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Hopefully we start to recycle batteries better. Most people throw their old broken phone in a landfill from what I gather. (broken, there is a market for non-broken phones)
Ginormous batteries come to mind. Buy low (so low it’s negative) sell high.

We’ve seen Tesla do it quite successfully in Australia, no reason why we won’t start seeing similar thing happening in the U.K.

I also suspect that there are many applications of unpredictable bursts of free electricity (I don’t really know what “unstable” electricity means when it comes to pricing). The most obvious is district heating, it’s a massive natural energy store. You can use the electricity to reduce your consumption of what other energy supply you normally use.

Then there are things like canal pumps. You could basically turn canals into huge hydrostores by varying their level by a few cm. This is just demand shifting, but no reason why you can’t do it.

Basically any application that currently involves topping up a natural energy store, whether that be pumped water, heat, or just any lifted mass. Could be converted to shift demand to take advantage of low or negative energy prices.

All of these systems have natural buffers that can be utilised safely and cheaply. They just need the economic incentive to make it happen. And there are far more of them in the world than most people realise.
Click-Bait title, and judging by comments here everyone went for the click-bait.

The author doesn't actually use factorio for interviewing, and thinks it world be a bad idea to do so.

A more accurate title would be "Comparison between Factorio and Software Engineering Concepts" - but that wouldn't have gotten it to the top of HN so fast, nor gotten so many comments so quickly.
A single global brand can be an advantage, but I wouldn't be so sure that's the case with a rideshare app, in a city with a strong identity like NYC. In terms of brand positivity, I can see New Yorkers proudly switching to this. (And if Uber retains the "just got off the plane at JFK for the first time" market, so what.) The real question is whether they can compete on price and UX.
As a complement of your comment:
For more information, see Unique Factorization Domains (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_factorization_domain) for the generalization of how prime factorization work on things other than integers.
In Scotland if you build a property on someone else's land then they own the property. They are under no obligation to inform you either - so if you decide to build a windmill on top of a hill and then afterwards discover that the hill actually belongs to someone else then you are out of luck!
it's also how CoopCycle works throughout Europe
The article clearly states that this is not a realistic thing to do.
I don't think it would have a huge bias towards gamers in general. the real issue would be people who already happen to be good at factorio. if you play with experienced people, it's easy to pick up on a lot of efficient patterns without really understanding why they work.

then again, I guess that's also true of software.
software engineering and factorio are cybernetics and systems theory. That's the overlap - dealing with causal loops, buffers, queue theory, feedback, all that.

It really pisses me off that we as an industry don't broadly know our roots and the actual theory that we are putting into practice when we work. The "coding is engineering or art" debate? Easy; it's systems engineering.

The closest we get as an industry to teaching what's under the hood is to deal with computer science, which is great, but data structures and complexity heuristics are only a small piece of the puzzle.

It's no great surprise that there's such a big problem with cargo culting when most of us don't explicitly know what it is that we're doing.
"In the year 2054, the entire defense budget will purchase just one tactical aircraft. This aircraft will have to be shared by the Air Force and Navy 3½ days each per week except for leap year, when it will be made available to the Marines for the extra day" - Augustine's Law #16
But its biased against people who can't use mouse and keyboard :)

But on serious note,
People who played the game could just hide the fact that they know the game mechanics. And act like they are catching up faster then normal person would.
My car currently has no way to deactivate the passenger seat airbag, so a $200 option would be better than nothing.

Besides, I get offers from the dealer all the time for an engine computer upgrade (+30hp for about 700 euro), so it's not unheard of.

For features requiring continued support (like Carplay or better Bluetooth connectivity with modern phones) a yearly payment makes sense. The really small features not so much.
Hmm, now this is an interesting approach.

I wish it could be applied in NZ to help our endemic species deal with mustelids, but it would be highly contingent on the breeding rate of the prey species - bilbies and boodies (god I love Australian names for things) are pretty prolific breeders if conditions are right, but our highly vulnerable species[1][2] are the polar opposite, most likely an adaptation to prevent overpopulation.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_spotted_kiwi
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakapo

After all, if you're nocturnal, and camouflaged, then your avian predators are going to have a hard time finding you, so your next problem is outgrowing your food supply, so breed slower.

