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GP might have meant undefined behavior, but specifically mentioned stack overflows and out of bounds array access as unrecoverable errors. These sound brutal, but are in fact all but undefined. Proper handling is expected in the large class of applications which run as servers.
Sort of. I don't like my dwelling with some amounts of my possessions present being rifled through while I am not there, but many motels are now requiring housekeeping every couple of days DND sign or not.
The real crime is that there are only like 5 appliance parts companies that stock parts and they each seem to look at the other companies for what to stock. Meaning, if someone else has it they won’t. But what ever they do stock ends up selling for 500% or more of the wholesale price.
The obsession with plastic recycling is due to human irrationality. We are driven to conserve material resources over hard to imagine energy because matter is tangible. This is a fallacy. Plastic is made from oil, and recycling plastic requires more energy than making new one, therefore recycling plastic is the wasteful route. Just burn it all, problem solved.

Recycling not being economical betrays this reality. It's simply insanity to recycle, unfortunately in most places it's legally forced.
I feel robbed. There's all that lead up... to nothing. Where is the Apple product name generator?!
I used to think if you looked hard enough and researched things, maybe paid more sometimes, you could get around it. I still think that is necessary, but not sufficient. It won't save you; you also need a bit of luck.

My biggest bugaboo in this area is with clothes. At some point I started being more careful, but found the published specs won't help because they don't actually tell you everything you need to know, or the company selling them is being defrauded themselves by manufacturers making things out of spec. In many cases too I'm convinced people have lost communal knowledge of what good items look like because theyve never seen them. So, say, they're happy with a sweater that is made out of very poor yarn that obviously won't last because it's warm and has a good zipper. We're at 2/3 now I guess.

However, even places like Consumer Reports will say they don't recommend an entire class of appliance, but then proceed to provide ratings, that are ostensibly good. How are those supposed to be interpreted? "None of these are worth buying but they are 95/100 in quality if you take that into account"? No wonder people are confused.

I've bought clothes from reputable vendors, with fabric from named mills to specs that should be quality, and found instead the cut was off spec and wouldn't fit. Or something about the fabric just didn't last anyway. It seems like it's always something, like I'm constantly being tricked in some new way once I figure out some other problem. It's such an enormous waste of money, time, and resources.
What is your mother tongue?
I impressed people with coding.
On English the poems look like impressing.
Sophistry unfortunately didn't die in the 70s, but it's not a bad book, IIRC. It's ages ago that I read it, but it does take a very formal, undergrad-philosophy-of-science model as the one and true model, which everybody religiously adheres to. Pedantic might be a better predicate. Which is odd, now that I think about it, because you can't really be pedantic without believing you know the truth.
It is all about creating the industrial base with people going through university specializing in it. In 2017 this angle was up in the news in the UK. Take the responses as you like.

> The government is using the “extremely expensive” Hinkley Point C nuclear power station to cross-subsidise Britain’s nuclear weapon arsenal, according to senior scientists.

> In evidence submitted to the influential public accounts committee (PAC), which is currently investigating the nuclear plant deal, scientists from Sussex University state that the costs of the Trident programme [1] could be “unsupportable” without “an effective subsidy from electricity consumers to military nuclear infrastructure”.

> [...]

> This week, the Green MP Caroline Lucas asked the government about the Ministry of Defence and the business department discussing the “relevance of UK civil nuclear industry skills and supply chains to the maintaining of UK nuclear submarine and wider nuclear weapons capabilities”.

> Harriett Baldwin, the defence procurement minister, answered that “it is fully understood that civil and defence sectors must work together to make sure resource is prioritised appropriately for the protection and prosperity of the United Kingdom”.

> [...]

> At the PAC hearing, the Labour MP Meg Hillier asked whether “Hinkley is a great opportunity to maintain our nuclear skills base”.

> Lovegrove answered: “We are completing the build of the nuclear submarines which carry conventional weaponry. So somehow there is very definitely an opportunity here for the nation to grasp in terms of building up its nuclear skills. I don’t think that’s going to happen by accident. It is going to require concerted government action to make that happen.”

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/oct/12/electricity-...

> Andrew Stirling believes that there was a crucial, largely unspoken, reason for the government’s rediscovered passion for nuclear: without a civil nuclear industry, a nation cannot sustain military nuclear capabilities. In other words, no new nuclear power plants would spell the end of Trident. “The only countries in the world that are currently looking at large-scale civil power newbuild programmes are countries that have nuclear submarines, or have an expressed aim of acquiring them,” Stirling told me.

