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- Building Candid - Former head of P. Engineering at Atrium

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twitter.com 1mo ago

Antares SMR goes zero power critical

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github.com 2y ago

Show HN: Detwemoji – replace Twitter's emoji with OS standard implementations

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admiralcloudberg.medium.com 3y ago

Cleared to Collide: The crash of USAir flight 1493 and SkyWest flight 5569

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www.youtube.com 4y ago

What happened during the 2003 blackout (practical engineering)

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www.maxcantor.com 4y ago

Some Gotchas (and Solutions) Migrating from Ngrok to Cloudflare Tunnels

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www.maxcantor.com 4y ago

Migrating from Grok to Cloudflare Tunnels

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en.wikisource.org 5y ago

Body Ritual Among the Nacirema

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twitter.com 5y ago

A thread on ethics and interview homework

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twitter.com 5y ago

My Insider's Response to Justin's Post Mortem Thread on Atrium

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www.nytimes.com 6y ago

How We Get Stronger

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github.com 6y ago

JavaScript Optional Chaining proposal just moved to Stage 3

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www.atrium.co 7y ago

Behind the Scenes of Atrium Records

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thepointsguy.com 8y ago

2017 was the safest year ever for commercial aviation

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slatestarcodex.com 8y ago

Scott Alexander on Establishing Norms Around Free Speech – Not First Amendment

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www.askthepilot.com 9y ago

The Silent Anniversary: Fifteen Years Since Our Last Major Crash

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theageofaerospace.com 9y ago

The Age of Aerospace (Discovery Video Series)

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www.nytimes.com 9y ago

Landing planes with toilet paper in Australia

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www.washingtonpost.com 10y ago

NASA unveils plans for fully electric X-57 experimental aircraft

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electrek.co 10y ago

Tesla Model S driver crashes into a van while on Autopilot [video]

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blog.acolyer.org 10y ago

The amazing power of word vectors – the morning paper

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www.opengl-tutorial.org 10y ago

OpenGL tutorial – relevant to the GPUImage2 announcement yesterday

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i.imgur.com 10y ago

SpaceX booster on the ground – first time I appreciated the scale

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www.nytimes.com 10y ago

In Cramped and Costly Bay Area, Cries to Build, Baby, Build

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www.nytimes.com 10y ago

The Water in Your Glass Might Be Older Than the Sun

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imgur.com 10y ago

A350-1000 Build Album

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imgur.com 10y ago

T-38C passes in front of the Sun at supersonic speed, revealing shock waves

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www.youtube.com 10y ago

Why Are Airplane Engines So Big? – One Minute Physics

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www.youtube.com 10y ago

Chilling investigation of a fatal small aircraft crash

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www.sfgate.com 10y ago

SFO's takeoff navigation point names are Grateful Dead-themed

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www.santacruzsentinel.com 10y ago

Moffett Field eyed for NASA cybersecurity facility to protect spaceflights

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true, but the other side of that trade is almost always an options market maker who will hedge their delta by trading the underlying stock. so, yes, buying a call doesn't directly represent share ownership, but it almost always results in a commensurate share purchase. not 1:1, but reflecting the delta of the option.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/01/11/tesla-fatality-rates/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISeeCars.com#Partnerships

https://x.com/larsmoravy/status/1860100416819855492

Looking for more. tl;dr is that NHTSA publishes accident rates but not mileage. ISeeCars has access to legacy auto mileage from dealership data but guessed at mileage for Tesla's in the period in question. Their methodology was not released and was a fraction of the total mileage that Tesla recorded over that period.

I do agree that Tesla could do a much better job with data transparency. But the claims of the ISC report are pretty difficult to reconcile with the crash test ratings they've gotten from many regulators across the world.

This feels like a complete BS story. Been to a bunch of festivals and concerts in the last few years and while cell phones have kind of ruined it, its because people are so caught up in filming terrible video clips of the stage they'll never watch instead of being present in the moment.

I did. I really wanted to like it. I think it broke due to something I was doing with fragments or splitting up code in my monorepo. I may give it a shot again, from first principles it is a better approach.

Can you elaborate? I've used URQL and Apollo with graphql code gen for type safety and am a big fan.

What about relay is so compelling for you? I'm not disagreeing, just genuinely curious since I've never really used it.

When its such for my personal edification and idle wonderings, usually the former. If its something that is any way critical to a meaningful decision or something I'm going to publicly share, its the latter.

I never understand why the rotating station concepts seem to all have rigid tethers, either in the form of a central boom or a rigid circular structure. It would seem like you could get a much larger diameter, so less rotational velocity and more comfort, by attaching rigid, or inflatable in this case, structures with a tether. Compressive loads are non existent, you just need to resist tensile loads.

Maybe I'll go ask the AI.

Shine with Gleam 2 years ago

Are they killing unwanted minorities and political dissidents on an industrial scale? No, they aren’t. Ergo, they aren’t N*is. Labeling them as such is unfair to them and an insult to the memory of those killed by the actual kind.

There can be widespread bigotry that falls far far short of N*ism. Words and precision matter.

This may come off as a little inappropriate but one thing I think about when learning another language is the usual mistakes or quirks that native speakers of that language display when speaking English. It turns out that quite often those are reflective of the correct form in their language.

It's helped me sound more natural in Japanese and Hebrew.

Completely agree.

The Expanse novels & series and Hail Mary have ruined me for fantasy-science-fiction. I love the idea of having one big conceit and then building a universe that is as consistent as possible with everything from known physics to known sociology and psychology given that conceit.

For the expanse it was fusion drives and the protomolecule. For Hail Mary it was astrophage.

Just like the magical linguistic tools of Hail Mary, the Expanse broke this a bit too with things like spinning up the asteroids without ripping them apart. But, these are still two of the best hard science fiction out there. Sorry Cixin, Remembrance of Earth's Past was fantastic but it quickly devolved into fantasy.

One note, I always thought the spinning up asteroids part of The Expanse was particularly unfortunate because the plot would have worked just as well with giant spinning stations on the asteroid surfaces to let the belters live in limited gravity.

AFAIK, the only nuclear rocket that makes sense is landing a reactor on an icy comet and using it to shoot super heated steam wherever you want thrust.

#seveneves