theflyingpigeon

What?

What?

Even if the trial was annulled due to procedural fraud (which it wasn’t), it doesn’t take away his corruption and what his group did to the country.

One can argue that there have been numerous procedural frauds in Bolsonaro's trial - but of course if it’s the other side you don’t care ;)

It’s funny because most people on the right will say Meta is helping the left lol

What a bunch of crying babies. Plus, my entire feed is full of pro-Lula garbage

Either most of my friends are pro-Lula (they are not) or Meta is helping them, not Bolsonaro.

This is an excuse for them to challenge the election if they (hopefully) lose.

For my other Brazilian friends over here: to me both sides are terrible but Lula is the convicted felon that spent 2 years in prison, and he ruled the country since 2003 and the place gets worse by the day.

Really cool and stuff. My question is: who comes up with these ridiculous names? Argon? What? Luna, Sol, what??

You are referring to ICE as a criminal terror gang, but they perform a very important function of enforcing immigration law. Anyone who comes illegally to our country is committing a crime.

I don’t agree with some things that they do, but what is the alternative? Just let people enter freely and not do anything about it?

ICE only exists because of mass illegal immigration.

How about encouraging people to not go to other countries illegally?

Stanford would be interesting as well. Applications for the next cycle open in mid-September I believe.

The company I work for will pay around $10K per year, so UT Austin or GT would be fully covered, but I would have to fork some money for JHU.

Still weighing my options - and waiting for UT Austin decision.

I got in 2020, during COVID. But before that I was already working at a large financial services and tech company.

I absolutely agree with this, and it is my main motivation TBH. I know I’m capable of learning almost anything in my field by hands on experience, but having the advanced degree from a strong institution will help on the rat race. At the end of the day I’m competing with equally capable peers that have a degree from a good school.

My move to America was not related to my work :D I got married here and that made things a lot easier. I was fortunate enough to not have the visa barrier.

I agree that most jobs don’t require a degree if one has experience, but one ends up limiting themselves on the kinds of opportunities they can get abroad (if that is something the person is interested in).

I have a similar trajectory. I attended two very competitive military schools in Brazil but never finished and moved to America.

Today I’m a senior software engineer at a FAANG company. The lack of diploma has never been a barrier and I progressed very quickly in the company from junior to senior (4 years).

But this has always been a perceived pain point and limiter for me so I decided to get a CS degree during COVID online from a college from Brazil. Just finished last week :)

I do look for a stronger school name on my resume and got accepted at Johns Hopkins Masters in AI (online). Anyone had any experience with that program? Thoughts?

Complete AÍ garbage. Not even worth trying to debunk the arguments made here.

Kia is a terrible brand anyways

This is interesting. However, too bad a British university is working with a russian university

One good thing is that we will finally stop cooperating with the russians. Unbelievable that we ever shared any technology with them.

I miss my BlackBerry. I had a Pearl Flip, it was the most beautiful thing ever.

All these boring phones, especially the iPhone, don’t come even close.

Edit: added “flip”. The touch keyboard is a disgrace.

The mass is actually 50.000 tons, I typed wrong. My point is not the force to move the mass of the ship, but transmitting that force to the structure of the vessel in order to move it forward. It’s a lot of force, the structure is not made for that

Shipping is responsible for 3% of global emissions. Let’s say this solution worked (which it probably won’t), it would be used in a small percentage of vessels, and only used in an even smaller number of voyages/parts of each voyage. The difference for the climate is basically zero.

Exactly my point. Not to mention transferring that load to the body of the vessel, which has a structure made to withstand loads in specific points. A container stacked on top of other containers for sure isn’t able to sustain such forces lol not even if it’s well latched. It’s just too much force. Also the ship is hollow, there are like 5 rows of containers below deck, so the deck itself is not very strong except for some points that have the mechanism for the ropes.

To me the problem is transmitting the force generated by the sails to the body of the vessel

A small to medium vessel fully loaded is like 150.000 tons. 10% of that is 15000 tons, imagine the force that needs to be transferred to the structure of the ship in a place where it was not designed to handle that force.

>> Oceanbird is awesome! The trouble is that overhauling the entire industry with new-built ships would take too long to make a meaningful climate impact, and be extremely expensive (not to mention that their approach only works for ro-ros).

Shipping is responsible for like 2% of emissions. A 5-10-20% reduction on a small number of vessels for a small number of voyages is not gonna make a dent.

Not sure if anyone asked this question here but how do you plan to transfer the load of the wings/sails to the structure of the vessel?

A medium containership that weighs 150 tons moving at 20 kts has a lot of energy. If the wing is providing 10% of the propelling force, it’s like pushing/pulling 15 tons.

You need to transfer that to the structure of the ship, which may not be built to support that kind of stress.

Edit: I’m a software engineer at a maang company but my background is in maritime - I went to maritime college.