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1 month to repair a freeway for single-occupancy cars. Over twenty years to make a single lane of Geary Blvd buses-only (and still not done!)

We have the ability to do things quickly, but our government made it illegal unless there's an emergency.
I have a hypothesis that technological progress and egalitarianism are correlated, but it's not provable.
I agonized over the best way to do this stuff for a while also and the best framework I've used so far is the C4 model (as mentioned elsewhere).

For documenting decisions on architecture this should be done as you go really but better late than never :). Using adr ( architecture decision records ) text / md files would be my approach. They will typically be kept alongside the code and source controlled
This might initially look to be be a little too specific for military / aerospace, but it can act as a good guideline for a table of contents and examples of what might go in each section.

https://github.com/VCTLabs/MIL-STD-498/raw/master/MIL-STD-49...

The US Military came up with their own standard for systems and software development (MIL-STD-498), which as evolved into IEEE and ISO standards. The nice thing about the US Military's standards is that they came with Data Item Descriptions (DIDs) that specify exactly what goes in each document.
Is the main inhibitor just the sensation of hunger being miscalibrated with your calorie goals? Instead of using mind over matter, what techniques exist for eliminating the sense of hunger?
It’s defense in depth. And most sites work fine with 90% of their script-serving domains blocked.
Was just about to post this. I listened to this yesterday, and it squares with what GP said about alcohol raising his BP.
Is it possible that the amount of planning and self-discipline required is maybe what is sometimes neither practical nor maintainable, depending on the individual?

Having lost and gained weight multiple times, it can be a psychological hell when it seems both the body and the mind are doing everything they can to fight against your discipline and planning and keep you where you are instead.
> led to enough people joining, who don't give a damn about human rights in China

The UN lists privacy as a human right. The entire company is built on violating human rights at scale no matter where those people reside.
New Belgium Brewery is supposed to be amazing as well (they also have/had some cool cogeneration tech to reduce carbon footprint, and employee ownership).

They incorporated as a B-Corp which was an attempt to create private and public companies that were beholden to society as much as the shareholders. But the last time I looked I wasn’t sure if those were still a thing or it fizzled out.
Hi soneca

This is unrelated to your comment, but I saw a past submission of yours https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12276956 and was wondering how your experience went (as I am now in the same position), but did not see an email in your profile to contact you.
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Could be that they aqui-hired some Slovak/Czech company that ended up working on .NET Core.
yep. not drinking is one of the best choices anyone could make.
I find it unlikely, but if that is actually so, it would be an entirely reasonable tradeoff to make.
> Writes in a raidz are always limited to a single disk’s performance

what? no. why would that be the case? You lose a single disk's performance due to the checksumming.

just from my personal NAS I can tell you that I can do transfers from my scratch drive (NVMe SSD) to the storage array at more than twice the speed of any individual drive in the array... and that's in rsync which is notably slower than a "native" mv or cp.

The one thing I will say is that it does struggle to keep up with NVMe SSDs, otherwise I've always seen it run at drive speed on anything spinning, no matter how many drives.
That's the point of the whole War is a Racket we are discussing.

If the choice is between immeasurable human suffering, domestic corruption and jobs or just solving the problem, the war racket wins. Removing the profit motive is the key suggestion in the War is a Racket.
Hm, awesome! That looks like it's almost exactly what I want. The one caveat is that this looks system wide, and I'm at a decently sized company. It would be easy for me to have admin access to a dashboard my team owns. But we don't own our grafana implementation, so I'm not sure how easy it would be to make major changes to our grafana setup.
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Alcohol is really weird. It's unquestionably a pretty hard drug and yet it's (ab)use is completely normalized in our culture. It's also a drug who's abuse regularly kills people other than those using it.
Rather significant leap to take given the average hours worked per week in the US are over 40 and the % of US adults classified as obese is something like 40% or more as well - lots of candidate individuals out there. You really going to claim it's impossible for someone to be doing manual labor 60+ hours a week to pay rent and also have weight problems? Exercise doesn't automatically make you lose weight, high calorie intake or metabolic issues etc could cancel it out no problem. If it was as simple as 'just exercise a lot' weight issues wouldn't be so widespread.
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If you got a small yard maybe up to half acre, that works, but not for biz parks that I’m referring to.
The option to refuse drives was always there, although I believe Uber penalizes the driver if they refuse to accept a request too often.
> for many people weight loss is neither practical nor maintainable

Hard disagree.

As for practicality, weight loss is a function of thermodynamics. Caloric deficit == weight reduction. Doesn't matter your physiology.

