twawaaay

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by twawaaay 4y ago
Scaling is hard. True. But the question is, are you trying to make your life miserable by scaling before exhausting other options? Most applications can be optimised for performance by orders of magnitude, much easier than trying to scale t
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Yup. Definitely seems like they have basic quality issue.
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Still sounds like a bad excuse. Imagine discussion after Challenger disaster. The Commission: So why did it blow up? Could anything have been done? The Nasa: These things just happen! Hindsight is 20/20. Also, you don't have enoug
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Of course there was a redundant signal (because the contract probably required it). What I meant was other signals -- other information about state of the rocket. There is lots of sensors in these things if only so that you can figure out w
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Pretty much. The trajectory is preplanned anyway. I would expect nothing less than every launch to be ran through simulated environment multiple times if only to catch wrong launch information. Also this FP to integer does not smell any bet
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Why would the program react like that to a SINGLE wrong signal that disagrees with everything else and produce a signal that cannot do anything good in any circumstances? This just smells like a truly naive piece of implementation. There sh
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Say what you want, I would prefer to get woken up by smoke earlier to have time to attend to my family. My doctor is constantly asking me to do a surgery on my temporomandibular joint to prevent my teeth going out of whack constantly and my
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I bought Aranet4 and it taught me a lot about how CO2 accumulates in my apartment, how and frequently to change air and so on. The worst thing you can do is to close yourself in your room for the night. Always have either door or window ope
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Every technology is a set of tradeoffs, including Flutter. For me -- I am using Flutter to build internal productivity tools available on multiple platforms (web, desktop, mobile). Users do not necessarily care if the application looks pixe
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I said nothing about the application and you already know everything about it. Seems like I spent quarter of century in this business for naught.
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I worked for a large bank, my internal backend would receive couple orders more requests from other internal apps and users and probably similar traffic. It is very easy (relatively) to build a SaaS platform that serves this amount of traff
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Future will be about masking yourself from AIs by speaking and behaving in a way that will stand out the least from the crowd.
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I think IQ is more about ability to deal with novel problems, thinking in abstract terms and making complex connections between topics. The problem with "speed of learning" is that the result is not defined here. What is the resul
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by twawaaay 4y ago
> Right. but things they have in common are questionable cost/benefit, and, undoubtedly, unintended consequences. Attaching a beacon to highly dangerous radiation source is questionable, and has "undoubtedly" unintended co
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Nothing surprising here. Real results of studying like for many other activities is not about amount of time spent or effort put in. I met a lot of people who would spend a lot of time learning things and then immediately forgetting it. Why
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by twawaaay 4y ago
It was literally lost. A properly engineered beacon cannot be lost this way as long as it operates.
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I am not asking to limit anybody's freedom. A beacon would be attached to radiation source. Unless you are an individual who walks around with a highly toxic, highly dangerous radiation source, requiring it to have a beacon will not li
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Well, by the account of the article you are responding to the source has been lost. Not very useful beacon if you don't detect when you lost it or you need to put an enormous search party to find it. We have GPS devices with satellite
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Yeah. There isn't a technical reason why a plane can't be in flight every moment it is not on the ground in maintenance. And US is kinda expert at long range, endurance missions with air to air refuelling. The only limitation is o
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Yeah, exactly. What an engineer thinks: "Why not attach this thing to a beacon so that it can't be lost?" What everybody else thinks: "Why not persecute everybody responsible to the fullest possible extent?" Which i
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by twawaaay 4y ago
The CEO will have a convo with two of his managers that will resemble me when I talk to my two sons when they get into a fight and start pulling out all of their excuses.
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by twawaaay 4y ago
> Something every diabetic who goes into weight lifting learns really quickly (and is well established in literature and known by doctors): protein will increase your blood sugar. It is true that EXCESS protein will be converted to sug
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Which is to say there are upsides to being expert in the field. The question is whether every company requires technical people to run the company just because they need an app to sell their services. One theory is that in future every comp
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by twawaaay 4y ago
It is a bit like saying there is a risk to having technical knowledge and the risk is that the guy will actually try to use it. You can't have a person that is an expert in everything. The best you can hope for is to have a person that
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I don't think they necessarily need to be technical. But there is a huge advantage to being a person that can just roll up their sleeves and do pretty much anything that needs to be done, whatever it is. It does not have to be technica
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by twawaaay 4y ago
It is just a mental shortcut. Of course, things cannot be moving faster than light because speed addition cannot lead to relative speeds faster than light. What you will see is a slowing, red-shifting, darkening image of everything else as
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Once all stars die you will be able to live very long off of the heat of dead stars as they slowly cool off to background temperature. And once those stars are completely cold, you can start converting their mass into energy by dropping the
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Venus has plenty of atmosphere above the surface, but not above the point where there is 1 ATM of pressure. In case of Earth most of protection comes from our magnetic field. The reason is that magnetic field sweeps ALL charged particles co
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by twawaaay 4y ago
It is much easier to construct a suit that will protect from sulfuric acid than one that will protect you from low pressure. The problem with pressure suits is that positive pressure prevents the suit from being flexible, requires it to be
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Regardless of the type of diabetes you have, your body needs to clear sugar from bloodstream. It really does not matter how this happens, exactly. Insulin performs other functions in your body... but ability to clear sugar is the absolutely

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