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I had a lightbulb moment when someone said 'the point of iterative approaches is not to find bugs, it's to do something (small) successfully and build confidence+learn'. There's a …

Not clear to me from the article - what's the different between an 'open rotor' engine and a turboprop ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turboprop )? At face value, both seem to be j…

The key insight here is the same reason why every internal department service eventually goes to a ticket system - adding queues (and by extension delays) improves efficiency. Reso…

One of the big design challenges with self-driving cars like Waymo is communication with pedestrians - have to have some analogue to making eye contact or waving so pedestrians kno…

well I never said their sales team was good ha Thanks for closing the loop - always interesting to hear about any progress when stuck in a bureaucratic logjam.

Have you tried going through Sales? Account teams can usually move mountains if they can see a clear path to a paycheque - you might have luck just by going to the 'chat with me' p…

In my experience, having a fixit week on the calendar encourages teams to just defer what otherwise could be done relatively easily at first report. ("ah we'll get to it in fixit w…

I've come to appreciate that using AI tools are a skill on it's own. Anything beyond auto code completion takes quite a bit of conscious effort to experiment with and then learn ho…

I like thinking about the ISS as primarily engineering (and operational) experiments rather than hard science. As a space platform, it's provided learning on how to contract privat…

I get the sense that #2 is viewed as a risk for DRM, given all the work that goes into preventing firmware downgrades to potentially insecure firmware. Specifically thinking of the…

You piqued my interest enough to go hunting - this StackExchange[1] question estimates ~19% of fuel is spent on initial climb-out to 30k feet for a 737-800 on a 5-hour LA->JFK flig…

Any extra time spent during a burn is wasted fuel. Intuitively, any time before the rocket is in orbit, some part of the rocket thrust is resisting the force of gravity or else it …

Also from a license negotiation perspective, gives the buying company the option to threaten to self-host and/or fork. Even if they never do (and I'm sure the source company is ver…

Political blowback has been enough to keep the power in check - it significantly raises the visibility of the attempted action whenever it's invoked(1) and historically has been as…

I encounter similar behaviour as you in an entirely different genre - I've long since suspected that Spotify keeps redirecting me back to songs that are either less royalties for t…

Air traffic communication is structured and a very limited subset of English. It makes more sense if you remember that that first call in the video isn't coming out of the blue - t…

I will often do the reverse, especially when they've repeated the same opposition point more than once or I'm feeling unheard - 'I'm worried I've miscommunicated, can you paraphras…

If it’s the interior design aspect that’s enjoyable, we’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of the Animal Crossing expansion pack https://animalcrossing.nintendo.com/new-horizons/happy-…

Kerbal Space Program gets high marks for giving me a great intuitive sense of orbital mechanics, aeronautical design, and space mission architectures (‘to get to space you need to …

This is what helped me work through some perfectionism tendencies: change the target. Reframing from 'making sure this project goes perfectly' to 'maximizing my personal benefit' h…

The key reason is that an extra second of time spent hovering or close it is another second of resisting gravity, which takes fuel, so the most efficient hypothetical ‘burn’ is one…

As a SpaceX fan reading through the post-launch analysis, this was definitely more of a success than the headline applies, but 'massive' is a stretch. Most commentary I'm seeing pu…

Finding lots of value in drafting emails, especially for topics or asks I'm not as used to dealing with, like asking for extensions or blaming other teams for blockers. Obviously t…

Copying my favorite quote from a different thread about data scientists: it's 'decision-based evidence-making'

From an individual perspective, we've really valued Google's SRE whitepapers in interrupts and incident handling. The key message is that setting up your team to enable bundling 'j…