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- omgJustTest parentcitation for the co2 scrubbers in home need?
- Lol worth the -3 pts
- my user should get upvotes for this :)
- "I'm a tech lead, nobody listens"...
1. Listen to what other people say and what they think the problem is, or what the problem "says".
2. Think, ask questions to clarify and repeat step 1. Is the problem actually technical? branch a. otherwise branch b.
a. have you considered the problem is mostly not technical? then proceed to branch b.
b. what miscommunications are keeping the solution from being implemented?
3. Change minds with the words that are convincing to others. Dont be so convinced of your solution that you wouldnt take a better one, return to step 1 unless the problem is "solved"
My blog would be uncompellingly short.
- If there's no better growth story probably people have already trimmed for short term gains.
In some ways the technology companies, which such large growth, are their own consumers.
Unless they feel pressure from another growth story or a technical monetary effect, and I emphasize story because its about future returns, its unlikely.
Additionally this has grown so quickly that there is amazing talent being applied to these problems, its hard to imagine every good person has been sufficiently compensated that progress will stall.
- IMO what you are describing is distributed choice vs concentrated choice.
It's one of my main arguments against a crash: why would one (1) or a few choose to do that?
- 3 CFCs (robotics centers) closed, 5 continuing operating [1]. Initial commitment was 20 & Kroger is paying 350m$ to compensate the partner.
I don't know what success looks like but it's probably fair to say they were over-extended by roughly 30-40%.
https://chainstoreage.com/kroger-pay-350-million-automation-...
- Measurement in unit of power because this is the ultimate use-cost, assuming scaling in compute efficiencies, capex costs, etc.
- tariffs could be an explanation.
sometimes volume and total $ are not the same.
- The Cikande site shipped radioactive shrimp which were detected at US ports. Cikande is an industrial region in Indonesia. The source of the radiation is believed to be a local metal smelter that apparently ingested Cs137 sources from scrap. The area is now under access control due to radiation risk.
Fields up to 1mSv/hr have been detected and signs placed at >0.5mSv/hr locations inside the region[0].
[0] linked article [1] https://www.ans.org/news/article-7429/indonesia-begins-worki...
- It is valid to say they do not have the majority of trade-secrets in the schematics.
However having high quality documentation that is easily accessible is always the first step, and if there are information there that are important it is _much_ more likely it will be known.
It is not "a much less of a deal" as you say, it is a pretty big deal for a global product that billions of people touch.
- Perovskites are research materials being researched.
Images produced from SPECT cameras have been around for a while. [2]
This is potentially a 16 pixel "camera" which the "image" is a gaussian blob (Figure 1e and 5e) [1].
This is interesting for a variety of reasons but is way overblown in the "camera" or "image" context. It's demonstration that one can make pixelated devices (4x4) of a specific kind of promising material.
[1]https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-63400-7
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-photon_emission_compute...
- Generally i agree that paying more is unlikely to resolve much.
Fixing the incentives might, however funding comes from very few places and they have their own incentives => lobbied goals or profit-motivated.
One might argue that money is a prioritization method.
I'd argue that having one metric (amount of money) makes you susceptible to single-metric problems: optimization of everything to the point of meaninglessness, critical dependence on the stability of that metric's underlying present & future value.
Defects in the currently implemented financial system (exploitable by evolving technologies) might lead to larger systematic failures and less robustness.
- As long as the institutional incentives are monetization, it will never be enough.
- I've been in industry and academia.
My experience is that incentives within the two are converging: monetization drives all activities.
Higher ed is allowing professors to slump teaching responsibilities - as it has for many years - in favor of high-flying research. What is new is that now: entire departments struggle to find chairs or people to run basic functions at teaching or research levels. Professors are rarely on campus except at the bare minimum and are largely diverting resources (people & research) to their companies.
- Does anyone know of a cool (cheap) way to get adaptive optics in one of these devices?
- Concurrency does not imply yielding...
Synchronous logic does imply some syncing and yielding could be a way to sync - which is what i expect you mean.
Asynchronous logic is concurrent without sync or yield.
Concurrency and asynchronous logic do not exist - in real form - in von Neumann machines
- Thanks.
If a publisher was so inclined, I have like 20 or so of these breakdowns that I would like to put into a (<75pg) book. The goal would be 1-3 page distillations of events for broad appeal. 1 page for the introduction and impact of the event, 1-2 pages for summarization and conceptual distillation.
The goal is a somewhat reductive but sharply results-focused perspective on these events.
