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Can you define and measure "code quality?" If not how can you say it improves?

Even granting your point, the things you list that supposedly improve code quality -- discipline, taking risks -- come under the "skills" heading in my understanding.

> I dont think Ive ever seen clean code that didnt make use of something at the very least resembling both exhaustive CI/CD and TDD

Yet almost all of the code ever written, including very successful long-lived things like Unix, the C standard library, Oracle, etc. got written before CI/CD and TDD. I don't have a definition of "clean code" to judge by, but I have certainly worked on lots of readable and maintainable code that did not come from TDD or CI/CD processes.
It’s also already on the tower that it launches from, which drastically reduces the expense and complexity of setting it up for its next launch, making it easier and faster to reuse.
The previous booster landed in the golf of Mexico.

This starship landed in the Indian ocean a bit west of Australia, it's like 3x deeper.
I had copilot suddenly appear last week, but I just right clicked and uninstalled it?
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i have been coding exclusively in Go for 5-6 years and it was never not the case. So you might have some remaining bias if you started in 2012 when things might have been different.
Starship landed in the Indian Ocean, not the Gulf of Mexico.
> you're wrong

Nope. And I can say this with more authority than almost anything on HN.

> Trump & Elon literally discussed it on X a few weeks ago

One, they discussed a lot of things. Two, they discussed capability. As I said, any launch system provides this capability theoretically. But (a) the capability is based on the faulty premise that pre-positioned orbital interceptors are superior to stealthy ground-based ones. And (b) it’s going to be true for any cheap space-launch system. (I say cheap because economies of scale mean cheap and frequent are virtually redundant.)

This entire theory comes out of people with no military background, no political experience and no aerospace engineering training wanting to feel special about being “in the know.”
That's great, but not "open source". The "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International" license isn't.
... you just shared your expertise here on Hacker News in the form of this comment without any expectation of royalties. How is posting on StackOverflow different?
There is a lot of indirect hardly measurable value one can gain.

Going back to the original source: By giving an answer to somebody on a Q&A site, they might be a kid learning and then building solutions I benefit from later, again. Similar with software.

And I also consider the total gain of knowledge for our society at large a gain.

While my marginal cost form many things is low. And often lower than a cost-benefit calculation.

And some Q&A questions strike a nerve and are interesting to me to answer (be it in thinking about the problem or in trying to boiling it down to a good answer), similar to open source. Some programming tasks as fun problems to solve, that's a gain, and then sharing the result cost me nothing.
Clearly not North America
The CSS bundler is something my team was waiting for!

One less dependency in the project!

Thank you for that Bun team!
Biggest thing about plain text to me is that it's not really a thing. Markup languages generally are not considered plain text, I would not consider code either as plain text (it's literally called code). What does that leave? Prose and similar writings maybe. But do you include control codes in plain text? I don't think something like ASCII bell can be thought as plain text. The various whitespace characters are tricky question... they arguably are formatting codes, so if we think plain text as unformatted text, then things like newlines don't really fit the picture; instead we should have some semantic markers like "paragraph separator". On the other hand if we allow plain text to include formatted text, then it opens a whole can of worms on different ways to represent formatting.
Can't speak for everyone but most times I left jobs for those with lower comp. I wanted to do something else or have more autonomy. Basically non salary concerns. If it was just salary you wouldn't see turnover at FAANG companies of 2-3 years. A ton of people leave and take huge pay cuts because they don't like the work or feel bored
Strategically thinking, after setting the shredder on fire it will be harder to shred the code of the future emacs clones! :D
I did not share any links on purpose because then it would turn into a discussion about the methods the tests were done and it would detract from the main point. Anyone interested in this can look up videos or articles on this topic.
They did, though. The post also quotes a response from Zendesk declaring it out of scope.
Minecraft has a unique and diverse community, it's what gives it the staying power

I would imagine they used one of many tools for copy/paste in Minecraft, especially with the repetitive nature of the components.

