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I'm aware that these standards exist and are being used.
My question was more on the engineering process that uses them. E.g. a Process design that is developed into Flow sheets , then PI&D until it is built.
Developments of PFD and PI&D are covered in intentional standards and procedures. But the underlying knowledge on what and how it is designed is part of the process knowledge the engineering company has.
My question was related to that knowledge and if there are examples of RFC being used out there. The RFC or equivalent would then discuss the reasons behind e.g. the selection of a specific pressure vessel head for a certain application. While there are many head options that are code or standard compliant the engineering company has reasons to chose one. The documentation of these reasons and the history behind it is what interest me.
I wonder what is out there today that feels like the enlightenment that fravia's writing provided back then. The links between technology and philosophy, in its original meaning as the love of knowledge. Fravia really helped form my worldview. Going back and reading it again, it doesn't feel the same due to how the internet unfolded over the last 20 years.

I wish I had thought to reach out! Glad they were nice!
This is more complicated - you ignore hull speed for one. Amount of force needed to move ship through waves is non linear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_speed
Yeah notifications broke for a pretty long time indeed...

That's hard to believe but during my one year of usage before I gave up, I had an issue with playing videos. Videos were always laggy, they would play for two seconds and then freeze until the end. They did not fix that in one year of updates.

And that's a core feature of the app, it's unbelievably buggy, it would be the same as Facebook freezing when you like a post or Youtube freezing when switching videos.
Ask HN: Books/podcasts/blogs discussing Microsoft's culture change post Nadella?
Over the last few years, I'm quite blown away by the sort of change in MSFT's culture. While Satya Nadella wouldn't be the only factor, it has been under his leadership, but I cannot find insightful material on the same.
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Unfortunately, for one, the politicization and hijacking of the climate change conversation by political parties has destroyed most any chance for a reasonable and neutral analysis on the topic by a layman, which is all I and many people would need.

For two, the incredible level of economic and legislative control given to any controlling body named in climate change improvement role give me incredible pause to support that. Think of something like a single world entity, in example the UN, controlling the economies and laws of all nations regarding anything that can affect climate change (thinking cattle and plant farming, electricity, fuel consumption, manufacturing, etc.)

Also please don't send me the XKCD article shows that humans contributed to CO2 level again. I am already convinced of CO2 rise, and I know CO2 is supposed to contribute to significantly higher temps. Why hasn't it happened yet?

Or lastly try to tell me that I don't need convincing because the scientists have already proved it (Ad hominem and genetic attacks). Sorry - we can do better than that with the internet, can't we?
What a kiss-ass. He didn’t even say why he was leaving.
Tesla Model 3 achieves lowest probability of injury of any vehicle by the NHTSA
This is an instruction specified in the ARMv8.3‑A instruction set. It was specified and designed by ARM, not Apple. Apple is merely the first to ship silicon implementing v8.3-A.
This paragraph:

>Second of all – I don’t want to make an enemy of all the lovely Google engineers out there, but is your experience with Google services that they evolve quickly and get better once they go to wide release? It’s not mine. They rot. Have you used Google Hangouts lately without it ending up with cursing and moving off to someone’s Zoom? That kind of specialization still has its downsides in terms of hindering your feedback loops that let you improve (the Second Way). Is SRE just Google-ese for “sustaining?”

Makes me think the author of this blog post doesn't have a clear understanding of what SRE does. Product rot and feedback has nothing to do with reliability.

It theoretically possible to have a product with no product engineering team because there are no new features, and still require an SRE team since, well, people use it.

I'm not sure how the author managed to conflate product managers and SREs, but it appears that they did?
The problem wasn't that I didn't get much out of them (I got a whole lot out of these experiences else I would've quit after doing it once) the problem is that it didn't gave me the ASD diagnosis or the long-term benefits of stable SSRI usage together with education and work. If I knew back then that I had ASD, I'd have benefited from that knowledge back then. In the meantime, I was stuck with the notion that I have a (different) diagnosis but I cannot work out how to apply that with my real-life. Sure, the circumstances were different as well, and it is anecdotal.