> Building nuclear submarines is a ferociously complicated business. It requires the kind of institutional memory and technical expertise that can easily disappear without practice. This, in theory, is where the civil nuclear industry comes in. If new nuclear power plants are being built, then the skills and capacity required by the military will be maintained. “It looks to be the case that the government is knowingly engineering an environment in which electricity consumers cross-subsidise this branch of military security,” Stirling told me.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/21/hinkley-point-c...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trident_(UK_nuclear_programme)
> This is like saying that because it's impossible to write perfectly safe C++ programs, then we should just use raw pointers.

Anything goes does not imply a proscription like that.
I had this issue in my house that was built six years ago. Lights going out all over the place that are supposed to have really long lives. When I finally replaced a few of them, it didn't seem to be the lights. The lazy ass subcontractors hired by the worthless builder installed a bunch of the wiring incorrectly. Every light I have replaced so far wasn't even grounded. Ground wire just flapping in the wind.
> It is not rapidly and widely accepted.

It has been adopted by most large tech companies and several high profile open source projects within ~5 years of it's stable release. It certainly has been rapidly and widely accepted.

For important projects too: Google is using it in Android, Microsoft is using it in Windows, Amazon is using it for Lambda, Meta is using it for their source control tool, Dropbox is using for their storage backend AND in their client apps, Cloudflare is using it for their core proxy, etc.
This article speaks to me. So many times I have needed to go back and fix queries that were naively written this way like it was some kind of "optimization". There is no difference in effort between writing a join or doing the ORM-double-round-trip in the vast majority of cases. People are so afraid of doing joins I see people doing subqueries with the id in a subselect because "joins are slow". The worst is usually some kind of pseudo-join and then an aggregate or filtering in the application code. It drives me up the wall when I see it in code review, usually because I get into some argument about "joins are slow" (with no evidence) and then I have to go and rewrite the query and maybe add an index to show that, yes - an aggregate that takes seconds and a ton of memory in the application code can in fact take milliseconds in the database.

The NoSQL people have really done a lot of brain-damage to this industry.

It's so pervasive that I've starting using this kind of question in our technical interviews, doing a double round-trip ends the interview for anyone higher than a junior.
China has been adding VASTLY more solar than nuclear. 20 new reactors is only something like 5GW/year because of how long it takes to build nuclear.
Fission power is much more expensive than wind and solar and takes way longer to get online. This move by Japan makes no rational sense. It is clearly driven by nuclear industry lobbying and constant spread of the canard that we "need" nuclear. There is no need in 2022 when renewables and storage are here today and cheaper.
Shipping it the first time may have made sense. Second time? Not so much.
I skipped reading the rules and found it very fun.
This makes the unwary buyer a victim of the thief as well. All the more reason to brick stolen devices and make them unsellable by the thief so they can't victimize more people.
You not only misread what they wrote, you misread what I wrote.

I wasn’t saying the original commenter was “guilty by association”, I was pushing back on their “anti-wokenes” nonsense and pointing out that their choice of schooling isn’t without serious issues of its own.
Relevant discussion about Mozilla: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34073877.
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I had the same gear fail. It's called a worm gear and is, indeed, intended to fail before damaging the other gears. They're much cheaper if you buy a non-oem part. I bought one from amazon for ~10 USD.
Reliability now isn't done with the same methods as it was then.

Back then, the good stuff might have been good because the motor was big.

The modern good stuff probably has a brushless motor that can prevent stalls. It doesn't matter if it's big or small, the computer won't let it overheat, so they can make it smaller to save money that they can spend on whatever part is the actual failure mode.

The trouble is finding manufacturers that actually do that, rather than just using a tiny motor with no computer and plastic gears with no torque sensing. If you design things with old fashioned methods, you need to use old fashioned heavy parts.

Nylon gears in contact with ozone, and switches and connectors of all kinds seem to be the problem on everything I've seen. Which is why I always say I would gladly use 10k lines of code to save one moving part or one switch.
OK, so what model of overall cooperation would avoid Wikipedia drama?

(having seen humanity's response to Covid, I'm not willing to admit "the spirit of full cooperation will bloom as defecting behaviour withers away" as axiomatic. But I am curious as to what you have in mind?)
Flying around like Superman is all the reason I need.
I agree. I have never held to anything special about the way I or my brain function. I appear to be pattern-matching my way through the day 99% of the time — and forgetting 99% of it as well, only noting the perceived anomalies.
I think it's closer to the shared gzlines on the smaller IRC networks or Usenet's KillFiles that people used to promote group-think and group-ban people, sometimes for good reasons and sometimes for deviating from group-think. I suspect Mastodon will become a medium sized bubble or silo as a result. I personally will just hang back and watch the show. Mastodon appears to be a continuation of the Twitter fallout and peeled some tribes off into their own medium sized bubble. It will be good for growth but I have no idea what the end result will look like.

