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One strategy for dealing with risk is to order your tasks so the highly variable ones come first. That way, as you progress through the project, you eliminate a lot of unpredictability, and it's smoother sailing toward the end.

However, as the tables in this article show so clearly, one task can dominate others. This serves as a great illustration of a perception problem the above strategy can create. Outside observers watch your progress and will probably evaluate it in terms of number of tasks completed.

You have (say) 10 tasks to complete, and from their point of view, all they know is a really long time has passed and you haven't even completed 1 of them! Since they are further removed from the situation than you are, they are almost guaranteed to not appreciate why the variable task is that way. They're likely to just think your team is performing badly.

So, maybe it's better to order tasks so that risky stuff is spread more evenly across the timeline of the project. It could create less confusion. Putting risk at the beginning is a strategy that requires a whole lot of trust and buy-in.
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> As we saw with Ethereum. They simply pushed out new code that rewrote history.

Do some basic research. History was never rewritten and new code was never pushed on users. Users voted in favor of the DAO fork, then users voluntarily downloaded newer versions of their wallets in which the respective developers had implemented the agreed upon new rules that moved the stolen money to a recovery account.
The lack of empathy around this issue is baffling. If you don't want women to be cold, kill the stupid dress code for men.

Otherwise, women just have to wear borderline cold-weather clothing at the office because the men are already wearing the absolute minimum they can wear without being fired.

I don't understand how people keep writing about this issue where there are 2 or more people who collectively require 2 temperatures and the answer is to just... switch it.

Pretty much every office on Earth has come to the same obvious conclusion about how to set the thermostat. It turns out that people wearing coats is better than people drenched in sweat all day turning the place into a reeking locker room halfway through the day.
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> I guess you don't remember the "Mr.Robot" incident[1] that we were not suppose to know about and many did not consent?

That was not malware. I will explain this a thousand times if I have to. If you didn't manually configure its secret setting, it did literally nothing.
I'm pretty sure the mobile website is designed to be as awful as possible to force users to use the mobile app.
Magnetic fields and lots of cooling.

https://www.nature.com/articles/47444
>Do we still have access to all of the specialized knowledge that went into that building? E.g., stone masonry, wood carving, preparation of varnishes, etc.?

It's not like we've stopped building things out of stone or carving and varnishing wood. The trouble is not building these structures. We can relatively easily and inexpensively build a new Notre Dame. The expense comes from restoring the old items and trying to seemlessly integrate replacements when absolutely necessary.
The franks also held to be descendants of the trojans, who lived in modern-day turkey:

https://www.academia.edu/1720062/The_Common_Trojan_Origin_of...
Learning how to write fluently on paper and the ability to read older source documents is a skill.

Learning that Columbus showed up in 1492 is trivia. Public school spends >50% of time on trivia, and skills are being removed.

I consider written language a part of a language culture. Getting rid of cursive writing is like telling people they can't speak Spanish because it's an outdated language and everyone should just use English because it's more modern, and all the computer stuff is in English anyway.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44738952 -- CFCs are on the rise again.
They've already made it clear that (they claim) the overall framing was user privacy. Maybe they're lying, but if they aren't I don't know what further context they could provide.
You’re quote doesn’t really prove that it was just giving access to amazon devices. Could go either way, no?
I use "ack" rather than ripgrep, but the reason I changed was that it automatically ignores a lot of files that I don't care about: VCS files largely. That's the big feature for me, because I'm usually searching in Mercurial repos and every match appears twice (real file and .hg file).
You bet. I built ReviewNB[1] specifically for Jupyter Notebook code reviews.

There's also,

- nbstripout[2] for stripping outputs automatically before every commit

- nbdime[3] for diff'ing notebooks locally

- jupytext[4] for converting notebooks to markdown and vice-a-versa

[1] https://www.reviewnb.com/

[2] https://github.com/kynan/nbstripout

[3] https://github.com/jupyter/nbdime

[4] https://github.com/mwouts/jupytext
Of course. The Frauenkirche in Dresden (while not as old as Notre Dame) was rebuilt basically from scratch a few years ago in record time [0].

Freiburg minster [1], which was completed around 1300, recently had a restoration of its spire (which took about 12 years), done with the original medieval technique of interlocking the stones with lead anchors. There is a very good 8 minute video about the work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egVOaTrRYZ4

Don't forget that big cathedrals have to be worked on constantly, so most of the European cathedrals have very old workshops attached to the church, where the knowledge was (and still is) passed down over centuries. These people usually have very strong opinions regarding craftsmanship and work quality. They don't want their colleagues in 250 years to think badly of them.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden_Frauenkirche

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freiburg_Minster
> any change in the thermostat is a zero-sum game

Only if there's a single temperature for each person. In reality, there's a range that most people are comfortable in. For example, I'm fine from about 68 to 78 F. If you prefer something in the 60 to 70 range, then there's overlap where we are both happy.
> the Bible (and lots of other old books and oral traditions) is a surprisingly reliable source...