Also doesn't help that these species have very distinct scents. People I worked with as a ranger had specific overalls that they put on when handling kiwi because you could apparently never get the kiwi smell out. Kakapo apparently smell sorta mouldy, sorta fruity. Mammals are great at hunting by scent, birds hunt by sight, hence why introduced mustelids and dogs (and to a lesser extent, cats) massacred many of our birds.
Superb work. The "who" of attribution is more likely related to the actual PII they were after than any signature you'll get in the code. Seems like a lot of effort and risk of their malware being discovered for PII instead of being an injection point into those users machines. I rarely hear security people talk about why a system was targeted, and once you have that, you can know what to look for, inject canaries to test etc.
Except that major banks now can and do. The "Zelle" network contains thousands of member banks and moves money instantly between accounts. The limits on amounts sent vary (my Wells Fargo account can send to my friend's Bank of America up to $2500 a day, no fees).

The claimed advantage of crypto is that there's no oversight or limits on the amount you can send, whereas banks report any transaction over $10k (or something like that) to the IRS.
"What they mean universally" is actually a harder thing to peg down than one might assume, which is one of the reasons we still have separate countries in the first place.
Well I believe the UK and EU are working on the agreements necessary for cross border trading of electricity: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/trading-electrici...

There's no reason to believe that something won't be worked out in time.

So if by "hissy fit" you mean the people of the UK looked at the pros and cons of EU membership and narrowly decided that the cons can be lived with then.. yeah sure.
That's in the multiprocessing version, which was written by someone else and returns 1229 primes.

The original code includes 1 as a prime.
I remember when I was there locals telling me Afghanistan had a fantastic variety of grape local to the area. They were once regularly farmed. The Taliban attempted to burn most of them down as grapes can be used to make wine which is not Halal. Nonetheless grapevines remained a beloved curiosity in Kabul largely for their aesthetics and low maintenance.
Python and PHP aren't object oriented languages. They are structured languages with optional objects.

Javascript is object oriented but has it's own definition of "object" that differs from every other language, so people try to abstract it away and write most of their code in some other paradigm.
Looks like a sick trick, doesn't it? :) I wouldn't want to work for a company that sees that this way.
You can't easily splice balanced signal lines, so it's going to end up more complicated than just a routing issue.

But I like the concept. I understand that the pads are indexed with magnet locks? What happens if a user crams a component in incorrect orientation anyway?
I could, though it would be summarised in about one sentence: "NextJS and Vercel make everything stupidly easy."
> You can't stop start nuclear like you can with gas.

You actually can. All remaining six German nuclear power plants can operate in load-following mode and vary their output power by 10%-20% within minutes.

It just makes no sense to reduce the power on nuclear plants as they don’t emit any CO2 and you don‘t save much Uranium when you reduce power.
I see what you mean, but in my experience there's this tendency where you think you're testing for "X", but you aren't really.

A whiteboard FizzBuzz might be actually testing for memorization, deliberate interview prep, extrovert tendencies, etc. And not for any kind of actual technical skill. Failing the FizzBuzz could also just mean high social anxiety.
Svelte has made the classic mistake of creating a template-based framework, which inevitable leads to a DSL, then to a miniature programming language, then to a nightmare of incidental complexity. React won for a lot of reasons, but near the top of the list is JSX.

JSX is not a templating language, it’s just syntactic sugar for plain JavaScript. I never have to wonder what new features have been added to JSX, I never have to struggle with extensions to JSX that some 3rd-party library depends upon. Template-based frameworks are akin to Lisp reader macros, and this is especially true for Svelte in that it is a compiler. But reader macros will kill a language’s ecosystem quickly, in that they break composability. JSX was a clear winner over Angular’s directives for exactly this reason.

Svelte has some cool ideas, but regressing back to another Handlebars or Mustache isn’t one of them.
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I wouldn't call optimizing for information flow through an organization in a way prescribed by management "socializing" or even "good".

Wfh definitely isn't accelerationism (or perfect). It's just a chance to live somewhere less oppressively expensive and have less surveillance from your employer all day. It's up to the individual to take advantage of that. If socializing is important to them, there are more opportunities to do it, it just takes a bit more work but I would argue the results are much healthier and more natural than relying on work and centering relationships around working.
But that's what you a developer want, not necessarily the users. I'm extremely happy that you can't tell me to use another browser and have to fix your code for Safari instead. I think that you have a right to decide which browser I can use, even if I'm your costumer. I knew the rules when I bought my iPhone and had to accept them, even if it means only using webkit. Being forced to switch to Chrome when using a specific website just because the developer didn't feel like making it work in Safari is very annoying on the Mac and would make me go nut on the phone.
I'm paranoid, and I'd have considered the efforts described here to be pretty secure. I'll say the only counter to this grade of threat is constant monitoring, by a varied crew of attentive, inventive, and interested people. Even then, there's probably going to be a lot of luck needed.
It all depends how your app is split. Maybe you have pagination, and pagination could be extracted. Maybe you have logs, and they are handled outside. For pieces to be truly independent and exchangeable it seems to me it has to happen on more technical jointures rather than functional ones.
Outside of an interview have you ever needed to reverse a string?
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The fact that all of the game's functionality mirrors real-world situations when building system shows that you could just ask someone to build a scaled down system rather than asking them to play this game.

