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Stanford would be interesting as well. Applications for the next cycle open in mid-September I believe. The company I work for will pay around $10K per year, so UT Austin or GT wou…

I got in 2020, during COVID. But before that I was already working at a large financial services and tech company.

I absolutely agree with this, and it is my main motivation TBH. I know I’m capable of learning almost anything in my field by hands on experience, but having the advanced degree fr…

My move to America was not related to my work :D I got married here and that made things a lot easier. I was fortunate enough to not have the visa barrier. I agree that most jobs d…

I have a similar trajectory. I attended two very competitive military schools in Brazil but never finished and moved to America. Today I’m a senior software engineer at a FAANG com…

Complete AÍ garbage. Not even worth trying to debunk the arguments made here.

Kia is a terrible brand anyways

This is interesting. However, too bad a British university is working with a russian university

One good thing is that we will finally stop cooperating with the russians. Unbelievable that we ever shared any technology with them.

I miss my BlackBerry. I had a Pearl Flip, it was the most beautiful thing ever. All these boring phones, especially the iPhone, don’t come even close. Edit: added “flip”. The touch…

The mass is actually 50.000 tons, I typed wrong. My point is not the force to move the mass of the ship, but transmitting that force to the structure of the vessel in order to move…

Shipping is responsible for 3% of global emissions. Let’s say this solution worked (which it probably won’t), it would be used in a small percentage of vessels, and only used in an…

Exactly my point. Not to mention transferring that load to the body of the vessel, which has a structure made to withstand loads in specific points. A container stacked on top of o…

To me the problem is transmitting the force generated by the sails to the body of the vessel A small to medium vessel fully loaded is like 150.000 tons. 10% of that is 15000 tons, …

>> Oceanbird is awesome! The trouble is that overhauling the entire industry with new-built ships would take too long to make a meaningful climate impact, and be extremely expensiv…

Not sure if anyone asked this question here but how do you plan to transfer the load of the wings/sails to the structure of the vessel? A medium containership that weighs 150 tons …