Mojang (and now Microsoft) have taken ideas from the community to make the game better. It would be interesting if they incorporated the Redpiler idea, because redstone can get laggy
The fire I mostly saw was coming from the quick disconnect ports and related plumbing. Also, there was fire on the other side, close to where there was part of a chine was clearly missing. There were a couple other things, too.

Wasn't perfect, some things to work out... but still pretty damn good.
Closeup of chopsticks as they were catching the booster, best clip from Everyday Astronaut's livestream: https://x.com/kagurazakimoto/status/1845447451592765820
It will be interesting to take the data and normalize it by population density. It won’t be a perfect metric since I’m guessing a lot of these plumes will have their source material sourced from elsewhere e.g. landfills, recycling centers, manufacturing
I noticed that all text looked garbled up when I had some lucid dreams. When diffusion models started to gain attention, I made the connection that text generated in generated images also looked garbled up.

Maybe all of those are clues that parts of the human subconscious mind operate pretty close to the principles behind diffusion models.
Improvements that make space flight more sustainable are welcome ... unless that means an order of magnitude more pollution in a less controllable form, like emissions. [Due to more frequent flights]

Daily trips to space likely also mean more debris in space and falling to earth.

I hope there is a balance that includes the lives of people near these sites and all of us sharing the same atmosphere.
Just finished submitting our companies RFP to 4 vendors for our 2025 website redesign. We are moving from WP to a React enterprise CMS. Thanks for the job security Matt :).
Sorry, did Uber actually deliver any value other than crashing wages, bargaining power, and working conditions for taxi drivers?
Hopefully the fact that they didn't can be rewarded by not joining the attack on them.
What would you say about ayahuasca?
Donald Kendall started as a worker in a Pepsi-Cola bottling plant, but he swiftly climbed the corporate ladder, becoming head of the company’s international division by 1957 when he was only in his mid-30s.

I wonder if that career path is still possible today?
I haven't really found stackoverflow to be that humiliating (compared to some IRC rooms or forums), basic questions get asked and answered all the time. But the worst part is when you want to do something off the beaten path.

Q: how do I do thing X in C?

A: Why do you need to know this? The C standard doesn't say anything about X. The answer will depend on your compiler and platform. Are you sure you want to do X instead Y? What version of Ubuntu are you running?
Was the explosion intentional? I thought they were hoping it would float for recovery but if not I makes sense to sink it.
This assumes we've been comprehensive in unearthing ancient structures that were buried under water and dirt 10K years ago. We mostly find these types of sites when doing new construction. There is likely countless underground ancient structures undiscovered off the coastline, since sea levels rose more than 120 meters at the end of the last glacial period.

Also, I wouldn't assume at all that knowledge would transfer outside of a localized area. It didn't happen like that in the so-called hearths of civilization like Babylon, Egypt, China, etc.
Any Mac Silicon will destroy a 10 years old laptop in gaming performance.

I frequently play on my work M1.
Anyone knows how the landing is guided? Is it just really precise GPS/altimeter or does it use computer vision?
Even before that, it was books! instead of quietly contemplating the lord, they were getting blasphemous ideas all day long!
Yes. For that matter, you can calculate the dollar value of a human life:

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

Numbers vary around the world, but FEMA in the US decided on $7.5M in 2020.

Financial investments are economic decisions. Whether or not you like the idea of assigning financial value to fuzzy concepts like happiness or quality adjusted life years, you still have to do it. The simple act of choosing to spend $N or not choosing to spend $N puts an implicit price on the result.

By putting approximate numbers in the spreadsheet - no matter how crude - we can at least end up consistent and fair. Otherwise we could end up spending vast sums to make a few people a little happier instead of smaller sums to make lots of people a lot happier.
That's because Linux is showing you the kernel processes and OpenBSD isn't.

