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by YouWhy 2y ago
Do we know for certain that a major cause of the failure has been a GSM-R failure? Industrial grade communication systems tend to be very well behaved in terms of fault detection and management. I'd be very surprised if the whole whack
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by YouWhy 2y ago
There's very little information in either this post or elsewhere on the internets. This discussion on a UK rail forum provides some food for thought [1] The Elizabeth line is pioneering in terms of aiming for automated train operation
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by YouWhy 2y ago
> Don’t have temporary people make permanent decisions IMHO, this one line summarizes remarkably well why Hollywood wrecks fictional universes: Star Wars, Game of Thrones, Fantastic Beasts, DC Universe, and even parts of the Marvel unive
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by YouWhy 2y ago
Experimental archeology is amazing! However the clash of this article as it is, is not very profound. Going over the article, it mentions three constraints pertinent to obtaining timber, and it seems that their intersection is empty. The c
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by YouWhy 2y ago
There are really two, almost entirely separate, points there - one is about missing interpretability of LibreOffice, and the other is about the author's inability to install Microsoft Office on Linux. I'd like to articulate a case
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by YouWhy 2y ago
Here's a man who lived for much of the same ideals as Aaron Swartz, and was able to make a tremendous impact on the Russian internet universe while also laying low and quiet. I'm awfully sad Stiver passed away before old age, but
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by YouWhy 2y ago
What a great topic for a great blog. I wonder what this perspective can tell us about the new wave of Chinese expansionism, which becomes somewhat akin to the US's abandonment of isolationism and the resultant war with Spain (1898) and
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by YouWhy 2y ago
I definitely don't have authoritative answers, but a plugin would likely be able to effectively block ads. While Google never made a direct move against ad blockers, the v3 Manifest push was rumored to have been partially intended to u
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by YouWhy 2y ago
First of all, 2FA is a jolly good idea in terms of preventing account hijackings; relying on email/SMS (texts) introduces multiple hazards that can reverse 2FA's net benefit. One configuration some people use is the KeePass deskto
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by YouWhy 2y ago
TL;DR: the article makes a very general statement where common wisdom indicates a variance of nuanced approaches. One end of the spectrum is line staff for fast-iterating low-innovation, low-margin businesses, the talent pool is often commo
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by YouWhy 2y ago
I think that describing the MCAS disaster using predominantly SW Engineering language is misleading. The substantial change that might have averted the catastrophe is having qualified engineering oversight integrated into the MCAS project m
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by YouWhy 2y ago
Prima facie, there's a huge shortage of leadership underlying the accident, both at the "IC" (senior pilot) level and at the "middle management" level. Which of the two possible causes do you think applies here? 1.
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by YouWhy 2y ago
Thank you - that's a spot on answer. Bell Labs was the only way Ma Bell could stay relevant given that the rest of the world was making progress on their own.
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by YouWhy 2y ago
I'm so happy the article opts for reusing the original equipment, as opposed to recycling it (i.e., refilling the original case with different innards) Legacy POTS is still well supported via modern ATA/FXS. I feel the heritage va
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by YouWhy 2y ago
To answer your question: there are no answers satisfying your set of requirements. An extremely small minority of individuals will end up achieving notable outcomes fulfilling more than one of the requirements above, but even among those, v
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by YouWhy 2y ago
Modulo Israel's unpopularity: how would another nation state, say, Korea, act, if a non-state organization attempted to assert its authority to act in substantial force to override the authority of the nation state's government?
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by YouWhy 2y ago
I think the idea for the format is brilliant. However the piece as written fails to deliver a systemic perspective of text messages, and indeed is borderline incorrect in a few places. Examples: - It is incorrect to characterize the SMS as
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by YouWhy 2y ago
TL;DR: is it about some kind of a shift towards smartphone apps as a fundamental consumer payment mechanism? I wish this piece of tech journalism was more informative; instead it feels like a lossy rendition of a corporate communique. The s
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by YouWhy 2y ago
The two things we know about the vendor are unforgivable: the fact that they let a core piece of logic depend on indefinitely augmenting a Mongo record, and the fact that a deliberate effort by 3 somewhat above average people could replace
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by YouWhy 2y ago
Disclaimer: I am not American. I have spent a total of 3 years in American corporate colonies in my country, and probably 3 times as much operating at various roles in local startups, many of which had major American funding. I observe that
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by YouWhy 2y ago
A different way of putting the above is that Casablanca's aesthetic was so influential that it guided decades of subsequent work. My 2¢: this could be a consequence of both the movie's strengths as much as of the trade-offs take
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by YouWhy 2y ago
One of my acquaintances wrote this piece a couple of years back, asking if Meta/FB's use of product engagement metrics as a signal for IC performance was a case of the McNamara fallacy: https://4qbits.com/posts&#x2
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by YouWhy 2y ago
I was responding to the "Jodorowsky’s attempt was ... never released" critique by trying to expand on both the similarities and dissimilarities between Etak and Jodorowsky's Dune.
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by YouWhy 2y ago
I concur with you that Etak delivered a functional product, albeit not a commercially successful one, which is farther along than Jodorowsky's Dune project, which stalled mid-way in development. What I wanted to point out is that both
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by YouWhy 2y ago
Highly inspiring! Will share with my team (and I don't do that often!) It seems that Etak was to navigation systems what Jodorowsky's Dune was to 1980s sci-fi: a trail blazing endeavour that was wild and wildly innovative, did not
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by YouWhy 2y ago
This piece left me with three thoughts: 1. Had circumstances been even sightly different, Grant would have been considered a failure, perhaps even by himself. 2. It took a certain amount of mentorship to get Grant going as a noteworthy writ
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by YouWhy 2y ago
Prof. Nissan is also remarkable due to having had first line achievements in CS Theory and then shifting to do major impact in the rather distinct field of algorithmic game theory. It's both heart warming that a single person living to
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by YouWhy 3y ago
TL;DR: managed runners by construction constitute a major ongoing infosec liability. A managed runner means not only entrusting a third party with your code but also typically providing it with enough data/network connectivity to make
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by YouWhy 3y ago
See also the recent HN discussion around an article on how the Ultraviolet Catastrophe could not have been what drove Planck to his radiation law. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39345618
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by YouWhy 3y ago
TL;DR: the expectation that a business can be "saved" by bolting AI onto an existing organization is unrealistic. Detail: My experience is that commercially viable AI requires a leadership that gets AI and can execute very careful

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