Going to need a source for that.

> Noah's flood is as legitimate as it has been for 100 years

To an extent. 95%+ of the story is false, apart from there (probably) was a big flood. But the majority if the story is false.

As with most of the stories in the bible, they tied them into some real events to ground them to the people, to myths of the age, then wove into them a fantasy story perhaps with enough grounding to reality to state "based on a true story", but probably not even that
Its crazy how that cathedral took 200 years to complete, and at the same time, the 'epgyptologists' claim that the Great Pyramid of Giza took only 20 years to complete.

While I certainly love my conspiracy-theory-history stuff - I think that 'egyptologists' are all idiots in their explanations of the age of the pyramids, sphinx and their explanations on how these were built and by whom.
Ah, yes, thank you. HHGttG rates a "Cruel" on this scale: http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_...

It's been a while since I played it and had detailed memories of all the solutions and details, but I think there's a solid case to be made for Evil on the extended scale, and I wouldn't be surprised it could qualify for Hell, I just don't recall enough to be sure. I am not saying this merely to slur the game; I am referring to the objective characteristics of the game. (It definitely does not qualify for the "Ninth Circle"; it is beatable with a walkthrough, though, as I said earlier, it's still a bit of a challenge because you need to be very details-oriented, as does the walkthrough author.)
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> wasting money so they could ask for more money.

When one strongly encourages government doing business with contractors over hiring govt FTEs, it should lead to (1) all technical duties being offloaded to contractors, (2) loss of govt FTEs with technical expertise, (3) inability to hire replacement govt FTEs because of stigma and budget priorities, (4) govt FTEs taking on contract administration duties, effectively administering the production and maintenance of things they know nothing of and have no interest/investment in, who are working with (5) businesses (private corps) whose legal duty is to make profit, employing management, sales, and technical people (contractors' employees) whose primary priorities are their own careers.

(6) is a bonus. If you get to hire a technical govt FTE somehow, s/he will start identifying the inefficiencies and irregularities of the contractors' practices. That means his/her manager and colleagues will feel threatened or fear retribution (for contract mismanagement), pushing the new FTE out in one way (demotivation) or another (bureaucratic and/or political games).

No one is evil or lazy in this dynamic. It's more simply the unintended consequences of public policy choices, which have slowly became the basic tenets of the culture of societies implementing those choices and quickly creating very sturdy social structures and roles.
The argument, such as it is, is that many of the founding documents of the US were originally written in cursive. But they were eventually printed for distribution so the argument doesn't really make sense. It would be like saying Britons should not only learn medieval handwriting but medieval Latin as well given that their Magna Carta was written that way.
I remember that, but if the issue was that one AOA instrument was broken, then only half the flights should be affected.
One solution, beside bashing China, is to vote for a liberal agenda that would give more funding to universities. Guggenheim and other art institutions took money from the Sacklers, who started the opioid crisis. Because they need money. And universities need money. They have to get money one way or another.
Definitely! I've never seen a post on HN expose FB until now. This one post, just today. Right now.
I’m surprised that we still have precious buildings that don’t have sprinkler systems in them as that fires have been so common throughout history. The national history museum in Brazil too just recently.

It seems like we should be able to make a system that can be installed in older buildings that isn’t unsightly and damages them at this point.
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I recently watched a video[0] that tried to make the case that the neolithic invasion into Britain around 4,000 BC came from Doggerland. It seemed somewhat speculative (and its author is honest about that), but not a complete crackpot theory either. I wonder what the current scholarship is on the neolithic invasion in Britain (and in Europe in general), and also on who lived in Doggerland.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvOcK4wfIHo
It's not that much different than receiving foreign money, I get paid in dollars, but I use the local money in everyday life.
Read my emails to recover my password? That‘s what „forgot your password“ link is for!
Surprised that this is ranked so high with a paywall. Is there an easy way to access the article?
Amazing Games!!! I still have boxed Amiga and ST Infocom games which I will probably never play, but keep just for the packaging!
Like the modern road network? The rail network? The world wide electricity grid? The internet?
Latin would be a better comparison than Spanish here. It has its uses, but it's very situational these days and most modern people will never need it.
What is a "3D audio"?
The original King's Quest had a puzzle which required writing down the alphabet forwards and backwards to encode Rumplestitskin as the secret word needed to get the magic beans. (You could "win" the game without the beans but you'd miss out on a really cool portion of the game and your score was far from the max.)