Filter out the Linux ones that have [ ] around them (grep -v ]$ will do the trick) but just a quick glance tells me the Linux and BSD lists are about the same length.
I mean part of the reason to not ask about stuff on SO, there are several types of questions that one might like to ask - such as:

I don't know the first thing about this thing, help me get to where I know the first thing. This is not allowed any more.

I want to know the pros and cons of various things compared. this is not allowed.

I have quality questions regarding an approach that I know how to do, but I want to know better ways. This is generally not allowed but you might slip through if you ask it just right.

I pretty much know really well what I'm doing but having some difficulty finding the right documentation on some little thing,help me - this is allowe

Something does not work as per the documentation, help me, this is allowed

I think I have done everything right but it is not working, this is allowed and is generally a typo or something that you have put in the wrong order because you're tired.

At any rate, the ones that are not allowed are the only questions that are worth asking.

The last two that is allowed I generally find gets answered in the asking - I'm pretty good in the field I'm asking in, the rigor of making something match SO question requirements leads me to the answer.

If I ask one of the interesting disallowed questions and get shit on then I will probably go through a period of screw it, I will just look extra hard for the documentation before I bother with that site again.
>In damage control mode, Zendesk can't pay a bounty out here?

Reading all the many comments, it would appear the damage has been done.
Good.
But very unnecessary on zd's part.
true. but slack is also quite dead. discord seems to be more active.
To expand on this, landing legs of Falcon 9 weigh two tons. Landing legs of SuperHeavy booster would have to be even more formidable.

Which means that the weight savings are nontrivial with the "catch the rocket!" landing method.
For the major programming languages, it must be a pretty esoteric question if it does not have an answer yet.

Increasingly, the free products of experts are stolen from them with the pretext that "users need to be protected". Entire open source projects are stolen by corporations and the experts are removed using the CoC wedge.

Now SO answers are stolen because the experts are not trained like hotel receptionists (while being short of time and unpaid).

I'm sure that the corporations who steal are very polite and CoC compliant, and when they fire all developers once an AGI is developed, the firing notices will be in business speak, polite, express regret and wish you all the best in your future endeavors!
So I live in NYC, and constant honking and worrying about being run over by cars when I'm trying to cross the street contribute way more to my stress than the state of the subway in NYC. Driving, or being around vehicles driving, is incredibly stressful.

Also, I was in Paris last year and I found your subway system more pleasant than ours. Methinks you doth complain too much.
I would like to join to the question by extending it (somewhat shamelessly). Do coding assisants already exist that only comment on your code in another window instead of writing it? Something like:

fs.promises.readFile(in_fi|

You probably want 'utf-8' as a second parameter here, cause from the context I infer it’s a text file.
Also, I see there’s a stream set up above. You can simply pipe a file stream to it, if that’s why you’re reading it: <link>

Is there something like this?
Firefox has always worked well for me on FreeBSD and OpenSolaris derivatives. I get why some people might prefer Chrome but I’d have thought Firefox would have aligned better with ideals of the average BSD user. Interesting to know that Google are rejecting BSD patches; that’s a great pity.

What about desktop environments though? I always thought KDE and GNOME were first class citizens on FreeBSD.
The SpaceX clip is better https://x.com/spacex/status/1845442658397049011?s=46
I mean, they'll definitely market it as 4.5x more accurate. Or, for nice round numbers, 5x -- and while we're within orders of magnitude it's not unreasonable to say "up to 10x more accurate."
> no military background, no political background and no aerospace engineering background

You're presuming a lot there.
The dawn of Citizen Coders – Software creation no longer confined to developers
Software creation is no longer confined to trained developers; it's open to everyone. This new era of "citizen coders" will democratize innovation and empower people from all walks of life to build their own digital tools.
Starlink for all intents and purposes is the market for satellites now. All the other launches are nice to have extras.

