theflyingpigeon

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by theflyingpigeon 1mo ago
You are referring to ICE as a criminal terror gang, but they perform a very important function of enforcing immigration law. Anyone who comes illegally to our country is committing a crime. I don’t agree with some things that they do, but w
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by theflyingpigeon 1mo ago
How about encouraging people to not go to other countries illegally?
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by theflyingpigeon 1mo ago
What amazes me the most is that we even need to write such instructions. For people that work at OpenAI / Anthropic: why make the LLM like that? Nobody thinks the robot is a friendly person or coworker, that’s the dumbest thing. Giving
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by theflyingpigeon 3mo ago
Stanford would be interesting as well. Applications for the next cycle open in mid-September I believe. The company I work for will pay around $10K per year, so UT Austin or GT would be fully covered, but I would have to fork some money for
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by theflyingpigeon 3mo ago
I got in 2020, during COVID. But before that I was already working at a large financial services and tech company.
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by theflyingpigeon 3mo ago
I absolutely agree with this, and it is my main motivation TBH. I know I’m capable of learning almost anything in my field by hands on experience, but having the advanced degree from a strong institution will help on the rat race. At the en
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by theflyingpigeon 3mo ago
My move to America was not related to my work :D I got married here and that made things a lot easier. I was fortunate enough to not have the visa barrier. I agree that most jobs don’t require a degree if one has experience, but one ends up
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by theflyingpigeon 3mo ago
I have a similar trajectory. I attended two very competitive military schools in Brazil but never finished and moved to America. Today I’m a senior software engineer at a FAANG company. The lack of diploma has never been a barrier and I pro
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by theflyingpigeon 10mo ago
Complete AÍ garbage. Not even worth trying to debunk the arguments made here.
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by theflyingpigeon 2y ago
Kia is a terrible brand anyways
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by theflyingpigeon 2y ago
This is interesting. However, too bad a British university is working with a russian university
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by theflyingpigeon 3y ago
One good thing is that we will finally stop cooperating with the russians. Unbelievable that we ever shared any technology with them.
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by theflyingpigeon 3y ago
I miss my BlackBerry. I had a Pearl Flip, it was the most beautiful thing ever. All these boring phones, especially the iPhone, don’t come even close. Edit: added “flip”. The touch keyboard is a disgrace.
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by theflyingpigeon 3y ago
The mass is actually 50.000 tons, I typed wrong. My point is not the force to move the mass of the ship, but transmitting that force to the structure of the vessel in order to move it forward. It’s a lot of force, the structure is not made
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by theflyingpigeon 3y ago
Shipping is responsible for 3% of global emissions. Let’s say this solution worked (which it probably won’t), it would be used in a small percentage of vessels, and only used in an even smaller number of voyages/parts of each voyage. T
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by theflyingpigeon 3y ago
Exactly my point. Not to mention transferring that load to the body of the vessel, which has a structure made to withstand loads in specific points. A container stacked on top of other containers for sure isn’t able to sustain such forces l
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by theflyingpigeon 3y ago
To me the problem is transmitting the force generated by the sails to the body of the vessel A small to medium vessel fully loaded is like 150.000 tons. 10% of that is 15000 tons, imagine the force that needs to be transferred to the struct
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by theflyingpigeon 3y ago
>> Oceanbird is awesome! The trouble is that overhauling the entire industry with new-built ships would take too long to make a meaningful climate impact, and be extremely expensive (not to mention that their approach only works for r
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by theflyingpigeon 3y ago
Not sure if anyone asked this question here but how do you plan to transfer the load of the wings/sails to the structure of the vessel? A medium containership that weighs 150 tons moving at 20 kts has a lot of energy. If the wing is pr