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That’s weird. Isn’t that kind of on the employer to decide whether they have different work for you? Are you expected to be actively doing something during this period?

I think we should first define what “coding” is and whether “code” means “any code” or “optimal code”, because otherwise we’ll just keep talking past each other. But I enthusiastic…

What kind of systems do you work with where code is a fluid?

Do you have a source for that claim?

It seems the author has misunderstood the point of the common narrative and has torn apart what’s essentially a strawman. The degrees, the books, that’s not the supposedly easy par…

As a former rabbit owner I can attest that around 5 am was when the theater would open, and the first thing on was always this improvised bit called “abused animal trapped forever …

I grew up in an ex-eastern bloc country, so I’m familiar with some of the aesthetics and even echoes of the Soviet mentality. The images fill me with despair. So much human potenti…

There isn’t a word in the comment that I can relate to. Might be a US thing, I’m in Europe. My [very normal although otherworldly beautiful] wife thinks my job is interesting and t…

I’m don’t know how to say this, but if you’re claiming that there’s a place anywhere in Europe where going outside is “not possible” for more than a handful of days of the year (li…

That’s not how electricity works. The electrons don’t really care about borders, and neither do the suppliers and consumers.

In my corner of Europe, I have vacationed in a house that’s completely off-grid with solar and a bit over 20 kWh of storage (it does use about half a ton of wood pellets for heatin…

Absolutely, makes my blood boil. Claude proposes an obviously wrong/overengineered solution to a problem. I come up with a better approach and we agree to do that instead. Every st…

If Norway is the size of an US state, what’s stopping every state from being like Norway? Or does it somehow matter for EV efficiency or charging speed how far away the borders are…

Very happy with an EV as our only car here in Europe. No charger at home. The car does about 24k kilometers per year, including road trips and vacations. Remember that there are ot…

> Ton of used EVs not being sold because the battery replacement is somewhere between 40~60% of the car's value. These EVs, are they in the room with us?

I don’t understand how a self-proclaimed engineer can’t grasp the concept of a non-linear charging curve and also spread so much absolute crap about EVs. Fucking 2 hours of chargin…

I believe you’ve made all that up. The battery is “solid state” as in “solid state of matter”. There are no liquids, gases or plasma in the battery. It’s an elementary school physi…

The slop jockey failed to deliver a cleaned up speech. The politician failed to proofread it or even just skim it once before giving the speech. The journalist failed to understand…

I feel like the world has lost 30 IQ points over the last two years. I can’t think of a better way to describe it, the dumbing down of everything is palpable and accelerating.

> an airplane descending still wants thrust from the engines, just not as much as in cruise > My assertion is that there are no turboprop plans that can maintain a 3° glideslope at…

How is Node a package manager?

Exactly like a car going down a hill, a descending plane doesn't need any thrust for anything in particular. Planes are notoriously aerodynamic and can trade altitude for speed eas…

Note that these are more like turboprop quirks, not "airliners". Turbofans will idle happily from cruise to final approach, Dash 8 will not.

Supercapacitors are heavy and basically useless for any kind of propulsion. Note how neither e-bikes nor EVs use them. You need a proper lithium battery if you need any usable amou…

> you'd have to nose down at a very aggressive angle to actually pick up speed Sorry but what the hell are you talking about? Airliners are heavy, very aerodynamic, very easy to ov…