The usage of drugs (recreational or not) without them being prescribed and without a trained, licensed professional guiding you is indeed something different than recreational usage for which the drugs I mentioned (psilocybin, MDMA, marihuana, DMT) and A.muscaria are not licensed for anywhere AFAIK.

The recreational drug usage of psilocybin was, for me, almost exclusively done in a safe, private setting though without bright light and with a careful choice of music. Because otherwise it hurts. For DMT and A.muscaria, it was exclusively done in such setting as well. I can guarantee you my focus was inward however it cannot be compared to a licensed, educated babysitter who's getting paid.
Because, despite our papering over of some of it's warts, JS is still fundamentally a pretty terrible language; and rather than everyone trying to make it be better, shouldn't we devote time and hardware efforts like this to either language agnostic improvements, or to languages that are better designed?
Some of that food could be a carbon sink, depending on how it's grown, how it's transported and where it ends up. With the later it might even get a second life generating electricity.
It depends what you mean by cheap but you can live in Somerville next to Cambridge MA for a fraction of SF rent and be in perhaps the best intellectual environment in the world.

https://boston.craigslist.org/search/aap?bedrooms=1&maxAsk=1...

Looks like it’s pretty easy to find a sub-$1000/mo bedroom
Bold claims from newspaper is also par for the course, and Bloomberg benefits from the attention, especially if in the end they can just say “the problem was insignificant, but we were in good faith, we’re not engineers after all”

If we want to disregard what Apple’s denial, we can also disregard Bloomberg’s claim until someone sues someone else and an investigation brings out actual facts.
I agree.

All the things we could be doing and we're making CPU improvements for the flaming pile of hot trash that is JS? Why?
We call it Hype Driven Development which is just as bad as Marketing Driven Development... and yes, monorepos, don't even mention it, good heavens.

Another hype that keeps coming back is the magic of trunk based development (with a random po reading some flashy article about feature switches as the wonderous solution for a-b testing AND faster development).

Nowdays I even consider putting react and angular into this pack, since, you know, "if it's good enough for facebook/google then it must be really good" - anyone ever tried to increase performance for a react site (and realizing that precompiling templates was not exactly a bad idea years ago) or hitting the wall with inline async helpers and rx magic might know my voes. But then again, give me a fast and reliable server rendered site over an unsteable trainwreck spa anytime and I will be happy.
I used UCSD Pascal quite a bit during my undergraduate days; my school (UC Irvine) had bought a bunch of (I think) Terak boxes for the computing center. I ended up getting the UCSD-Pascal card for my personal Apple ][+, hooked it up to a 24x80 CRT (because programmers always need large displays), and that allowed me to do my homework ... at home (I know, amazing)! I owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. Bowles for being such a good evangelist.
Adding polymorphism for easier maintenance does not mean "enterprise fizzbuzz". I'm talking about one 1 abstract class to define the interface and 1 implementation class per package manager. That's N+1 classes (N = # of package managers).

It means all logic for a specific package manager is gathered in one place instead of spread out over many files and the compiler can prevent us making stupid mistakes like forgetting to add a subcommand or mistyping the packagename in the big if/if/if statement.

In the current implementation we have (X = numberOfPMs*numberOfCommands) string compares which are not checked by the compiler. That means X potential typo's that each need a unit test just to verify that the implementation is hooked up correctly.

I would say that a class based implementation like this is simpler and prevents more errors during maintenance than the current version.

Don't put down OOP and classes just because hating on GoF patterns is all the rage in 2018, they exist for a reason. This is a clear case for applying them.
What flies in any court is claiming ignorance while having any possible evidence of the contrary destroyed or not documented at all in the first place.

I think this was a warning to some companies to return their fab processes to the USA or at least vouch to better the anti-tampering verification methods to protect from foreign state actors.