- I really love reading NTSB and Coast Guard break-downs... a lot of very interesting engineering!
- long story short:
1. boeing and spirit both work on planes
2. damaged rivets discovered and lots of back and forth to get them repaired. boeing does the doors and spirit does the rivets.
3. rework on rivets needed door plug to be removed, someone at boeing (who is not onsite) sees that the door plug needs to be removed, escalates this request but notes that work must wait for the next week because the only door person who is qualified to remove plugs is on leave.
4. door manager - on the day of the plug removal - de-escalates the door plug removal request. later that day the door manager, door master and three door crew enter area near the fuselage & door plug - correct documentation of removal not generated and none of them were trained to remove door plug. No one knows who removed the plug.
5. a boeing technician moves a stand that has what he believed to be a door plug bolt on top of it. he "strapped it and let it hang" to the fuselage.
6. Spirit indicates plug was removed and reworks rivets
7. No one checks the door plug was reinstalled correctly
- OP: this is the desired outcome - building stuff happens in the dark and is uncertain to lead anywhere, simultaneously there is a chorus of cheerleaders for doing the aligned thing.
best advice i can give is stay razor focused on the goals - and what allows you to achieve them:
1. don't lie to yourself about the utility of the project - nice to haves are not need to haves - almost every idea is bad and few are good and even fewer are good enough to spend 5 years on, and vanishingly small amounts of them are goldmines (see #4)
2. understand what provides true value - treat it with respect and only allow it to be known, if necessary, & carefully present it when necessary so that others understand its value. if _they_ don't understand the value - they wont pay for it and will not care, you have to speak _their_ language and not burn too much time doing it.
3. be kind to yourself & enjoy life while you're chasing the goals - you need close relationships and satisfaction to sustain you and keep you from ruining yourself.
4. look for lucky opportunities & take them.
- This is about privatization of weather data, unsurpisingingly.
There has been a big industry push to lobby noaa out of existance, cause LEO satellite networks can sell lots more data if there's no noaa service.
Also - main customers are insurance providers, who need accurate forecasting for rate setting.
Edit for sources: Federal Budget Cuts and Restructuring: The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk under the Trump administration, has initiated significant budget reductions and workforce downsizing across federal agencies, including NOAA. Reports indicate plans to cut approximately 50% of NOAA's workforce and reduce its budget by 30%, raising concerns about the potential privatization of weather services and the impact on public safety during extreme weather events. [1]
Project 2025 Initiative: The conservative policy blueprint known as Project 2025 proposes dismantling key components of NOAA, including the National Weather Service (NWS), and suggests privatizing weather forecasting services. Critics argue that such measures could undermine public access to essential weather data, leading to increased risks during natural disasters. [2,3,4]
AccuWeather's Lobbying Activities: AccuWeather has been reported to actively lobby for the privatization of weather services, aiming to limit public access to free NOAA data. Discussions highlight concerns that such privatization efforts could restrict the availability of critical weather information to the public. [4]
As a side note - I interviewed at a good number of weather satellite companies before my current role - it was a stated goal to "supplement noaa gaps in weather data" for "insurance & investment companies".
[1]https://www.businessinsider.com/federal-agencies-musk-doge-t... [2]https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/08/trump-projec... [3]https://www.reddit.com/r/weather/comments/1e5xacu/accuweathe... [4]https://www.theverge.com/24279329/project-2025-tech-policy-g...
- Unfortunately 300$ price point brings up a lot more questions about utility to me.
You can have all the things I mention above at a slightly higher price point.
It is not hard to make these and the really hard part is guaranteeing the quality so they aren’t treated as novelty toys.
- Be careful of trade marks! If you are looking for roles check out some of my past submissions and our website.
- 1. RadiaCode is a repo for running IOT connected detectors from a specific vendor
2. Detectors are judged based on the mass and resolution. The resolutions for each vendor specific variant are at least 50-200% higher than what is possible with 'passable' material. Additionally the spectra shown indicate a very small detector mass, meaning these would not be much more sensitive than GM counters, and possibly less reliable in other metrics.
a. Why are the resolutions for CsI(Tl) 9.5% and not closer to 5%? (in this case, lower is better)
b. Are the sensors calibrated for temperature and other systematics? how long do the calibrations last and to what % of energy resolution?
c. Are the sensor responses linear? The documentation [1] shows that these can be very high error rates (up to 40% for "some isotopes"). Such high error rates makes this hard to see how dependable or useful the device would be.
[1] https://coda.io/d/radiacode-cyberspace_dTtFtorf-v-/Quick-Gui...