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Only if you want to meaure the number of times you die on average. But you typically want to measure the risk of dying once over a career as a crew, and that is very much a function of how many times you roll the dice. Your probability of survival is 1-(prob of no crash per flight)^(flight count), and it is not linear. Whereas a passenger plays the game many less times.

If you don't take my made up numbers but wikipedia [1], and if I get my math right, B737 max has 4 accidents per millions flights, vs 0.2 for previous B737. That means that over a career of 15 years, working 200 days per year, 3 flights a day, a crew has a chance of dying of 3.54% with the Max vs 0.18% for the older models. 0.18% might be non material but 3.54% starts to be significant. (a passenger that takes 10 B737 max flights a year over that period only has a 0.06% probability to die).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX#Accidents_and_i...
I don't think people realize that their taxi to the airport is significantly more dangerous than flying in a 737 MAX.
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Theres tons of stuff to do!! Make a gocart. Build a barn. Raise some animals. Make a telescope! motorize it. Make statues, do electronics, paint, write poems, sing, play violin outside as loud as you want! Garden!

Modern people really have forgotten how to have fun without malls and expensive shit! Dig a hole. Make a hil. BLOW IT UP. MAKE A BONFIRE. HUGE PARTY.
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London is the absolute extreme for house price, but the south west is often incredibly bad for house price to average income ratio.

Having said that there has been a definite case of “having cake and eating it too” from the boomer generation: when the retirement age was set it waa very close to life expectancy.

Now it’s 15-30 years behind, and the young are expected to fund those years of idleness from the elderly, often having enjoyed none of the state-supplied freebies the elderly got, while the elderly sit on the housing stock which should be used for young families.

This is nothing to do with luxury condos and foreign money (though those two are likely correlated in London) - it’s basic breakdown of social contract.
My brainfog claims some blurry memories of this ... for one, documentation is lacking so much that an opensource JVM using Jazelle never happened; you wanted to develop a JVM on top of it, you'd pay ARM for docs, professional services, and unit licenses. And second, that once things got to the ARM11 series cores, software JITs beat the cr* out of Jazelle. I don't remember any early Android device ever used it.

ARM is quite capable in vapourware generation. 64bit ARM was press-released (https://www.zdnet.com/article/arm-to-unleash-64-bit-jaguar-f...) a decade before ARMv8 / aarch64 became a thing.

(I'd love to learn more)
> no infotainment system, no tracking, no subscriptions, no attempts to foist software on me

It would be hillarous if we start to prefer Chinese cars due to privacy reasons ...

It wouldn't surprise me really if spyware are only to be made legal in cars the gov. feels it controls the manufacturer of.
Thanks for sharing! I was always wondering how climate scientists were able to identify if an event was due to climate change. Now I have a good reference!
I'm sure this is a completely dumb idea. But I want wireless Christmas lights. Individual little clip-on LEDs powered by ambient RF like wifi background, the ambient field from a home's wiring, or an "antenna" that you snake up the trunk of the tree to emit a field. Then you just clip on the lights where you want them. I'm not knowledgeable enough in electronics to know if this is even possible.
In my experience many organisations do Agile even if they don’t call it that. Agile is just a series of sensible principles to get stuff done. The problems start when people mistake the process for the goal.
> I just love how Bluesky devs get hung up on technical details like this and nobody seems to be concerned in the slightest how to position Bluesky as an actual product in the current market

Well, this is a positioning of Bluesky in the market: they position Bluesky as an attractive product for users who are interested and knowledgable about technological topics. I guess if they have an initial user base of this group, and this group loves the product, they will take the next step and analyze how to grow from this to a larger group of (potential) users.
> If that's a worry now then why didn't we think of it 40+ years ago when we started trading with China?

> Even back then it was obvious to Blind Freddy that we'd be in the current situation sooner or later.

Easy: ideological delusions. I don't think the US really started trading heavily with China until the 90s, but definitely by that point it was suffering from a post-Cold-War high and the consensus was that capitalism is a Trojan horse for democracy, so economic liberalization was confidently predicted to bring political liberalization.

Few, if anyone, expected the CCP to be able to tame the internet and the forces pushing for political liberalization, especially so fully and completely.

