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Reading through the Wikipedia article detailing serious issues with the avionics software's development[0], I can't help but think of the choice to use C++ as the standard language for development on most of the JSF's systems. I recall reading a document written by the (then-current) lead dev on the project outlining the criteria used to assess C++'s suitability for the project. He conceded that Ada was the superior choice in most every aspect except for the ease of finding developers. Unfortunately I can't find that document now. If anyone knows the document I'm referring to and could point me to it, I'd appreciate it. I thought I had it saved.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning...
What's the attack vector there presuming only Blockstream runs the satellite?
A simple example of mechanical checking would be:

int[10] a;
a[10] = 3; // Error, array index out of bounds

The idea is to allow powerful metal code, while providing constructs that make errors much less likely. For example,

if (a < b < c)

is allowed by C, but few C programmers can tell you what it means, and the appearance of it in code is almost always a bug. Instead of educating programmers with "don't do that", D makes it illegal. (If you really want it, you'd have to write it as: `(a < b) < c`. But notice you have to make an effort to write code that way, it is highly unlikely to be accidentally written.)

> Scrutinizing the logic of the code line by line at least 2 times after you've finished writing it.

I find it useful to go back through the logic a couple months later. I usually find a lot to improve :-)
> they stand to lose it.

If the source of the funds was unlawful, they'd lose it anyways.
Wow this makes me want to buy an Apple Watch!

In the military knowing first-light and last-light, down to within a few minutes, is essential daily. I have an app on my phone that tells me sunrise and sunset, but as the article describes these aren't the same thing. I also have a very expensive top-of-the-range Garmin watch and even that just tells me the less useful sunrise and sunset, which makes me suspicious it's not as military as it markets itself as.

I don't know if anyone knows an app that gives first-light and last-light for the phone, so I don't have to buy a new watch?
You're handwaving away an awful lot of systematic government coverup and lying. Most of the positive things you're saying were the works of individuals putting their own safety and security at risk against the wishes of the government. The rest of the argument basically amounts to "We shouldn't have believed what the Chinese government was saying because there was a lot of evidence they were lying." I agree wholeheartedly, especially in retrospect, but that does not make their lying, and the long-term ramifications, acceptable. Transparency of the situation (or allowing outside observers) would have given the rest of the world valuable weeks or months and saved untold lives.
Glorious. I'm jealous :).
Good to know, seems like a design flaw in git then, unless its using fsync correctly.
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MANPADS are not the end of the A-10. The A-10 was designed with them in mind. Note how the strange tail wraps around the engine exhaust. That is a tiny bit of stealth, blocking the IR seekers from seeing the engines from most angles.

Other factors also reduce vulnerability. MANPADS are essentially never radar-seeking for reasons of physics; they do not have a large enough diameter to carry a proper forward-looking antenna at radio frequencies. The A-10 has some redundancy and armor, and the MANPADS have very small payloads, so hitting a single engine isn't going to doom the aircraft. The A-10 is normally flown in a way that avoids dangerous exposure, with complicated undulating movement that would break an IR seeker lock. (now you see the engines... and now you don't) The A-10 doesn't have to fly alone against an enemy. Pairing it with the EA-18G Growler would be a decent idea.

Once you consider the enemy to be an advanced country, the standards for acceptable losses change. You're speaking of World War III. Look back to the bomber pilots of World War II to see what is accepted. At times, typical survival for a pilot was a month. In war with an advanced country, 1:1 loss ratios are to be expected.
Why use WSL if you have Cygwin?
In computer graphics its known as Blinn’s Law, It states that no matter how fast hardware you get, artists put more details in to shots and therefore render times remain roughly the same. Its been roughly true for 30ish years.
For anyone who is interested, the article is available to read online https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima

Here is the most recent time it was posted (5 months ago)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24101712
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Also they changed in MIDFLIGHT. At least only apply it to new customers who have a choice whether to be forced to do this.
This is not 19.2% of all cars on the road but 19.2% of December sales, which is still amazing. I thought for a moment it was 20% of all cars which would be super cool and amazing. That is not that is not the intent of the headline but just clarifying :)
People shouldn't be doing business in the shadows. If you are engaged in economic activity you should be a knowable entity. It isn't hard to find where wealthy people live anyway.
How do you audit the security of your contracts?
Glad to hear they backed off on one of the most ridiculous things they've done.
In service by 2038 huh? Let's hope all the software is 64-bit
Would this work better as a table? Example columns:

Make (example "Samsung")
ModelNum (example "i9300")
ModelName (example "Galaxy S III (International)")
Year
Codename

LineageOS (example "17.1", link to site)
MoKee ROM (example "7.1", link to site)

Battery (example "Easy", link to iFixit)
Using an explicit stack can also be a good idea because several languages have a recursion limit, or some implicit restriction. Often those aren't very easy to modify either. So an explicit stack is far better since the alternative can be that you just crash fairly arbitrarily.
And if you don't care about the dev: what do the users do when the dev doesn't mount a social media campaign? Tough luck?

