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Comment · 2 years ago
>Companies could offer these as a return to office incentive

So an office full of people with VR headsets on? I don't see the incentive in that compared to doing it from home.

Comment · 3 years ago
FlightAware | multiple roles | REMOTE (US timezones) | Houston / US | https://flightaware.com/about/careers/

Hello from FlightAware! We are hiring for a number of positions including: software test engineer, network reliability engineer, and software engineer. Our team is headquartered in Houston, Texas, but we work as a distributed team and accept remote applicants for work within the United States.

FlightAware has built the world’s leading aviation software platform, processing over 180 million incoming messages an hour from over 30,000 feeds -- over 2TB a day and growing -- to provide the best, most complete, and most accurate real-time flight tracking services in the industry. We use Python, Rust, C++, Tcl, and JavaScript. We are proud to have built a wide variety of successful products on this foundation that have become central to the aviation industry at large.

Comment · 4 years ago
I watch a lot of Grady's videos and there's a comment I've always wanted to make but I don't leave comments on YouTube. I'm going to leave that comment here: it would be great if he spent more time going over the models that he builds and really showing what they're representing. Show it from different angles, show it in slow motion; really explain what's happening and what we're seeing. Note: I haven't watched this particular video yet.

He clearly spends a lot of time building high quality small-scale versions of things to show how they work, but more often than not he just shows those things while the voiceover isn't actually talking about what's being shown. Or when he is talking about the thing being shown, it's a very brief comment and then he moves on.

I love his videos, but I very often finish them and think "I could have learned more if he spent some more time explaining in detail what's happening with the model, and replaying some component of it several times over as he explains it in more detail."

Comment · 5 years ago
What is Blind? I tried searching various things but just keep getting results for accessibility.
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
Complete guess here but I would suspect that means some items are made in Germany and some are made in China or elsewhere (meaning, even the same model may be produced in both locations). If they are printing "MADE IN GERMANY" directly on it then it will be obvious which ones aren't, because they would lack the print. And that would likely degrade the perceived quality of those not made in Germany vs those that are. And Sennheiser doesn't want you to think that some of their items are built with better quality than others.

Of course, people can look at the fine-print and determine where it was made. But that's a lot less obvious than the silk screened badge not being there.

Comment · 5 years ago
Or it shows that he's open and honest. And that's definitely someone I would want on my team.
Comment · 5 years ago
Unless something has changed recently that I'm unaware of, that definitely isn't currently possibly on Android itself. I assume it won't be possible using the Windows-version of the Amazon AppStore either. But maybe this will cause the devs to start pushing to make that a thing.
Comment · 5 years ago
I'm not saying this is a reason to do it, but the part of the model that isn't broken is that people love it. The consumers are benefiting.
Comment · 5 years ago
I laughed, but also stopped reading at

>if you're from IT — well, it would be like learning the alphabet once again. Probably you won't find anything new; if you do, that is a bad sign for your employer.

But after seeing a few other positive comments about it I decided to go back and give it a read, and I'm so glad I did. Great article.

Comment · 5 years ago
VSCode is by far the lightest Electron app I've ever used. I currently have a decent sized repo open, with a good number of plugins, and it's using 0% CPU and 12MB ram on Windows (and I haven't restarted the app in probably 2 days).

Teams on the other hand... that's a hog.

Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
Google translate of the first tweet (in German):

> Extreme nightcap in the #network frequency. Quite unusual at this height and at this point in time. One of my measuring devices even shows 49.74Hz as a minimum. Has a major #power plant failed somewhere?

And second tweet:

>Here is another representation of the # mains frequency from just now. Extremely unusual, as a malfunction is to be suspected. Unfortunately, none of my network analyzers are currently running to check the exact course.

Comment · 5 years ago

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