Any game sufficiently complicated as this will be akin to asking someone to write some example code in a language they've never used before, so you wouldn't be able to tell much anyway.
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Ah, gotcha. Well, yes, but no. It really depends on the marsupial. I've seen a brushtail possum dominate a dog.

And I'd bet on a Tasmanian devil or a thylacine (RIP) or a Thylacoleo carnifex (also RIP) against a feral cat any day of the week.
Only the south australian grid, which is not a relatively large grid.

South Australia's population is small, under two million and it's demand fluctuates between 400 - 3000 MW. For comparison, the Canadian province of New Brunswick has a comparable peak demand but fewer than a million people.
Ok, Spaniard here, were are not eugenysts or some crazy wackos, we just take in account all possible issues with a severly disabled future person both for the surrouding people and themselves.
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The apparatus to produce hydrogen from electricity doesn’t like fluctuations in its power input.
I will argue McKinsey has a bias against humanity and good things, but that's off-topic :-)
No one expects the Malware Inquisition
Imagine the headline had Google made the opposite decision: "Google suppresses disclosure of zero day security vulnerability under active Five Eyes exploitation". Seems to me they made the right call!

(Disclosure: I work for Google, speaking only for myself)
How is it "damning on society"? Raising normal children is already a massive time commitment, and at the end you get a functioning adult that you don't have to take care of, and which can give you grand children. Why would anyone want a child that takes even more time and has to be taken care of for its entire life?
Are there examples of companies where a Woz-like figure maintained the lead, and were quietly supportes by a business savvy second-in-command, instead of the other way around? Both roles still present, but the visibility reversed?
Submitter here. I don't work for or use Tower, but thought this was useful for HN anyway - it covers command line git as well as Tower.
It's a very deliberate and precise filter. I can write in old persian: "𐎠𐎡𐎢" (codepoints 0x103xx) or CJK "𠀀𠀁𠀂" (codepoints 0x2000x), but can't write "" (emoji with codepoint 0x1F605)
Facebook is the #1 offender in my opinion. I absolutely refuse to install any Facebook app. Back in the day, you could message people in the mobile browser without issue. Heck, it even loaded new messages without needing to refresh.

Then they decided you should need the app to message people.

Then they decided you should use a completely separate app to message people versus browse Facebook.

Now I have to use mbasic.facebook.com to message people. The quality of the experience dropped so much because, but I'm glad they don't have access to my contacts, text messages, location, etc. They get enough info about me from other sources.
I think it's a good system. It ensures you as the party that wants to build do your due diligence and/or make sure everyone is on board.
25 years ago I travelled in the Taklamakan Basin which lies to the east of Afghanistan in Xinjiang, NW China. The local Uyghur people and their forebears had perfected over millennia various techniques related to growing and preserving grapes. It's a sub-sea level depression, one of the driest and hottest spots in Central Asia - so hot that local people warned me not to park my bicycle in the sun or the tires might burst. For thousands of years the people there have maintained underground irrigation channels which bring water from the mountains hundreds of km to the north to irrigate grapes and other crops. The covered channels go right through the towns and even in the early summer were filled with rushing water. Grape trellises were growing over many of the sidewalks throughout the city of Turpan (with stern signs in Arabic script and Chinese not to eat them, ignored by local kids) providing shade as well as grapes. The countryside nearby had these brick buildings with gaps between the bricks used for rapid drying of grapes to be made into the best raisins I've ever had.
Thanks, I don’t work in security but I use APT a lot.
I thought it was a unfunny joke? Like ... APT provide some of those packages?
Ok. That make more sense.

The author did a good job at making that readable. Is it often like that?
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This does not paint FreeBSD in a good light.