I believe the biggest threat to Mastodon is that it breaks up some of the control centralized governmental and corporate powers have to influence the way people think and feel a.k.a. winning the hearts and minds of the people. An interesting project might be to create some machine learning that tries to identify when Mastodon is being infiltrated by these entities.
I’m referring to this statement;

> There's no particular disadvantage to me booking Marriott through Amex

There is a big difference between booking through Concur and booking through the Amex portal.
I'm not sure if we're saying a similar thing here but to me, it's basically another search engine.

I'm honestly using it like a search engine at this point. Currently I think I'll probably end up reverting to Google and Stack Overflow because what I don't like about ChatGPT is that it doesn't provide any other opinions or options / insights. It's like a colleague who thinks they know everything ha

It's a super cool thing to play with though..
Unless the company goes out of business, or as may happen more often today, just dissolve the company and re-brand/re-incorporate.
Great you live in a bubble!

BEFORE the pandemic most americans couldn't afford a $400 emergency bill, people are pretty desperate in the US on average and if you don't encounter that day to day you are living in comparative luxury.
I see the recycle logo and the words “please recycle” on the flexible film plastic that holds my frozen vegetables.

Film plastic, is not recyclable except for a few cities in the US. It’s mostly garbage.

“Please recycle” is slapped onto every piece of packaging regardless of consumers ability to carry out the recommendation.
There was never any slowdown. Briefly during the initial covid scare and briefly after Trump's election, but neither pause lasted more than a few months.
When we got our house 7 years ago, we replaced a bunch of appliances with brand new, modern ones.

Fancy French-door Refrigerator: still going strong. I tightened the screw on the freezer handle a couple of times.

Cheap fridge in the basement: still going strong, no repairs

Washer and dryer: still going strong, no repairs

Dishwasher: still going strong. I replaced a dish rack when one of the tines broke.

Anecdata, it's fun and useless!
I'm not arguing for or against this approach, merely responding to a question with a factual answer.

But since you brought it up ;) I bounce back and forth between which approach I like. Sometimes exceptions seem bulky and unwieldy and honestly a bit lazy. Returning an error feels verbose and annoying and bulky as well. But it also feels like returning an error forces you to think about what should happen, where exceptions let you kick the can down the road.

Neither are great, but I find that code that uses exceptions ends up being poorer in design and functioning, but also errors-on-return tends to be harder to read.
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Would suspcription based applicances be better? Softwar supscription definitely did lead to a quality decline in software, as there is always a channel to fix even the sloppiest of implementations.
Huh, the Nim blog post appears to be wrong, then, or I misunderstood it.
Most of those features are available in ML derived languages, without having to deal with Rust features that make it usefull C and C++ replacement.

With faster compiler toolchains and REPL like tooling.
You describe a vague fear and I think I know that feeling… where you replay it and wonder “did I manufacture a crisis? Was there actual danger? Am I misremembering it?”

I wonder if that’s one of many reasons a review of the event is important.
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> In my understanding, Nim at the moment is really a transpiled language, instead of compiled. Transpiled to C, then tooling uses clang or gcc to do compilation from C to target platforms.

If I understood correctly, like the Vala language: https://vala.dev/ (Note: Vala is strongly integrated with GObject).
Favorite regex books? Only one I've read is Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey Fridel and I loved it. If you have any more recs, I'm all ears.
Some degree of support network, and when you get paid dirt and the cost to work is high itself (buying and maintaining a car being the big one) the tiny amount of money you get for a huge mental and physical toll just isn't worth it?

You are likely still going to be entirely dependent upon that support network job or no job. Jobs that are available to most people dont generally pay a living wage anymore, is that not sinking in for you?
> The author argues that science should become an anarchic enterprise, not a nomic (customary) one;[1] in the context of the work, the term "anarchy" refers to epistemological anarchy, which does not remain within one single prescriptive scientific method on the grounds that any such method would restrict scientific progress.

So sometimes we can have randomized controlled trials to really understand the effectiveness of drugs, but we can't RCT climate change or the big bang, so we have to use simulations and models. That doesn't seem like "anything goes", more like a response to that one guy in my econ class who always ranted that if it wasn't backed by a RCT, all theories are BS.
A worm gear! It is indeed designed to take the fall so the entire machine doesn't shred itself.

