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"Multiple studies have shown benefits of caffeine in improving endurance. Military studies have shown caffeine increase vigilance in sleep deprived and one study showed improved shot group tightness."

"Recommended dosing is 5mg/kg of bodyweight. Dosing of 200-300 mg has also been used. Higher dosing has been associated with side effects that would decrease performance. Serious adverse reactions have been seen at 2,000mg so this quantity of caffeine should be avoided."

The military does some cool studies on these. Source is below, but you can find the actual study with charts on how firearm proficiency rises and drops with dose.

https://www.benning.army.mil/tenant/75thranger/content/PDF/R...

Cool, ty

No, was too busy working a minimum wage job to pay for clothing and save for college. What a productive use of time that was.

Anyway, I stand by my point. Not that I have a workable solution for wealth inequality.

I mean performance / safety wise.

Thanks for info on costs. I wonder how these compare to Cessnas.

I am pretty sure a redneck doing custom welding and ECU mapping on a LS1 turbo is much more of a technical accomplishment. Genuinely.

There is - the kid's parents having money is not his/her accomplishment.

You also don't have to understand anything about anything. That's not to take away from what you are doing, but the title completely misrepresents the amount of competence of these (likely spoiled) kids.

Also, what's the total cost (for ALL parts, but without labor)? I looked at their site and it seems to list $30-40k but I don't see the engine included in the part list.

As someone with one, my understanding is that its market value sits somewhere between art history and lower-tier engineering degrees (e.g. civil).

It opens the door to $40,000 office jobs, but that's about it.

I very much doubt Wall Street will absorb them. The number of needed Finance jobs collapsed with automation. The only people getting analyst jobs are those with connections or an Ivy League background (and a top one with certs at that).

The call center jobs are just being cut and/or the salary has been dropping rapidly since 2008.

We pushed "progress bar" data to the client via SignalR once x% of a slow moving process were complete.

Well aware. The radar signature is still significantly smaller for the projectile. Also, note how hard-kill tank defense systems work better on missiles/rockets than SABOT.

P.S. Zircon is probably vaporware.

"2) Railguns are going to be the equivalent of WWII naval cannon -- They won't be nearly as important as something else."

Railguns would completely surpass missiles for StS warfare, which can be intercepted by other missiles, whereas a railgun shot cannot at this time.

Not sure what you are getting at at all.

I hate the 2-day book "Lambo guy", but this has nothing to do with him. Edit: "Hate" is giving him too much credit, but I do think he is profiting of fooling already confused and lost people.

I learned some important lessons in life from fiction books, which quite literally changed my life.

Good fiction reflects reality - that's why authors like Branden Sanderson will always be a complete joke, they don't understand anything meaningful "irl".

This is a very good way to put it. When I switched to a bad manager, everything was an emergency, every day.

I had the best manager of my life recently, so I will try to list some of the things she did/was, all of which seem obvious in retrospect, but I have never seen another manager actually do them holistically.

1. Knew the business logic. The role of a PM in my job is to get the BUSINESS requirements, and put them into a story. She took the time to get VERY CLEAR business requirements. (Yes, we are SCRUM, yes, we could tell her "that's not the best solution", yes we could change the plan). The problem is that most managers take "self managing teams" to mean "lol I don't have to do shit."

2. BECAUSE she understood the business logic and roughly what we meant when we said SQL/K8S/RabbitMQ/backend/frontend, she DID NOT PRESS FOR DEADLINES. As opposed to a super senior manager I got placed under next who constantly asked me to give the exact number of hours when the pointed story would be finished.

3. She did not throw all the blame on the team. She took personal responsibility for all the failures and said we did not plan it well. With that said, the team was endlessly loyal and went out of their way to keep her updated and do their work.

4. Trusted us and FORCED us not to overdo it. Whatever magical world HN lives in, a lot of places have "stealth overtime" - she avoided it like the plague. This also worked because she knew what everyone was working on and she knew we were using work time effectively. As a result, she didn't have theories about someone trying to slack off.

5. Planned things she is responsible for planning: Deploys (after getting out feedack), talking to other teams, scheduling meetings with third parties, etc.

6. Remembered "special occasions" - never made a big deal out of it, never made anyone else go do something - you would just get a nice thing YOU like on your desk for your birthday. I know this is petty and trite, but because it was just there, and you KNEW she got 6 hours of sleep and still drove across the city to get your co-worker his favorite cake, it had meaning.