As for maintainability, well that certainly depends on how a person is taught to diet. If you tell someone they need to eat less to lose weight (which is what almost every diet does) then, yes, it will be hard to maintain. If you tell someone to eat more (low calorie) food then weight loss is easy.

Most obese, untrained people will very readily drop tons of fat weight with little stimulus.

When I diet (whether the intention is gaining or losing weight) I'm probably eating 2x as much food as an obese person who is wondering to themselves "why is my metabolism so slow?". It's not. The foods I eat just contain less energy than the foods they're eating.
It looks like if you are running OpenBSD you probably want to be on -current or using the esr package. https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20200109141600
Perhaps your anecdote does not qualify as a suitable counter argument. Is yours a normative experience? It is easy to lose weight in the sense that the solution is easily stated. Just restrict calories enough and weight will be lost. I suggest this is one of those things that is easy to say and hard to do. Isn't it akin to telling lifelong smokers, "Just stop smoking."? After all, if one simply doesn't smoke cigarettes then one will no longer have a smoking problem.

Can you see that perhaps your level of commitment is not possible for some people? Some people simply lack the willpower to do this.
Flask’s sample code is doing a bunch of things like spinning up db and stuff and setting up a pytest fixture, so it’s not a fair comparison. You can replace

with httpx.Client(app=app) as client:
...

in the httpx sample code with

with app.test_client() as client:
...

for flask’s builtin test client and the rest is basically the same. Now that’s a fair comparison and neither is simpler than the other.

I guess one advantage of httpx is that developers might generally be more familiar with the requests response object API than the werkzeug response object API.
as i get older, i find myself more and more saying... it's just a job. i have no "moral code" anymore when it comes to what company i work for. i know they exist to make money and that what i do there... i just do my work, get my pay check and go home. i don't care what the company stands for or "making a difference" there. if i want to "make a difference" in my life, i'll do outside of work with my community. when i was young i wanted "change the world" at the place i worked at, that's no longer true.
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Do you think that they wrote the thing expressly for game console applications or perhaps they had a research idea and later found an application? Are we not talking about the same Inferno from Bell Labs?

Anyway I think I was describing a broader topic than Inferno. Eg. There was the singularity project at Microsoft that people spoke similarly about. Maybe Midori too? The latter may have moved away from the jit idea, there is some writing online about it that I have not read.
Thank you, this article resonated with me.

Expect to get negative feedback and insults from the people who want praise for not trying to achieve anything great.
Same boat here. I thought commercial flights had easily recognizable radar signatures, different from drones, fighters or cruise missiles.

Even for an automatic detection system, this should be easy to detect as "non immediate threat"
Khan Academy is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and sal khan consequently isn't "stinking rich".
Altruism is nature only works within same species since it’s beneficial for their genes propagation.

Expansionist species capture resources and eliminate threats. As such we are lucky to be at the edge of the galaxy and not discovered.
Brave, or smart. She lives in Kazakhstan, which doesn't have an extradition agreement with the US. All she has to do is stay there, which is harder that it sounds. We've nabbed a number of people from former USSR countries when they've gone on vacation someplace warm.
Because they purposefully hide a major aspect of the nature of that education in fear that revealing it would make it seem of lesser value.
>I'd add one more, when a genocidal meglomanic is intent on wiping out an entire race of people that I would say qualifies as one more reason.

Has the US ever gone to war for that reason?
No. They've supported some of the worst dictators through out the world.
Oh, yes, revealing those societal divisions, the different meanings, can be an important activity. I just don't think, from a utilitarian "what's best for society" that it is the root question. The more fundamental question, I believe, is what does society do about such crimes? What are it's goals? The "is it murder" questions gains, I believe, much more relevance in that context.

>Deference: Oops, that should be deterence
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I started out somewhat similarly - but in my case I just wasn't very good right out of school so I started focusing more on my social life. What changed it for me was having a job where my boss fucked up and was fired, and me being given his role. I learned that having people count on me was the best motivator for me. (And having people not really care that much one way or the other about what I'm doing is, to this day, an excellent DEmotivator for me.) I eventually went on to work for a startup that grew really quickly (yes, THAT one) and was given an enormous amount of responsibility - something that, by that time, I would never have dreamed of shirking.

I'm not sure how this might apply to your situation, but hope it will give you some helpful perspective. You can take the exact same slothful person and put them in different circumstances and end up with a stellar worker - the game-changer for me for me was to be accountable, in a big, meaningful way, to someone besides just myself. If this resonates, maybe you could volunteer your tech skills to a small nonprofit or something, and see if you feel more engaged with that work.

