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BoneZone | 1 year ago | on: Exotic new superconductors delight and confound

I worked in Cory Deans lab when he did a brief professorship at City College. He is the most sharply intelligent person I have ever worked with, a savage experimentalist always devising new ways to experiment in nanofabrication and his theoretical curiosity is boundless. Additionally, he’s a really nice Canadian when he goes to the pub!

If you ever wonder why these products using graphene aren’t commercially viable, it is insanely difficult to work with and prepare. Imagine trying to make a sandwich that’s 5x5 microns in area and about 2-3nm thick. Graphene is essentially atomic tissue paper subject to all sorts of contamination and small scale effects.

BoneZone | 3 years ago | on: How to be a -10x Engineer

I disagree.

For me this outlines the caveats and pitfalls of software development and management.

There is real truth to some of the authors points showing real paths that emerge naturally.

If you're going to gaslight him by inferring anyone who is critical is an asshole, maybe you should ask yourself why you're taking the article so personally...

BoneZone | 3 years ago | on: Tell HN: From bartending to managing cloud infrastructure

Wow, this story sounds familiar to my own. Moved to NYC 15 years ago and worked in Service (Server, Bartender, Manager) after about 8 years in, I applied to college at CUNY. Went to engineering school part time for 4 years while still working at a bar (6pm-5am 3 nights a week) until I finally just took out loans to finish the last two years.

Graduated with a degree in computer Engineering at 33. During and after school I worked in web doing frontend, then full stack engineering. Now I'm senior at a cloud HPC company designing and implementing things beyond my imagination.

I can 100% testify the soft skills learned from the service industry give me a competitive advantage in tech.

BoneZone | 3 years ago | on: How to distort Scrum until it no longer works

> Just like creating your own front-end framework is a rite of passage for web developers, creating your own version of Scrum is a rite of passage for engineering managers.

Excuse me, what? I've worked in web development for years and I personally know 0 people who have written a front end framework like React, View.js, etc.

BoneZone | 3 years ago | on: Kagi search and Orion browser enter public beta

Love what I see from Kagi search so far. Tried out Orion, but unfortunately the Bitwarden Password manager extension is pretty much unusable for both the chrome and firefox extensions. It locks the vault after every page load and the biometrics requests in MacOS take considerable longer than with chrome/firefox.

It won't be my daily driver, but I will check back when extension support is more mature.

BoneZone | 3 years ago | on: Bluetooth relay attacks allow Tesla Model 3 / Y to be unlocked and driven away

Articles like this feed on the idea that someone could just swoop in and magically steal your car, but magine how difficult it would be to not get caught when stealing an electric car. There are several uniquely identify components, not to mention the car fully understands it's own location.

It would take a serious criminal organization to get away with the theft and sell it for profit, and at that point you're gonna lose regardless of the type of exploit invoked.

Imagine stealing a smart phone today What's the incentive when the technical overhead of getting away with it is so high?

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