6. When shit hit the fan, she worked OT with the rest of us - that way we knew she had a vested interest in avoiding issues. Most managers really do call you and go back to enjoying their day.

7. This weird and usually a mistake, but I could drop my professional facade around her, and she never abused it to get info or figure out if "I am quitting soon, etc." But she never broke hers, ever, which, I guess, only worked because we somehow knew she was human under there.

Anyway, this post ended up being a rant.

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Edit regarding BAD MANAGERS: I think I am figuring some heuristics of bad managers as this spins around my head:

1. Hypocritical behavior - specifically treating us as incompetent when there is blame to be placed, and as rockstars when there is work to be done. Can't have it both ways. 2. Passive aggressiveness / failure to communicate. "Mr/Mrs. Manager is there anything I could do to help make your job easier." "No everything is great." Then it turns out that over 6 months, this particular manager hasn't said one good thing about anyone on the team and kept a calendar of the SDET's bathroom breaks, but never once did she tell him there was a problem. 3. Emotions at work - specifically, a common trait I notice is management being emotional / expecting you to sympathize and then immediately calling you unprofessional if YOU share something.

I guess it all falls under hypocrisy.

I have a degree in something entirely unrelated. Always wondering if I should bother getting a Masters in CS if I plan to stay in the field long term. Seems to only be worth it if I get into a top 5 school, and even then, it seems like a year of study might be worth more than a degree.

Yea, my statement was too biased to make without evidence, so props for calling me on it. If we ever have a news article on tanks on here, we can debate it out =)

Not cumulative.

I read TBP and A Deepness in the Sky at the same time. Despite the "big ideas", TBP isn't even in the same league. Can't bring myself to read the second TBP book, just don't care. Did buy a Fire Upon a Deep recently, looking forward to it.

LinkedIn constantly gets me interviews for jobs paying 40% more than what I see listed on Stackoverflow /job sites / through recruiters, etc. I didn't realize what I was missing out on before I made a profile.

A lot of Russia's armor consists of dated T-72s, a small number of which are being upgraded, but those upgrades are basically "Add a thermal sight, make the turrent turn a little faster, add some ERA brickes". Armata is really a unicorn, T-80s got pulled out of service, and they rely on T-90 variants just like India.

Whether or not M1A2s are equal or inferior to a tricked-out T-90 is a long, long debate.

There is also China, but I personally don't think much of their new tanks.

You guys have enough T-90s to roll Pakistan three times over. One of the largest modern tank forces in the world if not THE largest.

A lot of practice that's not directed properly is useless, especially for complex mental skills. For example, I learned Java's stream syntax to the point where I wrote an article that thousands of people read. Do I remember a single thing? No, because I don't use Java every day. I just remember that it sucked compared to LINQ because every collection type had a different method to turn it into a stream. That's it. From weeks of study, practice, and an article. Mostly a complete waste - if it didn't build into my rep, it would be a complete waste.

His father spent a lot of effort facilitating that as well, so he really was a pretty cool guy.

Bunch of punks - Caesar cried at Alexander's grave too.

Still, to me, Alexander's father was the man who made Alexander, so he was greater. (I don't mean by birth, the army and previous conquests)

Can you recommend some sort of introduction/book to VPNs? I get the idea, I have read the wikipedia page, but my understanding boils down to "one server encrypts and sends small packets, the other decrypts". The packets still go through the public internet / your ISP, but they are encrypted?

I find myself in a similar situation - a friend's perspective is that you can learn from anything. Mine is that you should triage endlessly after a certain point, I guess that makes me dismissive.

Of course, if I told him "So, you can browse facebook all day and be better off?", he would probably say "You know what I mean."

Real "wisdom" is knowing when to be dismissive and when not to be, either extreme is bad, but being able to discern is tacit knowledge that no one can really say anything useful on without being super specific.

>Do you never see code that has global side effects?

The answer for modern languages and frameworks is "write pure functions."

>Or that is written a particular way to take advantage of the hardware that it is running on?

Move to service/helper/utility class for that particular hardware or with a name that clarifies it's for that particular hardware.

I find comments to be necessary very rarely. Atm looking at a codebase where they are made to cover up for a lack of desire to think.