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The influence and dominance of conservative media is striking. They have sane-washed and explained away things that would have ended 10 other politicians careers. Trump is Asimovs …

At one company (think bank/financial services) I was at as a "software development supervisor" I had to run a daily standup/scrum meeting every day, for 3 years. It really became o…

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Indeed there are multiple such optimizations. One that occurs to me is a hub/spoke model where inter-city/state is driverless, from/to truck "yards" on the outskirts of cities. The…

How is authentication/authorization handled with this stack? Or sign up with email validation and password reset?

Wire length matching would seem to be a big factor in attaining the highest performance.

Very interesting indeed: > discovery of a new quantum algorithm that offers an exponential advantage for simulating coupled classical harmonic oscillators. > To enable the simulati…

Cheap SEMs are also useful for electron beam lithography, which has gotten some attention lately with Canons machine <10nm process.

Parsing cobol is actually not bad. The grammar is pretty simple; the "rail road" diagrams correspond to the recursive descent parser very directly. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cobo…

We did this, and I'd add that repeating what they say back to them so they get that feedback is important too. It's startling to see the difference between our kids and their class…

> You could consider building this storage system on top of BLAKE3's tree model. Consider a crypto currency pow that did that without the chunk counter. It'd be trivially exploitab…

Vinges novella "True Names" for anyone interested.

Ken Macleod is a Scottish sci-fi author I've enjoyed. Stanisław Lem and Ken Liu are two other well regarded authors; Poland and China respectively.

One of the things that surprised me about social media (facebook in this case) was how people I'd known for a long time could barely string two sentences together, and tended to us…

Give pointy head bosses (PHBs) insight into who is the most productive. At least that's how my former VP of engineering, the one who measured developer productivety by checking git…

Converted oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico: https://spaceexplored.com/2021/07/07/update-on-spacexs-gulf-...

What kind of transistor count can one get with efabless? Ie novice way of asking how complex of a design can be implemented?

> And probably a harder problem than just placing bricks down. Actually, the unreasonably long boom arm is bouncing around significantly, yet the bricks are being place precisely i…

Is there a lego inspired solution to industrial design, specifically mechanical mechanisms? I have had a product in mind that is quite intricate with several possible configuration…

We should not be surprised how much ignorance there is around this. Networking even for technical people can be a "black art". https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/31/22861188/missouri…