SentinelLdnma

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by SentinelLdnma 3y ago
Wish I could give you an npm package for that, but best I can do is a process: [0] keep a log / journal [1] make a change [2] observe the result [3] iterate [0] is to raise awareness and detect cause and effect. Keep it minimalist. I o
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by SentinelLdnma 3y ago
Charts Antarctic Sea Ice: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F1jhzeRagAE_lAd?format=jpg&name=... North Atlantic Sea Surface: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F1kbWmLaMAA48AI?format=jpg&name=...
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by SentinelLdnma 3y ago
I was not familiar with glycation. Thanks for this rabbit hole... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_glycation_end-product https://www.ncbi.n
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by SentinelLdnma 3y ago
Does anyone else find themselves performing a UML-like design phase, but with code? I like to create classes/methods with little/no/mock implementation to see how it will fit together. If there's something where I'm
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by SentinelLdnma 3y ago
So we'll just all become #VanLife nomads and everything will be fine.
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by SentinelLdnma 3y ago
Challenge: turn it into a nice bot (as top comment has done) and then try go get it to go back to being evil.
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by SentinelLdnma 4y ago
Economists will ponder for decades why LLMs never increased labor productivity.
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by SentinelLdnma 4y ago
See also, protection racket [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_racket
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by SentinelLdnma 4y ago
One of these days someone will try it. Spank them.
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by SentinelLdnma 4y ago
Agreed. Class III hardware is well controlled (i.e., implants), but software (any class) and lower-class hardware is loco. My device was Class II.
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by SentinelLdnma 4y ago
I'm a deep state employee of an as yet unacknowledged three letter agency whose propaganda blog received no traffic from this page until grandparent posted the link. I am a master strategist, playing chess in dimensions string theorist
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by SentinelLdnma 4y ago
Didn't know gdocs had history, thanks for the pointer.
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by SentinelLdnma 4y ago
This occurred before the device was submitted for its first 510(k) approval. Also, companies have some discretion in what changes they re-submit to the FDA and what the decide to just document internally. There are guidelines, like if you c
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by SentinelLdnma 4y ago
Yea it's a red flag when someone only verbally responds. A countermeasure is to send a nicely worded email summarizing the discussion and inviting any corrections. But unless someone could be seriously injured, I'd just find anoth
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by SentinelLdnma 4y ago
I don't believe I said the Chairman was from a different company. He was from the same company. He certainly could have had me fired, at the expense of destroying their schedule. As I stated at the outset, I left out details as to not
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by SentinelLdnma 4y ago
Software "engineering" will definitely need to be looked at differently from physical, but there are still things we can do. Critical systems (or at least the critical subsystems) must not allow any unapproved/untested change
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by SentinelLdnma 4y ago
Hardware came from oversees and there was no licensed PE on the US side. But you're right, there should have been. This was before the device was submitted to the FDA for approval. Chance they would have rejected it. A fallback positio
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by SentinelLdnma 4y ago
As others have noted, professional licensure (which can be revoked) is used in other industries. Not feasible to ask this for every developer, but for safety critical systems it should be mandatory.
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by SentinelLdnma 4y ago
You're still my hero
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by SentinelLdnma 4y ago
I took an Ethics for Engineers course as an elective in college (sometime during the stone age). Wrote a paper on Therac-25. Had I not, I may not even been cognizant of the risk involved. A single week lecture on this topic could move the n
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by SentinelLdnma 4y ago
Agreed, although I'm confident that everyone present in this particular situation would say that approach was asking to get fired. I was fortunate to be in a position where I didn't care.
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by SentinelLdnma 4y ago
Not at all a dumb question. But the answer will be. The Big Boss Man hated the way it looked. He once spent 30 minutes telling a graphics designer what a worthless piece of sh* he was where everyone on the floor could hear. Corporate equiva
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by SentinelLdnma 4y ago
Post title inspired by Doctor Who S09E12 "Hell Bent": https://youtu.be/p5eHJmQg-_M?t=44 A glorious tearjerker.
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Tell HN: Duty of care
229 points by SentinelLdnma 4y ago|50 comments
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by SentinelLdnma 4y ago
Agreed. But I need non-coder noobs to also use it (i.e., an Editor, fellow writers without dev background). I suppose I could write them something with big easy buttons that only performs the actions they need.
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Ask HN: Change Control for Non-Coders
3 points by SentinelLdnma 4y ago|7 comments