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Location: Santa Rosa, CA (north of San Francisco) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: For the right salary Technologies: C/C++, Python, Django, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Linux, some JavaScri…

In addition to the other comments: Military aircraft are subject to failure from being shot at. Aircraft in combat will fail much, much more often than properly maintained civilian…

Like a lot of people right now, I'm between jobs and struggling to land a new developer role. My career so far has been all in "tech companies" in/around Silicon Valley. I know the…

It looks like improved yield, but also there's the possibility of producing a product that has different properties than that produced on earth. If, for example, the larger ritonav…

I feel like there's a story here.

The last time I had to replace four tires at once, the mechanic could no longer source the model of tire that my car had, and refused to mix tire models on my car.

I thought that was what the article would be about. All those freezers are pumping out heat 24/7. I could see climate control being a huge issue for these facilities.

To elaborate: In the USA at least, to use the name "ice cream", there needs to be a certain density of cream. If the product isn't dense enough, you need to use another name, like …

In case anyone else was wondering why this would even exist, it's for education in rehabilitation programs: https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/insidecdcr/2022/08/18/secure-laptops... "The lap…

Now you have my curiosity piqued. Is the report from the inquiry available to read online?

Stranger things have been done: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb

Anyone care to summarize why it's more profitable to operate on FM, and why the FCC cares about incentivizing them to operate on AM?

I thought the MIT license required attribution, but on rereading the requirement is pretty weak: You're only required to keep the original copyright notice.

I remember Chet making delightful blog posts all the way back when he was at Sun. I wish him well on his new career, but hope that he doesn't give up technical writing completely.

I would say this post makes more sense to me as a call for self-awareness among potential founders than as an argument for avoiding this route entirely. Sometimes internal tools ex…

That sounds like wonderful news!

Look at Tesla and Nvidia in recent years. Exciting innovations can cause stock prices to soar completely independently of the company's fundamentals.

I know a lot of investors are excited about Waymo, so I assume the executives are as well. I don't have any insight into what the experience is like on the actual engineering team,…

I can't find it now, but several years ago a dev posted his experiences here dealing with VAT when selling software across the EU. He had to comply with a completely different set …

My understanding was that GPU instruction level parallelism is quite limited compared to CPUs (since multiple "threads" are running on each hardware core) and I wasn't aware that G…

Shopify is a sponsor! I wonder how that came about.

Current reactor designs cannot get that hot without melting. I bet we could design a molten salt reactor that could safely get there, especially if electricity production is not a …

I remember seeing a Java game engine that included a container that you were supposed to dump unused objects into to prevent GC from running in the middle of a level. At the end of…