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ravjo commented on Stranded astronauts' capsule heads home without them   bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/EwanToo
jmyeet · a year ago
That's not context. It's apologia and Boeing propaganda. An 8 day mission turning into a 6 month mission that can only end because a completely different company brings them home is the definition of "stranded".

That's like saying that after 9/11 when all flights were grounded and you, as a New Yorker, weren't "stranded" in London because, hey, you could always row a boat back. It's such a weird and meaningless semantic defense.

Why are you defending Boeing here?

ravjo · a year ago
Had zero intentions of defending Boeing (or anyone else) here. I made a mistake about the meaning of “stranded” in my comment. What I should have said is “they are not stranded in space like how the two main characters in the film ‘Gravity’ were stranded”. Mistake made, lessons learnt. Apologies.
ravjo commented on Stranded astronauts' capsule heads home without them   bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/EwanToo
Vecr · a year ago
What's their designated lifeboat now that the Boeing is gone?
ravjo · a year ago
As per the article, the SpaceX vehicle due for launch later this month will only carry two of the four astronauts originally planned. The two empty seats will be used by the two delayed-return astronauts when the vehicle returns in February.
ravjo commented on Small Data SF Conference   smalldatasf.com/2024/... · Posted by u/clkao
ravjo · a year ago
Tried to copy/paste some excerpts for context, but weirdly, the bulk of the text content on that page is not text, but are part of images.

I was curious to know what was meant by "small data". From what I understand it goes something like: * most often, only recent data is useful, * single computers are enough to deal with the volumes of such recent data, * local development is better for this (since individual computers are 100 times more powerful than when "big data" hype/trend emerged).

ravjo commented on Stranded astronauts' capsule heads home without them   bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/EwanToo
ravjo · a year ago
To add some context: the astronauts are not "stranded" in space. They are in the international space station. They were supposed to get back on this capsule after a few days stay, but they are now expected to stay in the ISS and get back only in February on SpaceX capsule/vehicle.
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ravjo · a year ago
For some additional context: the podcast series is titled "Autocracy in America".
ravjo commented on PwC tells UK staff it will monitor office attendance using location data   ft.com/content/11ccedba-f... · Posted by u/eh_why_not
ravjo · a year ago
The article doesn't mention how or what kind of location data will be collected/used. There is no explicit mention of tracking location using smartphones or laptops.

It is mentioned that the firm already uses location data in connection with billable hours (verifying/approving the billable hours, I'm guessing). Again, no mention of how/what location data is collected.

It is mentioned that EY does something similar (office attendance tracking) using swipe card data.

ravjo commented on Show HN: London Film Festival calender with GPT-4o planning   lff.bruceh.su/... · Posted by u/brucehsu
ravjo · a year ago
Hey, this looks neat!

Summary: "Plan with AI" then offered me a timetable that tried to ensure I get to watch all the chosen films over the week, with no screening time conflicts.

Longer walk-through:

Took an initial 10 seconds to figure out what I should be doing. The confusion happened because all the films were selected by default and therefore the "Plan with AI" button did not do anything.

But it told me in the tooltip/infobox "select 12 films or less". Good. But wasn't clear how do I change the selection individually, or even the fact that all films were selected by default.

Tried the "Unselect all". Then it all clicked.Randomly selected around 6 films. Saw on the calendar that the same film has repeat screenings on multiple days.

"Plan with AI" then offered me a timetable that tried to ensure I get to watch all the chosen films over the week, with no screening time conflicts. There may be edge cases I'm not aware of, but overall, this was impressive to me.

"Planning" really feels like an area where AI can offer so much of meaning and value.

Suggestion: How about either enabling "unselect all" by default, or limit default selection to 12 random films.

Curiosity question: How did you arrive at the number limit 12?

ravjo commented on What type of job seems appealing but ends up being quite disappointing?   old.reddit.com/r/AskReddi... · Posted by u/totowynter
jqpabc123 · a year ago
Any STEM job.

What business and government don't point out in their endless STEM promotion is that the average STEM career has about the same longevity as Major League Baseball --- without the high salaries.

For roughly half the members of any STEM graduating class in the USA, their STEM career ends with college. 50% never succeed in getting a real STEM job.

www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2015/article/stem-crisis-or-stem

ravjo · a year ago
The included link returned a 404. Found this link to be working: https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2015/article/stem-crisis-or-ste...

Excerpts from it:

> Our central question is whether there is a “STEM crisis” or a “STEM surplus.” The answer is that both exist. Our analysis yields the following findings:

The STEM labor market is heterogeneous. There are both shortages and surpluses of STEM workers, depending on the particular job market segment.

ravjo commented on Show HN: Collects real problems from SM so we can stop solving imaginary problem   problemtoidea.com... · Posted by u/davutj
ravjo · a year ago
During the curation, how do you deal with problems for which some solutions exist but that some users are not aware of yet? I would guess that social media will be so noisy with people complaining and thinking up tools/solutions. What level of signal-to-noise ratio would this service be able to manage?

Also, at least a preview of one week's newsletter would be appreciated.

ravjo commented on Show HN: We built a FOSS documentation CMS with a pretty GUI   kalmia.difuse.io/doc/... · Posted by u/arch1e
wiradikusuma · a year ago
Congrats on launching! Quick question: is this closer to WikiJS (https://js.wiki/), TinaCMS (https://tina.io/), Docusaurus (https://docusaurus.io/), or something else?
ravjo · a year ago
Good question that led to insightful responses. I would like to bring GitBook (https://gitbook.com) too to the comparison notes (no affiliation).

They, too, focus on the collaborative, 'similar-to-git-workflow', and versioned approach towards documentation.

Happy to see variety in the 'docs' tools area, and really appreciate it being FOSS. Looking forward to trying out Kalmia on some project soon.

u/ravjo

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