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901.
by WJW 3y ago
Surely firing N people is at most linear time. Possibly lower, if you can get economies of scale by caching the paperwork.
902.
by WJW 3y ago
The weirdest thing about things like dry-monad is that they're so incredibly shoehorned in. In places like Haskell, the default for a function is to be pure and monads add some capability for side effects (ie logging, or keeping stat
903.
by WJW 3y ago
That highly depends on who is doing the rewriting and whether they were involved in writing the current system. If someone new starts rewriting the system in a memory safe language then it's quite likely they will make many of the same
904.
by WJW 3y ago
Great point and sometimes checklists are indeed not enough. My previous post was triggered more by the "I think I did step 13," part of the post I was responding to. That is not a flaw with checklists but a flaw in the safety cu
905.
by WJW 3y ago
1. Print the checklist/runbook out on paper with actual empty boxes next to the steps. 2. Laminate the printed checklist and put it in a big folder. 3. Every time you run the checklist, use a sharpie to mark the checkbox after you&#x27
906.
by WJW 3y ago
"large" is meaningless unless you can compare it to the friction cost of the brushes they replace.
907.
by WJW 3y ago
Self service (unlimited) refill seems to be mostly a US-only thing btw. I've never seen one in anywhere else. If you want more drinks you have to pay more, which also presumably covers the cost of the extra paper cup.
908.
by WJW 3y ago
> You deserve to stay in business when you are a legal business entity that is following all the laws and regulations. You also need to be making a profit though, or at least break even after all costs are accounted for. Otherwise you wi
909.
by WJW 3y ago
HN headline is quite different than the actual article, which is "Microsoft admits slim staff and broken automation contributed to Azure outage". The headline as submitted is quite focused on the manager vs employee conflict that
910.
by WJW 3y ago
This matches my experience as a Dutch contractor. FTE salary for devs caps out around 70-80k, often as a company policy. It's even stricter for large companies or governmental institutions that have formally published salary bands. Oft
911.
by WJW 3y ago
You say "humans can easily adapt", but some of these families have been in the fishery trade for generations and would rather give up their religion than being forced to live on land like a normie. This is absolutely not something
912.
by WJW 3y ago
> these various wave generators we see in discussion for off-shore use When it comes to wave power, "in discussion" is the operative word. Modern pelton wheels are 95%+ effective in converting kinetic energy into mechanical ene
913.
by WJW 3y ago
I think GP meant that in a hundred years WE will all be dead, not that our descendants won't be there.
914.
by WJW 3y ago
Sure but the objections Greenpeace has historically had with nuclear power have very little to do with how much it does or doesn't cost.
915.
by WJW 3y ago
It's also great to stretch 1.5-week tickets into two-week tickets since after you merged it all there is no time to pick up some other thing.
916.
by WJW 3y ago
Of course. Because they don't produce outputs directly, reputation is all a manager has to prove their worth to the company. If you take that away by publicly demonstrating how their actions caused bad results, their boss might well
917.
by WJW 3y ago
Did you miss the part where I was talking about sintering and diffusion of atoms in materials in their solid phase? A quick search in the article you linked shows zero results for either "sintering", "diffusion" or relat
918.
by WJW 3y ago
Diffusion of atoms through solid materials is one of those things I intellectually know happens, but still don't really grok. Sintering is one of the weirdest things. Why does squishing things together AND warming them up cause the par
919.
by WJW 3y ago
TIL that creep can even happen at room temperature (albeit Caribbean room temperature) if the stresses are great enough and the time span long enough. I always thought that it was more a thing for objects like jet engine turbine blades, tha
920.
by WJW 3y ago
Oi! Spoilers!
921.
by WJW 3y ago
Maybe for the investors who (intend to) sell all of their stock in the IPO, but surely a founder/CEO has both emotional and financial reasons to ensure the continued survival of the company?
922.
by WJW 3y ago
Can't confirm tbh. I'm now in my late thirties and enjoying life quite a bit. Definitely better than when I was in my twenties. Looking forward to hopefully another 40+ years of this.
923.
by WJW 3y ago
The ordered one is nice, but I do have to wonder about the efficiency of it. If I read https://blog.ndpar.com/2010/11/10/erlang-selective-receive/ correctly, ALL messages in the save queue are re-deliver
924.
by WJW 3y ago
> And this is exactly what J&J want you to believe. Do you mean that they lied in their annual report about their profits and/or their current cash on hand? Or that the total legal costs will be much higher than the 9 billion se
925.
by WJW 3y ago
As I understand it that link describes a plan to use the bankruptcy of a subsidiary (NOT the main company) as a way to resolve the court cases in one go. The subsidiary is funded with enough money to pay the expected settlements (with the
926.
by WJW 3y ago
J&J still exists and will continue to exist though? They settled for some 9 billion, which is a lot but not enough to sink a company with a ~400 billion market cap.
927.
by WJW 3y ago
See how well he cut cope to keep things simple? "Works on mobile" was simple unnecessary complexity :) Only half-joking btw. I thought the article was way more about "cut scope ruthlessly so you can use simpler tools" th
928.
by WJW 3y ago
So what are you going to cut from your current software project then? Or was this a "I want this, but my manager won't let me" type of post? :)
929.
by WJW 3y ago
I read the article as promoting "let's use a simpler solution than that, and cut scope from the work to be done instead". If you are not willing to cut the scope of the problem to the absolute minimum, you are prioritizing so
930.
by WJW 3y ago
Gotta ask again: how much GB of storage on their phone do you think the average air traveler would be willing to donate to people so that their transoceanic fellows would be able to watch tiktoks from their homeland? How about porn? And giv

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