I'm guessing if you said it was "obvious ... we'd be in the current situation sooner or later," you be viewed as a crank or at least be excluded from the groups actually making decisions.
Sounds like you are looking for an Android in the style of BladeRunner. That would be cool, but I don't understand why you are against LLMs and FSD being labeled as AI. They are using neural networks to generate content and drive cars in ways that humans find valuable.
how is that different than Dropbox version history?
That such incidents don't happen more often in commercial aviation may give us some comfort, but in reality, there have been many attempts by passengers to open an emergency exit door in flight. (Fortunately, it's almost impossible at cruising altitudes).
Software engineers aren’t in the the same domain. s3 too hard to scale? Scale horizontally, have a directory service (DNS does perfectly fine!), and that’s a lot do the problem solved. It’s tantalisingly poetic and contrarian to try to draw more of a comparison here, but in a software systems context what you’re really talking about is decentralising your state, which is…WELL established as a scaling mechanic already.
Both. You can't have a measurable feature smaller than the Planck length, but that's not relevant to QR decoding in any practical sense.

As for the practical limits, try using your phone to take a picture of something very far away, or very tiny, and see what happens.
Honestly I found it hard to apprehend the meaning of most of the text. This is a failing on my part and something I associate with reading authors like Yuval Noah Harari, it seems to be a combination of my not possessing a context which is assumed, and perhaps a logical progression which doesn't map well onto my own thought processes. Whatever the reason, the result is that the statements appear pointlessly vague and the argument which is being constructed appears to me to be merely a disorganised heap.

A sibling comment did a good job of responding to your question, but I could point to the phrase "a slowly declining society in a weird type of fast growing stasis" as typifying just this sort of (to me) impenetrable description.

> adjusted by the M2 a lot of the financial indicators haven't improved as much as people like to pretend

When you wrote this, did you have in mind particular indicators, people who like to pretend they've improved, how they should be adjusted by the money supply? Did you expect that the reader would find this statement familiar? I'm not a particularly sophisticated follower of contemporary economics, but I didn't have any idea what you were getting at here, unless it was something similar to, e.g. "median household purchasing power relative to the national budget has declined so much that the tax burden today hurts the consumer's quality of life much more than it did in 1960, contrary to recent editorials I've seen in The Economist". However I don't believe you intended such a blunt interpretation, as if you did it could have been stated much more straightforwardly.
Depends on local market, but housing material doesn't contribute much to house prices. Land, permits, development charges, fees, make up an enormous percentage. You don't have much on labor.

In other words, no one will buy a shack for $500k when a proper house would cost $600k
Are the sales of smaller size clothing increasing?
I really like the cookie warning "we would steal your data, but the Law requires that we tell you" you get before reading an apology. That's a really nice detail.
And the tool made a screwup that hard not only possible, but very difficult for the victims to recover from.

Doesn't say a lot for git's usability.
Sure, but like the OP, there's a built-in mistaken belief (promoted annually with Spotify Wrapped) that you're supporting the artist by streaming music. I'd rather someone know that they aren't supporting the artist and be aware of that fact than someone think that they're marginally supporting the artist (when in fact they are really just barely supporting the artist).

Again as someone that works in the industry intimately: use this tool all you want, and find ways to support the artist.
This is a very negative view of non-urban life that isn't reflected by any of the non-urban places I've lived.
After reading it I concluded that it should be named "How to Win Friends and Manipulate People". Apt in this context
I was addressing the point about the "saltiness" when licenses change. I wholeheartedly agree that making a thoughtful choice the company can live with from the start is the best policy.
If I used every word in precisely the context you expect, then what in the world would I have to say to you?
Good question! End-to-end encryption would mean that you can't run cloud CI or merge conflicts in the cloud and other features. To my knowledge none of existing VCS solutions are end-to-end encrypted (I might be wrong though!)

We might add end-to-end encryption in the future (disabling some capabilities), if there's demand for it.
A lot of people buy tools and then never use them, just like people buy trucks and 4x4's, but never use them to haul cargo or go off-road. When you buy a tool, you generally want to have a job in mind, and then have the follow-through to do that job.
The main point of your post is how much better you are than git. You support this main point by making up lies about git. This does not make me personally interested in trying your product.
The VC-oriented financial model (that is, your typical startup) is fundamentally incompatible with Mastodon's non-profit financial model. As a result, very different choices around licensing, funding, and business structure are good fits.

Each tool has its use and serves its specific purpose. What works for Mastodon might not work for others trying to advance different goals.
Exactly, I can fathom how a corporation tried to scrub an actual useful tool to help its users, and worse tried to sue the developer of this tool.
Having worked with SVN a decade ago and Perforce more recently: that part of the market is waiting to be disrupted. I'm a little unsure whether it was actual technical reasons (vs cultural) that kept git out of those use cases. Many devs were working with git locally and using git-svn or git-p4 to interact with the local repo. Best of luck!
Wonderful write up, thank you! One question I’ve been trying to answer: I’ve been seeing more QR codes in the wild using dots instead of squares, and rounded edges instead of hard corners.

All my research suggests these are reader implementation specific and not guaranteed to work per the official spec.

