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I was working there that fall as one of my co-op work terms!

I recall the onboarding tour around the testing rooms which were essentially giant Faraday cages. There was a print-out on the door exhorting employees to CLOSE THE DOOR! when you come or go. Apparently it was a semi-monthly occurrence where someone would accidentally leave the door propped open and the nightly tests on upcoming devices would make real 911 calls to the local dispatchers as the E2E tests on physical hardware were running.

I'm guessing that using some clip-on aero bars would make a big difference. Then you're not using your hands to support any weight so the typing would be a little easier.

And if you're doing hours of Z2 training, you likely want to be getting more time in a position closer to what you'd be doing in the drops.

Do you happen to have a link to the talk about Nix on macOS you heard about it from? Or event the title/details so I could search?

I used to work at a company in the chip-design software space that built Linux-only software for $100k/user/year, so there's definitely money to be made for Linux (even if it happens to be niche software).

This is the comment I came here for.

I had a professor in college who was building self-driving tractors and would come in every other week complaining about John Deere this, or Case that, trying to steal his business with more expensive solutions. It turns out you can use GPS for a rough location and a fancy $200 gyroscope for millimeter precision. Then just plant the seeds on an exact grid and you know that anything not on the grid is a weed.

And actually, his suggestion was to use high-pressure water jets to cut the weeds instead of lasers. It would/could be less energy-intensive.

Yes, and much of the non-livestock emissions from agriculture is from growing plants to feed to livestock!

This is so great.

This is bad.

This was the key line that stood out to me as well. I've seen both situations where individuals are jealous of successful people in resource-limited environments and where employees appreciate working with and helping high performers when resources are plentiful for everyone.

It would be great if this list would include Buck or Bazel and their associated HTTP caches. For us we lowered our clean CI build times from 22 minutes to 4.5 minutes (1 million lines of Swift)

"Military testing calls for survivability of three hits from the round marked on the plate."

It's just stunning how they have been able to achieve 7nm features. With a 193nm wavelength laser no less.

Once people don't have to own their own vehicle, many roads will get an extra driving lane that used to be used for parking.