LarsAlereon
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- LarsAlereonTory Bruno seems cool, and my impression is that he's been held back by a conservative, risk-averse culture in the ULA board that really only worked until SpaceX and other competitors proved themselves.
- So basically this article is 50/50 insightful and helpful feedback from a Framework customer, mixed with gripes by someone who bought the wrong laptop for them. Part of the reason this is getting a sour response is that most laptop companies don't even offer the choice of a larger, more expandable model. Framework does, and you bought it despite not actually wanting that, then dinged it for the compromises inherent in the design you chose. It seems like the 13.5" Framework was the obvious fit for your needs?
To use a silly food analogy, imagine there's a popular salsa company. The customer base has been clamoring for them to release an extra-hot salsa that also has corn in it, though that's a polarizing combination. A purchaser gives it a bad review because, in addition to some very legitimate critiques of the spice flavors, it's too hot and corn doesn't belong in salsa. People who wanted the extra-hot salsa with corn have a point when they say that person should have reviewed the medium salsa without corn.
- It's one thing to advocate not over-engineering your minimum viable product, but it's quite another to normalize releasing Potemkin village products and hoping customers pay before they realize the product doesn't work.
- I agree. From what I've been told, people's supervisors just wash their hands of it and say "talk to HR to work it out."
- From what I've heard from low-level employees, HR was basically entirely automated some years ago and the HR staff existed as a kind of helpdesk to solve exceptions. A simple example I heard is that employees are automatically fired after 3 days of unexcused absences, but occasionally an employee's doctor's note somehow doesn't excuse their absences, so they get an e-mail saying they are fired, call a phone number in the footer of the e-mail to talk to HR and open a ticket, and HR marks their absences as excused and unfires them.
- It looks like the top-end estimate is that the Fukushima disaster may have caused up to 500 additional total lifetime deaths from cancer. Roughly 23,000 people per year died of diseases attributed to coal power plants in the United States alone from 1999-2020.
Edit: Changed "linked to" to "attributed to", because this is the estimated count of people who would not have died of disease if coal power plants were not running.
- I think it's primarily a fundamental cost issue. It's simply far cheaper to get an equivalent amount of energy from fracking a natural gas formation than having to literally dig coal out of the ground.
- I was wondering if it was just me noticing a severe and rapid decline from that speech. If I didn't know better I would have assumed he was drunk.
- I feel like this is the opposite lesson than you should learn. Firing people sucks for everyone involved, but investing a lot of time trying to interpret tea leaves to determine if candidates are a good fit doesn't have a return-on-investment in finding better candidates and firing people less often. Instead it always makes sense to take more chances, support new employees, and use some mechanism like a probationary period to exit those who won't thrive before it's too painful.
- Anyone who has done any level of chemistry, including home chemistry, has observed how important stirring is to dissolution. If you just dump some ingredient into a container with solvent without stirring, you're going to end up with undissolved solids on the bottom covered by a heavy super-saturated solution. Over a long enough time with changes in temperature, or heating from below causing convection, you'll eventually end up with a uniform solution. But if you need the product for some purpose, waiting an arbitrary time maybe isn't the best plan.
- I'm thinking this might be related to voice-over-WiFi registration, I'd be curious if that was previously enabled while a SIM was installed. Alternatively, if the phone was purchased through the carrier it will have their provisioning software preloaded. Honestly this is better than the bad old days when phones would fall back to sending an SMS to a random international number to register.
- This seems more like a hardware or controller failure. There's no way Windows could cause all sectors to return identical contents even if it wanted to without hours of writes.
- They're struggling with employee turnover because the boss won't pay competitive wages. Why won't the boss pay competitive wages? I have some ideas, but rather than project I'll just say that's the problem to solve.
- This is more of a change in terminology than a reduction in capabilities. They are replacing 9,600 long ton Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruisers with 9,700 long ton Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers.
- The 2026 US budget has a 70% funding reduction. This evacuation was for medical reasons, so for privacy the information released will be limited. In an emergency it makes more sense to fly from New Zealand than all the way from the USA.
- As a man who is not from India, could you please provide some cultural context on this number? Is this the price that would be expected to be paid to the family of a woman who matched these specifications in order to get married?
- Being cool is about being cringe without being apologetic about it.
- My main complaint in older cars is that the cup holders are too small. My main complaint in newer cars is that they are to shallow. A common way to describe the torque in electric cars is "enough to dump all the cup holders" which honestly says more about the cup holders than the vehicle.
- I never lost weight through increased physical activity because my hunger levels always scaled to match my Calorie burning. Two things that have made major durable differences for me include reducing my sugary beverage intake and increasing my fiber intake. High-fiber foods make me feel full longer so significantly decrease my overall Calorie intake. Snacks like Triscuits and whole grain Goldfish crackers are good for this.
- In general landfilling (in modern, properly designed landfills) should be regarded as a kind of carbon sequestration. It's actually pretty hard to be better for the environment than that.