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And - somehow when things slip, the customer is pissed, it's your fault.
Love this, I learned this from my boss when we got rid of 029 keypunches. It was the last one, we were all on glass terminals. He took a key part out of the keypunch, stuck it in an big envelope and mailed it to himself. He had the post office stamp the date all over the flap.

Three weeks later he held a meeting about getting rid of the keypunch. People said no, we use it daily, weekly, etc. "In fact I used it three days ago". He let everyone talk. Then he slid the envelope to the three day guy, had him note the dates, and then made him open the envelope.

Keypunch was gone the next day.
For the risk averse, do not jump the roped off road shoulder and instead cross at the crosswalk per local law?
> We have software QA departments that operate very much like manufacturing or aerospace QA.

I don’t work in this industry, but this seems fairly ridiculous on its face: software is not at all like manufacturing.

In manufacturing, there’s a design and a manufacturing process, and a critical function of QA is ensuring that the manufactured produce is manufactured to spec.

With software, the software is written, compiled, and then repeatedly copied. And something should verify that it’s copied correctly, but this is straightforward and boring.

So software QA ought to be much more like the kind of validation that happens when designing hardware, not like the kind of testing and validation that happens as products are manufactured.
> and far from the theoretical AP Max (~36 Gbps)

How'd you come to 36 Gbps?

2.4: 688 Mbps
5: 2882 Mbps
6: 5765 Mbps

That only comes to 9.3 Gbps, and if you ever get half that in goodput you're having a hell of a good day. I wouldn't expect higher speed interfaces on such a low end (albeit modern) AP.
China is winning by having its ships still go through, after they have clarified with Houthis they will not work with Israeli ports.
Bolts are most likely tightened with a torque wrench or a gun that is set to a torque spec. Over tightening a bolt is as bad as a loose bolt.
I speculate these passed QA from Boeing because they might have been correctly torqued to the spec. What happens in field is hard to understand. One possibility is vicinity to the engine can cause extreme vibrations, these can make them loose.
Other possibility is the maintenance side of things - maybe a badly calibrated torque wrench could be the reason.
Mechanical systems are not inherently immutable.
The original claim is "You cant get insurance for sailing in a conflict zone." Which we have clearly shown is false by showing current insurance rates for sailing in this conflict zone.
> This technique also extended the lifespan of mice with a premature aging condition by about 40%.

Why is it always like this? Even "in mice" I think they always start with an animal that has been genetically modified to age faster or show some trait of aging and then cure that, as opposed to taking a normal healthy mouse and extending its age by 40%, no?
Are there non-embedded Forth use cases these days?
I tried almost a year learning Forth due to curiosity and still don't "get" it.

As a HLL guy, for me Lisp is more understandable (well I don't use it for daily work, though). And if I need low level, well there's assembly.
This is the sort of quirky fun that characterized the early days of UNIX and computing in general. It's refreshing to see the BSD community keeping it alive and well.
But what makes 'software QA' fundamentally different than 'non-software QA' to give it the problems you foresee?
I think it would be helpful to qualify ‘everything the pilot/developer says’ with ‘in the past 25 hours’.

For a pilot that just flew a 12 hour flight with a malfunction that would be of obvious benefit.

For a developer that introduced a bug 8 months ago, maybe not so much. Even if you recorded every interaction the dev had over that time period nobody would be able to go through everything and get sensible information.
Are there any ideas / draft proposals about browser access to shared cloud storage? (Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, etc.) The ability to store data on the user-side in a way that they control and is still cloud-available to multiple devices may be a feature that's just too user-empowering to be supported.
0. Don't change things just for the sake of justifying your employment as a UI designer.

The software I use with the best UI is also the software I use with the oldest UI.
Why does holding a key fob to your head increase its range?
I work at FAANG. People here coast while making mountains of money.
Attacks on cargo ships don't happen in the middle of the ocean (for obvious reasons) but near coasts, were regional powers can provide security.
Again, go ahead and dismiss it. And see how far you get. Zero, that's how far.
Probably.

But on the other hand, do you want Facebook to be powering the lion's share of mobile games, as well as a significant amount of indie games on console/PC? I sure wouldn't want to make a facebook account to play Silksong (And that's like, my top 3 most look forward to game).

>Maybe he’d even have open sourced the entire thing and written it off as a marketing expense.

