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Read the blog post on their series C [0]. It's not long, but the most relevant excepts are: > So if we didn’t need to raise, why seek the capital? Well, we weren’t seeking it, real…

I doubt that. Oxide was founded by a bunch of ex-Sun people who have already been burned by the Oracle acquisition. If you read through what they say, their company values, and how…

Yes, it matters. I found your comment hard to read and had to re-read it a couple of times to parse it. If you want to use the hyphen because it's more easily typed I suggest using…

Could you actually explain what you disagree with? In my opinion, everything in the comment you're replying to is obviously correct. If you're going somewhere where there is a chan…

You've got that completely backwards. Correctly applying Bayes' theorem, if an anomaly is observed you incorporate the prior into the calculation of the posterior probability. You …

You can look at the Wikipedia page on railway defect dectectors [0]. Under "rail break monitors" it mentions both electrical continuity and time-domain reflectometry can be used, a…

That's not what "hot" means in this context. "Hot" means "highly radioactive", i.e. high number of decay events per second, high concentration of short half-life isotopes, high pow…

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anythin...

Your question is rather ambiguous. Do you mean using chemistry to develop new techniques or combine unusual ingredients to create food that has novel flavors or textures? That woul…

Have you seen the presentation from GDC 2017 on the architecture of Overwatch [0]? If you watch the video in detail -- stepping through frame-by-frame at some points -- it provides…

I'm not aware of anything quite like that, but most submarines have something like a Rescue Buoy [0], Submarine Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon (SEPIRB) or Submarine Eme…

Thanks for the link, but I'm not sure what the point of the 50 minute video is. Here's [0] the pdf of the report. It's really not that long. [0]: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L…

It's a bit of a long read, but I think the best introduction is still this [0] and the comments were here [1]. Yes, it's presented in the context of rust and gamedev, but ECS isn't…

> I'm not sure about language design or system architecture but this is almost universally not true for any mathematical or algorithmic pursuit. I don't agree. While starting with …

I actually think that it does a disservice to not go to Nazi allegory, because if I don't use Nazi allegory when referring to Oracle there is some critical understanding that I hav…

The discussion near the end about how leadership taking responsibility can beneficially relieve accountability reminded me of the story of the Naval Tactical Data System (NTDS) [0]…

Did you not read the paper? That's in there.

CNC Kitchen put out a great video on the practical use of silica gel. I especially found his exploration of different methods of drying to be of interest. https://www.youtube.com/w…

There's an excellent publicly released video made about an older test. It has some of the clearest footage of the actual reentries and impacts, and is also worth watching for the s…

This is a bit late, but I don't see any other answers that provide what I think is the key insight. The accounting equation is: Assets = Equity + Liabilities. For a transaction to …

That's not what "indiscriminate" means. Indiscriminate attacks are those [0]: (a) which are not directed at a specific military objective; (b) which employ a method or means of com…

You use radiation for cooling in space. That obeys the Stefan-Boltzmann law with power scaling with T^4 (so you want the radiators as hot as possible). You can use passive elements…

I tried this, and while I didn't have any difficulty establishing a stereoscopic view it didn't jump out for me at all. I perceived the blue line floating on top of the problem han…

I'm pretty sure I saw it mentioned that if the source and destination are Starlink dishes then packets will be routed by the satellites directly to the destination dish without goi…