What an awful platform.
Jfc that’s some janky shit many of you seem to be into.

I don’t quite get why some developers seem hell bent on those kinds of hybrid development environments. Why not straight up Linux or macOS where he user-space is consistent at least?
2020/2021 are good years to die, tax wise. Covid19 is doing the taxpayers a solid.

:-/
The article is just a rehash of the idea that the ‘Oumuamua is a solar sail by the same solar sail specialist that proposed the idea a few years ago.
Which service? Does it work with linux?
Pretty interested in whether people are getting more mileage out of specific, SMART-type goals (like the ones in the article), or more open ended ones as described here [0].

Personally I've found that with a good tool to measure and track progress (I'm using the Hacker's diet logging which produces a nice graph [1]), my weight loss is coming along nicely without a set endpoint.

[0] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-31/new-years-resolution-...

[1] https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/#Comptools
You could argue that Netscape was killed by technical debt. [1] But I think it's rare to get a case that's clear enough to say. Technical debt gradually reduces product agility and raises costs, so it can be hard to tell the difference between a business failure and excess technical debt. A lot of startups run out of money while trying to find product-market fit, and careful management of technical debt plus the right product processes can get you way more product experimentation.

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
It's a great counterpoint to the whole "reaching out to social media" won't help statement that some Apple execs have made.
Any nuclear armed adversary could knock out a whole hemisphere of starlinks with a single missile.
That's why there should be a decoupled architecture.

I am not an OSM expert. It may have this already. I am all for OSM, and sincerely wish it great success.

What I do have, however, is experience in founding a worldwide, federated infrastructure that supports a fairly specialized (read: "small") demographic, but does that exceedingly well. It has become a worldwide standard, and is being taken to the next level by a team that doesn't really include me, anymore.

It has a lot of structural support for federation. The idea is to push specialization away from the core as far and as fast as possible. The core is a relatively simple, tightly-focused, ultra-high-quality database engine, with a powerful semantic API. The services are addons that were written by some really energetic and skilled people that bring far more to the table than Yours Truly. In fact, these addons are what made the system suddenly become a "must have" for everyone.

I'm assuming that OSM should have a "core mission" of geographic data, which is really just geolocation stuff. Basically, tagged locations. The tags can be used to relate the locations to external datasets.

I would then assume that things like businesses, government services, and other geotagged datasets are attached as adapters to the "core," so they can be managed by others, who are specialized.

Google does this (with arguable success) by letting businesses and individual users contribute data. I assume that it uses its own tools to aggregate and clean that data, and probably applies the data in an adapter fashion. This is what they are good at, and at vast scale and performance. Say what you will about them, but they do "big and fast" really well.

I have found, through my own experience, that if I want local data to be accurate, it is important to let locals directly supply that data.

In my experience, that started with an infrastructure designed for federation, and is realized by writing data harvesters that provide a rich, simple UI. Also, it is important to keep the core "pure." Specializations should be supplied at the adapter level; not by changing the core. For the most part, the central database schema of my system hasn't changed in ten years, but it does a lot more now, than I ever dreamed it would, back then.

But that's just me. I don't think I'm anywhere near the level that many people live at. My experience is fairly small and humble.

But effective.
Let this be a lesson to all those people who were in the previous thread, trying to claim that this developer should just give an and rename their app, instead of starting a media incident.

The media blitz worked. Giving up would be bad advice. Making social media posts, that go viral, fixed the problem.
One of two things happens:
1) Cory Doctorow gradually morphs into Zuckerberg
2) Another social network, run more like Facebook is currently, replaces the one that Cory Doctorow is running. The reason Facebook didn't go the way of Friendster, Livejournal, and MySpace, is that he figured out how to play the game (as it currently exists) better than anyone else. Cory Doctorow would be like someone trying to win the Tour de France when everyone else was doping. In this analogy, Zuckerberg is Lance Armstrong, playing the existing game the way you need to play it to win that game.
It's sometimes called a type-level boolean. Instead of trying to remember what true or false means, you have explicit variants associated with success or failure. (The underlying representation, including bit width, is the same)
Significant robotics projects usually need a team of specialists and possibly expensive hardware. Hobbyist robotics is fun, but unlikely to achieve state of the art in anything. It is easier for a single person to make a meaningful contribution in fields like programming language design, graphics, etc.
I don't want to tell tales out of school or anything. I've met an ex-marine who suffered damage in training and stories from internet videos all corroborate the general story. The marines are the offensive branch, and the individuals get treated poorly. You get a lot of respect for your title, but other branches have a better quality of life and better jobs available.

https://youtu.be/UMoLKLM8SMg Fun story time by an ex-air force guy who was going to join up to the marines (4:30).
I started Niceboard (https://niceboard.co) last summer and while the recurring revenue is not enough to entirely live on yet, I've been running a lifetime deal on Appsumo which has consistently brought in >$5k / month over the past few months and live off of that (for how long is the million dollar question).

