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> > Less than a month after the crash of the second 737 Max jet, Boeing called North Charleston employees to an urgent meeting. The company had a problem: Customers were finding random objects in new planes.

> Turns out trying to squash the unions by moving to a different state helps show why the unions existed...

You think that the existence of unions are the reason why they didn't have these problems in Seattle? Nothing to do with, say, a more experienced (and perhaps better trained) workforce?

Now, sure, the move was to avoid unions, and the move (to a less experienced workforce) probably has something to do with the problems. But you make it sound like these problems wouldn't happen if North Charleston was unionized. I am extremely skeptical of that position.

The only way I could see unions having anything to do with it is if the foreign objects were left as sabotage by those who wanted to organize unions in North Charleston.
I am using a Github repo, linked to Travis CI - Travis can do cron/scheduled builds (daily works for me). On build failure, including if any of the tests fail, I receive notification.

Some of my tests use mocks, others hit live remote/third-party services. If anything external component/system changes, or is down, I get to know about it, and can decide what is the best action to take. Sometimes it’s nothing more than a network glitch / service outage, but sometimes endpoints change and/or return different data.

You should definitely consider setting up a monitoring service for your app’s live HTTP endpoint. There are online services that may provide the functionality you require, but otherwise it’s NBD to write your own.

It can be a good idea to run monitoring from a different network, e.g. a different host, from the office, from home (or all of these).

Bespoke monitoring code can sometimes/often leverage code that you already have in your tests. (Almost bringing us full circle, and back to CI)
Unless I NEED to use a new app I skip any sign up process as soon as I'm asked to share my e-mail. You rarely need to actually have contact info for the vast majority of products unless your business model is based on selling that info.
The garden walls grow taller.

While it's valid to want to keep email addresses out of the hands of app developers, it's disingenuous to see this as anything but Apple deepening its moat.

One day Apple will be able to cut off communication to your customers. You can say that's not what's happening, but I never imagined living in a world where we had to pay to distribute our code, and that distribution was finely controlled and revocable.

It's hard to imagine that Apple sees its developers as anything other than dancing monkeys. All they do is take and yet they're still praised.

We should really be rallying against Apple and Google. It disheartens me every time someone says "this is fine".
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I think Chris Kimball of America's test kitchen spoke on this, one of the other big reasons that American's went from lard to Vegetable shortening was because lard is used in ammunition, so in world war II, much of the production of lard went to the war effort, so folks started to use shortening instead.
I feel like Best of Both Worlds is the episode that really got TNG into it's groove. There was a lot of awkwardness in season 1 and 2, some cheesy acting and scripts, season 3 was better... But I feel like once they hit this episode and started with season 4 is when the show really took off and got good.
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https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/times-watchdog/the...

“One of the people familiar with MCAS’s evolution said the _system designers_ didn’t see any need to add an additional sensor or redundancy because the hazard assessment had determined that an MCAS failure in normal flight would only qualify in the “major” category for which the single sensor is the norm.
why do you need such shortenings, can't you use the original version of all the shortening... butter? I have never seen "shortenings" in france. pastries is done with butter and that's all.
> If the last one was an engineer, why would another engineer restore your confidence any more?

He's probably talking more about mindset than educational and professional background.

You can have a leader with the mindset of an ornery engineering-first engineer. You can also have a leader who's an ex-engineer with the mindset of a business executive. There's a big difference between the two.

I personally do not know which of those categories Dennis Muilenburg fell into, though.
That paper is about assessing incremental validity, not every situation regarding confounders.

This paper is not about incremental validity. The above does not apply.
If they're surrounded by spaces it goes ok...

x ** y
”You can't make an MVP of a cure for cancer”

That’s linear thinking. Yes you can.
The sophistication of consumer exploitation is increasing, no doubt!

However, I can't fathom this having an evolutionary impact. It is awfully difficult to fail so hard at being a consumer that you don't make it to your reproductive years, right?
How does a website offering just Facebook/Twitter/Google login instead of Facebook/Twitter/Google/Apple "keep the quality of the experience up" for the Apple user?
Survivorship Bias, rather.
Not only that, but fully hydrogenated oils are supposed to be quite bad for you. I think. It’s really hard to keep current on nutrition debates and “healthy” is a fairly nebulous concept when it comes to food.
Awesome, and pretty competitive with white dwarfs :) .
So I read somewhere than Muilenburg was the only engineer in the Boeing C suite. There were no pilots in the C suite. And this was part of the problem.

The new CEO has a degree in accounting. I bet he’ll do great.
The Yale Directed Studies program is no joke -- it tends to attract the most motivated humanities students and to have incredible amounts of work and reading.

