NotAnOtter

Feynman should not be celebrated.

I'm not claiming college kids can't build products.

But in general, if you're buying the cheapest labor you can find, you're going to get an inferior product.

When I was in college, I was asked to be a founding engineer. The other two involved were business guys that were pursing a $1Mil grant and needed the MVP in 9 months. I asked for 33% and they laughed me off. A few months later I saw many salty posts on their socials about "engineers expected to own the company when they don't contribute any vision or direction".

It's like captaining a ship and not being willing to repair the ship. Good luck on your own I guess.

It's different when they already have a product and are looking to expand. That's closer to hiring a sailor to manage the sails. But when you're hiring a ship builder expect a ship builders wage.

Also, don't hire a college kid to build your MVP. That's a big enough red flag right there.

Came here to do a worse job of writing this comment. Terrain generation via water simulations are cool, except they don't work for the primary use cases for terrain generation. Water simulations are inherently slow you have to choose to either

1) Have a small domain

2) Have a large resolution

3) Have a very long initial load time

Any of these suck for game development.

I like analogy's like this. Not in love with this specific one. It feels like OP thought of the first two hats and then tried to think up other hats, rather than have the nebulas idea of different ways of working and structured the analogy around it.

Analogies should "simplify" not complicate. If you're ever writing an analogy and think "How can I add more meat to this? You know, enough to make it worth sharing in a blog post?" you're on the wrong path.

I agree this is the best route for my own personal happiness. But I'm just not really willing to be complacent anymore

One example is something like this: https://trumptracker.github.io/

I'm hoping for things more impactful than yet another dashboard but something is better than nothing

> However, developers hate email.

My perspective is every form of communication bears certain unspoken rules / implications.

* Email - This is a serious thought out discussion

* Slack / Similar in a shared channel - This is office-formal, you should be professional but can joke around. Similar to how you would talk to an equal or your manager in person

* Slack / similar in DM - This is a rapid "Quick question" forum where you just need some links or quick thoughts. Nothing here is very serious

* Phone call - This is informal, rapid discussion for time sensitive issues. I'm calling you so that I don't have to page you.

> next job often comes from contacts that you built up from the current job, or jobs before

I've been in this field for ~7 years and have never found this to be true, yet people parrot it all the same. I have never once received a job via reference, and only once was able to get someone else a job by reference. I feel this is only true when you're at the very senior level.

This sounds like a cool one-time solve. Solving high level traditional sudukos is mostly about learning "rules" (like The Phistomefel Ring). I imagine the equivalent in 3d would be too complex for a human to parse.

+1 on matching the CTC 'standards'. You'll get significantly more user adoption if the conventions match.

I theory the incentive is to 1) eventually become a professor and 2) have more say over what projects you get to work on.

Both of these aren't real incentives for the bottom 80% of postdocs.

There is no longer any incentive to stay in academia. Professorships are rare and not as lucrative as they once were. Staying in academia means living like a 19 yearold student well into your 40's.

I do search with regex pretty often and as a result have memorized these, but if I was mentoring someone I would never encourage them to memorize it.

Start with . and .*, then add additional stuff as you get comfortable

Idk why anyone would ever "learn regex's" without the use of a look up table. It's not like timestables where having it memorized will really accelerate other aspects of life. Knowing what ^ does by memory will almost never benefit you.

So basically, they used them because they needed to assign them to something ang they knew type writers would have those characters due to their use in business & math.

I mean. Fair enough. I guess.

Damn, still getting reposted a decade later lmao

Given you're surfing this forum, you probably work in tech and have expendable income, most people don't. Also there are many ways you could (and maybe already are) spend money to reduce CO2 impact. Electric car, buying solar, etc.

I appreciate it. The article is really well thought out, it looks like it took some real research & effort. Bookmarked the domain.

>the point of switching to electricity is to be able to use renewables

That argument won't work in practice though. You have to make it make financial sense to each and every individual to encourage them to switch, "Do it because it's the right thing to do" is a tall order when people are already on a tight budget.

I'm sure the new US president will assist in this matter.

Def not making an account on whatever random website heatpumped.org is. Owner of the site needs to stop pretending their the WSJ.

Anyways the phrasing of the non-blocked article seems to imply the title is a red herring, and their bill actually went down. I'll never know though.

It's not enthusiasm over something they love. It's enthusiasm about how their thing is so much better than your thing.

It gets old.

> The main advantages are that you don’t need an internet connection

To that end, I'm not clear on benefit in this model. To solve that problem I would just take a centralized framework and stick it inside an oversized drone/vehicle capable of carrying the added weight (in CPU, battery, etc.). There are several centralized models that don't require an external data connection

> the resources on the robots, which are idle otherwise, are used

But what's the benefit of this? I don't see the use case of needing the swarm to perform lots of calculations beyond the ones required for it's own navigation & communication with others. I suppose I could imagine a chain of these 'idle' drones acting as a communication relay between two separate, active hives. But the benefit there seems marginal.

> our system also don’t rely on such central point of failure

This seems like the primary upside, and it's a big one. I'm imagining a disaster or military situation where natural or human forces could be trying to disable the hive. Now instead of knocking out a single mothership ATV - each and every drone need to be removed to full disable it. Big advantage.

> We are just currently working on a “group” abstraction

Makes sense to me. That's the 'value add', might as well really spec that out

> leader election to determine a “mothership” among the group

This seems perfectly reasonable to me and doesn't remove the advantages of the disconnected "hive". But I do find it funny that the solution to decentralization seems to be simply having the centralization move around easily / flexibly. It's not a hive of peers, it's a hive of temporary kings.

Fantastic idea, the UI of the site is clean, I think the actual content itself could use some improvement.

After opening the site I had to "fail" a couple just to understand what the user goal even was. I recognized the fake/misleading UI but still wasn't sure what to do with that information.

I think you should take this exact concept, do some user studies, and come out with a V2. There's a market for this. My grandparents are getting to the age where I don't really trust them with access to their own credit cards / operating the web, I frequently come over to fix their computer and it's just extensions they've unintentionally installed. If this was iterated on & repackaged as either a educational course or a "test" to see if they are "safe on the internet", I would pay money for it.

And on the other end, it's well-proven at this point that tech literacy for the average person peaked somewhere around people born in 1985-2000. Before then, people grew up without as much access to tech. After that, people grew up in an environment where common tech problems were already solved. (A 10 yearold in 2012 wasn't dealing with corrupted disks, they were playing on an iPad). Offering this concept as a course targetted at the age range could be good.

Very fun. Is this primarily a passion project or are you hoping to get corporate sponsorship & adoption?

Can you provide some insight as to why this would be preferred over an orchestration server? In this context - Would a 'mothership'/Wheel-and-spoke drone responsible for controlling the rest of the hive be considered an orchestration server?

This isn't my area of expertise but I think "Hive mind drones" tickles every engineer.

Yeah their comment struck me as a joke more than a real critique lmao. But I wasn't sure so I made my reply a joke.

It won't give anyone a BJ. Independent of if they could hypothetically receive one or not.

It's hard to make me hate something I've never engaged with and yet the Rust community has managed to do it with their overzealous love.

It's a language guys. It won't give you a BJ

Additional context to be speculative of OP's intentions. Within the academic world there was a major scandal where a semi-famous researcher was exposed for faking decades of data (Google: Pruitt). Every since, people have been hungry for more drama of the same shape.

Pruitt? Is that you?