Now I have to fully transition from fixed revenue to recurring!

(I was thinking of writing a quick note about all of this but idk if anyone cares/is interested)
I don't think this is a sufficient explanation; there were a number of scientific voyages of explanation. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_and_American_voyages_..., although most of those postdate 1822. Still, there were a number before then.

Even without explicitly scientific voyages, the Americas -- north and south -- had been settled by Europeans for hundreds of years, and the US was now an independent country, and settlement of Australia had been underway for decades. That leaves plenty of discovery to be done on land.

Like, Carl Linnaeus had died some 40 years earlier. His taxonomy included New World species, and so did other taxonomies made by other later 18th-century biologists.

Meanwhile James Cook had taken various scientists on a number of his voyages (which were primarily intended for exploration), resulting in among other things the discovery of a number of new plant species.

So, I don't think this is an accurate description of the state of affairs at the time.
Has there ever been a study done of the costs of retraining an X programmer as a Y programmer? Talent availability is a huge factor for any development project; but if the software program clearly showed that Ada was superior, one wonders at the cost of taking all those experienced C++ coders and retraining them on Ada.

Ideally, such a study would show a matrix of the dominant language a coder uses, and the costs/time to get them comparably efficient in another language.
California is sitting on over 1MM unused Covid-19 vaccine doses
There really is something eerily beautiful, as the author states, about simple layouts that convey the immediate information sought as well as the intuition behind the abstraction.

Another I'd throw out there are the charts for latitude vs. hours of sunlight per day by month[0].

I have never wanted a tattoo, but that's an icon that I'd consider - maybe overlay each city in which one's lived, and periodically update it..

[0] http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/images/dayleng...
Why would the app be down that long though? Just take on more technical debt to get it back up and running. If Bob gets the app up and running then that’s all that matters to the stakeholder.
It's a much better solution than SSRIs, the research is starting to show. I presume you also oppose the research into cannabinoids?
You're right, we did this a lot at Boeing. I am very proud of the fact that none of my designs needed to be modified once the metal was cut, and it all passed test and certification without any problems.

Software development, on the other hand, lends itself very well to iterative development. You don't have problems like sinking a new forging die costing half a million bucks, so work really diligently to not need to scrap a die. Keep making mistakes like that, and Boeing will move you to a position where you get to design ash trays.

D is very much an iteratively developed product.
If you know a politician only from media, no matter local or global, you have already lost.

I mean knowing an official by knowing what decisions (s)he has made in your local vicinity, which affected you personally. Or knowing by being neighbors. That is, somehow directly.
Tritris
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We like our aircraft "Made in USA" for obvious reasons. An aircraft "Made in China" is a great way to save money, and it works fine for China.

It probably doesn't help that practically every congressional district gets to make a piece of the aircraft.
Everywhere I worked has been traditional NFS, and I've seen more than 3 times the figure you quoted working well. Usually you have different mountpoints/vfs`s in different servers for different kinds of files.
Code: https://github.com/Goel25/tritris

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMkfj1OJ08Q
See also:
http://www.cs.yorku.ca/~roumani/fortran/ftn.htm
> I mean I go into detail about how it all took place.

No, you haven't given any reason whatsoever how the coronavirus allowed China to do all these things. How, specifically, did the intentional or unintentional release of the virus aid the CCP strategically?

What did the virus allow them to gain that they would otherwise be unable to do?

How did they capitalize on the global pandemic?
Twitter recently completely blocked js-free viewing, it's never ideal.
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IDK. Take Amphetamine for example. I've been using Macs for decades and have no use for it.

I don't doubt it has its uses, but is it really OS functionality?

I suspect the defaults cover 90% of cases and System Prefs/caffinate cover maybe 90% of what's left.
Sad to hear that "raise a stink on HN" is one of the only ways to catch an actual human's live attention at a mega corp.