Impressive that he's taking it, but he's also seeing a somewhat more serious class of students who, by extension, are less likely to be snowflakes.
This very humble author possibly impressed and changed his fellow students more than he would admit. Many modern narratives and trends simply fall apart when confronted with reality.
The communities I'm part of now go out of their way to be inclusive. People who can afford it are strongly encouraged to pay more to subsidize people who can't. People who pay more don't get any special privileges either. Those are the sorts of communities I want to be in, not some fee gating bullshit.
So how would a union have helped with that? Qualified workers don't magically come into existence just because there's a union.

The problem was the move. (True, the move was to get away from the union, but it's the move that was the problem, not the presence or absence of the union.)
> Sorry, but I have no such duty. We are free to do or not do as we wish.

Well sure, depending how one thinks about it. From an individualist perspective/philosophy, you're correct. But this is only one of many ways of thinking about the matter. For example, would you advocate an individualist approach such as that for someone who is married with children? Could a similar argument be made for overall mankind?

I can agree that it is technically true that we are all individual mammals living on a rock hurtling through space, but I don't think it is also true to say that we are just that.

> After years of fulfilling my "duty" and forever frustrated that the more I learn, the more obvious it becomes that our problems are intractable because most people are only superficially informed enough to know that the other side is wrong and our side is right.

I can appreciate this perspective, you're certainly "not wrong", or at least not entirely. But consider this perspective:

"...the more obvious it becomes that our problems are intractable because most people are only superficially informed enough to know that the other side is wrong and our side is right." Indeed, it seems clearly true that our problems are intractable (not easily governed, managed, or directed; not easily relieved or cured) - but is it conclusively true that they are unsolvable?

How many different approaches have we taken thus far toward cracking this nut, really? From where I sit, the majority of activity at both the individual and political levels seem to consist of people criticizing the (perceived) actions and (perceived) beliefs of their out-group, and the overwhelming consensus seems to be something like "if those other people would just start acting according to my philosophy, all these problems would be solved."

It seems crystal clear to me that this style of thinking is obviously sub-optimal, but at the same time the vast majority of people seem passionately devoted to it. I wonder, might studying the problem from higher, more abstract perspectives such as this yield some new ideas, and how might this approach gain traction?
I miss the days when JavaScript frameworks required only a script tag.
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I'm still trying to get this off the ground, so they get free support from me (ex Google / Fb / startup -> acquisition engineer with 12 YOE)
Depends on the recipe I want to use. Tortillas call for lard, and I don't think butter would be a good substitute on that. (Actually, I think the only reason I have lard/shortening is to make flour tortillas)

But you are correct, I would prefer to use butter when I can!

EDIT: My parents are also vegan, and I like to cook with them. So I also use it then.
Let me Google that for you: Corporate sponsorship[1] and community sponsorship (crowdfunding)[2].

[1] https://letsencrypt.org/sponsors/
[2] https://letsencrypt.org/2016/11/01/launching-our-crowdfundin...
Very anecdotal evidence here but I worked in the African Union in the 2000s. There were already many Chinese businessmen around which surprised me a bit. To be honest the difference in the interactions couldn't have been much clearer. Most European and U.S. consultants/business people that I met basically treated Africa as a lesser continent to be exploited. I got a very colonial vibe, except with some sugarcoating. Either that or a obnoxious "we need to save poor Africa" attitude.

At the same time the Chinese almost religiously mentioned that they saw Africa as an equal partner. It seemed like a very conscious and deliberate strategy.

So my anecdotal summary would be...the Chinese got involved early, went in guns blazing (money wise) and didn't behave like total pricks out for a quick buck but rather like friends and real business partners.
Oils, be it rapeseed/canola, olive, sunflower, basically any seed-oils are just about the same level of processed as homemade lard.
I used to lose my shit at underpeforming co-workers all the time and then a more experienced guy pulled me aside and gave me a quote that was intended to do the same thing as Ram Dass's tree quote:

"Nobody comes to work to do a bad job."

What I realized that judging other people narrowed my vision so that I couldn't see any options. All I could see was that they were bad people who were going to hurt the project.

When I could hold off on personalizing other people's performance then I could start to spot other reasons and sometimes even figure out constructive solutions. Maybe the other person is not delivering the code I need because they were given competing priorities.

So, yeah, as you say, you still have to deal with these situations. I just found that I could see many more options for how to deal once I stopped being so judgmental.
>There's a point where a device's insane amount of computational capability has to be balanced with usability given its available inputs.