Now personally I’m looking forward to NASA, ESA and JAXA to launch outer solar system probes like new horizons but with tons of fuel left in the tank to safely make orbit around there.
> For example, not smoking and having an active and healthy lifestyle moves you in the distribution of people likely to get lung cancer by a certain age. You are "choosing your own luck" to some degree. It's probabilistic, not certain, but it fits a known model.

I forget where I read it but some time back I came across this idea of measuring “luck” as something akin to radiation doses. I think the author used the term “mililucks”. Their argument was that if it takes X amount of luck to get married/get a promotion/have a healthy life/etc, then one should examine which of those things they want, and then examine how many “mililucks” any given choice you have will give you towards that goal. There’s still no guarantee, just like a given dose of radiation isn’t a guarantee of getting sick, but a house party might contribute 200 mililucks towards your goal of finding a romantic partner, but since the party also has lots of alcohol and greasy food, maybe only 1-2 mililucks towards your healthy life.

You don’t get to decide the ultimate outcome and you don’t get to even know for sure whether you’re really doing to right thing, but you can reasonably see how going to a lot of house parties increases the chances of you lucking into a romantic partnership, while doing little to increase your chances of a healthy life style. In this way you “make your own luck”, simply by increasing the number of chances you have to “get lucky” in any given direction.

The caveat of course is that not everyone is starting from the same baseline of luck. If you grow up in a safe area you are much more likely to not get mugged than in you grow up in a crime ridden area. But in both areas “nothing good happens after midnight” is probably a worthwhile approach to increasing your “luck” with regards to being mugged, and probably has the same number of “mililucks” regardless
very fun got 51! with fuel limit + mass enabled.
I’d imagine they also narrow the range of knowledge and discourse in general.

A bit like if you ask an LLM to tell you a joke they all tend to go with the same one
When he writes "In the Palestine Mandate, Jews and Palestinians got along just fine" he clearly means that the centuries of peaceful co-existence before the arrival of Zionists are evidence that Zionism was and still is the root cause of hostilities and violence.
That event which you referenced didn't happen in a vacuum since at that point Zionist colonization[1] was already in full force for decades and was systematically discriminating against the native Palestinians and trying to dispossess them deploying various strategies outlined in Jabotinsky's writings.

"The Irgun has been viewed as a terrorist organization or organization which carried out terrorist acts.

The Irgun policy was based on what was then called Revisionist Zionism founded by Ze'ev Jabotinsky.[6] Two of the operations for which the Irgun is best known are the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem on 22 July 1946 and the Deir Yassin massacre that killed at least 107 Palestinian Arab villagers, including women and children, carried out together with Lehi on 9 April 1948.

The organization committed acts of terrorism against Palestinian Arabs, as well as against the British authorities, who were regarded as illegal occupiers.[7] In particular the Irgun was described as a terrorist organization by the United Nations, British, and United States governments; in media such as The New York Times newspaper;[8][9] as well as by the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry,[10][11] the 1946 Zionist Congress[12] and the Jewish Agency.[13] Albert Einstein, in a letter to The New York Times in 1948, compared Irgun and its successor Herut party to "Nazi and Fascist parties" and described it as a "terrorist, right wing, chauvinist organization".

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

[1] The History of "Socialist" Zionism | Leftist Zionists did the Nakba & founded Israel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehp9PZo4UR0
My understanding is that it was actually matt who did that, and he did it so he could denounce WPEngine to their customers, due to his personal vendetta against WPEngine, because WPEngine refused his shakedown attempt for money.

This is cited in WPEngine's lawsuit. Like you said, I wouldn't be surprised if this behavior of matt's was a breach.
The Price – Nuclear Weapons US Price
There is a permissionless (MIT) vs permissioned (GPL) difference that is at the heart of the debate of what society thinks open source should mean
> Sometimes online forums are the only place where you can find solutions for niche situations and edge cases.

