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by bertil 3y ago
Aluminum isn’t transparent and can’t handle certain chemicals, but it’s not that expensive—if it’s recycled consistently. It’s routinely replaced by steel for, say, cans because that ends up being cheaper (with thinner walls), but steel is
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by bertil 3y ago
If we can, we should, but you probably want to consider most plastic wrappers as temporally displaced fossil fuel that will be burned for heat in a specialized kiln. The logo that designates plastic types should be changed to match local co
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by bertil 3y ago
It’s a real mystery why, as soon as I heard about a bank founded by people who sounded like they had heard about the internet (Monzo, in the UK), I switched away from my venerable bank (NatWest) that, at the time still had security practice
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by bertil 3y ago
It’s a good idea for large companies to use their profit to stay profitable, and if it supports their cloud business… Where it’s a No-No is in accounting: those should probably not be counted as “sales” but as gifts in nature or some partic
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by bertil 3y ago
Apple: “Anything you do to salvage your phone that isn’t buying a new one isn’t a good idea.”
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by bertil 3y ago
Nothing to do with the controversy, just curious: Why would deep-sea octopuses not be edible?
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by bertil 3y ago
I'm curious if sudden public visibility would lead to security issues being found faster by people trying to patch them or exploit them.
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by bertil 3y ago
As someone who worked at Orange, I’m not sure you want to read all of it. There’s definitely some getting-the-internet-to-work magic in there, but a lot of it is… Let’s just say not every developer is incentivized to write good code.
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by bertil 3y ago
You can share his name, or at least the name he uses to send similar messages for that. No need to share a document that will be used by dangerous people to impersonate him.
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by bertil 3y ago
In the Python world, James Powell is famous for breezing through a combination of vim (the editor) and wat (the tutorial by absurd) with a lot of custom command line tools and even examples that feel at the same time immoral, hilarious, and
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by bertil 3y ago
People are trying to decide which one is the best product or if Zuckerberg is being honest. I don’t think either matters so much right now. The truth is that those are two very well-funded companies with incredible engineers who are now fac
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by bertil 3y ago
I would argue that's far more valuable.
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by bertil 3y ago
That audience is now 19 and believes that “chat” is a standard second-person plural pronoun that points at people meant to be active, available to answer questions, and knowledgeable about anything Google knows or doesn’t.
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by bertil 3y ago
A/B tests are likely involved because no human would suggest those changes in earnest, but what metric could those tests have improved!? Either it’s a series of unchallenged false positives, or there’s a lot about web interface that ne
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by bertil 3y ago
The most common criticism I hear against cities is that they are loud. Cities aren't loud; cars are loud. You experienced a bad compromise of having high density of a city and the high car ownership of suburbia. Like a "stroad,&
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by bertil 3y ago
Very true. In general, I think that piece has a bit of a European blind side when starting by “The United States leads the world in airline safety.”
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by bertil 3y ago
When the conference LeadDev happens in London, they often have Nickolas Means give a talk about an aeronautic topic. It’s usually 45 minutes of nail-biting in-depth analysis of a very complicated problem, and ends with a 5 minute rotation t
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by bertil 3y ago
Compared to the reality of the situation, I agree that it’s garish, but psychologically, people in cushy situations tend to over-dramatize their setbacks. If they _think_ they have nothing to lose, they will act foolishly just the same as i
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by bertil 3y ago
What would make such a person an official one?
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by bertil 3y ago
That is very true, with the caveat that FAA and NHTSA aren’t the fastest at putting out a report —by design, thankfully: I want that thing vetted. It’s been three weeks. That would be better if we knew much more in the next week or two. If
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by bertil 3y ago
I’ve been that junior engineer more than once (and not always junior), and I’ve had to deal with it more than once. The proof is in the pudding, and the pudding is that there are at least four distinct significant mechanical issues; three h
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by bertil 3y ago
“Also —and this didn’t make sense to us either— it doesn’t float, and there’s no engine. Our best guess is that it’s meant as a comment on the fulity of life.”
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by bertil 3y ago
Far for me to challenge the idea of a fund and bounties. But that’s a lot of money—more than I can personally fork and more than I’d be comfortable advocating to collect. Again, no criticism of your ambition; I’m just a regular guy trying t
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by bertil 3y ago
If you actually did the work, you would not have shared a list of prototypes, failed projects, and disappointments. Do you want me to complain that I had to spoon-feed you that?
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by bertil 3y ago
That’s part of them being thorough.
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by bertil 3y ago
Merit makes sense when you want to promote hard work, talent, and creativity—and we need all that. Engineering meritocracy is how we build bridges, go to space, and dig under mountains. Engineering supremacy in that context means that if en
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by bertil 3y ago
If you want to be the change you want to see in the world, shout in the ether that this engineer will have a job at your organization. That’s what is keeping so many of them silent: a mortgage, school fees, maybe a H1B.
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by bertil 3y ago
Wouldn’t a curated version of the icebox help notice that pattern early? Especially if the team changes quite fast.
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by bertil 3y ago
The problem is that not saying no, dismissing it without details, or ignoring it in an icebox removes a key feature and the way we should organize that idea: why not. Suppose the idea is likely impactful but complicated to implement. In tha
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by bertil 3y ago
> I wish it were possible to designate an app to require FaceID Developers can require that. Several apps I use do.

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