I had a lightbulb moment when someone said 'the point of iterative approaches is not to find bugs, it's to do something (small) successfully and build confidence+learn'. There's a subtle but important difference between…
Not clear to me from the article - what's the different between an 'open rotor' engine and a turboprop (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turboprop)? At face value, both seem to be jet engines with propellers used on…
The key insight here is the same reason why every internal department service eventually goes to a ticket system - adding queues (and by extension delays) improves efficiency. Resources can be used at 100% capacity…
One of the big design challenges with self-driving cars like Waymo is communication with pedestrians - have to have some analogue to making eye contact or waving so pedestrians know they've been seen (possibly through…
well I never said their sales team was good ha Thanks for closing the loop - always interesting to hear about any progress when stuck in a bureaucratic logjam.
Have you tried going through Sales? Account teams can usually move mountains if they can see a clear path to a paycheque - you might have luck just by going to the 'chat with me' popup on the azure home page and saying…
In my experience, having a fixit week on the calendar encourages teams to just defer what otherwise could be done relatively easily at first report. ("ah we'll get to it in fixit week"). Sometimes it's a PM justifying…
I've come to appreciate that using AI tools are a skill on it's own. Anything beyond auto code completion takes quite a bit of conscious effort to experiment with and then learn how to delegate to in a workflow. They…
I like thinking about the ISS as primarily engineering (and operational) experiments rather than hard science. As a space platform, it's provided learning on how to contract private companies for space flights, and in…
I get the sense that #2 is viewed as a risk for DRM, given all the work that goes into preventing firmware downgrades to potentially insecure firmware. Specifically thinking of the Nintendo Switch[1] that goes so far as…
You piqued my interest enough to go hunting - this StackExchange[1] question estimates ~19% of fuel is spent on initial climb-out to 30k feet for a 737-800 on a 5-hour LA->JFK flight. Without doing hard calculations, it…
Any extra time spent during a burn is wasted fuel. Intuitively, any time before the rocket is in orbit, some part of the rocket thrust is resisting the force of gravity or else it would fall back down to earth. The…
Also from a license negotiation perspective, gives the buying company the option to threaten to self-host and/or fork. Even if they never do (and I'm sure the source company is very careful to balance the value story),…
Political blowback has been enough to keep the power in check - it significantly raises the visibility of the attempted action whenever it's invoked(1) and historically has been associated with a political hit. It also…
I encounter similar behaviour as you in an entirely different genre - I've long since suspected that Spotify keeps redirecting me back to songs that are either less royalties for them to play, or located closer to me on…
Air traffic communication is structured and a very limited subset of English. It makes more sense if you remember that that first call in the video isn't coming out of the blue - the pilot of Delta 29 Heavy would have…
I will often do the reverse, especially when they've repeated the same opposition point more than once or I'm feeling unheard - 'I'm worried I've miscommunicated, can you paraphrase back what you've heard my point is…
If it’s the interior design aspect that’s enjoyable, we’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of the Animal Crossing expansion pack https://animalcrossing.nintendo.com/new-horizons/happy-home-...
Kerbal Space Program gets high marks for giving me a great intuitive sense of orbital mechanics, aeronautical design, and space mission architectures (‘to get to space you need to go sideways, not up’), even if the…
This is what helped me work through some perfectionism tendencies: change the target. Reframing from 'making sure this project goes perfectly' to 'maximizing my personal benefit' helped me step back a bit and prioritize…
The key reason is that an extra second of time spent hovering or close it is another second of resisting gravity, which takes fuel, so the most efficient hypothetical ‘burn’ is one big bang ‘hoverslam’ right at the end…
As a SpaceX fan reading through the post-launch analysis, this was definitely more of a success than the headline applies, but 'massive' is a stretch. Most commentary I'm seeing put it at a C or B-. It's true that there…
Finding lots of value in drafting emails, especially for topics or asks I'm not as used to dealing with, like asking for extensions or blaming other teams for blockers. Obviously takes a few iterations ('be less…
Copying my favorite quote from a different thread about data scientists: it's 'decision-based evidence-making'
From an individual perspective, we've really valued Google's SRE whitepapers in interrupts and incident handling. The key message is that setting up your team to enable bundling 'jumping on things' and also 'focus…
I had a lightbulb moment when someone said 'the point of iterative approaches is not to find bugs, it's to do something (small) successfully and build confidence+learn'. There's a subtle but important difference between…
Not clear to me from the article - what's the different between an 'open rotor' engine and a turboprop (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turboprop)? At face value, both seem to be jet engines with propellers used on…
The key insight here is the same reason why every internal department service eventually goes to a ticket system - adding queues (and by extension delays) improves efficiency. Resources can be used at 100% capacity…
One of the big design challenges with self-driving cars like Waymo is communication with pedestrians - have to have some analogue to making eye contact or waving so pedestrians know they've been seen (possibly through…
well I never said their sales team was good ha Thanks for closing the loop - always interesting to hear about any progress when stuck in a bureaucratic logjam.