They did the exact opposite with their VR ventures. Also, I can assure you that open sourcing Unity's core engine wouldn't help a lot for most indies. it's a deeply entwined mess of nearly 20 year old legacy code desperately straining to interop with C#. There's a reason it's a multi-year effort to try and move .NET versions.
It is a testament to the great work they do that many people believe that IT does not do much. The work required to keep things working without noticible downtime is hardly trivial.
Yeah, I sort of agree. It hardly provides any details about the model that they supposedly used to achieve only two benchmark results which are poorly described. It comes across as being written by someone that only dabbles in the topic but seems to believe they've taken some great leap forward ahead of the entire field.
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I consider the labelmaker to be a crucial item of sysadmin gear. :)
I would expect lock wire or some other method of ensuring the bolt does not un-torque itself. Especially for bolts that are not required to be removed past final assembly...
your skull acts as an antenna
This one works great: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078211KBB
I understand, and it still isn’t. I’m just focusing on a narrow point: my mom perceived herself as equal because she received the same education British kids. Separate but equal doesn’t work. Kids must learn to view themselves as similarly situated, or else they will not be.

In my view, this is a big problem with the Muslim world. We have this tremendous victimhood complex. Contrast the East Asian countries, who have just sucked it up and focused on getting rich.
Social media is "the place" with the propagandist bots and partisan screamers? As opposed to where?

There are at least two significant red flags in this article:

a. It cites five studies, which it does not critique, instead of being a more serious review of one. Without a critique of any of the studies, the author restating their conclusions as some sort of pseudo meta-study is ironically low information. Given the forceful conclusions, an examination of the methodologies is crucial for persuasion.

b. The article is openly partisan.

Given how the terms "fake news", "misninformation" and "debunk" have been politicized and abused into virtual meaninglessness over the past eight years, the utilization of only those unexamined terms as the article's pillars does not make for compelling reading.
When it's happening on a two month old plane it's a production problem.
I'm not an aerospace engineer, but it seems those hinge bolts might be better replaced with rivets --- if the hinge isn't frequently removed from the door.
Protectionist laws aren't always stupid. They're especially applicable when another company or country is subsidising their local industry to out compete others to gain advantage.

Every country and company is trying to find some way to get ahead of everyone else. There are a myriad of approaches, tariffs/protectionism is just another tool.
> get "an exit"

It seems that many startups don’t actually have a product, other than the startup, itself.

A “successful exit” means that the company is sold. The company is the product.

I have spent my entire career at companies that made actual products, for use by actual end-users. These corporations never had any “exit strategy,” because they were meant to be ongoing, perpetual, concerns. They had “future planning,” and “growth strategies,” that often looked a decade into the future.

Things have changed.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=U4zlA6NoSVE
I don't know since I don't have that kind of money but don't "these people" think of money differently? Meaning the dimensions they think in are just different?

Musk bought Twitter for $44bn. That's roughly 30% of Bill's net worth if he wanted to buy it "with his own money" (never mind his net worth is in stock, not cash).

In the obligatory car analogy this is buying a car cash for the wife for 30k from your 100k savings account, only leaving you with a measly 70k to buy yourself a Porsche vs. having another million for buying cars (which would actually mean you can buy a virtually unlimited number of cars).

Of course buying an actual car if you have 138bn vs. 1.33 trillion makes zero difference.

Maybe Bill is just more "normie" than Musk in that sense?
I don't see how the money spent by the government to encourage competition (not strictly a 'subsidy' which means 'price support') has any effect on the environment.
Assuming you're sitting 10" away from your TV (common benchmark), you would need a 280" display to see the difference between 8K and 4K. In the living room, that rules out physical displays (price) and pretty much limits it to projectors. However, the most popular projector screen sizes max out at 120" (3m).

I just don't see 8K making any inroads into the living room, unless it becomes cheaper to make than 4K displays (scale). However, you would not be able to tell the difference, so the consumer benefit just isn't there.

The one place where this does make sense are large public displays.
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You can't post to HN like this, no matter how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. We ban accounts that do it, so please don't do it again.

I've banned the other account since it was obviously created to break HN's guidelines. I'm not banning yours, because you have a longer history here. But we need you to follow the rules if you want to keep posting. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
> Can this be engineered with a reversible option to switch it from functional to non-functional, depending on the seat configuration?

That's exactly how it's engineered right now, though.

This same design has been used for decades and apparently without problem, so it's probably just a case of someone designed it this way originally, and nobody thought to fix what wasn't (at the time) broken.
As opposed to... Reputable news sources?
After the fees fiasco, many studios began plans to migrate away. I can't help but believe some will move to Unreal or Godot etc for their next projects.
> The cynic in me suggests that one of the political parties in the US doesn't really want the population well educated.

yes just the single party that is the opposite of mine of course ;)
You can buy a $30 used Ruckus AP from eBay made 10 years ago and it will handily outperform anything that Unifi has ever produced.