The in-game puzzle hint was far from helpful. I played the game for a year before getting a hint book. Reading the solution left a sour taste in my mouth for the whole game.

I played all the KQ games and don't remember a single puzzle that convoluted in any of the others. I believe they nerfed that puzzle in later releases of the game.
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What has Zuckerberg done since it was a tiny website to demonstrate his views have changed? I have yet to see anything. In fact, to my mind he has billions of dollars of revenue that reinforce that view.
The replacement was made larger, and there was controversy about that.
Let’s say we started a project to send a probe to Alpha Centauri. With the entire world dedicated to the task, the probe could probably be launched in a decade or two, and would reach its destination in maybe 30,000 years.

Or we could forget about the probe and focus on developing better propulsion technology. That would have immediate applications, but could also allow the probe to reach its destination orders of magnitude sooner.

I don’t see any reasonable motivation for generations-long megaprojects until technology has well and truly stagnated.
Neal Stephenson has been involved with Long Now and the 10,000 year clock since 1999 and that involvement led to Anathem: https://www.nealstephenson.com/anathem.html
Misremembered one thing at this point but everything else still stands.
I definitely understood a few of those words.
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Don't worry - we kind of deserve to be singled out a bit. I'm an American and I was recently in Amsterdam with a bunch of my coworkers and everywhere we went we were definitely the "loud, obnoxious Americans". It's fine. I accept who I am.
What do you mean by "too"? Dude! I don't have a dirty mind.
Thanks, that was an interesting test. I guess my feeling of "I'm slightly colourblind" is correct. I don't seem to have that many problems with blue though.

My results: https://imgur.com/a/0AvU4hX
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If you think this is a first world problem, you might want to look up the history of regulations, and how many people had to die due to shitty products before we finally said "enough is enough".

We're heading that direction again. Our current flavor of capitalism strongly favors externalizing of all costs, and short of enforced liability for products violating standards will always opt for violating whatever low standards bar you set.

(I'd also like to point out that the part of the government that is truly over-bloated is the one that the "lean government" people oddly never want to gut, the military)
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Why is this downvoted? It is 100% true.

The 737 has the _fundamental_ problem of having wings very low to the ground during ground operations. Taller landing gear is not an option, in fact the 737-max has slightly-extending landing gear to resolve this issue. It is part of the reason the plane is called "max" - they maxed out things like ground clearance, fuselage length, wing chord, and other parameters.

Back to the low wings: there is no room for a large (quieter, more efficient) engine. In the earlier 737s, the engine was just as high as it could go, you could even see the cowling squished at the bottom. In the max, the larger engine is placed in front of the wing, which means that it sits much further forward than the airframe was designed for. Thus, MCAS was needed to have the plane "behave in flight like the old 737".

These are _fundamental_ issues that cannot be fixed on the current airframe. Just as the 2019 Ford Mustang chassis is better (stiffer, lighter, safer) than the 1964 Ford Mustang chassis, newer airframes resolve many of the issues that were not designed into their 1960's counterparts.
Even if you choose the right words, people don't necessarily pay close attention. And if they want a commitment, they may assume that the numbers you give them are a commitment regardless of how you phrase it.

But even if they did listen closely to what you said, "estimate" is not even a great word. If your car is in a wreck, a body shop gives you an estimate to fix it, and they may treat that estimate as a commitment. It's pretty common practice that people are held to an estimate, or to not going over by a certain small percentage. Maybe we need a word like "forecast" or "prediction".
A lot of the things they revealed about the Ps5 don't really "wow" me.

The system better be backwards-compatible, consoles these days are pretty much more custom PCs, there shouldn't be a problem with backwards-compatibility. Switching to SSD is also a no-brainer, getting better load times as a result of using better hardware isn't that big of an accomplishment, and you could get that performance increase even with a Ps3 if you swapped out the drives iirc.
I don't think this story checks out. I'm sure they have some eligible oaks at Versailles but the roof needs ~13,000 of them. Hence why they called the latticework 'the forest'.

The largest oak forest operator in France has offered to find the trees needed: https://mobile.francetvinfo.fr/culture/patrimoine/incendie-d...
"Or customers are better at finding the bugs than we are so just give it a quick look over and ship it" - genuine quote from CEO at a company I soon left
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Just as a thought experiment, suppose psi were actually real. How would you ever discover it, if you always interpreted positive results as evidence that your methods were bad?
I've been looking for a decent traffic simulator. Can you modify driver behavior? I am really curious how much traffic could be reduced by changing driver behavior, and simple vehicle modifications.