But I find it hard to believe these codes are becoming more prevalent if they aren’t guaranteed to read.

Anyone have more info on this?
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In a comment proposing a counterfactual world where all of the North American colonies stayed with the US, surely it's important to consider how that would have affected British support for slavery, rather than skip the topic altogether and imply that the additional ... years? ... decades? of British slave trade and use of slave labor would be "Perhaps not such a bad outcome".
> but the whole team that fucked up hard IMHO.

Multiple individuals with similar problems would tend to imply systematic inadequate training. Or the enterprise concerned adopting an inappropriately complex system for its intended userbase.
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No. As someone who lives in such a town, there aren't any "tradeoffs" that one would assume. There's just increased limitations and downsides. For example with suburban and exurban sprawl being such a problem that means that traveling further and further to work becomes the norm if you don't live in one of the "desirable" cities. Which necessitates a car in the U.S. because public transport is for some stupid reason seen as antithetical to existence. Purchasing options are also extremely limited, because the economic strength required for diversity doesn't exist. It's either big box retail for almost all purchases or nothing. This also means that as time goes on the area gets economically weaker, as the wealth is being extracted by those national and international chains and being absorbed into the national and international economies instead of being circulated around the local economy like what would happen with a corner store or boutique shop. With both of those factors it's unlikely you'd be able to get a worthwhile loan for any niche business either, meaning you can't diversify the local economy without already being wealthy. If you're wealthy that negates the entire reason for moving to a low cost of living area in the first place. And if you're not wealthy, say you lost the job that you moved to take advantage of in the first place. If you can't land remote work your workplace prospects without having to move again are much lesser because of the above stated reasons.
Actually... 737 MAX is roughly 30 times as dangerous as the other planes in its category (eg. A320).

Source: https://www.airsafe.com/events/models/rate_mod.htm
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For your information you can use the reflog command to find the previous head commit and restore your branch. It takes 10 minutes and then you learn to disable force pushing on the main branch.
> Imagine the government prints the money and closes the debt that way. Nobody in the present has lost anything they can point to.

Cool, why don't the boomers lead the way with this innovative plan while their retirement is on the line, instead of waiting to be clear of the blast zone?
Yes, and I also think that we should expect readers here to respond to the most coherent reading of a comment, but I know a lot of us don’t spend the time to figure out what someone means.

In “fast-growing stasis”, because it’s an unexpected phrase, you could follow it closely with an explanation…

> …in a weird type of fast-growing stasis, where some measures grow at an incredible pace and others stagnate.

Or use scare quotes to call attention to the unusual usage…

> …in a weird type of “fast-growing stasis”.
Houston may be an anomoly but there are tons and tons of vacant lots everywhere. Many of them are only like 10-20k and 15-20 minutes from the city center. Usually in areas full of mexicans. But no houses on them!!
Yes. Bitwarden, for example, lets you store the 2FA information for accounts. You would still use a separate 2FA app to be able to access Bitwarden, of course. It may slightly lower the safety of using 2FA, but assuming you're using a strong password for your password manager and require 2FA to log into it from new devices, it's a minimal risk, and probably no worse than the alternative of having them on your phone. Plus, if your phone is lost, you don't have to go through the hassle of regaining access to everything.
It's wild to watch all of these takes as though the jury is still out, or it's gonna happen sometime in the future when the last boomer dies. It started happening before 2008, was accelerated by the financial collapse, and is affecting Gen Z as well as Millennials. Neoliberalism's failure caused the center to fall out of western politics. If you look at polling, only older, wealthier, or college educated people are really holding the middle together. They're a shrinking group. Our political future is populist, whether that's on the right in the form of fascism or on the left in the form of communism is up to those movements, but it's happening.
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The article is about England, not San Francisco and the assumptions do not hold about internet, school
quality, rural areas being undesirable or much else really…
been FAANG adjacent a few times, but in several of F500s, and in different industries/verticals.

no "official" up-or-out in any of those, but definitely a thing in all of them. at a mid-to-senior level or above you're getting paid -- not FAANG pay, but in most cases pretty solid -- and you need to justify your existence. If you're not getting "atta-boys" on the regular then you're gonna get chopped.

One place fired all of the Architects, for example, because they felt they didn't really do much. Three quarters of "what does this team do to deliver" and they were gone.
I've had some solid experience with alcion.ai as a backup tool. Relatively cheap for a early-stage startup and extremely reliable so far (even had to restore some onedrive files).
> I don't remember any early Android device ever used it.