I realize this may sound like an exaggeration, but it really isn't.
So much "news" today is opinion masquerading as fact. While news media companies often do get the facts wrong, even when the facts are right, those facts are heavily colored by commentary and slant, often leaving out other facts that don't adhere to the narrative. I'm highly skeptical when the author's conclusion is that readers can't discern fake news on their own, when even educated people disagree on what is fake news, when the author thinks that people doing their own research is a problem, and virtue lies in believing the common narrative.
My initial venture into VR began with the PSVR 1, but it proved challenging – heavy, hot, prone to fogging, and with poor resolution, making it uncomfortable after just 10 minutes of use.

On a whim, I bought the Quest 3 at launch with low expectations due to its price, but it pleasantly surprised me. The headset is lightweight, doesn't fog, and performs well. The gaming experience, along with hand tracking and XR capabilities, surpassed my expectations. I find myself using it more than my iPad for YouTube and web browsing. I understand Apple's positioning of the Vision Pro as a living room entertainment replacement.

However, I believe Meta missed an opportunity to enhance the OS for productivity and entertainment. Downloading movies and TV shows for offline viewing is not straightforward, and managing multiple browser windows can be convoluted. Not all apps support running in a window, limiting the device's flexibility.

Having experienced disappointments with first-gen Apple products like the Intel Mac, iPhone, and Watch, I'm hesitant to jump into the Vision Pro unless Apple takes gaming seriously and offers PCVR compatibility. The transformative experience of playing MSFS with Quest Link in VR has been a game changer.
They should not be suspended. The IDF regularly posts misinformation, violent and genocidal rhetoric and just insane things. My personal opinion is that the Al Qassam account would have been more professional and offered a more accurate view of the resistance.
> One could also modify executable files

ETXTBSY.
Lying by omission is observably a central ethic of media.
That makes me a bit sad, but I appreciate the reality check. Are you working in this space?
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The answer depends on which piece of equipment, usually by product family. More and more is getting the cloud push over time though.
"one of"
Not sure why you’re bringing up autopilot— the MCAS system runs even when the autopilot is disabled.

Edit: Also, how does the fault lie with the airlines? Boeing didn’t document the existence of MCAS in the flight manual or training materials.
It's a complex topic. Depending on the design, lubrication may be required or forbidden. And if it's required, it should normally be on the threads only, under the head is usually forbidden.

And it's very important to understand that in most mechanical design with fasteners, the fasteners provide tension, and friction between 2 faces actually carries the load. Too little tension then fasteners can be sheared off. Too much, then the fasteners may not have remaining strength available for loads that act to add tension to the fasteners.

Using a torque wrench to reach target tension is normally only about +/-30% accurate. Usually design margin allows for this but in very critical applications where margin is not feasible, calibration is done on a sample of the same materials, etc, or a more direct measurement done. More direct measurement can mean hollow fasteners that allow you to measure the amount of stretch, use of ultrasonic measurement to measure stretch, washers with integrated strain gauges, or cleverly designed "tension indicating" washers or fasteners. There are many types so I just those keywords for anyone interested.

I am not saying that this design required such complex methods and sizing these fasteners should not be difficult. There is probably a mistake or lack of control in the assembly process.
As I always ask on posts like this:

Since you're (going to be) selling a product that claims to help with treating or managing a medical condition, have you conducted a clinical trial? And why not?
You're absolutely right that the kind of APL in my parser looks alien. And you're right that there would be a 100X blowup in code size for an equivalent C implementation.

Part of the issue is that you're seeing the entire application architecture on a single page. Zero libraries, to boot. I'd expect a similar feeling from looking at a detailed architectural diagram for some business application in a domain that you're only partially familiar with.

The code is written specifically for the domain expert, trading off ease of onboarding everywhere it would incur a cognitive cost. The reason I do this is specifically to eliminate any incidental complexity and force myself to only cognate directly about the problem domain.

It's a funny feeling. Almost every character in the code reifies a concrete feature of the parsing architecture. Said another way, I can't go in and change anything _without_ having to think about deep and relevant questions in YAML itself or the way I'm choosing to decompose the parsing problem.

One could argue that something similar is true about spaghetti code, since changing one piece of code affects every other, but I've really worked hard to orthogonalize out and compose salient features of YAML. Implicitly, every line of code is a parser pass that defines a type transformation on the AST. Each pass introduces specific invariants that later passes can rely on to express higher-level ideas.

Anyway, I set out on the parser project specifically to verify whether such a development experience is possible. Aaron Hsu has videos on youtube expounding similar ideas, but it's hard to believe unless you directly feel it yourself.

> What's a good place to start for languages like this?

Come over to the APL Orchard (https://apl.chat). It's pretty active, and the main Dyalog member there, Adám, is both incredibly knowledgeable as well as very available for helping interested beginners.
Structure and progress.
I think this would be better as a more general bot authored distinction.
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I mean, the explanation is in the rule itself. Has anything magically changed overtime because someone doubled down and said "oh no I'm being attacked with downvotes!". Never saw it end positively on Reddit, never saw it end positively on HN.