If the breaches are confirmed there will be a lot more damage to the stock market, but it all depends on how that would happen.
I really hope they don't throw the baby out along with the bathwater.
5 years ago, the Connecticut Forum hosted "Vision & Brilliance" with Neil Gaiman, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Neri Oxman. Lots of science-and-art, science-vs-art, relgion-vs-science, etc. It was entertaining though unfortunately Dr. Oxman spent most of the time letting "The Two Neils" talk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GVgUzqSo6I&list=PLMW6ar6w0B...
> A few years into my Agency career, I took a battery of vocational and aptitude tests including the MMPI, a personality inventory.

BTW, the MMPI is completely invalid scientifically, which is obvious from researching its history. Also, if anyone is interested in beating the MMPI, by learning how to give any particular result, it requires work and memorization since there's such a large number of questions and categories, but it's possible with study.
As member of a support group, I was visiting the workshop of Copenhagen Suborbitals sometime in 2010. Had a long and wide-ranging conversation with a fellow rocket enthusiast. Two things he said, I remember very clearly:

The first about a place called Hacker News. Poul Graham, if I knew who that was. Oh yes I did. "Startups and Lisp, startups and lisp, but he's written interesting stuff too". Well, I'm still here.

The second about the principal rocket builder: "Peter is such a dynamic and forceful character. He's bound to have some dark side we don't know about". And well, Peter isn't really still here. He's serving a lifetime prison sentence for having murdered and dismembered a female journalist onboard his private submarine last year.
According to https://www.anandtech.com/show/13392/the-iphone-xs-xs-max-re... reason is new memory subsystem. The new chip is not just fast at Speedometer 2 but %40 faster almost all at other benchmarks. Also, all iPhone devices are fast with iOS 12 JavascriptCore.
Atlanta!
> Name a specific negative incident stemming from fake photos

You're looking at the problem the wrong way if you think this is just about specific incidents.

Something can have a large negative effect without giving arise to a specific incident. There can be more systemic effects, like people seeing fake photos that feed into their pre-existing likes and dislikes, and (to them) validates and reinforces those views.
Totally agree it's not simple. But monolith in early stages enables a must faster change cycle from early adopter feedback since there's less wiring up to consider as features change.
If you really consider moving abroad, then Berlin might be a good option. It has a decent American expat community, it's relatively “cheap” and culturally rich.
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Hesitant to encourage more people to move here but...South West Montana. Bozeman, Livingston, Helena..

I say "here" but I'm typing this in SF...so I guess I mean "there".
I lived a year in Vilnius and after the usual struggle to get connected found the startup community there quite thriving. Still, most of my friends where expats.

You can live comfortably on 1300 EUR/month. (Average salary is 1000 EUR, but probably a bit higher in Vilnius).
To evaluate visit first in winter because it’s the worst time.
I’ve started buying carbon offsets when our family flies (through carbonfund) and it’s a lot cheaper than what I’d imagined. I think requiring airlines to offer carbon offsets directly in the ticket checkout flow would be impactful. I’d go a step further and have people opted-in by default so they have to un-check a box if they really don’t want to spend the extra ten bucks.

Also, as others have said: eating less meat is an effective way to lower your carbon footprint.
Microservices are the cure for cancer.
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia is an option to consider. Strategically located in growing Southeast Asia and well connected.

Most folks in the city speaks English in the city, so you wont have issues getting around.

There is a growing tech community here as well with a some notable startups/companies.

Cost of living wise, magnitude lower than neighboring Singapore, as such a good consideration
You ignored all of the parents points. You shouldn’t have to believe it, you shouldn’t have to trust a single witness, because this should have been thoroughly and completely investigated by the FBI on their own terms and time frame. There was no reason to rush or limit the investigation, other than political.
Somewhat relevant:
http://makeindiegamesincapetown.com/
Amazing! This was downed to -1 in less than 10 seconds.