It couldn't have, as Dalvik VM is distinct from JVM.
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If two people perform an action with 1/10,000 chance of death, but person A performs it once per year and person B performs it 10,000 times per year, whose life is more heavily dependent on the underlying fatality rate of the action?
Bedroom+Kitchen are relatively easy. The problem is bathrooms. If you have access to sewer, you’re in great shape—no problem. Otherwise, you need land for a septic system (tank and leach field). How much land you have, how well that land percs [0], underground obstacles, and regulations in your municipality all determine how expensive that system will be. They are usually in the 5 figure range, sometimes reaching the high end of that range if there’s limited space (requiring specialized equipment like a continuous air pump).

[0] Percolation Test - how permeable the soil is to water. Often abbreviated to “perc test”.
So yeah but I think the experience might play a difference, going down from 10000 mt is a different dying experience from being hit by a car and don’t live through anything
I don't agree, you are always playing. You are either actively or passively playing.

This isn't obsession, it is observation of reality and understanding sociology in any group of humans (and other mammals).
> "Robota" is a job or some work that one has to do, not necessarily forced as Google suggests.

This is a popular misconception among speakers of other slavic languages, but the Czech word "robota" really does refer to forced work performed by feudal serfs: https://prirucka.ujc.cas.cz/?slovo=robota
Great advice, perfect for a start-up coming into existence clean. Then a client emails you their credit card number, and root password for the production enviro now it's in your inbox, the 3 other employees they CC'd and also in their outbox. Even if we delete it (is it backed up? how many places?) the well has been poisoned. I say this mostly in jest but boy does my email contain some secrets I don't want.
Houston is also an anomaly because there are no zoning laws to speak of, so if Houston wanted to do this (and it does in some areas!) it could.
One fish says to the other fish: how's the water? He replies: what's water?

Politics is just people, and people's perception of you. It's talking to folks to effect change, ideally a positive change. It's when you sit down with someone to review their code and suggest a different way. It's when you discuss someone's strengths with their boss so they can get better work. It's when you email someone to make sure they saw your merge request so you can get it done faster. It's literally the people side of a business, and knowing who to ask for what, how to ask, and so on.

When someone gets all Machiavelli with those relationships, making sure the right people know what they're working on, or trying to get inside information on upcoming projects, or etc, and then used that to their own advantage then we suddenly call it politics. But that's just shitty people playing politics primarily.

Work relationships and lines of power and communication are not optional. They exist. What you do with them does not determine if you are in a political game or not, it just determines how you play it.

TFA probably was read to say "You have to be Machiavellian". I think it's fair to say that's an over statement. But pretending or purporting to be antipolitical is an oxymoron. To whom are you pretending? A straightforward a-political style request or response must still define a relationship style.
If I make a paid twitter clone using a BSL-licensed database under the hood, I'm allowed to self-host the database for this purpose, in both production and dev environments.

What the BSL prevents me from doing is offering paid hosting for others, or offering a product that competes with it (e.g. if postgres would be BSL, supabase couldn't use postgres under the hood since the products kind of compete with each other).
The Canadian government's plan is import people by the boatload and hope everything from housing to public services just sort of works itself out.
You can just directly pay the YouTubers that you like, and unfollow Facebook accounts that you don't want to see. But if you're suggesting some sort of government restrictions or subsidies, screw that.
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If you're on a separate branch it doesn't update from main automatically. We're also thinking to make live update of main optional as well, this is actually one of the most debated features internally.
Apparently some users like it and some really don't.
Not my Toyotas, as I'm in Europe.
To me that's kind of silly. Don't get me wrong, I lock my computer whenever I leave the room, but there should be a certain level of trust among coworkers assuming you aren't actually working on classified stuff (or if you have access to HR data).
Yet "раб" is translated as "slave"..
I think printers are a bad investment for a consumer electronics manufacturer if you feel the need to squeeze your customers instead of improving your product.
last job had server 2003 and HP-UX all over the place.

admittedly in an air-gapped / local-to-the-facility SCADA sense, but we were supporting server 2003 in 2021. were able to get rid of several of them during COVID, but I wouldn't be surprised if there is still one or two orphan 2003 boxes around...
This looks really cool! Well done! Definitely looking into this for my startup. Currently we use a mix of Git and Perforce, but Perforce is a pain to maintain and very difficult for the non-coder on our team to work with for art assets.

When we started I looked at Plastic SCM (owned by Unity)—looks like it targets a similar use case to Diversion. I honestly can’t remember why I moved away from it—I think it was the lack of polish and capabilities vs git/GitHub. I’m curious how you compare yourselves to them.

I really like the bidirectional git sync you mention so I can try it gradually. Pricing seems good.
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Probably bots

If coercion was going to ever rule the world someone would have accomplished it fully already as many have tried. Yet here we are still free to say nearly whatever the fuck we want in the free world thankfully.
Unfortunately this video just left me craving a 10x deeper version.
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