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…
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.
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 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…
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…
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…
“Never wrestle with a pig because you'll both get dirty and the pig likes it" - the source of disagreement here is about whether or not policy needs to be followed, not about the details of the policy, so stop trying to…
In addition to other comments saying to add reasoning, I’m a big fan of the ‘MoSCoW’ method (must/should/could/would) to remove ambiguity around if things are a question vs a command vs a thought. ‘You must do x’ sets a…
One limitation I’ve seen on this is that the same mechanism can’t remove carbon dioxide, so this is limited to supplemental oxygen in like a surgery or emergency scenario vs a long-term alternative to say a tracheotomy.
Overhead wires take a lot of maintenance - point of reference, Vancouver BC's transit authority reported maintenance costs per km were actually higher for their electric trolleys than both their diesel and CNG buses.…
One of the first things I do on new computers is download a macro software (i.e AutoHotkey(1)) to remap troublesome keys on normal keyboards. The quick list I have going on this particular laptop: a) numlock always…
If it makes her feel better, professional pilots make the same mistake! https://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/air-canada-pilot-misto...
I’ve actually raised with a security executive in my large consulting firm - the biggest blocker is apparently that requirements like frequent forced password changes are written in to many contracts signed with clients…
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…
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.
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 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…
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…
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…
“Never wrestle with a pig because you'll both get dirty and the pig likes it" - the source of disagreement here is about whether or not policy needs to be followed, not about the details of the policy, so stop trying to…
In addition to other comments saying to add reasoning, I’m a big fan of the ‘MoSCoW’ method (must/should/could/would) to remove ambiguity around if things are a question vs a command vs a thought. ‘You must do x’ sets a…
One limitation I’ve seen on this is that the same mechanism can’t remove carbon dioxide, so this is limited to supplemental oxygen in like a surgery or emergency scenario vs a long-term alternative to say a tracheotomy.
Overhead wires take a lot of maintenance - point of reference, Vancouver BC's transit authority reported maintenance costs per km were actually higher for their electric trolleys than both their diesel and CNG buses.…
One of the first things I do on new computers is download a macro software (i.e AutoHotkey(1)) to remap troublesome keys on normal keyboards. The quick list I have going on this particular laptop: a) numlock always…
If it makes her feel better, professional pilots make the same mistake! https://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/air-canada-pilot-misto...
I’ve actually raised with a security executive in my large consulting firm - the biggest blocker is apparently that requirements like frequent forced password changes are written in to many contracts signed with clients…