twawaaay

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by twawaaay 4y ago
(I am sorry, I posted on a wrong article)
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Bit late to the party... but I don't think it even can be called cargo cult. Cargo culting means imitating motions without understanding what they are supposed to achieve or why. In case of Agile, even the motions are typically not bei
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by twawaaay 4y ago
You should be aware that it is possible to direct your balloon pretty much anywhere by just changing the altitude. If I was China and I wanted to make super advanced balloon to spy on US I would definitely make it so that it can use air cur
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Atmospheric data won't help if you don't specify altitude. Different altitudes = different wind speeds and sometimes even directions.
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Think about it this way -- up until recently lots of people were getting by doing menial jobs. Now more and more people are getting higher education and are doing jobs that require critical thinking. So people with less than average intelli
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by twawaaay 4y ago
No. I had questions in my repertoire that came from specific situations I had at work. Things like "Your application fails with a message 'There is no space left on the device' but when you check the filesystem you find there
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by twawaaay 4y ago
My initial motivation was just low amount of information I was getting about the candidate. The point of interview is to get to know each other. To figure out if I would like to work with the person. But the interview is very small amount o
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I think this is great idea. Actually, anytime somebody finds a way to engage students to think in a different way than just trying to memorise facts is a win, IMO. I think it is lamentable that students are asked to rely more and more on re
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by twawaaay 4y ago
> this ease of price comparison has resulted in unbundling of services in a number of industries - e.g. airlines where the base price is akin to "we let you hang on to the wing", and everything else is an upcharge. The issue is
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by twawaaay 4y ago
> When the rate of return is high, savers can achieve their goals by buying, holding, and harvesting the resulting cash flow. When it is low, they must turn to other strategies: leverage, arbitrage, momentum trading, more sophisticated
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I can highly recommend Signal and Power Integrity from Eric Bogatin.
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by twawaaay 4y ago
> Dancing is a great test of what part of your brain dominates. Good dancing is when you stop thinking and just let your feelings lead. Yah, that's why best dancers in the world never train and prepare their routines. Honestly. Good
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by twawaaay 4y ago
24MHz 8-ch is a bit insufficient for debugging most of real stuff which is when the real fun is. Also IMO logical analyser and scope are two things where you want to spend money when you are starting with electronics. This is how you are go
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Seconded. Silver is expensive and really doesn't do anything useful for an amateur. Decent soldering station + correct and well taken care of soldering tip + thin multicore 60/40 + tools and supplies to clean your board + a bit of
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Anybody worrying that programmers loose jobs stop worrying. All the automation in the world does not replace the need for people to debug problems. Even more interestingly, the more something is automated the more time is spent on solving t
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by twawaaay 4y ago
And at the same time it will pass a thick oil... all due to surface tension, polarity, etc. Which is to say don't think about the filter as a geometrical sieve that has holes that pass molecules solely based on their size (either it fi
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Capilaries don't have to be one dimensional. Capilaries just need to be narrow enough. Honestly, the wording of this entire thing is a bit forced. IMO the word "capillary" is suggesting that surface tension has anything to do
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Thanks. That's very good example I have not thought of.
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by twawaaay 4y ago
"The trends from the analysis presented in this paper show that in both seawater and brackish desalination we are approaching thermodynamic limitations." That's excerpt from the article you linked.
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by twawaaay 4y ago
It seems to suggest the filter is composed of layers spaced exactly to match water molecule size ("two-dimensional" -- meaning space between two layers, "monolayer of water" -- meaning only single layer of molecules of w
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Because osmotic pressure is a result of thermodynamics.
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Of course. You want a high enough water flow to get the installation to filter lots of water. You have to have pressure above osmotic pressure. You can increase the flow of water through filter either by increasing pressure or by adding m
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by twawaaay 4y ago
This "new science" would have to disprove everything we know about thermodynamics. No, not possible in the regular sense of the world. Sure, we might find everything we know about physics is wrong but if this happens it will most
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by twawaaay 4y ago
No, it can't. Desalination by reverse osmosis requires certain force to push water through the filters which is dictated by osmotic pressure. It is unavoidable. To imagine it, think about it this way: to overcome osmotic pressure you o
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by twawaaay 4y ago
My favourite was at one of the companies I worked for. The admin decided that users are not to be trusted to choose their own passwords and so you had to mail the admin to generate the password for you which you then could not change on you
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by twawaaay 4y ago
They did not need them. They already admitted in September they overhired just for the sake of growth and they lost focus through the process. https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/14/twilio-lays-off-11-of-its-...
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I wonder if large companies recognise they are shitting in the pond they are floating in. As somebody with over quarter of century of experience managing and hiring people I notice how candidates change over time (trying to adjust for how I
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by twawaaay 4y ago
It is old question of getting something right now or delay your gratification and get more in the future. If I learned anything from playing strategy games like Starcraft it is two things: "Agility wins almost always over bunker mental
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by twawaaay 4y ago
You are under impressions that corporations care about code in any way. They don't. They only care about business outcomes. If you mention "code quality" they will just stare at you. It is better to talk about "maintaina
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by twawaaay 4y ago
My subjective personal experience: * good developers seem to be more pissed off by poor code. Seems easy to explain -- people tend to do better when they care about what they are doing. * even better ones seem to be more accepting people wi

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