For example, how much time could be saved if at red lights, when the light changes green, if all cars accelerate at the same time and speed, instead of the accordion behavior. This is something basic driver AI could handle and might help with pollution and traffic, while fully autonomous driving is still underway.
There's a huge proportion of the population that doesn't even have the luxury of voting with their wallets because the only thing they can afford is the cheapest possible. Cost of living has gone significantly up in the last two or three decades.

Also a bunch of companies out there are actually under some megacorp. Have fun completely cutting off Nestle or Unilever out of your life[0], for example. The information is there, but it's delusional to think everyone can manage to avoid all these brands altogether for various reasons (access to alternatives, price vs. income, etc.).

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/companies-control-e...
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I wrote a shim layer for all our packer/vagrant OS workflows to operate against an unreliable vsphere ecosystem. It exposes a suite of posix sh functions for sysadmins/developers to easily operate against this very unreliable environment. It adds automatic logging, retrying, and adjustable verbosity because of the numerous ways this environment randomly fails.

People can just . source the file in from a shared location and often find that their scripts just start to work better. It's not perfect, nothing's perfect. It's not even that clever. But when builds and deploys start to work twice as good, even with the remaining failures, well, that's something. None of the 65000 employees using it will ever know, but it feels good to know we were dropping 2/3 orders and now we're dropping 1/3.
Excellent! I've been using GLFW_TRANSPARENT_FRAMEBUFFER for over a year, but kept having to do builds out of Git to get support. It will be nice when this new library trickles into Linux distros over the next year.
>The reason this is so amazing is that the architects and planners knew it would not be completed in their lifetime, and yet they progressed for a greater cause.

And got paid (which, in fairness, still means the money-men were thinking that far ahead).

>We don't really have projects like that anymore. Contemporary structures and infrastructure are designed to be completed within the lifetime of the creator.

The deep space probes from NASA took something like 20 years to reach their destination, on top of the mission planning time, and involved a lot of senior engineers, who didn't get to see it to completion. But you're right, I can't think of anything on a 100+ year timescale.
Erm I'm skimming this and not finding anything you can test using statistics. Just a bunch of weird assertions that don't mean anything. For example:

"An article published in the Dec. 13, 2010 issue of The New Yorker highlights a phenomenon that is well known to scientists, not only in the field of psi but across many disciplines: Initial experiments can show very strong results, but when the experiments are repeated again and again, the effects can decline."

First off, the New Yorker isn't exactly ... well science. Second off; there is a well known reason why "initial experiments show strong results" -it's called p-value hacking.
Article 2: "This Regulation does not apply to the processing of personal data [...] by a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity".

The recital associated with that explains it: "This Regulation does not apply to the processing of personal data by a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity and thus with no connection to a professional or commercial activity. Personal or household activities could include correspondence and the holding of addresses, or social networking and online activity undertaken within the context of such activities. However, this Regulation applies to controllers or processors which provide the means for processing personal data for such personal or household activities."

It sounds like GDPR wouldn't require you to get a release...but it might require Instagram to require you to get a release.
Every other time the issue has come up, it's turned out that "access to user data" meant that the third party was allowed to ask the user for access to their data.

In principle this could be the first time Facebook actually just tossed database dumps at Amazon, and in principle Amazon might have abused the access to steal user data for themselves. But neither of those possibilities seem likely or are supported by the described evidence.
Great to see we're finally getting an SSD by default in consoles. The only thing I'm worried about with this is the fact that high capacity SSDs are more expensive and with a push towards more digital storefronts, I'm wondering how this will work for the users. Then again, it's also a wonderful chance to push streaming, so there is that too.
The Long Now project was an inspiration for Anathem.
New England (United States) has miles and miles of ancient and undocumented rock walls which rival the ancient walls of Ireland and are largely ignored by scientist.
But the people the article speaks of were in turn displaced by other people some millennium later. Which in itself does not invalidate the Scots myth, I don't know where the second wave came from originally, the article doesn't say.
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Ah, but how do you capture a neutral particle with a magnetic field?

(As I understand, they're a little bit magnetic because their constituent quarks are charged.)
Disclaimer: I am an SIE employee, but this is my opinion and how I understand it from the article description. It may not be correct.

It sounds like this will be similar to the way some other sound card manufacturers have created "3d audio" in that you won't need something like a 7.1 system to be able to better portray where exactly a sound is coming from. Stereo headphones will be able to give you a more immersive feeling by having audio be more directional instead of a general area (i.e. left speaker or right speaker).