Also, it's all about the delivery.

>Love the downvotes for bringing facts.

just comes off as snark. If you really want to invite more nuanced responses to the clique, say so

>I am open to rebuttals or corrections if I'm incorrect on something.

replies matter so much more than points. That's why the points aren't public to begin with. So invite that instead of pseudo-begging for upvotes.
If I had nothing to compare CNN to, I'd be scandalized.
It can be taught but most people have little motivation to learn. Genuine verification of claims is a lot of hard work so for most people the question becomes: Why bother learning how?

First, the warm and fuzzy feeling you get by confirming your chosen world view doesn't take very much work. Just a couple minutes on Google.

Second, for many, the mere suggestion that there is a need to learn a new skill connected with research will likely be interpreted as an attack on their intelligence.

So the real question we have to be asking is how we can motivate people to even want to uncover truth even when it leads to discomfort. The answer is obvious for those who have already arrived there but not for those who haven't.
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Houthis are trying to enforce a blockade of Israel by targeting ships going to Israeli ports (or owned by Israelis).

They are asking Israel to let humanitarian aid into Gaza to ease that blockade.
I've seen a bunch of US companies setting up offices here in New Zealand and hiring SRE/DevOps types. Our wages are garbage so it's much cheaper for them! Plus our timezone means having staff here leads to much less on-call requirement for US/UK staff.
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I'll go ahead and put in a request for my own repo: Eiim/Chokistream

In the meantime, I have a different bit of feedback: the categories don't make much sense to me. I can't find a consistent theme in "Tooling", Bun isn't really a frontend library (although it has frontend components like a bundler), I don't know much about Urbit but it doesn't look like it belongs in "Crypto" (just a P2P network with a crypto-adjacent userbase), iptv-org/iptv doesn't seem to make sense in Education, etc.

Also, a number of the links in the Bun page (the ones not in monospace) are 404s. I don't see those types of links on other pages so maybe a bug that was fixed but not backported?

Edit: It'd also be nice if the search bar could just search for repo name instead of having to remember the associated GH user
The problem isn't Dell, but which Dell. An IdeaPad from Lenovo will be even worse.

The consumerific lines, including high-end ones, aren't meant to be serviced. They're designed to skim off every ounce and mm. So many computers have SSDs and RAM soldered onto the motherboard now, and are held together with increasing amounts of snaps and glue.

For Dell, the equivalent of ThinkPad is the Precision series, as well as some of the higher-end Latitude laptops. I've been servicing my ancient Precision for years until it completely died. Everything was replaceable.
This has always been the push/pull between strict democracy, republic, and benevolent dictatorship.

In a strict democracy, there are too many "idiots" who don't actually understand what the issue is. In a dictatorship you can get a CRAZY amount of things done (see Singapore, China), but all it takes is one/few bad egg(s) and sends the whole country into the stone age (see Philippines).

A republic seems pretty okay in the long term for now mostly because if there's too much infighting the country becomes a gridlock (like now), but that seems more like a feature than a bug.
Which are they, assumably devoid of regularly appearing propaganda and of emotional partisans?
> All major economic systems of all major national economies over the last century have perverse incentives. It’s not a capitalist thing.

It should be a lesson against dogmatic pursuit of absolutes: capitalism comes in a wide range of flavors, and the worst is if it’s completely unrestrained. Communism produced worse and worse results the further it got from any sort of public accountability, etc.

The two problems that I see is that the concept of nuance is somewhat at odds with having a simple concept to teach kids at school, and there’s always a group which is more motivated to game the system than the average person who really just wants to hang out with their friends, raise a family, etc. rather than play political games. Boeing didn’t start it by any means but they’ve benefited enormously from decades of reduced oversight and elevated pay driven by a sort of cartoon libertarianism where letting people get enormously rich will motivate them to build great things unfettered by “red tape”.
Oh my! A both-sideser!

Yep. Both U.S. political parties are equally problematic! No distinctions to be drawn, whatsoever!
Totally! Dall-e can create the image but cannot convert it into SVG, so PaintPotion is a wrapper of two AIs: one for creating the image and another for converting it into a perfect SVG file, on top of that I'm adding a nice UI/UX so it's very easy to define a consistent style (I'm taking care of the prompt engineering).
Thanks for your feedback! I will add this to the F.A.Q. now
My first job was on a particularly verbose set if software that's hard to learn. But, everyone that uses it does so daily and quickly become experts in their workflows.

Number of clicks was the #1 metric because a "pretty" UI would generally add steps and slow everyone down.

Verbose UIs are hard to learn but once learned have much better end-to-end workflows with fewer steps. Simple UIs hide information behind interactive (i.e. slow) workflows and universally hated by customers.