BTW, I think it's possible to have a great home life and a great career, but THAT takes REAL work.
> I wonder why it's banned there.

Any superficial explanation you may get, it's really because central governments are stupid. Absolutely powerful central governments are absolutely stupid.

But, well, it's their loss.
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But such actions may end up punishing/restricting the individual citizens than the particular states.

Also I don't think that posturing that may lead up to another Cold War is good for the world. Perhaps there can be greater understanding between peoples through a process of engagement, rather than standing-off.

There is a famous commencement speech by Solzentzyn at Harvard, that laments why the West, esp Americans haven't shown understanding of other cultures, and seem to think and act from a position of moral superiority, whose basis is not so sound as they think.
Yeah, it's a very odd choice from Mazda specifically for this reason.
Works as well with GraphQL support added https://postwoman.io/. Also, https://insomnia.rest/ is great

Also for automated testing in APIs https://dredd.org/en/latest/

Both open-sourced. I will say one of the best things about Postman was the Proxy support, but either way doesn't works with the iPhone and other stuff.
It seems to me that nicotine, alcohol, and opiods are all related. The addictive personality traits that make you susceptible to one make you susceptible to the others. At a fundamental level, the willingness to do long-term harm to oneself for short-term pleasure is fundamental to all these problems. There are also a ton of cultural factors that make the problems interrelated.
Companies need to make money. People need to be paid good wages. I hate how people complain about paying for things that are useful for them. Most people expect things for free or very cheap and I blame the Apple App Store for that. Everyone expects their software to be free or $0.99 nowadays. Even $3.99 is considered too expensive. All this is doing is creating deflation in our industry. Software should be expensive. We don’t need unions, we need to change people’s expectations on how much software costs and not drive down prices to $0.
Please take out bits of the domain like " – Busines" in the title above. HN's software does that for common cases but we can't check for every substring!
Yes. War is a racket ESPECIALLY in the post-WWII era, when America became both the world’s armory AND the world’s bank. Every single conflict that America has been in since has been a war of choice designed to pursue capitalist interest. Our wars are imperial wars designed to perpetuate American hegemony. That hegemony is designed to continue/enable the pilfering of global wealth by a relative handful of elites. It is all about centralizing power & wealth.

When I was growing up in the 90s this was pretty fringe thinking. Now, though, 20-30 years later, multiple combat tours & a military career under my belt I realize we should have been listening to Butler all along. It’s painfully, agonizingly naive to think that WW2 of all things would somehow be a counterweight to Butler’s point.
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I'm curious what sort of issues you have in mind. I was never very familiar with BeOS but from what I understood the issue with it was more that its responsiveness came from very heavy use of multi-threading, but that also made it very hard to write robust apps for it as, in effect, all app code had to be thread safe. App devs found that condition too hard to handle.

Can I assume that the quality issues were somewhat related to that? BeOS devs found it no easier to write thread safe code in C++ than app devs did?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21979655
> ... your brain thinks you're starving and has all sorts of ways to wear down your will ...

I thought losing weight was about willpower and starving as well. But you can only keep that up for so long until your willpower breaks. Then I read this book, Allen Carr's "Good Sugar, Bad Sugar: Eat yourself free of sugar & carb addiction". It changed how I view things and now I no longer worry about how much I eat.

The key is in understanding that your hunger is driven by an addiction to sugar and carbs -- they're not what your body considers food so it always feels hungry. Change your diet and you no longer constantly feel hungry while still losing weight.
His statements seem clear but upon further reflection they are not clear.

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.

Okay, so this was written in 1933. The obvious question to me is, would the author have supported US involvement in World War 2?

I guess with Pearl Harbor, the US was attacked. But the Japanese at the time might have said that the US really started the war because the trade embargo on Japan was destroying Japan's economic plans.

So was World War 2 about protecting American homes? Or was it about enabling the US to enforce a trade embargo on Japan to reduce the size of the Japanese empire?

I am not a history expert and I don't claim that these questions have simple answers. I am just saying, I don't think there is any clear-cut answer of when a war is really for self-defense or not.
I've got a gas Mazda and it already has that. It would be strange to step into the EV version and NOT see one, honestly.
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WWII would have been far easier if the USA actually attacked Japan first. If the USA declared war when Britain / France did in the late 30s, then France may have not been overrun by the Germans. Maybe we wouldn't have needed to land in Normandy Beach.

I don't think anybody would look at the events of the next 10-years after 1933, and consider that war to be a "Racket". Nazis were evil. Imperial Japan, was evil.