Have you tried going through Sales? Account teams can usually move mountains if they can see a clear path to a paycheque - you might have luck just by going to the 'chat with me' popup on the azure home page and saying…
In my experience, having a fixit week on the calendar encourages teams to just defer what otherwise could be done relatively easily at first report. ("ah we'll get to it in fixit week"). Sometimes it's a PM justifying…
I've come to appreciate that using AI tools are a skill on it's own. Anything beyond auto code completion takes quite a bit of conscious effort to experiment with and then learn how to delegate to in a workflow. They…
I like thinking about the ISS as primarily engineering (and operational) experiments rather than hard science. As a space platform, it's provided learning on how to contract private companies for space flights, and in…
I get the sense that #2 is viewed as a risk for DRM, given all the work that goes into preventing firmware downgrades to potentially insecure firmware. Specifically thinking of the Nintendo Switch[1] that goes so far as…
You piqued my interest enough to go hunting - this StackExchange[1] question estimates ~19% of fuel is spent on initial climb-out to 30k feet for a 737-800 on a 5-hour LA->JFK flight. Without doing hard calculations, it…
Any extra time spent during a burn is wasted fuel. Intuitively, any time before the rocket is in orbit, some part of the rocket thrust is resisting the force of gravity or else it would fall back down to earth. The…
Also from a license negotiation perspective, gives the buying company the option to threaten to self-host and/or fork. Even if they never do (and I'm sure the source company is very careful to balance the value story),…
Political blowback has been enough to keep the power in check - it significantly raises the visibility of the attempted action whenever it's invoked(1) and historically has been associated with a political hit. It also…
I encounter similar behaviour as you in an entirely different genre - I've long since suspected that Spotify keeps redirecting me back to songs that are either less royalties for them to play, or located closer to me on…
Air traffic communication is structured and a very limited subset of English. It makes more sense if you remember that that first call in the video isn't coming out of the blue - the pilot of Delta 29 Heavy would have…
I will often do the reverse, especially when they've repeated the same opposition point more than once or I'm feeling unheard - 'I'm worried I've miscommunicated, can you paraphrase back what you've heard my point is…
If it’s the interior design aspect that’s enjoyable, we’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of the Animal Crossing expansion pack https://animalcrossing.nintendo.com/new-horizons/happy-home-...
Kerbal Space Program gets high marks for giving me a great intuitive sense of orbital mechanics, aeronautical design, and space mission architectures (‘to get to space you need to go sideways, not up’), even if the…
This is what helped me work through some perfectionism tendencies: change the target. Reframing from 'making sure this project goes perfectly' to 'maximizing my personal benefit' helped me step back a bit and prioritize…
The key reason is that an extra second of time spent hovering or close it is another second of resisting gravity, which takes fuel, so the most efficient hypothetical ‘burn’ is one big bang ‘hoverslam’ right at the end…
As a SpaceX fan reading through the post-launch analysis, this was definitely more of a success than the headline applies, but 'massive' is a stretch. Most commentary I'm seeing put it at a C or B-. It's true that there…
Finding lots of value in drafting emails, especially for topics or asks I'm not as used to dealing with, like asking for extensions or blaming other teams for blockers. Obviously takes a few iterations ('be less…
Copying my favorite quote from a different thread about data scientists: it's 'decision-based evidence-making'
From an individual perspective, we've really valued Google's SRE whitepapers in interrupts and incident handling. The key message is that setting up your team to enable bundling 'jumping on things' and also 'focus…