“you either have a commit bit (enabling you to commit code to FreeBSD's repositories) or you don't. It's hard to find code reviews, and there generally isn't a fixed process ensuring that vitally important code gets reviewed prior to inclusion. This system thus relies heavily on the ability and collegiality of individual code creators.”

From my perspective, this whole thing is due to a severe failure of the development process. The sub-standard code should never have been committed. But if there is no process, is it really a failure? Or is this just how it is on FreeBSD?
often in multiplayer factorio playthroughs you get one player who becomes the defacto "lead dev". it takes some nontrivial organization to get subgoals completed in a way that people aren't blocking each other. a common mistake is two players building separate factories too close together, which leads to some very messy solutions and limits how much the throughput can be upgraded.
Imagine if we held a war, and nobody could afford to come?
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I'm pretty sure the only thing that playing Factorio really tests is the player's ability to learn and play Factorio.
> You just need space to put them in.

What are you talking about? Just take the three phases from your power outlet and stick them in the ground, with some distance between them. There, zero capital costs, and a nice, mostly resistive load for the power plant. A bad time to be an earthworm, though.
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So the workers all voted to be acquired?
Also the mods can and often do.
Conspiracy theory: the fact the POC insisted on the writer checking out the traffic suggests they knew about (or were suspicious of) the fact that PII was being leaked.
The more junior you are, the more likely it is that not only can your boss do your job, they can do it better than you can. The more senior you become, the less likely that is to be the case.

How many CEOs could do all of the CFO, COO, CTO, and General Counsel's jobs? Zero.

How many programming team leads can do the junior programmer's job? Basically/hopefully all of them.
You have to beware if you're on a filesystem (such as ZFS) that has compression enabled. A file of all zeros compresses quite well, and may not get you the space you need when you remove it.
Reminds me of questions related to sports.

I have zero interest in sports and am clueless to the rules of baseball or football or basketball. I hated when I got questions that assumed I had any such knowledge.

Granted this was way back when when interviewers like to toss brainteaser questions to cargocult Google/Microsoft/etc...before they started doing leetcode to cargocult Google etc.
Vs. storms at sea it's not a major difference, and if anything the sail boat is in better shape. The real advantage is accurate weather reports to avoid the worst of it.
While it might be a failure from the taxpayer's and military's point of view, it's a raving success for Congress and the contractors. The metrics for the latter are jobs, grandstanding, campaign donations, kickbacks, crony benefits, and mountains of cash, plus guaranteed more mountains ongoing until it's killed.

I wish this was the cynical view but it's more like reality of government procurement.
Well, LabView doesn't have locals who get pissed off by your pollution, for one.
> Then why not call it LOSS?

Because then people would think they are losing something by using it? /s
True. I find I have to iterate on my processes quite a few times before I squash these issues.

They're conceptually similar to software bugs - inevitable, often surprising and impossible to fix all at once.
> I think the Court erred in this. But it was far from wanton judicial activism.

I didn't say it was. I said that about Gonzalez v. Raich. Terry though is a perfect example of how legislating from the bench is basically unavoidable. The constitution doesn't outline what a search without a warrant should look like. The court could say, we don't care leave it to statute. But likely any state statute would be challenged on the grounds that it was permissive beyond what is "reasonable". So they'll just get the problem back in another form.

They could say, this needs an amendment but what is to be done in the meantime? So they are stuck. They either have to say, "no warrantless search is "reasonable". Or they have to start defining a standard under which a warrantless search is "reasonable". Either way, they are effectively writing law.

They have to take non-specific language and interpret it to a specific incident. It is exactly the kind of canard they faced in the case linked here. Bullets aren't a literal search or seizure but obviously the constitution doesn't intend to allow a cop to shoot you with impunity because that's not a "search or seizure". Shootings have to be governed by the "reasonable searches or seizures" doctrine cause there isn't anything else.

If this case is activism as the poster I replied to implied then so is Terry. The call just came down on the other side this time. It's not way out there to ask a cop to think, "there might be multiple reasons why this person is speeding away from me now and it is not 'reasonable' to assume they are armed and dangerous and need to be shot." And grouping the polices's right to use deadly force under the 4th amendment isn't either. It's my opinion that neither this case, nor Terry is particularly "activist".

> Of course the Courts aren't objective. Law isn't code. That doesn't mean we can strive for them to be, as much as they can be.

This is exactly my point. We can ask for Some people are just going to call every decision they don't like activist. But the implications from a case like Terry or this one are clear; judges have to engage in something a little more than literal readings of legal text.
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