By delaying our entry into the war for years, France was wiped out, and Japan sunk many battleships in a surprise attack. USA got lucky that our carriers were out on a training mission: if we lost our Carriers at Pearl Harbor, Japan may have very well won the war.

US had 3 carriers stationed there: USS Enterprise, USS Lexington, and USS Saratoga. All unharmed in Pearl Harbor, because they were elsewhere. And critical to the battles to come. USA won by the skin of its teeth, shear luck that our best ships were elsewhere during the surprise attack.

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US Pacific Fleet was composed of ~200 ships, ~18 of which were lost in the Pearl Harbor attack. The singular attack wiped out 10% of the US Pacific Power, WWII would have been far easier if US Declared war on Japan.

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If USA helped defend France in 1939, then the incredibly deadly Normandy Beach invasion would have been unnecessary. It was due to our failure to fight against the Nazis / Japan that France fell, and many more lives were needed to reclaim that territory.
The entire concept of that postwoman thing is utterly broken. Have they never heard of cross origin restrictions?
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Yes, I understood.

What I mean is that I've never personally seen anyone engage in a personal attack toward a manager in written form, not the use of "clown" in particular.

I've seen plenty of criticism about various managerial practices, but that's entirely different from personal attacks.
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Same way people genuinely join the police to make things better. They think they can make a difference, even if the system is all fucked up. Sometimes they're right.
I'm giving a side-eye to that 'without being "unfair"' comment. I remember a few levels with some real bullshit.
Got a CPAP about a year ago, changed my life. Weight issues aside I also have a big neck which means I'll probably have OSA even if I achieve a normal BMI.

Anyway, highly recommend a sleep study for anyone here who has symptoms like waking up feeling tired, dozing off in the afternoon, etc.
Jesus' body would be more delicious as a cookie.
A Garmin running watch with non-default settings should be able to meet your requirements.
Proving bike theft is as easy as honeypotting any bike. Its just no prosecuted. It's a cultural blindspot for what I think are probably historical reasons.

You can steal a car priced lower than a bike and get a year in jail. ITs not about the cost of proving anything, it's about the willingness of the institution to enforce it.
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Never trust a large company. Big money always trumps ethics in the long run, as "ethics" is just a PR stunt at FAANG scale.

The big concern here is how Google, etc. are becoming an oligopoly with a very effective lobbying arm in any form of actual regulation.

While the Western world holds democratic-ish values in public institutions, its large private companies are indeed totalitarian regimes.
Plantuml for drawing pictures together with the C4 Plantuml Plugin is helpful. i.e. you make high level overviews of your architecture and then „zoom in“

For decisions a table with some explainatory comments why you have decided to use this one thing and which alternatives you have considered and why those did not make it, helps. You can look up ADRs. (Decision Records)
From the very beginning, the folks sponsoring the Rust effort from within Mozilla made sure that Mozilla couldn't directly control things. And Mozilla also just isn't that kind of organization to begin with, honestly.

These conversations have been going on a long time. This particular iteration of this conversation started before I left Mozilla. It has nothing to do with me personally, regardless of that relationship.

I have long (before, during, and after my employment at Mozilla) have thought that an independent foundation would be excellent for Rust, but am worried about the details. Foundations require active administration, which is even more work. And it's unclear who does that work. I think that we've grown to the point where it very well make sense now, though.
Maybe I'm still missing some backstory there of the context in the Gulf in 1988. The Captain of the Vincennes was acting very aggressively on that day, and shooting down the airliner was the sad end result of that.
> It's also a drug who's abuse regularly kills people other than those using it.

I don't think this is unique to alcohol. Nicotine and driving seems pretty okay, but I can't think of any other deadly drugs out there which wouldn't impair your driving.

EDIT: As other users have brought up, nicotine kills plenty of people other than those using it, in the form of second-hand smoke.
Haven't got it I'm afraid. I enjoy racing gt3s and do most of my online races in them but I wouldn't want to spend (or do I? If it's on sale...) that much money just on GT3 cars.

RF2 is so good - the only time i really leave for other Sims is if there isn't content for RF2. The big thing rfactor lacks right now is hybrid modelling unfortunately.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned https://paw.cloud. It's a Postman alternative that's native (no Electron/Javascript garbage) with a simple one-time-purchase pricing model.
It looks like e2ee data sync is a paid feature.

Does the free version come with no data sync at all or just not end to end encrypted?
> The vulnerability, found by Chinese security company Qihoo 360...

Isn't this the same company that was just being roasted for having spyware installed in Samsung phones?
This exact scene played out in my mind as I was reading the article. Couldn't believe what I was reading and here I was wondering if the show would age well..