The only logical conclusion is some people must hover over the comments, pruning them to their liking.
That's a wonderful bit of social engineering.
Step one: get people to eat less meat.
Step two: move farming away from monoculture crops.
"Anything from Upworthy"

Good for a laugh, but it's pretty easy to get rid of that stuff in particular. Anytime anyone reshares something, I go to the 3-dot menu and select "Hide all from xxxxx".

It makes most of the crap go away... except for the one "friend" who somehow manages to reshare everything under the sun. Somehow that guy keeps finding new sources for me to "Hide all" from. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It is by no means a solution, but the signal-to-noise ratio is increased.
I was talking to someone about tech culture in Germany earlier. How easy is it to get a tech job out there?
Isn't Rightnow the only tech company in Gallatin Valley?
Note the if. But you’re welcome to s/you/someone. It’s ment as a general statement without going into the details as to why a welfare system might be a good idea. Also you’re judging that only thinking about yourself is a negative thing.
If you're single, just cut your expenses and stay in the Bay Area. Get rid of your car, get roommates, stop eating out. It's much easier to cut your spending than move, and you will definitely be giving up opportunity and intellectual community no matter where in the world you move compared to SF.

Also, Berlin fits your criteria.

If you just want somewhere cheap try Thailand. Many coworking spaces, but harder to find a startup community. The language barrier won't be a problem because of tourism and the polite culture.
The most extraordinary part of Bloomberg’s story is that they have so many sources. How can they get 17 people to talk about something of this caliber? Especially if Apple and Amazon are constrained with gag orders to the point where they have to lie?
Secretive? Hardly. Any deca-/centimillionaire can point you toward good tax accountants whose job it is to minimize their client's tax burden within a certain gray zone. For more wholesale tax avoidance, putting it in non-self-destructing art would be far better than hiding it in gems or unstable cryptocurrencies.
I think I may have come here from /. too, but I can't really remember now. I stopped reading Slashdot a few months later. HN really is news for hackers, stuff that matters. Slashdot had become a bunch of in-jokes, sensationalism, and entertainment news. I don't want that, I want to know what problems people out there are solving.
Show HN: Get a cool email id. “yourname@coolmail.id”
Every man is an island in the world of microservices.

Look, my microservice is clean and nice and has a 100% test coverage, I couldn't care less if you can't communicate with it from yours. Solve it somehow.

Now get off my lawn and let me rewrite the whole thing in scala.
Progression?

Seriously though - at 20 years experience you probably have a lot you could mentor and nurture in other people?

Not everyone can be managers true but where do you see yourself in another 10 years?

Unless you are doing something "old school" like Cobalt, Fortran or something equally as esoteric by todays standard then do you have the energy to keep maintaining your skill set with the latest tools?
I do not know about 40+, but the trend I see in older colleagues is deep knowledge of the system (they have been working on it for longer), more participation in planning/meetings, and more guidance of newer team members. Less so just being assigned tasks and doing them.
This is great, I'll be using this instead of "watch nvidia-smi" now.

What exactly is "Mo" in the memory column?

PID USER GPU TYPE MEM Command
2324 ubuntu 0 Graphic 1Mo 0.1% /usr/bin/krunner
2320 ubuntu 0 Graphic 48Mo 2.3% kwin_x11
2980 ubuntu 0 Graphic 61Mo 2.9% /usr/share/spotify/spotify --type=gpu-process --no-sandbox --lo
2326 ubuntu 0 Graphic 85Mo 4.1% /usr/bin/plasmashell
1526 root 0 Graphic 211Mo 10.1% /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg
I wouldn't say so much that SRE has veto power. You call your Ops team an SRE team and tell them they have veto power with few other changes, and either the CEO is going to end the SRE experiment in a week when Dev and SRE are yelling at each other about getting product out the door, or the company will implode rather quickly from being dysfunctionally unable to ship.