That's the most valuable aspect of it. When you find yourself in these niches situations, it's nice when you see someone has encountered it and has done the legwork to solve it, saving you hours and days. And that's why Wikis like the Arch Wiki are important. You need people to document the system, not just individual components.
Better than both, NSF's stream: https://x.com/nasaspaceflight/status/1845442658203734384
I like my entropy story with more steam engines,

“The most misunderstood concept in physics", by Veritasium (YouTube, 2023) (https://youtu.be/DxL2HoqLbyA?si=5a_4lCnuv85lRb57)
But we could definitely have 99% being done over rail and 1% by road.
> Cities and councils should not be making decisions based on how to raise revenue.

... although if they were, the price of parking would be way higher. The optimal price for parking is a time-and-day-dependent price set high enough that around 10% of spots everywhere in the city are free at any given time, so that people who need parking can generally find it conveniently nearby to where they're going.
You should have used the ironic mood if you'd wanted us to understand the irony
Killing your parents then asking the court to have mercy because you were an orphan had been a joke. These kids took the humor out of it for a while.
How long does flux take to generate an image if it runs on an m1 macbook pro? Can anyone estimate?
Falcon 9 also lands using 3 engines on its most demanding missions. The throttling is definitely an advantage.
About two weeks after I started wearing my wife’s old Apple Watch, my average heart rate jumped up by ~10bpm about a week before I became sick enough to test myself for Covid, which I did indeed have!

Subsequent to getting through the symptoms my heart rate went back down to normal.
Felt special witnessing history, was delighted my kids and their friends all were glued to the TV for it also.
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No, I’m not.

If you can do orbital math, you can verify the plane-change economics. If you’ve even talked to anyone in ABM, which granted requires clearance, you understand why the actual spending in ABM—globally—goes into ground-based interceptors.

This is a tailor-made conspiracy theory for someone who substitutes doing the damning math for connecting bits of string between people and tweets. If you have any domain experience or connections, it’s trivially excludable. That’s why I can shoot it down (hehe) with unique confidence.
I've been that guy at various points. I thought I was being a valuable counterweight to developers who weren't thinking things through.

But as you said, it can be taken to an unproductive excess.

I managed to calibrate myself out of that, but it took longer than I'd have liked.
I have downloaded exe for windows, Chrome saying "Failed virus detected"
Nokia 3310s, mostly.
Do they have the ability? Russia couldn’t get Kursk back. Not clear they could even do it if we left it there.
My concern would be that this seems like such a niche market that only charging $8/month, raises long-term viability concerns.

Last thing you want to do is use a platform that goes defunct.

https://typst.app/pricing/
I read it more like a mouse sandwich.

I don’t think there’s much meat on a mouse though, especially when the experiment is to have them eat less.
Omg, how is this the top result when searching for SpaceX on youtube?

Also the AI clone of Musk is eerily good, you can tell today (not just because the brazenly scammy script), but will you able to a year from now? Especially if the guys running the scams get a bit more subtle?
I think saving weight is definitely one of the main issues, see those proportionally large legs on Falcon-9, I guess it simply doesn't scale on bigger vehicles like Starship / Heavy booster. Also, by catching the booster on site, they can even save the transportation and do the refurbishing on site, so even shorter turnaround time I guess.
Either the physics engine matter, in which case you want a deterministic engine as you said, or it doesn't like in a poker game and you don't want to spend much resources (manpower, computer cycles) into it.

Which also means an off-the-shelf deterministic engine.
I hope this is not going to be used for 'Earth point A -> Earth point B' travel.
You're absolutely right that some political parties wrongly use a term like "conservative" in their party name, or otherwise incorrectly portray themselves as being "right wing".

Ultimately, though, they're still left-wing parties in practice, pushing left-wing ideologies, regardless of the facade they might try to put up.

A party doesn't just become "right wing" because they claim to be, especially when their actions and policies are decidedly left-wing.
They have the experience and control systems to do this reliably with Falcon 9 so it seemed doable in time but seeing it on a new vehicle on the first attempt was still surprising. Really impressive engineering.