Exactly the same could have been said 40 years ago. Computers have (almost) always been outperforming humans and certain tasks, even if just calculus. The increase in capabilities due to more computation power has been happening constantly for several decades. It lead to some revolutions in terms of human-computer interaction, like the switch from text-based UIs to graphical ones.

The challenge of spreading between simplicity, discoverability, and capabilities has always been around, just the topics are shifting over the years. The reason for the decline in user-friendliness as in the article lies in the motivation of companies building software: They expect higher returns by oversimplifying things (as plain-looking sells easier), or nagging users about registration (as they can send promotional content later), even though they're perfectly aware about the usability trade-off.
Compiling is a destructive process. While you can definitely learn a lot by reading IR and figuring a program out, and while it is easy to show why programming in ASM is time consuming, I don't think it makes sense to teach compiler theory and compiler passes that way.

In general, moving from one language to a "higher level" or "stricter one" (such as unsafe Rust to safe Rust) requires a redesign to properly do it (if at all possible).
Because you (Apple) are supposedly in the business of making the best experience for the people buying your devices, and your cool privacy-friendly authentication provider being available on less websites makes their experience worse?

Sign-in with Apple does not make sense as a product with the goal of direct profit, (and the majority of its developer target market already pays, because they only implement it because it's an requirement for them building their apps), so this logic doesn't work so well.
Would you prefer it was phrased:

government will archive and index everything you ever write, film and record to search for evidence of:

Watching illegal movies,
Smoking weed,
Not paying all your taxes,
Antisocial behaviour,
crossing a red light?
It's also a little ridiculous to believe that every single site or group needs to cater to every demographic.
>filters 90% of the bullshit.

Why would Apple want to filter out people from integrating with sign in with Apple? I can see they want to filter out junk from the App Store, because junk on the App Store (like junk on Something Awful) reduces the signal to noise ratio. But I don't think there exists a signal to noise ratio when it comes to sign in with Apple. A user wants to join a website, and that website either supports sign in with Apple or it doesn't; there's no noise to wade through.
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I believe "peak" in this context means "the highest point we will ever reach," not "the highest point this species might theoretically be capable of."
Direct. Tried again, works fine. It probably got a bit under the weather when it finally reached the front page, especially given it's also at the top of /r/programming right now.
If you're not British I wouldn't expect you to 'get it'.

Professional darts historically is a sport for beer-bellied balding blokes. Not just men, but generally a specific category of men.

Imagine you're watching the football World Cup, and suddenly there's this fat bloke in his 50's, and he's actually _good_.

It's that. The whole world turning upside down. A completely different type of character.
I seriously doubt that the space launch failure had anything to do with the CEO being fired.
Given the fever, it could also be something related to the immune system.
Microsoft's board sure pulled off a winning strike with Nadella. From "almost IBM-dinosaur" to biggest market cap on Earth pretty much tied with Apple, and massively reversing public image from hated to just about liked by many. Huge win for Nadella. He sure loves what he does, money is besides the point.

But then again it's so obvious in his case, I mean I and probably many saw it coming — the man just does not operate at the same level, he's stellar you know, like the Jobs and Musks and Waltons of this world).

I have no hope for Boeing to recruit such a great man, I don't think that kind of business actually wants that. Imagine a Dorsey / Musk disruptor, pushing open standards, thinking of direct B2C, whatever... That just wouldn't fly with Boeing's board and mindset (oh pun so very much unintended yet so apt).
It's entirely possible that there was dissent on the board and some faction that was pushing for more responsible practices was overruled. If so, the changing circumstances may have empowered that faction and/or a specific person on the board.

I mean, that's just one possible situation where someone coming from the board won't necessarily be more of the same, but I don't know why we should assume the board acts of one mind. That seems really unlikely to me.
My first corporate credit card (for travel expenses) was a Diners Club. This as in 1986. It was terrible. No place would take it. I had to put all my expenses on my own credit card. Fortunately my credit limit wasn’t an issue, but having a corporate credit card that nobody will take kind of defeats the purpose of having a corporate credit card. We switched to American Express the next year.
> Yep, just gonna move the goal post a bit further to make my argument valid.
Since I got in a lot of debt with credit in the past. I don't have much credit now and majority is being paid off. So my financial setup is rather simple, always slide the debit instead of the credit.

Charles Schwab is my main bank <3, broker and 401k investment holder (employer forced).

Local credit union finances my car loan (almost paid off), my secondary checking/savings and my only credit card.

CashApp for any type of sharing/transfer of funds.

YNAB does all the budgeting. (I've become better at spending money that I have!)
> Why are you assuming that money is their only incentive?

Why are you assuming that I think money is their only incentive?

I was replying to a comment contemplating that "the incentives may be correct now". The amount of money guaranteed to executives chasing short-termism provides a perverse incentive working against any desire to do their job well. There are multiple incentives, but they are not aligned.

