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by twistedpair 5y ago
I wish the fallacy of induced demands and its knock ons were accepted common knowledge, but alas I'm always disproven. People always complain that "it's so hard to get your section of town" when the visit. We know that.
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by twistedpair 5y ago
I've got that house, spouse, kid stuff. It's awesome, but also an anchor that limits what you can do, where you can go, etc. You don't have that at the moment, so go be spontaneous. I don't travel any more, but you can.
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by twistedpair 5y ago
Historically it was common advice to avoid elaborate code formatting, as keeping up such formatting by hand was tedious, time consuming, and inconsistent, compared to the value add. Given near all code (let's say for large projects) is
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by twistedpair 5y ago
To clarify, race is a construct too often abused to implicate stratifications of groups of people. "Races" don't naturally exist, rather only a continuum of ethnological and physical differences across the rainbow of the huma
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by twistedpair 5y ago
Here's an example [0]. [0] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/messaging-and-targeting/forward...
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by twistedpair 5y ago
If you've got a lot of domains, but need the `admin@<domain>.<tld>` registration emails to work correctly, you can route them all through SES + Lambda for nothing, rather than having to add hosting to all the domains. Impl
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by twistedpair 5y ago
Perhaps the USB Chainsaw [0] will eventually be a reality? DeWalt, are you listening? [0] https://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/usb-powered-chainsaw/
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by twistedpair 5y ago
Funny, I find the opposite. Maybe it's a desire to feel efficient, but if asked "how long did that take you", I feel like saying ⅔N hours rather than N hours. Then again, I'm a full time employee, so I'm not billing
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by twistedpair 5y ago
If I provided users with an IPv6 block to allowlist for my apps, I think most IT directors' heads would explode, but _everything_ works with 32 bit CIDR ranges. I certainly support it, but I'm not sure we'll see an end to NAT
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by twistedpair 5y ago
AWS SES Inbound + a Lambda function to drop the mail where you want it (e.g. a topic, an S3 bucket, or forward it to somewhere else). Overall monthly cost is practically $0.
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by twistedpair 5y ago
Will we ever see a Tor Incognito tab in Chrome?
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by twistedpair 5y ago
Computers have successfully been used to time 5K and marathons for decades. Race is what you define it to be, such as in this ambiguous title. Whether we should have a concept of "race" is another matter.
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by twistedpair 5y ago
Similar. Worked on a project where there were 50+ contractors to automate simple biz workflows. Run that for a few years @ their rates and you'll see how much enterprises spend on relatively simple software projects.
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by twistedpair 5y ago
Why isn't there a browser setting that passes a standard header to declare what types of cookies you consent to? You set it up _once_ for your browser and you're done.
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by twistedpair 5y ago
mabl | Boston, MA | Software Engineer | ONSITE/REMOTE | https://mabl.com/careers We need your help to put our $40MM series C raise [0] to work and keep scaling up. We’re bring AI and cloud scale to software testing at
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by twistedpair 5y ago
A similar incident happened to Qatar Airways Flight 778 (another 777-300ER), from Miami in 2015 [1]. Incorrect runway lineup led to the plane only getting airborne after the end of the runway, after smashing through the ILS antennae. They t
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by twistedpair 5y ago
The Germanwings Flight 9525 tragedy [1] was effectuated by the suicidal pilot inputting an auto-pilot target altitude of 100ft, while flying over high mountains. The plane dutifully flew into the mountains, murdering 150 people. While there
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by twistedpair 5y ago
<3 to Simon Hradecky for all his hard work over the years. Such a great AV safety resource.
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by twistedpair 5y ago
Biggest jet engines ever made, at tree top level, running @ TOGA power. Yeah, that woke up the neighbors. Too bad this was at night. Would have been some wild Nest cam footage during the day.
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by twistedpair 5y ago
For reference, the max allowed GA airspeed by the FAA under 10,000 ft (3km) altitude is 250 knots. Doing so at 175 feet is wild.
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by twistedpair 5y ago
It takes a while (think like 10min+) to reboot these planes. Checkout "cold start 777" on YouTube [1]. There are a ton of computers (FADECs for engines, fuel management computers, FMS (flight management), PFC (flight computers), w
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by twistedpair 5y ago
Varig Flight 254 was another similar case [1]. Bad FMC data entry during preflight caused pilots to fly west, rather than east, until they were too low on fuel and crashed into the Amazon rainforest. Sun was setting, so cardinal direction w
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by twistedpair 5y ago
IIRC, iOS 8 cut the BTLE bitrate in half for using Apple APIs. I worked in the fitness tracker industry at the time, and this is why most major vendors used their own stack, rather than Apple's.
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by twistedpair 5y ago
My no-name Amazon earpods knock offs work just fine, every time, for running. Not sure what fancy features they lack, but they "just work", better than my Bose QC35.
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by twistedpair 5y ago
I'd push back on that norm. I listened to a vendor pitch for a product that would need access to my cloud assets. They wanted me to export auth keys as strings and hand them over, with super high access rights. I laughed and pointed ou
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by twistedpair 5y ago
L2 is very far from earth, well beyond the Moon. The Shuttle could never leave Low Earth Orbit, so it's a non-factor in repair missions once JWST is on station.
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by twistedpair 5y ago
Rockets can easily accelerate with enough force to kill a human (cargo flights and unmanned flights use different launch profiles for this reason). The less Gs you need to design a component for, the lighter/simpler it can be, so why u
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by twistedpair 5y ago
> Unlike say, the Apollo program, which had a guaranteed successful outcome? Apollo was wildly dangerous. Apollo 1 killed the whole crew. The contemporary calculated failure odds for a Saturn V launch were 1/8. Compare that to the c
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by twistedpair 5y ago
They calculated that. Building a second JWST would have added 10% to the budget, but the budget committee nixed that. YOLO (you only launch once).
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by twistedpair 5y ago
While a farm tractor might have a factor of safety of 10, spacecraft are usually closer to 1.3, due to mass and efficiency constraints. Space is hard.

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