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dave333 commented on The differences between an IndyCar and a F1 car openwheelworld.net/en/ind... · Posted by u/1659447091

epolanski · 17 days ago

Personally I can't get excited about oval circuits.

dave333 · 13 days ago

Think of an oval as two straights connected by two Eau Rouge nearly flat style corners. Short one mile ovals offer some of the best racing as there are multiple lines around the corners and you can often race side by side. An F1 race on something like the Milwaukee Mile would be absolutely fantastic with the leaders coming through traffic after about 10 laps.

dave333 commented on The Boring Part of Bell Labs elizabethvannostrand.subs... · Posted by u/AcesoUnderGlass

LPisGood · a month ago

> Bell Labs’ One Year On Campus program, in which they paid new-grad employees to earn a master’s degree on the topic of Bell’s choosing

I wonder why companies don’t do this anymore. Is it something to do with the monopoly AT&T held, is it related to corporate tax structures, is it related to how easy it is to find PhD graduates who studied similar topics of interest, or is it something else entirely?

dave333 · a month ago

People used to spend entire careers at one company so investment in them pays off. I spent 10 years working for Bell Labs in the 1980s albeit as a contractor, and the bodyshop that employed me found it worthwhile reimbursing all educational expenses for a grade of C or better.

dave333 commented on Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure rosalux.de/en/news/id/539... · Posted by u/robtherobber

dave333 · a month ago

Privatisation was awful from the traveller's point of view having to figure out which company to deal with. It would have been much better to micro-privatise each train - selling off the dining car franchise to a commercial operator or allowing a commercial company to add a coach to a train for a given fee.

dave333 commented on Ask HN: Senior people, how did your career evolve? · Posted by u/Seb-C

dave333 · a month ago

In work life as in the rest of life there is a mid-career crisis thing where you plateau and realize this is likely the best you will ever do. Crazy things can happen or you may float until there's a downturn and/or layoff but likely at some point the same old same old may appear to be a friendly shore you would not mind landing back on to finish your career. A side hustle can be a good way to do something you feel passionate about.

dave333 commented on Ask HN: Can't get hired – what's next? · Posted by u/silvercymbals

dave333 · 2 months ago

Been there after the dot com bust - in my case I eventually got hired by a startup where I aced the brain teasers and 6 months there gave me the tech stack to get hired at a big company that carried me through to retirement. Six months of 996 may be the price to get back on the ladder.

dave333 commented on Ask HN: Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years? · Posted by u/ncarlson

dave333 · 3 months ago

Was laid off in 2001 during the dotcom bust. Was self-unemployed buying and selling used docking stations and power adapters until 2007 when I aced a job interview for a small start up after mostly giving up the job search. Six months at the startup gave me experience in an in-demand tech stack that landed me a job at a large tech company that saw me through to retirement 10 years later. If I had it to do over right now I would be creating something with AI as my own business - probably not very lucrative but good experience that might get you hired someplace.

dave333 commented on The Rise and Demise of RSS (2018) twobithistory.org/2018/12... · Posted by u/appreciatorBus

dave333 · 3 months ago

What are your favorite few RSS feeds?

dave333 commented on She puts the Lord in 'vanlord.' Palo Alto wants to ban her business sanjosespotlight.com/she-... · Posted by u/harambae

rozim · 3 months ago

I'll guess by intersection of Fabian Way with E. Meadow Dr. on either of these 2 streets.

dave333 · 3 months ago

Fabian Way is an office/industrial area near the major 101 freeway with wide streets and plenty of room for the RVs. Seems entirely reasonable to park RVs there. The surrounding office buildings have acres of empty parking lots. I can see if they stay a long time or are broken down and it becomes a shanty town that would be a problem, but given the problem of stupidly high rents pricing people out of homes, this seems a reasonable solution. City could lease an empty office building and allow cars/RVs in the parking lot with services like security, showers and social services in the office building.

dave333 commented on DOOMscrolling: The Game ironicsans.ghost.io/dooms... · Posted by u/jfil

danielheath · 3 months ago

We already had to beat "I made a spreadsheet", which continues to be pretty damn hard even for large teams of experienced engineers - ask your finance team sometime how many custom spreadsheets they use regularly.

A) Lots of useful apps aren't a great fit for a spreadsheet. AI seems to be opening many of those up the same way.

B) Lots of spreadsheets have bugs which cause then to give wildly inaccurate results, which are relied on to make crucial decisions. AI is also repeating this part of the pattern.

If you need it to work correctly all the time, there's still no substitute for expertise - but looking at the state of computing, clearly many people are willing to use things that have obvious, serious bugs.

dave333 · 3 months ago

Maybe I don't know enough about spreadsheets but two dimensions isn't enough for most applications. Maybe pivot tables? They are too hard to figure out. Need something like "SQLSheet" that takes a more complex data structure and presents viewing and editing it in a natural way with drill down and joins etc. AI should be able to help you design the DB and then create a tool to interact with it.

dave333 commented on The “impossibly small” Microdot web framework lwn.net/Articles/1034121/... · Posted by u/pykello

miguelgrinberg · 3 months ago

Always a nice surprise to find my stuff on the front page. If you have any questions about Microdot, I'm here to answer them!

dave333 · 3 months ago

I need to measure temperature at multiple points and humidity in my experimental garden shed with a skytherm roof [ http://www.solarmirror.com/fom/fom-serve/cache/30.html ] for passive heating and cooling. Thinking your thermostat code might be 90% of what I need however I don't yet know python. I guess it's easy to understand and modify the code with the help of AI.