> There's an S curve to the utility of money.

Seems to me that it's more like a bell curve, with the optimal center waaaay to the left of where it is today. Pay too much money and the temptation for CEOs to max out their own gains at the expense of the company's long term health rises.
Ghee is quite cheap and easy to make by yourself, so long as you use a good butter. A lot cheaper than the ready made stuff, I’ve found.
The author seems to forget that the internet existed in the 70's and 80's, and smartphones existed before 2009. Back then they were experimental and many people thought they might go away, and they might have gone away if they weren't then refined into technologies that average consumers could more easily use.
I think your distinction between generalities and specifics is an insightful one. I have not realised previously that this is a good reason why some laws never enter reality.
I share your optimism, that people who remember what good Apple design felt like, will carry on the torch.

The generational knowledge transfer seems to have broke down somewhere within Apple, that only the superficial aesthetic is being carried on, while the fundamentals - user-friendly design, repairability, extensibility - are getting left behind.

> ..take all the good ideas from Apple's heyday and make another good OS. Maybe, if we're lucky, it'll even be open-source.

There are a number of open-source community projects that impressed me as having such a vision, going back to the roots, keeping the dream alive and designing the way forward.
Why does anyone need satellites? This might have been a relevant question in the 80s.

Or in the 1940's, when communications satellites were first proposed by Arthur C. Clarke.
Reminds me of the movie Breakfast Club and I haven't even seen it.
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Then you could purchase a different fare class. The market has largely spoken already- people prefer lower fares over comfortable seats.
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Absolutely, but it's even more ridiculous to use that argument as a shield against criticism.
You seem very interested in imposing your cultural values on teens from other countries, who seem to have produced in a few month more than what the average HN commenter will achieve in years.
Indeed, but take umbrage that no matter their level of technological sophistication, any race visiting us ij this manner would not only be very advanved, but also could not be hostile without violating or contradicting laws of the expanding universe, economics, and physics.
Well it did turn out better than the 737 MAX in that no one died...
Sub-Saharan Africa feels like a missed opportunity now for Europe and the US.

While the US and EU has been focused on donating aid, or through NGOs merely shipping Africans into Europe without much of a plan and then shrugging their shoulders when problems arise, China has been making deals there and investing an utterly staggering amount on an on-going basis into its development and future prosperity.

Some will proclaim "But they'll owe China! That won't end well!", which is shortsighted, lacking in self-awareness and playing into the "everyone that isn't us is the boogeyman" narrative the West likes to maintain.

In the same time that China has been spending its money on African investment, the US has been spending literally trillions on literally baseless wars, directly costing the lives of a countless amount of people in doing so and upending the lives of countless others.

Good on China, and good for Africa. I hope to live to see that continent prosper, although if any success is in sight I'm sure we'll see the US find some reason to deploy the so-richly invested military there.
The simple truth is that working for the equity of an unproven start-up is a gamble, and statistically unlikely to pay off. And sadly more and more start-ups are undermining access to equity in shady ways. Not that one should never work for a start up on the hopes it breaks big, but we should also never forget that the successes are outliers, by a massive margin.

Just understand the trade-offs of your decision and the probabilities involved with your decision.
> It’d be helpful if rustc had a mode where it could emit some sort of “core Rust” IR, that was all unsafe{} and had only the barest types

Rust has a "core Rust" called MIR. It has nothing to do with unsafe and definitely doesn't remove types though. It's mostly about desugaring constructs, so by and large a simplified version of Rust (though it has things normal Rust doesn't, namely goto).

Alternatively, mrustc compiles Rust via C.
> Racism and discrimination aren't just reserved to the color of skin, it's often built around whole ancestries of groups and their traditional social standings.

Indeed, but this exists everywhere. Why would this factor be unusually influential in Japan?
This is another clickbait article from BBC on how "Japan is weird". The number of kids in the free schools seems tiny at about 0.2%.
If you are so corrupt you need to plagiarize your “woke” rhetoric, then it is improper to attempt communicating with you.

“If you’re [collection of virtue signaling words] there is a divide between our worldviews that can never be bridged.”

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_59519811e4b0f078efd98440
Mine is a ~6 year old i5 quad core desktop. A complete list of hardware can be found here: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/the-tools-i-use#computer-desk...

If you can't notice it much, perhaps your monitor has really bad input lag and it's overtaking any difference between terminals. My monitor has very low input lag (about 13ms) but most monitors have 50-60ms or worse.

There's another comment in this thread where I go into more details about that and how it plays a big difference in being able to perceive input latency when typing.