Saudi money.
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by spaetzleesser 4y ago
I don’t understand why people like kings, queens, popes and in the US Supreme Court justices don’t retire when they get old. Instead you see them being dragged out into the public while they are barely alive and certainly can’t perform thei
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by spaetzleesser 4y ago
"However, by in large, it's calories in vs calories out." It's way more complex. The quality of the calories count and if you move/exercise a lot you can eat almost any amount without gaining weight. Obesity is a co
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by spaetzleesser 4y ago
Not correct. The insurance paid 80k for the device and 300k total for the surgery after one year of fighting almost daily. Also: if you make a certain amount of money and they hit you with a 100k bill you can't just declare bankruptcy.
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by spaetzleesser 4y ago
There are lot of people who don't go to a doctor when they should. Even taking an ambulance after an accident is a gamble a lot of people can't afford.
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by spaetzleesser 4y ago
"usually it's because it makes someone money and they'll fight hard to keep it that way" And it's not just some money but very BIG money they make.
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by spaetzleesser 4y ago
They may have that thought but crunching large amounts of data is not exactly hard these days. Better too much than too little data.
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by spaetzleesser 4y ago
Number one is full price transparency of the whole chain. I work for a medical device company and even the marketing people can't really tell what our stuff costs. There are a ton of middlemen with obscure contracts and very high marku
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by spaetzleesser 4y ago
That happened a lot in Germany in the 90s. Lots of russian engineers and PHDs working on the manufacturing floor.
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by spaetzleesser 4y ago
I don't think F1 is a good analogy. In any case, I prefer to deal with complexity directly and not add more complexity in the form of sprint planning, velocity and other stuff. Maybe some people run scrum well but I have yet to see tha
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by spaetzleesser 4y ago
The problem is that these estimates and projections often get converted into hard commitments by management.
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by spaetzleesser 4y ago
Kam is basically a big to do list (aka backlog) and you just work through it. I find it way easier to manage than scrum with sprints and sprint planning.
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by spaetzleesser 4y ago
You often get told that you are paid by the value you produce but in reality you are paid by the replacement costs. To some degree they are correlated but companies will always spin this in their favor. Sometimes there is also a discount ba
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by spaetzleesser 4y ago
That wasn't at all my experience when I was doing contract work at higher rates. The more I made the better I got treated and the more forgiving things were. The worst contracts were with penny pinchers. As soon as something cost $500

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