In a better world, this whole issue would have been averted by the first-level support escalating it to the supervisor who would have used common sense and the liberties of his leadership position.
You’re being downvoted for oversimplifying what this app does as well as the combative tone. As GP said, on Mac you can turn off sleep timer permanently in the OS settings. The app in question let’s you keep awake for the next N minutes/hours so the “keep awake” setting change isn’t permanent. It makes sleep-settings workflow much easier. It’s simple but worthwhile.
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> This is absolutely true but fails to recognize that radio frequencies have harmful, non-ionizing effects on biological organisms.

What harmful effects are you referring to? Outside of intense heat or light, there shouldn't be any potential hazards to biological systems, since non-ionizing radiation by definition cannot remove electrons from atoms.

https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/radiation/nonionizing_radiation.htm...
Wow, at that rate of increase, even if it were just linear (and these things tend not to be), they would be at virtually 100% new car sales EV in 6 years.

Not that I'm predicting that would actually happen, just saying that's an enormous rate of increase in 12 months.
Is a home office more productive? Some workers think so
“Integrity” (literally: Being whole, not fractured), in that case, means: “Every ad on the planet goes through Facebook”.
Leadership/Management/Design by committee has its pros and cons for sure.
1) full remote

2) I live 20 minutes drive from work. About an hour on a bicycle

3) Not great. We have 2 small kids and remote work has been a constant challenge. We finally have a rhythm, but a covid surge (or worse a case in the household) could be looking any minute. I am busy around the clock with very little time for self-care.

4) Pros: short commute time, no pants at work. Cons: everything else.

5) kids are definitely a different game than wfh for single people.

6) Never. I like the ability to work from home, but the reality of doing it full time is souls sucking.
I'm not normally a big advocate of reddit but in case you aren't aware of it, there's /r/AppIdeas/
What are they doing to do? Shut down your instance and force you to switch to a different product....?
Hmmmm
Talk about synchronicity!

I was thinking about this exact same sort of thing during last night. Why did I think of this thing that happened 70-odd years ago? I have no clue.

Way back in the early-mid 1950s, my brother bought a 'home music studio". I have no other word for it. This audio machine was a record player for 78s, 45s and 33s, a record cutter using acetate blanks, and a tape recorder; all-in-one in a timber case with handle, about 2-feet square.

In today's money, it must have been the equivalent of about 3 grand. I know my old man was not at all happy with my brother's expenditure.

The machine used BASF tape in 7-inch reels. The tape deck was more triangular in shape than the Gramdeck pictured. If my memory is correct, this was called a 'ByerCorder', or maybe 'BeyerCorder'.

Basically, it sat on the central spindle of the turntable at one corner of the triangle, and two other rubber feet sat on the outside of the turntable at the other 2 corners of the triangle. The turntable spindle directly rotated the rubber capstan of the tape-deck. That capstan was about an inch and a half in diameter.
> How is access being limited and audited to the data collected by this new bill?

Why should it be? There's no sensible reason why ownership of a company should have to be kept secret, AFAICS. If your company does shit so shady you're ashamed to stand up and admit to it, that shit is probably so shady it already is — or should be — illegal anyway.
Were you at The Foundry (I think I know who you are)? If so, I think we were both there at the same time!
The Weather Underground app for Android and iOS displays first light and last light.
Jen here– thank you so much for the mention!
The "economic activity" being discussed in my sub thread here is simply owning your own home and not having your address easily available for kidnappers and nut bags. It is, in fact, pretty hard (as in the cost can be easily raised to a couple grand with a bit of opsec).

Renters have no such disclosure of where they live.

This law could have at least made unauthorized disclosure of the information collected a felony as is the case for tax returns, but it does not.
Agree. On those mornings when I feel lazy, I've learned those are the game changing opportunities to exercise discipline. It's easy to stick to the plan when motivated. I find it empowering (and uplifting) to stick to the plan when unmotivated.
I don't know how to find the reference, but I read somewhere that originally they were meant to be played in groups, sort of a campus-wide puzzle contest.
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Ah and even moon-rise and moon-set! But it doesn't seem to tell you for any day except today!

But errr... isn't the Weather Underground a domestic terrorism and bombing group?
The only reason we use hex is because we have binary. With ternary you would maybe use 12 as a base. That's better then 16 anyway since 12 can be divided by 2, 3, 4 and 6.
> But I think, personally, beneficial ownership information should be afforded privacy similar to tax returns.

I agree. Not only similar, but exactly the same.

Only I'm Swedish.
Neither party had modern fighter jets.

If Armenia had a dozen F-35s with a good stock of LGBs, I am sure they would have gotten the edge on azerbaijan regardless of how many drones the other party uses.
It's easier to justify spending public money on public data, as opposed to spending money to help some foreign company.