I bought an official replacement from KitchenAid for $12 including shipping.
Nearly 10 years ago my manager suggested we get a mentor so I chose a great Java developer in our team (I didn't have much OO experience) and wanted to learn about dependency injection and TDD and all that stuff. A couple of weeks later this great dev was pushed out / fired over some argument with a manager, so that ended pretty quickly! I had a great mentor when I started my last job although he left pretty quickly it was probably him that gave me the confidence to move from developer to tech arch. I hope it wasn't me that made them leave :-)
Do you have more info on this? I’d like to read up on it.
Yes, do not let the HN anti-exception crusaders gaslight you. I still remember when I "discovered" exceptions in programming - "this is so much cleaner!"

All this theoretical mumbo jumbo is just noise. Very few of us are dealing with the type of programming every day where exceptions can actually become a noticeable bottleneck.
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In my analysis, you absolutely did the right thing.

I have this underlying, background process that is continuously running in my mind that is essentially, “Please don’t let it be my fault.”

And so that thought has guided me while driving, in daily living, and in one particular instance that reminded me of your experience (because I was not in charge of safety).

I was a patron at a wave pool in the heat of the summer. The waves were churning, and the water was packed with people.

I am hyper vigilant by internal design, and I noticed this young girl starting to drown.

If you have not seen this before, it is nothing like you would imagine; there is no wild flailing of the arms, or urgent calls for help. It is an almost surreal, quiet experience.

I made my way to her in what seemed like a slow motion moment blended into a faster-than-life response, and scooped her up in my arms as if she were my own child.

I remember that she was stunned as I raised her from the water, with somniferous, glassy eyes before she inhaled.

I am welling up just thinking about it. It was an intense experience that I will never forget.
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OP's article wasn't about choosing between not working and working in hotels, it's about hotel workers who moved on to other industries after a few years of covid. They're no longer available to work in hotels, no matter how you compensate them : they move on and are happy with their new job and lives.

But in your situation, if you have the opportunity to work, you can do it to grow the GDP and make your wage.
You can't just expect that others, who might also dislike their jobs, have to pay taxes to share their salary with you just because you don't want to work.

There are real issues that cause unemployment : real estate that prices out workers in cities with jobs, banks that expect you to have a job before giving you a credit, when you need to afford a license and a car before you start a job, inconsistencies between companies expectations and job seekers, injuries, depression or lack of confidence,...

But being a crybaby about working isn't a reason to piggy back on workers.

I'm not even neoliberal, I'm communist. And I think you should work both for yourself and for the sake of the others.
People are mentioning survivorship bias. (i.e. we notice old products that work well because they're still working, and don't notice the ones that failed since they're in a landfill.)

I wonder, could the opposite reason account for all the companies selling crappy products? Could it be that all the companies that made the really high-quality products that last generations died out because they didn't have a sustainable business model?

It could be that creating a truly high-value product is expensive and selling one that never needs replacement isn't sustainable. Maybe after a while you run out of customers: the ones that are still happily using the product you specialized in making an expensive high-quality version of for life, just don't have a reason to buy another.

Thus perhaps the only companies that survive are the ones who have customers who keep rebuying after their products break.

How can customers help e.g. a refrigerator company survive, if they only buy one from them ever?
> men can't really cooperate in any grand sense

Dawn of Everything shares the latest anthropology and archeology about prior societies. Spoiler: Science indicates a whole lot more cooperation than was previously assumed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dawn_of_Everything

I'm quite bullish on the future of cooperatives. Perhaps like the worker directed social enterprises advocated by Richard Wolfe.

One missing "technology" is better, more durable governance. Cooperatives have been vulnerable to corporate capture (or transmutation). Like the farmer's cooperatives of yore. And they need better protection against coups, usurpers.

But surely that's solvable. We have 1,000s of successful examples to learn from.

Imagine a world where participating in a home owner association, local government council, or a volunteer org's executive board wasn't considered cruel and unusual punishment.
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Japan's solar and onshore wind resources are pretty abysmal and their ocean shelf is steep. Unless you expect them to cover the entire early adopter costs of floating offshore wind (and too quickly for the devopment money to be efficient), then there's not really a viable renewable option for bulk power the next 8 years or so.

Even if it costs on the order of $150US/MWh to restart their reactors it makes sense.
In store shopping seems to be a great way to pay more for worse stuff these days.
Those people driving for those gig apps often value the flexibility of not having a set schedule. I don't think that style of work is very compatible with hotel housekeeping.
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An easy solution to this is to give point-based weights to achievements and cap the max total "points" any given game can have, allowing a developer to have many small achievements for their game if they wish. But really, none of this matters because Steam achievements are easily auto-unlocked via SAM.
Apple has been dropping the article from iPhone advertisements. "With iPhone 13, you can...", not "an/the iPhone". To me, this breaking of orthography feels too much like reverential capitalization for something that is not exactly divine.