Rather, there is an error budget and if Dev violates the error budget then Dev has to go back to being responsible for Ops until they fix whatever was causing the product to go over its error budget. Without the ops-responsibility handoff between Dev and SRE, you just have an Ops team.

This requires the org to both a) have shared language for defining errors and error budgets b) have some way of transferring control from SRE to Dev securely, without incurring additional downtime. That's more difficult than it sounds - going from Dev not having production credentials, to having production credentials, to losing them again when SRE takes the service back, all the while often using similar infrastructure e.g. managed databases which are backed up without Dev intervention etc.

What most organizations get wrong is that SRE is a higher level of efficiency, not a foundational practice. It requires building out infrastructure to support the model. If you don't have it yet then you can't force it by slapping a label on it.
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So it's like curating your own spam email blocklist?
There's a difference between being critical against Russian interference, and literally calling Muslims subhuman invaders.
Just set out to learn. It takes about five years to become really good at building every single aspect of a software application, but you'll be able to get started immediately.
Only a philistine is looking at a robust interesting marketplace of ideas and bemoan the degree of choice which has never been a "nightmare" in any meaningful way to users.

It seems likely that the ultimate solution to making it easy to distribute proprietary/complex to package software on linux will end up being Flatpak because its pushed by but not owned by Redhat.

Regarding Snap Canonical wants to own the marketplace so that ultimately they can monetize this. Its a single market not a way of distributing software like apt. Since only Ubuntu will ever support it shockingly planet earth will ignore it and like most Ubuntu specific technology it will die on the vine. See upstart, mir, Unity for reference.
I’d recommend Ann Arbor if you don’t mind the midwestern winters. [0] UMich is there, and you’ll find people in academia working on very interesting problems. Very friendly locals too.

[0] https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/most-educated-cities-i...
Having it both ways:Larry Wall,Perl and the technology/culture of the early web
Very easy, but Berlin is booming so rents are going up and vacant apartments have lots of competition. Zalando has 245 open tech positions: https://jobs.zalando.com/en/?search=technology
Plenty of co-working and reasonable hotels around Cyberjaya, good food, fast internet, it is a bit boring though for SE Asia.
Just unfollow 'em all.

You have to spend half an hour clicking through your list of "friends" (or fans or whatever these relationships are called these days) or write fifteen lines of javascript to click on the dom elements, but then that's it. Clean wall. Silence.
Are we advocating piracy now?
That reminds me of the old joke that Facebook helps you deal with the problems you wouldn‘t have without it...
Mexico City is cool. There are many emerging start-ups, affordable, and close to US.
> I question whether the cost of doing this in new novel naval architecture isn't excessive. You can have a green ship without installing Magnus effect rotor sails:

> A) install a massive ground mount photovoltaic system

> Or massive wind farm on land.

> B) use the kWh from it to crack water into pressurized tanks of hydrogen

Or, though it's in a different sense of "green ship": provide the power generated by the solar array / wind farm very cheaply or at-cost to offset the emissions generated by the ship. It doesn't make the ship emissions go away, but it could make something that's grid-connected become carbon neutral.
Yes, precisely. Or, to put it another way, politicians are acting to prepare for climate change. The action they are taking is to tighten control in anticipation of global disaster.

Also, I think this game is playing out not just between politicians and populace, but at all scales of society and business, as no individual actor has the power to take corrective action alone, or is otherwise pinned in a Mexican Standoff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_standoff
I had a psychotic break from reality while employed a few years ago. This was mostly due to a long term viral infection...

It sounds like you can barely work. Is it possible for you to get a easier job or one that’s more physical? Taking care of the bare minimums like food and shelter are priority number one. Everything else comes second.

Therapy and meds can go a long way but you’ll still face living with a disability.

The outlook is bleak unless you can provide for yourself and at least enjoy eating.

I recommend cats and cspan.
I haven’t read the sourced paper yet but the quote is vague; are you sure that’s not annual?
It is definitely culturally rich. Amazing city.